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April 03, 2023

With Danceteria Through the Decades, First Avenue continued its 53rd-anniversary celebration and traced the progression of music and cultural styles in the process.

DJs and revelers celebrate 50-plus years of First Ave dance parties

DJs and revelers celebrate 50-plus years of First Ave dance parties

Michaelangelo Matos and Darin Kamnetz • Apr 3, 2023

With Danceteria Through the Decades, First Avenue continued its 53rd-anniversary celebration and traced the progression of music and cultural styles in the process.

Ber gets personal during homecoming show at 7th St Entry

Ber gets personal during homecoming show at 7th St Entry

Shannon Brault and Sara Fish • Apr 3, 2023

The rising singer-songwriter’s Minneapolis concert was an interactive affair, filled with bad Hinge date stories and music inspired by them.

Coffee Break: Sire songs for Seymour Stein

Coffee Break: Sire songs for Seymour Stein

Jill Riley and Rachel Frances • Apr 3, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists signed to Sire Records?

Seymour Stein, the record executive who signed Madonna, is dead at 80

Seymour Stein, the record executive who signed Madonna, is dead at 80

The Associated Press • Apr 3, 2023

Seymour Stein, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to a statement by his family.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a godfather of electronic pop, has died

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a godfather of electronic pop, has died

Anastasia Tsioulcas • Apr 2, 2023

The influential Japanese composer died March 28 from cancer. A wide-ranging musician, the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder was a synth-pop idol and the writer of sweeping movie scores.

Watch David Huckfelt's performance recorded live in Duluth

Apr 2, 2023

Singer-songwriter David Huckfelt was the music curator for The Current’s Emerging Artists Showcase in Duluth, Minn., on Dec. 3, 2022. Watch his performance recorded live at the Sacred Heart Music Center.

A safe space for ‘sad girl’ music fans: Inside the Electric Fetus boygenius listening party

A safe space for ‘sad girl’ music fans: Inside the Electric Fetus boygenius listening party

Sam Stroozas • Mar 31, 2023

Fans gathered at Electric Fetus Tuesday to soak in the first listen of boygenius’s highly anticipated album — “the record.” While the pandemic made in-person music gatherings nearly impossible, listening sessions are having a resurgence three years later.

Coffee Break: songs about love and acceptance

Coffee Break: songs about love and acceptance

Jill Riley and Luke Taylor • Mar 31, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear about love, acceptance, equality and support?

Inside a Twin Cities couple’s ‘Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story’

Inside a Twin Cities couple’s ‘Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story’

Jill Riley • Mar 31, 2023

Two local artists — author Lynette Reini-Grandell and musician Venus de Mars — share their story of transitioning, resilience, and advocacy, now captured in a new memoir.

On 'the record,' boygenius honors how friendship shapes our very sense of self

On 'the record,' boygenius honors how friendship shapes our very sense of self

Marissa Lorusso • Mar 31, 2023

The friendship shared by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus isn't just the backdrop for their album as boygenius: It's the subject of many of these songs, built into their very structures.

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