Mirah - 24th St.

Anticipating the release of Rural Alberta Advantage's 3rd studio album, Mended with Gold, frontman Nils Edenloff chatted with New Hot host David Safar this week to debut "Terrified," the first single off the new record.

Duluth Mayor Don Ness talks to Steve Seel about The Current's summer road trip to Duluth that will feature a live broadcast with special guests and a night of local music.

What songs do you want to hear from musicians either born or lived (however briefly) in Duluth?

A couple of years ago, I was introduced to a part of my life that I didn’t know I was missing until I found it: Convergence. Convergence is an annual science-fiction convention that takes place in Bloomington, Minn., on the first weekend in July. This year marked the 16th anniversary of the volunteer-run convention. This…

Though a game played by the country’s best baseball players wouldn’t seem to have any special significance to music fans, the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game is inspiring a motley mix of famous musicians to perform in Minneapolis this month. First came the news that First Avenue had booked the Flaming Lips to play on…

Bill Withers and Studio Rio - Lovely Day (Studio Rio Version)

The Monkees dumped Jimi Hendrix, Beck was born, and Prince was forced off the stage Today in Music History.

Today, almost every moment of each big-name concert is captured by one or more fans with phones and posted online. Now, thousands more shows up to and including the digital era are getting the YouTube treatment. Music Vault—a recently-launched online offshoot of music memorabilia store Wolfgang’s Vault, described by Rolling Stone as a “bootleg haven”—has published 13,000 concert…

It’s hard to believe three decades have already passed, but on July 27, 2014, Prince’s iconic Minneapolis-based film Purple Rain will turn 30 years old. We’re celebrating the rock ‘n’ roll movie with an audio documentary that will air on the Current on Sunday night, July 27, at 6 p.m., and we need your help.…