First Communion Afterparty - Jesus Told You, from the forthcoming album "Earth Heat Sound."

Alt-J are inducted into the Chart Hall of Fame this week after spending 6 weeks total at the top, the first band ever to recover the top position TWICE! If Daft Punk recover the top spot for their final week they'll EQUAL that new record!

Today is "Cheer Up the Lonely Day," we hope to help by playing a lonely set of music to show that they've got company in their loneliness. What lonely songs do you want to hear?

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins The Current's Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about about the first in a series of three new plays and about two outdoor dance events that are perfect for summertime.

If you’ve read this Local Radar feature since it began, you’ve probably noticed my affinity for Food Pyramid, consistently one of the more under-appreciated bands by local music critics. And I get it: their brand of repetitive, fuzzed out, electro-space rock whatever-you-want-to-call-it is not everyone’s forte. And when most of your songs clock in anywhere…

The Current is giving one lucky winner an opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park July 19-21 featuring headliners Bjork, Belle & Sebastian, and R. Kelly.

If you didn't snag tickets to one of Dawes' two sold out shows at First Avenue, The Current has you covered! The band stopped by our studios for an impromptu interview with Barb Abney and performed a live acoustic version of "Most People."

On June 22, The Current hosted Dessa's Parts Of Speech release show at The Fitzgerald Theater. With another Current Sessions at The Fitz, Barb Abney highlights the performance.

With a train rolling behind the stage every 15 minutes and the pungent smell of oil and hot gravel clinging to the air, it was easy to see why Bob Dylan chose to return to St. Paul’s Midway Stadium for his AmericanaramA tour with Richard Thompson, My Morning Jacket and Wilco. The unique location and heavy-hitting…

There were no photo passes or professional cameras permitted at last night’s AmericanaramA show with Bob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, and Richard Thompson, so some of us had to get creative while documenting the evening visually. For MPR photographer Nate Ryan, that meant working the field with his iPhone. He managed to capture some…