On Monday, Dec. 15 The Current will host an online premiere of Modest Mouse's new single "Lampshades on Fire" off their forthcoming album Strangers to Ourselves, out March 3 via Epic Records.

Leonard Nimoy, best known as Mr. Spock On 'Star Trek,' Died Friday at age 83. We're looking for the best songs to celebrate his life and legacy on -- and off -- the screen.

The Montreal band mines the built-in tension between its many sources of effervescence and the darker shading in its words and backgrounds.

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, we streamed the live performance of Sleater-Kinney at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. You can now watch the archived video of that performance.

New ideas permeate the band's 13th album, on which every song finds a way to surprise. Mastermind Kevin Barnes mixes a love of rock, funk and disco with unexpected ways to expand the brain.

The classic Brit-pop band's eighth studio album, The Magic Whip, releases April 28. Hear the first single "Go Out."

Even when built around familiar pop-song structures, Dan Deacon's music is juxtapositional and wonderful -- a pursuit of the ecstatic that obliterates genre distinctions. Deacon's new album, 'Gliss Riffer', comes out Feb. 24. Get a first listen here.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and that turns our thoughts to matters of the heart: sometimes that means new or enduring love — and sometimes that means the end of love. Whatever Valentine's Day means to you this year, we're asking you to submit your requests for love songs and breakup songs.

While they were in town to play the Turf Club and First Avenue, three members of Dr. Dog stopped by The Current's studios to pick a set of songs to share with our audience.

Gonzalez's songs are slight little creations, with minimal words encapsulating big ideas and breezy pop melodies disguising weighty notions about life's endlessly refracting illusions.