Noel Gallagher flies high as a bird to #1; Jack White is back with a bang; local breakout stars Hippo Campus hold steady; Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling and Hot Chip are all back on the Chart.

Mary Lucia is taking a temporary leave from her hosting position with The Current. In an open letter to her listeners, Looch shares the reason she'll be off the air for a short while.

Mayor Marty Walsh has officially declared April 9 to be Riot Grrrl Day in the City of Boston in honor of a lecture and performance by Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre), one of the driving forces behind the Riot Grrrl movement in the early 1990s. (Stereogum) Among the bands that inspired the Riot Grrrl movement were Babes in…

For George Ezra, it was love at first sight -- for his guitar, that is. When he walked into a guitar shop in London's fabled Denmark Street, a 1959 Gretsch hollow-body instantly caught his eye, and he was also glad to see it was missing something. George Ezra tells us about his hollow-body guitar in the latest addition to The Current's Guitar Collection.

In honor of Rex Manning Day -- 'Rexy, you're so sexy' -- what songs do you want to hear that contain the word 'sexy' or that have an over-the-top sexy vibe? Send your requests.

Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl stops by The Current's Morning Show to talk about some of the new restaurants that are popping up around the Twin Cities metro area. 'We're going for fancy and not fancy at all,' Dara says.

For his 10th annual State of the City address at the newly renovated Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, April 16, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is taking things up a few notches and setting his address to music. The night will begin with a reception and opportunity to tour the beautiful space, which just reopened last…

David Bowie played three sold-out shows in Japan; New Order's Peter Hook took a lump; Swedish duo Roxette had a U.S. No. 1 single, thanks to a Minneapolis exchange student; and the Supremes recorded their first No. 1 hit, Today in Music History.

Tanlines redesigned their website as a Netflix parody. (Stereogum) Mark Ronson went into the studio with Lana Del Rey “to see what sticks.” No word yet as to whether anything will emerge from the sessions, but Ronson couldn’t be hotter right now: “Uptown Funk,” his collaboration with Bruno Mars, has become a monster hit that’s spent more time atop the…

Karen Choi is a wife, mother and musician. She recorded her first album after having two children and earning a graduate degree. Karen's songs are inspired by everyday life, and she recently stopped by Radio Heartland to play some songs from her debut album, 'Paper Birch'.