Hilltop Hoods now have their name on a piece of real estate that money can’t buy.

The City Of Adelaide today (Oct. 15) unveiled Hilltop Hoods Lane in the CBD, a permanent reminder of the trio’s status as one of Australia’s most successful and influential music acts.

Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris were on hand for the launch ceremony at the old Clubhouse Laneway, a spot just off Hindley Street, the music hub of this City of Churches.

There, organizers pulled back the curtain on two large-scale murals by local artist Vans the Omega.

Hilltop Hoods Lane becomes the sixth addition to the City of Adelaide’s City of Music Laneways trail, joining landmarks celebrating Sia Furler, Cold Chisel, No Fixed Address, Paul Kelly and The Angels.

Pressure remarked that Hilltop Hoods Lane was “an absolute honor” and “somewhat surreal.” He added, “we paid our dues performing in and around these streets, teenage me would have never dreamed one of them would be named after us.”

Added Suffa: “This gesture just connects us even further to the place that we call home.”

Guests at Thursday’s official unveiling included Lord Mayor Dr Jane Lomax-Smith, family members and music industry professionals.

“Once considered the Australian music industry’s underdogs, the Hoods have harnessed their talent and determination to not only top the charts but build a multi-generational fan base in their mosh pits,” Lomax-Smith stated. “Despite their global success, they have never forgotten their Adelaide roots. That’s why it’s fabulous to permanently recognize their achievements on the streets of the city – just a short walk from the venues where they started making music three decades ago.”

The Hoods have long since shrugged off underdog status. Formed in their teenage years in the Adelaide Hills, they’ve gone on to shift over 1.1 million albums, 2 billion global streams, bag 10 ARIA Awards and six APRA Music Awards, and land the most entries into triple j’s Hottest 100, with 23.  

With 2025’s Fall From The Light, the outfit earned another No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, for their seventh leader (and sixth straight) — the most by an Australian group, placing them ahead of AC/DC, Powderfinger, Cold Chisel and Silverchair.

And their 2003 single “Nosebleed Section,” from The Calling, the first Australian hip-hip album to be certified platinum, is registered with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

The lads give back, too. Their 2020 fundraising single “I’m Good?” was recorded during quarantine and has helped raise over A$640,000 in much-needed aid for Support Act’s Roadies (Crew) Fund. And earlier this year, the Hoods emptied their warehouse of memorabilia, rarities and one-of-a-kind goodies for a special auction that raised more than A$95,000 for the South Australian charity, Lion Hearts Learning, an organization that supports children and their families impacted by cancer and children with low immunity due to health challenges.

Reps from Universal Music saluted the great Australian band. “As pioneers whose impact reaches well past the boundaries of Australian hip-hop, Hilltop Hoods have left a permanent footprint on our national culture,” explained Universal Music Australasia president and CEO Sean Warner. “I am deeply proud of Universal Music Australia’s partnership and to share in this historic moment.”

Warner presented the Hoods with a plaque celebrating their 14-times platinum certified single “1955” featuring Montaigne & Tom Thum, which has clocked up one million domestic sales.

The Hoods, enthuses Island Records Australia managing director Nicole Richards, “keep raising the bar.”

On their most recent lap of Australia, for the Never Coming Home Tour, Hilltop Hoods played arenas for their biggest jaunt yet. Last year, the Hoods brought their lyrics and bounce to audiences across the United Kingdom and Europe.

“Adelaide has always been a huge part of who we are and where our music comes from, so having a laneway in the heart of the city named after us is an incredible honor,” comments DJ Debris. “It’s pretty special to think our name will now be part of Adelaide’s streetscape.”

Comedian and singer Randy Rainbow didn’t hold back when needling health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump over the administration’s Make American Healthy Again movement.

Rainbow released another song parody video on Tuesday, which saw him reference Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” while jabbing RFK Jr. “This just in, RFK Jr. has 99 million problems and a b—h ain’t one,” he says to kick off the clip on the set of a news broadcast.

The political satirist continued to mock RFK Jr. over his anti-vaccine stance and newfound obsession with peptides.

