Drowners - Luv, Hold Me Down, from the new self-titled record.

Arctic Monkeys regain the top spot ahead of their sold out Valentines Day show at First Avenue. We've invited them in to do a special in-studio performance that afternoon, stay tuned for details on Thursday, Jan. 30 for a chance to get in on the action.

Ross Clark is a guitarist and bassist with New York-based band, St. Lucia, who recently visited The Current for an in-studio session. For Clark, it was a homecoming of sorts; he attended McNally-Smith College of Music from 2004 to 2006, and he lived off Wabasha Street just a few blocks from Minnesota Public Radio. He took a few minutes to tell us about his Fender Jazzmaster.

The recent waves of bone-chilling cold prompted Cody, a listener from Eagan, to suggest a Coffee Break with artists referring to bones, or more specifically, the singer's bones.

This week Dara spoke to The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the big changes ahead for the Minneapolis - St. Paul food scene in 2014. Big deal chefs are moving here, good restaurants opening up, healthy choices abound, and the continuation of the distilling boom.

Celebration calls for beer and music—or at least Harriet Brewing thinks so. To commemorate the brewery’s third year in business, the company is hosting the Harriet Brewing 3rd Anniversary Extravaganza on January 31. The celebration serendipitously coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Cedar Cultural Center, where the event will take place. “The Cedar’s 25th…

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.