If you were rebooting a classic daytime music and pop-culture show that was central to your youth-culture brand, would you invite popular musicians who have been accused of domestic violence or other kinds of sexual assault to appear on it? I'm not sure there's an automatically correct answer to that loaded question. We've been debating how to separate, or not separate, the art from the artist for as long as popular culture has existed. There are legitimate gaps between "accused," "frequently accused" and "guilty." There are legitimate questions about which populations tend to be accused and which do not. But this seems like a glaringly wrong answer in 2017: "I'm not sure I want to answer that question. We want to be on what pop culture wants." That's punting on first down to avoid the awful responsibility of having to call a play. TRL returns to MTV next Tuesday... Just in case you think MTV and hip-hop culture have a monopoly on pop stars doing s***ty things, here's the premiere episode of MIKE JUDGE's animated CINEMAX series TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS, which focuses on JOHNNY PAYCHECK, who was not averse to stealing other country singers' cars or shooting people. Episode two, tonight, is about JERRY LEE LEWIS who, to be fair, did get in a lot of trouble for marrying his 13-year-old cousin. Very cool series, btw, not least because Judge is decidedly not punting on the moral questions his subjects pose... This interactive feature on the language of hip-hop—the words rappers use and don't use—is fantastic. And dope. And gangsta. And trill... While the WASHINGTON POST's CHRIS RICHARDS showers praise on the most inauthentically authentic country album of the year, NPR MUSIC's ANN POWERS celebrates KESHA for "annihilating" authenticity at the RYMAN AUDITORIUM in NASHVILLE. This will not be the year we bury authenticity for good, because that year will never come, but we can always hope... BILLBOARD's "21 Under 21"... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from KAMASI WASHINGTON, IBEYI, PROTOMARTYR, FOUR TET, MILEY CYRUS, TORRES, DEMI LOVATO, IGLOOGHOST, SHANIA TWAIN, PARTYNEXTDOOR, BEN FROST, KEYON HARROLD, DAVID CROSBY, A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE, PRIMUS, JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD, DOLLY PARTON, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE, VESSELS, HOODIE ALLEN, PROPAGANDHI, NEIL FINN, KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS, LONEY DEAR and the late RONNIE MONTROSE... And a scary MICHAEL JACKSON comp... And a new concert doc (and accompanying live album) from PEARL JAM playing in select cities. The CLIVE DAVIS doc THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is in theaters, too... RIP CAROL PETERS.