Randy Rainbow’s news broadcast turned into his stage, as he performed a remixed version of “Adelaide’s Lament” from the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls targeting RFK Jr. and the Trump administration’s public health polices and healthcare legislation.

“With chronic small penisitis clinically full of sh– infecting the upper federal healthcare ranks/ In other words, when a jerk gets a job he’s profoundly unfit to hold/ A country can develop a cold/ You could wind up in tears from his Tylenol theories and fluoride bans/ While his evidence shows pesticidal exposure might turn you trans/ With the agencies trying to save us from dying in shaky hands, a country can develop a cold,” he sings.

Rainbow continued to jab the secretary of health as his primary opposition throughout the parody of the Frank Loesser song. “Now I’m low on antidepressants and scared to digest my food/ How I wish Cheryl Hines would make him resign and improve my mood/ But the worms in his brain clearly drove him insane and now we’re all screwed/ The country can develop la sh–s from all these nitwits,” he belts.

Kennedy Jr. isn’t a new target for Rainbow. Last December, he took aim at RFK Jr. with a separate parody of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret musical, but he’s continuing to turn up the heat on the Trump administration heading into the 2026 General Midterm Election.

Randy Rainbow is also currently on his National Freakin’ Treasure tour, which hits Olympia, Wash., on Thursday (Oct. 15), Bellingham, Wash., on Friday (Oct. 16) and has a pair of shows slated for this weekend in Palm Desert, Calif.

Watch Randy Rainbow’s “The RFK Jr. Lament” below.

UPDATE: On Wednesday (Oct. 14), Geordie Greep posted a statement to Instagram in response to a Paste magazine interview with a woman accusing the musician of sexual harassment. The woman, going by the pseudonym Laura, denied that she had any knowledge of the flyers outside Greep’s concert labeling him a “rapist” and instead detailed her alleged experience of waking up to him kissing her against her will and then pushing him off. In his Instagram statement, Greep acknowledges kissing her but says he didn’t realize she was asleep. Read Laura’s full account on Paste, and see Greep’s response below.

ORIGINAL (Oct. 10): Geordie Greep is responding to sexual misconduct allegations made against him.

During his show in Vancouver on Thursday (Oct. 8), the former Black Midi frontman addressed accusations of rape after an individual outside the Pearl venue distributed flyers to concertgoers accusing him of sexual assault.

The flyers read, “Geordie Greep A Rapist. You know what you did this morning Oct 8th. He thinks he can do what he wants. Let Him Know What Vancouver Thinks of Rapists.”

Greep took the stage about an hour later than scheduled and performed without his backing band, addressing the flyers distributed outside the venue.

“Essentially what happened last night, me and some of the band we went out to some bars, we went around, we met people, and it ended up in a situation where really late at a house party, I got the wrong end of the stick with someone who was there, and I made a move, and it didn’t come off,” Greep told the audience.

“I really quickly, of course, apologized, and it was a complete misunderstanding on my part. I felt extremely bad, I feel extremely sorry, and extremely upset about the whole situation. I would never rape a woman. I’m not a rapist. It’s not how that went down.”

Greep said he would perform the Vancouver concert solo because he “didn’t want to force them to still play a show in the light of that happening.” He also noted that proceeds from the show would be donated to an anti-violence organization in British Columbia.

“We were unsure what the response would be to all this, and I can only tell you that it’s okay if people want refunds, if they want to leave, it’s fine,” Greep continued. “I just wanted to be transparent with you about what happened. I’m very, very, very sorry. I made someone uncomfortable without meaning to. It’s not a good thing, it’s not good.”

Billboard has reached out to Greep’s representatives for further comment.

Following the allegations, Greep canceled several dates on his current North American tour, including shows in Boise, Idaho, on Friday (Oct. 9), and Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday (Oct. 10). He also canceled upcoming concerts scheduled in Boulder and Denver, Colorado.

The final two dates of Greep’s North American tour, scheduled for Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, had not been canceled at press time.

Greep is also scheduled to embark on a European tour beginning Nov. 1 in the Netherlands, followed by shows in France, Spain and Portugal.

