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August 22, 2017

Today's top music news stories include just one more eclipse story (we promise!), as well as music-world responses to neo-Nazism.

Music News: Watch Ozzy Osbourne sing 'Bark at the Moon' during eclipse

Music News: Watch Ozzy Osbourne sing 'Bark at the Moon' during eclipse

Jay Gabler • Aug 22, 2017

Today's top music news stories include just one more eclipse story (we promise!), as well as music-world responses to neo-Nazism.

Coffee Break: Band names that lie

Coffee Break: Band names that lie

Anna Reed • Aug 22, 2017

Sometimes bands will choose a name for themselves that is simply not factual. Maybe they are "The *blank Sisters" or "*blank* and Sons" or they are named after a last name that none of them have. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from band names that lie?

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Tori Amos

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Tori Amos

Aug 22, 2017

Tori Amos was born; Elvis Presley started his first film; Led Zeppelin created water activated album cover art; John Lee Hooker was born, Today in Music History.

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Sherman Alexie mourns Prince in noble new poem

Cecilia Johnson • Aug 22, 2017

You may know Sherman Alexie wrote The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. You may know he’s the most renowned Native American author of our time (but he’s not your model minority). However, you may not be familiar with this trait of Alexie’s: an abiding…

Music News: You can buy the right to be buried with Eleanor Rigby

Music News: You can buy the right to be buried with Eleanor Rigby

Jay Gabler • Aug 21, 2017

Today's top music news stories include Eleanor Rigby's grave deed going up for sale, the loss of a rockabilly pioneer, and the latest in the Prince estate's scotched Universal deal.

The Current's guide to music on late-night TV: week of Aug. 21, 2017

The Current's guide to music on late-night TV: week of Aug. 21, 2017

Aug 21, 2017

Artists heard on The Current are frequently featured on late-night TV. Catch Foals and Alejandro Escovedo on Austin City Limits this week along with some star-studded reruns.

DJ Pick of the Week: Frankie Rose, 'Trouble'

DJ Pick of the Week: Frankie Rose, 'Trouble'

Mac Wilson • Aug 21, 2017

This week's DJ Pick of the Week comes from Frankie Rose's new record, 'Cage Tropical' out this month on Slumberland Records.

Coffee Break: Eclipse

Coffee Break: Eclipse

Anna Reed • Aug 21, 2017

Today, the first solar eclipse to go across the U.S. since 1979 will be visible on a path from Oregon to South Carolina, and the rest of the country will get a glimpse of a partial eclipse. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention the sun, moon or shadows?

London’s O2 to host ‘first ever official exhibition’ devoted to Prince

London’s O2 to host ‘first ever official exhibition’ devoted to Prince

Jay Gabler • Aug 21, 2017

In 2007, Prince played a record-setting 21-night residency at the O2 arena in London. It was such an epic success that it inspired Michael Jackson to go for 50 nights with This Is It, the run of shows scheduled to begin shortly after his 2009 death. Now, the O2 will be the site of what’s…

Today in Music History: The Beatles perform in Minnesota

Today in Music History: The Beatles perform in Minnesota

Aug 21, 2017

Count Basie and Joe Strummer were born (48 years apart); Patsy Cline recorded 'Crazy'; the Stones had their first U.S. No. 1 album; Bono got married; synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog passed away; Kenny Rogers celebrates a birthday; and the Beatles performed their one and only show in Minnesota, 50 years ago Today in Music History.

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