Minnesota's own jeremy messersmith hits #1 on the chart this week with a track from his new record, 'Late Stage Capitalism'.

Today's top music news stories include new additions to the National Recording Registry, the growth of music piracy, and a legal win for Marvin Gaye's estate.

Twenty years ago, Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell and Dar Williams put their solo careers on hold for bit to record and album and tour together as the supergroup, Cry Cry Cry. Last summer, the three friends agreed to reunite and even to do a reunion tour. That tour made a welcome stop in the Radio Heartland studio.

Our March Music Madness brackets are officially open for business and this year's them is "iconic voices". So print out your bracket, write in your predictions, share them on social media with the hashtag #VoiceMadness, and in the meantime let us know - what iconic voices do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

'Astral Weeks' follows Van Morrison on a journey to Boston in 1968, as he developed the material that would become his most acclaimed album.

David Bowie and Iggy Pop got busted; Soul Coughing disbanded; Blondie's rap was their biggest crossover hit; and Rosie Stone was born, Today in Music History.

Today's top music news stories include the knighting of Ringo Starr and the deaths of Matt Dike and Hazel Smith.

This week, Mary Lucia talks about the Los Angeles band Starcrawler, who performed at The Current's stage at SXSW and seem to have been 'blessed by the glam gods.'

March 20 is World Storytelling Day - a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that tell a story?

Janis Joplin's cover of a Kris Kristofferson tune took her to No. 1, albeit posthumously; John married Yoko; Lou Reed got excluded from a club for being too punk-ish; T Rex played their final gig ever; and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts loved rock 'n' roll all the way to No. 1, Today in Music History.