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September 23, 2014

In town for a show at the 7th Street Entry on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Toronto rockers Zeus stopped in to The Current's studio to play some songs and to chat with Mary Lucia.

Zeus perform in The Current studio

Zeus perform in The Current studio

Mary Lucia and Zeus • Sep 23, 2014

In town for a show at the 7th Street Entry on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Toronto rockers Zeus stopped in to The Current's studio to play some songs and to chat with Mary Lucia.

Bob Dylan named MusiCares Person of the Year, to be feted at all-star benefit concert

Bob Dylan named MusiCares Person of the Year, to be feted at all-star benefit concert

Hailey Colwell • Sep 23, 2014

Bob Dylan has been named 2015 MusicCares Person of the Year by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Minnesota-born music legend was chosen for the honor because his “body of creative work has contributed to America’s culture, as well as that of the entire world, in genuinely deep and lasting ways,” said MusiCares CEO…

Toki Wright and Big Cats, Is/Is, BLOODEATH, and more Minnesota record releases this week

Toki Wright and Big Cats, Is/Is, BLOODEATH, and more Minnesota record releases this week

Aaron Bolton • Sep 23, 2014

Toki Wright and Big Cats: Pangaea Toki Wright is back and this time he brings company: Minnesota producer Big Cats. Wright and Spencer Wirth-Davis, a.k.a. Big Cats, drop Pangaea today after two years of hard work in the studio. Wright and Big Cats joined David Campbell last week for an in-studio performance of the new…

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9:30 Coffee Break: David Bowie Is

Sep 23, 2014

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

The Throbbing Hive with Wits' John Moe: Netflix Spoils You

The Throbbing Hive with Wits' John Moe: Netflix Spoils You

Sep 23, 2014

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley about begging for bad reviews on Yelp and the new "Spoil Yourself" feature on Netflix.

Today in Music History: Mott The Hoople Are Rescued - By Bowie

Today in Music History: Mott The Hoople Are Rescued - By Bowie

Sep 23, 2014

Celebrating the birthdays of Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, and John Coltrane, and Mott The Hoople got some help from David Bowie Today in Music History.

Falling into the well-worn soundtracks of autumn

Falling into the well-worn soundtracks of autumn

Andrea Swensson • Sep 23, 2014

It’s funny how many routines from our childhood stick with us into adulthood. For me, I don’t know if I’ll ever shake the feeling that fall means it’s time to start a new school year. As soon as Labor Day slides by and the temperatures start to dip under 60 degrees, I start examining my…

Today’s Music News: Pink Floyd release new album art, and it’s very Pink Floyd

Today’s Music News: Pink Floyd release new album art, and it’s very Pink Floyd

Staff • Sep 23, 2014

Pink Floyd have confirmed details and cover art for their new album: The Endless River will be released on Nov. 10. It will be a four-sided instrumental album built on tracks recorded with keyboardist Rick Wright, who died in 2008. The current incarnation of Floyd, led by guitarist David Gilmour, does not include founding vocalist/bassist/mastermind Roger Waters. (Rolling Stone) According…

First Listen: Lucinda Williams, 'Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone'

First Listen: Lucinda Williams, 'Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone'

Tom Moon • Sep 22, 2014

In terms of pure expression, no singer in popular music can touch Williams when she's calling from the lonely outskirts of Despairville.

Festival Palomino: Trampled By Turtles and friends transcend the rain in Canterbury Park

Festival Palomino: Trampled By Turtles and friends transcend the rain in Canterbury Park

KT Lindemann • Sep 22, 2014

This spring, Trampled by Turtles finalized plans to host a new music festival, featuring a hand-picked lineup of nine local and national acts, headlined by the Duluth folk-rockers themselves. Months later, on Saturday, Sept. 20, the fledgling Festival Palomino finally saw daylight…and storm clouds and lightning and wind. Despite challenging weather that revealed the venue’s Achilles’s…

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