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Arcade Fire has announced a North American headlining tour in support of the band’s brand-new album, WE.

The outing will launch October 28 in Washington, D.C., and will wrap up December 1 in Toronto. Each show will feature an opening acoustic set from Beck.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, May 13, at 10 a.m. local time.

Prior to the North American run, Arcade Fire will launch a European tour in late August, which will stretch to October. Feist will open those shows.

For the full list of Arcade Fire’s tour dates and all ticket info, visit ArcadeFire.com.

WE, the sixth Arcade Fire album and first since 2017’s Everything Now, is out today. Arcade Fire will celebrate the record’s arrival with their milestone fifth performance on Saturday Night Live tomorrow.

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Yungblud and WILLOW‘s long-awaited collaboration has finally arrived.

The joint track, which the pair first began teasing last December, is titled “Memories,” and is available now via digital outlets. You can watch its accompanying video, which stars both artists, streaming now on YouTube.

“I think with ‘Memories’ I wanted to create a song that would allow people to let go of past trauma in any regard whether that be a relationship, whether that be abuse, whether that be a misconception in terms of race, in terms of gender, in terms of anything,” Yungblud tells ALT CTRL Radio on Apple Music 1. “I wanted to create a song that would allow people to scream in one room and take each other’s burdens on together because if we carry it together, the load is easier.”

“Memories” follows Yungblud’s single “The Funeral,” and WILLOW’s Paramore-sampling PinkPantheress collaboration “Where You Are.”

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A Day to Remember has announced a U.S. headlining tour.

The outing will be divided into two sections, dubbed Just Some Shows and Just Some More Shows. Just Some Shows will run from July 27 in Baltimore to August 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia, while Just Some More Shows picks up October 1 in  Pensacola, Florida, and wraps up October 28 in Irvine, California.

Beartooth, The Ghost Inside and Bad Omens will support on Just Some Shows, while the Just Some More Shows bill includes The Used, Movements and Magnolia Park.

Tickets to all dates go on sale next Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit ADtR.com.

A Day to Remember will be touring behind their new album You’re Welcome, which was released March 2021. Earlier this year, they released a new version of the You’re Welcome track “Re-Entry” featuring Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus.

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Despite quick-spreading rumors circulating the internet Thursday night that Georgia YouTuber and self-proclaimed “relationship guru” Kevin Samuels died, as of early Friday morning, the Fulton County Medical Examiner has yet to confirm the news.

As detailed in an incident report provided by the Atlanta Police Department to ABC News, at approximately 6:04 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, authorities responded to a call regarding a person injured at an apartment on E Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta. Upon arriving at the home, an officer observed the fire department administering CPR to a Black male, who was unresponsive on the floor of his apartment.

The officer then met with a woman who identified the male as Kevin Samuels.

According to the incident report, currently categorized as “Miscellaneous Non-crime,” the woman stated that she met Samuels the evening prior and spent the night with him. Upon Samuels’ complaint of chest pain, the woman attempted to help him but he fell on top of her, after which she called 911. The woman also said she requested the 911 operator to contact the front desk for a defibrillator to help keep Samuels responsive until hospital staff arrived.

Samuels was later transported to Piedmont Hospital for care.

A Monday evening press release from Chief Medical Examiner Karen E. Sullivan states in full, “The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office can neither confirm nor deny the reported death of Kevin Samuels. If further information becomes available, an updated press release will be issued.”

Samuels is known as a popular social influencer who often went viral due to his controversial relationship advice and remarks. Many people strongly disagreed with his dating opinions — often times aimed at Black women — including his most recent proclamation that, “If you have made it to 35 years old and you’re unmarried, you are a leftover woman.”

ABC News has reached out for confirmation of Samuels’ condition and will update this story as more information becomes available.

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Jack Harlow‘s dropped his new album Come Home the Kids Miss You, and along with it, the video for his latest hit, “First Class.” 

The clip for the Fergie-sampling track stars “Girl from Rio” singer Anitta as a mysterious woman who spies on Jack with a telescope as he exits a building, and then gets on a motorcycle and rides into the night down a road painted with letters spelling out “Glamorous” — the name of the Fergie song in question.

In the clip, which switches from black-and-white to color, we see Jack in the studio, in the club, on a runway with a helicopter, and on what looks like the same nighttime road Anitta is driving on.  It ends with him opening the trunk of a car, only to see a beam of light pour out and shoot up to the sky, which could be a nod to the 1984 cult classic Repo Man.

As previously reported, Come Home the Kids Miss You features Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Drake and Lil Wayne. There’s also a song called “Dua Lipa,” in which Jack raps, “I catch a groove like Dua Lipa/I’m tryna do more with her than do a feature.”

