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October 26, 2020

This is a challenging time to start a new job as marketing and communications manager at a music venue, but the Cedar Cultural Center's Aida Shahghasemi is undaunted.

Interview: Aida Shahghasemi on how the Cedar Cultural Center's continuing to foster community

Interview: Aida Shahghasemi on how the Cedar Cultural Center's continuing to foster community

Jay Gabler • Oct 26, 2020

This is a challenging time to start a new job as marketing and communications manager at a music venue, but the Cedar Cultural Center's Aida Shahghasemi is undaunted.

Coffee Break: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

Coffee Break: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

Jill Riley and Anna Weggel • Oct 26, 2020

Welcome to the start of your SPOOKY HALLOWEEN WEEK that will feature a whole pile of scary Coffee Break themes. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention scary monsters and super creeps do you want to hear?

Today in Music History: Remembering Mahalia Jackson

Today in Music History: Remembering Mahalia Jackson

Oct 26, 2020

Mahalia Jackson was born; Fats Domino wins a big award; A Berlin concert by Bill Haley and his Comets sparked a riot; The Rolling Stones cut their first demo; the Beatles were awarded MBEs; Ozzy broke his foot; Andy Taylor left Duran Duran; and bassist Bootsy Collins was born in Cincinnati in 1951, Today in Music History.

The Current has your Halloween-at-home soundtrack

The Current has your Halloween-at-home soundtrack

Oct 26, 2020

The Current is giving you a reason to get in the Halloween spirit, even if you're not going trick or treating this year. We've got tons of Halloween music and a fun way to share your costume, plus a chance to win a pair of really cool earbuds that sound great any time of year.

Album of the Week: Bruce Springsteen, 'Letter To You'

Album of the Week: Bruce Springsteen, 'Letter To You'

Jill Riley • Oct 26, 2020

This album is a very personal story for Springsteen, who is now 71. He's been able to channel his past experiences into this album, but he is still able to make it sound like he's still in the present. Bruce has used his aging process to share wisdom and express gratitude for those who have helped him get to the place he is now.

The Duluth Local Show tracks six degrees of Duluth music

The Duluth Local Show tracks six degrees of Duluth music

Brittany Lind • Oct 25, 2020

There is this kind of joke in the Duluth music scene that if a musician is in one band, they are actually in five, with many of those bands crossing genres as musicians collaborate with each other. This week on the Duluth Local Show, I map out just some of the ways that Duluth music…

Interview: Crooners' Andrew Walesch talks about live music as winter comes

Interview: Crooners' Andrew Walesch talks about live music as winter comes

Jay Gabler • Oct 23, 2020

Since early summer, Crooners Supper Club in Fridley has been holding live concerts with precautions taken to deter the spread of COVID-19. Andrew Walesch, the venue's music director, talked about how it's been going - and what plans are as weather turns increasingly adverse.

Coffee Break: Parents and kids

Coffee Break: Parents and kids

Jill Riley and Anna Weggel • Oct 23, 2020

Yesterday, you helped us put together a Coffee Break centered around fathers and sons in honor of Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer Tweedy who both released books this month. Today -- we want to expand on the topic a bit to include mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons.

Coffee Break: Father and son

Coffee Break: Father and son

Oct 22, 2020

Both Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer Tweedy released books this month - just a week apart. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from fathers, and then their sons?

Rock and Roll Book Club: Interview with 'Mirror Sound' creators

Rock and Roll Book Club: Interview with 'Mirror Sound' creators

Jay Gabler • Oct 22, 2020

'Mirror Sound' is a new book from writer Spencer Tweedy, designer Lawrence Azerrad, and photographer Daniel Topete. The book, subtitled 'A Look Into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music,' features the personal studio spaces of artists including Sharon Van Etten, Sadie Dupuis, Mike Eagle, Melina Duterte (Jay Som), Emitt Rhodes, Suzanne Ciani, Laetitia Tamko (Vagabon), Ty Segall, and tUnE-yArDs.

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