Superchunk - Me & You & Jackie Mittoo, from the new album "I Hate Music."

The best indie rock album of the year comes from a band with a career spanning over two decades.

Case's gift for disarming commentary carries over to the quotable, thoughtful, frequently lovely songs on The Worse Things Get: She can be bracingly acerbic, boldly inspiring, or achingly tender while conveying equal, virtually boundless charisma.

Subtitled The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, a new archival set revisits one of Dylan's key transitional phases, when he was running from his own burdensome greatness and jumping into the great scrap heap of American musical tradition. Hear 15 songs from the new box set.

Local music fans who miss any of the defining Twin Cities rock bands of the '90s and early aughts will be pleased to know there's a solution to their nostalgia with new group The Starfolk.

Give us your suggestions for songs from bands that contain at least one set of twins. We'll play some of your suggestions for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Ezra Koenig is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the New York City-based band Vampire Weekend. Between VW's applauded Lollapalooza performance in Chicago and a sold-out show at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Minneapolis, Ezra stopped by our studios to record a Theft of the Dial with The Current's Morning Show host Jill Riley.

Ah, Friday afternoon. Where the hours pass by as slow as molasses in January, and the weather outside seems to get extra-perfect, just to taunt us. Why not slip on your headphones and kill some time with a handful of the best music videos to emerge this week? I’ve heard it helps… Alpha Consumer This…

The Monkees released their first single, Peter Gabriel split with Genesis, and remembering Elvis Presley Today in Music History.

We’re getting into the nitty-gritty details of performing this week leading up to Sunday night’s Current Presents special on stage presence and banter. When I started putting together this week’s show, one person jumped out to me right away as someone who would be crucial to include, because I’ve watched her undergo a complete transformation…