When you need to get away from it all, music can really take you there.

Gillian Welch and partner David Rawlings sift through their musical archives and select 21 tracks that document their early- to mid-'90s rise, before they emerged as leaders of an ascendant Americana scene.

David Bowie, Regina Spektor and Green Day make debuts; Phantogram make a big upward move; Dawes are inducted to the Hall of Fame; and Lizzo's "Worship" makes it to No.1.

Today's top music news stories include recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the breakup of the Presidents of the United States of America, and a thank-you concert for President Obama.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 2007. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

This week on What's New on The Current, Jade talks about A Tribe Called Quest's timeless final record, a song off the late Leonard Cohen's album released just weeks before his death, and a quirky song from Devendra Banhart.

Guthbjorg Tomasdottir of the duo My Bubba recently took some time to tell us about her vintage, Danish-built guitar. 'I was bicycling in Copenhagen and I saw this guitar in the window, and it just spoke to me,' she says. It's the latest addition to The Current's Guitar Collection.

Thanks to Current Blogger Jay Gabler for joining us today to talk about "Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis", a new book celebrating the photography of Daniel Corrigan. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention pictures or photographs in the lyrics?

Daniel Corrigan's 'Heyday' chronicles 35 years of Minneapolis music photography by the man who's produced some of the scene's most iconic imagery.

Reina Del Cid and her band have announced that they’ll play a residency at Icehouse in Minneapolis, before recording a new album early next year. “We can try new things, host special guests, and just have way too much fun in the middle of the week,” say the band in a Facebook event. The band promise performances ranging…