Happy Friday! If your day is anything like mine, then you’re itching to get up out of your swivel chair and into the sunshine at one of this weekend’s many outdoor shows. Here’s a handful of fresh local videos to help make the time creep by a little faster… Jack Campbell Something tells me there’s…

Text by Andrea Swensson and Steve Cohen Research and “Now” photos by Steve Cohen Now that every address is available with a quick Google search and every concert is Instagrammed from 100 angles, it can be hard to remember a time when things weren’t so heavily documented. Even massive concerts like the Beatles’ visit to…

Have you heard of Step Rockets? If you haven’t, then you’re probably not alone—the band has maintained a low profile in the local music community since starting out last year. But two weeks ago, Indie Shuffle wrote about what I would consider their first real debut single “Kisser.” And since then, the track has amassed…

Here in the Twin Cities, we like to talk about how we have an especially interconnected scene, with so many different bands overlapping, breaking up, and reforming into new groups. But it’s something that’s always been incredibly hard to describe, or to make any sense of on paper. Yeah, these bands are all connected, but…

Tuesday, August 6 Jeremy Messersmith 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 7:30 p.m., sold out, 18+ With his new record in the can, recent Glassnote Records signee Jeremy Messersmith will showcase some of his new material at the Entry tonight. The album’s title and full track listing hasn’t been revealed, so the show will offer up one…

Last year, the local team at The Current stumbled across a slew of high-school bands by chance, and a few of them ended up becoming quick sensations in the community (see: John Mark Nelson and Bomba De Luz). We figured there was a lot of talent brewing in those school hallways, so we aired the…

There was already a pretty good reason to head down to the Bachelor Farmer tonight for their outdoor street fair, Kraftskiva, with the Cloak Ox playing their first show in about 18 months. But this morning, the event’s organizers sweetened the deal by adding the Shouting Matches, fresh off playing a show at First Avenue…

Most weeks, the Friday Five is packed with shiny new videos from Minnesota’s best and brightest filmmakers. We’ve certainly had an embarrassment of riches lately, with more and more new directors picking up steam and churning out batches of commercial-grade videos. But one of the great things about the prevalence of video technology is that…

Minnesota Public Radio will once again set up camp at the corner of Judson and Nelson for a series of live broadcasts by all three stations. As in past years, the Current’s Mary Lucia and Mark Wheat will broadcast live each weekday afternoon and evening, with special guests ranging from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (who…

This year, we’ll be spotlighting a prominent Minnesota musician or band each month with our new Artist of the Month feature. You’ll be able to hear a variety of songs from throughout the artists’ career on both the Local Current stream and the Local Show, and you can read more about the artists’ history and their role in…