A Max Martin musical is in the works, Lollapalooza will livestream a lot, and Madonna is taking her family out of America. Also: Courtney Love might have a Grateful Dead godfather, 'fake' artists are stirring suspicion on Spotify, and Kate McKinnon can rap in Hungarian.

John Prine takes faces mortality with humor and heart in a new animated video for 'Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone),' off his latest album, 'The Tree of Forgiveness.'

Thanks to Loran for writing in with today's theme idea. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention some sort of medical ailment or symptom?

Fela Kuti passed away; James Jamerson died; Bob Dylan got into a fight at his reunion; and Aretha Franklin made her television debut, Today in Music History.

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.