We're thrilled to debut the new REDEF website. New UI, easier sharing, ability to follow and watch what your friends are reading, charts, originals, sets, social and reader app sync, full newsletter and account management and of course a neverending mix of the best reading in media, fashion, music, sports and technology... Normally you have to get elected before all the songs protesting your presidency are written and recorded. But DONALD TRUMP is not your average candidate, and songwriters and musicians aren't waiting around to see if it actually happens. Or maybe they're just a little antsy. Or scared. EMINEM sounds like he has so much to get off his chest on "CAMPAIGN SPEECH" ("that's what you wanted? A f***in' loose cannon who's blunt with his hand on the button / Who doesn't have to answer to no one? Great idea!") that he could hardly bother adding a beat; it's nearly a spoken-word track. It's angry, impassioned, smart, a little offensive and pretty good. (And, Emimen being Eminem, Trump is far from the only target of the eight-minute rap.) "We can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't wait" for HILLARY to win the election, electropoppers LE TIGRE sing on "I'M WITH HER," their first new song in 12 years, which sounds like a cheerleading chant. On "BACKWARDS BLUES," the 11th entry in the DAVE EGGERS-curated 30 DAYS 30 SONGS project, singer-songwriter ADIA VICTORIA strips down to voice and acoustic guitar while training her eyes on both candidate and country: "I might be okay if I couldn't say / He was was speaking to half of us." PITCHFORK's MARC HOGAN on "What We Can Learn From the Political Music of Other Depressing Elections," by which he means 2004... The late ROD TEMPERTON was "a white guy at the soul of black pop," BRUCE BRITT writes in a thoughtful remembrance of the "THRILLER" songwriter who died two weeks ago. You can double that for PHIL CHESS, the CHESS RECORDS co-founder who died Tuesday. Though he and his brother LEONARD sold the label almost 50 years ago, they left behind an unmatched legacy of recordings by MUDDY WATERS, ETTA JAMES, CHUCK BERRY, HOWLIN' WOLF and several other 20th century giants. "Phil and Leonard Chess were cuttin’ the type of music nobody else was paying attention to," BUDDY GUY, whose relationship with the label was less than great, says. Pick almost any strain of modern Western pop music and you can draw a line, either direct or indirect, back to the monumental sides Chess released in the '50s and '60s... Is TAYLOR SWIFT the new EDDIE VAN HALEN? Completely serious question... GARTH BROOKS, one of the last big streaming holdouts, is holding out no more... BOBBY SHMURDA sentenced to seven years, after saying he was "forced by my attorney to take this plea."