The Decemberists' next album, 'I'll Be Your Girl,' releases March 16, 2018. For this new release, Decemberists front man Colin Meloy explains how he and the band strove to break out of old habits. 'We made an effort to really inspect the choices that we were making each time, and make sure it felt exciting,' Meloy says. See David Safar's interview with Meloy, and listen to the Decemberists' lead single, 'Severed.'

The origins of Bully's lineup can be traced to The Stone Fox, a now-defunct venue in Nashville. 'We were all at that place at the same time, were friends and had similar tastes in music,' says Bully frontwoman and bandleader Alicia Bognanno. Read more about how the band members found one another, and why friendship is the most important ingredient in the lineup.

After Grizzly Bear visited The Current studio, the band's Daniel Rossen took a few minutes to tell us about a vintage guitar he bought that quickly became one of his favorites.

Set for release on Feb. 9, 2018, 'Always Ascending' is the next album from Franz Ferdinand. Well ahead of the release date, The Current's David Safar connected with front man Alex Kapranos, who talked about the forthcoming record and about what he loves about coming to Minneapolis to perform.

This week, NPR Music is speaking to creators whose work in 2017 captured something unique about a chaotic year. We begin with two musicians whose intertwined careers are a statement in themselves.

In another show of his ongoing support of Chicago Public Schools, Chance the Rapper recently visited a Chicago school to inspire the students there to pursue computer education and to celebrate a Google grant to assist with that.

On June 16, 2018, Father John Misty will bring his music and his spellbinding stage presence to Rock The Garden.

The video for JD McPherson's single, 'Style (Is a Losing Game)' was shot during business hours at a barbershop in Los Angeles. 'All the barbers were really cool having us there,' says the video's director, Sean Dejecacion, who told McPherson, 'We've got to get you in a smock!' Watch the video and go inside its production.

Mark Olson (the Jayhawks) and his musical partner/wife Ingunn Ringvold share stories and insight before visiting the Cedar Cultural Center and Red Herring Lounge on Dec. 9 and 13, respectively.

'Freedom's Goblin' is Ty Segall's new album, a 19-track double album set for release on Jan. 26, 2018. The Current's David Safar recently had a chance to talk to Segall about the new album. 'I think I just wanted to make the freest record I could, in the sense of there's no rules for what's going on,' Segall says.