A friend emailed me the other day to ask what people mean when they say "rock is dead," especially at a time when ARCADE FIRE can have a #1 album. I responded by noting that a) Arcade Fire probably won't still have the #1 album a week from now; b) albums 2 through 6 this week are all hip-hop albums, all of which may fly by Arcade Fire on next week's chart; c) something about how the guitar-bass-drums band, reliable and evergreen as it may be, is a quaint notion in 2017; d) there are exactly two radio stations in LOS ANGELES that play this stuff that aren't oldies stations or college/public radio, and e) yadda yadda yadda. But the thing is, it really *is* an evergreen way of making music. Ask THE WAR ON DRUGS. Ask PORTUGAL. THE MAN. Ask these guys. Ask RIHANNA. What say you?... CHANCE THE RAPPER's RAPPER RADIO is a clean, simple website with a single function: to make it easy for fans to request specific songs (by Chance and others) on their local radio stations via TWITTER. Could a popular musician—someone like, say, Chance—do the same for public policy? He tells STRETCH & BOBBITO he's thinking about it. And he swears he has "a larger platform ... than literally anybody that works in politics." Sounds like a great use of his 5m Twitter followers if you ask me. Take a chance... BRUCE on BROADWAY! With a script! And a score! And previews! (Maybe he should get someone else to play himself. STEW from PASSING STRANGE could be a good Bruce)... Is this a good ticket solution for a high-demand, low-inventory show like that? (And, wait, please tell me that the idea of an "engagement metric" for deciding who gets tickets doesn't mean we're officially living in the world of a BLACK MIRROR episode. And if we are, please tell me ASAP so I can work on my rating.) A reminder, for anyone who needs it, of the myriad problems and potential solutions facing that part of the biz. MusicSET: "Can Concert Ticketing Be Fixed?" ... Seats for the TAYLOR SWIFT trial in DENVER, on the other hand, appear to be easy to score... One little thing wrong with FORBES' list of the world's highest-paid DJs (not Forbes' fault). CALVIN HARRIS, I hope you tip well... Seventeen '80s songs about nuclear war... Can you tell the difference between a $285,000 violin and a $62 violin? And can you play either one like she does?