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October 19, 2023

This week hear new songs from Brittany Howard, Boygenius, Mustafa, Yumi Zouma, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and Touch Sensitive.

Hear new music from Brittany Howard, Boygenius, Mustafa, Yumi Zouma, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and Touch Sensitive.

Hear new music from Brittany Howard, Boygenius, Mustafa, Yumi Zouma, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and Touch Sensitive.

Jade • Oct 19, 2023

This week hear new songs from Brittany Howard, Boygenius, Mustafa, Yumi Zouma, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and Touch Sensitive.

Coffee Break: Singing the blah blah blahs

Coffee Break: Singing the blah blah blahs

Jade • Oct 19, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which songs with filler vocals — blahs, oohs, ahhs, and so forth — do you want to hear?

The Chart Show: Hozier hits No. 1 with 'De Selby (Part 2)'

The Chart Show: Hozier hits No. 1 with 'De Selby (Part 2)'

Jade • Oct 18, 2023

The Hozier hits keep coming with another No. 1 on this week's Chart Show.

Carla Bley, prolific and expansive jazz pianist, dies at 87

Carla Bley, prolific and expansive jazz pianist, dies at 87

Andrey Henkin • Oct 18, 2023

Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.

Coffee Break: Songs for Chuck Berry

Coffee Break: Songs for Chuck Berry

Bill DeVille • Oct 18, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which Chuck Berry songs do you want to hear?

The Kills' Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince talk about new album, 'God Games'

Ayisha Jaffer • Oct 18, 2023

They discussed recording in a church-turned-studio that once belonged to Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, the meaning behind God Games, and Mosshart's "hateful relationship" with the sun.

Coffee Break: Mulligan Day

Coffee Break: Mulligan Day

Mac Wilson • Oct 17, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which songs about starting over/redos do you want to hear?

Gregory Alan Isakov plays songs from 'Appaloosa Bones' in The Current studio

Mac Wilson • Oct 17, 2023

Colorado singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov stopped into The Current studio before playing a show at the Palace Theatre.

Coffee Break: Dictionary Day

Coffee Break: Dictionary Day

Jade • Oct 16, 2023

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which songs with strong vocabulary in the title or lyrics do you want to hear?

Smokey Robinson: Tiny Desk Concert

Mitra I. Arthur • Oct 16, 2023

If there was ever an artist the word "legend" applies to, it would be Smokey Robinson.

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