In town to play a show at the Cabooze Plaza in Minneapolis, Dawes -- Taylor Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber, Griffin Goldsmith, Tay Strathairn and recent addition Duane Betts -- stopped by The Current's studio to play some songs off the new album and to chat with Bill DeVille.

The Ramones will meet the Archie gang next year in “a special comic that brings together the formerly disparate worlds of CBGB’s and Pop’s Chocklit Shop in a hyperspeed bubblegum battle of the bands,” reports Comics Alliance. Sugar Hill Records executive Joseph Robinson Jr. has died of cancer at age 53. The label was founded by Robinson’s parents,…

Bad Bad Hats: Psychic Reader Need a new musical addiction? Well listener, meet Bad Bad Hats. It’s surf-rock riffs that married your favorite pop star, a band with enough ambience to give you the chills but who also know how to craft a song that makes you move. As NPR notes, “impeccable production by Brett…

On Monday night, it felt strange to see a formerly grungy star perform in a theater with plush red seats. Lavish curlicues decorated several box seats above me, and the pre-show music was classical, at least until the playlist switched to rock. I tried not to feel out of place in such an elegant environment.…

I’ve been to a good number of shows at the Fitzgerald Theater, but it’s a rare artist that will cause the audience to stand at attention and crush their bodies against the stage starting an hour before the concert begins. However, when Morrissey comes to town (after cancelling three prior shows), no one in the…

Let's join in the Bastille Day celebrations by listening to music by French artists for today's Coffee Break. What songs by French artists do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

Bobby Vinton had a No. 1 hit with a floral-themed song; the Everly Brothers had a sibling spat; Donna Summer had her third No. 1 single; Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' had its London premiere; and influential folk singer-songwriter was born in Oklahoma, Today in Music History.

The Cheapo Discs store that’s currently located on West Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis will move several blocks northeast, taking the space currently occupied by Payday America at Nicollet and 26th. Cheapo is vacating its current location to make way for a new mixed-use development. At 9,000 square feet, Cheapo’s new location will be less than…

Former Twin Cities resident Kimberly Hanson recalls her first Morrissey concert, a 1992 gig at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis that ended rather abruptly. “I was new to Morrissey music at the time, so it was this perfect life and concert experience of who he is,” she says, ”and I’ll never forget it.” Hanson, who…

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft readies to fly past dwarf-planet Pluto on the fringes of our solar system, for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention the planets or name-check planets? Send us your requests.