In between stops on his Raised Up Right Tour, the country superstar attended a concert as a fan when he went to see Post Malone Sunday night at Bridgestone in Nashville as part of his Twelve Carat Tour.
After the show, Luke went backstage and met the star, sharing photos on Instagram of the two hamming it up.
“@postmalone thanks for having me. What a show. Totally blew my mind. So fun being a fan for a night,” Luke says next to photos of him flashing a hang ten sign at the camera, while Malone holds up a peace sign. The second photo shows the two exchanging smiles.
“UNREAL show. He’s the man,” comments fellow fan Travis Denning, who performed at Luke’s Crash My Playa event in 2019.
Luke’s headlining trek continues through October 28.
After Melissa Etheridge saw one of her heroes, Bruce Springsteen, do his Springsteen on Broadway show, she figured she could do the same thing: telling her life story on stage, and using her songs to illustrate it. That idea is now a reality: Last week,Melissa Etheridge –My Window: A Journey Through Life opened at New York’s New World Stages…which is technically Off-Broadway, but is literally in the heart of the theater district.
“Dreams come true,” Melissa told ABC Audio a few months ago about doing a show like this. “Y’know, as a kid…what performing, what music, what the entertainment industry was, as I was growing up in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s…it was all Grammys and Oscars…and Nashville and New York and Vegas and Broadway. These are the entertainment icons.”
She added that she was “really excited” about doing something on Broadway, which she calls an “amazing place for entertainment.”
In the show, Melissa takes the audience through her entire life, from the day she was born right up to the present day. On a mostly bare stage, she tells her story with the help of some vintage photos and video, a trippy light show, a hilarious female “roadie” — played by physical comedienne Kate Owens — and instruments ranging from a piano and guitar, to a clarinet, bass and drums.
With plenty of humor, Melissa details her musical development, her sexuality, her very public relationships, motherhood, her breast cancer battle, her spiritual awakening and the 2020 loss of her son to opioid addiction. And, of course, you’ll hear many of her greatest hits, from “Bring Me Some Water” and “I’m the Only One” to “I Want to Come Over” and, of course, “Come to My Window.”
Sheryl Crow shared a heartfelt tribute to Elton John after she took her two sons to see him in concert.
The singer, who is the mother of 12-year-old Levi and 15-year-old Wyatt, took to Twitter to talk about Sir Elton’s legacy.
“Two weeks ago, I took my two sons to see one of the greatest artists of all time… Sir Elton John. It felt like one of the most important things I will ever do,” she wrote. “I am sure that fact was lost on them however on the way home, they mused at how many songs they knew.”
Sheryl continued, “I told my boys how when I was young and taking piano lessons that it was Elton John’s songs that got me through practice time (at least until my mom busted me that I wasn’t playing my lesson but instead was playing ‘Your Song’).”
Sheryl marked the lyrics “Thank god my music’s still alive” from Elton’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” and spoke about what it was like seeing the stadium — packed with people from all walks of life — sing along loudly to the 1975 hit.
“This is what I want the world to feel like all the time,” she wrote, adding, “Thank you, Elton, for inspiring me and a world of people with your music.”
Sheryl added her son Wyatt wants to learn to play Elton’s songs on the piano and closed with, “Yes, Elton, your music is still alive!”
Elton has yet to respond to the meaningful tribute. He is currently embarking on his final tour titled Farewell Yellow Brick Road. It’s set to conclude next summer.
Over the weekend, he wrapped up his headlining Bring the Bar to You Tour, which kept him and opening acts Parker McCollum and Conner Smith traveling around the country for five months.
After the final show in Dayton, OH, Thomas took to Instagram to reflect on the experience and shared a gallery of photos.
“It has been such an amazing summer/ fall out with this crew! @parkermccollum and @connersmithmusic when y’all are headlining stadiums one day, don’t forget to bring the Ole man (me) along! Haha love y’all!” the “Beer Can’t Fix” singer writes. The post featured photos of Parker and Conner pranking Thomas onstage by wearing giant beer bottle costumes, as well as images of Thomas fist-bumping fans in the audience and signing a fan’s cowboy hat on the confetti-filled stage.
“To my band and crew, you all are top notch professionals. Y’all are also my family. Thank y’all for everything! To all the fans that came out. Wow is all I got. Every single night y’all brought so much energy and joy to these buildings,” Thomas continues. “Till next year fam!”
“Love you brother,” Conner writes in the comment section with a heart emoji.
The tour was named after a lyric in Thomas’ song “Bring the Bar,” which is featured on his latest album, Where We Started.
Kanye West‘s latest comments may cause him legal trouble.
Attorney Lee Merritt,who represents the family of George Floyd, says they are considering a lawsuit against West for comments he made about the cause of Floyd’s death.
“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out,” Ye said in a clip of a recently taped episode of the Drink Champs podcast. “One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes. They hit him with the fentanyl.”
Ye added, “If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”
The rapper’s comments sparked outrage on the internet and prompted Merritt to release a statement on behalf of the Floyd family.
“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death,” Merritt wrote on Twitter. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”
“Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen. And this caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused a [Pulseless Electrical Activity] arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop,” Dr. Martin Tobin explained.
