The Current's music director, David Safar, attended Blur's show in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 20. "Blur's performance at The Hollywood Bowl was true to the band's beginnings,' Safar writes. '[Frontman Damon Albarn] commanded control of the band and the audience.' Read David's full report of this monumental show.

As the autumn leaves are passing their peak in Minnesota, it's the last weekend to check out the season's color. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention the palette of fall color: reds, yellows, oranges? Send us your requests.

Ending months of speculation, leaks, and rumors, Adele has made it official: her next album, which will indeed be titled 25 as previously speculated, will be released on Nov. 20 (as, also, previously speculated). Lead single “Hello,” with accompanying video, was released very early on Friday morning in the U.S. (That’s a slightly more convenient time in…

Cloud Cult have announced their next album: The Seeker will be released on Feb. 12, and tonight at 6:00 p.m. on The Current, we’ll present the radio debut of the album’s lead single “No Hell.” The album, Cloud Cult’s first studio release since 2013’s Love, is the band’s first to be entirely recorded and produced at Earthology Records: Cloud…

Our colleagues at 'The Splendid Table' are celebrating 20 years of being public radio's 'program for people who love to eat,' so for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what food songs do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

Singer Cory Wells has died, of undisclosed causes, at age 74. Wells was a founding member of Three Dog Night and one of the band’s three lead vocalists. “Cory was an incredible singer,” said bandmate Danny Hutton, “a great performer, he could sing anything. Cory was like a brother in so many ways. We had been together since 1965 and…

While visiting The Current's studio, Dan Wilson took a few minutes to talk about the guitar that has accompanied him on stages and in songwriting sessions since the turn of the century. 'The guitar is sort of a rough and ready, portable songwriting machine,' he says. Check out the full interview.

Lydia Liza, known off stage as Lydia Hoglund, got her start fronting the band Bomba de Luz and put out her first EP when she was just 16 years old. She was already leaps and bounds ahead of other Twin Cities musicians in many different ways – she was taking songwriting classes at McNally Smith…

Today is Oct. 21, 2015, the futuristic date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel in the 1989 film, 'Back to the Future II.' So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention future, time travel or time? Send us your requests.

The lineup for the 2015 Sound Unseen festival has recently been announced. The festival runs from Nov. 11-15. As always, the event will feature a variety of music-based films and documentaries. Different movies will be shown at four locations: McNally Smith College of Music and Bedlam Theatre in St. Paul; and the Trylon Microcinema and Bryant-Lake…