For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, help us build a fitness playlist for The Current crowd. What songs get you energized and motivated for exercise? Send us your requests.

Winona was recently called (on this blog) a town where “music and adventure [are] undoubtedly akin,” where “a day-long trek through the woods [is] incomplete without Bob Dylan’s ramblings, Frank Ocean’s crooning, or Jimi Hendrix’s electric wails played on a mobile-phone speaker.” Then writer Alex Miller talks about a pass-the-err-guitar session out on the beach while…

As the Minnesota Wild prepare for Game 4 in their playoff series versus the St. Louis Blues, the Wild's official team reporter offers this survey of NHL players and their musical equivalents. Is Prince like Patrick Kane? Taylor Swift like Sidney Crosby? Doyle makes a good case for each.

If buying Kurt Cobain‘s childhood home ($400,000) is a bit more of a purchase than you can afford to make as a Nirvana fan, instead consider crashing for a night in the L.A. apartment Cobain shared with Courtney Love in 1991 and 1992. It’s on Airbnb, and as you can see, it was truly well-used by the grunge power…

After Jose Gonzalez played a live set in The Current's studio, he stopped to talk about the Spanish classical guitars he enjoys playing. He also explains why, even though he's right-hand dominant, he prefers to bowl left-handed.

The Esquire Network’s Best Bars in America show has comedians Jay Larson and Sean Patton drinking their way “through neighborhood dives and swanky bars alike” in cities across America. Tonight (April 22), the show spotlights Minneapolis, with Larson and Patton visiting bars including that will include Palmer’s, the Sample Room, the 1029 Bar, Nye’s, the Butcher and…

Today is Earth Day: For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by artists or bands who take measures to be environmentally friendly? Tell us your requests.

Los Angeles music blog Grimy Goods has recently compiled a list of the 20 best female drummers. On the list—along with such notables as Dee Plakas of L7 and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney—is Babes in Toyland’s Lori Barbero, who’s been hitting the skins since 1987. “I think there’s a lot of drummers that have been…

Courtney Barnett is the rare performer who comes across almost exactly like she is in song when she gets off stage. She is witty, sensitive, self-aware, and self-deprecating, comfortable expressing even the most mundane thoughts and ideas right up next to her more profound epiphanies. On her debut full-length, Sometimes I Sit and Think and…

Many artists released limited-edition vinyl on Saturday for Record Store Day—and unsurprisingly, some collectors ran straight for their laptops instead of their turntables, looking to flip their finds on eBay for a quick profit. Stereogum lists ten of the most lucrative, including discs from Bob Dylan, Phish, and Brand New. The single most lucrative record flip Stereogum found,…