What songs from bands with a color (or colors) in their name should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

Before making his Wits debut tonight at the Fitzgerald Theatre with musical guest OK Go, stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu sat down to chat with Steve Seel of The Current's Morning show.

In the imaginative film Flood Tide, Minneapolis-based folk band Dark Dark Dark set sail down the Hudson River on seven large-scale junk sculptures. Created in collaboration with the artist Swoon, the production illustrates the group’s 2008 voyage as they attempt to build their own world with art and music. Layers of documentation, fiction, and mythology are…

Happy Friday! The first half of this week’s batch of videos leans heavily on folk and Americana sounds, but don’t think for a second that all these beautiful melodies and acoustic guitars are going to add up to something boring. In fact, if you take your psychotropics now, they’ll probably start to kick in just as we…

Up-and-coming soul singer PaviElle French will perform as part of this season’s Naked Stages program at Pillsbury House Theatre. In her one-women performance piece, Runnin’, PaviElle uses song and storytelling to discuss her life growing up in St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood. Her playwriting debut, Runnin’ is part of a series of plays she is writing to “release her life’s demons and get free,” according to a press…

Fortunately all passengers are safe despite an accident involving Bono‘s private Learjet: according to the Irish Daily Mail, the plane was over Germany when the passengers heard a thud from the rear of the aircraft. They landed in Berlin just a few minutes later and “were horrified to learn that the compartment at the rear of…

The documentary David Bowie Is will be screened for a second time at the Lagoon Cinema next Wednesday, Nov. 19. The film gives a tour of the Bowie-centric exhibition, covered here by Sarah Harper on assignment for the Current, which opened in September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and will be on display there through…

What do you think is great drumming in indie music? We'll put together a playlist from your suggestions for today's Coffee Break.

Prince is cool with selfies—he even shared one he took himself using a camera and a mirror. He’s just not cool with cell phones at Paisley Park because people can’t stop taking pics of—well, him. “We ban their usage anywhere around Us,” he told the Huffington Post via his publicist, “because We’re allergic 2 lithium and ‘Everybodyelsies.'”…

The Growler's managing editor Joe Alton joins the Current's Morning Show to talk about the latest trends in the Minnesota craft beer scene.