A staggering number of people we know are coping with incalculable loss. The fires that have whipped across L.A. this week have taken away not merely structures but a treasury of sanctuaries and the keepsakes of many lifetimes. We want to help however we can amid so much heartbreak. But we also understand that not everyone wants the same kind of help. Some people are glad to have a GoFundMe or other campaign shared online. Others want to deal with the struggle privately. So we want to know: How can we help? Would a mention on the website be useful? Would you prefer to vent to us privately? Just want to meet for drinks and talk about something more pleasant? Whatever you'd prefer, we've got you. Just let us know—by phone, text, email, DM via IG, you name it. We're grateful and (more than usually) humbled to be part of this community.

Country-music veteran Milly Olykan is coming aboard Live Nation as SVP of Artist Development and Global Touring, where she'll help grow the company's worldwide country and Americana strategies. Olykan will report to Live Nation President of Touring Omar Al-joulani, who said, "Milly’s extensive experience and industry connections make her a great asset to expand touring in those genres worldwide." Prior to her arrival at Live Nation, Olykan spent seven years as VP of International Relations and Development at the Country Music Association, where she also served as interim director of the annual CMA Fest. She helped establish the U.K.'s annual Country to Country festival while VP of Live Music and Major Arena Events at AEG Presents. In that role, she won the CMA Jo Walker Meador International Award for her contributions to developing the format. “It’s been a privilege to have built so many meaningful relationships worldwide, and I’m excited to continue advancing that mission from my new role at Live Nation," Olykan said.

At midweek Quality Control/Motown’s Lil Baby had the lead over last week’s champ, SZA’s deluxe SOS (TDE/RCA), and the week's other big debut, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos—I Should Have Taken More Pictures—(Rimas). Baby’s WHAM appears on track for 120m+ first-week streams with upside, as the album’s deluxe iteration (four extra songs) landed at DSPs today (1/7). Meanwhile, Bad Bunny’s 17-track Sunday-morning drop should collect north of 100m plays in its first five days. It's a tough day in L.A. But at least we're here to distract you with our clowning.

Wicked painted the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards in shades of pink and green today (1/8), dominating with five nods, including best ensemble and individual recognition for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey. The Universal picture, which generated 915k transactions on its first day of VOD release, registered $10.8m at the box office over the weekend, bringing its worldwide total to over $681m. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown (Searchlight), was close behind with four nominations, including for best ensemble and Timothée Chalamet’s lead performance as the rock legend. The Los Angeles wildfires forced SAG to cancel the nomination ceremony planned for 1/7 and announce the contenders via press release this morning.

LiAngelo Ball, brother of NBA star Lorenzo Ball, and his new single, "Tweaker," have racked up more than 4m YouTube views in four days. Now, it's Shazam's Biggest Mover of the week. LiAngelo, who raps under the moniker G3 GELO, dropped the single on 1/3 via Born to Ball Music Group. Lorenzo has a co-writing credit. The song has been streamed more than 1.3m times since popping up on Spotify U.S., where it currently sits at #8. In the #2 spot is ROSÉ and Bruno Mars' smash, "APT.," which continues its impressive global run. It resides at #10 on the Spotify U.S. chart and #51 on Apple Music's Top 100. Following at #3 is Drayton Farley's 2021 single "Blue Collar." A selection from the Alabama singer-songwriter's sophomore album, A Hard Up Life (Hargrove Records), the track surged after being featured in a recent episode of the Paramount+ show Landman. Rounding out the Top 5 are Neton Vega's "Loco," the first single from his forthcoming album, De Mi Vida Mi Muerte, and Naughty Boy's 2013 single "La La La" f/Sam Smith, beneficiary of a TikTok bump.

Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, Hozier and Luke Combs will brave the Tennessee heat when they headline Bonnaroo, 6/12-15 in Manchester, 90 minutes southeast of Nashville. The Live Nation gathering will also feature appearances by John Summit, Dom Dolla, Avril Lavigne, Glass Animals, Vampire Weekend, Justice, Queens of the Stone Age, Marcus King, Goose, Megadeth, Nelly, GloRilla, RAYE and, for good measure, Insane Clown Posse. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bonnaroo's first artists-in-residence, will play three different sets throughout the weekend. Remi Wolf will host the annual SuperJam, the theme of which will be "Insanely Fire 1970s Pool Party." Bring your sunblock, fam. New this year is the Infinity Stage, a bespoke venue built in partnership with Polygon Live that will offer spatial sound, synchronized lights and what's (breathlessly) described as "an unprecedented three-dome, open-air design to create the world’s largest, most immersive, 360° live-music experience." We're hallucinating already! Tickets go up tomorrow (1/9) at 10am CT, with rock-bottom prices for four-day GA entry available for the first hour.

Yung Kai is poised to take over 2025 with "Blue" (BMG/Flood Division), from his 2024 EP, Shades of Blue. The track has earned more than 250m global streams, 120m of those on Spotify, and been heard 6.6b times on TikTok and 8b on Facebook and Instagram, with many praising its "mesmerizing" lyrics. On YouTube, meanwhile, the Wasserman-repped singer-songwriter has been deemed a "Trending Artist on the Rise." Listen to "Blue" below.

Peter Yarrow, a linchpin of the 1960s folk-rock scene as part of the pioneering trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday (1/7) at his home in New York. The cause was bladder cancer. He was 86. Yarrow, who was born in Manhattan, began his musical life while a student at Cornell University. After his graduation, he returned home and started performing on the Greenwich Village folk scene, developing enough of a reputation to earn an invitation to play the 1960 Newport Folk Festival. In 2015, he told Rebeat magazine, “I went with the idea that I want to be involved in music that creates community. [Music] that reaches people’s hearts and mobilizes people for a more humane society.” Promoter-manager Albert Grossman teamed him with fellow singers Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, a lineup intended to echo The Weavers. Peter, Paul and Mary's debut album, issued by Warner Bros. in 1961, stayed in the Top 20 for two years and sold more than 2m copies, spawning a Top 10 hit with a cover of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays’ “If I Had a Hammer.” The group attained even greater success—and some notoriety—two years later with the Yarrow-penned “Puff the Magic Dragon,” which rose to #2 on the singles chart. Upon its release and for years afterward, pundits posited that the song was an ode to marijuana, which Yarrow consistently denied. They were closely affiliated with Bob Dylan, leading to Yarrow's being depicted in the recent semi-biopic A Complete Unknown as a peacemaker trying to calm an angry crowd after Zimmy went electric at Newport. Like many of their peers, Peter, Paul and Mary also embedded themselves in progressive politics, performing at scores of benefits for Democratic presidential candidates Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern and singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The group recorded consistently throughout the 1960s, notching its sole #1 with “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane," written by friend John Denver, in early 1970. They split shortly thereafter, though they regularly reunited to perform for a wide range of causes. In 1970, Yarrow was arrested for “taking improper liberties” with a 14-year-old girl, an offense that earned him a one-to-three-year prison sentence. He admitted guilt, served three months and was pardoned in 1981 by President Jimmy Carter. He went on to record solo projects throughout the '70s. While Yarrow continued to perform regularly with the trio until Travers’ death, in 2009, and then as a solo artist, he devoted most of his later life to activism. He supported freedom for Soviet Jewry and aiding Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, but his primary focus was on Operation Respect, an anti-bullying group he founded in 2000 that was recognized with a Congressional resolution in 2003. Speaking to Reuters in 2008, he said, “Operation Respect has been my main and all-consuming work for the past 10 years. My perception is that the kind of bullying, humiliation that goes on in children's schools leads to high rates of depression that was virtually unknown when I was young and the high suicide rate of teenagers, which we know is almost inevitably caused by bullying or mean-spiritedness." Yarrow is survived by his wife, Marybeth, son Christopher, daughter Bethany and granddaughter Valentina.