It's the last day of The Current's Winter Member Drive and this is the moment that procrastinators dream about. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's listen to songs from procrastinators - those who took their sweet, sweet time between albums.

33 years after its founding, the food and music festival A Taste of Minnesota has come to an end. The announcement came via a statement sent to media on Thursday afternoon by the festival’s former general manager Linda Maddox. She writes: With a mixture of sadness and excitement, I’m announcing today my retirement and the closure…

On Wednesday, Kanye West went on an anti-Grammys rant on Twitter. He accused the awards of neglecting important and popular black artists like Young Thug and Future. (West also said that he has a new album “coming this summer.”) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president Neil Portnow replied that the Academy’s “doors are always open” to West.…

Eric Peltoniemi, who has helped lead St. Paul label Red House Records to international cachet as a premier purveyor of roots and Americana, has announced that he’s retiring after 50 years in the music business. Peltoniemi has been with Red House for three decades, the last ten years as president. “I am extremely proud of…

Today instead of giving members mugs and tote bags, our membership thank you gift is meals for neighbors in need. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's listen to songs that feature benevolence.

This year’s Record Store Day ambassadors will be Metallica. The band have released a video in which all four members describe their love of vinyl, and they plan to take the occasion — April 16 — to release a new live album. Recorded at Le Bataclan in Paris on 2003, the album will benefit the Give For France…

Sea levels rose faster in the past century than during the previous 27 centuries. In case Minnesota turns into a straight up beach, let's listen to songs that reference about beaches and beachy things.

Sleep Signals, Transitions A rising band on the Minneapolis metal and hard rock scene, Sleep Signals (not to be confused with Sleep Study) take a turn towards accessibility on their new EP Transitions — a follow-up to last year’s album Open Your Eyes. The band’s anthemic new material is perfect to play in your car real loud, or, of course, to…

David Bowie‘s album Blackstar is the inspiration and soundtrack for an upcoming “InstaMiniSeries” of 16 episodes that will begin Thursday on Instagram. The series, which will star Tavi Gevinson and Patricia Clarkson, was approved by Bowie in concept, though it’s unclear whether he saw the finished product before his Jan. 10 death. (Rolling Stone) "UNBOUND: A ★ InstaMiniSeries”…

Jason Isbell, former member of the Drive-By Truckers, is playing Northrop Auditorium tonight. But he's not the only great artist to have ventured out on his own after a period of time in a band. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists that have gone solo?