Jake Edwin Charles Kennedy, aka Jake Bugg, was born today in 1994, making him 25 today. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from bands with bug names?

February 27 is National Retro Day - a day to reflect on the time before smartphones and the internet and fondly remember a simpler time. Let's take a slight twist on this for today's 9:30 Coffee Break: what songs do you want to hear from modern artists that have a retro throwback sound?

So many wonderful artists were born today -- which ones would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee break? And for fun, let's add plus or minus one day.

Throughout Minnesota but especially in southern parts of the state, driving has been...complicated, with roads and events canceled, shoveling being frustrating and people feeling stir crazy trapped in their houses. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that reference feeling stuck, trapped or stranded?

Jill, Eric and Anna are obsessed with a story over at MPR News about the world's largest bee - spotted in Indonesia and recorded at an inch and a half long, with a tongue that's almost an inch long. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bee songs and bands do you want to hear?

This week we smashed the record for the snowiest February in history as measured at the MSP airport, and it's the first time we've topped 30" since December 2010. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's make a shoveling playlist. As in, what songs would you want to shovel by? Take that as you will.

This morning, Jay Gabler brought by the book "Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs" by James Sullivan which examines American history through the lens of popular, socially conscious music. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what protest and socially conscious songs do you want to hear?

Thanks to listener John who wrote in and reminded us that yesterday was John Hughes' birthday. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's make a soundtrack to a fictional John Hughes teen movie. What songs - spanning all genres - do you want to hear?

A new academic study from Michigan's Lawrence Technical University claims that pop music is getting sadder and angrier.

Happy Valentines Day! What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?