This year, The Current offered live coverage of the annual Grammy Awards. We assembled our digital team and resident Grammy expert Mac Wilson to offer play-by-play coverage.

Vanity, the singer who led the Prince-formed group Vanity 6, has died of kidney failure at age 57. Active from 1981 to 1983, Vanity 6 were best-known for their Prince-penned 1982 hit “Nasty Girl.” Born Denise Matthews, the future star grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Rechristened Vanity, she recorded one album with Vanity 6…

Stevie Wonder's career has spanned six decades, overflowing with landmark records, highlighted by an astonishingly prolific string of groundbreaking, genre-stretching albums and joyful, uplifting performances. Check out this compendium of notes and quotes about Steve Wonder's eight No. 1 hits.

Set to release her first full-length on the new Bayonet Records April 1, Frankie Cosmos talks about her admiration for poet Frank O'Hara, growing up in New York City and Next Thing.

Bob Dylan is currently in the studio working on a standards album that will be a follow-up to Shadows in the Night, his 2015 collection of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra. Engineer Al Schmitt says “it’s going great” and that Dylan’s “mood in the studio is fabulous.” (Billboard) The Current will be covering the 2016 Grammys live. Follow…

The first thing I saw when I arrived at the Xcel Energy Center on Valentine’s Day were the protesters huddled outside — carrying signs and toting Bibles and pamphlets that denounced the AC/DC show about to take place inside the arena. I realized at that moment that I could not remember the last time I had ever…

In his foreword to the Cloud Cult book, 'Chasing the Light,' The Current's Mark Wheat posited the band's album 'Love' was their best ever. Mark now takes that back; 'The Seeker,' he says, is their best ever!

With their debut full-length album, 'You're Dreaming,' now released, the Cactus Blossoms are ready to take the show on the road. They'll soon be shuffling off to Milwaukee to begin a tour, but not before they stopped in to The Current for a session hosted by Bill DeVille. 'We're just happy that the album is out,' the Cactus Blossoms' Page Burkum says. Listen to the complete in-studio session.

MPR Cube Critic Euan Kerr joins Sean McPherson and Jim McGuinn to talk about 'Deadpool', a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

The Current is going to spend the next few days doing some programming around the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, airing on Monday. For today's Coffee Break, let's have a slightly different take on this - send us your ideas that center around horrible mistakes that the Grammys should be embarrassed about.