Bad Cop - My Dying Days, from the new "Light On EP."

Ahead of last Tuesday's generous 23-song set at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, The National stopped by to play songs off their latest record Trouble Will Find Me in Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum. Between songs, frontman Matt Berninger talked to The Current's Mary Lucia about songwriting, skinny jeans, fatherhood and his brother's suddenly skyrocketing film career.

Cults, who were thrust into the indie pop scene in 2010 with their self-titled debut and single "Go Outside," are back with a brand new song.

Let's put together a play list of songs for the Hyperloop. Songs about speed, travel, covering long distances quickly. Let us know what we should play for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

On this week’s Local Show, we devoted most of the two-hour episode to spinning cuts of many of the big Minnesota releases due out this fall. If you missed it, you can listen to the entire show archived here, or browse many of the highlights below—complete with streams of the songs we played on the…

Solar Year - Seeing The Same, from the new album "Waverly."

This week on New Hot, we're taking a look at the most recognizable man in gypsy punk, plus a guy from the south who helped create a new music genre with his debut. These are our three recommended releases for this week.

Infused with winning, strident energy, I Hate Music is the sound of a veteran band with its vitality intact, for which fun and fury are essential components of a life thoughtfully lived.

Jake Bugg is a breath of fresh air in this world full of manufactured pop music and television singing competitions, and he's often armed only with little more than a guitar and a song.

Thanks for the idea, Bob. So, now we throw it to you, what "stop" songs should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?