The relationship between nature, rural life, and Americana music runs so deep that it can feel cliché at times; everyone’s heard about Bon Iver’s cabin and seen the hundreds of publicity photos banjo-toting artists sulking stoically on train tracks. Especially now, with the surge in neo-folk that some publicists have branded the “Lumin-era” thanks to…

Tuesday, October 22 Dosh Album-Release Show Electric Fetus, Minneapolis 7 p.m., free, all ages Martin Dosh will celebrate the release of his latest full-length, Milk Money, with a free performance, listening party, and album signing at record store the Electric Fetus. Strange Names (opening for Janelle Monae) Skyway Theatre, Minneapolis 6 p.m., $25 Touring behind her…

This past Wednesday morning, Prince and 3rdEyeGirl invited the general public to partake in The Breakfast Experience, a “Pajama Dance Party” held at Paisley Park Studios. With a request to “Dress 2 Impress” and doors set to open at 2 a.m., but with no confirmation that Prince himself would actually take the stage, hundreds made…

It’s been another busy week for local music, with the Picked to Click results hitting newsstands this past Wednesday and Prince throwing another crazy party out at Paisley Park tonight. Before we skip on out of our cubicles for the weekend, here are a few more little tidbits of Minnesota music news to get you…

Courtney Yasmineh’s musical career has been anything but typical. After taking a decade-long break from music, Yasmineh eased back into music in the late 2000s and has already written and recorded four albums, the latest of which she’ll celebrate tonight with a release show at Bunker’s. And though she still manages to fly under the radar…

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…

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…