CHRIS NUNN has no desire to drag the radio station that no longer employs him and there's no need for me to do so either. The continuing story of country music's female problem isn't about any one station or group of stations. It's about nearly all of them, and the industry that enables them. A month ago, the Indiana DJ tweeted, in real time, that he was playing a long, uninterrupted block of songs by women, in violation of the prevailing standards at country radio, which says that two songs in a row by women is one too many. Apparently it was also in violation of his own station's programming strategy. On Wednesday, he tweeted that he had been fired this week for that transgression. In another tweet, he mentioned that a list of songs including MIRANDA LAMBERT's women's revenge classic "GUNPOWDER & LEAD" had been banned altogether from the station, as had at least one group, the DIXIE CHICKS. The tweets weren't up long—he later deleted them along with his original January tweets and made his Twitter account private—but they were up long enough to be seen by the likes of country singer MICKEY GUYTON and the activist group WOMAN NASHVILLE, who absorbed them not as breaking news, but as one more confirmation of what they and anyone else who's been paying attention has long known. It's kind of hard not to pay attention. Elsewhere on Wednesday, ROLLING STONE posted this Q&A with powerhouse LA music lawyer DINA LAPOLT, who said, "The amount of times that I’ve been gaslighted at work… I mean, that’s just the reality. I’d usually be the only woman, the only female lawyer, in the room, and if I was upset about something, someone would say, 'Why are you so upset about this?' They would never say that to a man." And the LA TIMES asked ANNE LITT, the first female music director at influential public radio station KCRW, if she'd ever worked with a female music director before. "Never," she said. "Commercial radio is all dudes. Even at the independent record label I worked at—all guys there. I was the only female, and a lot of the music business stuff—we all have our stories, you know?" Mickey Guyton knows. Listen to "WHAT ARE YOU GONNA TELL HER?," a song she debuted last week at—pointedly—the Country Radio Seminar. Every programming director and every DJ currently working in country radio knows. A few do their part to fight back. Most go along because that, unfortunately, is still the job. Disobey the playlist at your own peril... Police investigating POP SMOKE's murder tell the NEW YORK TIMES they still don't know if he was targeted or if he was a random robbery victim. The rapper's posting on INSTAGRAM, hours before he was killed, of a photo in which the address of his rental house in the Hollywood Hills was visible is "an angle we're looking at," CAPT. JONATHAN L. TIPPET said... Could anything like DANGER MOUSE's 2004 mashup classic THE GREY ALBUM be made in today's copyright climate? ROLLING STONE says no; if someone got such an idea, "those thoughts would be quickly extinguished." But the copyright police were anything but invisible in 2004, and all it took was one producer with a good idea, a healthy appetite for risk and an underground distribution pipeline. That's still all it takes. The only hard part is coming up with an idea that resonates. And that part's legal... CHRYSALIS RECORDS, onetime home of BLONDIE, PAT BENATAR, SINÉAD O'CONNOR and ROBBIE WILLIAMS, is waking up from a two-decade-long hibernation and will release an album by LAURA MARLING later this year. CEO JEREMY LASCELLES is in his second run at the label... Holograms can't walk up stairs. I have a feeling this information will come in handy someday... RIP REINBERT DE LEEUW and OLIVIA JAXX.