Let's stop thinking so hard about Lana Del Rey's image for a minute and listen to her music, because it doesn't get much more honest or soul-baring than on her new record, 'Ultraviolence'.

For the past several years, Davina and the Vagabonds have been shining rays of sunlight over the Twin Cities music scene with their mix of blues, jazz, and soulful pop. With a unique lineup including a small horn section of trumpet and trombone, and with Davina Sowers’s inimitable voice—which has earned comparisons to a long list of…

When Benjamin Booker stopped in to The Current for an in-studio session, he took some time to tell us about the hollow-body guitar he purchased without even playing it. Fortunately, it's worked out very well for him.

Have you always dreamed of being a drummer in a touring indie band? Especially one that has cultivated an especially intense and emotional connection with its fans and is beloved by environmentally conscious, tender souls from coast to coast? Then you may consider getting your application materials together quickly, because Cloud Cult have just announced an immediate opening (a…

What songs with lyrics about forgetting should we play for I Forgot Day? We'll play some of your suggestions for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

You’ve read On The Road; I know you have. Well, I hated it. I think you may have, too. The one notable thing I took from that book was Kerouac’s regular usage of the word “Hipster,” capitalized here for effect. It was the first time I’d seen or heard it used outside of 21st century…

As we provide the A-Z soundtrack to your Fourth of July weekend, we know that another important part of this weekend’s soundtrack will be provided by rapidly heated metal salts detonating in the evening sky. (In other words, fireworks.) The Twin Cities metro area will have no shortage of festivities this Independence Day, so we’ve created…

Spoon debut "Do You", the second single from their forthcoming album 'They Want My Soul.'

In a remarkable discovery related to one of Minnesota’s greatest musicians, California record collector Jeff Gold—a former Warner Bros. executive who now runs a music memorabilia business called Recordmecca—has purchased a previously unknown trove of 149 acetate records pressed during the making of Bob Dylan’s albums Nashville Skyline (1969), Self Portrait (1970), and New Morning (1970). Gold announced the find…

What songs with either Jill or Steve in the title or lyrics should we play for the Coffee Break?