This summer, three women at the peak of their powers lead a spectacular pop culture revival. Barbie, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift shattered records and created a communal economy of irrational exuberance.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which 2020s-era hip-hop songs do you want to hear?

This week marks 50 years of hip-hop. We remember music of Missy Elliott, Funky 4 + 1, Roxanne Shanté, Salt-N-Pepa, and Gangsta Boo.

The Barbie movie has hit a BILLION dollars at the box office, and all of that pink has pushed music from the soundtrack to The Current Chart Show this week.

This week hear new songs from OK Go, Minneapolis punk band Oister Boy, Jorja Smith, Danger Mouse and Jemini, Stephen Sanchez and MJ Lenderman.

The indie-rock titans linked up with New Zealand band the Beths for their Minneapolis performance on Wednesday.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which 2010s-era hip-hop songs do you want to hear?

This week marks 50 years of hip-hop. Today, we look back on music from Juggaknots, Company Flow, Dr. Octagon, R.A. the Rugged Man, and 50 Cent.

Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was 81. 

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who, in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” mined and and helped reshape American music, died Wednesday at 80.