Mary Lucia

This week, Mary Lucia talks about watching the final episode of Anthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown' on CNN. 'A lot of people, myself included, found it really difficult to watch the remaining episodes after Bourdain passed away last year,' Mary says, 'and I honestly feel like this is the one episode I would say you can watch. Yes, it's sad. Yes, it's poignant. But he's touring the Lower East Side of New York - it's so fitting and appropriate.'

'I honestly considered making a record of this nature for 20 years,' Elvis Costello says of 'Look Now,' his latest full-length album. 'But the reason I haven't made it is because I've been doing other things.' In a phone interview, Costello tells Mary Lucia why now is the right time for 'Look Now.'

Greta Van Fleet's debut full length record, 'Anthem of the Peaceful Army,' makes a nostalgic nod to rock history, and includes a healthy dose of guitar amps turned to 11.

This week, Mary Lucia recommends a new Netflix documentary that explores the 1970 meeting at the White House between President Richard Nixon and Johnny Cash.

This week, Mary Lucia and Derrick Stevens talk about 'Quincy,' a Netflix original documentary that looks at the life of music icon Quincy Jones. 'I absolutely loved it,' Mary says. 'I can't recommend it enough.'

Maggie Rogers' music career has advanced very quickly, a fact that's not lost on the singer-songwriter. Her forthcoming album, 'Heard It In A Past Life,' is a reflection of that. ' I just think I've been trying to do this for a very long time, and this is the lifetime it all sort of works out,' Rogers says. Before her sold-out show at First Avenue, Maggie Rogers stopped at The Current for a session hosted by Mary Lucia.

Motion City Soundtrack's Justin Courtney Pierre has a debut solo album, 'In The Drink,' releasing Friday, Oct. 12. Just ahead of that release, Pierre and his band stopped at The Current to play songs from the new record and to talk with Mary Lucia.

This week, Mary Lucia talks about the significance of the Hold Steady playing two shows at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.

Jon Langford is a true renaissance man: a musician, a visual artist, a producer. Founder of the Mekons and a student and propagator of Americana and roots music, the Welsh-born, Chicago-based Langford stopped at The Current for a fun and free-flowing conversation with Mary Lucia.

This week, Mary Lucia explores Eugene Jarecki's documentary 'The King,' a film that looks at the story of Elvis Presley as a metaphor for American history and culture. It's an ambitious premise - but is it trying too hard?

This week, Mary Lucia talks to Bill DeVille about the Americana Music Association's Festival and Conference in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 11 to 16.

This week, Mary Lucia talks with colleague Jesse Wiza, a native Michigander who has been enjoying discovery of the Minnesota State Fair. Jesse shares some of her new favorites and talks about her indoctrination to the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

This week, Mary Lucia talks about a new documentary about the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, 'If I Leave Here Tomorrow,' on Showtime. 'As I live and breathe, I never thought that I would be sitting here urging you to watch a 90-minute documentary about Lynyrd Skynyrd,' Mary says, 'but it is the most enlightening film. I now have a great appreciation for this band.'

Musician Curtiss A joins Mary Lucia to describe an experience he had in 1969 that he can't quite explain. Did he see a UFO? Was it something else? The experience seems to have inspired Curt's new song, 'Unidentifiable.' Watch Mary's interview with Curtiss A, and listen to the new song.

This week, Mary Lucia is joined by Bill DeVille, who went to the Jack White show at the Armory in Minneapolis last night. The show was awesome -- but Mary and Bill talk about White's no-phones concert policy. What do you think of locking up phones at concerts?

Jack White plays the Armory in Minneapolis on Monday, Aug. 6. Ahead of that show, Mary Lucia talks to Brian Oake about their shared fandom of Jack White, as well as Brian's experience seeing Jack White perform at the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta earlier this year.

Our friends at NPR Music have asserted there's a genre called rosewave; what is it? Is it latter-day 'yacht rock'? Is it just easygoing music without hard guitars? Mary Lucia and The Current's Jesse Wiza talk about this genre and some artists' songs that seem to fit well.

Although Courtney Barnett will be playing a show in Minneapolis this weekend, Mary Lucia is 'going to drive to a casino to see Jerry Lee Lewis.' For this week's Listen to Looch, Mary talks about why she's taking a drive to see a rock and roll legend.

Low Cut Connie frontman Adam Weiner describes how he and his bandmates are staying busy touring and recording -- even if that means doing those things simultaneously. Weiner also talks about what helps him get motivated to give his all at every show.

Just days after the release of their latest album, 'Back Roads and Abandoned Motels,' the Jayhawks stopped in The Current studio for a session hosted by Mary Lucia.