For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards do you want to hear?

“[The Current] started playing ‘Wandering Star’ by the new local band Poliça five months ago,” Mark Wheat wrote back in February 2012. “Our audience immediately reacted emailing and calling every time I played it, liking it for reasons they often couldn’t describe […] I’ve also always loved two drummers in a band, but it has seldom…

Dead Man Winter, “Destroyer” I had trouble deciding what to screencap from this video. Lydia Liza throwing off her coat? Holly Hansen dancing with her guitar? Lazerbeak doing air banjo? I ended up at Alan Sparhawk doing the most anguished lip syncing of his career. But any of the cameos Dead Man Winter pulled together…

In an interview with KPCC's John Horn, Dave and Pos of De La Soul reveal their innovative approach to making their latest album, which paid off with a Grammy nomination.

It's National Pizza Day! But there are no good songs about pizza. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs that mention playing card suits do you want to hear?

All four members of the indie rock band Early Eyes got their start playing music at young ages. Jake Berglove (guitar and lead vocals) and Henry Patterson (guitar and vocals) met through mutual friends while they were still in high school, and decided they would be roommates in college. Wyatt Fuller, drums, popped up on…

Yesterday, early ticketbuyers for the 2017 Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival started to receive pamphlets that seemed to reveal the lineup for this year’s festival. In an official announcement, the festival has now confirmed that lineup — which includes Paul Simon, Chance the Rapper, Wilco, and more. The delight, though, is in the details.…

This February, The Current is celebrating Black History Month by celebrating four artists chosen by our listeners. We’ll be playing their music on the radio and sharing features online. This week, we’re featuring Jimi Hendrix. The Blues “…while your ears are still ringing, we’d like to go on and do another little tune called ‘I Don’t…

This week, Mary Lucia shares her thoughts about a couple powerful documentaries she's seen recently. 'I had a conversation with someone I respect creatively about forced inspiration,' Mary writes. ' We tried offering each other ideas to jump-start our respective juices. I immediately thought of recommending to him a few documentaries I've recently consumed that lit a fire under me.' Have a closer look at Mary's documentary recommendations.

In what’s shaping up to be the biggest weekend in Prince news since his untimely passing, CNN’s HLN network has announced it will air a new documentary, Prince: The End, this Friday night to coincide with a big Prince tribute planned at Sunday night’s Grammys and Prince’s catalog reportedly hitting multiple major streaming services. According…