The world is reeling in the wake of a series of brutal terrorist attacks in Paris. Friday’s coordinated assaults by the extremist group known as ISIS took 132 lives and wounded hundreds more. Adding poignance to this tragedy, for music fans, is the fact that the most deadly of the assaults took place at a rock concert: a…

In town as part of a Somali music-and-culture residency at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, Maryam Mursal stopped by The Current's studio for a session hosted by Mark Wheat. Mursal looks forward to sharing her music, particularly with younger Somali people who may not have heard her before now.

Polica's latest album is a love letter to Minneapolis and its troubled past.

Sunday, Nov. 15, is America Recycles Day, a nationwide effort to increase recycling awareness and to inform citizens about how to recycle various items. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what recycled songs -- aka cover tunes -- would you like to hear? Send us your requests.

With their debut album out today on Wax Poetics, I had a chance to sit down recently with the two men behind the intriguing, genre-bending, insanely catchy new project Bones and Beeker. A portion of my conversation with the group’s Brendan Kelly (a.k.a. BK-One) and Anthony Newes aired on last week’s edition of The Local…

MPR Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson to talk about 'Spotlight', which follows the investigative journalism team of the Boston Globe as it looks into abuse within the Catholic Church in Massachusetts. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.

Happy Friday! What a week. There were a few things going on around here, I guess, including the news that I’ll be taking over the Local Show starting on January 10, 2016. (Eeee!) I also partied with some bands from Manitoba, took in an astoundingly good show from Low, had a revelatory conversation with Manchita,…

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones bought A.A. Milne's former home; Men At Work had the top album in the United States; Elton John performed for the first time in Mexico; and the Beatles' animated film 'Yellow Submarine' was released in the United States, Today in Music History.

Tickets for the U.K. stops on Prince’s “Piano and a Microphone” European tour were scheduled to go on sale today at 10:00 a.m. local time (early morning in Minnesota), but they’ve been postponed with no explanation — though this morning’s tweets from Prince suggest that the cause might have something to do with concerns about…

The Current wants to share great Minnesota music with the world, so we've partnered up with Manitoba Music - Winnipeg to swap two bands from each city for the ultimate Local Music Exchange. The polls are open – vote for your favorite local act!