Black Friday isn’t just for buying flat-screen TVs anymore, thanks to Record Store Day coordinating a flood of special vinyl releases to hit stores on the day after Thanksgiving. This year’s crop includes discs from Paul McCartney (a new “Say Say Say” 12″ featuring, of course, Michael Jackson); David Bowie (a release of Earthling on translucent green vinyl); Spoon (a…

It was probably inevitable that someone would rewrite Prince’s infamously dirty Purple Rain track “Darling Nikki” in honor of Nicki Minaj—and it turns out that someone is Beyoncé. Queen Bey sings an a capella verse of “Darling Nikki Nicki” in a new promotional video for a live performance of Minaj’s song “Feeling Myself,” a collaboration that the pair…

In three decades as a band, the Jayhawks have written a multitude of original songs, released eight studio albums, and toured internationally. Now, they’ve announced the release of a new album, created with a pair of star producers, early next year. The Jayhawks were established in Minneapolis in 1985 and became one of the core bands…

Bob Dylan‘s label Columbia has partnered with Genius to present graphic visualizations of how some of Dylan’s classic lyrics evolved. Using the multiple takes available on Dylan’s forthcoming Bootleg Series box set focusing on the years 1965-66, Columbia staff have created GIFs that show how Dylan’s lyrics for songs like “Desolation Row” and “One of…

Is this Crescent Moon’s most prolific year to date? Following hot on the heels of the release of this month’s excellent Kill the Vultures album Carnelian and an EP he created with Andrew Broder, the talented, intense, beat-poet-leaning MC will also put out a full-length with his trio Mixed Blood Majority and headline the Mainroom before…

David Bowie has confirmed that his 27th studio album will be released on his 69th birthday: Jan. 8, 2016. Blackstar will contain only seven tracks: “long, jazzy jams mixed with the kind of driving beat pioneered by Seventies German bands Can and Kraftwerk,” according to a “Bowie insider” contacted by the Times of London. The album’s first…

Last March, Prince helped release Judith Hill’s debut album, Back in Time, for free. Like many online phenomena, though, the download link was temporary; after a couple of days on the web, the album disappeared. The good news for those who missed it: Prince’s label, NPG Records, re-dropped Back in Time last Friday (this time…

Prince remains firmly committed to supporting the career of Judith Hill, a singer he discovered when she told a European magazine she wanted to work with him. Hill’s dream came true: earlier this year, an album produced by Prince and recorded at Paisley Park was released in an unusual cascade that started with a free…

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…