Apologies for the last two days of no newsletters. I was recovering from my post-GRAMMY flu... Next up, perhaps: a post-BREXIT respiratory infection, while British musicians find themselves without the protection of the EU's Copyright Directive and musicians on either side of the border try to figure out what it's going to be like to route a tour from Lisbon to London to Lyon in the coming years. (If only BEETHOVEN could still tour. It appears the #1 song in the UK on Brexit day is going to be the anti-Brexit anthem "ODE TO JOY." In the US, on what could also be a monumental day, it's RODDY RICCH's "THE BOX"; interpret that as you see fit)... The SUPER BOWL halftime show has had plenty of notable moments in recent years, from BEYONCÉ marching in "FORMATION" on the field in 2016 to LADY GAGA dropping in from the roof of NRG STADIUM a year later. What the world's most viewed musical event hasn't had in six years is a nonwhite headliner. Kudos to the NFL, and its partner ROC NATION, for fixing that this weekend with a Latina double bill of JENNIFER LOPEZ and SHAKIRA at Sunday's game in Miami Gardens, Fla. "Political, but political in a way that's different from COLIN KAEPERNICK," writes the UNDEFEATED. Elsewhere, ROLLING STONE ranks five decades' worth of halftime shows (before you click, can you guess the one pop act from the past 10 years that RS's ROB SHEFFIELD ranks below "Everything From 1967 to 1989"?), and POLLSTAR, noting a week's worth of Miami-area concerts by LIZZO, the CHAINSMOKERS, HARRY STYLES, LIL WAYNE, MAROON 5, DAN + SHAY and more, wonders, "Is Super Bowl Week the New SXSW?" (um, perhaps not if SOCCER MOMMY and BEACH SLANG aren't going to be there). The NEW YORK TIMES remembers a particularly strange mid-'90s halftime involving PATTI LABELLE and snakes, and the RINGER has an oral history of the single greatest thing that's ever happened on an American football field... The TAYLOR SWIFT documentary MISS AMERICANA premiered on Netflix overnight and opens a limited theatrical run tonight. The doc traces, among other things, Swift's discovery of her political voice, which she used for the first time—against the advice of her father and her management—to oppose the Senate candidacy of Tennessee's MARSHA BLACKBURN. On Thursday, Blackburn wished Swift well and suggested she and the singer had common interests even if "there are policy issues on which we may always disagree"... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from KESHA, LIL WAYNE, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, FRANCES QUINLAN, TORRES, LOUIS TOMLINSON, MEGHAN TRAINOR, YO GOTTI, TERRACE MARTIN'S GRAY AREA, DESTROYER, RAFIQ BHATIA, SQUAREPUSHER, POLIÇA, CURREN$Y, RUSS, the GOD FAHIM, SQUIRREL FLOWER, YOUBET, DAN DEACON, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, JOSÉ FELICIANO, FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB, JOEY ALEXANDER, JOACHIM KÜHN & MATEUSZ SMOCZYŃSKI, JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH WYNTON MARSALIS & WAYNE SHORTER, DAN ROSENBOOM, the WESTERLIES, SYLEENA JOHNSON, SON LITTLE, KEVIN ROSS, ISOBEL CAMPBELL, BEN WATT, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL, SAM LEE, MARC ALMOND and TINSLEY ELLIS. Plus: the benefit album LET THE RHYTHM LEAD: HAITI SONG SUMMIT VOL 1, featuring JACKSON BROWNE, JENNY LEWIS, HABIB KOITÉ and others, and HOT S*** ATTITUDE, a tribute album to the Queens, N.Y., hardcore band OUTBURST... Also, I feel strangely obligated to inform you that GRIMES' boyfriend made a song... RIP WES WILSON, TONI SMITH and HARRY HARRISON.