Today's Coffee Break theme: real songs about real people. You helped us pull together a playlist that would surely make the Biography Channel proud.

Duluth Mayor Don Ness can still remember the marquee lights of the NorShor Theater shining bright on East Superior Street in the 1990s. “It was the birthplace of the Homegrown Music Festival,” Ness said, “and a lot of prominent bands in Duluth all started at the NorShor. It was a really important part of my…

I hope you didn’t have anything important you wanted to get done today. Seriously. If you can pull yourself away from this new interactive Bob Dylan video for his song “Like A Rolling Stone”—a video that was released today, approximately 48 years and four months after the song’s debut—after playing it just once, then I…

What songs that feature the title as the first words should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Congratulations to the Varsity Theater for winning the award for America’s Best Restroom. Here are a few suggestions as to other local music venues that deserve to have their restrooms recognized. Best Restroom View: First Avenue. On your way to the sinks, take a look outside to see whether the Timberwolves game is out yet.…

Just over six months after Sue McLean’s passing, a tribute show on November 23 at First Avenue will honor the memory and influence of one of Minnesota’s most prominent music promoters. The show, organized by friends and fans of McLean, will feature Eric Hutchinson, Soul Asylum, and the BoDeans, among other local artists. “We could…

As the final places for next year's World Cup are sorted out, we take this opportunity to check in with one of local footie heroes who has a musical bent: Minnesota United FC forward Max Griffin.

Give us your suggestions for songs that end with a "cha cha cha." We'll play a couple of your suggestions for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

Now in its fourth year, Atmosphere’s Welcome to Minnesota continues to grow. This year, the tour is so big that the state of Minnesota can’t even contain it; in addition to taking their usual lap around greater Minnesota, Atmosphere will bring their tour over the border for a night in Fargo, North Dakota. The tour…

With winter setting in and those colder temperatures upon us, light the fireplace and give The Avett Brothers' Magpie and the Dandelion a spin. It'll warm your heart and soul.