It's Give to the Max Day - an online fundraising event for Minnesota nonprofits and schools. If you haven't already received emails from your favorite organizations asking you to donate, poke around and see what you'd like to support. But for now, what songs about giving and generosity do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Como Zoo, in St. Paul, has welcomed a new baby giraffe — and his name is Prince. Making his first appearance before the public today, Prince stands 6’6″ and weighs 160 pounds. The giraffe was named by Gretchen and David Crary, who have been the most generous donors to the zoo on Give to the…

Guthbjorg Tomasdottir of the duo My Bubba recently took some time to tell us about her vintage, Danish-built guitar. 'I was bicycling in Copenhagen and I saw this guitar in the window, and it just spoke to me,' she says. It's the latest addition to The Current's Guitar Collection.

Thanks to Current Blogger Jay Gabler for joining us today to talk about "Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis", a new book celebrating the photography of Daniel Corrigan. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention pictures or photographs in the lyrics?

Daniel Corrigan's 'Heyday' chronicles 35 years of Minneapolis music photography by the man who's produced some of the scene's most iconic imagery.

Reina Del Cid and her band have announced that they’ll play a residency at Icehouse in Minneapolis, before recording a new album early next year. “We can try new things, host special guests, and just have way too much fun in the middle of the week,” say the band in a Facebook event. The band promise performances ranging…

After weeks of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation, the answer is: both. Bob Dylan will accept his Nobel Prize in Literature — but he won’t do so in person. In a statement headlined “Bob Dylan has decided not to come to Stockholm,” the Swedish Academy reports that “yesterday evening the Swedish Academy received a personal letter from Bob Dylan, in…

After watching the documentary, 'The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse,' Mary Lucia found herself thinking about artists who feel defeated by a lack of commercial success yet are worshipped by peers for that very thing. 'What is that all about?' Mary writes, 'Their music is too peculiar? Too good? Too challenging?' Read more about Mary's thoughts about the new Sparklehorse documentary and about the life and career of its mainstay, Mark Linkous.

After a decade, the singer-songwriter has a new album. He talks with NPR's Michel Martin about U.S. elections, Brexit, the Bataclan, the migrant crisis -- and his own mortality.

Jeremy Messersmith says he’s simplifying his life and freeing himself from distractions — including Facebook. While his public page remains active, he’s deactivated his personal account. (Public pages can be managed by multiple users, including, for example, a manager or publicist.) So far, he writes in a note posted to his website, he has no…