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April 21, 2017

As part of our celebration of Prince's life and legacy, we've assembled an annotated playlist featuring the musical heroes depicted on his wall of influences and inspirations at Paisley Park.

A guide to Prince's musical inspiration

Andrea Swensson and Lou Papineau • Apr 21, 2017

As part of our celebration of Prince's life and legacy, we've assembled an annotated playlist featuring the musical heroes depicted on his wall of influences and inspirations at Paisley Park.

ASL interpreter lends fresh perspective on Prince's music

Nate Ryan and Luke Taylor • Apr 21, 2017

American Sign Language interpreter (and longtime Prince fan) Shelly Lehner was one of the ASL interpreters at the Prince tribute concert last October. 'If hearing people are going to a concert, and they're experiencing this loss of Prince, deaf people should be able to go to that concert as well, and have access,' Lehner says.

Music News: George Clinton plays surprise Paisley Park show

Jay Gabler • Apr 20, 2017

Today's top music news stories are all about Prince and Paisley Park.

Bike your way around Prince landmarks in the Twin Cities

Mario Macaruso and Michael Wells • Apr 20, 2017

With spring finally turning the corner, and bikes hitting the road, we teamed up with the 30 Day of Biking folks to build a few routes to hit Prince landmarks around the Twin Cities.

Try Level Two of The Current's Prince Woo Quiz!

Daniel Nass • Apr 20, 2017

As we celebrate the life and music of Prince this week, test your knowledge by trying to identify the songs that contain these patented Prince sounds.

Coffee Break: Songs that apologize

Apr 20, 2017

Without meaning to in the slightest, we sort of started a Twitter war between two artists a few days ago and yesterday, one of them issued an apology. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that apologize?

Paisley Park's Mitch Maguire talks about Prince's legacy

Hanna Bubser • Apr 20, 2017

Brian Oake and Jill Riley talk with Paisley Park tour guide Mitch Maguire about how Paisley Park is allowing Prince's legacy to live on.

Amphetamine Reptile and Treehouse Records collaborate to release Record Store Day reissue of the Cows’ first LP

Lillian Speakman • Apr 20, 2017

For this year’s Record Store Day, two legendary names in the Twin Cities music industry, Amphetamine Reptile Records and Treehouse Records, have teamed up to release an exclusive reissue of Taint Pluribus, Taint Unum, the debut album of iconic Minneapolis noise-rock band the Cows. This special release not only marks the 30th anniversary of the original…

Today in Music History: 'American Idiot' opens on Broadway

Apr 20, 2017

Elvis Presley 'shook up' the singles charts; Deep Purple made their live debut; George Burns was in the Hot 100; numerous artists paid tribute to the late Freddie Mercury; Aerosmith got a grip with their 11th studio album; The Sound of Philadelphia became the first disco song to reach No. 1 in the singles charts; and 'American Idiot' opened on Broadway, Today in Music History.

Shelby J. opens Prince memorial week, releases ’10’ at the Dakota

Cecilia Johnson • Apr 20, 2017

You know how the internet encouraged people to wear safety pins for a hot second, so anyone who met a pin-wearer in real life would know they had a safe person to talk to? That’s how I feel when I see Prince’s love symbol. I didn’t chat with anyone wearing the symbol on Wednesday, but I…

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