LEIF VOLLEBEKK - Southern United States, from the new album "North Americana."

Arctic Monkeys stay at the top this week ahead of their sold out show at First Avenue next Friday. They'll do a special in-studio with Mary Lucia earlier that day, Valentine's Day! Don't just call your Valentine when you're high, get me your requests for that evenings broadcast, and I'd love to give you both a special shout out.

Kollin Johannsen is a guitarist with of The Colourist, a pop-fuelled indie-rock band out of Orange County, Calif. When The Colourist played an in-studio session at The Current, Johannsen took a few minutes to tell us about his guitar.

Tuesday night in London was miserable. It was pouring rain and there was a strike that closed the Tube, but it got much more interesting when rumblings started on Twitter that Prince would be playing the Electric Ballroom in the eclectic North London neighborhood of Camden at 3:00 a.m. Immediately, there was a line outside…

What songs do you want to hear that feature one (or more) of the emotions from the study in the title or lyrics? Give us your emotional song suggestions.

Today on The Morning Show's Eating and Drinking, James Norton spoke to Jill Riley and Steve Seel about a couple of restaurants opening out in the suburbs.

To many, it seemed far-fetched when the Awl named Minnesota the single most influential state in American music. That seems like a stretch even to me—unless you adjust for population, we surely can’t hold a candle in sheer weight of history to New York or California—but this past week, Minnesota artists have been so omnipresent…

In their ongoing quest to play every mid-level city in the U.S. besides their hometown of Minneapolis, the reunited Replacements—which features founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson backed by session musicians—have been added to the bill for Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Fest, which takes place May 9-11, 2014. Other acts on the Shaky Knees lineup…

“Drone Not Drones” is a phrase that became locally infamous when Alan Sparhawk spoke it after his band Low played a single, droning song—”Do You Know How to Waltz?”—for their entire 28-minute set at 2013’s Rock the Garden. The phrase was coined by Luke Heiken, who stopped by the Current’s studios to talk with Steve…

The Autumn Defense - This Thing That I've Found, from the new album "Fifth."