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November 01, 2013

Lizzo - Bus Passes and Happy Meals, from the new album "Lizzobangers."

Lizzo - Bus Passes and Happy Meals

Lizzo - Bus Passes and Happy Meals

Jon Schober • Nov 1, 2013

Lizzo - Bus Passes and Happy Meals, from the new album "Lizzobangers."

The Chart Show: Arcade Fire find the connector

The Chart Show: Arcade Fire find the connector

David Safar • Nov 1, 2013

Local tracks from Jeremy Messersmith and Poliça climb to the top of The Chart as The Arcade Fire take #1. Meanwhile, Alt-J plummet to #15 and NONONO hold onto #13.

Local Gig List: Halloween-November 3

Local Gig List: Halloween-November 3

Andrea Swensson • Oct 31, 2013

Thursday, October 31 Solid Gold with Grime Dogg, Allan Kingdom, Tickle Torture and Mike 2600 Turf Club, St. Paul 8 p.m., $15, 21+ Not only is this a chance to party with Solid Gold while wearing your best deep-sea-diver costume, but it also features support from some of the Cities’ most intriguing emerging artists—raucous electro-pop…

9:30 Coffee Break: Candy

9:30 Coffee Break: Candy

Oct 31, 2013

What songs about candy (so either the word candy or a type of candy) should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

Weekend Arts Roundup: Halloween Treats

Weekend Arts Roundup: Halloween Treats

Marianne Combs • Oct 31, 2013

MPR News' Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley and Jade to talk about all kinds of ways to celebrate Halloween that combine arts sensibility with ghosts-and-goblins fun.

Theft of the Dial: Aisha Tyler

Theft of the Dial: Aisha Tyler

Oct 31, 2013

Aisha Tyler is your best friend. Or at least you want her to be. She has great taste in everything, and she's incredibly talented, too. Not only is Tyler an established director, actor, comedian and TV host, she also has an enormously successful podcast and a great music collection... so it's no big surprise that she excels at being a Theft of the Dial guest on The Current.

Does your Halloween costume rock? Enter our #SpookySelfie contest

Does your Halloween costume rock? Enter our #SpookySelfie contest

Oct 31, 2013

It's Halloween and you've put a lot of effort into your costume. Why don't you share it with us?

Oh, fer cute: Minnesota musicians show off their Halloween costumes

Oh, fer cute: Minnesota musicians show off their Halloween costumes

Andrea Swensson • Oct 31, 2013

Today is Halloween, a day when kids across the country don disguises and headout into their neighborhoods to collect candy from strangers. (Why does that sound so creepy?) Some of us continue to dress up for Halloween into adulthood, but for many this yearly tradition brings back memories of childhood, and all of the things…

Noah and The Whale - All Through the Night

Noah and The Whale - All Through the Night

Jon Schober • Oct 31, 2013

Noah and The Whale - All Through the Night, from the new album "Heart Of Nowhere."

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Official Rules: The Current's #SpookySelfie Costume contest

Oct 30, 2013

Do you have what it takes to win The Current's Spooky Selfie Twitter contest?

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