In songs that go big and hit home, Twin Shadow sets his musical register to "epic" and only looks upward from there.

Ahead of a sold out gig at First Avenue, Tweedy (Jeff Tweedy and son Spencer) stopped by The Current studio to chat with host Mary Lucia and to perform tracks off their debut album Sukierae.

Anticipating the release of their debut self-titled album, Eau Claire's Aero Flynn stopped by The Current studio to perform tracks off the new record and to chat with the Local Show's host David Campbell.

The Cactus Blossoms are releasing a seven-inch single on Tuesday, March 24. Stream the new tracks here, and learn about an the Cactus Blossoms' upcoming in-store set and release event at the Electric Fetus.

The soundtrack to Montage of Heck, the authorized Kurt Cobain documentary premiering May 4 on HBO, will feature a previously unreleased 12-minute Cobain song recorded alone with an acoustic guitar. The film’s director describes the track as “mind-blowing,” but the album’s release date has not yet been announced. (Rolling Stone) Franz Ferdinand and Sparks will join forces to form a new…

First Avenue hosted a sold-out family reunion of sorts on Sunday night, with guitarist Jeff Tweedy and his drummer son Spencer in their namesake band. Throughout the course of the multi-set, two-hour performance, the father-son duo dished out a hearty Tweedy buffet of Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, and more. Though barely on the cusp…

Yesterday, an estimated 70,000 people -- including The Current's Derrick Stevens -- marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that capture the spirit of civil rights and equality do you want to hear?

Brother Ali was the headliner—delivering a relaxed, confident, and supremely enjoyable concluding set—but on Friday night, the Mainroom at First Avenue belonged to a relatively little-known rapper from the Red Lake reservation in northern Minnesota. Baby Shel, who won Vita.mn’s Are You Local? contest for a cash prize of $1,000 and a slot performing at SXSW, was…

Black Sabbath made their debut; REO Speedwagon had a No. 1 hit; Carole King was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame; U2 released 'The Joshua Tree'; and The Clash had their only No. 1 U.K. hit with 'Should I Stay or Should I Go', Today in Music History.

I bought Become What You Are in an underground (like, literally underground) Boston record shop in 1993. As a freshman at Boston University, the first thing I learned about Massachusetts music was that Juliana Hatfield was…well, everything. Indie darling, coveted collaborator, star on the rise. Everyone had a crush on her; including me, though I hardly even knew…