What deeper cuts or rarities from Paul McCartney do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

The second annual HazelFest, a clean-and-sober music festival put on by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, will take place this Saturday, August 2, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The show is sponsored by Healthy States and the Current. This year’s lineup features Davina and the Vagabonds, Communist Daughter, and Trapper Schoepp and the Shades,…

In a massively crowd-sourced list, Reddit users have decided that the best albums of the 21st century so far are Arcade Fire‘s Funeral (2004), Radiohead‘s Kid A (2000), the Strokes‘ Is This It (2001), and Kanye West‘s The College Dropout (2004). Lorde will “curate” the soundtrack to the new Hunger Games movie, as well as contribute a song herself. The music is expected to…

What songs about laws and legal matters should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Downtown Records’ Downtown Festival will bring a promising lineup to the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis on September 26 and 27. The festival will include Future Islands, Deafheaven, Nosaj Thing, and Minneapolis’s own summer sensations Hippo Campus, among others. The event’s schedule spreads its lineup into several separate bills in each room of the Skyway Theatre: performances…

Getting Target Field ready for Paul McCartney’s Saturday concert has been a multi-day process—building a giant stage in the outfield is just one of many steps being taken to welcome thousands of music fans to the home field of the Minnesota Twins. This morning, I was able to visit the field to take a look…

Jimmy Page has been fueling rumors of a Led Zeppelin reunion, blaming Robert Plant for standing in the way. “He’s just playing games,” Plant told the New York Times in May, “and I’m fed up with it, to be honest with you.” Now, Plant says he feels “disappointed and baffled” by Page’s seemingly futile attempts…

For the Beatles’ original fans, their first experience with the band’s music was probably hearing a chart-busting hit on the radio or lowering a needle onto a freshly-released album—or, for those few lucky fans, hearing them live at the Cavern. I didn’t hear my first Beatles song, though, until nearly 44 years after it was released. In fact, I…

What songs mentioning "best friend(s)" should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

The Beatles closed Apple, Boy George got into some legal trouble, and Kate Bush was born Today in Music History.