Bill Belichick to Bill Belichick to depart New England Patriots after 24 seasonsNew England Patriots after 24 seasons

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick talks to the media after the game. The Patriots lost to the New York Jets, 17-3. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

(NEW YORK) — Coach Bill Belichick is parting ways with the New England Patriots after 24 seasons and six Super Bowl titles, he announced at a press conference Thursday.

Belichick, who became head coach of the NFL team in 2000, told reporters he and team owner Robert Kraft “after a series of discussions, have mutually agreed to part ways.”

“We had a vision of building a championship football team here and that’s exceeded my wildest dreams and expectations,” Belichick said “The amount of success we were able to achieve together through a lot of hard work and contributions of so many people, I’m very proud of that.”

Kraft thanked Belichick during the presser, calling their relationship “like a good marriage.” He added, “The man standing to my left brought the leadership and coaching skills that were needed to make this type of unprecedented success that we have had possible. Coach Belichick will forever be celebrated as a legendary sports icon here in New England.”

Belichick’s departure from the franchise brings to a close one of the most storied chapters in the National Football League’s history. The news of his exit was first reported by ESPN.

He leaves New England with 333 career victories, ranking second behind Don Shula at 347, according to ESPN. Belichick’s 24-year tenure was the fifth-longest of any head coach with a single team.

With the Patriots’ 2018 Super Bowl win, Belichick joined George Halas and Curly Lambeau as the only NFL coaches to have netted six championships, according to his official profile.

 

 

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Kane Brown previews unreleased song about depression: “You’re not alone”

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Kane Brown‘s no stranger to singing about hardship, including growing up without a father (“For My Daughter”) and forgiveness (“Learning”).

Now, he’s digging even deeper as he reflects on the weight of depression.

The country superstar took to Instagram on January 10 to share a snippet of the as-yet-untitled and unreleased track about depression.

“Sneak preview of a heavy song about depression and horrible thoughts and feelings that I feel like a lot of us go through but don’t like to talk about with other people,” Kane captioned his Instagram Reel. “If you relate to the song at all just know you’re not alone and I love you.”

The chorus of the song candidly chronicles the debilitating effects of depression and how it’s clouded Kane’s mind.

“Haunted by the voice in my head/ Haunted by the taste of that led/ I wanted to many times to jump off of the edge/ Thinking I was better off dead/ I’m haunted only every other night/ I’m haunted and I wish I knew why/ I wanted too many times to be gone by the morning/ If I’m honest, yea I’m haunted,” he sings with unrestrained honesty.

You can hear the full preview of Kane’s unreleased song now on his Instagram.

Kane is currently top 10 on the country charts with “I Can Feel It,” the lead single off his forthcoming new album.

For tickets to Kane’s upcoming In The Air Tour, visit kanebrownmusic.com.

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Lady London is BET’s Amplified Artist for January

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BET has announced the Amplified Artist — an up-and-coming music star — for the month of January: Lady London.

The network recognizes the Bronx, New York, native as one of the “best storytellers in the music industry today,” citing her viral freestyles and the millions of views on her songs, including the most recent, “Yea Yea” with Dreezy.  

In October, London made her BET Awards debut with a well-received performance during a cypher at the BET Hip Hop Awards. 

She released he first LP with Def Jam, S.O.U.L., in November, a horoscope-themed album that includes features from TinkCapella Grey and Omeretta the Great

As an BET Amplified Artist, London will receive BET Music’s support across BET campaigns and platforms, including the network’s sister stations as well as BET socials and the official YouTube page. 

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Judah & the Lion details new album, ’The Process’

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Judah & the Lion has announced a new album, The Process.

The fifth full-length effort from the “Take It All Back” outfit, and the follow-up to 2022’s Revival, arrives May 10. The news comes alongside the release of a new track, “Is What It Is,” which you can listen to now via digital outlets.

A press release describes The Process as a “soul-baring song cycle that wrestles with the five stages of grief,” which frontman Judah Akers found himself going through after the recording of Revival.

“I was fighting for my marriage, going crazy, and getting sick,” Akers shares. “I fought writing about what I was going through. Finally, a friend told me, ‘If you don’t write about the biggest heartbreak of your life, you can’t be honest in your work.’ And he was right.”

