Sleater-Kinney have partnered with the TV show Bob’s Burgers for their “A New Wave” video. (Pitchfork) The New Yorker said that Justin Timberlake‘s “Cry Me a River” may be “the most polyphonically complex teenybopper ballad in history.” Here’s CHVRCHES‘ synthpop take on the 2002 song. (Billboard) The 2015 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards will be held on March 28, and Billboard…

Feburary 19 is the Lunar New Year, and celebrations spread across China and much of the world in honor of it. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're asking, what songs would you like to hear that mention or are about the moon?

Cloud Cult have been featured by Rolling Stone as one of a group of enviro-friendly artists, in the company of Adele, Radiohead, Neil Young, U2, the Roots, and Björk. The band’s conservation efforts go beyond buying eco-friendly paint for the artists known to paint during their shows: in 1997, the band’s husband-and-wife leaders Craig and Connie Minowa built a recording studio…

Vick Johnson, a local guitarist known for playing with Curtiss A, died of cancer Thursday morning. He was 59. Johnson was a longtime member of Curtiss A’s band, which plays a yearly John Lennon tribute concert at First Avenue. He lent his guitar and vocals to other Curtiss A acts and played in many original and cover groups since the late…

On one of the last cold nights of January, three members of the Weathered Heads unwound on a blue leather couch in their rehearsal space in Winona. Lead vocalist Craig Weatherhead explained that the band were recovering from a weekend of traveling between Minneapolis for a show at the Cabooze and Duluth for a show…

In separate incidents, two of pop music’s most infamous one-hit wonders have been put behind bars. “Ice Ice Baby” rapper Vanilla Ice was taken into custody in Lantana, Florida after allegedly swiping stuff from a home next door to a house he’s renovating for his HGTV show. The allegedly burglarized house was foreclosed and empty of people—but still…

S. Carey: Supermoon S. Carey of Bon Iver released his Supermoon EP Tuesday. The six-track EP—consisting of reimagined songs he’s previously released—is an introspective look into S. Carey’s life, family, and spirituality. Carey talks about his time spent in nature and the relationship he has with the Earth in an introduction to the album. You can…

Pharrell Williams has signed an agreement to write a series of children's books, but it turns out he's not the first musician to venture into authorship for kids. So for today's Coffee Break, we're asking: What songs would you like to hear by musicians who have written books for children?

On Saturday, Hamline University is hosting their second annual Winter WonderJam concert, after long preparations. Although for some it may just be a concert, for those involved in the planning, it is a labor of love. Last February marked the first-ever Winter WonderJam, at which both Konstant Movement and Brother Ali performed. What became the biggest campus concert…

Stephin Merritt, the brilliant and eccentric musician best known as the creative force behind the Magnetic Fields, has announced a rare solo tour that will stop at the Cedar Cultural Center on May 15. The show has an unusual premise (albeit somewhat less unusual for a guy who’s made an entire album of songs starting with…