A fantastic musician, Rhiannon Giddens is also a great juggler: Fronting the Carolina Chocolate Drops, working with T Bone Burnett on film scores and on 'The New Basement Tapes', plus supporting her new solo album, 'Tomorrow Is My Turn', keeps Giddens busy. 'I am tirelessly promoting this obscure, forgotten music that is worthy of so much love and energy and attention,' she says. Listen to her full in-studio session, hosted by Mike Pengra.

Read Selena Carlson's profile of one of Minnesota's great journeymen musicians, and hear Charlie Parr perform in our studios.

Blur‘s first New York show featuring the band’s classic lineup since 2000 will be totally free, thanks to Converse. The tickets will go fast, though; if you want to throw your hat in the ring to see Blur at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday night, you can RSVP here starting at 11:00 a.m.…

Casting the heady swoon of courtship as a game of intense focus, "Staring Contest" practically bursts with the giddy excitement of new love.

We were talking about slang earlier this morning, and it reminded us that so many songs include slang terms. What songs do you want to hear that prominently feature slang words in the lyrics? Send us your requests.

This week, John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley about a new app, MyIdol, that's all the rage despite being available only in Chinese. 'There are a lot of things we do online that are just dumb and unnecessary and vaguely amusing,' John says, 'and this is another one of those.' He also features a map from Yale University that spotlights regional slang.

The snow was falling hard and fast in fat, sloppy flakes the night I pulled into Mankato, Minnesota, to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. It was the kind of storm that we’ve been getting a lot of this spring; one that starts suddenly and dangerously but then dissipates, leaving everyone confused and the streets…

The Stones got signed to a contract; 'Hair' opened on Broadway; Sinead had a No. 1 album; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers got immortalized in Hollywood; and Sonic Youth founding member Kim Gordon was born, Today in Music History.

After decompressing in his home state of Michigan, Ben Schneider convinced his childhood bandmates to move to Los Angeles to record music. Together they are Lord Huron. The band stopped by The Current studio to perform live in-studio before a sold out show in First Avenue's mainroom.

Anticipating the release of Ripple, their first release on the Twin Cities-based record label Forged Artifacts, Panther Ray stopped by The Current to perform in-studio and to chat with The Local Show's host David Campbell.