King Khan and The Shrines - Born To Die, from the new album "Idle No More."

This week, the Pixies released a four-song EP ("EP-1"), their first collection of new material in 22 years. Today, The Current's Morning Show aired the track "Indie Cindy" off the new release. Give the song a listen and share what you think.

Last month, while DJing my regular shift on our 24-hour Local Current Stream, I had an idea: What if I tried linking each song that was played to the one that came before it? Like my own little Minnesota-centric version of the Kevin Bacon game, I was astounded by just how easily I could trace…

September is here again. We're looking for songs that mention September in the lyrics or title for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Now in its second year in the State Fair Grandstand, Friday night’s Minnesota Music-on-a-Stick proved that a sizable audience will turn out to support an all-local lineup. This year’s installment smashed last year’s attendance records, with the 8,834-strong audience more than doubling the turnout from last year. Fans were pressed up on the barricade in…

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.