Hippo Campus sold out both nights of the weekend at First Avenue as they prepared for their first major U.S. Tour, starting down in Austin, Texas, and with all that excitement, they landed a top spot on this week's chart!

Email ANOHNI, receive a new song On Friday, ANOHNI (perhaps best known for her eerie “Drone Bomb Me”) will release a seven-song EP called Paradise. But you won’t find the seventh song on physical copies or streaming services; in order to hear it, email anohni@rebismusic.com and share, in a sentence or two, “what you care most…

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1965. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

In the run-up to the release of their next album, 'L.A. Divine' (due out April 7, 2017), Cold War Kids stopped at The Current for a stripped-down session hosted by Mary Lucia. The new album comes on the heels of 'First,' the band's 2015 hit single. 'What a total rare miracle to have a song do so well and have a whole new audience be introduced to your music,' frontman Nate Willett says.

I didn’t expect a band who count Coldplay as one of their biggest influences to charm me with their piano pop/rock. But that’s an indictment of my attitude and music culture, because while I took a listen to Kaleidoscope Effect (Jordan Goldberger on lead vocals/piano/guitar, Zack Sieger on lead guitar, Jessie Erickson on vocals/ guitar/piano,…

Halfway through a very busy tour for her album, 'Highway Queen,' Nikki Lane stopped at The Current for an in-studio session hosted by Bill DeVille. Lane plays three songs from the album and talks a bit about being called the First Lady of Outlaw Country. 'I think in general, musical cannot be described in words, especially in one word,' Lane says, 'but I am kind of outlaw and I am kind of Americana, and I think a lot of other people are too that don't sound just like Waylon Jennings.'

It's March 15 which means it's the Ides of March - a day on the Roman calendar marked by several religious observances, most notably the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention specific months?

Peter Hook's 'Substance' covers the bassist's 27-year history with New Order. That's a lot of history - which is why it takes him 752 pages.

Prince wrote The Bangles a hit; Bruce Springsteen joined the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame; and Sly Stone was born, Today in Music History.

Hello from Austin! We're excited to be part of one of the world's biggest music discovery events, the SXSW Music conference. Every day this week, we'll be sharing updates on what's news and what's next.