Damien Rice's third full-length album My Favourite Faded Fantasy releases today. The Irish singer-songwriter recently chatted with host Barb Abney about the new record and his life leading up to the release. After you catch the interview, enter The Current's Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy giveaway.

The Morning Show's August Coffee Break on the Road took them to Audubon Minnesota with local musician Mark Mallman.

Let's put together a playlist of songs for Veterans Day. What do you think we should play to honor those who have served our country.

Bae Tigre: Memoir of a Happy Drifting Chemical One of the most pleasant surprises coming out of the Twin Cities this year is Bae Tigre, a self-described “electro-Indie-gurl” with a fresh sound. Her debut full-length, Memoir of a Happy Drifting Chemical, is Polkadot Mayhem‘s newest release. The track “Now or Never” has a hook like…

By the end of this weekend, nearly 200,000 Twin Cities music fans will have attended one of the 11 shows performed by Garth Brooks—an artist whose last major hit came out 15 years ago. At the Electric Fetus this week, top-selling albums include reissues of Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes Complete (recorded in 1967), the…

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the weird sendup to 1980's television intros that ran on Adult Swim, "Too Many Cooks", and we check out "Bee and Puppycat".

This holiday season, Karen O is lending her voice to a new Target commercial featuring an updated take on the 1949 song “Marshmallow World,” written by Carl Sigman and Peter DeRose. Made famous by Dean Martin, the song is well-known to rock fans for Darlene Love’s version on Phil Spector’s 1963 Christmas album. Karen O’s version,…

Buddy Holly sang about "Peggy Sue," The Velvet Underground played their first show, and XTC's frontman celebrates a birthday Today in Music History.

No, he didn’t do any Chris Gaines songs, but thanks for asking. When I found out I’d be attending the Garth Brooks concert at Target Center in Minneapolis, I was pretty stoked. Not only do I have fond memories of listening to Garth Brooks in my sister’s car and in my dad’s garage, but I really…

As the Twin Cities prepared for the first snowstorm of the season, St. Paul hip-hop collective thestand4rd played a sold-out show in New York on Sunday night. Though it was only the quartet’s third performance, national press paid attention — due in part to the Internet notoriety of group member Spooky Black, who is making…