Touring in support of Do to the Beast, their first album in 16 years, the Afghan Whigs stopped by to record a session in The Current's studio and to chat with host and resident Afghan Whigs expert Barb Abney.

Touring in support of Commonwealth, their 13th studio release, Toronto rock pioneers Sloan stopped by The Current to record an in-studio and to chat with host Mary Lucia before their gig at St. Paul's Turf Club.

Touring in support of their new album, 'Swimmin' Time', Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent -- aka Shovels & Rope -- stopped by The Current studio to play some tunes and to talk with Mary Lucia.

“Don a henley and take it easy,” recommended the Duluth Trading Co. in a recent e-mail advertisement touting its henley shirts. Maybe Don Henley hears a lot of henley jokes, because he was not amused by this one: he’s suing the company for “damages and other appropriate relief.” He’s also demanding the company stop making…

Local indie label Amphetamine Reptile Records started in a hand grenade crate under a United States Marine’s bunk almost 30 years ago, then went on to achieve national notoriety. It is now the subject of a new documentary film coming to town. The screening will mark the local debut of a documentary that’s been winning…

I hope you like electro-pop, downtempo, and dark R&B, because I have a whole bunch of slow, sexy songs stacked up in this week’s Friday Five. Which might be a good indicator of where the Twin Cities scene is at these days: hovering in those spaces between hip-hop, futuristic electronica and old-school soul, casting around…

Let's put together a playlist of zombie related music. What do you want to hear? Give us your suggestions and we'll pick a few to play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

MPR's Cube Critic Euan Kerr joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about a semi-documentary that follows a day in the life of rocker Nick Cave, and a new film about a GLBT group in the 80's raising money for the miners.

Jill Riley and Steve Seel chatted with the zombie event's Bryan Angeles and Roisin Hayes Owens about this year's events taking place Saturday, Oct. 11.

The Supremes met Ed Sullivan, "Monster Mash" got banned, and Elvis went to no. 1 Today in Music History.