On Thursday, February 10, The Current is looking back at the music of the aughts. Here are some of The Current staff members’ personal memories from the decade.

Betty Davis, the pioneering funk singer and fashion icon who was married to jazz great Miles Davis, has died at age 77.

The Dolly Parton amusement park's parent company will fund all tuition and fees for select programs. "Their futures should be grown with love, not loans," Herschend Enterprises CEO Andrew Wexler says.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs nominated for Best Original Song — that didn't win the Oscar — do you want to hear?

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by artists who played at Rock the Garden 2019?

Jane Campion's and Denis Villeneuve's films got the highest amount of nominations, 12 and 10 each. Drive My Car, from Japan, got nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Feature.

The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.

Greenwood says writing the music for The Power of the Dog allowed him to experiment by mixing a banjo and a string quartet. He also recently scored Spencer and Licorice Pizza.

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by artists from the Chicago soul-music scene?