The full Kanye West x Drink Champs interview is not currently available on YouTube; there is a short teaser clip featuring host N.O.R.E and his response to Ye’s comments.
Matt Skiba is “grateful” for his time in Blink-182.
Last week, it was announced that the “All the Small Things” outfit had reunited with founding member Tom DeLonge, meaning Skiba, who replaced DeLonge in 2015 and played on Blink’s last two albums, would no longer be in the band.
The new era of Blink officially began last Friday with the premiere of the new single “Edging,” marking the trio’s first release with DeLonge in over 10 years. Following the single’s debut, Skiba shared an Instagram post congratulating his former bandmates.
“I’m sure there’s a joke in here about releases and happy endings I’m missing,” Skiba wrote. “But I am truly grateful for my time with Blink and I am truly happy you guys are a band and a family again.”
“Thanks to the band and all the Blink fans for having me,” he added. “You were delicious!”
Skiba’s comments follow DeLonge’s post of a message he sent Skiba thanking him for “all that you have done to keep the band alive and thriving in my absence.”
With DeLonge back, Blink-182 is set to embark on a worldwide tour in 2023 and release a new album.
Skiba, meanwhile, continues to front Alkaline Trio, who will play the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas this weekend.
In addition to making resurgent hits out of Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” and Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets,” the latest season of Stranger Things also sparked renewed interest in Dio when beloved character Eddie Munson wore a denim jacket featuring one of the “Holy Diver” band’s back patches.
Wendy Dio, the widow of the late Ronnie James Dio, tells ABC Audio that the Stranger Things-driven Dio revival has been “really great.”
“It’s keeping Ronnie’s music and his memory alive, and now to the younger set,” Wendy says. “With Stranger Things, there’s so many people that didn’t know about Dio that want to now wear the patch.”
Wendy, who provided the patch for Stranger Things to use, shares she’s been “inundated with requests” from people hoping to buy their own since the season premiered.
“I really wish Ronnie could be here to know that these younger generation kids are now listening to his music, as well,” she says.
Along with the spot in Stranger Things, Dio’s song “Rainbow in the Dark” is featured in Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder film. In choosing when to allow different projects to license her husband’s music, Wendy says she’s “very protective of Ronnie’s legacy.”
“I only want to put [his music] in things that I think is something Ronnie would want to do,” she says.
You can, of course, also hear Ronnie’s music in the new documentary Dio: Dreamers Never Die, which premiered in theaters in September.
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Lizzo is unbothered that people are ignoring her music in favor of criticizing her body, so she decided to parody it in a humorous TikTok sketch.
The singer used audio from her recent Vanity Fair interview where she was strapped to a lie detector and acted out the moment she was confronted about her astrological sign. But, instead of debating whether or not she’s actually a Taurus, she changed the dialogue to discuss her weight.
Using captions, Lizzo plays the part of the interviewer and asks, “You’re a musician…And fat… Did you know that no matter how many hits you make people will only talk about your body?”
She responds with “I didn’t know that” — the same answer she provided during the lie detector test.
Lizzo, again playing the interviewer, then asks, “Do you think you’d be successful if you were thin?”
Using the same answer she gave during the interview, Lizzo lip-syncs, “Is this, like, hypothetical?”
She then urged her fans in the caption to stream her single “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready).” She didn’t share any other insight about what may have prompted this video.
Earlier this month, Kanye West talked about Lizzo’s weight during an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show. “When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots on Instagram — they attack her losing weight, because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy,” he previously said.
During a Toronto show last week, Lizzo seemingly referenced the interview when discussing how people in America are talking about her for no reason. “I’m minding my fat Black beautiful business,” she had said.
Jhené Aiko and BigSean are expecting a bundle of joy soon, and they just revealed a baby boy is on the way.
The rapper and singer announced the news onstage in LA Thursday during a special performance of their 2017 collaboration “Memories.” As seen in a Twitter video later shared by The Neighborhood Talk, Big Sean rubs the stomach of a very pregnant Aiko before they request that the audience “make some noise for our baby boy!”
The viral video comes just a few days before Aiko post a series of photos and videos on Instagram of a shower celebration alongside family and friends.
“so thankful for all of our beautiful friends and family who came out to shower our baby with love,” the 34-year-old mom-to-be said. “what a perfect day it was!”
Aiko’s unborn baby boy marks the first for Big Sean, the second for the singer. She shares 13-year-old NamikoBrowner with O’RyanBrowner, the brother of former B2K member, Omarion.
The coaches on The Voice are known for ribbing each other on camera, so when Blake Shelton announced that he’s leaving the show after season 23, fans might’ve expected his fellow coaches to get their light-hearted digs in. The 22nd season of The Voice is currently underway.
But John Legend had sweeter words to share: Speaking to ET Online, the pop superstar applauded Blake’s lengthy tenure at The Voice. After he finishes next season, Blake will have been on the show for 23 consecutive seasons — the longest stint of any coach.
“You can’t do something forever. We’re gonna miss him, though. He’s been the heart and the anchor and the soul of the show for a long time,” John says. “And he’s a friend of mine, and I really enjoy working with him. We’re all gonna miss him.”
The current season of The Voice marks the last time the two men will serve as coaches, as John is sitting out the upcoming 23rd season. “But I’ll be back on The Voice — just not this coming season,” the singer adds.
