DOLLY!!! (is a shining example of how to live as an artist and as a human in 2020, or any time at all, and if you read nothing else today, read this profile)... RZA!!! (had a better, non-racist idea for an ice cream truck jingle and went ahead and recorded it, and it's available for free, courtesy GOOD HUMOR, in industry-standard ice cream truck music box format, which I didn't know was a thing)... JENZIA BURGOS!!! (is a music journalist from the South Bronx who has launched the BLACK MUSIC HISTORY LIBRARY, a carefully curated collection of more than a thousand books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, etc., about "the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day." Which means a wide and deep and growing collection of reading/watching/listening about pop—"Top 40, K-Pop, Latin Pop, West African, and more"—and punk and hip-hop and jazz and electronic/dance and classical and minstrelsy and música tropical and and and and, and it's as inviting as it is overwhelming, and it's clear how much work and thought went into the curation and, first impression, wow)... SPOTIFY can empathize with FORTNITE's battle with APPLE's APP STORE... Facing 15 years in prison for the crime of playing its music, Iranian metal band ARSAMES has escaped the country (current location: secret)... BAD BUNNY, KAROL G and J BALVIN were big winners at UNIVISION's PREMIOS JUVENTUD 2020, which took place at the HARD ROCK CAFE & CASINO in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday night with no live audience but with (I'm out of exclamation points, but they would normally go here) artists in the house... Indoor music venues in England can reopen starting Saturday... BILLBOARD's 2020 Country Power Players... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from BURNA BOY, FANTASTIC NEGRITO, HOLLY HUMBERSTONE, KATHLEEN EDWARDS, BILL FRISELL, OSCAR JEROME, BLACK NOI$E, KAASH PAIGE, DAVE EAST, BOLDY JAMES, YOUNG DOLPH, COI LERAY, GLORIA ESTEFAN (first album in seven years features reworkings of several hits), BRUCE HORNSBY, ORVILLE PECK, KATH BLOOM, EMMA SWIFT (BOB DYLAN covers album), LINDSAY ELL, ARLO MCKINLEY, A.G. COOK (released Wednesday), TORI KELLY, TANYA DONELLY & THE PARKINGTON SISTERS, KIESZA, WHITNEY, BIFFY CLYRO, MATT ROLLINGS, RUMER, CAYLEE HAMMACK, ERIC PASLAY, ASHLEY RAY, JACOB COLLIER, SON LUX, HIRO AMA, PRIMITIVE MAN, HALESTORM, KING BUZZO, YOUNG JESUS, TWISTED PINE and MALI MUSIC.