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April 12, 2013

To celebrate Public Radio Music Month, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. We've gone through and picked some of the most beloved performances by the staff and by our audience. We'll play the winner during the Live Current track of the day the following day.

The best of the in-studios: Adele, Ryan Adams and Phoenix

The best of the in-studios: Adele, Ryan Adams and Phoenix

Apr 12, 2013

To celebrate Public Radio Music Month, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. We've gone through and picked some of the most beloved performances by the staff and by our audience. We'll play the winner during the Live Current track of the day the following day.

Chalet - All Our Friends

Chalet - All Our Friends

Apr 12, 2013

Chalet - All Our Friends, from the new album "Tucson."

A close race to the top: The Chart Show - April 11, 2013

A close race to the top: The Chart Show - April 11, 2013

Mark Wheat • Apr 12, 2013

Yeah! The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have it!! By a nose, they climb to the top. Only a handful of votes separated the top 4.

A long-lost in-studio performance from indie luminaries Vampire Weekend

A long-lost in-studio performance from indie luminaries Vampire Weekend

Steve Seel, Peter Valelly and Vampire Weekend • Apr 11, 2013

Vampire Weekend are due to return with a third album in just a couple of weeks, and just in time, we've unearthed a long-lost and never-aired in-studio performance that the quartet recorded for us back in the spring of 2010!

9:30 Coffee Break: Great Harmonies

9:30 Coffee Break: Great Harmonies

Apr 11, 2013

We're all in it together, and as a reminder we're focusing today's 9:30 Coffee Break on harmonies in songs. Join the conversation and let us know what we should play.

Hopkins native and influential A&R executive Tim Carr passes away

Hopkins native and influential A&R executive Tim Carr passes away

Andrea Swensson • Apr 11, 2013

  Minnesotan writer, A&R executive, and all-around music supporter Tim Carr was found dead in his apartment in Pattaya, Thailand, yesterday in what police have described as “suspicious circumstances.” The 57-year-old Hopkins native began his career as a music writer in the ’70s, contributing to Twin Cities publications like the Minnesota Daily and the Star…

Phantom Vibration’s Henry Mackaman passes away

Phantom Vibration’s Henry Mackaman passes away

Andrea Swensson • Apr 11, 2013

  St. Paul native Henry Mackaman, best known to the Twin Cities music community as the guitarist, producer, and co-founder of dream-pop band Phantom Vibration, passed away yesterday of bacterial meningitis. He was 21 years old. Mackaman’s illness was sudden. A high fever landed him in the emergency room on Saturday night, but was sent…

The best of the in-studios: Sharon Jones, Snow Patrol and the Jayhawks

The best of the in-studios: Sharon Jones, Snow Patrol and the Jayhawks

Apr 11, 2013

To celebrate Public Radio Music Month, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. We've gone through and picked some of the most beloved performances by the staff and by our audience. We'll play the winner during the Live Current track of the day the following day.

Telekinesis - Ghosts and Creatures

Telekinesis - Ghosts and Creatures

Jon Schober • Apr 11, 2013

Telekinesis - Ghosts and Creatures, from the new album "Dormarion."

New Music: Scottish trio CHVRCHES' soaring electro-pop single "Recover"

New Music: Scottish trio CHVRCHES' soaring electro-pop single "Recover"

Peter Valelly • Apr 10, 2013

Glasgow's CHVRCHES (which, yes, is pronounced "churches") are one of the acts that emerged from this year's South by Southwest with an aura of buzz, and it's not hard to see why: their yearning, epic electro-pop anthems pack an awesome emotional and melodic wallop, thanks in no small part to singer Lauren Mayberry's captivating voice.

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