Black Joe Lewis - Come To My Party, from the new album "Electric Slave."

Chastity Brown stopped by the MPR booth on the corner of Judson and Nelson to perform on the last day of the 2013 Minnesota State Fair.

While making her new album, Case went through a series of deaths and a bout of depression. But once she stopped fighting it, "it's like a bottleneck broke open, and everything started to flow again and my circulation came back," she says.

Neko Case has taken the voice of everything from animals to tornadoes in her songs. On her new album, the ambitiously titled The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, you get the sense that, for a change, she just might be singing in the voice of Neko Case.

Desaparecidos — the name means "the disappeared ones" in Spanish — did exactly that not long after their 2002 album, Read Albums/Speak Spanish. After reuniting and releasing a handful of singles, Desaparecidos are touring once more and stopped in to The Current's studios to talk to Bill DeVille.

It's a three-day weekend and we're playing with blocks — blocks of three-song sets, that is. Tune in to The Current all through Labor Day weekend to hear blocks of three songs by all your favorite artists. We'll even be airing special three-song-block versions of Teenage Kicks, Radio Free Current, United States of Americana and The Local Show.

We want to gear up for the concert tonight by playing your favorite songs from the artists performing at MN Music on a Stick. What song from (The Chalice, P.O.S., Mason Jennings, Trampled by Turtles, and The Suburbs) do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Paul McCartney has released a new single, the appropriately titled "New," and it's coming out ahead of his upcoming album, which is set to release in the U.S. on Oct. 15.

State Fair, State Fair, State Fair. That seems to be all anyone is talking about locally this week (besides, you know, that little gig the Replacements played last weekend), and it’s a big part of what we’re talking about today at the Current. We’re all getting ready to head out to the fairgrounds to celebrate…

Thanks to Kickstarter and a creative surge on the part of the band members, The Suburbs have just released a new album, Si Sauvage, their first in 27 years. The Current's Steve Seel and Jill Riley sat down with the Suburbs to talk about the band's past, present and future, and to hear some songs off the new record.