Hip-hop artist, actor, producer, businessman, troublemaker. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is all those things, proudly so.

Jackson, or Fifty as he’s happy to be called, stopped by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live for a chat about life, new ventures and victories.

Conversation moved swiftly along to his Diddy documentary, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, for Netflix, which bagged three Emmy nominations and won in the category for outstanding picture editing for a nonfiction program. “I actually win Emmys when people bother me,” quipped 50 Cent, who executive-produced the four-part special.

The New York rap heavyweight also spoke of his good fortune on getting his hands on that award-winning, behind-the-scenes footage. “When you get a RICO charge, you forget to pay the guy who had the camera,” he said on the episode, which aired Tuesday night (Oct. 13). On seeing the rushes, “I was like, yo, this is going to be great. I’m going to blow the wheels off.”

Diddy, Fifty reckons, “he saw the whole thing” on an iPad while incarcerated. “I’m sure (he) thought it was the best documentary he ever saw in his life.”

In the 2000s, 50 Cent was in a club of his own with four No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100, including a nine-week reign with 2003’s “In Da Club.” In the same year, he made an appearance on just the second episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Much has happened since. Speaking with Kimmel all those years later, Fifty confirmed he’s making a documentary series about himself; he remembered the late DMX; discussed his new movie, Paramount Pictures’ Street Fighter; and admitted he was a “little bit” intimidated by Robert De Niro. Adapted from Capcom‘s iconic video game, Street Fighter hits theaters Oct. 16.

Watch 50 Cent’s late-night interview below.

Dom Dolla, the superstar EDM DJ and producer can now add “label chief” to his resume.

The Australian artist today unveils Good Fortune Records, which launches proper this Friday (Oct. 16) with its first release, Torren Foot & rhys from the sticks’ “DANCE.”

Good Fortune expands on a party series Dom created in 2024 to bring into the spotlight emerging and established artists, doing so in unique spaces and locations. Dom’s Good Fortune nights have kicked off in Melbourne, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Detroit, London and Manchester, and featured performances and back-to-back sets with the likes of Solomun, Green Velvet, Tiga, Fcukers and Skream.

“After 20 years of DJing, I still find nothing more exciting than discovering new records that rip holes through a dance floor,” remarks Dom in a statement. “This week, I’m finally launching Good Fortune Records. A record label that began as a party brand I’ve been running events under for the last few years. A place where both new up and coming artists and established legends can come together and do what they do best.”

Dom debuted “DANCE” in December 2025 when he played Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, marking the first time a homegrown DJ had filled a stadium in these parts.

When Dom established another record last month, with his hometown show at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, he dropped the track to some 60,000 fans. Torren has been teasing “DANCE” on socials over the past month, keeping a list of all the DJs playing it — a tally that includes the groundbreaking Docklands show where he joined Dom on stage for a performance. Dom has since played the track with Ketama at Head Trip Festival 2026 in California.

“It’s been a staple in my set for the last 12 months,” Dom enthuses.

There’s never a dull moment for Dom. Raised in Darwin, Dom (real name: Dominic Matheson) became a fixture on Melbourne’s club scene before taking his talents to the world.

Last year, he was nominated for a Grammy Award; won a slew of ARIA Awards, including the inaugural ARIA Global Impact Award; sold-out two nights at Madison Square Garden and ticked off a bucket list item when he released “No Room For A Saint,” the soundtrack for F1: The Movie. It’s been more of the same this year with an itinerary that has included major festival and headline shows across Asia, Latin and North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, a 13-week residency at Hï Ibiza, an extension of his residency at LIV Las Vegas, and new releases, including a remix of Puretone’s “Addicted To Bass” (dubbed “Dom Dolla Relapse“).

Just two days after he performed at Marvel Stadium, Dom was on the ground of another Aussie stadium, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he made a cameo during Kylie Minogue’s halftime entertainment spot at the 2026 AFL Grand Final.

Troye Sivan found himself a dancing partner for “Cowboy,” and there couldn’t have been a better match.

