Scarmen Hellectra and Citizen Pain of the Minnesota RollerGirls stopped by to chat with former RollerGirl Jill Riley of The Current's Morning Show about the opening night on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Roy Wilkins Auditorium.

When Blitzen Trapper stopped in for an in-studio session at The Current, we asked front man Eric Earley about his vintage Gibson SG. Here's what he had to say.

It was a few years ago now that Katy Vernon first sat at one of the cabaret tables at the intimate Aster Cafe on St. Anthony Main and watched Lucy Michelle play a hootenanny show armed with only an ukulele. “She sat there and sang and she rocked the whole place,” Vernon remembers, “and I…

When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes—and the same goes when Prince asks if you want to hear the blues. Posing that question and hearing no dissenters, Prince let rip with a cover of “The Sweeter He Is,” a 1969 song by Isaac Hayes and David Porter that was originally recorded…

How about a Coffee Break to motivate you to give this member drive? What songs with "let's go" in the title or prominently in the lyrics should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

Steve Seel and Jill Riley talk to their favorite punter about his NFL career, about his writing and music pursuits, and about what's annoying him right now. Kluwe is part of the cast in tonight's Wits season premiere.

Dylan got the nod 26 years ago. 10 years ago, the world hailed Prince's musical gifts with an induction. Can The Replacements be the next Minnesota band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014?

Dessa has spent much of this year on the road in support of her new album, Parts of Speech. And along the way, she’s also picked up some dramatic stories, some of which sound more like the lyrics in her songs than things that typically happen to touring indie artists. Just last month, her touring…

Though I was born in Minneapolis and raised in St. Paul and Duluth, I missed the Current’s zeroth birthday. When Minnesota Public Radio’s new station launched on January 24, 2005, I was in Massachusetts, attending graduate school at Harvard University. I knew that something pretty exciting had happened in Minnesota radio, but I had my…

City Pages music editor Reed Fischer stopped by the Current today to announce the winners in the 23rd annual Picked to Click poll, which asks local music experts to weigh in on the best and brightest new artists in our scene. As Reed noted on air today, not only does this year’s Picked to Click…