Fresh off playing a gig at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis last night, Angel Olsen and her band stopped in to The Current's studio to play a few songs and to chat with Mary Lucia.

This world isn't fair, but every once in a while, good things happen to good people - and that's definitely the case with Sonny Knight, the Minnesota soul music veteran who's reaching a new career peak in his mid-60s.

An article being passed around the Internet claims to have verification from the writers of “Let It Go,” the hit Oscar-winning anthem from Disney’s Frozen, that they were inspired by Prince’s 1994 song “Letitgo” and in fact shared a demo with the artist, adding the line “the cold never bothered me anyway” after Prince made that…

Happy Friday! Here’s a handful of the best and brightest music videos to emerge this week from the Minnesota scene: Haley Bonar and Choo Choo Bob Ohhhh, fer cute. Haley Bonar recently appeared on the Choo Choo Bob Show to perform a song she wrote just for the show, “Build Somethings.” Sonny Knight and the…

It’s a rare thing to look around a music venue and not see a dozen faces lit up with the cold blue lights of smartphones, and even rarer to hear no sound but the band. Yet, at the Cedar Cultural Center last night, Angel Olsen transported the audience to a time before technology and abbreviated…

What musicians that are known for wearing hats should we play? Give us your ideas and we'll play a few for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

MPR's Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about the latest reboot of the Marvel Comics character, played by Andrew Garfield.

When Amy Abts returns to Duluth this weekend to play Homegrown, it won’t just be a return to a city where she spent her formative music-making years and a festival she helped launch. It will be something of a victory lap for Abts—who has spent the past few years undergoing treatment for a rare brain…

Keith Richards fell out of a coconut tree, The Who played with out Keith Moon, and Brian Wilson halted the production of Smile Today in Music History.

Apollonia Kotero is no stranger to the Twin Cities. As Prince’s on-screen romantic interest in Purple Rain, she spent many months here filming the 1984 movie—and June 28 will mark her first time back in Minneapolis since the shooting of the film over 30 years ago. Kotero will participate in the third annual Benefit 2…