Prissy Clerks won Vita.mn's Are You Local? contest back at the beginning of 2012, and we've been waiting almost a full year for their debut album. Now the quartet is preparing to jump into the spotlight with the release of "Bruise Or Be Bruised."

Beards, blue jeans, sweaters and flannel. Field Report came to The Current dressed in the winter uniform of the Midwest.

In honor of ' 50th anniversary, All Things Considered has been talking to the members of the band about standout songs from their catalog. Earlier this week, what gives "Street Fighting Man" (1968) its distinctive guitar sound, to his drum part in "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965), and guitarist in the band's history, settling on the funky, disco-inflected "Dance (Pt. 1)," from 1980.

As the end of the year nears, it's time for the annual list-making to begin. In addition to our Top 89 programming this year, the local crew is also launching an inaugural poll to determine the best Minnesota releases of 2012. But we need your votes to make this poll a reality!

Today for the 9:30 Coffee Break, we want to revel in some sonic psychedelia. Help us put together a set of tunes from both the glory days of "the trip" and today that have a psychedelic air to them.

The fourth edition of the MN Beatles Project is about the be released. The Current's Morning Show sat down with creator of the MN Beatles Project, Mark Gehring and rapper Astronautalis, to listen to 2 cuts and talk about the album release.

Today in 1978, to accompany their performance of "Fat Bottomed Girls" during their Madison Square Garden Show, Freddie Mercury and Queen employed numerous semi-nude women bicycling around the stage. So, if you like, you may visualize that as we enjoy the song today.

Engineer Tom Smouse: “I realize the depth of hurt I’ve created”

For the casual fan, the story of the Castaways begins in late 1965 when they broke out regionally, then nationally, and eventually internationally with their hit “Liar, Liar.” They played American Bandstand. They appeared in the movie It’s a Bikini World. For a brief time they, along with the Trashmen, were the most famous musicians…

Local music notes from the week of November 12-16