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about the album, Jack explains its theme is all about bringing a piece of his glamorous life back to his home in Louisville, Kentucky.

“I take these experiences where I’m flying through the Hollywood Hills or I’m on a private jet to Miami…I experience stuff no one from my city is getting to experience,” he explains. “And I take that home and go, ‘Let me tell you about it.’”

The full interview drops Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on Jack’s YouTube channel.

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Isiah Lee, the man Los Angeles authorities say tackled comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night, won’t face felony assault charges.

The Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced on Thursday that Lee, 23, will face four misdemeanor charges for the alleged attack: battery, possession of a weapon with intent to assault, unauthorized access to the stage area during a performance, and commission of an act that delays the event or interferes with the performer.”

At issue was the fact that Lee didn’t have the knife in his possession in his hands when he allegedly rushed and tackled Chappelle. The pistol-shaped knife that was reportedly found on Lee’s person was apparently in the bag he was carrying; had it been in his hand, he would have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, a felony — and the incident could have proved lethal for Chappelle.

In a video announcing the charges, Feuer said, “this alleged attack must have consequences,” adding, what “should have been an evening of laughter,” was interrupted by Lee’s actions, which Feuer said would be “vigorously” prosecuted.

Lee is being held on $30,000 bail.

Chappelle’s show continued after the incident. A rep for the comic issued a statement Wednesday saying in part, “The performances by Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl were epic and record-breaking and he refuses to allow last night’s incident to overshadow the magic of this historic moment.”

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If you were to describe AWOLNATION‘s new, guest-filled covers album, it’d be hard to come up with a better word than “fun.”

The compilation, titled My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me, finds the “Sail” outfit taking on songs including Scorpions‘ “Wind of Change” with Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd and Portgual. the Man and Midnight Oil‘s “Beds Are Burning” with Rise Against, to ABBA‘s “Take a Chance on Me” with Jewel and Madonna‘s “Material Girl” with Hanson‘s Taylor Hanson.

For AWOL frontman Aaron Bruno, trying to create something as fun as possible amid the doldrums of the early COVID-19 pandemic seemed like the best option he had.

“Music is there to help people, it’s supposed to be fun,” Bruno tells ABC Audio. “When it can be lighthearted, that’s a great thing. That was generally the attitude I took to making this whole project.”

Working on My Echo, Bruno shares, was a nice alternative to “looking at negative news all the time and living in a constant state of panic.”

“I was able to kind of lean on the connectivity with these different artists that joined me,” he says. “It was very therapeutic for me.”

Bruno adds that he’s “happy and grateful” for all the guests who “agreed to do this crazy thing” with him. Collaborating with so many different people on a single record was also a unique experience for Bruno, who’s the main driving force behind AWOLNATION.

“It’s like I’m in a band all of the sudden again,” he says. “I haven’t done that in awhile. So that feels good, as well.”

My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me is out today. AWOLNATION will launch a U.S. tour in October.

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Maren Morris only has one special vocal guest on her latest album, Humble Quest, but it’s an important one. Her young son, Hayes, lends his voice to “Hummingbird,” a track that Maren wrote the day she found out she was pregnant.

“He’s like the only little feature on it,” the singer tells ABC Audio. “But yeah, his sweet little voice is eternally marked in this song.”

Hayes was born in March 2020, and since then, he’s given Maren a new perspective on everything. That includes songwriting and touring to her TV guest spots, like an appearance she made on Sesame Street in February 2020, just before he was born, when she sang a song called “Oops! Whoops! Wait, ah Hah!”

“I actually, a couple weeks ago, showed Hayes my episode of Sesame Street that I did,” Maren says, who notes one of Hayes’ favorite Muppet characters, Elmo, sang backup with her.

“He loves Elmo,” says Maren. “But seeing me in the television was very bizarre to him. I don’t think he understood what was going on — like, ‘Oh, you’re here and you’re there.’”

Now that Hayes is getting a little older, though, she hopes that she’ll have more opportunities to do guest spots that have some crossover with his interests. “I hope I can do Sesame Street again and bring Hayes, because he will lose his mind,” Maren says.

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Taylor Swift dropped yet another “Taylor’s Version” re-recording at midnight, this time a song from her 1989 album, “This Love.”

“This love is good / This love is bad / This love is alive / Back from the dead / These hands had to / let it go free / And this love came back to me” sings in the chorus to the pensive ballad.

“This Love” is the second track from her 1989 collection to get the “version” treatment. Taylor released “Wildest Dreams” back in September, leading fans to believe she’s ready to release her newly re-recorded version of the album. However, there’s been no official announcement thus far.

“This Love” will be featured in the upcoming TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty, based off the trilogy of books authored by Jenny Han. It arrives June 17 on Amazon Prime Video.

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