Minnesota's Hippo Campus climb to #1 after signing to Grand Jury Records; Modest Mouse near first Chart Show Hall of Fame induction; new entries include Alabama Shakes, Glass Animals and Hot Chip.

When Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany tweeted a photo of Prince‘s high school basketball team, he couldn’t have guessed it would go viral—after all, the photo was already published in the newspaper, in 1984. National blogs loved the rediscovered photo of an afro-sporting Prince in his Bryant Junior High days, though, and Jany got hundreds…

As St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman stops by The Current's Morning Show to talk about exciting things happening in the capital city, we're wondering, what songs that name-check St. Paul or are about St. Paul places do you want to hear?

Heavy Table Editor James Norton joins Jill Riley to talk about one of her favorite topics: Pizza! "Here in the greater Metro area, we have seen an explosion of really excellent pizza over the past five years or so," James says. He runs down the names of a number of pizza places he thinks are doing it right.

March is Women’s History Month, which conjures images of women in wide-brimmed hats marching for voting rights in the early 1900s and Amelia Earheart standing in front of her airplane. Over the past few years, however, I’ve become increasingly interested in spending each March telling the stories of the women who made history right here…

The first Grammy winners were announced; John Lennon got into a kerfuffle with comments made in the press; CBS released the Clash's debut album; and the Rolling Stones had a No. 1 hit with "Ruby Tuesday" Today in Music History.

On the day that his new album Chasing Yesterday releases under his High Flying Birds moniker, Noel Gallagher phoned Mary Lucia from London to chat about the new record.

Ahead of their sold out show at the Turf Club, the Lone Bellow stopped by The Current studio to chat with host Mary Lucia and to perform tracks off their recently released sophomore record, Then Came the Morning.

When a musician is about to have her own exhibit at MoMA, the stakes are high for any new album art. In the just-released cover image for physical releases of Vulnicura, Björk doesn’t disappoint. (Pitchfork) Bob Dylan apparently has another album’s worth of Frank Sinatra covers in the can—according to former Dylan producer Daniel Lanois, who says he’s heard…

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