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March 30, 2017

Spoon climb to the top, New Pornographers are in at number two.

Spoon climb to the top of the Chart Show

Spoon climb to the top of the Chart Show

Mark Wheat • Mar 30, 2017

Spoon climb to the top, New Pornographers are in at number two.

Music News: You can buy David Bowie's apartment - and his piano with it

Music News: You can buy David Bowie's apartment - and his piano with it

Jay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017

Today's top music news stories include a Bowie apartment and a Lennon suit going up for sale.

Take The Current's Time Machine Quiz: 1983

Take The Current's Time Machine Quiz: 1983

Daniel Nass • Mar 29, 2017

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1983. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

Mary Lucia: Reality is for those who can't handle drugs

Mary Lucia: Reality is for those who can't handle drugs

Mary Lucia • Mar 29, 2017

In a recent interview in 'Rolling Stone,' Father John Misty spoke candidly about dropping acid. Ever since reading it, Mary Lucia's thoughts have been spinning. 'I have no puritanical judgment about drug use,' Mary writes. 'It would simply be too hypocritical.' But it's good food for thought -- and Mary shares those thoughts in this week's column.

Coffee Break: Double-name bands

Coffee Break: Double-name bands

Anna Reed • Mar 29, 2017

We recently did a Coffee Break of "single-named artists" celebrating HALEY's new moniker, and listener Holland wrote in with a great variation on this topic. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bands do you want to hear that have a double name (like Duran Duran)?

Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies'

Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies'

Jay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017

'Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies' is a concise and readable guide to the origins of rock and roll.

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Perry Farrell

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Perry Farrell

Mar 29, 2017

Bono became an honorary knight; David Bowie had a radio show; Beach Boy Brian Wilson was honored; Led Zeppelin had six albums on the Billboard Chart; and Perry Farrell was born, Today in Music History.

Bob Dylan to accept Nobel Prize in private ceremony

Bob Dylan to accept Nobel Prize in private ceremony

Jay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017

The Swedish Academy has announced that Bob Dylan will formally accept his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend in a “small and intimate” ceremony in Stockholm. “No media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan’s wishes,” writes the Academy’s Sara Danius in a blog post…

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor Prince with Lenny Kravitz tribute

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor Prince with Lenny Kravitz tribute

Jay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017

Lenny Kravitz will pay tribute to Prince with a musical performance at the April 7 induction ceremony for this year’s class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone reports. The ceremony, which will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will see the induction of Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Tupac Shakur,…

Music News: Bob Dylan archive opens in Oklahoma

Music News: Bob Dylan archive opens in Oklahoma

Jay Gabler • Mar 28, 2017

Today's top music news stories include the opening of a Bob Dylan archive, Frances Bean Cobain defacing her own billboard, and the death of a Foundations frontman.

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