TUPAC, NILE RODGERS, JOAN BAEZ, PEARL JAM, ELO, YES and JOURNEY officially enter the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME tonight in a BROOKLYN ceremony that will be long on prog-rock and mysteriously short on CHIC. Key subplots: Journey and STEVE PERRY. Pearl Jam and its drummers. In fact, none of the bands being inducted will arrive at the ceremony intact. Maybe Perry should sing with Yes and Rodgers should play rhythm guitar for ELO. We collect new and vintage stories as well as music and video from all the inductees in our REDEF MusicSET Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017... Fresh off Spotify's landmark deal with UMG, the WALL STREET JOURNAL reports the streaming giant is considering going public with a direct listing rather than a traditional IPO. That would mean putting shares on an exchange with no underwriter, with the price "set organically based on supply and demand." It's an approach generally used by small companies that don't expect much trading volume, i.e. not companies like this. A nagging question remains: What does Spotify's recent dealmaking mean for artists?... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from FATHER JOHN MISTY, JOEY BADA$$, ARCA, FUTURE ISLANDS, TECH N9NE, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, COLD WAR KIDS, CLARK, DEEP PURPLE, MICHELLE BRANCH, PENTATONIX, FALLING IN REVERSE, IMELDA MAY, THE MAINE, DIET CIG, ANNIE HARDY, TIMBER TIMBRE, THE WILD REEDS, and DANGER MOUSE and SAM COHEN's guest-star-studded THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE soundtrack. And last but not at all least GUIDED BY VOICES, whose double-length AUGUST BY CAKE is the 100th studio album ROBERT POLLARD has released, soon to be overshadowed by his 101st, which he will probably record Monday and release Tuesday... RIP PAUL O'NEILL of TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, BRENDA JONES of THE JONES GIRLS and Lower East Side fixture and JOHN LENNON cohort DAVID PEEL.