Nothing says The Current's 10th Anniversary like a split 10" featuring in-studio performances from the Hold Steady and the Suicide Commandos!

After sitting empty for a year, downtown St. Paul jazz venue the Artists’ Quarter has reopened its doors under the new name Vieux Carre. It is now owned and operated by Minneapolis’s Dakota Jazz Club. The beloved basement club was named after New Orleans’s historic French Quarter; the name is meant to translate to “old quarter” in honor of the…

What song would you push play on as the the world burned around you, and why would you want to hear that particular song?

Burn Fetish It’s a new year, and local noise-rock trio Burn Fetish are starting the year off with the release of their Animal EP. Calling Burn Fetish a noise-rock trio is as close to a concise description as you can get. There are bluesy roots on the track “This Party Tastes Like Pepsi-Cola,” but if the Animal…

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about penguins who love iPad games, and program all of your home devices to know what you are up to all the time.

Jack White, Drake and AC/DC will headline the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, whose lineup was announced this afternoon. Also on the bill for the April 10-19 festival are Alt-J, Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty, Florence and the Machine, Ryan Adams, and the War on Drugs. Minnesota artists are absent from this year’s lineup.…

Elvis made one of his last television appearences, The Sex Pistols were dropped by their label, and The Beatles started an eight-week run at no. 1 Today in Music History.

Tongue-in-cheek tweets by Kanye West fans stirred a minor panic among Beatles fans who thought that some young tweeters actually didn’t know who Kanye’s latest collaborator—Paul McCartney—is. Both The Mirror U.K. and Good Morning America stirred the pot by reporting on the the story. “WHO IS PAUL MCCARTNEY?” read a GMA feed. “KANYE’S FANS DON’T KNOW THE BEATLE.” Maybe…

Enter The Current's #LPme photo contest and you could win an Electric Fetus shopping spree with The Current hosts Mark Wheat, Jill Riley and Steve Seel!

On the Vancouver songwriter's fourth album, he plays with abrupt changes of tone and texture. Carefully conceived instrumental passages expand upon -- and sometimes upend -- his lyrics. Listen to the album before its Jan. 13 release date.