Poliça: United Crushers Poliça are pulling no punches on their third album, which sees the Minneapolis group — whose international profile continues to rise — struggling with the social turbulence that Minnesotans, and all Americans, were experiencing as the collection came together in recent months. “I drive around and I see that big, ominous ‘United Crushers’…

Only for Bruce Springsteen does performing an entire double album front to back to front to back — with bonus tracks and spoken annotations — feel like just a warm-up. On Monday night at the Xcel Energy Center, Springsteen and his E Street Band played the entirety of their 1980 classic The River before launching into…

The band OK Go are well-known for their music, but maybe even more so for their single-take, elaborately choreographed videos. For their most recent project, the band teamed up with Russia-based S7 Airlines to shoot a video in zero gravity -- adding flips, spins, aerialists and paint balloons to the mix.

In a new video for the I Don’t Cares‘ “Whole Lotta Nothin’,” Paul Westerberg takes on the persona of songwriting teacher “Dale Westerberg.” (Pitchfork) Prince is Bay (Area) On Sunday night, Prince wowed Oakland in the first American show (except for two shows earlier this month at Paisley Park) on his “Piano & a Microphone” tour. “Prince presented…

Bruce Springsteen -- aka 'the Boss' -- makes a stop in St. Paul Monday night as part of his The River Tour. Our Coffee Break topic is inspired by Springsteen's nickname: What songs do you want to hear that mention a 'boss' figure or are set in the workplace? Send us your requests.

Each week on the Local Show, we’ll meet a new person from the Minnesota music community who has some fresh discoveries to share in a feature called “Ask a Cool Person.” These people will come from all corners of the scene, including record store clerks, recording studio engineers and producers, artists, writers, bookers, photographers, and…

The hallmark of any Animal Collective record is a sea of instruments, awash in reverb, with vocals layered over top. 'Painting With' features these signature elements in a consistent fashion over 41 minutes

At Sunday night’s Academy Awards, Sam Smith — along with cowriter Jimmy Napes — won the Oscar for Best Original Song, for “Writing’s On the Wall” from Spectre. Smith dedicated his award “to the LGBT community all around the world. I stand here tonight as a proud gay man, and I hope we can all…

Thanks so much to everyone that supported The Current during the winter member drive. For today's Coffee Break, let's listen to songs that express gratitude.

I’m not a DJ. I’ve never specifically wanted to work in radio, nor do I know anything about the standards and practices involved with doing so — which is why being asked to be Local Current’s DJ in Residence was a little scary for me. I sort of live under a rock. The only local…