Today's music news headlines include the cancellation of the Beach Vibes Festival, a John Lennon suit up for auction, a strain of marijuana developed by the late Merle Haggard, and a massive tunnel-boring machine named 'Driller Mike'.

The inspired 'Head Carrier' reaffirms all the spark, wit and weirdness, tempered by the occasional burst of emotional rawness, that made people fall in love with the Pixies in the first place.

California quartet Warpaint recently stopped by our studio to share songs from their forthcoming release, Heads Up. The group also chatted with Mac Wilson about the making of that album.

Happy Fall! Today is the Autumn Equinox - where the sun shifts to rise directly in the east and sets directly in the west, illuminating the Earth pole to pole. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that remind you of fall?

While grabbing a sandwich during a work break, Peter Jesperson stumbled upon a cover band that transformed how he thought about the Twin Cities music scene. “I suppose I was a little bit of a snob working at the record store thinking there wasn’t anything local that was as good as what we were selling,”…

Elvis shipped out to his army post; the Springfields landed in the U.S. top 20; the Band released their self-titled album; Dylan's 'Hard Rain' went Gold; and the first Farm Aid concert was held, Today in Music History.

Nick Cave creeps into the basement spot; Regina Spektor and Florence and the Machine make big moves; and Haley Bonar reaches No.1 as she is inducted to the Hall of Fame.

Stranger Things makes a splash in the music world Just two days after Wiz Khalifa sampled the Stranger Things theme song in a song called, appropriately, “Stranger Things,” YouTuber/internet darling Nathan Zed hopped on the train. “You can really do anything with this BRUH,” he snaps as he shows off his Kanye West, Kendrick, Drake, Beyoncé, and Desiigner mash-ups (all while being infinitely more…

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about music from 1995. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

'Aside from friends and family,' Mary Lucia asks, 'who knows more about you than your mail carrier and your pharmacist?' In this week's column, Mary considers what her postal carrier and pharmacist may know about her, and what she feels like asking them to level the field of personal knowledge.