Thanks to the generous efforts of a group of donors, The Current can now be heard in the northern Minnesota Community of Ely on 101.3 FM.

As The Current announces its new signal in Ely, Minn., we'd like to put together a special playlist for the people in Ely. What songs conjure the atmosphere of Ely and of northern Minnesota for you? Tell us your requests.

Yesterday Minneapolis’ Electric Fetus welcomed the Third Man Rolling Record Store, an offshoot of Jack White’s Third Man Records store in Tennessee. The Rolling Record Store, like Nashville’s brick and mortar store, features limited vinyl releases and exclusive pressings from the Third Man label. When the Electric Fetus announced the event on Facebook on March…

Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about some of the nearly 200 films that are part of the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival, which began this week.

From the days when his main gig was scraping gum off the undersides of club tables as a roving reporter, David Campbell has been a part of the Minnesota music community because it was something he just plain enjoyed. A decade-long staffer on the radio show Homegrown before starting as a temporary host for The Current’s Local Show in 2007, Campbell now hosts Radio Free…

Marvin Gaye recorded a hit; Jim Morrison pulled out all the stops in Boston; Peter Frampton came alive in the album charts; Kate Bush was awarded a CBE; and the lead singer and songwriter of the band Eels celebrates his birthday, Today in Music History.

The Current presents Rock the Cradle on April 12, 2015. It's a free day of fun for kids and their grown-ups, held at two of the state's premier arts and culture institutions, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Children's Theatre Company.

Mumford and Sons have released another song from their forthcoming album, Wild Mind. Entitled “The Wolf”, it is another track devoid of the banjos and instead sounds a bit like Kings of Leon. (Billboard) Bob Dylan has said he began writing songs in the 1960s because he was — wait for it — bored. “I had nothing…

Dubbed 'the best new band in Australia' by Uncut magazine, Melbourne four-piece Twerps stopped in to The Current studio to play some songs and to chat with Mark Wheat before playing the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Listen to the songs and hear how a cover band from Wisconsin threatened the Australians into dropping the word 'the' from their name.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, in the spirit of the AWP Conference, we're wondering what songs you'd like to hear from musicians who have also written books, poems and the like. Tell us your request, and be sure to include the name of your requested artist's writing project.