Cate Le Bon - Are You With Me Now?, from the new album "Mug Museum."

Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion) was in The Current's studios with Sebadoh a couple weeks ago. We asked him about how he found his guitar, and he described how it was influenced by 80s band the Neats and by a dream.

Today's Coffee Break theme: real songs about real people. You helped us pull together a playlist that would surely make the Biography Channel proud.

Today on The Morning Show's Eating and Drinking, James Norton spoke to Steve Seel about The Secret Atlas of North Coast Food. He edited and wrote a couple of stories for the recently published book. James will be at Common Good Books on Thursday discussing the book and some of the stories in it.

Duluth Mayor Don Ness can still remember the marquee lights of the NorShor Theater shining bright on East Superior Street in the 1990s. “It was the birthplace of the Homegrown Music Festival,” Ness said, “and a lot of prominent bands in Duluth all started at the NorShor. It was a really important part of my…

Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission (Demo), from the 10-Year Anniversary Edition of "The Magnolia Electric Co."

I hope you didn’t have anything important you wanted to get done today. Seriously. If you can pull yourself away from this new interactive Bob Dylan video for his song “Like A Rolling Stone”—a video that was released today, approximately 48 years and four months after the song’s debut—after playing it just once, then I…

Each of the 10 songs on Fellow Travelers pays tribute to an artist with whom Shearwater has toured. It's fascinating to hear the band function as a skeleton key that opens up the works of Xiu Xiu and Coldplay and St. Vincent alike.

What songs that feature the title as the first words should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Congratulations to the Varsity Theater for winning the award for America’s Best Restroom. Here are a few suggestions as to other local music venues that deserve to have their restrooms recognized. Best Restroom View: First Avenue. On your way to the sinks, take a look outside to see whether the Timberwolves game is out yet.…