tUnE-yArDs makes it back to the top this week as fans try to get tickets to her sold out First Avenue show July 17. If you were lucky enough to get tickets, don't be fashionably late as Minneapolis' own Dosh will open for Merrill and the gang. And if you snag tickets, she's just announced more gigs including a show at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee Oct. 23.

There's not a lot of crossover between The Current and A Prairie Home Companion, but good music is universal, so there have to be a couple of intersections here and there. Here are the five standout Current-Prairie Home crossover performances.

For their latest album, 'Our Year', Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison spent many weeks perfecting their acoustic sound with their band to get a true, "front porch" jam-session sound -- and that's exactly what they did in the Radio Heartland studio.

For the past several years, Davina and the Vagabonds have been shining rays of sunlight over the Twin Cities music scene with their mix of blues, jazz, and soulful pop. With a unique lineup including a small horn section of trumpet and trombone, and with Davina Sowers’s inimitable voice—which has earned comparisons to a long list of…

When Benjamin Booker stopped in to The Current for an in-studio session, he took some time to tell us about the hollow-body guitar he purchased without even playing it. Fortunately, it's worked out very well for him.

Have you always dreamed of being a drummer in a touring indie band? Especially one that has cultivated an especially intense and emotional connection with its fans and is beloved by environmentally conscious, tender souls from coast to coast? Then you may consider getting your application materials together quickly, because Cloud Cult have just announced an immediate opening (a…

What songs with lyrics about forgetting should we play for I Forgot Day? We'll play some of your suggestions for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

Today on The Morning Show's Eating and Drinking, James Norton chatted with Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the food trucks of summer.

You’ve read On The Road; I know you have. Well, I hated it. I think you may have, too. The one notable thing I took from that book was Kerouac’s regular usage of the word “Hipster,” capitalized here for effect. It was the first time I’d seen or heard it used outside of 21st century…

As we provide the A-Z soundtrack to your Fourth of July weekend, we know that another important part of this weekend’s soundtrack will be provided by rapidly heated metal salts detonating in the evening sky. (In other words, fireworks.) The Twin Cities metro area will have no shortage of festivities this Independence Day, so we’ve created…