Inspired by the Northeast Minneapolis Tool Library, we're thinking about songs that mention tools. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention some kind of tool in the lyrics? Send us your requests.

You can get a high school diploma by spending only nine days in high school—if, that is, you’re country great Merle Haggard. The superintendent of the Bakersfield, California school where Haggard spent his very brief secondary education career presented Haggard with a diploma before the “Mama Tried” singer played a show on Saturday at the nearby Fox…

In all fairness to "Louie, Louie," there are a lot of songs with words that are difficult to understand. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs with incomprehensible lyrics do you want to hear? Send us your requests.

Web of Sunsets: Steel New Days Members of the acid-country trio Web of Sunsets come from many corners of the musical world, but the title track of their new Steel New Days EP centers on a droning jangle. Slowly but surely the song takes flight and before you know it, your feet are far from…

Approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening in a grassy patio behind a bar in downtown Winona, patrons busted out kubb. “This game is nonsensical,” I said. “That’s the best kind of game,” replied a long-haired gentleman in a leather jacket, a natural at the stick-throwing Nordic lawn sport. The saxophonist for People Brothers Band teamed with the…

Blur‘s first New York show featuring the band’s classic lineup since 2000 will be totally free, thanks to Converse. The tickets will go fast, though; if you want to throw your hat in the ring to see Blur at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday night, you can RSVP here starting at 11:00 a.m.…

We were talking about slang earlier this morning, and it reminded us that so many songs include slang terms. What songs do you want to hear that prominently feature slang words in the lyrics? Send us your requests.

The snow was falling hard and fast in fat, sloppy flakes the night I pulled into Mankato, Minnesota, to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. It was the kind of storm that we’ve been getting a lot of this spring; one that starts suddenly and dangerously but then dissipates, leaving everyone confused and the streets…

Amy Winehouse‘s family have issued a statement saying they wish to “disassociate” themselves from Amy, a forthcoming documentary about the late singer. The family cooperated with the filmmakers during the production of the documentary, but having seen the finished film, the family feels that it “is both misleading and contains some basic untruths.” Specifically, the family say that the…

A recent study in 'Psychological Science' suggests the scent of sweaty, happy people can make others happy. We're not going to try that, but for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have the word "sweat" in the lyrics? Send us your requests.