For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by artists who were born in Minnesota but went on to have musical success elsewhere? Send us your requests.

After nearly two years playing with the reunited Replacements, Tommy Stinson is returning to his solo career with a series of new releases and tour dates, starting with a charity single recorded in London. All proceeds from Stinson’s new single “Can’t Be Bothered” will be donated to the Roundhouse Trust: a fund providing creative opportunities…

Will Brooker, a professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University in London, has announced plans to dress like David Bowie every day for the next year. Which Bowie? Why choose? Brooker will make his way through numerous different periods of Bowie’s life, as part of what he’s calling a research project. “The idea is…

Salon writer Marc Spitz posits 'fire' and 'desire' comprise the laziest rhyming couplet in songwriting, yet everyone uses it. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's embrace it: What songs do you want to hear that rhyme "fire" and "desire"? Send us your requests.

The A.V. Club, the arts and culture site that’s part of The Onion’s digital network, invited Hippo Campus in to participate in their “Undercover” series. Each year, the A.V. Club makes a list of songs and invites bands into their Chicago office to cover them. Once a song is picked, it gets scratched off the list, so the later…

CHVRCHES have released an evocative new video for their song “Leave a Trace.” The song will appear on the band’s new album Every Open Eye, due out Sept. 25. (Pitchfork) After the video’s release, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry responded forcefully to negative comments made by some users of the site 4chan regarding Mayberry’s appearance in the video.…

Last Friday, legendary record producer Bob Johnston passed away in Nashville, Tenn., at age 83. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's remember one of the studio greats. What songs produced by Bob Johnston do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

Amid hot and volatile weather, this year’s electro-centric Summer Set Music & Camping Festival had its ups and down but definitely had a lot to offer. This weekend featuredacts ranging from local jam bands to old-school hip-hop acts to Top 40 hitmakers. Summer Set is becoming one of the area’s biggest annual music festivals, and it’s clear that…

When a chunk of First Avenue’s ceiling collapsed Wednesday evening, the story was covered by media outlets across the country and beyond. How is this Minneapolis institution seen by people outside of Minnesota? The coverage gave us an opportunity to find out. Unsurprisingly, mentions of Purple Rain were all but mandatory; the Replacements and Hüsker Dü also…

The name of Frank Turner's new (and sixth) studio album could also be his mission statement. It's clear the them to this ablum is about finding the positive in many situations. Turner has taken that attitude and set it to music.