This morning voting opens for The Current's Top 89 of 2017. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break we want to know - what are your favorite songs of 2017?

The Nashville singer sits down with NPR's Ari Shapiro to talk about his latest album, which includes songs he wrote long ago, re-recorded tracks, and covers of his favorite tunes.

This morning we played A Flock Of Seagulls "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" for Vinyl Tap, and that made us think of all of the great bands that are from Merseyside. So what bands do you want to hear that hail from Merseyside?

In the wake of multiple local music venues closing their doors this year, Mortimer’s is looking to fill the gap. They are debuting their new music room with a show on Dec. 27 featuring locals LIKEHELL, Iguano, Trim Reaper, and DJ RichmanVA. Nightingale co-owners Jasha Johnston and Carrie McCabe-Johnston took ownership of Mortimer’s back in…

Right inside the front door of the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame stands a towering replica of the state-shaped award for inductees. “This way when people walk in, you don’t have to tell ‘em where they’re at,” says executive director Dodie Wendinger. “We are in the heart of the town,” she adds. The town in…

Given how difficult it is to maintain freshness as an artist 37 continuous years into a career, 'Songs of Experience' teaches us this is a thing to be celebrated.

Ahead of Queens of the Stone Age's concert at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Sunday, Dec. 3, listen to Brian Oake's complete interview with QOTSA front man Josh Homme, who shares, among many things, why it's OK to use the word 'fun' when describing the band's latest album, 'Villians.'

Winter in Minnesota is long and dark, and January tends to bring those subzero temps our winters are famous for. But this January seems to be a hot month for some of Minnesota’s biggest names in music to brighten our weeks with residencies at the Turf Club and Icehouse. Local music fans can look forward…

'Konk' - the second album by The Kooks - is named after the London studio where it was recorded in 2007, owned by Ray Davies of the Kinks. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from albums named by the location they were recorded - either the studio, the street, or the city?

Every once in a while, you go to a party to find that all of the cool people have also shown up. Welcome to Icehouse on Nov. 30, 2017, the night of veteran drummer/percussionist Joey Van Phillips’s Punch Bowl album release. Van Phillips doesn’t sing on any of the 10 tracks from Punch Bowl. Instead,…