Each week on the Local Show, we’ll meet a new person from the Minnesota music community who has some music to share in a feature called “Ask a Cool Person.” These people will come from all corners of the scene, including record store clerks, recording studio engineers and producers, artists, writers, bookers, photographers, and fans.…

14,000 people converged at Rock the Garden on Saturday, prepared for a line-up that bridged genres and age brackets. Some had bought the ticket for veteran party rockers the Flaming Lips; some went for young indie-rock sensations Hippo Campus; many jumped on the opportunity to see the boundary-breaking Chance the Rapper. All day long, fans…

Matt Darling, local trombone player with the Honeydogs and other bands, got a call 90 minutes before Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats took the stage at Rock the Garden. Darling was asked to fill in for Wesley Watkins, the Night Sweats' trumpet player who had fallen ill. 'Like everybody else, I love this music,' Darling says.

Rock the Garden, "the real start to summer" as Jill Riley calls it, is tomorrow. Let's spend today's Coffee Break looking back at some of your favorite performances from past Rock the Gardens.

Haley Bonar, “Kismet Kill” Haley Bonar‘s new video, directed by Nicole Brending, tells the story of a prom queen grown old. Pale pink, black, and metallic shades suit this song perfectly, teasing Bonar’s new album Impossible Dream, due August 5. The Counterfactuals, “Every Turn You Take Is Right” “I didn’t set out to write a song…

Art in tribute to Prince is planned for Glastonbury — and, reportedly, Chanhassen. The Glastonbury grounds next week will feature a 13-foot sculpture of “a giant glittery hand carrying a purple crown with a white dove flying from the top”; Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) will also play a DJ set in honor of Prince. Sculptural tributes to David…

Rock the Garden is TWO DAYS AWAY! You'll be hearing some festival-themed programming leading up to the event, so let's take an offshoot on the theme this morning. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention gardening, plants or vegetables?

Sean Lennon and Les Claypool -- collectively known as The Lennon Claypool Delirium -- are in town for a show Wednesday night at the Skyway Theatre. They stopped by our studio to chat with Jade ahead of their performance.

In the wake of Christina Grimmie’s death — which happened when the singer was shot this past weekend during a meet-and-greet — musicians are opening up about their fears of potentially dangerous fans. As the New York Times notes, “Music history is dotted with stories of stalkers and dangerous fanatics, like those that killed John…

After Sunday's mass shootings in Orlando, we want to focus this morning's music on love. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that remind us love is all you need?