While the basketball world was giving LEBRON JAMES a hard time THURSDAY, the hip-hop world was rewarding him with the surprise release of an album he had personally requested nine days earlier. Thank you, LEBRON, for ordering a new KENDRICK LAMAR album. Feel free to request a FRANK OCEAN album now... KENDRICK's "UNTITLED UNMASTERED" apparently collects leftover tracks from the "TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY" sessions, including some he's been playing live over the past year, and some, like the pop jam "UNTITLED 8" (which he was calling "UNTITLED 2" when he debuted it on "THE TONIGHT SHOW" two months ago), that sound like instant classics... It's FRIDAY and that means there's also new music from ESPERANZA SPALDING, LORETTA LYNN, 2 CHAINZ & LIL WAYNE, POLIÇA, BAS, HERON OBLIVION, M. WARD, RAY LAMONTAGNE, LA SERA, WUSSY, MIIKE SNOW, LÅPSLEY, NADA SURF and the first VIOLENT FEMMES album in 16 years... For the benefit of "guys (and it’s always guys)" who find this hard to believe, BJÖRK collaborator issues statement saying yes, she makes her own music... GAELYNN LEA's haunting and gorgeous "SOMEDAY WE'LL LINGER IN THE SUN," built entirely on a looped fiddle, wins NPR MUSIC's 2016 TINY DESK CONTEST... The WINTERGATAN MARBLE MACHINE... A SXSW guide for PRESIDENT OBAMA.