Today in 1989, Billy Joel started a two-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "We Didn't Start The Fire". For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that feature rapidly-performed lyrics?

Your Album of the Week is the Super Deluxe reissue of Prince's 1999. In addition to remastering Prince's original double album, 1999, the new Super Deluxe reissue of his iconic, breakthrough album includes 35 tracks from Prince's vault, making it the biggest posthumous release of his work to date.

Friday Five is back after last week’s Thanksgiving break! Here are five music videos that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks. And if you’re interested in submitting a video for next week, send a link to our new associate blogger Emma Manley (emanley@mpr.org), who’ll be handling this post on Dec. 13. Solid…

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what funk songs do you want to hear?

Mary Lucia discusses a documentary that explores the friendship that existed among three iconic musicians at a critical point in their careers.

Prince's first guitarist, Dez Dickerson, talks with The Current's Andrea Swensson, taking us back to the early days, into the recording studio, and from the smallest clubs to the biggest stages. 'From the very beginning,' Dickerson says, 'Prince had a clear idea of what he wanted, how he wanted it, how he wanted us to coalesce as a band, what he wanted to say, and what message that would send.'

“2019 is all about the experiences,” read a e-mail I recently received from a publicist. “Consumers are shifting their gift lists from products to experiences/memories that will last a lifetime. This year, you can get your loved one a personalized shout out from a favorite musician.” The publicist was writing about Cameo, a service that sells…

There are so many Current-y covers coming out these days that we thought it was high time to put together a special Coffee Break of them. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what contemporary covers of new or old songs do you want to hear?

Michael Stipe just released his first single as a solo artist. You might remember when Stipe was the singer for R.E.M. — but Craig Franklin remembers when he wasn’t a singer at all. “His hair was all curly, like Roger Daltrey. That was the main reason, when we needed a singer I asked him to…

The morning crew can't stop obsessing over the song "The Greatest" by Lana Del Rey, so let's build a set of songs around it for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. What songs do you want to hear that mention the "greatest" or "great"?