McNally Smith Saxophone Performance major Lucia Sarmiento talks about coming to St. Paul from her native city of Lima, Peru, and forming her excellent jazz quintet.

Sharon Van Etten, The Flaming Lips, Hamilton Leithauser, former Replacements drummer Chris Mars and others reimagine and redefine songs from the highlight reel of the '60s. Listen to the complete album before its Oct. 16 release.

On his eighth album, Ritter delves into what he calls "messianic oracular honky-tonk." Fortunately, it's an approach that brings out some of the singer's slipperiest, nimblest wordplay.

The Current's Mark Wheat explains how he came to know and love the music of The Fall. Mark also suggests some tracks and albums to help you discover this long-running band who constitute what Mark calls a unique musical tradition.

Stream 'Israel Nash's Silver Season' the new album by Israel Nash, due out October 9 on Loose music/Thirty Tigers.

Each year The Current pulls together the best live tracks from our studio session archive and make a compilation, and this year may be the best compilation yet.

Prep for the day-long Doomtree event on October 3rd with our collection of rare studio recordings of the lineup.

The band Battles just released an album called 'La Di Da Di', and its cover features a photograph of a lot of food. With that in mind, we at The Current reached out to some of MPR's food contributors to ask them for their picks for the 'tastiest album covers' -- that is, those albums with images of food on their covers. Check out their picks.

'No No No' is first album that Zach Condon and his band of globally minded explorers have released since 2011, debuting many of its songs at Brooklyn's Bell House for NPR Music's First Listen Live. Watch video of the entire concert.

Adams' '1989' recognizes a rock lineage born of a woman. He's not legitimizing Swift's work — he's figuring out how her voice can validate and include his.