Margaret Glaspy is back after a week's hiatus; Car Seat Headrest, Glass Animals and Cage the Elephant makes debuts; and Chance The Rapper reaches No.1 for the first time.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine featuring music from the year 1985. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

What vinyl-related stunt is Jack White up to now? Third Man Records is teasing a July 30 announcement about “making vinyl history.” A video shows a gold record in space — the record being one issued by the label in 2009, featuring the remixed voices of Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. As Stereogum notes, White has talked about his…

We are mentally preparing for excessive heat and moisture over the next few days, with temperatures in the 90s Wednesday through Friday and a peak near 100 degrees in Minnesota tomorrow. Hopefully you are staying cool and finding A/C while we listen to songs that mention "hot" and "heat" for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

John Moe, using as a baseline what he likes and dislikes about pro sports-team names, proposes at set of band-naming rules to be instituted through international law. 'And reasons?' John writes. 'Yeah, I have reasons.'

The very first Billboard chart was published; Jan and Dean had a hit with help from Brian Wilson; Iron Butterfly released an album that featured a 17-minute track; Buzzcocks made their live debut; and EMF went No. 1 with "Unbelievable", Today in Music History.

'Growing up, copies of Rolling Stone, Trouser Press, NY Rocker, Spin and Creem magazines were littered across the family coffee table,' writes Mary Lucia. 'Creem was a snotty, Midwest anwer to Rolling Stone.' Looch reminisces about the now-defunct Creem and shares some details about an upcoming documentary film about the ground-breaking rock mag.

Dessa is getting her own flavor of ice cream, courtesy of Izzy’s. “Dessa’s Existential Crunch” is “a Dark Brown Sugar and Creme Fraiche ice cream, flavored with Jameson Irish Whiskey and Disaronno Originale amaretto to help you contemplate the incomprehensible, all mixed with Praline Pecan pieces and a crunchy cashew brittle.” The flavor will be…

The band confirms it has a new album called Schmilco coming in September and shares a song called 'If I Ever Was A Child'. Last week Wilco released another song called 'Locator'.

Yesterday Rolling Stone published the 27 best Republican excuses for skipping the Republican National Convention this year. Today, let's listen to songs for our 9:30 Coffee Break that feature excuses - whether they are in the form of "I'd rather", "but", "because", etc.