The Kanye West/Rihanna collaboration “FourFiveSeconds” was already distinctive for returning Paul McCartney to the top ten after 29 years—and now it turns out that it got Wilson Phillips back into the top ten as well. Carnie Wilson has revealed that the trio were specifically approached by Kanye to sing on the song: “When I think of authenticity and I think…

Trout Steak Revival have had a very good year: They recorded an album funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, won the best band competition at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and are now on tour supporting their album. Trout Steak Revival stopped at Radio Heartland to record this in-studio performance.

It's Herb Alpert's 80th birthday! So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that feature some hot brass do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

This week during his weekly technology check-in, John Moe chatted with Jill Riley about how and why AT&T is monitoring its GigaPower users' Web habits. John also talks about a way one man has taken a creative approach to the parent-teen arguments from his youth.

The Current first came on air in January 2005, and just a few months later, the 331 Club opened its doors as a music venue and neighborhood bar in Northeast Minneapolis. On April 3, we paid tribute to the widely-beloved 331 with an hour-long special on our Local Current stream of Minnesota music. I was joined…

The Staves: If I Was The Staves are an ocean and half a country away from being local, and but their newest release If I Was was recorded right in our backyard: in Eau Claire, at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio. “I think this is my favorite place to be to make music,” said one…

RCA Victor introduced the 45 rpm single record; Chuck Berry released "Johnny B. Goode"; Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire; Kenny Loggins cut loose; and AC/DC guitarist celebrates his birthday, Today in Music History.

Ahead of playing two sold-out shows at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Cincinnati band Walk the Moon stopped by The Current to play a couple songs and to talk to Mark Wheat. As the name suggests, Walk the Moon are heavily influenced by the Police. But it was an album by the Killers that convinced front man Nicholas Petricca that playing music was what he wanted to do.

On the heels of releasing his visual album American Dreamer and anticipating the release of his EP of the same name, Frankie Lee and friends stopped by The Current to perform tracks off his American Dreamer EP and to chat with The Local Show's David Campbell.

Wilco have canceled a May 7 performance in Indianapolis in protest of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a recently-passed law that has been controversial due to the fact that it permits businesses to refuse customers based on their sexual orientation. “The ‘Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act’ feels like thinly disguised legal discrimination to us,” wrote Wilco…