On a Saturday morning you’re likely to find Kerry Alexander, Noah Boswell, and Chris Hoge enjoying the view of the mighty Mississippi over a pulled pork hash at the Mill City Farmers market. These three Minneapolis-based musicians are better known as the indie rock band Bad Bad Hats. They released their first album Psychic Reader on July 17…

Miguel’s sold-out Saturday night show at First Avenue’s Mainroom has been moved to the State Theatre, as inspections and repairs continue in the wake of a partial ceiling collapse in the Mainroom on Wednesday night. “All purchased tickets for the Mainroom show will be honored at the State Theatre show,” according to First Avenue’s website. With the…

It would have been possible to make a great small film about the genesis of N.W.A.: an intimate portrait of five kids who grew up in Compton and found their voices on the stage and in the studio. These guys, though, don’t do anything small. Straight Outta Compton unfolds over 147 minutes as an American epic—telling…

For this month's Rock and Roll Book Club selection, Mac Wilson writes about a fascinating new history of the digital music era.

In a new Rolling Stone feature on the 100 all-time greatest songwriters, Minnesota native Bob Dylan comes out on top. “Dylan’s vision of American popular music was transformative,” writes Rolling Stone. “No one set the bar higher, or had greater impact.” Runners-up were Paul McCartney (#2), John Lennon (#3), Chuck Berry (#4), and Smokey Robinson (#5). Tom Waits has penned a poem in…

It's International Left-Handers' Day! So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by artists who are left-handed? Send us your requests.

Last night, legendary Minneapolis club First Avenue experienced a partial collapse of the Mainroom’s interior ceiling. The Mainroom was hosting approximately 750 fans for a show by Canadian hard rock band Theory of a Deadman; the adjoining 7th Street Entry was hosting a tour kick-off event for local bands What Tyrants and Stereo Confession that was…

Here’s your first look at actor Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in the forthcoming biopic I Saw the Light. The film will hit selected theaters on Nov. 27, with a wider release to follow. Thom Yorke is writing music for an upcoming Broadway production of Harold Pinter‘s 1971 play Old Times. “I’ve enjoyed exploring through music the script’s themes of love and…

Viewing the Perseid meteor shower tonight and tomorrow may require staying awake all night. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that are about staying awake all through the night? Send us your requests.

Raised in Minneapolis, Max Timander is best known to The Current’s audience as Stereo Confession’s guitarist/vocalist. But there’s something readers might not know: pre-Stereo-Confession, he blogged about music—and quite enthusiastically, at that. Chris Riemenschneider at the Star Tribune covered Timander’s blog in 2009 (headline: “He’s taking rock blogs to the Max”). “I really want to be a…