ROBERT GLASPER set the jazz web abuzz earlier this week by telling THE BAD PLUS pianist ETHAN IVERSON, in an interview on Iverson's great DO THE M@TH blog, that women don't like listening to a lot of soloing and that there is a thing called the musical clitoris. Glasper, who has never been averse to saying provocative things, is not interested in your outrage over that particular bit of male interview soloing, and Iverson—while offering a perfectly reasonable explanation of why he chose to let Glasper's comments stand—wants you to know that he himself is outraged that you are not aware of his own feminist credentials. There is plenty of truth in what Glasper appears to be trying to say about the sexual power of a great jazz groove—for male and female listeners alike—and plenty of SMDH in the way he chose to say it. Words matter. Agency matters, too, as MICHELLE MERCER points out in a perfectly pitched roundup for NPR MUSIC on what she calls the Saga of Musical Clitoris. "Conflating a musical mood with female anatomy," she writes, "makes women into passive vessels for male sounds. And how do female musicians figure in this gendered construction of improvisation?" Also, she likes "extremely long solos"... With the US COPYRIGHT ROYALTY BOARD holding hearings on new mechanical royalty rates, songwriters are petitioning the major streaming services to "stop litigating against songwriters." Songwriters can sign the petition here... Move over, GRAMMY bump, and say hello to the IHEARTRADIO bump, which has given a nice sales boost to a different set of artists. The big winners of last weekend's iHeartRadio Music Awards, in that sense, were THOMAS RHETT and NOAH CYRUS. The show's live and same-day viewership of 4.1 million was itself a big bump over a year ago... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from LAURA MARLING, VALERIE JUNE, MAGNETIC FIELDS, CHARLI XCX, TENNIS, HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, JACQUES GREENE, DAYMÉ AROCENA, MURS, JAY SOM, THE SHINS, J.I.D, SUNNY SWEENEY, JOSH TURNER, MARTY STUART and BUSH. And tracks of special note from LORDE and NICKI MINAJ.