In town to play a gig at First Avenue in support of their debut album, 'Sun Structures', Temples stopped in to The Current's studio to play a few songs and to chat with Mark Wheat.

Sally Hedberg and Dana Raidt met last year when Hedberg was writing a story about the Girls Got Rhythm Fest, an event Raidt organized in 2012 and 2013 to spotlight female musicians. The two hit it off and soon launched a site for their project Girl Germs—named after Raidt’s former podcast and Radio K show—to honor and…

To celebrate the return of The Replacements to Minnesota, we connected with Trace Hull, curator of the Replacements Live Archive, a blog dedicated to tracking down, digitizing and archiving all Replacements-related recordings, to share his top hometown Replacements gigs

What severe weather songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about arts events that will take you to hell and back this weekend, from an R-rated ballet (!) to a spring arts festival.

Thursday, April 24 Mid West Music Fest 2014 Various venues, Winona 5 p.m., $20/day, age restrictions vary Winona kicks off its fifth annual Mid West Music Fest (read recaps of 2012 and 2013) with shows in venues throughout the city. Highlights from the first night include folk-bluesmen Charlie Parr and Mike Munson at the Historic…

66-year-old singer Sonny Knight has a down-to-earth humble charisma that charms everyone he meets. Born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Minnesota, Knight describes his career as a series of “ups and downs.” He released his first single—as Little Sonny Knight and the Cymbols—almost 50 years ago, but his career stalled when he was drafted…

Bob Dylan played harmonica for Harry Belafonte, New Order started recording, and a Ray Charles' tune becomes the state song of Georgia Today in Music History.

Audio: The Replacements play The Orpheum in February 7, 1991

Audio: The Replacements play First Avenue's Mainroom May 27, 1987