Happy Friday! It’s been another trying week for us here in Minnesota, with questionable road conditions and subzero temperatures forcing us indoors again. Before you get too stir-crazy, check out the latest batch of videos to arise in the Minnesota scene—including one band who embraced the frigid weather and turned it into something quite beautiful.…

Haley Bonar is no stranger to local and national attention, having consistently earned praise for her solo and collaborative releases over the past several years. Buzz seems to be hitting new highs, though, for her long-awaited forthcoming album Last War, to be released May 20 on Graveface Records. Today, she stopped by the Current’s studio to…

We'll talk about the songs nominated for the Best Original Song this year, play them all for you, and discuss what we would pick as the winner.

This week’s Current Presents: The Best-Selling Minnesota Artists of All Time was the culmination of quite a bit of research, and unsurprisingly I wasn’t able to fit all of my findings into the one-hour program. As I wrap up this project and prepare to move on to something else, I wanted to type up a…

What songs do you want to hear for the misery Coffee Break? Suggest songs with "misery" or "miserable" in the title.

With its disco guitar riffs, electro beats, and unmistakable vocal hooks, “Funkytown” might be the most instantly recognizable song to come out of Minnesota. And it’s also one of the most successful—all told, the song has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and earned a platinum status here in the U.S., coming in second to…

TV news hosts were pretty excited about the above map this morning. But MPR News' Bob Collins says Metric is not Minnesota's favorite band. People in Minnesota tend to listen to Metric more often than other states because that's what the creator of the map was trying to show. Read Collins's full story.

When he was in the studio with his band The Jicks a couple weeks ago, indie rock paragon Stephen Malkmus took a few minutes to talk to us about his guitar (and how he bought it from a friend) and about his approaches to performing and songwriting.

Let us know what songs you would like to hear from musicians with famous parents. We'll take your suggestions and put together today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Lovely Dark: Into the Roil Psychedelic, layered, and theatrical, Lovely Dark’s upcoming full-length Into the Roil, out March 1, sounds like a walk through a fairytale forest, where the Decemberists meet The Doors meet Fleetwood Mac. The six-piece band’s meticulous and innovative blend includes organic strings, accordion wails, and roaring, distorted electric guitar, all dancing under…