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November 04, 2019

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. You can also subscribe to receive the week's schedule in your inbox to plan your TV viewing around music.

Music on TV this week: Wilco; Grace Potter; Teskey Brothers; Muna; CHVRCHES; Vampire Weekend

Music on TV this week: Wilco; Grace Potter; Teskey Brothers; Muna; CHVRCHES; Vampire Weekend

Luke Taylor • Nov 4, 2019

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. You can also subscribe to receive the week's schedule in your inbox to plan your TV viewing around music.

Years after her parents' murder-suicide, musician Allison Moorer finds healing

Years after her parents' murder-suicide, musician Allison Moorer finds healing

Terry Gross • Nov 4, 2019

More than three decades after the death of her parents, Moorer has a new memoir and companion album, both called 'Blood,' about her abusive father and the emotional scars of being orphaned at 14.

Marika Hackman on finding 'Any Human Friend' (plus the piglet on the album cover)

Marika Hackman on finding 'Any Human Friend' (plus the piglet on the album cover)

Lydia Moran • Nov 4, 2019

Marika Hackman is the type of musician fueled by contradictions. On her third studio album, August's 'Any Human Friend,' she embraces them as they exist within herself, her relationships, and culturally with shimmering indie-pop songs that depart from her folksier, atmospheric roots.

Watch Chastity Brown debut new music at a recent MicroShow

Watch Chastity Brown debut new music at a recent MicroShow

Nov 4, 2019

Fresh from work on a forthcoming new album, Chastity Brown enthralled an audience full of lucky winners with four new songs, plus a fan-favorite from her 2017 album 'Silhouette of Sirens.'

Coffee Break: I Want Candy

Coffee Break: I Want Candy

Anna Weggel • Nov 4, 2019

It's National Candy Day! If you're a parent who is enjoying your kids' Halloween candy after they go to bed or if you're making your way through the trick-or-treating leftovers in your office kitchen (like we are), this one will resonate with you. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention candy or a specific type of candy?

Today in Music History: Prince and the Revolution debut

Today in Music History: Prince and the Revolution debut

Nov 4, 2019

Jackie Wilson made his singles chart debut; the Beatles played for the Queen; Johnny Nash saw his way clearly to the top of the singles chart; Roxette had another hit in America; and Prince debuted his backing band, The Revolution, Today in Music History.

Making moonshine and dancing to Dixieland: A tour through Minnesota’s Prohibition-era music venues

Making moonshine and dancing to Dixieland: A tour through Minnesota’s Prohibition-era music venues

Colleen Cowie • Nov 4, 2019

From 1920 to 1933, Prohibition outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol — but Minnesotans found other ways to enjoy their spirits. St. Paul’s bootlegging business was booming and the city’s bands provided the soundtrack. When the Volstead Act went into effect in 1919, saloons and beer parlors closed up shop and new establishments…

Album of the Week: Angel Olsen, 'All Mirrors'

Album of the Week: Angel Olsen, 'All Mirrors'

Jade • Nov 4, 2019

Angel Olsen returns with her fourth studio album, 'All Mirrors'. A haunting journey through the looking glass full of synth and strings.

Rhiannon Giddens and friends break musical barriers in The Current studio

Rhiannon Giddens and friends break musical barriers in The Current studio

Bill DeVille • Nov 3, 2019

Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi and Jason Sypher pay no mind to established musical categories. 'Music is just music,' Giddens says. The trio perform songs from Giddens and Turrisi's recent collaborative album, 'There Is No Other.'

Listen: The Connie Club episode four with guest Cait O'Riordan

Listen: The Connie Club episode four with guest Cait O'Riordan

Nov 2, 2019

Episode four of The Connie Club, features Low Cut Connie frontman Adam Weiner spinning Saturday night music of all genres and eras, plays his junky piano (named Shondra), and a guest interview and performance from Cait O'Riordan.

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