Transmission's roots are in the worlds of punk, post-punk, new wave, synth, power and dream pop, shoegaze, psych, mod, space and Krautrock. Here are 100 songs released in 2018 that fit that mold -- listed in no particular order and occasionally accompanied by a very simple description of genre or feel.

As the year winds down, Radio Heartland Program Director Mike Pengra put together his list of 20 favorite albums of 2018. 'They are in alphabetical order because I couldn't begin to rank them,' Pengra explains, 'since that ranking would change from day to day, depending on my mood.' Mike Pengra also shares a pick for Song of the Year.

This week on The Current's Music News podcast, we're running down the year's top ten music stories. Here are numbers five through one.

“I like to celebrate [the 26th] every month, because I like to celebrate things,” Bailey “26” Cogan said from under a red cowboy hat at Icehouse last night. Yet this fifth-from-last day of Dec. 2018 was no ordinary 26th. Last night, 26 BATS! performed the final show of the Kremblems’ collective residency and dropped their…

The Faces called it quits, The Supremes had their 12th No. 1 hit, Morrissey wrote a music review, and The Animals played their first radio broadcast.

As the days inch shorter and temperatures begin to drop, Minnesotans settle in for the inevitable yearly freeze. Just as locals can expect a cold spell in the winter months, the local music scene has come to expect a particular seasonal trend — winter residencies. A residency usually involves an artist playing a weekly show…

The Current's Chart Show started mid-September of 2009. We decided to give every song a 10-week run on the Chart and then induct it into our Chart Show Hall of Fame. Over the past nine years, the Hall of Fame has become a good gauge of what artists that you, our listeners, know and love.

The Chart Show takes a look back at the toughest musical contenders of 2018.

This week on The Current's Music News podcast, we're running down the year's top ten music stories. Here are numbers ten through six.

From searing memoirs to magisterial histories, 2018 was a great year for music books. Here are Jay Gabler's top ten rock and roll reads this year.