The morning after playing a sold-out show at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, OK Go stopped in to The Current's studio to play an acoustic set and to talk with Bill DeVille.

It's easy to feel the romance in the musical relationship between Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. In the five years since the married duo came upon the name Shovels & Rope to describe the music they make from whatever's lying around the house, the pair have become a musical embodiment of how loving couples make it work.

Tom Hallett, a singular critic with a distinctive, rambling, and passionate voice and a sharp ear for music, passed away yesterday afternoon in St. Paul after a long struggle with diabetes. He was 50 years old. Born in Deer River, Minn., on July 27, 1964, Hallett spent time living with family in Alaska and traveling the country before…

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Michael Rand chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel and producer Jade about: The possiblities for the starting Viking guarterback, and minor league baseball.

Mick Jagger was shot, R.E.M. played their biggest gig, and Ringo joined the Beatles Today in Music History.

KISS frontman Gene Simmons has apologized after receiving a barrage of criticism—from Mötley Crüe‘s Nikki Sixx, among many others—for comments about depression that he made last month in an interview with Songfacts.com. “I don’t get along with anybody who’s a drug addict and has a dark cloud over their head and sees themselves as a victim,” Simmons…

Things have really taken off in the last several months for New Orleans rocker Benjamin Booker. He's been touring constantly, he's appeared on 'The Late Show' with David Letterman, and he just wrapped a few opening dates on Jack White's tour. He even found time to drop by The Current Studio for a session. All that, and he didn't even have an album out. Until now.

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MPR's Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about a new documentary and about an event that benefits the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's PurpleRideStride 2014.