For this week's Listen to Looch, Mary Lucia wants to know: What is your favorite song intro -- you know, the one where, whenever or wherever you hear it, you feel thankful to be alive and on this planet.

Jill is out today and Brian has been taking requests all morning. He is looking for more requests from you for today's Coffee Break, but he says you HAVE to make your case for why you want to hear the song. So what would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, and why?

Recently, The Current’s Brian Oake and Jill Riley chatted with local rapper and Doomtree member Sims, who is performing at a benefit concert at the Fine Line on Dec. 1 for Hopewell Music, a North Minneapolis organization that aims to make music education accessible in its community. “We’re doing a fundraiser concert for their operating…

“I want people to know there are new ways to love and be loved out here,” Angel Davanport says of her choice to sing about topics others may shy away from, such as her own pansexuality. A relatively recent addition to the Minneapolis music scene, Davanport isn’t interested in hiding any aspect of herself. While…

One of the Twin Cities’ longest-running jazz series will be discontinued at the end of this year. In a Facebook post published over the Thanksgiving weekend, drummer JT Bates announced the end of his series, JT’s Jazz Implosion. Held every Monday night at Icehouse in Minneapolis, the series has been working to grow the experimental…

It's Cyber Monday - one of the biggest shopping days of the year, with sales totaling $6.59 billion last year. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear about computers, the internet, being online, etc.?

Muse is a band of a bygone era. They go into the best studios on the planet and create highly saturated and sophisticated records using the studio itself as an instrument.

Last year, Red Wing opened the doors of its theaters, bookstores, and wine shops for the first year of Big Turn Music Fest. Today, Big Turn announced its headliners for the 2019 festival, which will take place Feb. 22 and 23. Over 100 bands will perform over the festival’s two days. Similar to last year,…

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and we want to say a huge and heartfelt thanks to all of YOU for making our mornings so special. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that remind you of Thanksgiving? The food, travel, family, thankfulness, sleepiness, all of it.

Yes, 'Beastie Boys Book' is everything fans have dreamed of. It's a fun, chronological, near-encyclopedic journey though the unlikely career of a group whose critical acclaim seems to grow by the minute.