"You can't record music once every three to four years and think that's going to be enough," Daniel Ek tells artists who complain about streaming payouts.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what one-person bands do you want to hear?

Stevie Wonder released 'Innervisions'; Macca announced the formation of Wings; Tears for Fears had something to shout about; Def Leppard released 'Hysteria'; singer and all-around good guy Tony Bennett has a birthday; Bob Dylan returned to Newport Folk Festival after a 37-year absence; and The Beach Boys released 'Surfer Girl', Today in Music History.

Whether your desk is tiny or gigantic, chances are you may be spending more time at it than ever this summer. As many of the artists who submitted to National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Contest can attest, it’s a great time to have a project, and for some, that meant participating in this year’s contest.…

On this record we find Lianne paring down the dense production and sonic ambition of her earlier records and letting the songs sit center stage. With this new self-titled effort we have an artist delivering an album length autopsy on a failed relationship with unflinching honesty: the good, the bad, the carnal and thank god, the funky.

Kathleen Edwards joins The Current's Bill DeVille for a Live Virtual Session. The two talked about Edwards's return to music after several years' absence, about her recent collaboration with Maren Morris, and about her experiences running a coffee shop called Quitters.

Singer Richard Butler talks about the power of '80s nostalgia, the state of rock and roll today and the freedom of making the band's new record, Made of Rain, on its own terms.

We've got Sean in for Jill today and as he is typically your host of Radio Free Current on Saturday nights, we wanted to go ALL REQUESTS for today's Coffee Break.

'People love American music,' Senator Klobuchar says, 'and we're going to lose American music if we don't make sure that we have places for artists to perform.'

The project leapfrogged from last year's Bey-curated soundtrack to The Lion King to now arriving on Disney's new streaming service.