Nick Cave creeps into the basement spot; Regina Spektor and Florence and the Machine make big moves; and Haley Bonar reaches No.1 as she is inducted to the Hall of Fame.

Stranger Things makes a splash in the music world Just two days after Wiz Khalifa sampled the Stranger Things theme song in a song called, appropriately, “Stranger Things,” YouTuber/internet darling Nathan Zed hopped on the train. “You can really do anything with this BRUH,” he snaps as he shows off his Kanye West, Kendrick, Drake, Beyoncé, and Desiigner mash-ups (all while being infinitely more…

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1995. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

'Aside from friends and family,' Mary Lucia asks, 'who knows more about you than your mail carrier and your pharmacist?' In this week's column, Mary considers what her postal carrier and pharmacist may know about her, and what she feels like asking them to level the field of personal knowledge.

Before their gig at First Avenue, Milo Aukerman of the Descendents stopped by The Current to curate a playlist and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.

Following a recent in-studio recording session at The Current, Sara Watkins took some time to tell us about her parlor-style guitar. Watkins describes the inspiration for the guitar's vintage appearance, and she tells us what she likes about composing and performing on it.

As he teased in an interview last month, Tommy Stinson is officially reforming his early 1990s, post-Replacements rock band Bash & Pop and will release a new album under that name in early 2017. In a press release today, Stinson revealed that he’s planning to play his first official show with the reunited Bash and…

September 21 is the International Day of Peace, a day dedicated to the absence of war and violence. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention peace do you want to hear?

Bobby Vinton's 'Blue Velvet' topped the singles chart; Jeannie C. Riley had a hit with the country song 'Harper Valley PTA'; Barry White scored his one and only No. 1 single; Dire Straits had a video-powered hit song; and David Hood was born, Today in Music History.

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