Melina Duterte, aka Jay Som, was signed to Polyvinyl Records and released a debut album, 'Everybody Works,' on March 10, 2017. ' I'm still getting used to it,' Duterte says of her budding career. 'I feel like I'm at the beginning stages of making music my job.' Jay Som joined New Hot host David Safar for an in-studio session.

Today's top music news stories include a Bobby Z interview about Prince and heart health, an update on the NPG-Tidal lawsuit, and the cancellation of Modern English's tour.

At our latest Policy & A Pint, we talked about how some high schools are finding success through innovation, while others continue to face challenges in re-thinking high school.

When the Minnesota Twins return to Target Field next Monday, April 3, Dessa will be on hand to sing the National Anthem. Accompanying the Doomtree star will be a brass quintet from the Minnesota Orchestra. Update 4/3: Dessa has been forced to cancel due to sickness. Seriously disappointed to announce that I won't be able to…

Watch The Head and the Heart perform "All We Ever Knew" at the Turf Club as a part of The Current's #MicroShow series.

Mark Wheat has the DJ Pick for the week of March 27. The song contains a powerful message; Mark explains it's about how 'womanhood and the Earth from which we subsist are deeply intertwined.' Read more from Mark Wheat and listen to the title track from ANOHNI's 'Paradise' EP.

Today in 1968, Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin died. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention space, planets, rockets, etc. do you want to hear?

CBS Records announced the stereophonic record; The Supremes enjoyed their fourth No. 1 hit; U2 were told to pipe down; Will Smith got jiggy with it; and Sarah Vaughan was born, Today in Music History.

Grandaddy's fifth studio album -- and their first since 2006 -- is 'Last Place.' It's our album of the week. Brian Oake writes, 'This album is nostalgic, reflective, and, on most levels, hopeful.'

In town to play a sold-out show at St. Paul's recently reopened Palace Theatre, Regina Spektor stopped by The Current for a session hosted by Jim McGuinn. The session features fantastic song performances and deep conversation. 'I feel like with music, people have this idea that you either write about yourself or you just write using fiction and that's not personal,' Spektor says. 'But to me, I truly believe that fiction and surrealism and psychedelic thoughts are just as personal.'