To celebrate Public Radio Music Month, we're having a daily vote for the best in-studio tracks from The Current's performance archive. Today's vote: The Head and the Heart, the Hold Steady or Vampire Weekend.

The Black Angels - Don't Play With Guns, from the new album "Indigo Meadow."

This Saturday, April 13, Schell's brewing is celebrating the third year of Grain Belt Nordeast and the new Schell's Goosetown beer with a Nordeast Pub Crawl from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A fussy, reclusive enigma, Otis still performs occasionally, but most of his work has remained unreleased and subject to endless tinkering. That's about to change with a deluxe reissue of Otis' 1974 cult classic Inspiration Information, which includes a generous assortment of unreleased material.

If you’ve been listening to H2 Local with Siddiq and I the last couple weeks, then you probably noticed that there is a strong focus on new music, but also a nice sprinkling in of the history as well. As I was working on the third show I made an interesting discovery: I really don’t…

In honor of Public Radio Month we're going to play radio songs for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. What radio songs do you want to hear today?

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel and Jill Riley about the new android "layer" Facebook Home, and he explains what a Bitcoin is and how you would use it.

Doomtree snuck a little surprise into its mailing list subscribers’ inboxes last night: The first details and teaser of Dessa’s new full-length, Parts of Speech. In addition to unveiling the album’s cover art and release date (June 25), Dessa launched a pre-order of her new record that comes with an instant download of her new…

  Des Moines, Iowa’s 80/35 festival continues to grow in size and scope. The lineup for this year’s sixth annual event will feature heavyweight headliners David Byrne & St. Vincent and the Wu-Tang Clan, with an additional roster that includes indie favorites Yeasayer, Deerhunter, Wavves, and many more. Just a three and a half hour…

The musician, songwriter, composer and producer has made a name for himself by playing with the likes of Amanda Palmer. For his latest album, however, he found himself departing from a rock sound as he began writing his own orchestral arrangements.