Longreads for a long weekend... BRIAN ENO gives PITCHFORK's PHILIP SHERBURNE a generous tour of his musical brain. Their long, smart conversation is focused on Eno's regenerative album (and app) REFLECTION, but strays off into reflections on the meaning and architecture of ambient music in general (spoiler: no one ever said it has to be quiet and mellow), how a non-musician approaches the studio ("I've always loved rhythm guitar and I've never been able to play it"), and the differences between permanent and ephemeral music, among other things. Also, Eno does not like Trump, in case we weren't clear on that... Eno would perhaps appreciate the thinking patterns of DIRTY PROJECTORS singer/guitarist DAVID LONGSTRETH, who wanders off into a brief sidebar about fractal geometry in the middle of a NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE profile. JONAH WEINER's story traces Longstreth's unlikely path from abstruse indie rocker to collaborations with SOLANGE, BJÖRK and KANYE WEST (spoiler: Longstreth brought his own ceramic coffee dripper to a MEXICAN songwriting retreat for Kanye's THE LIFE OF PABLO album) and back to an LA studio where he's working on the Dirty Projectors' seventh album (and demonstrating cringeworthy posture on a mid-century modern sofa)... WEIRD AL YANKOVIC is still sad that COOLIO isn't cool with his 1996 song "AMISH PARADISE," which appears to be the only emotional setback he has suffered in four improbable decades of pop success. The WASHINGTON POST's GEOFF EDGERS goes long on the pop parodist who has "outlasted so many of the stars he once spoofed" and who continues to ask personal permission of every artist he parodies, even if it means jumping in front of IGGY AZALEA unannounced as she's walking offstage in COLORADO to show her the lyrics to "HANDY" (spoiler: she said yes)... WALTER "JUNIE" MORRISON, a keyboardist (and songwriter and producer and you-name-it) who played on the OHIO PLAYERS' early albums and went on to become FUNKADELIC's musical director, was an unheralded star of '70s pop (or maybe not so unheralded). And not just because he co-wrote "ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE," but, come on. RIP... ACM Award nominations: Yes to KEITH URBAN and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, no to GRAMMY Album of the Year nominee STURGILL SIMPSON... The ROOTS will perform an NBA-themed musical at Sunday's NBA All-Star Game, and I'm already thinking they should be playing at halftime of the next SUPER BOWL... HBO acquires DAVID BOWIE: THE LAST FIVE YEARS doc... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from FUTURE, JIDENNA, RYAN ADAMS, JONWAYNE, CHARLIE WILSON, NIKKI LANE, ALISON KRAUSS, THE COURTNEYS, FAT JOE & REMY MA, TIM DARCY, HANNI EL KHATIB, THE ORWELLS, JENS LEKMAN, MOZART'S SISTER, PEGI YOUNG & THE SURVIVORS and SON VOLT... MusicREDEF is taking Monday off in honor of PRESIDENTS' DAY. We'll be back Tuesday.