To honor Black History Month, The Current celebrates by spotlighting African-American musical icons from throughout history and across genres. As February approaches, help us pick the artists to feature for Black History Month this year!

For the grand finale of #Current10, which came at the end of an action-packed 10-day run of events, hometown heroes Atmosphere, Virginia blues-rockers J. Roddy Walston and the Business, legendary surf quartet the Trashmen, and burgeoning soul artist PaviElle pulled out all the stops to give the First Avenue crowd an unforgettable evening. PaviElle and…

Is "London Calling" you? All January long just listening to The Current can get you to London with Mark Wheat and special guest Dessa! The Current is giving away a trip for two to London Beat, an all-access backstage pass to rock 'n' roll legends and landmarks, April 19-27, 2015.

We're celebrating the second night of our two-night stint at First Avenue with a live concert and broadcast!

For 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…

The 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…

The 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…

So 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…

We're celebrating the first night of our two-night stint at First Avenue with a live concert and broadcast!

The 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.