No Age - An Impression, from the new album "An Object."

Scottish trio CHVRCHES stopped by The Current studios before their second stop in the Twin Cities in just over three months. They spoke with Mark Wheat about the year they've had: playing at European festivals, touring in Australia and Japan, getting their music in FIFA 2014 and opening for Depeche Mode.

After opening for The Lumineers' extensive arena tour, including a date at the Target Center in Minneapolis last May, J Roddy Walston & The Business are looking forward to performing more intimate shows on a headlining tour. They stopped by The Current studios to play a few songs off the forthcoming Essential Tremors and chatted with host Mary Lucia.

It's been over three years since Arcade Fire released their critically acclaimed record The Suburbs. Recalling "The Wilderness Downtown," the short film they had built for a "We Used to Wait" off The Suburbs, the Canadian indie-rock band have an exciting multimedia experience ready for "Just a Reflektor" from their forthcoming release. We'll play the song on the air at 9 p.m. tonight!

Monday, September 9 The Drug Budget Album-Release Show Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis 8 p.m., $5, 18+ How to describe the Drug Budget? Part freak-folk, part ska, part lo-fi doo wop, this band’s debut full-length, Overpower Afterparty, has a whopping 18 people playing everything from kazoos to horns to a djembe behind frontman Vain Mainstream’s…

Recorded in a year's worth of experimental sessions, 'Wise Up Ghost' sounds like the best of Costello's stuff, and like nothing he's done before. Working with musicians who've figured out how to apply hip-hop principles to a band dynamic, Costello locates himself within that framework to produce some of the most focused and visionary work of his later career.

Thanks to Loran for an early morning suggestion. What chain songs do you think we should play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Today Michael Rand chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel and Jill Riley about the Vikings first regular season game, hockey season gearing up, and a moment of silence for the "butt fumble".

The new NIN album feels like a familiar friend. There are synthetic sounds that only Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross know how to make; this album is chock-full of those moments, as well as the sounds that give Hesitation Marks a career retrospective vibe.

The band's first album since 1999 once again mixes unlikely sensibilities: miserablism made vital by gritty forcefulness, scabrousness harnessed in the pursuit of beauty. Even as singer Lou Barlow offers up clear-eyed postmortems of a wrecked marriage, Defend Yourself exudes the live-wire energy of musicians brought back from the brink.