Three years since their last performance in our studios, Buffalo Moon has gone through big changes in that time. Most notably: lead singer Karen Freire made the move to New York to clear her head after some personal trials. That transition follows the path of so many other local acts in recent years -- members splitting time between Minnesota and other places out-of-state.

19-year-old Brit sensation Jake Bugg visits the Twin Cities on Friday, Jan. 17, to play a show in the First Avenue mainroom, but hat same day at 3 p.m, Jake will be in The Current's studios in St. Paul, Minn., to perform some songs and to chat with host Mark Wheat. Enter here for your chance to attend this exclusive session.

In the latest entry in our series of musical reminiscences, Sara Turman of St. Louis Park, Minn., shares a memory of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Did everyone survive the polar vortex? It wasn’t so bad, was it? We did get at least one positive thing out of it this week, in the form of a new collaboration between rapper Dem Atlas and singer Lydia Liza. Check out their frosty new video below, along with a handful of the other hottest…

Let's put together a set of songs that feature robot-sounding voices. What should we play?

MPR's Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to discuss the new romantic comedy/drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Spike Jonze. Plus, Cube Critics discuss 'Her' and artificial intelligence in film.

Text by Andrea Swensson and Steve Cohen “Now” photos by Steve Cohen Now that every address is available with a quick Google search and every concert is Instagrammed from 100 angles, it can be hard to remember a time when things weren’t so heavily documented. Even massive concerts like the Beatles’ visit to Minneapolis in…

Aretha Franklin got another gold record, Cyndi Lauper was nominated for a historical amount of Grammys, and Elvis Presley recorded his first song for RCA Today in Music History.

For the past three years the Cedar Cultural Center has been hosting and organizing a series of performances showcasing local Twin Cities musicians who compose new pieces that cross genre boundaries. The 416 Club is a program, funded by the Jerome Foundation, to support the production of new works by emerging artists. “Each year the Cedar has…

“Happy Friday y’all!” tweeted Maggie Morrison, the Minneapolis musician who was formerly half of the duo Lookbook. “Here is a long lost Lookbook track!” With that, Morrison shared a link to a Soundcloud stream of “Don’t Believe in Love,” one of the new tracks that Morrison and Grant Cutler were working on when they ended…