Typhoon, based in Portland, Ore., are currently touring in support of their third full-length album, White Lighter. They stopped in to talk to Barb Abney and to play a few songs in The Current's studio before performing at the Cedar Cultural Center on Thursday night.

If you ask me, there’s not much that beats fall in Minnesota. There’s no humidity, it’s good sleeping weather, and it’s a time when bands in the Twin Cities start cranking out new music at a breakneck pace, as if they’re trying to cram as many new albums as possible into the end of the…

Thanks Stacy for the suggestion that everyone can join in on. What songs with handclaps featured heavily should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

MPR Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jade to review a new thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman.

Have you heard? With his big sold-out show at First Avenue tonight, Har Mar Superstar Day has been declared in Minneapolis by Mayor R.T. Rybak. Given Har Mar’s antics and unparalleled live performance skills, this proclamation opens the door for all kinds of debaucherous celebrations. So just how does one observe a holiday as glorious…

Over the past few months, two remarkable things have happened in the Minnesota hip-hop scene. The first came with news that Hip Hop Harambee, the first block party of its kind, was so successful last year that it would be returning for an even bigger second installment at the Nomad Pub. And the second happened…

AC/DC got cheap and dirty, Queen went to no.1, and David Bowie hit no. 1 for the first time in the US Today in Music History.

Actual Wolf - Victims and Things, from the new self-titled album.

Rock is back on top, Vampire Weekend and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros get inducted into the Hall of Fame, and capital-lettered bands start to take over the Chart Show.

For International Talk Like a Pirate Day let's play songs that are about any aspect of Pirate life (ships, parrots, peg legs, etc). Give us your suggestions and we'll pick a couple to play for today's Coffee Break.