It’s 11:30 a.m., and Ben Vanden Boogaard has already spent six hours in a coffee shop. From 5-11, he worked as a barista, making drinks behind the counter. But after his shift, he headed to another cafe, having agreed to tell me about his other line of work: music. Vanden Boogaard is an artist at…

This week, Mary Lucia talks about how she is fascinated by the new HBO documentary, 'The Defiant Ones,' which looks at the lives and careers of music producers Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.

Dave Grohl teases mystery contributor on new Foo Fighters album We already know that the new Foo Fighter’s album Concrete And Gold will feature the talents of artists such as Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman, Inara George from the Bird And The Bee and the Kills’ Allison Mosshart, but according to frontman Dave Grohl the…

Yesterday we played anti-social songs for those that needed to gather up their energy for tonight's National Night Out event. For today's Coffee Break, we'll do something a little different. What songs do you want to hear that prominently feature the words "national", "night", or "out"?

In today's music news, Kiiara performs her duet with Chester Bennington live, and everyone from Jack White to Dev Hynes is working on new music.

Tomorrow is National Night Out, so for some contrast for the introverts out there, what songs do you want to hear that feature being lonely, anti-social, or hiding?

“Epic” is the word that comes to my mind to describe last night’s Guns N’ Roses: Not in this Lifetime performance at U.S. Bank Stadium. Yes, I said epic. I’ll be honest: My expectations were low. I may have been too quick to judge how age affected the music by watching a few YouTube videos…

For a band who are hyperconscious of their image and place in the music industry, Arcade Fire's official major-label debut is possibly their most accessible album yet.

Testing a mic at the Duluth Coffee Company on Friday in his best radio-hypeman voice, Brian Oake referred to The Current’s new 104.3 FM frequency as “Duluth’s 100,000 watt flamethrower!” Well, not quite — but it’s great to have a new, stronger signal in the area, one that will soon be supplemented by 94.1 to…

Thanks to listener Kayleigh for writing in with today's theme idea. She wanted to see a list of songs with "comically long song titles". So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have notably long titles?