Coffee Break9:30 Coffee Break: 9 Jan 24, 2014To help get everyone ready for the celebration let's put together a play list of songs with the number 9 featured in the title or very prominently in the lyrics. Let's get this party started!
Local Current BlogLizzo on party rap stereotypes, feminism, and her favorite GRRRLsAndrea Swensson • Jan 24, 2014It’s been an especially busy week for Lizzo, who celebrated the end to a successful 2013 and popped the cork on the New Year by having a song placed on the popular HBO show Girls, flying to London to perform at BBC 1’s Future Fest, and reconnecting with producer Ryan Olson and beatmaker Lazerbeak to…
DuluthAtmosphere’s ‘Say Shh,’ the song that helped launch the Current nine years ago todayAndrea Swensson • Jan 24, 2014It was exactly nine years ago this morning that the Current first went on air and introduced itself to the Twin Cities with the help of Atmosphere’s Minnesota-centric “Say Shh.” The song, which was tacked on as a hidden track at the end of the Rhymesayers’ duo’s 2003 album, Seven’s Travels, had already become somewhat of…
Local Current BlogJon Schober bids farewell to the Current and MinnesotaJon Schober • Jan 23, 2014Jon Schober – Go East Young Man! For the past three years, the Current has been fortunate to have Jon Schober be part of the team. Jon is a native Texan, who arrived in Minnesota in 2008 to go to the U and work at Radio K, and joined the Current in 2010 as an…
Coffee Break9:30 Coffee Break: Band Breakups Jan 23, 2014What bands with formerly married members should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
DuluthLocal Gig List: January 23-26Andrea Swensson • Jan 23, 2014Thursday, January 23 Low Fitger’s Brewhouse, Duluth 10 p.m., free, 21+ We’ve arrived at week two in Low’s quest to perform every song from their discography over the course of seven weeks in the intimate confines of Duluth’s Fitger’s Brewhouse. Each week the band draws new songs out of a hat and puts together a…
Local Current BlogTwin Cities ska: The happiest little scene on earthSarah Harper • Jan 23, 2014There’s no doubt about it: ska has an image problem. Nationally, its popularity has declined so much since the third-wave explosion of the late 90s that for many, it seems goofy stereotypes are all that’s left. For anyone attending a ska show at the 331 Club in early January, though, it would have been hard…
Local Current BlogHear the Hold Steady’s new single ‘I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You’Andrea Swensson • Jan 23, 2014After taking some time away from the band to record a moodier, more roots-oriented solo album, Craig Finn has reunited with his Hold Steady bandmates and released a punchy new single today, “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” as a lead-up to their forthcoming Teeth Dreams. “We were looking to make a big rock…
The Current Guitar CollectionGuitar Collection: Adam Castilla, Gibson Midtown CustomLuke Taylor and Adam Castilla • Jan 22, 2014Adam Castilla is the front man of The Colourist, a cheekily self-described "math pop" band out of Orange County, Calif. When The Colourist played an in-studio session at The Current, Castilla took a few minutes to tell us about his Gibson hollow-body guitar.
Coffee Break9:30 Coffee Break: City Names Jan 22, 2014What songs that have a city name as a title should we play for today's Coffee Break.
