Arcade Fire tops the chart, with new tracks debuting this week from Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, The Killers, and Dan Auerbach!

Today's top music news stories include 'Sign o' the Times' coming to Showtime, Taylor Swift's album announcement, and Steve Harris's plan to turn his home into a hotel.

This week, Mary Lucia gives a photographic tour of the objects on her desk at The Current. 'I know if I was more Buddha-like, I wouldn't place so much importance on my stuff,' Mary writes. 'Anyone who cube dwells knows the importance of personalizing this often sterile workspace.'

Pho, iLLism, Radiochurch, and Purple Funk Metropolis will all be representing Minnesota at a Paisley Park battle of the bands being held Aug. 31 – Sept. 3. Nine finalists were chosen in total, the rest coming from around the country. The finalists will compete for studio time at Paisley Park, a mentorship from members of…

A study that Bloomberg recently released analyzed the lyrics of Top 20 songs from the past three years, and found that the Rolls-Royce is pop music's hottest brand. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention products and brands do you want to hear?

Taylor Swift has just announced her new album: Reputation, out Nov. 10. The album cover has Swift’s name printed in various fonts inspired by newspaper mastheads, presumably as a comment on how much she’s been in the news for various reasons. I immediately started thinking of other album covers that drew on newspapers for design inspiration…

If there's any job that really stretches the contractual phrase 'other duties as required,' it's the job of a rock star's manager. That much becomes very clear in 'The Man Who Carried Cash,' a new book about Johnny Cash's longtime manager Saul Holiff.

Keith Moon was born; Johnny Cash was topping the charts; David Bowie put out Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps); and Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground parted ways, Today in Music History.

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, or maybe it’s because living in modern-day America feels like trying to meditate in the middle of a tornado full of barbed wire, bleating cattle and six lanes of rush hour traffic, but lately I find that I only really want to listen to two kinds of music: the…

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