It's bad enough that women are routinely excluded from featured slots at actual music festivals, but now they're being excluded from hypothetical ones, too. England's READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL, in an announcement that can best be described as aspirational, on Tuesday unveiled its initial lineup for summer 2021, a summer for which plenty of doubt remains that any major music events will take place. But just in case they do, rest assured that Reading and Leeds won't have to invest heavily in women's bathrooms backstage. Here's a nicely done graphic showing what that lineup, topped by STORMZY, CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN and POST MALONE, looks like with the all-male acts erased. File under lessons not learned in the great lockdown of 2020... In the at-least-trying-to-do-better department, the CMA AWARDS has nominated two women for Entertainer of the Year for the first time since 2000, when the award went to the not-yet-shunned band now known as the CHICKS (whose 2020 album came out too late to be eligible for this year's awards). The last time before that was 1979. Women are well represented throughout this year's nominees, led by MIRANDA LAMBERT and MAREN MORRIS. Perennial Entertainer of the Year GARTH BROOKS, who asked not to be considered this year, had his wish granted... The question of whether a politician can play an artist's music at a rally against the artist's wishes remains untested in court, but the issue of whether a politician can use an artist's music in an ad without asking permission seems much more black and white. Sync rights can get complicated sometimes, but they're not lacking in clarity. On Tuesday, EDDY GRANT sued PRESIDENT TRUMP's campaign for using his song "ELECTRIC AVENUE" in a video posted to TWITTER. Not waiting around for adjudication, or jury selection, or more than two or three news stories, Twitter removed the video a few hours later. The takedown seems unlikely to satisfy Grant's legal team, though; lawyer BRIAN CAPLAN told Billboard his client wants fees and penalties for the usage in the video, which the president himself tweeted and which was retweeted 95,000 times. Grant wrote the song, which became a major pop hit, in response to protests and rioting against police brutality and unequal treatment of people of color in London in 1981. The more things don't change... As apologies for having once worn blackface go, DAVID BYRNE, who wore it in a TALKING HEADS promo video 36 years ago, does as good a job as one can do. He acknowledges he did it, says it was wrong and he asks for grace. He doesn't say he was joking. He doesn't say it was a different time. He doesn't say that isn't who he was. He doesn't get defensive, or pat himself on the back for things he has done since. He hopes people will allow that "someone like me, anyone really, can grow and change." He asks for nothing else. Because of all that, I'm reasonably sure, no one will ask anything else of him as recompense... If you haven’t noticed yet, I've been going down a FANIA RECORDS/salsa rabbit hole in recent days. Byrne, who has a seemingly boundless curiosity about music from cultures that are foreign to him, collaborated with salsa queen CELIA CRUZ and JOHNNY PACHECO on this song for the SOMETHING WILD soundtrack (it also appears on his first solo album), and wrote this tribute to Cruz for Entertainment Weekly when she died in 2003... How to write a perfect TIKTOK song, according to expert JASON DERULO. Step 1: Stop trying to write a perfect TikTok song... RIP ERICK MORILLO, JAY WHITE and MARK COLBY.