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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Top 20 best Minnesota songs: The complete list

    Related:Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsFirst Avenue's 20 best concerts: Readers' picks50 cool facts about the Minnesota music sceneCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #10-1

    Related:Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #20-11Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory about Minnesota without ever becoming full-time residen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Five Minnesota albums deserving of a 33 1/3 book

    ​The 33 1/3 pitches are open again! For music obsessives, this long-running series of short books devoted to iconic albums has been a great resource for amusement and exhaustive reporting. Two personal favorites from the series are Carl Wilson's tome about Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love and C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    50 cool facts about the Minnesota music scene

    Here's a not-so-secret fact about Minnesota music: People love to talk about how much they love the scene here. Musicians from both out-of-state and the Twin Cities have gone out of their way to pen odes to our town and its vibrant community, from Atmosphere to Lucinda Williams Tom Waits to Mark Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    City Pages in the '80s: A look back at some of our most iconic music covers

    ​To coincide with our Cars interview from this week's print edition and this week's cover, which reprises the design of our very first issue (back when we started as Sweet Potato in 1979), we decided to take a look at some more of the music archives from our early days as a paper. Intrepid Gimme N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    The Current's 6th Birthday Party at First Avenue, 01/21/11

    Photos by Stacy SchwartzThe Current's Jim McGuinn with Mayor RT Rybak​The Current's 6th Birthday Party (Featuring Free Energy, Brother Ali, Jeremy Messersmith, Roma di Luna, and Trampled By Turtles)January 21, 2011First AvenueThe Current has had such an impact on the local music scene in its six s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Terry Mullan and Tommie Sunshine: Meet your Bassgasm DJs, Vol. 4 (MP3s)

    Minnesota's own self-proclaimed "genius of fun," ESP Woody McBride has long been one of the Midwest's techno sages and is again channeling the elusive old rave spirit with part deux of the Bassgasm saga tonight. As he did with Bassgasm 1, the second will lure old heads (who have grown up, started fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Explore Minnesota Radio streaming all-local playlist

    ​Explore Minnesota, a site dedicated to attracting tourism to our fair state, has teamed up with 89.3 the Current to create an all-local playlist of streaming music that spans from the Castaways and the Trashmen to Dessa, Peter Wolf Crier, and Owl City. The mix, naturally, is bent toward radio-fri ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2010

    Haze reunites over funky mystery record

    Discarded album revives forgotten chapter of Minneapolis music history

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Sounds Good To Me: Music in Minnesota

    Discarded album revives forgotten chapter of Minneapolis music history

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2007

    Scenes from the MN Rock and Country Hall of Fame

    Discarded album revives forgotten chapter of Minneapolis music history

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2007

    MN Rock and Country Hall of Fame tonight and tomorrow

    Discarded album revives forgotten chapter of Minneapolis music history

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    She Bop

    It Didn't Start with Babes in Toyland: A Short and Eccentric History of Women in Local Music, 1931-Present

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

    The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

  • News

    September 3, 2003

    First Love

    The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

  • Music

    November 8, 2000

    Sounds Like Preteen Spirit

    The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

  • News

    August 4, 1999

    Young Spuds in a Longhorn Daze

    The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

  • Arts

    December 9, 1998

    The Funk over Funkytown

    Five local bands go looking for fame and fortune--and the audience gets taken for a ride

  • News

    February 5, 1997

    Big Deal Meal

    Five local bands go looking for fame and fortune--and the audience gets taken for a ride

  • Music

    March 13, 1996

    Printed Matters

    Five local bands go looking for fame and fortune--and the audience gets taken for a ride

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