Mary Lucia talks about director Richard Lowenstein's biopic 'Mystify: Michael Hutchence,' which explores the complex life of the late INXS frontman. The film will make its Minnesota Premiere at the Sound Unseen Film Festival on November 17.

How do you make a catalog of deftly delivered rap hits a classical collaboration? Dessa walks through the process of making 'Sound the Bells,' her new album of her greatest hits with the Minnesota Orchestra providing the score behind the celebrated singer and rapper.

Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns has been on a tear this season, helping to propel the Timberwolves to a 4-1 start to the 2018-19 NBA season. Towns's play has been so impressive even, that it might be time that the 'Big Meow' gets his own song. Jeffrey Bissoy makes an appeal to artists to step up to the free-throw line.

Happy Election Day! While not every Minnesota community will have something on the ballot this year, many do, including city council elections, school referenda and school board elections. What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that mention choice or choosing?

'The Nat King Cole Show' was the first on U.S. TV hosted by an African American; Elvis played at the old Met Center in Bloomington, Minn.; the Beach Boys had a film-fueled hit with 'Kokomo'; Garbage kicked off a world tour at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis; and Ryan Adams was born 41 years ago Today in Music History.

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More than three decades after the death of her parents, Moorer has a new memoir and companion album, both called 'Blood,' about her abusive father and the emotional scars of being orphaned at 14.

Marika Hackman is the type of musician fueled by contradictions. On her third studio album, August's 'Any Human Friend,' she embraces them as they exist within herself, her relationships, and culturally with shimmering indie-pop songs that depart from her folksier, atmospheric roots.

Fresh from work on a forthcoming new album, Chastity Brown enthralled an audience full of lucky winners with four new songs, plus a fan-favorite from her 2017 album 'Silhouette of Sirens.'

It's National Candy Day! If you're a parent who is enjoying your kids' Halloween candy after they go to bed or if you're making your way through the trick-or-treating leftovers in your office kitchen (like we are), this one will resonate with you. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention candy or a specific type of candy?