Fans think Taylor Swift will soon release the music video for her track “Vigilante S***.” She is set to release the “Anti-Hero” music video a few hours after she releases Midnights and fans think “Vigilante” will drop on October 25 because of how she held the phone upside down when announcing both the track titles on TikTok.
Doja Cat‘s “Vegas” — from the Elvis movie — entered the BillboardHot 100’s top 10. The song rose to tenth place. Another song of hers is in the top five, “I Like You (A Happier Song)” with Post Malone in fourth. Doja has the most top 10 songs out of all female artists this decade — six overall — which bests Taylor, who previously led with five entries since 2020.
It’s rumored Dua Lipa is working on her new album with Mark Ronson, whom she worked with before on the Silk City hit “Electricity.” The Sunreports she hit up the recording studio with him in New York.
Lady Gaga helped West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler when her dress ripped at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year. Zegler told Vanity FairGaga tapped her “on the shoulder” and told her, “I can’t let you leave like that.” So she worked with two others on “MacGyvering a safety pin to save my dress.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda says he wrote “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto in one night. He told Variety, “The gossip number was the pitch, and then the other idea became that they’ll all tell a kind of ghost story about [Bruno]… The [song’s] name got me halfway there, and then I actually pulled an all-nighter, figuring it all out.”
The music video for Katy Perry and Thomas Rhett‘s “Where We Started” premieres Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET.
(WASHINGTON) — In a dramatic end to what might be its last public hearing, the Jan. 6 committee took the historic step to vote to subpoena Donald Trump.
The subpoena will likely be formally issued this week.
On Thursday, all nine members of the panel approved the resolution to compel the former president to testify about the Capitol attack, which the committee argues was the violent culmination of Trump’s many efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“He must be accountable,” chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said before the vote. “He is required to answer for his actions.”
There’s been discussion among committee members and staff for months about whether they would want Trump to testify in a live setting. There’s no doubt they want him to testify under oath, as committee members made clear in the hearing.
Some members are hesitant to give Trump a live stage, while others view it as beneficial to their investigation as they would get to question him under oath. And there appears to be more of an openness among committee members to have him appear live.
Trump has told advisers he’d welcome a live appearance, according to sources familiar with his thinking, but has yet to say publicly whether he’ll cooperate.
The committee would need to negotiate with Trump if he were to offer to testify live in response to the panel’s subpoena, Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday.
“I think that’s going to be a negotiation,” Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the committee, told ABC “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos. “I’ll only address that when we know for sure whether or not the president has tried to push to come in and talk to us live.”
“He’s made it clear he has nothing to hide, [that’s] what he said. So he should come in on the day we asked him to come in. If he pushes off beyond that, we’ll figure out what to do next,” Kinzinger said.
Trump did not answer whether he would appear in a 14-page memo sent to Thompson Friday, in which he continued his attacks on the panel and continued to make false claims about the presidential race.
“This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt,” he wrote.
Some experts are wary the public will ever see Trump testify before the Jan. 6 committee.
“Before Donald Trump comes to answer questions about this under oath not only will pigs fly but they will circumvent the globe,” attorney Jeff Robins told ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis.
What if he doesn’t cooperate?
If Trump refuses to cooperate, the committee could move to have the full House hold him in contempt and refer the matter to the Justice Department for prosecution.
“If they’re not going to do that, then it is essentially symbolic,” Nick Akerman, a former Watergate special prosecutor, told ABC News.
Chairman Thompson wouldn’t say when asked after the hearing how the committee planned to handle any eventual litigation or defiance of their subpoena.
The House has referred four people to the Justice Department after votes to hold them in contempt — former Trump White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, Trump’s former social media director Dan Scavino, former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and form political adviser Steve Bannon. DOJ declined to press charges against Meadows and Scavino. Bannon was found guilty in July for defying the Jan. 6 committee subpoena. Navarro was also indicted on contempt of Congress charges and is scheduled to go to trial next month.
Trump could also attempt to run out the clock by fighting the subpoena if the committee took it to court, as he’s done with other investigations and records requests he’s faced over the years.
“There are myriad legal and separation of powers issues raised by the subpoena, including whether a congressional committee can compel the president to appear as well as the procedural hurdles in attempting to enforce a subpoena in court which previous court decisions have cast serious doubt upon,” Stanley Brand, a former counsel to the House of Representatives who has represented some of the Jan. 6 witnesses, including Scavino, told ABC News.