The pop star teamed up with Role Model for a TikTok set to “Cowboy,” a track from Sivan’s newly released album She’s the Best. Sivan shared the clip Tuesday (Oct. 13), captioning it with two cowboy emojis and tagging Role Model, whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury.

In the video, the two musicians dance along to the song, unveiling a pretty unexpected collaboration that feels particularly appropriate when you consider Pillsbury’s former alter ego Saint Laurent Cowboy. The singer previously embraced the Saint Laurent Cowboy persona before adopting his new alter ego, Chuck Timely. So, naturally, joining Sivan for a song called “Cowboy” feels like a full-circle moment for fans familiar with his evolving identities.

Pillsbury also shared the TikTok to his Instagram Story, bringing the crossover to his own followers on a different platform. In a separate Story slide, he reposted a fan’s X post that featured the pair together, which jokingly read, “I love Clairo and Troye Sivan!” He added the words “SAN DIEGO TONIGHT” over the post, referencing his tour stop in the city.

The fan’s reference to Clairo is part of a long-running joke in Role Model’s fandom, where Pillsbury calls himself by different celebrity names, such as Sabrina Carpenter and Harry Styles. Fans join in on the fun, so calling him Clairo is less a case of mistaken identity and more a nod to a fandom inside joke that Pillsbury helped create.

Both Sivan and Pillsbury have been building momentum with their recent releases. Role Model’s Chuck Timely & The Hourglass reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in August, giving the singer another successful run after the breakout that was his previous work, Kansas Anymore.

Meanwhile, Sivan’s She’s the Best follows his 2023 album Something to Give Each Other, which debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The album spawned fan favorites including “Rush,” “One of Your Girls” and “Got Me Started,” further cementing Sivan’s place in contemporary pop. She’s the Best will impact next week’s Billboard charts.

Watch the TikTok below.

Some albums make you cry, some make you dance, and others apparently make you feel so much that your stomach can’t handle it. Just ask Hailey Bieber.

The model and Rhode founder recently showed love for Rosalía’s LUX, sharing a pretty enthusiastic reaction to the Spanish singer’s 2025 album on her Instagram Story.

“You know when an album makes you wanna throw up in a good way?” Bieber wrote with a smiley-face emoticon.

It’s a dramatic description, but truthfully anyone who has fallen headfirst into an album they can’t stop listening to probably knows the feeling. And when it comes to LUX, Rosalía laid all her cards flat for fans to get lost in.

Released in November 2025, the singer’s fourth studio album takes an ambitious approach to pop, weaving orchestral arrangements and classical influences into her ever-evolving sound. Recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Bjarnason, the project features a wide-ranging collection of musical collaborators, including Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente and Yves Tumor.

Across its 15-track digital edition, LUX explores themes of spirituality, desire, heartbreak and transformation, with Rosalía delivering vocals in multiple languages. The result is a sweeping, adventurous record that pushes the boundaries of traditional Latin and pop music.

LUX also had a massive presence on the charts, debuting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 22, 2025, earning Rosalía her first top 10 on the all-genre albums chart. The album also debuted at No. 1 on five different charts: Top Latin Albums, Top Latin Pop Albums, Classical Albums, Classical Crossover Albums and World Albums. That achievement made Rosalía the first artist to debut at No. 1 on all five charts simultaneously.

View Bieber’s reaction to Rosalía’s album below.

It looks like there’s no hard feelings between A$AP Rocky and FERG over the latter’s decision to change his name and the former’s subsequent comments regarding said name change.

FERG took to his Instagram feed to announce that the follow-up to his third solo album Darold is finished and put out an APB for a distributor. “I just finished my new album,” he wrote in a screenshot that he posted. “Who wants to distribute it?”

Rocky raised his hand, with the Harlem rapper hopping in the comments to congratulate his friend and seemingly offering up the services of his AWGE label. “U know where home is,” he wrote in a comment that included a red heart emoji. “Congratulations.”

