Fresh from their gig at Riot Fest in Chicago on Saturday and gearing up for a show tonight in the Nether Bar at Mill City Nights, Los Angeles duo the Bots stopped into The Current's studio to play some songs and to talk with Mark Wheat.

Toki Wright and Big Cats stopped by the Local Show to chat with host David Campbell about their forthcoming album Pangea and to perform three new tracks off the record live in The Current studio.

On the Norwegian singer-songwriter's seventh studio album, the ache and anger of divorce gets re-purposed into a loose, feisty, energetic record that finds Lerche sounding fully recharged.

Enter The Current's First Avenue prize pack giveaway for a chance to win a pair of tickets to three First Avenue shows of your choice!

The Wilco singer and his 18-year-old son Spencer record a 20-song family-band album together. There's not much contrivance, not much high-concept, just a dad and his son bashing out tunes.

Let's put together a list of pessimistic songs. What do you want to hear for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

Michael Rand chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Sean McPherson about

Elvis went to no. 1, The Pendletones recorded the song that would make them change their name, and Johnny Ramone passed away Today in Music History.

Bob Crewe, a writer and producer who was a force behind many hit songs—notably for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons—died on Thursday, of a brain injury, at the age of 83. Crewe wrote or co-wrote songs including “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” and the Labelle…

Jeff Tweedy is in a band. No, not that band; not that band, either. It's an outfit he recently launched with his son, Spencer Tweedy, and is appropriately named Tweedy. Sukierae is the project's first album, and it's our Album of the Week.