Death Cab for Cutie jump from #10 to #2 this week with "Gold Rush," and Greta Van Fleet's "When the Curtain Falls" debuted at #4.

Strawberry Field (yes, THE Strawberry Field) is opening to tourists; Jennifer Lopez has been named the next MTV Video Vanguard Award recipient; Billboard is confronting a problematic internal culture; Nicki Minaj is tweeting with Tracy Chapman about clearing a sample; and new music is coming from Dave Grohl and (probably) the Dixie Chicks.

When thinking back to last year’s inaugural FEMN Fest, co-producer Abigail Mlinar remembers there being “love in the room every night.” The Duluth festival returns Sept. 21-22 for its second year and includes a lineup of female-identifying musicians, educators, and vendors. It is an unconventional music festival that acts, in the words of Mlinar, as “an opportunity…

For this week's Rock & Roll Book Club, Jay Gabler brought us Jason Heller's "Strange Stars" which is a book about David Bowie, pop music, and the decade sci-fi exploded. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have a sci-fi element to them?

In 'Strange Stars,' Jason Heller chronicles the many ways in which science fiction suffused popular music in the 1970s.

Chuck D was born; Beatles Monthly became a thing; Sonny and Cher got a show; the harmonica makes a comeback; and MTV launched, Today in Music History.

Jack White plays the Armory in Minneapolis on Monday, Aug. 6. Ahead of that show, Mary Lucia talks to Brian Oake about their shared fandom of Jack White, as well as Brian's experience seeing Jack White perform at the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta earlier this year.

A Smashing Pumpkins anniversary show will feature guests including Courtney Love; Madonna has launched a birthday fundraiser; Laura Jane Grace has announced a tour with her new band; Demi Lovato continues to recover; Flea reunited with former bandmate John Frusciante; and some unexpectedly music-related shopping news.

The singer and guitarist fields comments from listeners about her music and talks about the ways her songs can be interpreted.

Rudy Giuliani took to Twitter Sunday morning and mysteriously posted the word "You". Let's finish that phrase for him. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that say "You...something something"?