In town to play at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Townes Earle stopped in to The Current for a warm and very open conversation with Mary Lucia.

To celebrate The Current's 10th edition of Live Current, Minnesota Public Radio is releasing two albums, packaged together — Live Current Volume 10 and Live Current: Cover to Cover. Barb Abney is hosting a live listening party on air, and we'll reveal the tracklisting here in real time!

To celebrate The Current's 10th edition of Live Current, Minnesota Public Radio is releasing two albums, packaged together — Live Current Volume 10 and Live Current: Cover to Cover. Barb Abney is hosting a live listening party on air, and we'll reveal the tracklisting here in real time!

What movies do you think are horrible, but that produced a great movie soundtrack? We'll pick out a couple of your favorites for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Steve Seel and Jade (in for Jill Riley) to talk about productions that present three diverse ways of storytelling.

Live Current is a yearly collection of some of the best in-studio sessions and live performances recorded in a given year. Listen to Volume 10, featuring songs from 2014, and throughout the history of The Current.

Minneapolis graphic designer and illustrator Jesse Lindhorst was selected to create the artwork for Live Current Volume 10. Lindhorst talks with the Morning Show about his process and inspiration.

Sam Cooke topped two charts, the Beatles become cartoons, and John Bonham passed away Today in Music History.

“We still need one more hit,” Debbie Harry says of her band Blondie. “I take a lot of vitamins. It helps.” The band are celebrating 40 years together with a New York City art exhibit featuring rare memorabilia as well as photos of Harry by Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibowitz, and more. (Billboard) Meanwhile, the band’s former hangout CBGB…

Ryan Adams tops the Chart on the back of being our Album of the Week. Jim McGuinn suggests in his review of the self-titled album that Ryan has a deep connection with another recently re-energized rocker, Tom Petty.