With only an hour to go before firing up a livestream from Paisley Park on Yahoo’s Live Nation channel, @3RDEYEGIRL issued a single-word invitation to the music community at large: “COME.” The last-minute event was intended to celebrate Prince’s pair of new albums, which both arrived in stores (and on iTunes and Spotify) on Tuesday. And although…

The Current's Andrea Swensson is on her way to Paisley Park tonight, but there isn't room for everyone -- so here's a link to watch the live stream of the show, starting Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 9:30 p.m. Central.

What songs with grunts, a little -ugh-, do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?

When they were in town to play a show at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Britt Daniel and Rob Pope of Austin, Texas, band Spoon stopped in to The Current's studios to record a Theft of the Dial with host Jill Riley.

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about your new favorite social networking site, Ello.

John Lennon got a star, a Mumford was born, and Neil Young rocked out the crowd at SNL Today in Music History.

The other night, while listening to Caroline Smith belt out a ballad at her very sold-out concert with Lizzo at First Avenue, a young woman booty-shook her way into the very small space where my friends and I had gathered and started flailing her arms and thrashing around like the beat had just dropped at…

What do Bob Dylan and flatulence have in common? In their research paper “Nitric Oxide and inflammation: The answer is blowing in the wind,” two Swedish scientists made the comical connection. For the last 17 years, Jon Lundberg and Eddie Weitzberg, professors at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, have been sneaking Dylan lyrics into their…

Today sees the U.S. release of Prince’s new albums ART OFFICIAL AGE and, with his band 3RDEYEGIRL, PLECTRUMELECTRUM. Even for an artist who’s put out plenty of albums in his three-and-a-half decade career, these releases stand out. They cap over two years of increasingly public activity that have included a whirlwind U.K. tour; a barnburning set at…

You weren’t surprised to see Justin Timberlake rocking an iPad in the “Suit & Tie” video—but what if Bruce Springsteen shows up chugging a Smirnoff Ice in the “Glory Days” video? Universal Music Group is using new technology that allows them to retroactively place products in existing videos. The first musician to “participate” will be Avicii, who will…