So here’s a conundrum I’ve been mulling over lately: With so much hype all around us, and with the internet shoving one item after another down our throats with the promise that they are each the craziest, all-time best things that we absolutely must click on right now, what are we supposed to do when we actually really,…

“It’s presumptuous. It’s lazy,” says Dave Grohl about bands who perform classic albums front-to-back on tour. “I f—ing hate that,” Grohl told NME. He also revealed that he considered re-recording the entire Foo Fighters debut album for its 20th anniversary, until drummer Taylor Hawkins told him that would be the “worst idea ever.” Instead, Foo Fighters will celebrate…

While in the studio at The Current, Delta Spirit's Matt Vasquez played a Fender Kingman, which actually has a connection to Elvis in the movies. Matt explains, and he also describes some of his other favorite guitars.

Cloud Cult started as a solo music-making project by Owatonna’s Craig Minowa in the mid-90s. He seemed torn then as to whether to make it a career or to dedicate his life to environmental activism. In the past 20 years he has found a unique way to have his cake and eat it too, blending his…

What songs about winning and losing should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

“I just locked myself in my f—ing lair, bro,” 19-year-old Pablo Dylan tells Rolling Stone about the process by which he made his forthcoming album Midnight. Pablo Dylan is the son of film director Jesse Dylan, who’s the son of Bob Dylan with former wife Sara Lownds Dylan. Pablo Dylan says his grandfather has been very supportive, but no…

Bill DeVille's Sunday-morning Americana program went on the air in 2009, but it turns out the show had been percolating for at least 20 years before then. Bill shares the story as 'US of A' celebrates five years on the air.

Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete The Bootleg Series filling in the gaps of Bob Dylan’s career is back with volume 11. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings released The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 today. The six-disc set of restored recordings comes from sessions Dylan did with the Band in 1967. Robbie Robertson,…

Let's get rolling on an election themed Coffee Break.

St. Paul quartet thestand4rd’s debut performance at the Amsterdam Bar and Hall on Saturday night—which also marked the live debut of one of its members, the 16-year-old internet sensation Spooky Black—was nothing short of a spectacle. After about an hour of expert-level DJing by DJ TIIIIIIIIIIP and fumbling, entry-level DJing by Spooky Black himself (who…