Today's top music news stories include an end to rumors of an NSYNC reunion at the Super Bowl; a lawsuit involving Club Nomadic and Mystic Lake; and the impending arrival of Apple's HomePod.

Mary Lucia shares her thoughts about a young band out of Michigan who, yeah, sound like Led Zeppelin ... but what's wrong with that?

We battled the elements this morning to make it into the studio and are daydreaming about what it would be like to have a snow day. So let's extend that dream right into today's Coffee Break. What songs do you want to hear that represent the things you would do on a snow day?

Patti Smith broke her back, David Bowie gave the fans control of his set, and Ray Charles was honored Today in Music History.

Echo Helstrom, the Duluth native known to Bob Dylan fans as likely the prime inspiration for the 1963 song “Girl from the North Country,” has died at age 75, reports the Star Tribune. Helstrom grew up with Dylan — then known as Bobby Zimmerman — in Hibbing, where the two had a high school romance…

Minnesotans who checked out the recent Guillermo del Toro exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art were well-primed to embrace the Mexican director’s triumph in this year’s Academy Award nominations: his strangely sexy merman story The Shape of Water leads nominees with 13 nods. Not much connection to The Current’s playlist there, unless you count the…

Today's top music news stories include an update on performance artist Michael Portnoy, Dave Grohl shutting his own stage crasher down, and Andy Rourke distancing himself from 'Classically Smiths' shows.

Artists heard on The Current are frequently featured on TV programs, and we've gathered the listings in one convenient place for you. See the complete listings, and find performance videos as the week progresses.

On the heels of their album release announcement, the Brooklyn-based band dropped a lead single, 'Neighbors.' Lucius's forthcoming album, 'Nudes,' will feature acoustic versions of old songs, new material, cover songs and features by collaborators such as Roger Waters and Wilco's Nels Cline.

The Breeders are back after 10 years with 'All Nerve', out on 4AD on March 3.