The Electric Fetus today announced that it’s closing its Duluth location, a staple of the north country music scene since 1987. “After 33 years in business, we’ve made the difficult decision to permanently close our Duluth location after having to shut down for COVID-19 since March 2020,” wrote the store’s owners in a statement. “It’s…

Turning 80 this month, Bob Dylan has certainly had an epic life. He’s also written some epic songs — and we mean epic. Although he kept things pretty concise at the beginning of his career, Dylan soon began to draw on the folk tradition of long story songs, putting his own surreal touch on the genre.…

Bob Dylan was born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, and went on to become the most acclaimed singer-songwriter of his generation. On May 24 he turns 80 years old, and The Current has planned a wealth of programming to celebrate this landmark birthday.

Only once in his career has Bob Dylan recorded as much as half of a studio album in Minnesota. As it happened, that album turned out to be the most beloved he's ever made.

It's hard to follow 'Like a Rolling Stone' as an opening track, but Bob Dylan more than manages on his epochal album 'Highway 61 Revisited.'

Artists aren't typically their own best critics, but Bob Dylan offered the definitive description of his 1966 classic 'Blonde on Blonde' when he said it was 'the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind...that thin, that wild mercury sound.'

Perhaps the defining album of the '50s and '60s folk revival, 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' exemplifies the Woody-Guthrie-inspired persona folkies mourned when Dylan went electric.

The first in the trilogy of albums representing the summit of Bob Dylan's vast achievements, 'Bringing It All Back Home' crackles with energy and plumbs the depths of dark emotions.

Despite its easygoing title and cozy cover photo, 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' saw the artist growing, deepening, and darkening his daunting songcraft.

An autumnal masterpiece, 'Time Out of Mind' definitively established Bob Dylan as being among the rare artists who remain capable of profound work throughout their lives.