Now in its second year, Local Current’s DJ in Residence program is an opportunity for The Current to invite local musicians to take over our all-Minnesota music stream and share their favorite stories and music from the local music scene. So far, Local Current’s DJ in Residence roster has included Eric Mayson, Danielle Cusack (Bruise…

Allan Kingdom, “The Ride” Allan Kingdom continues his run of awesome videos from Northern Lights, this time co-directing with Ben Hughes. Qaanaaq, “Solid State” Qaanaaq are one of Gus Watkins’s many projects, and they sound great. Nsikak, “Bodied” Nsikak has a hot track in “Bodied.” It’s short, but it’s forceful, and it’s real: “If you’re going to take a…

Psychologists say that when we lose someone, there are five common stages of grief that we must endure: denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance. With no public memorial to speak of in the months since Prince’s passing, that fifth stage has been hard to find. Sure, we had that insane block party the evening of…

Tonight, First Avenue is on another level. You can feel it in the air; you can sense it on social media; you can read it on the event poster, which heralds “An Evening With The Revolution: Wendy, Lisa, BrownMark, Dr. Fink & Bobby Z.” Today is the first of three reunion dates for the Revolution, Prince’s…

Is this the future of concert films? A French Metallica fan has combined the live-streamed audio of the band’s Aug. 20 U.S. Bank Stadium show with 77 different fan-shot videos to create a 140-minute concert film of the band’s entire performance. (City Pages) Read Dan Nass’s review of the show, the first rock concert in the…

Traffic in the Twin Cities will be nothing less than nightmarish tonight. What songs do you want to hear for the 9:30 Coffee Break that reference traffic, being stuck, patience, finding your center, etc.?

“Let us grow,” Tufawon chants near the beginning of The Send Off’s “Freedom Seeker,” starting a conversation with the cosmos. His hungry intonation swoops into a stellar verse from Elay, and soon, Tufawon will return to spit bars and shut down the song. But first, he repeats, “Let us grow” — with a “please” this…

When you’re Pink Floyd, how do you announce a museum exhibit dedicated to your career? You fly an inflatable pig, of course. A balloon floating over the Victoria & Albert Museum accompanied the announcement of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, a career-spanning show that will “include 350 items of band ephemera — instruments, posters, handwritten lyrics,…

Jay Gabler reviews 'Before You Judge Me,' a novelistic new book that tries to get inside the head of Michael Jackson during the last weeks of the music icon's life.

Vikings Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a dislocated knee and torn ACL at practice yesterday and is likely out for the entire season. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that say "no" do you want to hear?