The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording. These artists will be celebrated at a special award presentation ceremony and concert on April 18, 2020, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California.

Heading into our last weekend before the holidays begin, let's get in the spirit. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs of the season do you want to hear? Whatever that means to you!

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.

Dessa's collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra enters the chart this week, one of Mark Wheat's Top 10 picks of the year. Send us your own Top 89 picks today!

Despite the trailer's manic energy, Cats is actually a very slow, somber show. The cats take long pauses between, and even during, their many sad ballads, and the upbeat numbers are such a mess of confused animation that it's hard to enjoy the very real hoofing these uncanny mammals do.

Just in time for Billy Bragg's 62nd birthday on Friday, December 20, we're thrilled to offer a new 3 LP vinyl compilation of his many sessions at the BBC.

Today, the House is expected to vote on whether to impeach President Trump and it's hard to move about your day without hearing the word "impeachment" so let's take a sidestep on this word today and straight up listen to some songs about peaches. What songs do you want to hear that mention a peach?

2019 saw some truly groundbreaking books by and about musicians. Here are Jay's ten favorites.

Sly and the Family Stone went No. 1 with 'There's A Riot Going On'; James Brown and Loretta Lynn were honored for their contributions to U.S. culture; The Tokens started a three-week run at No. 1 with 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', Today in Music History.

As mundane as it can feel to talk about, it’s impossible to separate the culture of the Twin Cities from their frigid winters. Even the toughest born-and-bred Minnesotans can find themselves down in the dumps during cold months. With subzero wind chills and mountains of graying snow, calendars across the cities become dotted with residencies:…