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Coffee Break: 2010

Crew from Minnesota Public Radio set up the sound booth outside Walker Art Center in preparation for Rock the Garden 2010.
Crew from Minnesota Public Radio set up the sound booth outside Walker Art Center in preparation for Rock the Garden 2010. Eamon Coyne/MPR

by Jill Riley and Nilufer Arsala

January 10, 2025

Our journey through The Current’s Top 89 year-end countdowns continues, and we have flown past the aughts and made it to 2010. The turn of the decade brought advances in social media — namely the launch of Instagram — and Florence and The Machine landed on top of The Current’s top songs of the year.

From The Current: Top 89 songs of 2010

As our celebration of the station’s 20th anniversary continues during the Coffee Breaks, let’s craft a 2010 playlist that rocks!

So for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from The Current’s Top 89 Songs countdown from 2010 would you like to hear?


Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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