Doomtree: All Hands The hometown hip-hop collective known as Doomtree are dropping their fourth studio album. To celebrate the release of All Hands, Doomtree will be appearing at various businesses around town, pausing for a 2 p.m. “ask-me-anything” Reddit chat. They will be ending the day at the new Surely taproom to share some beers with their…

As we reported earlier, Sam Smith and the co-writers of Smith’s hit “Stay With Me” have agreed to share songwriting royalties with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne due to strong similarities between “Stay With Me” and Petty’s 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down.” Smith’s rep has elaborated on the settlement, telling Rolling Stone that the similarities between the…

Is founding guitarist Tom DeLonge still in the band Blink-182? The band says no: as Billboard reports, Blink-182 released a statement saying that “a week before we were scheduled to go in to the studio we got an email from his manager explaining that he didn’t want to participate in any Blink-182 projects indefinitely, but…

When Luke Heiken, the mastermind behind Drone Not Drones, says that there will be a solid 28 hours of drone, he means it. Beginning Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. and wrapping up 28 hours later on Jan. 31 at 11 p.m., an estimated 55 bands are set to perform at the Cedar Cultural Center as…

From behind an Oz-like curtain, a booming voice created ground-shaking cheers from the crowd. A dramatic fabric drop revealed a musical deity, towering over the crowd on a 30-foot pedestal. Despite the superstar special effects at his sold-out Roy Wilkins show on Saturday night, British soul singer Sam Smith proved to be as down-to-earth as they…

When “Only One,” the Kanye West song featuring Paul McCartney on keyboards, was released, West’s reps promised that more collaborations between the two were forthcoming. Sure enough, Saturday saw the release of a new single from Rihanna featuring both West and McCartney. The song, “FourFiveSeconds,” is an acoustic ballad with Rihanna taking lead while West chimes in on verses and…

For the grand finale of #Current10, which came at the end of an action-packed 10-day run of events, hometown heroes Atmosphere, Virginia blues-rockers J. Roddy Walston and the Business, legendary surf quartet the Trashmen, and burgeoning soul artist PaviElle pulled out all the stops to give the First Avenue crowd an unforgettable evening. PaviElle and…

For the first of two back-to-back nights at First Avenue, a young and enthusiastic crowd arrived early and screamed and sang along all night to sets by locals Allan Kingdom, Hippo Campus, and Dead Man Winter, and the Current’s first national birthday party headliner, Cold War Kids. Both of the Twin Cities were well represented…

The Current has always been about getting close to the music, and for our tenth anniversary, we thought we’d take that a step further: we’re inviting musicians to incorporate our hosts’ voices into new compositions. If you’re a musician who’s interested in sampling and remixing, we’d love to hear your take on remixing The Current! For…

The Current launched 10 years ago this morning, with the first song playing at 9 a.m. on January 24, 2005. If you’ve been following the station since the beginning, you already know that a lot has happened since then. Thousands of things—or tens of thousands, if you want to talk about how many songs have…