The singer-songwriter announced he will undergo an operation to remedy an elevated risk for stroke. Eight shows in the northwestern U.S. and western Canada are being rescheduled.

The keyboardist and singer was the co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers died Monday -- bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.

The pioneering South African singer, songwriter and activist died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Progenitors of garage and psychedelic rock, The Seeds were hugely influential to punk and modern rock. Mary Lucia speaks with Neil Norman, the director of the documentary 'The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard,' which is showing Wednesday, July 10 at The Trylon Cinema.

Henry Cluney, founding member of the seminal Belfast punk-rock band Stiff Little Fingers, has lived in Rochester, Minn., since 1997, but continues to tour the world as a solo performer and as a member of his new band, XSLF. Cluney visited The Current studio to talk to Mark Wheat about his music career and about how he came to live in Rochester.

'The band is heading in a new direction and it is time for me to move on,' Weiss writes.

The Louisiana native became a mentor to Fats Domino, transitioning from well-regarded horn player to producer and arranger of some of rock and roll's bedrock artists.

The Grammy-nominated rock supergroup The Raconteurs are back after 11 years. Jack White and Brendan Benson talk about the band's latest album 'Help Us, Stranger.'

Northern Irish musician SOAK (aka Bridie Monds-Watson) is back with her second album, 'Grim Town,' and is touring heavily in support of it. During Bonnaroo, SOAK stopped at The Current's booth to talk to Jade about the new record and about the mental acuity that can be stirred by the olfactory system.

In the 1980s, Prince wrote one of the Bangles' biggest hits, 'Manic Monday.' Now, The Prince Estate has released the demo version of the track as part of the artist's posthumous album, 'Originals.'