It's easy to think Houston-based trio Khruangbin might be from Thailand. 'The first album was inspired by Thai music and our band name is Thai,' says bassist Laura Lee, 'but we pull from music from all over the world.' In town for a show at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Khruangbin stopped at The Current for a session hosted by David Safar.

'This was really a passion project, this record,' Bedouine says. 'I didn't really think it would see the light of day. Everything else was really unexpected.' Now with a critically acclaimed debut album and a spot opening for Waxahatchee and Hurray For The Riff Raff, Bedouine stopped at The Current studio for a session hosted by Mark Wheat.

This time on Music To Watch, Sean McPherson (The Current) talks to Brian Stack and Kateri Palen ('The Late Show with Stephen Colbert') about Coachella and SXSW discoveries, including Gang of Youths and Starcrawler, plus other new music, including releases from Neko Case and from John Prine.

Today's top music news stories include a slew of tour announcements, Prince's family suing a hospital, musicians getting political, and a report on Avicii's death.

Writing favorably about Calexico's new album, 'The Thread That Keeps Us,' many critics have described the album as freewheeling, gritty or aggressive. 'We were just having fun, just messing around,' explains Calexico frontman Joey Burns. 'You go in [to the studio] and you want to try something new.' Hear some of those new songs and more about Calexico in an in-studio session hosted by Mary Lucia.

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Troy Carter, an executive who’s serving as “entertainment advisor” to Prince’s estate, tells Variety that the estate is planning to release “a full-length album” of previously unreleased Prince material sometime this fall. Although Carter didn’t divulge many details about the music, he indicted that the release will be a cohesive body of work from a…

The lyrics of Phoebe Bridgers' songs are so emotionally vivid, it makes sense that when it comes to songwriting, Bridgers follows her gut. 'I don't really have a process that I could write out for anybody or tell anybody how to do it,' Bridgers says. 'It's just whatever happens to be on my mind.' In town for a sold-out show at the Turf Club, Bridgers and her band & stopped at The Current for a session hosted by Jade.

Earth Day was yesterday and April is Water Month at MPR so we thought it was high time to listen to some water-related music. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention a body of water?

The Rolling Stones released 'Sticky Fingers'; the Ramones released their debut album; David Gedge of the Wedding Present gets some birthday presents; Roy Orbison was born; and Johnny Thunders of The New York Dolls passed away, Today in Music History.