Ryan Adams makes it to the top this week after being our Album of the Week last week. He just announced a big show at St Paul's newly renovated Palace Theater on July 29. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. CT, but The Current has a pre-sale going on tomorrow when you sign up for Cross Currents, our weekly newsletter!

Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to Phantogram's sold out show at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, March 12!

The highest new entry is Valerie June, in town tonight to play a sold out show at the Cedar Cultural Center. Perhaps she'll take a walk down to the Mississippi as she did when I talked to her at Rock The Garden three years ago – June grew up in Memphis and has an affinity for the river!
She now spends a lot of her time in Brooklyn, however, with her Hungarian-born husband Farkas Fulop, a video artist who is a part of Glowing Bulbs, a collective from Budapest.

Canadian supergroup the New Pornographers, also on a previous Rock the Garden bill, will return April 7 with Whiteout Conditions, bringing the tour to First Avenue on April 18.

The xx are back on at No.16 and will surely be one of the biggest touring acts of the year: Currently they are playing a string of sold out shows in Europe, will headline the South American Lollapalooza this spring and are on the massive Coachella bill. Their Palace Theater show April 28 has long been sold out, but you can still get tickets for their Milwaukee show the following night!

Hot Thoughts, the new album from Spoon, drops March 17. They'll start their tour with a SXSW residency in their hometown of Austin, TX. They also announced a world tour, without a Twin Cities date?!?!

Up four places to No.7 this week, Haley Bonar wrapped herself in the stars and stripes last weekend at First Avenue playing new music with her band Gramma's Boyfriend. Here are photos and a review of the entire Are You Local? showcase including winner Nick Jordan and headliners the Suburbs who also played new songs.

The very affable David Prowse, drummer for Japandroids (down to No.8) stopped by last week to take over The Current's airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.