This week, music fans have been buzzing about Philly Weekly‘s decision to devote a cover story to Jordan White, a singer-songwriter with a modest live following but a seemingly massive Twitter following. Did he earn the followers? Game them? Buy them? Throughout the debate, White’s fellow Philadelphians Dr. Dog have been held up as the gold…

What songs with first, second, third, fourth, etc. (or 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) in their title should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Thursday, February 6 Commanders Handsome Loring Pasta Bar, Minneapolis 9:30 p.m., $5, 21+ Solid Gold frontman Zach Coulter and Doomtree MC and producer Cecil Otter team up for new collaboration that they describe as “beat heavy casual landscapes.” See how casual those landscapes can get tonight at the Loring Pasta Bar when they help to…

Kollin Johannsen is a guitarist with of The Colourist, a pop-fuelled indie-rock band out of Orange County, Calif. When The Colourist played an in-studio session at The Current, Johannsen took a few minutes to tell us about his guitar.

Tuesday night in London was miserable. It was pouring rain and there was a strike that closed the Tube, but it got much more interesting when rumblings started on Twitter that Prince would be playing the Electric Ballroom in the eclectic North London neighborhood of Camden at 3:00 a.m. Immediately, there was a line outside…

What songs do you want to hear that feature one (or more) of the emotions from the study in the title or lyrics? Give us your emotional song suggestions.

To many, it seemed far-fetched when the Awl named Minnesota the single most influential state in American music. That seems like a stretch even to me—unless you adjust for population, we surely can’t hold a candle in sheer weight of history to New York or California—but this past week, Minnesota artists have been so omnipresent…

In their ongoing quest to play every mid-level city in the U.S. besides their hometown of Minneapolis, the reunited Replacements—which features founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson backed by session musicians—have been added to the bill for Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Fest, which takes place May 9-11, 2014. Other acts on the Shaky Knees lineup…

“Drone Not Drones” is a phrase that became locally infamous when Alan Sparhawk spoke it after his band Low played a single, droning song—”Do You Know How to Waltz?”—for their entire 28-minute set at 2013’s Rock the Garden. The phrase was coined by Luke Heiken, who stopped by the Current’s studios to talk with Steve…

Minneapolis rock club the 400 Bar—which shuttered in early 2013 after decades of hosting live music on the West Bank—announced today that it will be reborn as a new music venue on the fourth floor of the Mall of America. In addition to providing a 1,000-capacity space for concerts (which puts it in the same…