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March 19, 2021

Billie Holiday's soulfully unique singing style is considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.

Musicheads Essential Artist: Billie Holiday

Musicheads Essential Artist: Billie Holiday

Mar 19, 2021

Billie Holiday's soulfully unique singing style is considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.

Musicheads Essential Artist: Billie Eilish

Musicheads Essential Artist: Billie Eilish

Kelsey • Mar 19, 2021

The headline of Billie Eilish's career is her remarkably quick rise to fame, but it's the talent fueling that rise that makes her a Musicheads Essential Artist.

Frances Forever: Virtual Session

Frances Forever: Virtual Session

Jade • Mar 18, 2021

Frances Forever joins The Current to play a few tracks and talk about balancing their senior year of college with a record label signing, their philosophy of recording cover songs, and which instruments they want to learn next.

Music You Should Know: six fresh tracks for March 18

Music You Should Know: six fresh tracks for March 18

Mar 18, 2021

Stretching from Amsterdam to South Africa to Brooklyn to London to Los Angeles and back to Minnesota, we've got a half-dozen new tracks you're going to want to check out.

Coffee Break: SXSW

Coffee Break: SXSW

Jill Riley and Anna Weggel • Mar 18, 2021

The Current has enjoyed a big presence at SXSWs in the past, and we want to highlight some of those musical moments for you for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. Tune in and imagine with us what a return to this festival might look like someday.

Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion'

Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion'

Jay Gabler • Mar 18, 2021

Rarely has a book been more aptly titled than this new oral history of an era where shamelessness sold.

The Chart Show: Wolf Alice Debuts

The Chart Show: Wolf Alice Debuts

Mar 18, 2021

Five new entries help reshape the bottom half of the top twenty this week welcoming Wolf Alice and Lord Huron as two of the newest songs on The Current.

Listen to Looch: an intense documentary about Dave Navarro

Listen to Looch: an intense documentary about Dave Navarro

Mary Lucia • Mar 17, 2021

Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro tells his own story in 'Mourning Son,' which details the trauma that Navarro experienced at the age of 15, when his mother and his aunt were both murdered.

Justin Bruhn of Pert Near Sandstone talks Blue Ox and remembers Max Graham

Justin Bruhn of Pert Near Sandstone talks Blue Ox and remembers Max Graham

Jay Gabler • Mar 17, 2021

After livestreaming last year, the Blue Ox Music Festival is planning an in-person return for August 2021. Justin Bruhn of festival co-founders Pert Near Sandstone talked about the spirit of the festival - and how participants plan to pay tribute to the late Max Graham of Kind Country.

Coffee Break: Happy St. Patrick's Day

Coffee Break: Happy St. Patrick's Day

Jill Riley and Anna Weggel • Mar 17, 2021

Happy St. Patrick's Day! For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Irish bands and musicians do you want to hear?

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