Members of The Current's staff share some of their favorite Prince tributes they've seen from musicians and other publications around the Internet.

Warner Bros. has announced that nine Prince albums dating from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s will be reissued on vinyl. (His earlier releases have already been reissued in recent years.) The new series of reissues will start in June with Around the World in a Day and continue to the December reissue of the 1992 “Love Symbol”…

After several days of strange messages and teases, Radiohead has finally released a new song. Called 'Burn The Witch', it arrives via a claymation video with echoes of a cult-classic horror film.

The Current is leading a nationwide radio tribute to Prince as stations in Seattle, Philadelphia, New York, Austin, Dallas and Milwaukee participate in a synchronized airing of 'Nothing Compares 2 U' as listeners are encouraged to share their tributes on social media.

Fog: For Good Andrew Broder has just released For Good, his first album as Fog in nine years. Best known in recent years as a member of the band Cloak Ox, Broder has returned to his atmospheric (so to speak) Fog project with a Kickstarter-funded album on Totally Gross National Product. Broder will celebrate the release with…

It's "Water Month" over at MPR News - a stream of programming, live events, and in-depth reporting aimed at helping Minnesotans understand and value fresh water resources. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention various forms of water?

Oasis got dissed by a bank; Metallica sent hate mail to Napster; the Godfather of Soul was born; and The Hollies recorded 'Carrie Anne', Today in Music History.

The first time I saw Purple Rain, I was sitting in a café booth in South Minneapolis this year, facing a snowy residential street. I’d recently visited Paisley Park for the first time, and hearing fans marvel at film memorabilia there had gotten me curious; I had to see the movie. Sitting in my tiny…

Musician and rapper Flavor Flav of the legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy gave Radio Free Current host Sean McPherson and his listeners a wonderful surprise on Saturday, April 30: Flavor Flav arrived in the studio for a live conversation in which he talked about his music and about his memories of Prince. 'Being onstage with Prince is so electrifying,' Flav says. Listen to Sean McPherson and Flavor Flav's complete conversation.

In 1984, the song “Purple Rain” hit number two on Billboard’s Hot 100, and “When Doves Cry” ruled the chart at number one for five weeks. In the wake of Prince’s death, both songs have returned to the top ten: on this week’s chart, “Purple Rain” hits number four and “When Doves Cry” is number eight.…