The Rolling Stones make a debut; Car Seat Headrest and Regina Spektor leap upward; Radiohead jump to No.1; and Angel Olsen sees her first Hall of Fame induction.

Today's top music news stories include a slew of big 'Prairie Home Companion' bookings; Bob Dylan day to be declared in Minnesota; and planned memorials for David Bowie and Sharon Jones.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1962. 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 digs into 'Destroyer' by Dead Man Winter (solo project of Trampled By Turtles frontman Dave Simonett), the latest from Laura Marling, plus new Black Joe Lewis and Strand of Oaks.

Sean McPherson writes about Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels's powerful memoir 'Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide.'

As the Mainroom crowd anticipated Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats’ encore last night, they must’ve bellied up to the decibel level of the band itself. “Ohhh – whoa – oh!” they sang — hollered, really, as they resuscitated the Night Sweats’ wails from “S.O.B.” Everyone had gathered for The Current’s holiday show, and when the…

Carl Douglas was at the top of the U.S. singles chart with 'Kung Fu Fighting'; John Lennon's MBE medal he returned to the Queen was found; and Otis Redding went into the studio to record '(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay'.

I was walking through Manhattan recently, making my way up 5th Avenue to check out all the Christmas displays like a typical Midwestern tourist, when I looked up and realized something odd: I was standing at the foot of the Empire State Building, an instantly recognizable spire that I had been eyeing for blocks. But…

If you could buy stock in musical reputations, Stevie Nicks’s would have been a bargain investment 20, 10, even five years ago. In the ’70s, the behemoth popularity of Fleetwood Mac blinded a lot of too-cool-for-school critics to the fact that the band’s accessible and sonically pristine creations were underpinned by timeless songcraft, while Nicks’s…

Today's top music news stories include a new study about the emotional attributes of music on MP3, two big benefit announcements, and a surprise top-seller among CDs in 2016.