“There is also a question of timing given the substantial delays in litigating such a subpoena,” Brand said, pointing to congressional efforts to subpoena testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn. The case stretched out in court for nearly two years, and ended with a voluntary agreement by McGahn to testify.
Brand said this issue, if litigated, could take just as long.
Republicans, if they win back control of the House this midterm election cycle as expected, are expected to drop the Jan. 6 investigation and turn to other matters. Top Republicans have already promised investigations into Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
“Time is not on their side,” Akerman said, “considering it’s mid-October and there’s going to be a new Congress coming in Jan. 1, and there’s no guarantee it’s going to be controlled by the Democrats.”
Thomas Rhett is premiering the video for his collaboration with Katy Perry, “Where We Started,” Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET. Watch a preview here.
Maren Morris is releasing a custom-designed poster for her show at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Denver that will be available at the merch booth on Wednesday night.
Tenille Townes is embarking on her Side A + Side B Tour next year in January. The tour begins on January 18 in Portland, OR and concludes on January 29 in her native Canada in Winnipeg. Tickets go on sale October 21.
Glass Animals continues to makeBillboard history with “Heat Waves.”
Having already set the record for the longest journey to #1 on the Hot 100, the English band’s breakout hit is now the longest-charting track on the all-genre single ranking since it began in 1958.
“Heat Waves” takes the record with a total of 91 weeks on the Hot 100, breaking a tie with The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights,” which had set the previous high-water mark at 90 in 2021. Prior to that, Imagine Dragons‘ “Radioactive” held the record with 87 weeks.
“Wow, all I can say is wow,” Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley tells Billboard. “Many of you know when I wrote this song I was writing about missing someone I loved very dearly. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that it would lead to so much love and connection across the globe. You all have done that.”
“Thank you to everyone who has helped this song reach so many people,” he adds. “You know who you are. Thank you.”
“Heat Waves” was originally released in 2020 as a single off Glass Animals’ album Dreamland. It hit #1 on the Hot 100 in March 2022.
Michael Bublé is making sure his pal Derek Hough has the wedding of his dreams — and in order to achieve that, he has to sing.
Michael sat down onLIVE with Kelly and RyanMonday, where the hosts asked him about Hough’s upcoming nuptials. “I will do anything for Derek Hough,” the Canadian crooner said, adding, “I just think he is one of the few people who are who you want them to be.”
Michael described the Dancing with the Stars judge as “beautiful, kind, incredibly talented” and “a monster” — as in, Hough is “our generation’s [Fred] Astaire.”
Noting Derek is a dancer, choreographer and director, Michael said, “He is a bad, bad man! Ambitious [and] smart.”
When host Kelly Ripa pointed out Bublé was dancing around their initial question, Michael confirmed with a blunt, “Damn straight I’m gonna sing at his wedding.”
Michael also extended the goodwill to co-host Ryan Seacrest, saying he’ll sing at his wedding should he ever get hitched.
Hough previously told Accessthat he wanted Michael to perform at his nuptials. “[Michael] said he would perform,” the dancer revealed. “He’s doing it … It might be a Zoom call, but it’s gonna be [great].” The judge added he “expects a full performance from all my friends and family and Michael Bublé.”
Keep your eyes peeled on Dancing with the Stars next Monday, where Michael will serve as a guest judge and perform on the dancing show.
“It’s gonna be a lot of fun but we’re gonna get into trouble, though, because we’re kind of the same person and we’re just gonna be talking nonstop,” Hough teased.
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Jack Harlow just wrapped his North American arena tour, but he isn’t ready to go into hibernation just yet.
The day after closing out his jaunt at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, Harlow released a new music video for “Like a Blade of Grass” off his Come Home the Kids Miss You album.
The video shows Jack, who is bathed in pink and blue lights, performing in front of a massive crowd that sings along with him. It appears the footage has been stitched together from previous tour performances, as he’s wearing multiple outfits. Some clips show him interacting with the audience.
Not all clips are of his tour, however. There are some scenes of him hanging out backstage and grooving in a party bus with his pals.
Harlow is set to take over Saturday Night Live as both its host and musical performer on October 29. This marks the second time he’ll sing on the show, but his first time as host. It’s unknown at this time what songs he’ll perform.
What was recently a rumor has apparently come to pass: Harrison Ford is going from a galaxy far, far away, to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
While Marvel is characteristically tight-lipped, Varietyreports Ford will replace the late William Hurt as General Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross in the next Captain America film, the first with Anthony Mackie in the title role.
