The Montreal band recorded its new album within earshot of a since-closed discotheque, and it shows. No One Is Lost prioritizes lightness and bittersweet uplift over the devastation of past records.

The Current's Andrea Swensson is on her way to Paisley Park tonight, but there isn't room for everyone -- so here's a link to watch the live stream of the show, starting Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 9:30 p.m. Central.

When they were in town to play a show at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Britt Daniel and Rob Pope of Austin, Texas, band Spoon stopped in to The Current's studios to record a Theft of the Dial with host Jill Riley.

On Sunday, Sept. 28, at 7:45 p.m. Central Time, The Current and NPR Music are teaming up to bring you a live video webcast of Robert Plant and his new band, The Sensational Space Shifters, in concert at the Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, N.Y.

To celebrate The Current's 10th edition of Live Current, Minnesota Public Radio is releasing two albums, packaged together — Live Current Volume 10 and Live Current: Cover to Cover. Barb Abney is hosting a live listening party on air, and we'll reveal the tracklisting here in real time!

To celebrate The Current's 10th edition of Live Current, Minnesota Public Radio is releasing two albums, packaged together — Live Current Volume 10 and Live Current: Cover to Cover. Barb Abney is hosting a live listening party on air, and we'll reveal the tracklisting here in real time!

In terms of pure expression, no singer in popular music can touch Williams when she's calling from the lonely outskirts of Despairville.

On his third album, the D.I.Y. glam-rocker re-brands himself as some sort of demonic teenager. But Black Moon Spell is, at heart, the sound of one guy making sure everyone around him has a good time.

On the Norwegian singer-songwriter's seventh studio album, the ache and anger of divorce gets re-purposed into a loose, feisty, energetic record that finds Lerche sounding fully recharged.

The Wilco singer and his 18-year-old son Spencer record a 20-song family-band album together. There's not much contrivance, not much high-concept, just a dad and his son bashing out tunes.