Room3 and Yonder, the top vote-getters in this year’s Minnesota Music Month Scouting Report, performed as part of a live recording of The Local Show in the UBS Forum in St. Paul.

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs written by Bob Dylan or Dylan covers would you like to hear?

Elton John partnered with Brandi Carlile for a new album of duets, Who Believes in Angels? But the project almost fell apart during its first recording sessions.

Jason Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very specific time where I was going through a lot of changes," he says.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that reference baseball or going to a game would you like to hear?

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from musical partners would you like to hear?

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies.

Alan Sparhawk, Sunny War, Phil Cook, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Gibbons and Wilco’s Nels Cline were among the performers at this four-day festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs with false endings would you like to hear?