Today is John Deacon's birthday, one of the great bass players of our time. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what great bass lines do you want to hear?

In her new history of Daptone Records, Jessica Lipsky explains how the label she describes as 'punk soul' became the center of a movement that brought vintage sounds to newfound prominence across the musical landscape.

Water Is Life, the festival held at Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth by Honor the Earth (Winona LaDuke’s arts-associated advocacy group), was about more than music. Ten hours of music; Anishinaabe traditional ceremony; teaching; passionate statements from Native artists and non-Native allies; and performance marked the day. The 5,000 participants danced, sweated in the 90-degree…

Unlike TV's Partridges, however, it wasn't all happy bus trips, witty comebacks and canned laughter for the Cowsills. In addition to a toxic father figure, 'there's tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy,' Mary says.

Today is National Bad Poetry Day, and sometimes song lyrics can be like poetry. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what good songs with bad lyrics do you want to hear?

Today is Phoebe Bridgers 27th brithday! For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Phoebe Bridgers songs, collaborations, and covers do you want to hear?

On Friday, Aug. 13, a plaintiff identified publicly only as “J.C.” filed suit against Bob Dylan in New York. The suit seeks compensatory damages for lasting emotional, physical, and financial injury stemming from sexual abuse that allegedly took place at the Chelsea Hotel in 1965, when the plaintiff was 12 years old and Dylan was…

Today we celebrate Madonna's birthday and mourn Aretha Franklin's passing. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, which queens of music do you want to hear?

Now on their third album, Jungle sounds confident and joyful. The bombastic freedom of finding happiness in darkness and pushing through adversity pulses through 'Loving in Stereo'.

Leon Bridges returns with his third studio release, 'Gold-Diggers Sound,' whose name comes from the East Hollywood studio in which it was recorded. The Current's Mac Wilson had the chance to catch up with Bridges in an interview about writing the new record, some of his recent collaborations with fellow Texans Khruangbin, and the Australian electronic group The Avalanches.