The Chart Show Ballot

Vote every week for your top five tracks (and enter our weekly ticket giveaway while you're at it), then tune in Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. CT to see if your favorites make the Chart Show!

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Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS'

Pop historian Maria Sherman makes no apologies for her boy band fandom - in fact, 'Larger Than Life' suggests, YOU should have to apologize if you're NOT a boy band fan.

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Neil Young sues the Trump campaign over song use

The singer and songwriter has filed a copyright infringement complaint over Trump's use of Young's songs 'Rockin' in the Free World' and 'Devil's Sidewalk' at numerous rallies and campaign events.

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Music News: Spotify CEO says the album cycle is over

"You can't record music once every three to four years and think that's going to be enough," Daniel Ek tells artists who complain about streaming payouts.

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Tiny Desk Concert 2020: Ten Minnesota submissions worth watching

Whether your desk is tiny or gigantic, chances are you may be spending more time at it than ever this summer. As many of the artists who submitted to National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Contest can attest, it’s a great time to have a project, and for some, that meant participating in this year’s contest.…

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Album of the Week: Lianne La Havas, 'Lianne La Havas'

On this record we find Lianne paring down the dense production and sonic ambition of her earlier records and letting the songs sit center stage. With this new self-titled effort we have an artist delivering an album length autopsy on a failed relationship with unflinching honesty: the good, the bad, the carnal and thank god, the funky.

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Live Virtual Session: Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards joins The Current's Bill DeVille for a Live Virtual Session. The two talked about Edwards's return to music after several years' absence, about her recent collaboration with Maren Morris, and about her experiences running a coffee shop called Quitters.

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The Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler on the band's first new album in 29 years

Singer Richard Butler talks about the power of '80s nostalgia, the state of rock and roll today and the freedom of making the band's new record, Made of Rain, on its own terms.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar talks about the Save Our Stages Act

'People love American music,' Senator Klobuchar says, 'and we're going to lose American music if we don't make sure that we have places for artists to perform.'

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Beyonce's visual ode, 'Black Is King,' arrives

The project leapfrogged from last year's Bey-curated soundtrack to The Lion King to now arriving on Disney's new streaming service.

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Live Virtual Session: Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes

In a virtual interview and live session with The Current's Mac Wilson, Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith talked about how their music, whether it's their 2016 album We're All Gonna Die or their upcoming seventh studio album Good Luck With Whatever, has unintentionally ended up being very suited to the current moment.

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Live Virtual Session: Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards joins The Current's Bill DeVille for a Live Virtual Session. The two talked about Edwards's return to music after several years' absence, about her recent collaboration with Maren Morris, and about her experiences running a coffee shop called Quitters.

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Live Virtual Session: Margo Price

Margo Price joins The Current's Jill Riley for a Live Virtual Session to talk about writing her new record, fitting in the Nashville music scene, and her signing with Loma Vista Records. Hear tracks from Margo's new record, 'That's How Rumors Get Started.'

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Live Virtual Session: Lianne La Havas

Lianne La Havas joins The Current's Sean McPherson for a Live Virtual Session to talk about and to play two songs from her 2020 self-titled release, releasing Friday. La Havas also plays a selection from her 2015 release, 'Blood.'

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Live Virtual Session: Sorry

Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen, the founding members of the British post-punk outfit Sorry, joined Mac Wilson for a virtual 3-song set and interview with The Current.

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#Current15: The Best of The Current in a new stream

We're celebrating the 15 years The Current has been on the air, so we took your favorite songs from the past decade and a half and made them into a brand new stream.

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Download The Current app

Download The Current's app to hear a crisp, high-fidelity stream of our station (and our additional streams) wherever you go!

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Listen to The Current via Smart Speakers

Listen to The Current on Google Home and Amazon's Echo devices, and get enhanced functionality -- song names, requests, song of the day -- with our Alexa Skill.

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Prince: The Story of 1999 bonus feature: Dr. Fink, 'When Prince sang live, he was just impeccable'

Matt Fink - aka Dr. Fink - was one of Prince's first keyboard players and is a member of the Revolution. In conversation with Andrea Swensson, Dr. Fink reflects on performing, recording and touring with Prince. 'He was always transforming himself into something different with every record,' Fink says. 'There was always something new and original and exploratory.'

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All Request Coffee Break

As we are getting ready to head into Radio Free All Request Weekend, let's get the party started early with an all request morning. What songs would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

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Today in Music History: Elton and Kiki hit No. 1

Dez Dickerson was born; Elton John and Kiki Dee weren't breaking hearts with their hit single; The Quarrymen played an early gig at Liverpool's Cavern Club and were told to 'cut out the rock'; Herman's Hermits had a No. 1 in the U.S. charts; and the Bee Gees scored their very first U.S. No. 1 hit, Today in Music History.

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Coffee Break Suggestions and Archive

Got an idea for a Coffee Break? Want to see what we did a while back?

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