Ferry re-imagines his songs, both solo and with Roxy Music, as the product of a 1920s jazz band. The result is a complete joy, capturing the eccentricity of Ferry's music while still conjuring up the romance of a vintage sound.

This week on New Hot, read about a band who has collaborated with the likes of Camera Obscura and Arab Strap, a new project with ties to My Morning Jacket and an act who has had their music in over a dozen movies. These are our three recommended releases for Tuesday, February 5.

Are you sitting at your desk counting down the minutes until Beyoncé Bowl? Or is that just me? Perhaps you’d like to whittle away these remaining Friday afternoon hours with a little YouTube time. Slip on your headphones, crank up the volume, and take in these five fresh videos, all of which emerged from the…

On the last Friday of every month The Current's Morning Show takes its Coffee Break on the road. In January, they brought treats from Gigi's Cafe -- and a performance from Actual Wolf -- to the Animal Humane Society.

Feel free to interpret the Superbowl theme however you like, songs about games, watching tv, football, advertisements, etc. What songs do you want to hear for the Coffee Break?

Who has the most power? How do you judge power? And can you get away with saying you are powerful in a state like Minnesota? Tim Gihring from Minnesota Monthly answers our questions.

Neil Young performed his first professional gig, Blur went to number one, and NASA beamed The Beatles into space.

Update: As the world learned of Chris Cornell’s passing on May 18, 2017, we re-shared this piece from 2013. For a teenage kid from suburban Milwaukee, getting to drive my parents’ car into Chicago, unsupervised, for the first time was a really big deal. That I was making that trek to see Soundgarden (also for…

Carroll - Lead Balloon, from the new "Needs EP."

We send Macklemore to the Hall of Fame and welcome a new top song on this week's Chart Show!