Pop/Rock

  • Glasvegas performs in The Current studios
    The indie-rock quartet uses influences from all over the UK and combines them with rockabilly and doo-wop sensibilities, creating a sound that has gained them wide ranging praise from around the globe. Their self-titled debut was released in January, 2009.April 7, 2009
  • The Ting Tings perform in The Current studios
    The Ting Tings have gained fans from around the globe, flexing their versatile musical muscles by shining on both indie and top 40 charts in the last twelve months.April 6, 2009
  • Bob Mould performs live in The Current studio
    Bob Mould, a musician famous as a solo artist and as a former member of bands Husker Du and Sugar, has started out his 2009 with the release of his ninth solo record, "Life and Times."March 31, 2009
  • Oren Lavie performs live in The Current studio
    Singer, playwright, director and songwriter Oren Lavie has grown up all over the world, carrying influences from each of his seemingly native lands into his music.March 31, 2009
  • Eleni Mandell performs live in The Current studio
    Eleni Mandell's breathtakingly honest and sweeping compositions have gained her acclaim far and near from her native Los Angeles. He swaggering pop-noir style has take full flight in her newest CD, "Artificial Fire."March 27, 2009
  • Handsome Furs perform live in The Current studio
    Through mashing musical contradictions, the Handsome Furs have quickly stormed the music world since debuting in 2007. The husband-wife team of Dan Boeckner (also in Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry tie together electronic sensibilities with jangly pop while telling stories that span the emotional grid.March 26, 2009
  • A.C. Newman performs live in The Current studio
    A.C. Newman isn't just on the indie-pop music radar - he is the radar, and continues to captivate listeners with his newest record, "Get Guilty."March 24, 2009
  • The Broken West performs in The Current studio
    "I Can't Go On, I'll Go On," the 2008 CD release from The Broken West, is power pop at some of its strongest, straight from the powerfully poppy world of Southern California.March 24, 2009
  • The Duke Spirit performs in The Current studios
    The Duke Spirit were founded on one of music's most time-honored traditions: singer Liela Moss and guitarist Luke Ford met in art school and dropped out to form a band.March 17, 2009
  • Tricky performs live in The Current studios
    Seemingly thrashing through hip-hop, soul, pop, rock, and everything in between, the music of English born musician Tricky thrives on the unexpected.March 14, 2009
  • Raphael Saadiq performs in The Current studio
    Raphael Saddiq has kept soul music alive and well in the 21st century, both as solo artist and producer.March 13, 2009
  • The hazards of being The Decemberists' Colin Meloy
    Colin Meloy - singer and lyricist of The Decemberists - joined Steve Seel to discuss the band's new record, The Hazards Of Love.March 12, 2009
  • Dan Auerbach performs in The Current studio
    Dan Auerbach wants to make records like RZA of the Wu Tang Clan. Like RZA, Auerbach takes his influences and feeds them into music except he takes it into another direction to make his gritty, soulful blues on his new solo album "Keep it Hid."March 10, 2009
  • All The Saints perform in The Current studios
    The music of All the Saints, a three-piece rock band, seems to tie together loose ends of rock eras past and future. The driving sound of these Atlanta natives crashes metal into grunge into fuzz, creating a dark, pulsing sound that demands attention.March 4, 2009
  • Two former Jayhawks make music together again
    Minneapolis alt-country pioneers The Jayhawks may no longer be a band, but two of its co-founders have reunited as a folk duo. Mark Olson and Gary Louris have released a new CD entitled "Ready for the Flood."February 20, 2009

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