January 25, 2015We're celebrating the second night of our two-night stint at First Avenue with a live concert and broadcast! Save This Story
#Current10: First Avenue, Night 2: social media roundup Jan 25, 2015We're celebrating the second night of our two-night stint at First Avenue with a live concert and broadcast!
#Current10: Cold War Kids, Dead Man Winter, Hippo Campus, and Allan Kingdom rock First AvenueAndrea Swensson • Jan 24, 2015For the first of two back-to-back nights at First Avenue, a young and enthusiastic crowd arrived early and screamed and sang along all night to sets by locals Allan Kingdom, Hippo Campus, and Dead Man Winter, and the Current’s first national birthday party headliner, Cold War Kids. Both of the Twin Cities were well represented…
You’re invited to remix The CurrentJay Gabler • Jan 24, 2015The Current has always been about getting close to the music, and for our tenth anniversary, we thought we’d take that a step further: we’re inviting musicians to incorporate our hosts’ voices into new compositions. If you’re a musician who’s interested in sampling and remixing, we’d love to hear your take on remixing The Current! For…
10 years of the Current, in 10 numbersAndrea Swensson • Jan 24, 2015The Current launched 10 years ago this morning, with the first song playing at 9 a.m. on January 24, 2005. If you’ve been following the station since the beginning, you already know that a lot has happened since then. Thousands of things—or tens of thousands, if you want to talk about how many songs have…
Where I was 10 years ago todayAndrea Swensson • Jan 24, 2015So here’s something I don’t talk about very often. When the Current launched in the beginning of 2005, I was living a dramatically different life. I was a college drop-out, floundering around trying to figure out where I had left all my ambitions and dreams, and I spent my days pinning tiny paper numbers to…
#Current10: First Avenue, Night 1: social media roundup Jan 24, 2015We're celebrating the first night of our two-night stint at First Avenue with a live concert and broadcast!
#Current10: So where did that red oval come from?Luke Taylor • Jan 23, 2015The red oval and The Current seem to go hand in hand. And The Current's listeners have embraced this simple yet elegant design, whether posting it as window clings or wearing it on t-shirts or carrying oval-emblazoned water bottles. But where did that oval come from? A former MPR graphic designer sheds some light on it.
9:30 Coffee Break: 10th Anniversary Jan 23, 2015What songs from this year's artists do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
Friday Five: Dessa, Trampled by Turtles, and more Minnesota music videosAndrea Swensson • Jan 23, 2015Happy Friday! We have a lot of ground to cover in this week’s video roundup, as we travel to Mexico with Dessa, the set of reality show American Idol, and the United Nations with Guante. Buckle up… Dessa takes us underwater Be sure to check out Dessa’s interview with PRI to get the full backstory on…
Today in Music History: Ray Charles Inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jan 23, 2015Patti Smith broke her back, David Bowie gave the fans control of his set, and Ray Charles was honored Today in Music History.
