A drunk driver in Austin, TX was evading police and ended up crashing into a crowd of music-goers at the annual SXSW music festival, injuring 23 and killing 2 people.

It’s been a tumultuous year for the members of Russian protest rock band Pussy Riot, who attracted international attention for being attacked by authorities in Sochi during the Olympic Games and have more recently attacked by a group of angry men while eating in a Russian McDonald’s. Group members Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, however, found…

When dream-pop four-piece Kins stopped in to The Current's studio for a session ahead of their gig at the Turf Club in St. Paul, front man Thomas Savage took some time to tell us about his guitar, including why he hasn't clipped the excess off his strings just yet.

What songs with rhyming lyrics should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break? Hopefully we'll inspire you to make a limerick and some rhymes of your own.

On the surface, there seems to be little that connects the indomitable swagger of Lizzo, the aggressive enigma of Marijuana Deathsquads, and the digital seduction of Poliça.  Sonically they stretch across the board and reach varied audiences, but all three are dedicated to groundbreaking music that challenges genre and convention, with an ethic and attitude…

“I feel like a new dude,” P.O.S. told his Doomtree crewmate Lazerbeak after recently receiving a long-awaited kidney transplant. As Lazerbeak reports on Doomtree’s website, the MC “seriously looks great.” Also, happily, recovering well is donor Mark Potter, who is already out of the hospital. “We’ve known Mark forever (actually went to high school with the…

What songs featuring a choir should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

On Sunday night’s Local Show, we celebrated Women’s History Month with a two-hour special dedicated exclusively to women in Minnesota music. This year, a large focus of the show was on hip-hop and some of the under-the-radar acts that started bubbling up to the surface in recent years. In addition to a fiery in-studio performance…

Human Kindness: You Are So Loud That I Want To Die cassette On their debut EP You Are So Loud That I Want To Die, self-described Minneapolitan “rock ‘n’ roll friends” Human Kindness sound like microbudget contemporaries to modern punks like No Age and Joyce Manor. The record is melody-focused, occasionally experimental, and perfectly abrasive, with…

The hubris of certain Premiership managers stirs some schadenfreude in Mark Wheat this week; plus, exciting results from the FA Cup shift Mark's attention to Wigan and the musical subgenre known as Northern Soul.