Coffee BreakCoffee Break: New Orleans soundAnna Weggel • Mar 5, 2019As per our tradition for Fat Tuesday, what songs do you want to hear that embody the New Orleans sound for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Notable makeupAnna Weggel • Mar 4, 2019Kiss is in town tonight to play at the Target Center, so for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from musicians and bands that had notable makeup?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Always learning Mar 1, 2019One of the themes you'll hear throughout weekday mornings on The Current is "always learning". Especially through our daily vinyl and music history segments, we LOVE learning about music. Let's lean into that for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. What songs do you want to hear that teach, or reference teaching or learning?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Bug bandsAnna Weggel • Feb 28, 2019Jake 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?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Modern retroAnna Weggel • Feb 27, 2019February 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?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Let's have a birthday partyAnna Weggel • Feb 26, 2019So 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.
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Stuck, trapped, strandedAnna Weggel • Feb 25, 2019Throughout 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?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Bees!Anna Weggel • Feb 22, 2019Jill, 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?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Shoveling playlist Feb 21, 2019This 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.
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Protest songsAnna Weggel • Feb 20, 2019This 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?