Although Haley has composed instrumental music before, her 2018 release 'Pleasureland' is her first all-instrumental full-length. 'This was so much more satisfying when I wasn't trying to say something with words,' Haley says. 'It was how I felt and what I connected to.' Haley, along with Jeremy Ylvisaker, visited The Current studio to play music from 'Pleasureland.'

'A Star Is Born' landed some of the biggest nominations at the Golden Globes, making Oscar chances look more likely for the movie about fictional music stars. Also, a roundup of some of this year's biggest holiday releases.

Listen to a special recording of Thom Yorke performing songs from the 'Suspiria' soundtrack and a 2011 classic from Radiohead.

Thom Yorke is in town tonight playing the Northrop Memorial Auditorium and at 8:30 am you can hear his Suspiria session where he plays and talks about his songs from the 2018 Luca Guadagnino horror film 'Suspiria'. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists who contributed significantly to the score or soundtrack of a film?

On Nov. 30 Rookie Magazine, an online publication, book series, and podcast headed by Tavi Gevinson, declared that it would shutter for good after a seven-year run. Due to financial difficulty, and ultimately Gevinson’s decision to abstain from implementing a pay wall or selling the site to new owners, the site has ceased to post…

Lead Belly passed away, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was born, Led Zeppelin had their first hit in the US, Sid Vicious lived up to his name, and The Rolling Stones performed a free concert at the Altamont Speedway, Today in Music History.

On Thursday night, local advertising and communications professionals will step out of the office and onto First Avenue’s stage. Five advertising agencies will be competing in the Battle, a battle of the bands to raise scholarship money for students from diverse backgrounds studying advertising and communications. Five bands are battling it out — but really…

This month, musicheads far and wide are sitting down to their notebooks or computers, tapering their 2018 listening into one shining top 10 list. We took on a similar task with local albums: not a top 10 list, per se, but a collection of music we found especially memorable this year. These albums roped us…

Death Cab For Cutie enters the HOF this week with the closer to their new album, 'Thank You For Today,' the song "60 and Punk" hasn't been an official single off the new album but is clearly a fan favorite ending it's run on the chart at #6.

For the first time since at least 1990, when Billboard started tracking country radio airplay, there's not a single woman in the format's top 20 most-played songs. Also in the news today: guess which band are this year's most-tweeted artists, the Flaming Lips announce an album featuring a member of the Clash, Sunny Day Real Estate drummer says Dave Grohl has a lost album in his sock drawer, the Apollo Theater expands, and footage of the late George H.W. Bush rocking out surfaces.