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March 11, 2024

Participate in the Current’s 2024 March Music Madness and enter for a chance to win a Summer at Surly concert package featuring tickets to Pixies and Modest Mouse with Cat Power (sold out); Black Pumas; Andrew Bird and Nickel Creek, and Mt. Joy.

March Music Madness 2024 giveaway: Summer at Surly concert package

March Music Madness 2024 giveaway: Summer at Surly concert package

Mar 11, 2024

Participate in the Current’s 2024 March Music Madness and enter for a chance to win a Summer at Surly concert package featuring tickets to Pixies and Modest Mouse with Cat Power (sold out); Black Pumas; Andrew Bird and Nickel Creek, and Mt. Joy.

Photos: Jenny Lewis shines at Palace Theatre

Photos: Jenny Lewis shines at Palace Theatre

Laura Buhman • Mar 11, 2024

Jenny Lewis and a tight, adept, and engaging backing band brought The Joy’All Ball to St. Paul on Friday evening.

Coffee Break: album cuts from 1994

Coffee Break: album cuts from 1994

Jill Riley • Mar 11, 2024

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from albums released in 1994 do you want to hear?

March Music Madness: Best Albums of 1994

March Music Madness: Best Albums of 1994

Mar 11, 2024

We’ve identified 64 of the best albums of 1994 to go head-to-head to determine the top record of the year. Vote for your favorite albums now!

Album of the Week: Faye Webster, 'Underdressed At The Symphony'

Album of the Week: Faye Webster, 'Underdressed At The Symphony'

Bill DeVille • Mar 11, 2024

The Album of the Week is Underdressed at the Symphony from Faye Webster.

Premiere: 12 Rods debut "My Year (This Is Going To Be)" video

Premiere: 12 Rods debut "My Year (This Is Going To Be)" video

Mar 8, 2024

The song appears on the band’s 2023 album, ‘If We Stayed Alive.’

Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album 'The Collective'

Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album 'The Collective'

Paula Mejía • Mar 8, 2024

The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.

Classic Americana: Reba McEntire

Classic Americana: Reba McEntire

Mike Pengra and Luke Taylor • Mar 8, 2024

Every Friday around 11 a.m. on Radio Heartland, we pull a special track from the archives or from deep in the shelves to spotlight a particular artist or song. This week, we spotlight an artist known as The Queen of Country, Reba McEntire.

The Chart Show: "Lego Ring" snaps into the chart

The Chart Show: "Lego Ring" snaps into the chart

Mar 7, 2024

This week on the Chart Show, The Black Keys rise to the top with “Beautiful People (Stay High),” while your votes give Chart Show debuts to Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter” and to Faye Webster’s “Lego Ring” feat. Lil Yachty.

Coffee Break: National Reading Month

Coffee Break: National Reading Month

Jill Riley • Mar 7, 2024

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that contain literary references?  

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