Alabama Shakes are at #1 for the fourth time; Paste highlights local group Hippo Campus at #2; Father John Misty debuts with the third song off I Love You, Honeybear; The Black Keys set a Chart Show Hall of Fame record.

You can get a high school diploma by spending only nine days in high school—if, that is, you’re country great Merle Haggard. The superintendent of the Bakersfield, California school where Haggard spent his very brief secondary education career presented Haggard with a diploma before the “Mama Tried” singer played a show on Saturday at the nearby Fox…

In all fairness to "Louie, Louie," there are a lot of songs with words that are difficult to understand. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs with incomprehensible lyrics do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

Joe Alton stops by The Current's Morning Show to talk to Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) about Minnesota's booming cider industry. 'Nationally, cider is actually growing faster than craft beer,' Alton says. Hear about a number of cider makers right here in Minnesota.

Web of Sunsets: Steel New Days Members of the acid-country trio Web of Sunsets come from many corners of the musical world, but the title track of their new Steel New Days EP centers on a droning jangle. Slowly but surely the song takes flight and before you know it, your feet are far from…

The King of Skiffle was born; Ringo sang about an 'Octopus's Garden'; Bruce Springsteen got collared for being a superfan; Bon Jovi got married; and Aretha Franklin released a defining hit, Today in Music History.

Approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening in a grassy patio behind a bar in downtown Winona, patrons busted out kubb. “This game is nonsensical,” I said. “That’s the best kind of game,” replied a long-haired gentleman in a leather jacket, a natural at the stick-throwing Nordic lawn sport. The saxophonist for People Brothers Band teamed with the…

A fantastic musician, Rhiannon Giddens is also a great juggler: Fronting the Carolina Chocolate Drops, working with T Bone Burnett on film scores and on 'The New Basement Tapes', plus supporting her new solo album, 'Tomorrow Is My Turn', keeps Giddens busy. 'I am tirelessly promoting this obscure, forgotten music that is worthy of so much love and energy and attention,' she says. Listen to her full in-studio session, hosted by Mike Pengra.

Read Selena Carlson's profile of one of Minnesota's great journeymen musicians, and hear Charlie Parr perform in our studios.

Blur‘s first New York show featuring the band’s classic lineup since 2000 will be totally free, thanks to Converse. The tickets will go fast, though; if you want to throw your hat in the ring to see Blur at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday night, you can RSVP here starting at 11:00 a.m.…