Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Doctor, doctorAnna Reed • Mar 30, 2017It's Thursday, March 30 which means it's National Doctors' Day. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention doctors in the lyrics?
Listen to LoochMary Lucia: Reality is for those who can't handle drugsMary Lucia • Mar 29, 2017In a recent interview in 'Rolling Stone,' Father John Misty spoke candidly about dropping acid. Ever since reading it, Mary Lucia's thoughts have been spinning. 'I have no puritanical judgment about drug use,' Mary writes. 'It would simply be too hypocritical.' But it's good food for thought -- and Mary shares those thoughts in this week's column.
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Double-name bandsAnna Reed • Mar 29, 2017We recently did a Coffee Break of "single-named artists" celebrating HALEY's new moniker, and listener Holland wrote in with a great variation on this topic. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bands do you want to hear that have a double name (like Duran Duran)?
Rock and Roll Book ClubRock and Roll Book Club: James A. CosbyJay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017'Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies' is a concise and readable guide to the origins of rock and roll.
Local Current BlogBob Dylan to accept Nobel Prize in private ceremonyJay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017The Swedish Academy has announced that Bob Dylan will formally accept his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend in a “small and intimate” ceremony in Stockholm. “No media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan’s wishes,” writes the Academy’s Sara Danius in a blog post…
Local Current BlogRock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor Prince with Lenny Kravitz tributeJay Gabler • Mar 29, 2017Lenny Kravitz will pay tribute to Prince with a musical performance at the April 7 induction ceremony for this year’s class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone reports. The ceremony, which will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will see the induction of Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Tupac Shakur,…
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: 90s B-squadAnna Reed • Mar 28, 2017We spent all last week pitting the greatest 90s albums against each other in March Music Madness. Now that we've gotten a small break from it, let's deep dive even further. What 90s songs that weren't a part of March Music Madness do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
Local Current Blog‘Pick up your sisters’: Liv Warfield on what she learned from PrinceCecilia Johnson • Mar 28, 2017“I will talk your ear off,” Liv Warfield warned me when I got on the phone with her. A vocalist in Prince’s New Power Generation and co-leader of rock/R&B band Roadcase Royale, Warfield met Prince in 2008 and toured on and off with him until his passing in 2016. She’s released two solo albums, the second…
Local Current BlogDessa to perform National Anthem at Twins opener – with Minnesota Orchestra membersJay Gabler • Mar 27, 2017When the Minnesota Twins return to Target Field next Monday, April 3, Dessa will be on hand to sing the National Anthem. Accompanying the Doomtree star will be a brass quintet from the Minnesota Orchestra. Update 4/3: Dessa has been forced to cancel due to sickness. Seriously disappointed to announce that I won't be able to…
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Space, planets and rocketsAnna Reed • Mar 27, 2017Today in 1968, Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin died. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention space, planets, rockets, etc. do you want to hear?