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MELBOURNE, Australia — Michael Gudinski, the late, great Australian independent music champion, will be saluted with a new songwriting program. APRA AMCOS’s flagship collaborative songwriting initiative SongHubs announces the first-ever Gudinski SongHubs in Melbourne, the hometown of the Mushroom Group founder. Spanning four days, the gathering is curated by The Temper Trap, one of the…

Tool is making headway with new music, and the prog-metal band has set a goal to release it sometime next year. That’s the word from drummer Danny Carey, who sat for a free-wheeling chat with Spiral Out Network, covering AI music, his love of the Blade Runner soundtrack, musical influences (the Police’s Stewart Copeland is…

R&B singer Kenny Lattimore has received only a single royalty check since the release of his latest album — and now he’s taking distributor SRG/ILS Group to court. Lattimore filed a lawsuit on Wednesday (Feb. 18) against SRG, which handles digital distribution for indie labels in partnership with Universal Music Group’s Virgin Music. The lawsuit,…

The United States simply isn’t big enough for two Bosses. That’s one takeaway from a new missive from the White House, which has dismissed Bruce Springsteen as a “loser” with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and an atrophying brain, doing so by way of a statement that shows all the restraint of a heckler. Springsteen last month…

Rapper Lil Poppa has died, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed on Wednesday (Feb. 18). The Jacksonville rapper (born Janarious Mykel Wheeler) was 25 years old. Poppa’s cause of death remains under investigation at this time, as details remain scarce. There’s been an outpouring of support from the rapper’s fans and peers since news…

Bad Bunny has something special for his Australian fans. To celebrate his first-ever concerts in Sydney, the Reggaeton superstar drops an exclusive t-shirt through a long-standing collaboration with Adidas. The Adidas Originals x Bad Bunny DtMF tees are available in black and cream/white, priced at A$80 ($56.50), and are now available on the Adidas Australia…

Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll are undisputedly country music’s first couple right now. But it has taken a lot for them to reach that pinnacle. In her autobiography, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie XO recounts harrowing stories of damage done whether thrust upon her or self-inflicted. At times the book is excruciating to read…

Regional Mexican music legend Ramón Ayala is facing a $25 million lawsuit from an unnamed tour photographer alleging Ayala’s son engaged in abusive behavior toward the staffer. In a case filed Tuesday (Feb. 17) and obtained by Billboard, a man identified as John Doe says Ramón Ayala Jr. engaged in a “dangerous pattern of escalating…

King Gnu’s “AIZO” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, for the chart released Feb. 18. The opener for TV anime Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 (Culling Game arc, Part 1) was first released digitally on Jan. 9 and debuted at No. 6. The track climbs to the summit in its sixth chart…

The political love affair between Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump continued on Wednesday (Feb. 18), as Donald Trump gushed about Minaj during his speech at the White House. Trump gave the Young Money rapper her flowers, calling Minaj “beautiful” and highlighting her political prowess while speaking at the Black History Month event in Washington, D.C….