Alabama Shakes are the highest new entry; The Dead Weather and Bad Bad Hats make their debut; Courtney Barnett bounces back; Low are inducted to the Hall of Fame; and CHVRCHES climb to the top.

Frank Turner wants guitars that have a very full sound and can stand up to the rigors of his energetic live shows. In the latest addition to The Current's Guitar Collection, Turner describes what he likes about and how he uses Gibson guitars, what inspires him as a guitarist, and which instrument is his 'only kind of rock 'n' roll excess extravagance [he's] ever really had.'

Marlon James, a professor at St. Paul’s Macalester College, has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for a novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley. Though the novel is a work of fiction, the assassination attempt that inspired the book actually happened, when gunmen stormed Marley’s house in 1976 and shot the reggae legend,…

'Sad songs can make you feel better.' That's how Frank Turner neatly sums up the inspiration and emotion behind his latest album, 'Positive Songs for Negative People.' In a recent in-studio session hosted by Jade, Turner performs songs from the album and vividly describes his deep 'obsession with rock 'n' roll and with songwriting as an art form.' Check out the complete session.

If you’ve listened to previous episodes of The O.K. Show, you’ll know that I am very interested in how artists’ health affects their ability to make music. We’ve talked about mental health, disease, depression and grief—all such serious topics at the core of some of today’s most moving songwriting. Today, I’m taking things a different…

Tonight, the Minnesota Lynx face the Indiana Fever in the title-deciding game of the WNBA finals. If the Lynx have a Fever, there's only one prescription: More cowbell. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's help the Lynx get over the Fever by playing songs with more cowbell. What songs do you want to hear?

With cooler weather, people's tastes shift to red wines. Wine expert Chuck Kanski visits The Current's Morning Show to talk about reds from Spain's best-known winemaking region, Rioja.

In mid-summer, an open Google Doc started floating around the Twin Cities music scene. It’s a spreadsheet meant as a booking resource where musicians who identify as women, queer, and/or people of color can add their contact info, links to music and “identifying factors” into the appropriate cells. In the “identifying factors” column, dozens of local artists have described how they identify.…

The Everly Brothers had their first No. 1; Michael Jackson had his first solo No. 1 hit; Def Leppard broke sales records; Leonard Bernstein passed away; Eric Clapton got caught speeding; and musician, producer and professor Thomas Dolby was born in London, Today in Music History.

Fred Goodman tells the tale of a behind-the-scenes rock legend in 'Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll.'