For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're looking for songs that have lyrics that say one thing, but most definitely mean another.

Happy Friday! Deep in January weather, we know it can be hard to fantasize about warmer weather and more exciting times — but don’t worry, we got you. Check out these five new music videos and you’re sure to be transported somewhere else. Poliça This new music video by Poliça might be reminiscent of an eerie episode of Sesame Street, but…

On Wednesday, Reina del Cid released her new video for “Death Cap,” a song featured on her 2015 album The Cooling. The video was shot in Iceland — with del Cid following in the footsteps of Björk, Bon Iver, Sigur Rós, and most recently Justin Bieber. As breathtaking as Iceland appears in the video, del Cid says it’s even more beautiful in person. “We originally…

What a cool month January has been! When I was a student at Macalester, I worked for the radio station and had a radio show every semester I was there. I loved the process of putting together my playlists and felt at ease telling jokes and talking during vocal breaks — so being able to…

With the big Babes in Toyland show coming up on Saturday — which marks their first gig at First Avenue since 2001 — we asked the members of the righteous and Babes-inspired punk trio Bruise Violet to interview one of their musical heroes, Lori Barbero. What transpired was over an hour of hollering, shrieking, giggling,…

Paul Kantner, a co-founder of pioneering psychedelic group Jefferson Airplane who continued as a core member of successor group Jefferson Starship, has died at age 74. The cause of his death, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, was multiple organ failure and septic shock. Kantner started Jefferson Airplane in the mid-1960s with Marty Balin and other musicians including…

A Billboard report sheds light on the circumstances surrounding the final months of rocker Scott Weiland, who died in December in Bloomington, Minn. while on tour with his band the Wildabouts. “He definitely shouldn’t have been touring,” says one drug counselor who saw Weiland last year. The former Stone Temple Pilots frontman was reeling from health issues related…

Thirty years ago today, the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. Let's honor their commitment to their work and listen to songs about space exploration in today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Indicted pharmaceutical entrepreneur Martin Shkreli has finally listened to Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the edition-of-one Wu-Tang Clan album he paid $2 million for. “It’s definitely better than their last album,” says Vice writer Allie Conti, who heard the album playing in the background during an interview with Shkreli. For his part, Shkreli “vacillates between wanting to destroy the record…

I’m turning the tables a little bit on today’s O.K. Show, because while my guest certainly contributes to the scene as a musician with his work in the Background Noise Crew, Ali Elabbady is primarily known as a music writer and radio host; he currently works for Reviler and Greenroom Magazine, and had a long-running show…