Sting‘s Broadway musical The Last Ship cost $15 million to produce, and it’s been struggling to sell tickets—losing $75,000 a week since it opened on Sept. 29. In a big to attract audiences and attention to the foundering Ship, Sting himself will join the musical’s cast on Dec. 9. “I’ve been working on this show for five years…

TV on the Radio's new album is a thrilling return: arguably their most accessible effort to date, while still retaining just enough of the inscrutability that helped put them on the map.

Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck bemusedly noted, "People tend to think of us as this mystic art band." A new six-DVD box set chronicling the life of the R.E.M., titled 'REMTV', argues a good case for R.E.M.'s revered status. Read a review of the video series and accompanying documentary about the band.

Capping off a cavalcade of Canadian acts to come into The Current this week, Sam Roberts stopped in to the studio to talk to Jim McGuinn about hockey, beer and music. "I still maintain that 'Spinal Tap' is the most accurate movie ever made about life in a rock 'n' roll band," Sam says.

In town to play back-to-back shows tonight at the Dakota in Minneapolis, Robyn Hitchcock dropped in to The Current studio to chat with Jim McGuinn. Although he's got two shows tonight, "None of the songs overlap," Hitchcock says. "You'll get two utterly different shows."

As 'Teenage Kicks' celebrates five years on the air, host Jacquie Fuller shares the videos that have stuck with her so deeply she could "storyboard them for you from memory." See if these videos jog your memory, and share your own favorites.

With the most spice this end of the Mississippi, seasoned soul group the Butanes remain alive and well in the Twin Cities blues scene. Their latest album 12 Favorites from the Upper Bayou was just released in February, and lead guitarist/vocalist Curtis Obeda was recently inducted into the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame for his…

With the big snowstorm hitting Western New York, the word of the week has been Buffalo. So today's coffee break is all about songs with the word "buffalo" lyrics.

Happy Friday! I’m going to start things off this week with one of my favorite “new to me” artists—who has actually been making music in the Twin Cities for a while now, and already had a full-length album to his name by the time I came around to him—before moving on to some other more…

Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit, comprising sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, have played to bigger venues and audiences with each visit to the Twin Cities. Their third album, Stay Gold, dropped in June and they are just finishing up another tour of the United States and Canada. Bursting onto the scene in 2008 after posting a cover of Fleet Foxes’…