While performing at the nonprofit organization Youthprize as part of The Current's Coffee Break on the Road series, Thao Nguyen captures something of the holiday spirit with an original song about gift cards. The chorus is, ""I give you a gift card of the exact amount of the gift card you gifted me." Listen to the whole song.

You never know quite what to expect from the Replacements, and sometimes that thing you get without expecting it is a 25-minute improvised jazz jam called “Poke Me In My Cage.” The 24-minute-and-22-second track—recorded at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Waltham, Mass., reports Pitchfork—was uploaded to the band’s Soundcloud, complete with porcupine artwork. Scroll down to…

Watch the singer and rapper perform "Skeleton Key" and "The Good Fight" with the VocalEssence choir.

What short songs should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break? Let's see how many songs we can fit in this morning's playlist.

Today, Michael Rand chatted with Jill Riley and Steve Seel about The Vikings still losing, the Wolves trading Corey Brewer, and The Wild aren't playing at their level.

English rock singer Joe Cocker, best known for his iconic covers of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” and Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher, and Dennis Wilson’s “You Are So Beautiful,” passed away today following a battle with lung cancer. Born on May 20, 1944, in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was 70 years…

Elvis had the most singles of the year, the Faces got a new drummer, and The Clast lost their lead singer Today in Music History.

As a special treat this Christmas week, Tim Mahoney and Robert Robinson have shared their new cover of “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.” The song was first released in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, and became closely associated with the holiday season two decades later when a cover by Annie Lennox and Al Green…

According to Hip Hop Hall of Fame chairman JT Thompson, $50 million has been raised towards an $80 million goal to open two museum sites in New York City: a central site in Midtown and a “satellite museum” in Harlem. Thompson, producer of BET’s Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards Show from 1992-97, has been trying…

Producer Ralph Sall lined up a stunning roster of vocalists to match the 34 Paul McCartney-penned tracks on this collection of songs, the best selections of which stray farthest from the originals.