Astronautalis, “Kurt Cobain” Jacksonville, Florida native Astronautalis delves into his past on “Kurt Cobain,” the opening track from new album Cut The Body Loose. The video is visually arresting, even as the rapper recounts having guns pulled on him (“Gun pulled on me by a cop one time/ Four guns pulled on me in Atlanta last night”), and the shoutouts…

Minnesota music has not forgotten Micheal “Eyedea” Larsen, the talented rapper who died six years ago at 28 years old. Following its premiere at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival last spring, Brandon Crowson’s documentary The World Has No Eyedea is being shown at the Parkway Theater on October 9, and the members of the local scene…

Happy Fall! Today is the Autumn Equinox - where the sun shifts to rise directly in the east and sets directly in the west, illuminating the Earth pole to pole. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that remind you of fall?

While grabbing a sandwich during a work break, Peter Jesperson stumbled upon a cover band that transformed how he thought about the Twin Cities music scene. “I suppose I was a little bit of a snob working at the record store thinking there wasn’t anything local that was as good as what we were selling,”…

Stranger Things makes a splash in the music world Just two days after Wiz Khalifa sampled the Stranger Things theme song in a song called, appropriately, “Stranger Things,” YouTuber/internet darling Nathan Zed hopped on the train. “You can really do anything with this BRUH,” he snaps as he shows off his Kanye West, Kendrick, Drake, Beyoncé, and Desiigner mash-ups (all while being infinitely more…

'Aside from friends and family,' Mary Lucia asks, 'who knows more about you than your mail carrier and your pharmacist?' In this week's column, Mary considers what her postal carrier and pharmacist may know about her, and what she feels like asking them to level the field of personal knowledge.

Before their gig at First Avenue, Milo Aukerman of the Descendents stopped by The Current to curate a playlist and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.

Following a recent in-studio recording session at The Current, Sara Watkins took some time to tell us about her parlor-style guitar. Watkins describes the inspiration for the guitar's vintage appearance, and she tells us what she likes about composing and performing on it.

As he teased in an interview last month, Tommy Stinson is officially reforming his early 1990s, post-Replacements rock band Bash & Pop and will release a new album under that name in early 2017. In a press release today, Stinson revealed that he’s planning to play his first official show with the reunited Bash and…

September 21 is the International Day of Peace, a day dedicated to the absence of war and violence. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention peace do you want to hear?