Today in 1938, rockabilly legend Duane Eddy was born, making him 80 today. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what rockabilly and rockabilly-influenced artists do you want to hear?

Key changes - or modulations - occur when the key of a song changes from one set into the next. This device is alive and present in pop music and has been for decades. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have key changes?

Questlove's new book is designed to spark your creativity.

So you’re a Prince superfan. Could you name any Prince song if you only hear the song’s first second? How about the first half-second? How about the first quarter-second? Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon couldn’t stump his bandleader, Prince obsessive Questlove, in a special “Prince Edition” of a One-Second Song Quiz that Fallon says was inspired…

Al Church, of solo musicianship and many Twin Cities bands, releases his album Night Games on April 27. Ahead of the drop, he visited the Local Show to play some music and talk with Andrea Swensson.

Yesterday, Mary Lucia had a great conversation with Joey Burns of Calexico, a band she had previously thought of as being too smart for her to get. But it got Mary thinking: What bands do you think are too smart for you to understand? Share your thoughts.

A couple of weeks ago we did a Coffee Break featuring songs that HAVE to be played back to back. Today, we want to take a variation on that theme. What medleys do you want to hear? We'll see how many we can cram into 30 minutes.

“This is the most fun I’ve had doing this in a while,” said Katie Crutchfield, smiling. “It’s always fun, but…you know.” The devoted Mainroom crowd took those words to heart last night at First Avenue, since the leader of Waxahatchee isn’t much for stage banter. In a set so fast-paced and powerful that it seemed…

Troy Carter, an executive who’s serving as “entertainment advisor” to Prince’s estate, tells Variety that the estate is planning to release “a full-length album” of previously unreleased Prince material sometime this fall. Although Carter didn’t divulge many details about the music, he indicted that the release will be a cohesive body of work from a…

Earth Day was yesterday and April is Water Month at MPR so we thought it was high time to listen to some water-related music. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention a body of water?