With many of their songs about "trying to make it" in the music business, Hockey are slowly going to run out of material to write about. Often compared to The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem, the Portland, Oregon new wave pop band have making new fans since they began in 2007.
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Download a free 11-song sampler of the artists featured by NPR Music and public radio stations at this March's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
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Next week join the Current as we're sending Jill Riley, Jim McGuinn, and Lindsay Kimball to Austin, Texas for SXSW. We'll bring back the sights and sounds from the world's biggest annual music gathering – with 4 days of non-stop gigging from over 1,500 bands, SXSW is a sonic smorgasboard of new and exciting bands, gathered under the Texas sun. Watch this space as we'll be giving check-ins on Thursday and Friday (9 a.m., 1 p.m., and 5 p.m.), blog posts, Twitter, and photos.
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Free Energy performs in The Current Studios
Free Energy is a Philadelphia-based band, but one with roots in the Minneapolis music scene. A couple of the guys in the band, Scott Wells and Paul Sprangers, were both members of now-defunct local faves Hockey Night.




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MorePrince's representative called to offer The Current a new and exclusive song and to give it its world debut. The song's is called "Cause and Effect" and you can hear it now!
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| 03/12 | Women with Vision International Film Festival |
| 03/24 | Tegan & Sara |
| 03/26 | Dan and Matt Wilson |
| 04/03 | Har Mar Superstar |
| 04/26 | Jakob Dylan & his band Three Legs |
Minnesota Music on Gather.com
Minnesota's music scene has occasionally popped up on the national radar, but regardless of national attention it's a vibrant artistic community. Discuss the venues, shows, record stores, labels, or anything else pertaining to Minnesota music.