Behind the scenes of the Current's studio sessions: learn about in-studios from engineer Michael DeMark, producer Derrick Stevens, multimedia producer Nate Ryan, and on-air host Mary Lucia.

DJ Shadow was recently in town for a show at the Varsity Theater, in support of his latest album, The Mountain Will Fall. During his visit, he made time to stop by The Current to chat with Mark Wheat and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.

With the highly-anticipated official Prince tribute show at the Xcel Energy Center coming up on Thursday, Minnesota is bursting with events to honor the late artist. Here's a roundup of some of the Prince-related events happening at venues across the Twin Cities this week and beyond.

Following the release of her seventh studio album, Regina Spektor sat down to chat with 'New Hot' host David Safar to talk about 'Remember Us to Life,' working with producer Leo Abrahams and recording at the Village in Los Angeles.

Shreveport, La., band Seratones were signed to Fat Possum Records in 2015, and released their debut album, 'Get Gone', in May 2016. They've been touring heavily since then. 'You're constantly riding in and out of an adrenalin rush,' says frontperson AJ Haynes. 'It's kind of addictive, actually!' Before a show at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minn., Seratones stopped at The Current for a session hosted by Bill DeVille.

Genre-defying English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae performs material from her first album in six years. Watch the performance recorded at NPR's Tiny Desk.

For seven days we'll be posting quizzes to test your Prince knowledge. As the week goes on, the difficulty of the questions will increase.

We're in the thick of Fall - arguably one of the most beautiful times of year. As the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees turn various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown, let's celebrate all of the beautiful new colors that have entered our lives for this brief amount of time. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that feature fall colors do you want to hear?

Each year The Current pulls together the best live tracks from our studio session archive and make a compilation, check out the edition from 2016.

The nominations for this year’s American Music Awards have just been announced. The big headline is Drake’s record-breaking 13 nominations — but the biggest surprise might be Prince’s nomination in the Top Soundtrack category. Why is it a surprise? Because (a) Purple Rain was released in 1984, not 2016; and (b) it’s already won an American…