Pharrell Williams stopped by The Tonight Show and told Jimmy Fallon about his current projects—including work with Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and, yes, Missy Elliott. Williams and Fallon also performed as the fictitious 80s R&B duo “Afro & Deziak.” (Billboard) An appropriately strange charity tribute concert to David Lynch in Los Angeles featured performances by Duran Duran (Lynch directed a concert film featuring…

Ahead of a gig at the 7th St. Entry, Matthew E. White and his Spacebomb Records cohorts Cameron Ralston (bass), Pinson Chanselle (drums) and Alan Parker (guitar) stopped by The Current to perform tracks off his new record Fresh Blood and to chat with host Mark Wheat.

Last night at the Varsity Theater, The Current and the Citizens League hosted Policy and a Pint: May the Workforce Be with You, which looked at the present and future of work. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs about work, working or the work experience do you want to hear? Tell us your requests.

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about what's out there this weekend. "Let me tell you, it's 'out there' this weekend," Marianne says. Find out what's on tap by checking out the feature.

The Minnesota Music Coalition‘s annual Minnesota Music Summit is coming to the Amsterdam Bar & Hall and McNally Smith College of Music next weekend (April 9-11), with a packed lineup of concerts, artist workshops, video screenings, industry panels, mentoring sessions, networking events, and a keynote address by Dar Williams. The Current’s Local Show host, David Campbell, will…

The Beach Boys recorded a single that got around; Fleetwood Mac had a No. 1 album; Nirvana recorded in Wisconsin; Gnarls Barkley charted with downloads; and a park in Washington D.C. was named for the late Marvin Gaye, today in Music History.

Some shows are so powerful that they feel like they will live on in our minds and hearts forever. For Cloud Cult, a trio of intimate acoustic shows they performed in Minneapolis back in December 2013 were such a smash success that they have been carefully recorded and preserved for posterity in a new film, Unplug. Filmed at the…

David Bowie is writing new music and collaborating with playwright Enda Walsh for a new work of musical theater based on the story of The Man Who Fell to Earth, reports the New York Times. The new work, titled Lazarus, will be presented off-Broadway by the New York Theater Workshop and directed by Ivo van Howe. Bowie,…

Alabama Shakes return to #1; Mark Ronson is the highest new entry on The Current's Chart during a successful run on Billboard's (with a different song); Noel Gallagher pops back up; past Rock the Garden acts pop up throughout the Chart.

Kendrick Lamar says he recorded music with Prince when Lamar was at Paisley Park to participate in the live-streamed concert celebrating the release of Prince’s two new albums last year. Though Lamar says he wasn’t able to include the music on his new album To Pimp a Butterfly because he was “pressed for time,” in an interview with…