Before he moved to Minneapolis, GEORGE FLOYD spent most of his life in Houston, where for a time he was known as BIG FLOYD. That was the name he rapped under in the 1990s, when he was affiliated with one of Houston's most celebrated hip-hop crews—DJ SCREW's SCREWED UP CLICK. Floyd can be heard rapping on several of DJ Screw's influential chopped-and-screwed mixtapes, and he was a member of the group PRESIDENTIAL PLAYAS, which released BLOCK PARTY: THE ALBUM in 2000. He was also a star high school athlete. By my count, he's the seventh hip-hop artist to die violently so far in 2020 and the third in the past week, along with Toronto rapper HOUDINI and Brooklyn rapper KJ BALLA. There are, of course, additional horrifying circumstances in Floyd's death that you don't need me to explain, and a nationwide call for justice. CHANCE THE RAPPER, MEEK MILL and ICE CUBE are among the rappers who have expressed their outrage. Fellow Houstonian TRAVIS SCOTT used his Instagram story Wednesday to link to one of Floyd's DJ Screw collaborations. A life worth remembering, and honoring, in this year of unspeakable loss... COACHELLA is still officially scheduled to happen in October, but GOLDENVOICE is asking the festival's artists if they'd play in 2021 instead and some have already said yes, BLOOMBERG's LUCAS SHAW reports. It's not clear which artists have been asked. This year's headliners were to be Travis Scott, FRANK OCEAN and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, whose 2020 reunion tour has already been pushed back to summer 2021... A weekly residency. Of full-album shows. From home, via livestream. Ticketed at $15 per show. A grand slam of pandemic performance possibilities, raising money for her band and crew, but also for indie promoters around the country "who have been so warm and hospitable to me over the years but are now facing a huge strain on their business." Thumbs up, WAXAHATCHEE... GUY OSEARY is stepping down from the top job at his powerful management collective MAVERICK while continuing on as MADONNA's and U2's manager. The move will have "not much" of an impact on the LIVE NATION-owned company, VARIETY suggests, while freeing Oseary for a variety of outside projects... The "Appears On" module has disappeared from SPOTIFY artist pages, TWITTER and YOUR EDM told me Wednesday morning, which seemed odd because there it was on a number of artist pages on my desktop app. But then I updated the app and, poof, it was indeed gone. This is the module where you can easily find an artist's remixes, collaborations, session work, etc. (Credited features continue to show up under the Singles and EPs heading.) Taking it away, assuming it was done on purpose, is an anti-discovery, user-unfriendly head-scratcher, so here's hoping it was an innocent mistake and will be back the next time I update. Or am I missing something?... RIP KEN PEDERSEN, a longtime CAPITOL and VIRGIN executive who was instrumental in the development of the US version of NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!, and JOHN MACURDY, who performed more than 1,000 times at the METROPOLITAN OPERA.