The Current's 21st Anniversary Celebration

Learn more about The Current’s 21st Anniversary Celebration featuring Brigitte Calls Me Baby and Joseph at First Avenue on Friday, January 23.
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Learn more about The Current’s 21st Anniversary Celebration featuring Brigitte Calls Me Baby and Joseph at First Avenue on Friday, January 23.

The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Not one commercial vessel has sunk since.
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Ten years after his death at the hands of police, Jamar Clark’s mother, Irma Burns, says it feels as if no time has passed at all.

In honor of the amazing display of northern lights seen around the world this week, Steve Seel brings us a collection of color-themed works on this episode of ‘Extra Eclectic.’ Selections include music by Anna Clyne, Morton Feldman and more. Listen now!

The Police had their fourth U.K. No. 1 single; 'Faith' went No. 1 in the U.K.; The Rolling Stones went acoustic; Blur put out a book; and Brendan Benson was born, Today in Music History.