What's up with DJs—or anyone else, but it seems there've been a lot of DJs lately—playing lockdown-defying parties and raves on Saturday and then deciding on Monday, after a handful of viral stories or tweets have made their way around the web, that "I don’t think it was worth the risk looking back on it now"? Note to every DJ thinking of sneaking in an allegedly social-distanced, allegedly masked, allegedly safe gig this coming Saturday anywhere in the US or any other country currently in the thick of it: I can assure you today that it won't be as carefully planned and executed as organizers are telling you, or as you're telling yourself, and it won't be worth the risk. This goes out to you, this past weekend's DJs, whose names are an easy click away but who I'll refrain from highlighting here. And this goes double for the organizer of Saturday's rave under New York's Kosciuszko Bridge who had no problem risking a city's health but didn't have the guts to let a reporter from GOTHAMIST use his name—"so the blowback from the event doesn't affect his day-to-day life," LOL—and who's now going to self-quarantine, according to Gothamist, "for the next week or so." That's just enough time to *not* know if he's actually sick, but for some reason we're supposed to trust him when he says his events are going to be safe. It *is* possible to organize a reasonably safe outdoor concert, dance event or protest (the bridge rave had a less-than-convincing Black Lives Matter tie-in) these days. People are doing it. It takes work and diligence and a better explanation than "Do you think people are just going to stay home? The cat's out of the bag." Don't be the cat and don’t be the bag. Be the adult in the room. Or, at least, the adult under the bridge. Shoutout DJ MIKE SIMONETTI, who was asked to play and said no and who's in a much better position to call out the underground dance community than, say, I am. It's also possible he'd want me to f*** off. Understood. Just keep wearing a mask, please... Also, what's up with pop fans doxxing critics for writing reviews, even generally favorable ones, of their idols? (Don't answer; that was a rhetorical question. Also, hashtag METACRITIC.) Pop fan armies can be forces for good, as some have proved recently. TAYLOR SWIFT has millions of awesome, passionate fans among her army of Swifties but also, it appears, a small vocal group of not so awesome ones, and their attacks in the past week against a handful of critics, especially PITCHFORK's JILLIAN MAPES, have been so out-of-proportion to the alleged crime (an 8.0 score in Pitchfork means they like it) that they'd be laughable if they weren't also ugly and hurtful and textbook harassment. A polite, public "you need to calm down" from Swift would be helpful. (And it isn't only Swift. I mean, wow)... SNAPCHAT adds a (licensed) soundtrack... A formative influence on how I think and write about music. They'd no doubt retch at the sentiment, but I was blessed in later years to be able to work with a couple of the writers my friend MIKE RUBIN interviewed for this piece. Looking forward to the doc.