The songs are bold and whip-smart, slicing indiscriminately through subjects from ghosting to the alt-right without feeling heavy or contrived.

When indie rocker Liz Phair stopped at The Current for a Theft of the Dial, she had something special in mind. 'I picked a bunch of my favorite songs that I thought made a nice little collection,' she says, 'but then I thought, 'Why not search for remixes of those songs?'' Listen to this memorable set of remixed tunes, hosted by Liz Phair.

'The Assassin' and 'Whisper' are from a deluxe reissue of Isbell's 2007 solo debut, Sirens of the Ditch, due out July 13.

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To honor Curtis Mayfield, we want to put together a playlist of his top ten songs and play them throughout the day on Sunday, June 3, the anniversary of his birthday.

Kamasi Washington's new album 'Heaven and Earth' drops on June 22nd and we're honored to premiere track 11 from the album -- Street Fighter Mas -- here on The Current.

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This time on Music to Watch, The Current's Sean McPherson and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's Kateri Palen talk about artists who have captivated them recently: Leon Bridges, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lake Street Dive, and Phoebe Bridgers.

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'Like computers, we store painful memories on our hard drives,' writes Jeffrey Bissoy-Mattis. 'To avoid crashing, we need to clear some files. Janelle Monae tells us to stop ignoring the annoying sign that says to clear some space and click reboot.' Bissoy-Mattis describes Monae's 'Dirty Computer' as 'an inclusive album that invites listeners from (literally) all backgrounds to triumphantly be themselves.'