I like musicians who disappear into their performance, motionless except for a few sways behind a mic stand. I even appreciate the David Archuleta, “close your eyes the whole way through” approach. But I love an act with a good stage presence. Last night at the Palace, I was floored when Haim and Lizzo — […]
Jack White kicked out a two-hour, career-spanning set on the first night of the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Declaring several times, “Music is sacred!”, White opened his set with “Icky Thump”. He went on to play several songs from his 2014 album, Lazaretto, as well as […]
When creating his musical mash-up series, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel knew he had to find someone stupendously talented and devilishly good-looking to perform with the sisters of Haim. Obviously, it had to be the legendary Morris Day, who joined the California trio on Kimmel’s show last night with the Time to perform the classic “Jungle Love.” […]
2014 was a banner year for Minnesota artists on late-night TV (among them the Replacements, Jeremy Messersmith, Lizzo, and Trampled By Turtles)—and 2015 is starting with a bang, as Morris Day plays Jimmy Kimmel on Feb. 9. There’s a twist, though: the Minneapolis pop-funk legend will appear as part of a special mash-up series, and he’ll […]
Prince is our Local Current Artist of the Month this July, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain. When Haim visited the Current’s studios in May, Este and Alana Haim talked about their passion for Prince—Este goes so far as to call it an “obsession”—and the time Alana thought the band were about to […]
