Morning! Here’s your reminder to listen to the new Noname if you haven’t yet. On Room 25, she continues to use that rich fabric of gospel chords, snaps and claps, plus a stream-of-consciousness sing-rapping that’s even gentler, even more meandering than before. If you zone out, some of these tracks can feel like very pleasant elevator music. But that’s the catch; zoom back in and you’ll see a slew of challenging narratives, hard-hitting political statements, and self-deprecation. All very alluring, Noname opens up just enough here to make you understand all the information about her that you’re missing, and the change in mood from song to song assure you she doesn’t care if you figure her out. But at least you have this album.

The Barclays Center in Brooklyn is a 19,000-seat stadium. You know who’s about to sell it out? Michelle Obama on her book tour. “Becoming Michelle Obama” comes out on November 13, after which she will appear in ten cities with a host of different moderators, delving with the adoring masses into intimate chapters of her life. Some are criticizing the overt money grab (beyond tickets ranging from $30 to $3,000, what other political figure arranges appearances via Ticketmaster?), but I want to know, is this tour another stop on the road to becoming Michelle Obama? Who will she be to us after this?

Since we mentioned Ticketmaster, a fun bit of news: they’ve begun to hire professional scalpers to help them profit off the massive resale market that they previously tried and failed to squelch. Here’s how it’s been going: Ticketmaster sells tickets at market rate; scalpers game the system to buy great quantities of those tickets; said scalpers then manipulate the market to sell the tickets at the highest-possible prices. Scalpers win, everyone else loses.

But now, as a part of their scalper partnership program, Ticketmaster is offering a scalping-management platform called TradeDesk, which makes it easy to list retail tickets en masse and automate price adjustments based on demand. Ticketmaster then takes fees from the inflated sales. So now Ticketmaster *and* scalpers win, and consumers lose. Classic.

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