Bad news for fans who looked forward to attending Tyler, the Creator‘s Camp Flog Gnaw this year: the beloved festival will not return this fall.
Tyler’s manager ChrisClancy says the decision is due to the rapper’s busy schedule.
“It’s really not that deep,” Clancy told Billboard. “Tyler toured all year and was busy with a number of projects. Reading the tea leaves and what’s happening with festivals coming out of the pandemic, we thought it would be best to come back next year.”
The last Camp Flog Gnaw was held in November 2019 — after the pandemic halted the annual show and most others like it — and featured performances by YG, DaBaby, Solange, 21Savage, H.E.R. and other hip-hop and pop artists.
Plans are to bring back the festival in the fall of 2023.
Throughout this year, Tyler toured with his album Call Me If You Get Lost, which earned him a Grammy for Best Rap Album at the 2022 award show.
According to Complex, the rap superstar will lend his voice to the upcoming sixth season of Netflix’s Big Mouth.
Loretta Lynn, who overcame meager beginnings to transform her country career into international fame and fortune, passed away peacefully in her sleep Tuesday at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, according to her publicist. She was 90.
By the time Coal Miner’s Daughter hit the big screen in 1980, based on her signature song of the same name, even the most casual country music fan would’ve been intimately familiar with Lynn’s life story, thanks to the 1970 #1 that paid tribute to her beginnings in rural poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky.
The love of Loretta’s life, Doolittle “Doo” Lynn, married 13-year-old Loretta Webb in 1948. By the time Loretta was twenty, she had four children, and her singing around the house made her husband believe she could be a star. Doo bought Loretta a guitar, she taught herself to play. Lynn and her ambitious husband embarked on a grassroots promotional campaign, visiting radio disc jockeys all across the country. By 1960, her debut single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” reached #14, and she made her Grand Ole Opry debut.
The legendary Patsy Cline took Loretta under her wing, and her protégée was hard-hit by her sudden death in a plane crash in 1963. Patsy left such an impression on Loretta, she named one of her twins after her when they were born in 1964.
As a vocalist, Loretta may have carried on the stylings of her idol Kitty Wells, but when it came to songwriting, the untrained musician struck out on a path all her own. Doo’s wandering eye gave life to classics like “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Fist City,” and “Don’t Come Home a’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” the latter of which would become her first #1 in 1966.
Loretta never shied away from taboo topics, particularly ones that affected women. She tackled then-controversial issues like divorce and birth control in “Rated X” and “The Pill,” and remained unscathed when they were banned by some radio stations.
Appropriately, the self-styled pioneer was the Country Music Association’s first Female Vocalist of the Year in 1967, an award she’d win again in both 1972 and 1973. The early seventies were an epic time for Loretta as she accomplished a task that’s still difficult today: in 1972, she became the first woman ever to be voted CMA Entertainer of the Year.
From there, her horizons only expanded. She teamed with Conway Twitty to redefine the country duet with pairings like “After the Fire Is Gone,” “Lead Me On,” and “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.” The two would be named CMA Vocal Duo every year from 1972 until 1975.
In 1976, Loretta found time to write her autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter. The accompanying 1980 movie of the same name — starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as Doo — became one of the year’s top-ten highest-grossing films. The film’s success earned Spacek the Academy Award for Best Actress, and catapulted Loretta to the status of American music icon.
By the end of the seventies, Loretta was such a widely marketable commodity, Procter & Gamble chose her to be the spokesperson for its line of oil and shortening. “Criso’ll do you proud every time!” was Loretta’s tagline in a series of memorable TV spots.
Throughout her life, Loretta remained fiercely devoted to her family, doing her best to help both her siblings and her children launch their own country careers. Her youngest sister, Brenda Gail Webb, was reborn Crystal Gayle after Loretta re-fashioned her name, taking inspiration from a Krystal fast-food sign.
Loretta also set about writing her sister’s first hit, “I’ve Cried (The Blue Right Out of My Eyes).” Crystal would succeed her sister in taking home the CMA Female Vocalist trophy twice, in 1977 and 1978. Loretta’s twin daughters, Patsy and Peggy, also achieved some success in the nineties, signing a contract with Warner Brothers as The Lynns.
