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February 15, 2016

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.

Photos and social media highlights from The Grammys

Photos and social media highlights from The Grammys

Feb 15, 2016

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, of Prince’s girl group Vanity 6, dies at 57

Vanity, of Prince’s girl group Vanity 6, dies at 57

Jay Gabler • Feb 15, 2016

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 supernatural hit-making talent

Stevie Wonder's supernatural hit-making talent

Lou Papineau • Feb 15, 2016

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.

Upstream: Frankie Cosmos stays true to her DIY ethos

Upstream: Frankie Cosmos stays true to her DIY ethos

Leah Garaas • Feb 15, 2016

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.

Music News: Bob Dylan is recording another standards album

Music News: Bob Dylan is recording another standards album

Staff • Feb 15, 2016

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…

Review and photos: AC/DC rock the Xcel Energy Center all night long

Review and photos: AC/DC rock the Xcel Energy Center all night long

Peter Diamond • Feb 15, 2016

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…

Album of the Week: Cloud Cult, 'The Seeker'

Album of the Week: Cloud Cult, 'The Seeker'

Mark Wheat • Feb 15, 2016

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!

The Cactus Blossoms perform in The Current studio

The Cactus Blossoms perform in The Current studio

Bill DeVille and The Cactus Blossoms • Feb 13, 2016

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.

Cube Critic: Deadpool

Cube Critic: Deadpool

Euan Kerr • Feb 12, 2016

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.

9:30 Coffee Break: Grammy mistakes

9:30 Coffee Break: Grammy mistakes

Anna Reed • Feb 12, 2016

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.

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