The two have been going back and forth through the media recently after each has been asked about FERG dropping the A$AP from his stage name. While the decision hasn’t necessarily created a riff between the two old friends and collaborators, Rocky did express disappointment. “I saw a couple interviews where he was just like, he ain’t A$AP and he dropped A$AP from his name,” he told Apple Music. “That sh– bothered me but I ain’t gon’ hold it against him, and I wish him the best.”

FERG responded in an interview with Complex, saying that removing A$AP from his name was about growth. “I feel like that’s a personal thing for him,” he said about Rocky saying he was initially “bothered” by the decision. “You could feel how you want to feel, but at the end of the day, it’s like I got to follow my truth for sure and how I feel. And there’s nothing wrong with growing.”

As FERG gets set to drop his upcoming project, Rocky is gearing up to do his first Australia and New Zealand tour in eight years with five dates in December.

Sean Ono Lennon took to X over the weekend to clarify how his late father, John Lennon, provided for him and his half brother Julian Lennon before the former Beatles’ tragic murder in 1980.

Replying to a post on Sunday (Oct. 11) in which someone presumed, “One guy inherited most of the estate, the other largely cut out and forced to engaged in decades-long litigation in pursuit of a comparatively small share of it. Unbearably painful and enraging for the one, surely pretty darn awkward for the other. That they remain friends (and largely always were) is testimony to the redemptive power of being a chill dude with broad implications for the wider world.”

The comment was tied to a post from Sean a day earlier of the Lennon brothers enjoying a nice day out in nature to celebrate his 51st birthday and, according to Sean, the commenter got it all wrong.

“Julian and I inherited the same amount from our dad,” he wrote. “Our trusts were equal. Although his was slightly more, but negligibly so.”

Sean is the adult son of John and wife Yoko Ono and Julian, 63, is Lennon’s eldest, from his six-year marriage to his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).

Both men are musicians, with Julian scoring a pair of top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits from his 1984 debut album, Valotte, “Too Late For Goodbyes” (No. 5) and the title track (No. 9) and releasing six more albums in the years since, including 2022’s Jude, whose title is a reference to the Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” famously written by Paul McCartney in 1968 to comfort a young Julian during his parents’ divorce.

Sean Ono Lennon has had a long, eclectic music career as a member of a number of bands, including the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Cibo Matto, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and the Plastic Ono Band. He’s released three solo albums to date, 1998’s Into the Sun, 2006’s Friendly Fire and 2024’s Asterisms.

RAYE has blamed “AI bots” and “scalpers” for disrupting a ticket onsale after 1.8 million presale sign-ups were registered for her upcoming show at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Writing on Instagram on Tuesday (Oct. 13), the British singer revealed that “hundreds of thousands of fake registrations” were recorded for the one-night-only show slated to take place on Oct. 23 at the iconic 5,000-capacity venue. At the show, RAYE is due to reimagine her hit LP This Music May Contain Hope alongside the Heritage Orchestra.

She wrote: “We received 1.8 million sign-ups for 5000 seats for This Symphony May Contain Hope. Sadly our sign-up process was overwhelmed by scalpers, using AI bots to create hundreds of thousands of fake registrations.”

RAYE added, “It is a new world we are living in now, I have never witnessed bots on this scale. It is so important to me that fans can buy tickets at the face value price.”

As a result, RAYE said her team had been forced to take extra measures to “manually review” the list to ensure that real fans were part of the resale process. “Therefore rather than risk opening a presale that scalpers could exploit, we felt the best and safest solution for this specific show was to manually review the sign-up list to identify a shortlist of people we believe are real fans,” she said.

Selected fans should have received a presale link and code by email by 11:45 a.m. BST today, with the first sale commencing at midday. Remaining tickets will then go on general sale later this week.

She concluded: “I’m not sure what the future holds for ticketing, I do know this experience has really opened my eyes. Me and my team are going to think really hard about what we can do in the future.”

This Music May Contain Hope is nominated for the Mercury Prize, which will be presented at a ceremony in Newcastle the day before the show (Oct. 22). RAYE is due to perform at the event alongside several other nominated acts including Olivia Dean and Florence + the Machine. The LP charted at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart and No. 11 on the Billboard 200.

See RAYE’s post below.