I've run out of words before, and now I've run out of them again. I want to scream. Every.Single.Year that I've been writing this newsletter, there's been a mass shooting targeted at music fans. Rock fans in Paris in 2015. Bachata fans in Orlando in 2016. Country fans in Las Vegas in 2017. More country fans—college kids, line dancers, people looking for a fun, peaceful, music-filled night out—in Thousand Oaks in 2018. I keep writing the same sentence, and it keeps getting longer. This time, the violence happened within an easy drive of my house; if you live in or around LA, there's a good chance you know people who hung out there, or whose kids hung out there. Those parents were my social media feeds on Thursday, along with music people thinking about bands they knew who played there. Kids should not have to worry, ever, if the local music club is safe from men with guns. Bands should not have to worry, ever, if the stage they're booked to play is safe from men with guns. Doctors should not have to worry, ever, if live music is bad for their patients. Exactly 12 hours before a gunman opened fire inside the BORDERLINE BAR & GRILL, with a legally purchased GLOCK 21 handgun with an extended magazine, the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION tweeted, from its official account, that "self-important" physicians should "stay in their lane" and not talk about gun control. The NRA was responding to scholarly articles in ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE in which the professionals who treat gun injuries repeated longtime calls to treat those injuries and deaths as a public health crisis, with research, public discussion, better access to mental health services and modest government regulation. I'm not a physician or a politician or a gun owner, and I don't pretend to have a magic solution. I'm a music fan. I know there are two things that connect these annual tragedies. One of them is music. The other is a problem we should be talking about, today and every day, before it happens again... For the past year, the Borderline Bar had been a refuge, a safe space, for country fans who survived the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in Las Vegas a year ago. A few dozen survivors were regulars, and many were there Wednesday. It was a place to "celebrate life," one told the NEW YORK TIMES. They didn't all survive this time... EVENTBRITE is phasing out TICKETFLY, which it bought a year ago, in favor of a new ticketing service for indie venues, promoters and festivals called Eventbrite Music... "I look at the NBA as the new MTV," says STEVE STOUTE, whose UNITEDMASTERS startup has positioned itself as a data-friendly label alternative for emerging artists. The company's new partnership with the basketball league will put music by its artists into social media promotions across NBA properties. No word on which sports league is the new VH1... You still can't edit a tweet but KANYE WEST can edit his albums any time he wants, even if they've already been released, even if you've already liked them... I can't believe they didn't call it CSI: BERGHAIN. Instead they called it BEAT, and it arrives today on AMAZON PRIME... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the late LIL PEEP and the late CHARLES BRADLEY as well as TRIPPIE REDD, THEY., KANE BROWN, LAURA JANE GRACE & THE DEVOURING MOTHERS, SMINO, CUPCAKKE, JAY DANIEL, MEG BAIRD & MARY LATTIMORE, OBJEKT, TOMMY GENESIS, JONAS BLUE, STEVE AOKI, MUSE, IMAGINE DRAGONS, TEE GRIZZLEY, PLANNINGTOROCK, GOLDEN HORNET WITH JEFFREY ZEIGLER, TEDDY GEIGER, ROGER WATERS, SARAH BRIGHTMAN, ACE OF CUPS, IDK, HANSON, J MASCIS, WILLIAM PARKER, DAVID S. WARE, ALL THAT REMAINS, TED NUGENT, LARKIN POE, the GIBSON BROTHERS, MASTA ACE & MARCO POLO, J FERNANDEZ, the GLANDS, JON SPENCER and JEFF GOLDBLUM (yes, that Jeff Goldblum) & THE MILDRED SNITZER ORCHESTRA... Plus, 50th anniversary editions of the WHITE ALBUM and ELECTRIC LADYLAND, each with just enough material to hold you over until the 60th... ICE CUBE would like you to "ARREST THE PRESIDENT"... RIP HUGH MCDOWELL.