There's nothing like hearing a song you love—or a song you're going to love—on the radio. Songs sound better on the radio, where they arrive by surprise, where you can't stop, skip or replay them, where you never know when you're going to hear them again, where you have no choice but to give into them in real time, to accept them and be with them. And where maybe, just maybe, you reach for the volume knob and turn it up, I mean, why wouldn't you?... Today's MusicREDEF is dedicated to RITA HOUSTON, a giant of New York radio, who died of cancer Tuesday. In a quarter-century at Fordham University's WFUV, she served as a key tastemaker for a certain corner of rock, folk and Americana music. She was also, as BRANDI CARLILE wrote on Instagram, "a soulful stabilizing force for so many of us"... Real-world bipartisanship in action: AMY KLOBUCHAR, Democratic senator from PRINCE's Minnesota and co-sponsor of the SAVE OUR STAGES bill with JOHN CORNYN, Republican senator from TRAVIS SCOTT's Texas, is telling her colleagues about the urgent need for the legislation, which would provide $10 billion in relief to independent music venues, and then MARSHA BLACKBURN, Republican senator from TAYLOR SWIFT's Tennessee, steps in and says well actually that's not going to be enough because the venues are only "the front-facing part of the industry" and there's a huge support system "behind the curtain" that also needs relief. From inside their apartments in Minneapolis, Houston, Nashville and beyond, you can all but hear musicians, roadies, bartenders, bookers, agents, managers, sound engineers, lighting designers, drivers and the rest of a shuttered ecosystem screaming yes, yes, yes. The occasion was a Tuesday morning hearing on the struggling live-event industry in advance of a vote expected later this week on the $900 billion pandemic relief package that, at least for now (this is Washington; things can change), includes the Save Our Stages money. "Please don't let the music die," ADAM HARTKE, owner of two venues in Wichita, Kan., told the senators. If the SOS bill passes, venues will be able to apply for up to $12 million to cover the costs of a lost year, and additional funds to cover expenses through the first half of 2021. The full relief package is split into two mega bills that also include money for vaccine distribution and small-business aid, and Klobuchar told Variety's JEM ASWAD that, while negotiations are continuing, she's confident the live-venue relief will be among the pieces of the bill that survive. The broader relief her colleague Blackburn is seeking "may take time," Klobuchar said. The two senators seem to be working somewhat at cross-purposes in the short term but with similar long-term goals, and their debate appears to be a cordial one. Klobuchar told Billboard's DAVE BROOKS (paywall) she's been working with a bipartisan coalition of 56 senators on the bill, and at the hearing she credited DAYNA FRANK of Minneapolis' FIRST AVENUE, who runs the NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION. "The grassroot efforts were also key," she told Brooks. "This is about First Avenue in Minneapolis and the COTILLION in Wichita and the FARGO THEATER. It's about protecting independent venues that [are] critical to our communities"... $900 billion, for what it worth, is equivalent to about 2,500 BOB DYLAN publishing catalogs. Billboard's ED CHRISTMAN speculates on the possibility of more nine-figure Bob Dylan sales to come... QUESTLOVE's directorial debut, a documentary about the 1969 HARLEM CULTURAL FESTIVAL called SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED), is one of the films premiering on opening night of the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL on Jan. 28. (Congratulations, JOSEPH PATEL!). Also on the slate for next year's festival, which will happen mostly online, is EDGAR WRIGHT's SPARKS documentary, THE SPARKS BROTHERS... CARTER RUBIN wins THE VOICE... BANDCAMP FRIDAYS have been extended until at least next May. Bandcamp says it's done over $40 million in business—with all of that going to artists and labels—in the once-a-month promotion, which began in March... RIP SAM JAYNE and RICHIE ROME.