It had been previously reported that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige had approached Ford at the D23 expo about succeeding Hurt in Thunderbolts, a Disney+ series centering on Ross’ team of Marvel baddies recruited for impossible missions.
In fact, The Ankler’s Jeff Sneider, who broke that news, says Ford will be seen in both the big screen and small screen projects, though Variety claims that’s not the case.
However, the interconnected nature of the MCU could certainly make that plausible.
Julius Onah, the Nigerian-born director of 2018’s hit The Cloverfield Paradox, will be directing the fourth Captain America movie, which is being written by Malcolm Spellman, who created, co-wrote, and produced the hit Disney+ show The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Another vet from the show’s writers room, Dalan Musson, is co-writing the screenplay.
Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
(A previous version of this story published on 10/17 erroneously listed Ford as signing onto “Thunderbolts.” The text above has been updated to correct the error.)
In honor of Hip Hop History Month in November, Rhino Entertainment will release special limited edition vinyl versions of classic albums from Diddy, BustaRhymes, E-40 and Mase.
Starting November 4, fans will be able to order double-album versions of Puff Daddy & The Family’s No Way Out, Busta’s When Disaster Strikes, E-40’s My Ghetto Report Card and Mase’s Harlem World. All four limited editions are available for preorder now.
In addition to the records, upgraded, high-definition music videos for songs from each of the albums will release throughout the month.
National Hip Hop History Month was created last year with the passing of Resolution 331, a bill that recognizes the contributions of hip-hop to art and culture and as a genre transcending many generations. The bill designates August 11 as Hip Hop Celebration Day, August as Hip Hop Recognition Month and November as Hip Hop History Month.
Veteran pop singer Gary Puckett, who scored a series of high-charting hits with his group The Union Gap during the late 1960s, celebrates his 80th birthday on Monday, October 17.
Puckett and The Union Gap’s biggest hits were 1967’s “Woman, Woman,” and 1968’s “Young Girl” and “Lady Willpower,” which peaked at #4, #2 and #2, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100.
The band followed those up with three more top-20 singles, 1968’s “Over You,” and 1969’s “Don’t Give In to Him” and “This Girl Is a Woman Now,” which reached reached #7, #15 and #9 on the Hot 100.
“Young Girl,” “Lady Willpower” and “Over You” were written by Jerry Fuller, who also produced The Union Gap’s first three albums.
Puckett and The Union Gap were nominated for Best New Artist at the 1969 Grammy Awards, but lost out to Jose Feliciano.
Puckett parted ways with The Union Gap in 1971 and launched a moderately successful solo career. He withdrew from the music business in the early ’70s, but returned to performing and recording in the early 1980s. Since then, he has performed regularly on the oldies circuit, often with a backing band called The Union Gap, and has sporadically released solo albums.
Puckett and the current Union Gap are taking part in the Sixties Gold tour in the United Kingdom, which runs through late November. They also have several U.S. shows lined up. Visit GaryPuckettMusic.com for more information.
Founding R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry is back. He’s in a new group called The Bad Ends, who, like his former band, hail from Athens, Georgia.
The Bad Ends also feature singer/guitarist Mike Mantione of the veteran Athens band Five Eight, as well as Dave Domizi on bass and vocals, Geoff Melkonian on keyboards and vocals, and Christian Lopez on guitars and mandolin.
The group will release its debut album, The Power and the Glory, on January 20, 2023. The first track from the record, “All Your Friends Are Dying,” is available now as a digital single.
The Bad Ends have also debuted a music video for the tune, which you can watch on the New West Records label’s YouTube channel.
The clip features cameos by R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills and Pylon singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay, and much of the footage was shot at Berry’s home near Athens. The video includes scenes of The Bad Ends members driving ATVs and performing around a swimming pool, where they eventually appear as zombies.
Berry, who hadn’t played in a full-time band after leaving R.E.M. in 1997, recalls in a new SPIN article that he wound up joining The Bad Ends after “a chance pedestrian encounter in downtown Athens” with Mantione in 2017.
“At that point it had been over two decades since I’d involved myself with the record-making process and here was a man Peter Buck recently described as ‘the unsung hero of Athens rock and roll’ offering an opportunity to play in the game again,” Berry explains. “It was energizing to once again play with top-notch musicians.”
The Bad Ends will make their live debut at the Athens Uncovered concert in Athens, GA on November 27.
