Tomorrow night, Saturday, Oct. 3, Chastity Brown will join Vieux Farka Touré at the Dakota Jazz Club. Brown will be stepping in for NYC-based singer Julia Easterlin—Touré’s tour collaborator, who was unable to perform for the Minneapolis show. Born in Niafunké, Mali, Touré – often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara” – is the son of the late…

The 34th Twin Cities Marathon happens this Sunday, Oct. 4. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention 'run,' 'running' or 'feet'? Send us your requests.

A battle of the bands for people of color has been announced for December at the Cedar Cultural Center, and submissions for entrants are now open. So far, Sonic Rain and Ashley DuBose have been confirmed as a co-emcee and Tall Paul and Maria Isa have been announced as judges, with more to come. ROCK4LOVE: POC Battle…

Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson to talk about a new film from director Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. 'The Martian' is based on Andy Weir's best-selling novel, and the film's cast also includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels and Michael Pena.

It’s Friday! It’s fall! Pumpkin Spice Lattes for everyone! Doomtree With their inaugural Doomtree Zoo coming up tomorrow—a Blowout-style full crew throwdown at CHS Field that will also feature acts like Aesop Rock, Open Mic Eagle, and Aby Wolf—Doomtree dropped their latest in a long string of videos from their most recent album, All Hands. The…

“I’ll be with you in a minute,” said John Kass as I entered Go Johnny Go—his small, crowded White Bear Lake record store. “I have go give these people the bad news.” Kass stepped outside and spoke to a couple who had just brought a batch of records in for him to appraise. “I can give…

Fifteen Elvis fans were kind of wrong; the McCoys hung on to No. 1 with 'Sloopy'; Rod Stewart topped the singles and album charts; Bonnie Tyler had a No. 1 with 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'; and Sting was born Gordon Sumner in the northeast of England, Today in Music History.

It sounds like fiction—like a murder mystery in a worn paperback novel. A wealthy woman is murdered in her bed, smothered with a pillow in the landmark lakeside mansion built by her parents. Her nurse is also killed, bludgeoned with a candlestick. Investigators quickly identify two suspects with a classic motive: struggling financially, the suspects…

Each year The Current pulls together the best live tracks from our studio session archive and make a compilation, and this year may be the best compilation yet.

Prep for the day-long Doomtree event on October 3rd with our collection of rare studio recordings of the lineup.