April is Public Radio Music Month, and to celebrate, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. Today's vote: DeVotchka, Rufus Wainwright and Sharon Van Etten.

William Tyler - Cadillac Desert, from the new album "Impossible Truth."

San Francisco's Thao & the Get Down Stay Down is the vehicle for the thoughtful indie folk-rock lyricism of singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen. Over the course of five albums and multiple singles (plus celebrated collaborations like her 2011 LP with indie-pop artist Mirah), she's developed a stripped-down, cerebral but deeply relatable voice that's earned her a sizable and devoted following.

If one listens to any one album by the White Stripes, they will hear a different shade of the band. Yet for all their elusiveness and apparent shape-shifting, the entirety of the band is really only visible on one album and one album alone: Elephant.

Afraid of Heights, Wavves' recently-released fourth album, is the band's most lyrically mature and sonically eclectic release to date.

  Monday, April 1 Punk Rock Bowling with Buildings Memory Lanes, Minneapolis 10 p.m., free, 21+ Catch excellent power trio Buildings before they head out on tour at this unique show, which takes place directly on a few of the lanes at this South Minneapolis bowling alley. They’ll be joined by Miami Dolphins, Blackthorne, and…

What songs can you think of that have a spoken word intro, not someone counting off, but actually introducing the song or talking without music into the song. Give us your suggestions for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Today Michael Rand chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel about the Twins opener, the search for a new Gophers basketball coach, and the NCAA hockey tournament.

April is Public Radio Music Month, and to celebrate, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. Today's vote: Black Francis vs. Spoon vs. Alt-J.

Wall. - Left To Wonder, from the "Shoestring EP."