Thank you for voting in The Current’s Top 89 countdown! Please enjoy The Current’s Best Local Songs of 2021.

The Suburbs, whose planned New Year’s Eve show has just been rescheduled to February, include one of the Twin Cities’ best-loved, if not best-known, vocalists.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what are the best local songs of 2021?

Since it’s Christmas Eve, we’re turning back the calendar to enjoy holiday classics from the Jets, Ondara, Gaelynn Lea, Sweetwater Revival, and Robert Robinson.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for Festivus?

Robert K. Elder’s new book tells you everything you ever could possibly have wanted to know about Elvis Presley’s Christmas recordings, holiday traditions, and even the cards that ritually went out signed ‘Elvis and the Colonel.’

Great new discoveries from DNM, Mike Dreams, Cassette, and more

In this film that imagines a Christmas with the Royal Family in the 1980s, Kristen Stewart delivers a fascinating portrait of Princess Diana while Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood provides a haunting soundtrack.

Two local bands enter the chart for the first week: Durry with their viral hit “Who’s Laughing Now?” and country crooners The Cactus Blossoms.

Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Stevie Nicks and Shakira all recently sold off all or part of their back catalogs. Why forgo future royalties and creative control over their songs?