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

Happy Halloween! What better way to kick off the Friday Five that with a full-blown murder mystery movie from garage rock quartet L’Assassins. Also on deck is a brand-new video from Atmosphere, a North Shore session from Haley Bonar, and more… L’Assassins Kill! Kill! Kill! Who needs a run-of-the-mill music video when you can make a whole…

With an international release this month, Duluth’s Wolf Blood is a band on the verge of making some major noise both home and abroad. Here’s the story of how a doom/psych/stoner metal band from Northern Minnesota found its audience. Sometimes, as they say, timing is everything. The flood that ravaged Duluth, Minnesota in the spring…

You can’t buy pipes like Sia‘s, but you can buy what comes out of them: tonight, a sealed jar of the singer’s breath will be auctioned off to raise money to support filmmakers in her native Adelaide, Australia. “Gorgeously and magnificently, she breathed into a jar for us,” says the director of the film festival where…

Hip-hop heroes Heiruspecs will be co-headlining with Carnage and the Last Band Standin’ on Dec. 19 at the Turf Club, as a part of their Holiday Classic Series. An unknown special guest will open the show, and will be announced on Nov. 11. Advance tickets are available on the Turf Club website. Update 11/20: K. Raydio and…

This morning, Low confirmed via Twitter that they would be opening for Mark Kozelek’s solo performance at the Karpeles Museum in Duluth on Nov. 13. Kozelek is better known under the moniker Sun Kil Moon, a name he’s released most of his music under for the past several years. The Karpeles Museum holds the largest…

What songs do you want to hear from bands that have dressed in costumes? Let us know what songs you want to hear and we'll use your suggestions to put together a 9:30 Coffee Break.

For reasons that the publisher has declined to state, a few sentences on Morrissey‘s intimate relationship with photographer Jake Walters were deleted from the American hardcover edition of Morrissey’s autobiography when it was published last year, though the passages appeared in the original British edition. The passages have now been restored—with just as little explanation—to the American…

When Sydney's Boy & Bear were in the studio for a live session, front man Dave Hosking took some time to talk about his vintage Gibson guitar. One of the things that drew him to the instrument was how "it sounded like all [his] favorite Neil Young records."

What songs about creepy-crawlies should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?