Judah & the Lion will embark on a U.S. tour in support of The Process in April. Here’s the album’s track list:

“DENIAL”
“Heartbreak Syndrome”
“F LA”
“ANGER”
“Floating in the Night”
“Great Decisions’
“Son of a Gun” feat. K. Flay
“BARGAINING”
“Starting Over’
“Is What It Is”
“DEPRESSION”
“Self-Inflicted Wounds”
“S.I.S.”
“Only Want the Best”
“ACCEPTANCE”
“Long Dark Night”
“Heart Medicine”
“Leave It Better Than You Found It” feat. Ruston Kelly
“Sweet Surrender”

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Dad, stepmom arrested for murder of 5-year-old who was killed in 1989

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(NEW YORK) — A father and stepmother have been arrested for the murder of their 5-year-old son nearly 35 years after he was killed, authorities announced.

Victor Lee Turner and Megan R. Turner (formerly known as Pamela K. Turner) were taken into custody at their Cross Hill, South Carolina, home on Wednesday and charged with the cold case murder of Justin Lee Turner, according to Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis.

“I can’t think of a more tragic, horrendous murder,” Lewis said at a Wednesday news conference.

Megan Turner, then known as Pamela Turner, reported Justin missing on March 3, 1989, telling Berkeley County authorities that the 5-year-old never got off the school bus that afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit.

But Lewis said authorities believe Justin was killed before he had the chance to go to school that morning.

Two days later, Victor Turner found his son’s strangled body hidden in the Turners’ pickup truck camper on their property, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Because Justin’s body, clothing and shoes didn’t have any outside debris, authorities believed he was carried from his home to the camper, the probable cause affidavit said. And the specific location of the 5-year-old’s body suggests it was hidden by someone familiar with the camper and its layout, and the Turners were the only ones with access and keys, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Before Justin’s body was found, Victor Turner was overheard “asking a law enforcement official at the scene, nervously while wringing his hands, what if someone had done harm to the Victim, such as killed him, and that [if that person] was in the family, what would happen to them?” the document said.

Investigators determined Justin died around the time he was last seen alive, and his father and stepmother were the last ones with him, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Justin’s stepmom later admitted to witnesses that she had an “altercation” with the 5-year-old before the time she said she last saw him alive, and she allegedly gave “misinformation to investigators” about her whereabouts that day, according to the probable cause affidavit.

At one point, Pamela Turner was arrested in connection with Justin’s death, but the case was dismissed without prejudice, the sheriff said. She then changed her name to Megan and she and Victor Turner moved out of Berkeley County and never contacted the sheriff’s office about the case again, according to Lewis.

In 2021, Justin’s cold case file was reviewed to see if the evidence could be reevaluated using new technology, the sheriff said.

Several pieces of evidence led to this week’s arrests, the sheriff said, including that investigators were able to narrow down time of death based on contents in Justin’s stomach and investigators used new forensic testing to “tie in the murder weapon that we believe was used to strangle Justin to clothing and fabric on his clothing at the time of his death.”

Forensic analysis found that a ligature recovered from the Turners’ home was likely the weapon used to strangle Justin, and when the Turners learned that evidence, including the ligature, was taken from the home, they allegedly “expressed concern and devised a plan to withhold/conceal potential evidence,” the probable cause affidavit said. The Turners allegedly “uttered spontaneous incriminating statements to indicate responsibility in the death of the victim and intent to conceal physical evidence,” the document said.

“Today Justin would’ve been 40 years old,” the sheriff said. “Could’ve graduated high school, went to college, got married, had a child, been a productive citizen.”

“All we want is justice,” Justin’s cousin, Amy Parsons, who was 8 at the time he was killed, said at Wednesday’s news conference. “And I want to see our justice system do what it was intended to do and put these two people where they deserve to be, because they’ve walked for 34 years … while our family has suffered.”

The Turners’ first court appearances are scheduled for March 15. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.

 

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Billie the Horizon? Fans speculate on possible BMTH/Eilish collaboration

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Is Bring Me the Horizon bringing you a new collaboration with Billie Eilish?

That’s been the going theory among fans after Horizon frontman Oli Sykes commented on a recent Instagram post from the “bad guy” artist.

While the post in question finds Eilish celebrating her Barbie soundtrack song, “What Was I Made For?”, winning Best Original Song at the Golden Globes, Sykes’ seemingly unrelated, one-word response reads, “limousine.”

This, of course, led to speculation that Bring Me the Horizon is releasing a new song called “Limousine” featuring Eilish. Or perhaps she’s not on it, and Sykes is using a music star’s profile to promote his band’s track. Who knows? Maybe Sykes is just guessing Eilish’s mode of transportation to an awards show.

