On New Year's Eve (Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024) we counted down this year's Top 89 songs, as voted by you! If you're not already streaming online, find your frequency on the radio, get your smart speaker set up, or download The Current app to listen.. We couldn't do Top 89 and other adventurous programming like this without your support.

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Jan 6, 2025 · From The Current: Top 89 albums of 2006 The Current launched in 2005, but the first official Top 89 Countdown launched the year after (and focused on album releases), so that’s where we’re going to start.

Elvis Presley's single, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released by RCA Records, Frank Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall in New York City for Martin Luther King, Stevie Wonder had his first No. 1 hit in a decade with "Superstition", and John Lennon wrote, recorded and mixed his new single "Instant Karma!", Today in Music History.

Jan 16, 2025 · New entries this week are songs from MJ Lenderman (“Wristwatch”), Mk.Gee (“ROCKMAN”), The Linda Lindas (“Nothing Would Change”), and Bartees Strange (“Sober”), while Frank Turner’s “Do One” drops off the chart after six weeks.

Friday, April 19, 2024, marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Nas’ full-length studio debut, Illmatic.Arguably the most critically acclaimed rap album in the history of the genre, Illmatic is a boom-bap behemoth. Sitting alongside ’90s rite-of-passage records such as Nirvana’s Nevermind, Green Day’s Dookie, and Radiohead’s OK Computer, its reputation as a flawless, every ...

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Nov 2, 2024 · Last Wednesday, Oct. 23, Jack White and his band played a surprise show at First Avenue in Minneapolis.. Whether you were able to get a ticket or not, now you can experience it. Just listen to The Current on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. CDT to hear Jack White’s intimate and electric performance that included songs from his newly released album, No Name, along with a journey through his solo ...

Dec 10, 2024 · A Complete Unknown is based on the book Dylan Goes Electric!:Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald. We find Bob Dylan, played superbly by Timothée Chalamet, at a pivotal time in his life as he matures from youth to adult.

Jun 30, 2024 · Brown’s most recent project is the publication of a book, Ring Around The Moon: A Songbook. (“It was somebody's idea, not mine,” Brown insists.) The autobiographical retrospective contains short essays of recollections and musings, along with a scrapbook’s worth of photos, plus sheet music, lyrics and chords for 40 of Brown’s songs.