Happy Friday! The first half of this week’s batch of videos leans heavily on folk and Americana sounds, but don’t think for a second that all these beautiful melodies and acoustic guitars are going to add up to something boring. In fact, if you take your psychotropics now, they’ll probably start to kick in just as we…

Up-and-coming soul singer PaviElle French will perform as part of this season’s Naked Stages program at Pillsbury House Theatre. In her one-women performance piece, Runnin’, PaviElle uses song and storytelling to discuss her life growing up in St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood. Her playwriting debut, Runnin’ is part of a series of plays she is writing to “release her life’s demons and get free,” according to a press…

Fortunately all passengers are safe despite an accident involving Bono‘s private Learjet: according to the Irish Daily Mail, the plane was over Germany when the passengers heard a thud from the rear of the aircraft. They landed in Berlin just a few minutes later and “were horrified to learn that the compartment at the rear of…

The documentary David Bowie Is will be screened for a second time at the Lagoon Cinema next Wednesday, Nov. 19. The film gives a tour of the Bowie-centric exhibition, covered here by Sarah Harper on assignment for the Current, which opened in September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and will be on display there through…

Prince is cool with selfies—he even shared one he took himself using a camera and a mirror. He’s just not cool with cell phones at Paisley Park because people can’t stop taking pics of—well, him. “We ban their usage anywhere around Us,” he told the Huffington Post via his publicist, “because We’re allergic 2 lithium and ‘Everybodyelsies.'”…

With snow on the ground, your thoughts may be turning to the holidays—and so are ours. We’ll be celebrating the season (how else?) with local music, and we’d like your help to fill our music library with as much Minnesota holiday music as possible. On Sunday, Dec. 21, David Campbell will host a special holiday…

This morning City Pages published the results of their annual Picked to Click poll, one of the most looked-to indicators of which up-and-coming local artists are making waves in the eyes of a panel of over 100 Minnesota music influentials. Music editor Reed Fischer stopped by our studios to reveal half of this year’s winners on…

This morning we were joined by the director of the Elliott Smith documentary, “Heaven Adores You.” The conversation lead us to listen to some more songs from Elliott Smith and we decided that we may as well keep it going with your help. What Elliott Smith songs would you like to hear for today’s 9:30…

According to TMZ, rapper Big Bank Hank (Henry Jackson) of the Sugarhill Gang has died at 57, reportedly due to cancer. The Sugarhill Gang—whose original lineup comprised Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike, and Master G, were the first hip-hop group to cross over to mainstream popularity, and their 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight” marked the unmistakable arrival of the new…

Bae Tigre: Memoir of a Happy Drifting Chemical One of the most pleasant surprises coming out of the Twin Cities this year is Bae Tigre, a self-described “electro-Indie-gurl” with a fresh sound. Her debut full-length, Memoir of a Happy Drifting Chemical, is Polkadot Mayhem‘s newest release. The track “Now or Never” has a hook like…