Michael Rand is the digital sports editor at the Star Tribune, and contributor to The Current's Morning Show Monday segment 'The Sporting Life.'

James Norton is the editor and publisher of The Heavy Table, a daily web magazine devoted to food -- from roots to table -- in the upper midwest. He appears regularly on The Current's Morning Show's Wednesday 'Eating and Drinking with The Current' segment.

Sean McPherson, musician extraordinaire, host of Trivia Mafia and occasional overnight and guest host of The Current's Morning Show, shares his favorite songs of 2014.

Okay, it’s not actually Saruman, heroic-turned-evil wizard of Middle-Earth: it’s Christopher Lee, the 92-year-old actor who plays Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. Among Lee’s many pursuits on stage and on record have been heavy-metal holiday singles he’s released each year since 2012. Previous releases included Lee’s takes on “The Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night,”…

For the Coffee Break we'll play songs from bands with two members and the band name is just the first names of the members separated by an "and". What do you want to hear?

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the Sony hack and the television show Black Mirror

Forged Artifacts: The Greatest Of All Time #1 Forged Artifacts label owner Matt Linden told me recently that the idea for The Greatest Of All Time #1 compilation had just popped into his head—and that idea is now available. All the bands on the release fall somewhere in the spectrum of punk, but take a…

George Harrison recieved the Century Award, U2 appeared on SNL, and Neil Diamond put everyone in the right mood Today in Music History.

Eric Mayson, well-known for lending vocal and multi-instrumental support to live and recorded work by a multitude of Minnesota artists, is going solo with a forthcoming EP to be released via RiverRock Music Group. To celebrate the signing, Mayson has recorded a cover of the seasonal classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with help from…

It was almost exactly two weeks ago now that I landed at LaGuardia and flipped my phone out of airplane mode at the exact moment that a grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., was announcing that they had decided not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown. As soon as…