Leonard Cohen will celebrate his 80th birthday next month by releasing his 13th studio album, it was announced at a Cohen fan convention in Ireland. Cohen’s birthday is September 21, and the following day will see the release of Popular Problems, an album of entirely new songs. Some of the new material was previewed on Cohen’s Old…

In his final On the Ball blog post, Mark Wheat gives a preview of the Premier League season that begins this weekend, along with tips on how to watch and even an invitation to join a fantasy league. He also describes the fun he's had writing this and explains why he's decided to draw a line under it.

Two years ago, the local team here at the Current stumbled across so many impressive high-school bands that we decided to air the first ever high-schoolers-only edition of The Local Show. And it’s turned into quite the fun tradition—there are only so many young up-and-coming bands that we can stumble on by chance, so it’s become our annual “call…

On Friday night, August 8, Andrew Bird, the New Pornographers, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, S. Carey, and Dosh played Target Field for a beautiful evening at the Skyline Music Festival. Our photographer Nate Ryan caught photos of the three last acts to take the stage. The New Pornographers also stopped by our studio—listen…

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45 years after the Beatles‘ Abbey Road album, Paul McCartney has returned to the iconic London studio—to record a theme song for a video game. Accompanied by a 120-piece orchestra conducted by Giles Martin—son of the Beatles producer George Martin—McCartney recorded a theme song for the forthcoming first-person alien-shooting game Destiny. McCartney also collaborated on the score for the…

Morrissey is a man with high purpose, albeit one with the darkest of gallows humor. As usual in Morrissey's world, we get a real problem answered with melodrama. But wait. Isn't high art often just as melodramatic? Morrissey is indeed in league with the likes of operatic masters.

An unexpected turn of events has put the keys for Cause Spirits and Soundbar back into the hands of the management of the Lyn-Lake music venue and restaurant. The beloved neighborhood spot closed abruptly last month with little explanation, turning its five-year anniversary shows into a weekend-long farewell party. But now, just a month later, Cause’s owner Mike Riehle and general…

So, what skyline songs would you like to hear today?

Happy Friday! There was no shortage of videos to choose from for this week’s Friday Five, with Twin Cities artists Van Stee and Jenny Dalton releasing new music, Minneapolis expat Célosia returning home from Paris to record her new album, BBGun showing off a local recording space, and new electro-industrial group Patch making their debut. It’s shaping up to be an…