Your Smith has been cocooned in the studio for a while now, writing music and metamorphosing from Caroline Smith to her new persona. She visited The Current in the midst of it all, performing a Caroline Smith favorite and some of her best new music as Your Smith.

Billboard's tallied the hottest singles in chart history, there's a new interactive memorial to Adam Yauch, and Drake himself has accepted the In My Feelings Challenge. Also: some '90s rock news, and a DA reviewing sexual assault allegations against Nick Carter.

Buffalo Fuzz, a Minneapolis heavy blues band, had just finished recording their second album and filming the music video for the first single when their drummer, Jake Allan, tragically died. Jared Zachary, the other half of Buffalo Fuzz, has planned a tribute show at the 7th St. Entry on Aug. 10, and Buffalo Fuzz’s music…

Our BFF listener Loran had a great idea for a Coffee Break. He says "not to encourage such action, but there's a fair amount of vandalism in rock". So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that talk about breaking the law in some way?

Some music venues advertise thousands of seats and state-of-the-art light shows. Others double as sports arenas. And then there are those that offer pottery classes or operate out of someone’s living room. While the Twin Cities house some of the state’s most iconic music venues, Minnesota’s small towns are the perfect places for discovering vibrant…

Stevie Wonder released 'Innvervisions'; Macca announced the formation of Wings; Tears for Fears had something to shout about; Def Leppard released 'Hysteria'; singer and all-around good guy Tony Bennett has a birthday; Bob Dylan returned to Newport Folk Festival after a 37-year absence; and The Beach Boys released 'Surfer Girl', Today in Music History.

Justin Courtney Pierre – “In The Drink” Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Courtney Pierre looks to have gone full zombie apocalypse — or blood-soaked video game — in his first solo release since the band broke up. It all teases an album called In the Drink, produced by MCS’s Joshua Cain, which comes out Oct. 12 via Epitaph Records.…

Amanda Shires' 'To the Sunset' is a standout record for these dog days of summer.

A Max Martin musical is in the works, Lollapalooza will livestream a lot, and Madonna is taking her family out of America. Also: Courtney Love might have a Grateful Dead godfather, 'fake' artists are stirring suspicion on Spotify, and Kate McKinnon can rap in Hungarian.

John Prine takes faces mortality with humor and heart in a new animated video for 'Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone),' off his latest album, 'The Tree of Forgiveness.'