Wild Cub - Thunder Clatter, from the new album "Youth."

On tour promoting his second album in as many years, singer-songwriter Jake Bugg returned to The Current last week to perform an intimate show inside Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum. Between songs, The Current's Mark Wheat talks to Jake Bugg about Bugg's new album, 'Shangri La', and about his career trajectory thus far.

With only a few weeks of the New Year behind us, Neal Calvin Peterson has already delivered one of the most intriguing concept albums of the year. Performing under the name Infinite Religions, Peterson’s new EP Duality explores contrast in an inventive new way: By composing two separate and completely different songs, each running exactly…

What songs do you want to hear from artists influenced by Pete Seeger? Let us know and we'll play some for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

The banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him.

With its subtle strings and sly infectiousness, Heart Murmurs is no less than an attempt to craft a new batch of pop standards. Whether Messersmith succeeds depends mostly on how many people are lucky enough to hear him.

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel and Jill Riley about Moby giving away new tracks through Bit Torrent and asking people to remix and play with isolated component tracks, and to gear up for the Super Bowl they listen to the latest Bad Lip Reading video of the NFL.

Bobby Vee: The Adobe Sessions Bobby Vee is a Midwest music legend. The Fargo-born singer emerged as a prodigy in the 1950s, playing with Buddy Holly and a young Bob Dylan and landing 38 hits in Billboard’s Hot 100. In an unusual and touching gesture, Dylan paid tribute to his former bandmate at Midway Stadium…

This week, Mark Wheat looks at the excitement and romance of the FA Cup, where the huge teams are sometimes surprised by the minnows. Plus, an exclusive interview with Jake Bugg about Bugg's support of Notts County F.C.

Fresh from playing a gig at the Fine Line in Minneapolis last night, Brooklyn-based St. Lucia stopped into The Current's studios to talk to Mary Lucia and to play a few songs off their new album, 'When the Night.'