San Mateo's Matt Hagen (left) and Matt Burr Greetings, music lovers. Apologies for not having a quippy headline to start things off. You see, I've written and rewritten this section so many times, including its head, because nothing feels right. I desperately want to be something like a cheerleader at the big homecoming game who just did an espresso enema. I want to shout, "Ho ho, hey hey, everything's going to be OK!" But it's feeling really hard to muster that kind of manic Bring It On enthusiasm when, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we're staring down the barrel of almost 400,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Oh, and violent insurrection at the national Capitol.