Minneapolis hardcore trio Condominium have been playing underground venues in the Twin Cities for six years now, intentionally flying under the radar of the larger music community while earning the respect of punk die-hards. This week, however, that’s all set to change. They have a new 7″, Carl, coming out on influential indie label [...]

  While most indie bands in the Twin Cities approach touring from a van-centric mindset—you can bring your music anywhere, as long as you make enough to cover the gas money—singer-songwriter Dustin Thomas has followed a completely different path. The Augsburg College grad left Minneapolis a few years ago to try working and busking in [...]

  With the same-sex marriage bill expected to pass through the senate on Monday and be signed into law by Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday, supporters of the marriage equality movement are going to have something to celebrate next week. And the first song they’ll play when the bill is passed? The Suburbs’ 1984 hit [...]

  In this dizzying digital age, concert photography is everywhere. Attend a show at any sized venue these days, and tiny glowing screens light up every corner of the room. From the sea of smart phones in the audience DSLR-equipped shooters crammed into the pit in front of the stage, everyone seems to be angling [...]

  Mark Andrew Pudas is a familiar face in the Twin Cities scene, having spent some time performing with his brother, Matt, in the White Iron Band and gigging around as a solo artist. This spring, he got the opportunity to play for an much larger audience when he competed as a contestant on NBC’s [...]

  To hear Jake and Jeremy Hanson humbly talk about their influence and impact on the Twin Cities music scene over the past decade, you’d think that the pair of brothers were mere bit players in bands that would sound the same without them. But as area music fans are well aware by now, these [...]

  It’s nearing bar close on a Saturday night at the 331 Club, and somehow, over the last half hour, amid a flurry of flashing laser lights and flutters of metallic confetti, Elliott Kozel has removed his skin-tight black pants and is running through the crowd completely naked. On second thought, he’s not completely naked, [...]

Divine Fits, the new project from Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, Sam Brown and Alex Fishel, caught out ears here at the Current for a few reasons. Not only do we have a lot of Spoon fans on staff, but one of their first singles, “Would That Not Be Nice,” contains an attention-grabbing shout-out to Minneapolis. [...]

  It’s not often that a band comes along that hits me square in the gut, but that’s what happened the first time I saw Southwire perform last year at the Duluth Homegrown Festival. Their sound was so distinct, and their emotions so unadulterated that I had no choice but to stand on my tip-toes at the [...]