Thank you to Mitch Thompson, Executive Director of DEMO (Diverse Emerging Music Organization) for stopping by The Current Morning Show to talk about the launch of Minnesota Music Archive, a statewide initiative to collect, digitize, preserve and curate Minnesota recorded and released musical history across all genres, generations, and communities.
The Minnesota Music Archive is a new project intended to digitize the “Minnesota music scene”. At the launch party at The Hennepin in Minneapolis, we heard about the project and had bands including Agnes Uncaged.
Mitch Thompson, with the Minnesota Music Archive , shares the story of how the collection came to be.
Minnesota has a deep musical history. Whether it’s Spider John Koerner or Prince and the MPLS Sound, The Replacements and Hüsker Dü or Semisonic, the Minnesota Orchestra or Doomtree; it’s rich, diverse, and now a new project is bringing it all together.
Welcome to The Scouting Report, a monthly list of 10 Minnesota artists with exciting new projects, as curated by our local music team. If you like these picks, check out The Local Show on Sundays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., hosted by Diane, or check out our Spotify playlist, updated every week. In April 2025, The Current compiled the second Minnesota Music Month Scouting Report with votes from the local music industry.
These Minneapolis kids just keep getting better and better at making beautiful noise. Issued Feb. 27 ahead of a March tour across the Western states, this stand-alone single boasts urgent, crashing guitars behind singer Zofia Smith’s despairing refrain, “It’s not over.” You’ll probably still be humming it and wondering which choose-your-calamity topic she’s singing about long after the song is over.