Volcano Choir - Comrade, from the new album "Repave."

If you're a reader of comments sections on websites, you know they can be places where all kinds of speech flies freely: balanced comments, nasty comments, and -- some would say -- irresponsible comments. We tout the Web as the great democratizer, but are comments sections curated op-ed spaces or totally open free-for-alls?

The Current's Guitar Collection is a look at some of the instruments that have been played in The Current's studios. Many times, there's a good story behind a guitar, often known only to the person who plays it.

Now that bands have the ability to record a track in their basement and upload it to Soundcloud instantly, it’s easy to forget how common it once was for bands would gig for years before laying something down on tape. Such was the case for the God Damn Doo Wop Band, who burst onto the…

We're looking for "song" songs for today's Coffee Break. Songs that feature the word "song" in the title.

Today on The Current's Eating and Drinking with the Morning Show's Steve Seel, Rachel Hutton spoke about the growing trend of juicing and the new stores opening serving juice.

The Internet did a collective spit-take Tuesday night when the @3rdeyegirl account on Twitter — used primarily for promoting Prince’s new band of the same name — posted this: PRINCE'S 1ST TWEET… TESTING 1, 2… — PRINCE 3RDEYEGIRL (@3rdeyegirl) August 14, 2013 About a minute later, an uninspired, yet playful second tweet: PRINCE'S 2ND TWEET.…

Bad Cop - My Dying Days, from the new "Light On EP."

Ahead of last Tuesday's generous 23-song set at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, The National stopped by to play songs off their latest record Trouble Will Find Me in Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum. Between songs, frontman Matt Berninger talked to The Current's Mary Lucia about songwriting, skinny jeans, fatherhood and his brother's suddenly skyrocketing film career.

Cults, who were thrust into the indie pop scene in 2010 with their self-titled debut and single "Go Outside," are back with a brand new song.