With The Von Tramps hitting the road this week in support of their exciting new upcoming album, GO—which already features some of the best music of their growing careers—and the band opening up for LA’s The Dollyrots at the Uptown VFW last Friday, not to mention a sold out show with The…
“In the last year we’ve played so much in the Twin Cities so I’m really excited to surprise our fans and to show them another side of us.” …
A mainstay on the Minneapolis-St. Paul music scene since the early 80’s, Ollie Stench has previously co-hosted the punk rock show Radio Riot on KFAI and performed in bands such as The Hostages, Ed Gein Fan Club, and minimal synth pop band The Trapezoids. Stench is also one of the main driving forces behind this…
On Monday the Current delivered a surprising announcement from radio personality Sean McPherson: The Radio-Free Current host and trivia don was leaving to take over as Program Director at Jazz88 KBEM. Nabbing McPherson—or Twinkie Jiggles to many in the music community who know him through his bass playing with live hip-hop band Hieruspecs—is a very…
I think this is a great time to start something new, and put out a new record. Traditional revenue streams seem to be drying up, but there are lots of new avenues to explore and get your music out. We are going to blaze trails. ~Greg Norton In the pantheon…
After a crowd-winning set opening for Dessa on Sunday, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Mayyadda will likely be joined by a host of new fans to her rescheduled solo set at the Dakota. The multitalented musicians aspires to use her music to make people slow down, find themselves in another perspective,…
Mortimer’s residencies are a cornerstone of the MPLS + STPL rock scene, and every week in February The Sex Rays return to the stage with their crunchy twangy throwback sound with some good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll from some of the loudest and most fun bands around the Twin Towns that…
Update: This show has been rescheduled for April 7th, tickets available on the Icehouse site. What could possibly be better than seeing and hearing electro-soul dynamo Lady Midnight perform her album Death Before Mourning? Having the whole project come to life with a full band performance with a lenghty and…
While some of us have been trying to use the pandemic time to, say, learn a little more Italian via phone apps, Diane Miller has continued to be a driving force in the MPLS + STPL music scene. The Current’s Local Show host releases her new EP Earth to Diane this weekend…