NYC hospitals are picking songs to play when they celebrate the release of recovering COVID-19 patients. Also, the Rolling Stones have dropped their first original song in eight years; Camila Cabello and our audience figure out what to do about their hair; a new Taylor Swift album is released without her permission while Jason Isbell releases his early to support independent record stores; and the BBC recruits an all-star 'band' to sing the Foo Fighters' 'Times Like These.'

Spring is here, we're looking at a high of 65 in the Twin Cities today and sun throughout the weekend, so let's all make sure to get outside and (hygienically, from a distance) stop and smell the flowers. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention flowers of any type?

For this year’s 893-song countdown, The Current is asking you to vote for songs that bring us together — whatever that means to you. What does that mean? To help you think it through, here are five lists of songs that, in various ways, bring people together. Top karaoke tracks What songs are the top picks…

If you have a music video you’d like to be considered for an upcoming feature, send it my way at fridayfive@mpr.org! Local musicians – “Lean On Me (The Quarantine Version)” Local media group KAJ Productions rallied a group of nearly 20 local musicians — including J.D. Steele and Prince drummer Kirk Johnson — for a…

Polica are one of the most internationally successful groups to come out of Minneapolis in the modern era.

Guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela join host Bill DeVille from their studio in Ixtapa, Mexico, to play a couple of selections from their Grammy-winning 2019 album 'Mettavolution' as well as a piece from their 2002 self-titled release.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Americana artist Lucinda Williams about her new album 'Good Souls, Better Angels' and the spirit of protest that she says has 'always been in my blood.'

Green/Blue are a buzzworthy new Minnesota band, but the four members are no newcomers.

Beloved singer Marianne Faithfull has been released from hospital three weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Also today: Car Seat Headrest has a new album project, with a gas mask as its visual icon; the Beatles are hosting a 'Yellow Submarine' singalong; an authorized Whitney Houston biopic is in the works; and Bruce Springsteen sang 'Jersey Girl' to support his home state during the public health crisis.

On her first full-length solo release since 2016, singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz has taken a new approach to songwriting: that of a third-person storyteller. 'Before this record, I had only written about myself and my feelings,' Jarosz says. The new album, 'World On The Ground,' releases June 5.