Today is Give to the Max Day, a 24-hour online giving spree that has become a big day for Minnesota schools and nonprofits. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention 'give' or 'giving'? Send us your requests.

Bones & Beeker: Bones & Beeker Brendan Kelly, a.k.a. BK-One, has teamed up with Anthony Newes to form Bones & Beeker. Newes didn’t have a hip-hop background, but came from band settings both in the rock and folk genres. Kelly had been Brother Ali’s DJ for quite some time, traveling around the world with the…

With so many artists and videographers collaborating on music videos these days — and with independent musicians’ budgets typically being pretty tight — it can be difficult to come up with new ways to try to reinvent the art form and stand out from the sea of YouTube links. But thanks to a new wave of…

For a band that have consistently been churning out critically-acclaimed albums since the early ’90, have had their songs covered by Robert Plant, and are signed to the Sub Pop — the label that signed Nirvana and Sleater-Kinney — Low seem to be hitting a new stride in 2015. Their latest album, Ones and Sixes, is full of…

In honor of the release of a trailer for Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory, Questlove tweeted a story about Prince. (Pitchfork) We knew Prince was a Nemo fan: the movie played twice during his visit last summer with Bobby Z and Andrea Swensson. . @Prince3EG once fired me from a dj gig in a nightclub & instead blasted the #FindingNemo dvd on…

I’m so excited and honored to share today’s conversation with you. My guest on the show this week is Claire Monesterio, who performs under the name Manchita. I first met Claire as a fellow audience member at a show, and quickly recognized her as an incredibly sweet, genuine, and relatable person. She’s the kind of…

November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States, a day that honors everyone who has served in the military. Also observed in other countries (often as Remembrance Day), we're thinking about musicians who have done military service. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by musicians who have served in the military? Send us your requests.

The Sound Unseen Festival, which features films about music, kicks off Wednesday, Nov. 11, and runs through Sunday. Festival director Jim Brunzell and co-programmer Rich Gill join Jill Riley and Sean McPherson on The Current's Morning Show to talk about the festival and some of the films in the lineup.

The FX series Fargo is now in its second season. The show is adapted from the 1996 Coen Brothers movie of the same name, but features different characters in different (chilling) situations. The second season takes place in 1979, with the principal settings being Luverne, Minn. and Fargo, N.D. Tracy Mumford and I are recapping each…

R&B legend Allen Toussaint died Tuesday, Nov. 10, of an apparent heart attack after a concert in Madrid. He was 77 years old. The Current's program director, Jim McGuinn, shares a personal reflection on Toussaint's life and career.