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January 04, 2024

Chicago band Brigitte Calls Me Baby and singer-songwriter Brittany Howard each get songs inducted into the Chart Show Hall of Fame.

The Chart Show: Brigitte Calls Me Baby take "Impressively Average" into Chart Show Hall of Fame

The Chart Show: Brigitte Calls Me Baby take "Impressively Average" into Chart Show Hall of Fame

Jan 4, 2024

Chicago band Brigitte Calls Me Baby and singer-songwriter Brittany Howard each get songs inducted into the Chart Show Hall of Fame.

Watch David Shaw of the Revivalists play a MicroShow set

Jan 4, 2024

Back in October, singer, producer, and instrumentalist David Shaw of the Revivalists performed a solo set at Virginia Street Church in St. Paul. Watch the full performance.

Coffee Break: songs containing trivia

Coffee Break: songs containing trivia

Mac Wilson • Jan 4, 2024

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that contain little factoids, statistics or a trivia-like question do you want to hear?

Coffee Break: songs about wellness

Coffee Break: songs about wellness

Bill DeVille • Jan 3, 2024

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that communicate an idea of health and wellbeing do you want to hear?

Les McCann, jazz pianist with a soulful holler, dies at 88

Les McCann, jazz pianist with a soulful holler, dies at 88

Nate Chinen • Jan 2, 2024

An impromptu jam of "Compared to What" gave McCann a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival.

10 Minnesota musicians with new sounds to kick off 2024

10 Minnesota musicians with new sounds to kick off 2024

Diane, Anna Devine, Natalia Toledo and Youa Vang • Jan 2, 2024

New music from Creeping Charlie, Arcwelder, Basement Gang, Aiden Intro, and more.

Motion City Soundtrack ring in the new year at the Uptown Theater

Motion City Soundtrack ring in the new year at the Uptown Theater

Joel Swenson • Jan 2, 2024

Local grunge-pop rising stars Gully Boys and new wave newcomers Toilet Rats opened the show.

Coffee Break: songs in the key of peach

Coffee Break: songs in the key of peach

Bill DeVille • Jan 2, 2024

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention peach do you want to hear?

Album of the Week: Sampha, 'Lahai'

Album of the Week: Sampha, 'Lahai'

Ayisha Jaffer • Jan 1, 2024

Our Album of the Week is Lahai by Sampha.

boygenius poignantly define ways of feeling powerless on “Not Strong Enough”

boygenius poignantly define ways of feeling powerless on “Not Strong Enough”

Macie Rasmussen • Jan 1, 2024

The song off ‘the record’ was voted No. 1 by listeners in The Current’s Top 89 Songs of 2023 countdown. In words that turn the personal to universal, it holds space for admitting uncertainty about one’s own life and the world at large.

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