Today's top music news stories include the recreation of a Rolling Stones hotel room, the release of a new Elvis documentary, and the deaths of two music notables.

After watching the documentary, 'The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse,' Mary Lucia found herself thinking about artists who feel defeated by a lack of commercial success yet are worshipped by peers for that very thing. 'What is that all about?' Mary writes, 'Their music is too peculiar? Too good? Too challenging?' Read more about Mary's thoughts about the new Sparklehorse documentary and about the life and career of its mainstay, Mark Linkous.

Devendra Banhart performed live for The Current and sat down to chat with 'New Hot' host David Safar about this new album, 'Ape in Pink Marble.'

After a decade, the singer-songwriter has a new album. He talks with NPR's Michel Martin about U.S. elections, Brexit, the Bataclan, the migrant crisis -- and his own mortality.

Jeremy Messersmith says he’s simplifying his life and freeing himself from distractions — including Facebook. While his public page remains active, he’s deactivated his personal account. (Public pages can be managed by multiple users, including, for example, a manager or publicist.) So far, he writes in a note posted to his website, he has no…

For today's Coffee Break, we're looking for songs that you absolutely cannot resist singing along to. What songs do you want to hear?

Janis Joplin was arrested; Elvis made a movie; and Blondie had a hit, Today in Music History.

Today's top music news stories include Tidal claiming exclusive streaming rights over Prince's catalog, Bowie tribute concerts being planned, and Neil Young spending his birthday at Standing Rock.

PWR BTTM, the self-defined queer punk duo of Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins, got signed to Polyvinyl Records earlier this year. Their song, 'Projection,' is one of their more introspective songs, and The Current's host Jade has selected it as our DJ Pick of the Week.

The brightest supermoon in almost 70 years rose last night, and it reached the peak of its full phase at 7:52 am today. The next time a moon will sail this close to Earth will be in November 2034. So for today's Coffee Break, what moon songs do you want to hear?