Bring Me the Horizon, by the way, is no stranger to collaboration, having recorded songs with artists including Evanescence‘s Amy Lee, Yungblud, Machine Gun Kelly and Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello. They also dipped into the pop world with a guest appearance on an Ed Sheeran song.

Meanwhile, Bring Me the Horizon is prepping a new album, Post Human: NeX GEn, which is due out in the summer. They just put out a new single, “Kool-Aid,” on Friday.

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Steve Hackett releases video for “Wherever You Are” from ‘The Circus and the Nightwhale’

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Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has shared another taste of his upcoming album, The Circus and the Nightwhale, which will be released February 16.

The Rock & Roll Famer has just dropped a new single, “Wherever You Are,” along with a video for the track. This is the second single Hackett’s released from the album, following “People of the Smoke.” 

The Circus and the Nightwhale is described as an autobiographical concept album revolving around a character named Travla. It is Hackett’s first album of new material since 2021’s instrumental album Under A Mediterranean Sky.  

The Circus and the Nightwhale is available for preorder now.

Hackett is set to return to the U.S. for a new leg of his Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour on March 1 in Jacksonville, Florida, with dates confirmed through April 13 in Phoenix, Arizona. A complete list of tour dates can be found at hackettsongs.com.

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“I ain’t no Spice Girl”: Watch first trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic, ‘Back to Black’

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The first teaser trailer for the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, has arrived.

In the film, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, actress Marisa Abela plays the late British star, who died in 2011 at the age of 27 after years of struggling with substance abuse. Set to the Winehouse hit that gives the film its name, Abela as Amy states, “I don’t write songs to be famous, I write songs because I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t.”

We also see her getting her hair styled into her now-iconic beehive, getting one of her many tattoos, singing onstage and in the studio, winning awards, being chased by the paparazzi, exchanging glances with then-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and telling someone on the phone, “You gotta remember: I ain’t no Spice Girl.”

“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles,” says Abela as Amy. “I wanna be remembered for just being me.”

The trailer description says the film “honors Amy’s artistry, wit, and honesty, as well as trying to understand her demons.” It also gives us “an unflinching look at the modern celebrity machine and a powerful tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent.”

Abela has recorded and will perform many of Winehouse’s hits in the film, which is being made with the blessing and support of the late singer’s record label and publishing company.

Back to Black will open in U.K. theaters on April 12 and then will debut internationally.

 

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Bill Belichick to depart New England Patriots after 24 seasons

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick talks to the media after the game. The Patriots lost to the New York Jets, 17-3. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

(NEW YORK) — Coach Bill Belichick is parting ways with the New England Patriots after 24 seasons and six Super Bowl titles, he announced at a press conference Thursday.

Belichick, who became head coach of the NFL team in 2000, told reporters he and team owner Robert Kraft “after a series of discussions, have mutually agreed to part ways.”

Belichick’s departure from the franchise brings to a close one of the most storied chapters in the National Football League’s history. The news of his exit was first reported by ESPN.

He leaves New England with 333 career victories, ranking second behind Don Shula at 347, according to ESPN. Belichick’s 24-year tenure was the fifth-longest of any head coach with a single team.

With the Patriots’ 2018 Super Bowl win, Belichick joined George Halas and Curly Lambeau as the only NFL coaches to have netted six championships, according to his official profile.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

 

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Suspect who stabbed 3 officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve to plead guilty to federal charges: Sources

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(NEW YORK) — Trevor Bickford is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a 2022 New Year’s Eve knife attack on three New York Police Department officers manning a checkpoint on the Times Square periphery, according to sources.

Bickford, who was 19 when he carried out the alleged attack, came from Maine in December 2022 intending to carry out a jihadist attack on officers in uniform, prosecutors said.

He was charged with four counts of attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S. government and persons assisting them, according to a federal complaint.

Bickford allegedly told investigators the attack was unsuccessful because none of the officers died and because he did not achieve martyrdom, according to the complaint from the Southern District of New York.

Bickford was shot and arrested by officers on Dec. 31, 2022, after he allegedly attacked three NYPD officers with an 18-inch kukri knife near West 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue, outside the secure area that had been set up for New Year’s Eve celebrations.

The attack prompted security adjustments for this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square.

It was not immediately clear what charge or charges Bickford would plead guilty to or what, if anything, he might receive in return from federal prosecutors.

He faces separate charges by the Manhattan district attorney.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

 

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