How fans are celebrating Prince’s ‘born day’ differently this year 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… Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Dave Simonett at Sounds Like Home 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. Read More ›
Music News: Ready or not, live concerts are starting to come back 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. Read More ›
Friday Five: Graveyard Club, Yummm, and more new Minnesota music videos 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… Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Faith Boblett at Sounds Like Home 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. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: P.O.S at Sounds Like Home May 21, 2020 Over the weekend of May 15-17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Read More ›
Music News: Devo helmet face shields...and other timely music merch May 21, 2020 Devo's helmet face shields are just the tip of a growing iceberg of music merch designed with safety in mind. Also today: a distinctly defensive album announcement from Lana Del Rey, guitarist Jorge Santana dies at 68, Ice Cube says Mr. Rogers once sued him, and Sia announces her directorial debut. Read More ›
Margo Price is 'Perfectly Imperfect At The Ryman' May 21, 2020 Capturing performances from Price's star-making 2018 residency at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, 'Perfectly Imperfect At The Ryman' feels like a relic from a time gone by. Read More ›
The Chart Show: Learn from our Chart stars! May 20, 2020 Brand new at nineteen, Laura Marling is one of the artists, that includes Johnny Marr and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead, that have gone online during the lockdown to teach guitar. Read More ›
The Chart Show Hall of Fame May 20, 2020 When a song stays on The Chart Show's chart for more than 10 weeks, we retire it from the poll and it enters the very prestigious Chart Show Hall of Fame. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Nur-D at Sounds Like Home May 26, 2020 Over the weekend of May 15-17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Har Mar Superstar at Sounds Like Home May 26, 2020 Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch Har Mar Superstar's performance from that festival. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: David Huckfelt at Sounds Like Home 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. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Dave Simonett at Sounds Like Home 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. Read More ›
Live Virtual Session: Faith Boblett at Sounds Like Home 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. Read More ›
#Current15: The Best of The Current in a new stream January 06, 2020 We're celebrating the 15 years The Current has been on the air, so we took your favorite songs from the past decade and a half and made them into a brand new stream. Read More ›
Download The Current app January 29, 2018 Download The Current's app to hear a crisp, high-fidelity stream of our station (and our additional streams) wherever you go! Read More ›
Listen to The Current via Smart Speakers July 23, 2018 Listen to The Current on Google Home and Amazon's Echo devices, and get enhanced functionality -- song names, requests, song of the day -- with our Alexa Skill. Read More ›
Prince: The Story of 1999 bonus feature: Dr. Fink, 'When Prince sang live, he was just impeccable' January 03, 2020 Matt Fink - aka Dr. Fink - was one of Prince's first keyboard players and is a member of the Revolution. In conversation with Andrea Swensson, Dr. Fink reflects on performing, recording and touring with Prince. 'He was always transforming himself into something different with every record,' Fink says. 'There was always something new and original and exploratory.' Read More ›
Coffee Break: Songs for delivery workers May 26, 2020 There are so many essential workers to be thankful for, and today we want to put the spotlight on postal and delivery workers. So tell us - for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for postal and delivery workers? Read More ›
Today in Music History: Happy Birthday Stevie Nicks May 26, 2020 The original "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers was released; The Beatles recorded "Yellow Submarine" at Abbey Road studios in London; John and Yoko began an eight-day "bed in" to promote world peace; and Stevie Nicks was born, Today in Music History. Read More ›
Coffee Break Suggestions and Archive November 08, 2016 Got an idea for a Coffee Break? Want to see what we did a while back? Read More ›