To honor Black History Month, The Current is celebrating by spotlighting African-American musical icons from throughout history and across genres. Help us pick who to feature!

Read what everyone had to say about the first night of our two-night party.

As The Current celebrates its ninth birthday, this week we were kind of blown away and humbled by the coverage done by City Pages. We link to City Pages' stories and a day-in-the-life video we think you'll enjoy as much as we did.

To help get everyone ready for the celebration let's put together a play list of songs with the number 9 featured in the title or very prominently in the lyrics. Let's get this party started!

Cube Critic Euan Kerr joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to discuss the Oscar nominees.

Oasis and Dylan both had no.1 hits, The Quarry Men played in Liverpool, and The Clash had a hit with a cover Today in Music History.

It’s been an especially busy week for Lizzo, who celebrated the end to a successful 2013 and popped the cork on the New Year by having a song placed on the popular HBO show Girls, flying to London to perform at BBC 1’s Future Fest, and reconnecting with producer Ryan Olson and beatmaker Lazerbeak to…

It was exactly nine years ago this morning that the Current first went on air and introduced itself to the Twin Cities with the help of Atmosphere’s Minnesota-centric “Say Shh.” The song, which was tacked on as a hidden track at the end of the Rhymesayers’ duo’s 2003 album, Seven’s Travels, had already become somewhat of…

Kristoff Krane - Aho, from the new retrospective album "I Freestyle Life."

Jon Schober – Go East Young Man!   For the past three years, the Current has been fortunate to have Jon Schober be part of the team. Jon is a native Texan, who arrived in Minnesota in 2008 to go to the U and work at Radio K, and joined the Current in 2010 as an…