This week on What's New on The Current, Jade takes you around the world with new music from Canada's Tim Darcy, France's JAIN and Australia's Alex Lahey.

The band originally planned to release its self-titled album on Feb. 24, but decided to stream it live Tuesday after David Longstreth tweeted everyone had waited 'long enough.'

Before playing the First Avenue mainroom, David Prowse of Japandroids stopped by The Current to curate a playlist and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.

The new song from Spoon first appeared as unidentified instrumental music between segments on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' and during boarding on American Airlines planes. 'Can I Sit Next to You' is from Spoon's forthcoming album, 'Hot Thoughts,' due out March 17.

Watch Hippo Campus play their debut full-length album 'landmark' at an intimate concert venue in Minneapolis.

Bill DeVille says he can't get enough of the 'desert blues' sound of Saharan musicians Tinariwen. For his DJ Pick of the Week, DeVille chose 'Sastanaqqam' from the band's new album, 'Elwan.' DeVille says he can't get enough of Tinariwen's 'swirling guitars and hypnotic rhythms.'

Before their big gig at the State Theatre, Taylor Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber and Lee Pardini of Dawes stopped by The Current to curate a playlist and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.

In her new work, the Carolina Chocolate Drops vocalist speaks for the truly silenced: slaves; those murdered during the civil rights movement; young men felled by police bullets in city streets today. Before its Feb. 24 release date, listen to Rhiannon Giddens' 'Freedom Highway' in its entirety.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1972. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

This week on What's New on The Current, Jade gives you a dose of drugs in musical form including psych rock from Temples and the Black Angels and stoner rock from Mac DeMarco.