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July 25, 2015

This week's episode of 'Teenage Kicks' celebrates the music video with a playlist built around the greatest MTV music videos of all time. Check out these samples and share some of your own favorites. And be sure to listen to 'Teenage Kicks' with Jim McGuinn on Saturday from 8 to 10 a.m.

Teenage Kicks celebrates the music video

Teenage Kicks celebrates the music video

Jim McGuinn • Jul 25, 2015

This week's episode of 'Teenage Kicks' celebrates the music video with a playlist built around the greatest MTV music videos of all time. Check out these samples and share some of your own favorites. And be sure to listen to 'Teenage Kicks' with Jim McGuinn on Saturday from 8 to 10 a.m.

9:30 Coffee Break: All Bands North

9:30 Coffee Break: All Bands North

Jill Riley and Sean McPherson • Jul 24, 2015

As The Current's staff head to Duluth for a weekend of summer fun and live music, we're thinking about bands from places north of The Current's HQ in St. Paul, Minn. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by bands who are from cities located north of St. Paul? Send us your requests.

Cube Critic: 'Paper Towns'

Cube Critic: 'Paper Towns'

Stephanie Curtis • Jul 24, 2015

Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson to talk about a new comedy-drama based on a book by John Green ('The Fault in Our Stars'). The film is directed by Jake Schreier ('Robot and Frank') and it stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne.

Friday Five: Black Diet, Nooky Jones, COWZ, and more new Minnesota music videos

Friday Five: Black Diet, Nooky Jones, COWZ, and more new Minnesota music videos

Andrea Swensson • Jul 24, 2015

Happy Friday! It’s shaping up to be another busy weekend for local music here in the Twin Cities, with the big Black Diet release show at First Avenue tonight (their first time headlining the Mainroom!) and the Honeydogs’ vinyl re-release of 10,000 Years over at the Cedar. To help you stay up to date on all…

Today in Music History: The Beatles meet the Maharishi

Today in Music History: The Beatles meet the Maharishi

Jul 24, 2015

The Stones had a spot of bother in Blackpool; Survivor topped the charts with 'Eye of the Tiger'; U2 and UB40 topped the album and singles charts, respectively, in 1993; and the Beatles met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Today in Music History.

Today’s Music News: Meryl Streep sings new Jenny Lewis song

Today’s Music News: Meryl Streep sings new Jenny Lewis song

Staff • Jul 23, 2015

In the new movie Ricki and the Flash, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense), Meryl Streep plays a rock star who reunites with her family. In the movie, she sings songs by Bruce Springsteen (“My Love Will Not Let You Down”), Tom Petty (“American Girl”), and Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs (“Wooly Bully”) in addition to “Cold…

First Listen: Lianne La Havas, 'Blood'

First Listen: Lianne La Havas, 'Blood'

Tom Moon • Jul 23, 2015

With this album, a London singer — a Prince favorite — and her versatile voice inch closer to mainstream pop.

On An On perform in The Current studio

On An On perform in The Current studio

Mac Wilson and On An On • Jul 23, 2015

On An On are glad to be back in Minnesota. 'It feels like a homecoming,' says singer and guitarist Nate Eiesland. 'People are discovering we're from here.' Before their album-release party this Saturday, July 25, at Icehouse in Minneapolis, On An On stopped in to The Current's studio for a live session hosted by Mac Wilson.

Roe Family Singers to celebrate 10 years of Mondays at 331 Club

Roe Family Singers to celebrate 10 years of Mondays at 331 Club

Ben Bartenstein • Jul 23, 2015

The 331 Club expects mustaches galore on Monday, July 27, when the Roe Family Singers perform their annual Mustache Monday show. The night will mark the self-proclaimed “hillbilly” band’s 10th anniversary of Mondays at the 331. They missed only three Mondays over that span: two Christmas Eves and one Christmas Day. The band’s Quillan Roe recalls…

9:30 Coffee Break: Gone Too Soon

9:30 Coffee Break: Gone Too Soon

Jill Riley and Sean McPherson • Jul 23, 2015

As we remember Amy Winehouse who died on this day in 2011 at age 27, we'll commemorate her and other musicians who left us far too soon. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by musicians who died at age 27? Send us your requests.

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