The Current presents Rock the Cradle on March 2, 2014. It's a free day of fun for kids and their grown-ups, held at two of the state's premier arts and culture institutions, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Children's Theatre Company.

Continuing their extensive touring, Lucius played a sold-out show at The Cedar Cultural Center last Thursday, Feb. 20. That afternoon, they stopped at The Current to play an exclusive live show in the Forum at Minnesota Public Radio and to talk with Mary Lucia.

Happy Friday! It’s been another trying week for us here in Minnesota, with questionable road conditions and subzero temperatures forcing us indoors again. Before you get too stir-crazy, check out the latest batch of videos to arise in the Minnesota scene—including one band who embraced the frigid weather and turned it into something quite beautiful.…

Haley Bonar is no stranger to local and national attention, having consistently earned praise for her solo and collaborative releases over the past several years. Buzz seems to be hitting new highs, though, for her long-awaited forthcoming album Last War, to be released May 20 on Graveface Records. Today, she stopped by the Current’s studio to…

We'll talk about the songs nominated for the Best Original Song this year, play them all for you, and discuss what we would pick as the winner.

The Oscars are awarded this coming Sunday, March 2. MPR Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to compare notes on Oscar favorites.

This week’s Current Presents: The Best-Selling Minnesota Artists of All Time was the culmination of quite a bit of research, and unsurprisingly I wasn’t able to fit all of my findings into the one-hour program. As I wrap up this project and prepare to move on to something else, I wanted to type up a…

Thin Lizzy's guitarist collapsed, Ray Charles was attacked by a member of his audience, and "Brimful of Asha" was no. 1 in the UK Today in Music History.

What songs do you want to hear for the misery Coffee Break? Suggest songs with "misery" or "miserable" in the title.

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about public art at Union Depot, a new production at Mixed Blood Theater and an Henri Matisse exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.