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May 25, 2020

Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch David Huckfelt's performance from that festival.

Live Virtual Session: David Huckfelt at Sounds Like Home

Live Virtual Session: David Huckfelt at Sounds Like Home

Eric Malmberg • May 25, 2020

Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch David Huckfelt's performance from that festival.

Album of the Week: Lucinda Williams, 'Good Souls Better Angels'

Album of the Week: Lucinda Williams, 'Good Souls Better Angels'

David Safar • May 25, 2020

Lucinda Williams returns with an album that redefines her career as a songwriter.

Clem Snide with Scott Avett: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Clem Snide with Scott Avett: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Stephen Thompson • May 23, 2020

Clem Snide and Scott Avett play spiritually searching songs from 'Forever Just Beyond' while maintaining social distancing for their Tiny Desk (home) concert.

Live Virtual Session: Dave Simonett at Sounds Like Home

Live Virtual Session: Dave Simonett at Sounds Like Home

Mac Wilson • May 22, 2020

Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch Dave Simonett's performance from that festival.

Music News: Ready or not, live concerts are starting to come back

Music News: Ready or not, live concerts are starting to come back

Jay Gabler • May 22, 2020

Music fans have been longing for the return of live concerts - and now they're back, but with the coronavirus pandemic still raging, artists and audiences are searching for ways to be together while not being TOO close together.

How fans are celebrating Prince’s ‘born day’ differently this year

How fans are celebrating Prince’s ‘born day’ differently this year

Darby Ottoson • May 22, 2020

“I don’t celebrate birthdays, so that stops me from counting days, which stops me from counting time,” said Prince in an interview with Dutch TV host Ivo Niehe in 1999. Prince was born in Minneapolis on June 7, 1958 and although the icon didn’t always celebrate the occasion, fans have largely embraced the date as…

Coffee Break: Songs for Healthcare Workers

Coffee Break: Songs for Healthcare Workers

May 22, 2020

Let's put together a set of music today for our hero healthcare workers that are stepping up to help out when they are needed most. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for healthcare workers?

Friday Five: Graveyard Club, Yummm, and more new Minnesota music videos

Friday Five: Graveyard Club, Yummm, and more new Minnesota music videos

Maddie Schwappach • May 22, 2020

If you have a music video you’d like to be considered for an upcoming feature, send it my way at fridayfive [at] mpr.org! Graveyard Club – “Dreamland” Graveyard Club’s nostalgic 80s synth-pop influenced jams are as cinematic as ever in their video for “Dreamland.” Here, a man is haunted by memories of an ex-lover, shown…

Live Virtual Session: Faith Boblett at Sounds Like Home

Live Virtual Session: Faith Boblett at Sounds Like Home

Andrea Swensson • May 21, 2020

Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch Faith Boblett's performance from that festival.

Live Virtual Session: P.O.S at Sounds Like Home

Live Virtual Session: P.O.S at Sounds Like Home

Mark Wheat • May 21, 2020

Over the weekend of May 15-17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music.

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