Mark Twain once said "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do." But when we played Car Seat Headrest's "Nervous Young Inhumans" this morning, Sean showed us a Pitchfork article about how an original version of the song used the word "galvanistic" but then Will Toledo took it out in later drafts. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs with 'five-dollar words' do you want to hear?

What do hats, Godzilla, beards, and church bells have in common? They were all sources of inspiration for improv comedy sketches performed this month at the Bryant-Lake Bowl by a group called the Local Music Scene. Every month, the Local Music Scene invite a different musician to perform alongside them in a music-comedy variety show.…

When Minneapolis-based guitarist Toni Lindgren was a young girl of about five or six, her uncle would strum Bob Dylan and John Prine on his guitar strings, inspiring a love for the instrument early on in her life. “That was my introduction,” Lindgren said, “and then from there I just took it and ran.” Run…

The origins of Bully's lineup can be traced to The Stone Fox, a now-defunct venue in Nashville. 'We were all at that place at the same time, were friends and had similar tastes in music,' says Bully frontwoman and bandleader Alicia Bognanno. Read more about how the band members found one another, and why friendship is the most important ingredient in the lineup.

Edwin Hawkins, the gospel singer behind "Oh Happy Day", passed away this week at the age of 74. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that feature a choir - gospel or otherwise?

Conor McPherson's play 'Girl from the North Country,' now published in book form, tells the story of a desperate group of characters in a Duluth guesthouse during the Great Depression. It incorporates 17 songs by Bob Dylan.

Rock ‘n’ roller JD McPherson is headlining night two of our 13th Birthday Parties on Jan. 20, and he has a 13-year-old daughter of his own. As The Current heads into teenagerhood, we thought we could use some expert advice. So we asked JD: what it’s like to be a rock ‘n’ roll parent, and…

Welcome to the residency bonanza of January 2018! We made it to the New Year, and with its first month comes a slew of residencies: weekly shows helmed by locals Metasota, jeremy messersmith, Charlie Parr, the Cactus Blossoms, and Andrew Broder. We’ll be posting photos and a brief recap of a night each. If you were…

Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries passed away suddenly yesterday at the age of 46. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from Irish musicians?

Leave it to tony the scribe. To create music that examines the intersections of romantic longing and technology. To convert a suit of armor into a device that makes fissures glow. And to make it catchy. A resident of Minneapolis, tony is a rapper, writer, and organizer, and he works alongside producer ICETEP in Killstreak.…