After a three week hiatus and lots of inductions to the Chart Show Hall of Fame to round out the year, we're blessed with a bumper batch of new entries. Spoon, alt-J and Ryan Adams—regular denizens of the Chart in 2014—return with new songs and four of the other eight Chart debuts (Doomtree, Belle and Sebastian, Brandi Carlile, Modest Mouse) are off albums yet to be released!

The Strat just turned 60, but the guitar born at the dawn of rock 'n' roll has barely aged a day. NPR Music Librarian Robert Goldstein has more about this iconic instrument.

What are you not going to take anymore? Think of a song that fits for you and we can put together a 9:30 Coffee Break.

Today on The Morning Show's Eating and Drinking, James Norton chatted with Steve Seel and Jill Riley about some adventurous new dining experiences around the Twin Cities.

Led Zeppelin released their last album with John Bonham, Oasis started recording their "Definately Maybe," and Black Sabbath released Paranoid Today in Music History.

This past weekend my girlfriend and I made a quick road trip to catch the last day of the David Bowie Is exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, after watching the associated documentary. I came away with a wealth of new insight into the chameleonic pop star, but the fact that really stuck in my brain…

Who are Taggart & Rosewood? They made a mysterious debut this past summer at the Totally Gross National Party, playing music that sounds altogether new yet also strangely familiar. That sense of familiarity comes because the two masked men are no strangers to local music fans: they’re superproducer Ryan Olson (Poliça, Lizzo, Marijuana Deathsquads) and…

In 1980, the Sony Walkman cassette player revolutionized music listening, turning it into a mobile, personal experience. The Walkman has largely lost its cachet in the MP3 era—eclipsed by the iPod and iPhone—but Sony is aiming to bring some of the Walkman’s mojo back with a high-end player. The Walkman ZX2, set to launch this spring,…

Nothing says The Current's 10th Anniversary like a split 10" featuring in-studio performances from the Hold Steady and the Suicide Commandos!

After sitting empty for a year, downtown St. Paul jazz venue the Artists’ Quarter has reopened its doors under the new name Vieux Carre. It is now owned and operated by Minneapolis’s Dakota Jazz Club. The beloved basement club was named after New Orleans’s historic French Quarter; the name is meant to translate to “old quarter” in honor of the…