Following on the success of their 2018 album, 'Back Roads and Abandoned Motels,' the Jayhawks play a homecoming concert at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, Dec. 21. The Current provided live video of the concert; the archived video is posted here.

The country star thought it 'would be a fun way to bring my old Christmas album back in the form of those old Christmas specials that we love.'

JD McPherson - whose 2018 album 'Socks' has entered the canon of beloved holiday albums - has shared a list of songs that inspired him to create original holiday music. 'I'm a Christmas fanatic,' McPherson says.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have a mention of bells somewhere in the lyrics?

Today’s Friday Five is a big deal, for two reasons. First, I had so much fun making last year’s “Best Minnesota music videos of 2018” post that I decided to resurrect the shtick for the end of 2019. These aren’t what I would call “objective” picks; I’m just one person with her own visual and…

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.