The two best things about TONY's, the Italian restaurant on Route 9 where I spent dozens and dozens of nights with my family when I was growing up outside Boston, were the pizza, with cheese bubbles seemingly still forming when it arrived at the table, and the jukebox in every booth. You had to love a restaurant with a jukebox in every booth. You had direct control over the dinner soundtrack, but you had to share that control with everyone else in the restaurant, since the tabletop units were satellite controllers that all controlled the same player. A community playlist. I could practically taste that pizza and feel those buttons when I read about SPOTIFY's new Group Session feature, which allows multiple people to control the same playlist in real time. It's like having an old-school jukebox in the house, accessible to everybody, no coins or dollar bills required. But only in the house. Though the feature can accommodate up to 100 users, they all have to be in the same location. They all have to be close enough to each other that they might find it easier to just pass a phone around instead of trying to scan a code on the account owner's phone, which seems a little complicated. What I want, what I have always wanted, is sharing at a distance. I want to play music for my friends 25 miles or 2500 miles away, and I want them to be able to play music for me, and I want all of us to be listening to the same music at the exact time, as if we were in the same location even though we're not. A virtual soundtrack for a virtual clubhouse. I could just listen in on what a friend is playing if I wanted to, and maybe drop a few tracks of my own into the queue whenever the mood strikes. Gimme that, Spotify, and I'll hang around and order dessert... I've had my issues with TICKETMASTER's clumsy response to cancellations and postponements during the pandemic, but this open letter to the company from two members of Congress seems a little weird. Reps. BILL PASCRELL and KATIE PORTER spend nine paragraphs retracing clumsy steps that the company has already corrected before getting around to demanding that Ticketmaster be even more aggressive in offering refunds. I agree with the cause—a ticketing business whose parent company says it has enough untapped liquidity to easily survive the rest of 2020 "without doing any shows at scale" *should* be proactively refunding every ducat it can—but the demand seems heavyhanded, all things considered. Ticketmaster president JARED SMITH responds (and uses the opportunity to shred his competitors on the secondary ticket market, also justifiably, also heavyhandedly)... The owner of TEMPLELIVE in Fort Smith, Ark., isn't taking GOV. ASA HUTCHISON's no for an answer in regard to a scheduled TRAVIS MCCREADY concert Friday that violates the state's pandemic reopening order in multiple ways. The club says it's moving forward with what's being billed as the first major concert in the US since the country started reopening, and is having a press conference this afternoon... The much safer play for fans, if you ask me, is to stay home watch the classic 1985 PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION concert that his estate will be streaming on YOUTUBE for three days starting at 8 pm ET tonight. It's a freebie, but the estate is accepting donations for the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION's Covid-19 Solidary Response Fund... This online album art coloring book is your awesome time waster of the day... Unless you'd like to waste your day with eight zillion PEEL SESSIONS, which I could hardly blame you for.