Whatever Valentine's Day means to you this year, we're asking you to submit your requests for Love Songs and Break-up Songs. Listen on Friday, Feb. 14, as DJ Mark Wheat spins your love requests, followed by DJ David Campbell, who spins the break-up tunes.

The band's music doesn't just mimic the soul sounds its members love; it regenerates the tradition. Half the City is the first major recorded statement from a band already growing into greatness.

The singer's new album is the musical equivalent of a deep, questioning stare from a lover. These are delicate songs, with lyrics stripped to their essence.

The New York duo plays sinewy, spiky, dense and danceable pop-rock songs with an electronic pulse.

The garage-rock band Davila 666 is on a break, but its singer has a tremendous new solo album.

Even as they reached the Top 10 in Britain, appeared on TV and had young women swooning by the thousands across the pond, their first singles in the U.S. were released on tiny independent labels and went nowhere. What went wrong, and finally right, in the leadup to the night of Feb. 9, 1964.

The latest in our series of musical reminiscences comes from Michael McKinney of St. Paul, Minn., who remembers being introduced to Jane's Addiction by a co-worker.

Sam Cooke is the King of Soul, but a legacy built purely on his studio records would belittle his incomparable talent as a performer.

When Sandra Bernhard came to town for a show at the Dakota Jazz Club last month, the Wits alumna came by The Current studios for a Theft of the Dial with host Barb Abney.

Cibo Matto has always been skilled at Trojan-horsing weird art within glossy, goofy songs (often about food), but the new Hotel Valentine isn't so concerned with disguising its intentions. For their first album together in 14 years, Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda showcase their evolution.