Nathaniel Rateliff has joined the board of directors for Farm Aid. The “S.O.B.” singer was elevated to the board in a unanimous vote, according to a release from Farm Aid on Wednesday morning (Feb. 11), where he will sit alongside the event’s co-founders, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp, as well as fellow artist board members Dave Matthews and Margo Price.

“Farm Aid has made a huge impact on me,” Rateliff said in a statement. “It is always one of my favorite events of the year. It is an honor and a privilege to join my heroes and peers as a Farm Aid board member. I look forward to working together to continue educating the public on the struggles family farmers face and to raise money to support them for a better future.”

Hermann, Missouri-bred Rateliff is the third artist to be added to Farm Aid’s board since its founding more than four decades ago. Rateliff has long been a supporter of the organization, first taking the stage on Farm Aid Eve in 2013 and then performing repeatedly over the years, taking the main stage with his band, the Night Sweats, in 2016. According to the release, since then he has leaned further into the organization’s goal of supporting America’s family farmers, often showing up as a performer and as a featured speaker on the FarmYard stage to help amplify the organization’s mission.

After the first Night Sweats appearance in 2016, Rateliff knew he wanted to continue working with Farm Aid and take the stage on an annual basis. “Since then, he has only leaned further into the work, using the annual festival not only as a performance opportunity but as a space to learn — especially about the challenges farmers face and the vital role they play in sustaining their communities,” according to the organization. Those deeper conversations have resulted in the creation of the Marigold Project, Rateliff’s foundation dedicated to funding strategies to confront income inequality, boost civic engagement and expand equitable access to growing and eating good food, as well as advancing gender and racial justice.

Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $90 million to support programs helping American family farms. The date and lineup for this year’s Farm Aid has not yet been announced. Last year’s show in Minneapolis featured Nelson, Young, Bob Dylan, Mellencamp, Matthews, Price, Kenny Chesney, Billy Strings, Rateliff, Lukas Nelson, Trampled By Turtles and others.

HONG KONG — Roslyn Pineda is the new president, Asia for Sony Music Publishing.

With immediate effect, Pineda succeeds longtime SMP Asia president Carol Ng, who will remain with the company until her planned retirement at the end of March, according to a company memo.

Pineda is a Sony Music stalwart, with two-and-a-half decades’ service with the music giant.

She joins the music publishing business from Sony Music, where she most recently served as GM, Philippines, and before that as vice president, artist relations and business development, Asia.  

“I am thrilled to take on this leadership role at Sony Music Publishing Asia during such an exciting time for our industry and our region,” Pineda comments in a statement.  “I look forward to collaborating with our talented team and working closely with Guy Henderson and Jon Platt to empower our songwriters across Asia.” 

Together, she continues, “we will foster a vibrant, energetic environment that prioritizes creativity and innovation, ensuring that the voices of our creators are heard and celebrated.  Keen to make great things happen.”

Joining the company in 2001, Pineda logged time early on with the record label both in Hong Kong and in the Philippines, where she worked with a range of Asian and Western artists, from John Mayer to F4, Leehom Wang, Jessi, Sekai No Owari, Ricky Martin, Alicia Keys, and One Direction. 

From late 2018, Pineda oversaw the reopening of SME’s Philippines office, signed Ben&Ben, SB19 and IV OF SPADES, and led the acquisition of the ABS-CBN music catalog in 2024.

Last year, Pineda she was saluted as Billboard Philippines’ first-ever music industry executive of the year. 

On the retirement of Ng, Sony Music Publishing president, International Guy Henderson said the outgoing executive “has led our company in Asia with great distinction and success for many years. During her time, she expanded our business into new territories and established us as the leading publisher across the region. Her contributions have positioned our team for further growth, and we are incredibly grateful for all that he has done for the company.”

In recent years, Ng has overseen the business across the Asian market; managing strategic expansion with the launch of multiple new offices in the region, including Jakarta, Indonesia in 2021, Bangkok, Thailand in 2025 and set a course for Manila, The Philippines later in 2025.

