The Cloak Ox - King Rope, from the new album "Shoot The Dog."

Lordy lordy, looks like Lorde is established as our #1 for three straight weeks! She's playing a few shows in the UK right now and will come to the coasts of the States again late in September and early October — still no dates close to us here, though.

We're sending out our hopes for a speedy recovery to Stubbs, the Alaskan cat mayor, today with a 9:30 Coffee Break. What songs should we play to help Stubbs with the healing process?

Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley, Jade and John Moe (filling in for Steve Seel) to talk about three shows happening in the Twin Cities this weekend.

This isn’t going to be a comprehensive biography of the Replacements. It’s not going to be a thesis-level study on their history, their impact, their legacy, and their ever-widening reverberations through music lore. There are devotees who tracked the band from their earliest, dingiest shows to their rise to major label “stardom” to their gradual…

Happy Hollows - Endless, from the new album "Amethyst."

Ahead of their big show at the Xcel Energy Center with the Vaccines and Bear's Den, Mumford and Sons came by the studios of 89.3 The Current to hang out with Mary Lucia and to do a special Theft of the Dial.

The Current's Guitar Collection is a look at some of the instruments that have been played in The Current's studios. Many times, there's a good story behind a guitar, often known only to the person who plays it. This week, we talk to Bryce Dessner of The National.

We've done it before, but rock songs with banjo seem like the perfect thing to listen to for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

"Pleased to Meet Me is the finest record The Replacements ever made," writes The Current's David Campbell. "It lands in that sweet spot where technology, team, craft, chops, guts, attitude, ideas, creativity and some major label money all intersected at the right time for those songs to become what they became."