Update: Full coverage of David Bowie’s passing on Jan. 10, 2016 » With the release of a new David Bowie album early last year after a ten-year hiatus, the life of the prolific artist has been celebrated enthusiastically the world over. Adding fuel to the fire are Bowie’s new Nothing Has Changed career retrospective and the David…

T-Bone Burnett received a gift from Bob Dylan, out of the blue: a scrapbook of lyrics written forty-something years ago but never set to music. Burnett assembled a supergroup of artists and recorded the tunes at Capitol Records in Hollywood, and the resulting album largely succeeds. Even Bob Dylan's cast-off ideas make really good songs.

Shoppers across the country were busy the day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday. Many music fans flocked to record stores for special releases, adding fuel to a continuing surge in vinyl sales. The vinyl comeback isn’t just an American phenomenon: over the weekend U.K. vinyl sales for the year topped one million—making 2014 the…

“So ya, thought ya, might like to… go to the show…” Several years ago, a rumor began to circulate regarding an unusual connection between Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album and the classic film The Wizard of Oz. This phenomenon, often referred to as “The Dark Side of the Rainbow,” involves the synchronization of…

When Nikki Lane was in The Current's studio for a live session, she played a brand-new, shiny, black guitar. Asked about the instrument, Nikki shares a great story that involves a tour of the guitar factory and a great deal of respect for Johnny Cash.

With travel on the minds of many of us, we thought we'd have a travel tie-in for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. What songs with planes, trains or automobiles do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?

This Friday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m., First Avenue will present “A Tribute to the Replacements,” an annual show featuring a slew of local artists performing Replacements hits. The show will take place in both the Mainroom and the Entry. This year’s concert will feature the Melismatics, Two Harbors, BNLX, Stereo Confession, and Black Diet, among others. The…

The small town of Sparta, Minnesota, is disappearing, and folk-rockers Rich Mattson and the Northstars have written a song about it. Much of the town, which is located in the Iron Range, is built on land owned by a mining company. The land has been, until recently, leased out to the local residents. However, this…

Frances Bean Cobain, the 22-year-old daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, will be an executive producer of the first-ever authorized documentary film about her late father. The film, titled Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, has been in progress under the direction of filmmaker Brett Morgen. Billboard reports that the film will debut next year on HBO, and…

What songs do you want to hear from bands whose name is a collective/unit/project/outfit for today's coffee break?