Ng joined the company in 1998, initially as finance and admin manager, and was elevated to CFO, Asia, then regional managing director Asia, before being promoted to president, Asia in 2021. 

Guns N’ Roses will rock Australia’s City of Churches this November for a one-off show.

The rock legends are booked to headline the 2026 bp Adelaide Grand Final Sunday Concert on Sunday, Nov. 29, a show that waves the checkered flag on the Supercars season.

GN’R follow AC/DC, who in 2025 had the honors of wrapping the bp Adelaide Grand Final, Australia’s largest domestic motorsport event which counted more than 285,700 fans pass through its gates.

The Rock Hall-inducted American group will visit South Australia four years to the month since their last tour of these parts, back in November and December 2022 for the Australasian leg of their We’re F’N’ Back! stadium trek.

The Adelaide show follows the rockers’ 2025 tour which visited Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, and the release in December of two new songs, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” their first new music since 2023’s one-off singles “The General” and “Perhaps.”

In a recent interview with Sylvia Alvarado of Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, guitarist Slash said it was “good to have a couple of songs that we’re promoting and then a tour that’s really a long tour.”

There may be more new music on the way. “We took a bunch of material that [singer] Axl [Rose] had and we sat down and listened to it and we sort of picked out all the different songs that we wanted to do, and what Axl wanted to do, and we just took all of the guitars and bass off and re-did it,” Slash said of the recent singles.

Slash also promised that the band would play both of the new and old songs on their upcoming 2026 world tour, which gets underway March 28 at Monterrey, Mexico’s Tecate Pa’l Norte festival, and includes dates in Europe and North America (summer) and Latin America (spring).

The artist presale for the 2026 bp Adelaide Grand Final Sunday Concert runs until this Sunday, Feb. 15 at 5pm local time. For more visit gunsnroses.com and Ticketmaster.

To celebrate the 40^th anniversary, the ARIA Awards will induct six legends of the Australia music scene into its Hall of Fame during a “landmark” event in Sydney this June.

The special stand-alone event be on presented Thursday, 11 June at Carriageworks, Sydney, honoring “some of Australia’s most beloved and influential artists of the past 40 years,” reads a statement from the labels body.

That format marks a return to the annual ARIA Hall of Fame event, a treasured moment on the music industry calendar which was discontinued with the 2010 spot, when John Williamson, Models, Johnny Young, The Loved Ones, and The Church all got the nod.

From 2011 onwards, the ARIA Hall of Fame was downsized and incorporated into the annual ARIA Awards. In that year, The Wiggles and Kylie Minogue were elevated, with the-then prime minister Julia Gillard on hand to induct the princess of pop.

Since then, the ARIA board has selected just one act for inclusion into its honors list, including Missy Higgins (2024), Jet (2023), the late Archie Roach (2020), Tina Arena (2015), Crowded House (2016), and last year’s inductees, You Am I.  

“This landmark event will shine a spotlight on artist excellence, legacy and cultural impact, bringing together icons, peers and fans to celebrate the best of Aussie music,” the statement continues.

Also announced today, the 40^th annual ARIA Awards returns to Sydney’s Horden Pavilion, on Gadigal land, on Wednesday, 18 November. Spotify is, for the second year, the headline sponsor, and the show will the free-to-air 10 network and stream live on Paramount+. 

“Reaching 40 years of the ARIA Awards is a powerful moment to reflect on just how deeply Australian music is woven into our story,” comments ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd.

“The 2026 ARIA Hall of Fame anniversary event gives us the chance to properly honour the artists, and industry figures whose work has shaped generations, while the 2026 ARIA Awards will continue that story by championing the next wave of Australian talent on an increasingly global stage. This milestone is about legacy but it’s also about backing where Australian music is going next. We can’t wait for what 2026 will bring.”

As previously reported, audience engagement hit record highs across genres for the 2025 ARIAs, reps say, with nearly 700,000 fan votes through the ARIA website and Spotify.

Register here for information and ticketing on the 2026 ARIA Hall of Fame event.