Loretta’s love for her family also brought her heartbreak. In 1984, life dealt her a difficult blow when her oldest son, 34-year-old Jack Benny Lynn, drowned on her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
Just four years later, Loretta achieved the highest honor in her field: induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In the nineties, as her husband’s health began to fail, Loretta focused on taking care of the man she’d fallen in love with as a teenager. She managed to finish the memorable Honky Tonk Angels album with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette in 1994, but suffered a serious heartbreak when Doo passed away in 1996.
Though already a country legend, Loretta’s career highlights were still far from over. 2002 brought a second volume of her autobiography, this time titled Still Woman Enough. In 2003, she received the Kennedy Center Honor, ahead of her 2004 Grammy-winning collaboration with rocker Jack White, Van Lear Rose.
The woman who’d started her music career with only her wit, hard work, and one-of-a-kind sense of humor was never one to give up, even in her 80s. She joked she’d taken care of John Carter Cash backstage at the Opry so his parents, June Carter and Johnny Cash, could perform. In her later years, she headed to Cash Cabin with John Carter Cash as producer, recording in the same space where the Man in Black recorded his final songs.
2016’s Full Circle was nominated for a Grammy, ahead of a holiday volume, White Christmas Blue, that followed the same year. The 2017 release of Loretta’s third album with John Carter, titled Wouldn’t It Be Great, was delayed when she suffered a stroke.
An announcement about Loretta’s memorial is expected in the coming days.
Maren Morris is bringing the spirit of summer into fall.
In between stops on her Humble Quest Tour, Maren and her crew paused for some rest and relaxation at a lakeside retreat.
The singer had 2-year-old son Hayes in tow, who can be seen wearing a little orange beanie while sitting on his mom’s hip as they look out onto the lake.
Maren also shared a photo of her son running in an open field with a young girl with their backs to the camera.
“Fall day at Summer camp with my tour family,” Maren captions the pictures.
She also shared a TikTok video of herself quoting Lindsay Lohan‘s character in the Parent Trap: “Yes, you want to know the difference between us? I have class and you don’t.”
Maren and husband Ryan Hurd welcomed Hayes in March 2020. She continues on the Humble Quest Tour through early December.
David Crosby has unveiled plans to release a new concert album and video that captures a 2018 performance with his group The Lighthouse Band at the historic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
The aptly titled David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live at the Capitol Theatreis due out on November 25 and will be available as a CD/DVD set and via digital formats. The show was recorded on December 8, 2018 during Crosby’s tour in support of Here If I Listen, a collaborative album featuring fellow Light House Band members — singer/guitarist Becca Stevens, singer/keyboardist Michelle Willis and Snarky Puppy guitarist/bassist Michael League.
David previously recorded a solo album, 2016’s Lighthouse, with Stevens, Willis and League, and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, had been touring on and off with with them regularly.
The show features 16 songs, including live renditions of five tunes from Here If I Listen and Lighthouse,as well as versions of Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s “Guinnevere,” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young‘s “Déjà Vu” and Joni Mitchell‘s “Woodstock,” which was famously covered by CSNY.
Live at the Capitol Theatre also features a few other songs from Crosby’s back catalog.
Crosby and The Lighthouse Band’s live version of “1974,” a song from Here If I Listen, has been made available as an advance digital track, and a video of the performance has debuted at David’s official YouTube channel. The tune was based on an old demo that Crosby had recorded in 1974.
“The Us Below”
“Things We Do for Love”
“1974”
“Vagrants of Venice”
“Regina”
“Laughing”
“What Are Their Names”
“By the Light of Common Day”
“Glory”
“The City”
“Look in Their Eyes”
“Guinnevere”
“Janet”
“Carry Me”
“Déjà Vu”
“Woodstock”
You may not be able to rock like Ozzy Osbourne, but at least you can attempt to look like him.
The Prince of Darkness has announced his own makeup line in partnership with the brand Rock and Roll Beauty. The collection includes various eye shadows with names including “crazy train,” “no more tears” and “paranoid,” as well as lipsticks, other cosmetics and even a “gothic mirror.”
The line will be available exclusively in Ulta Beauty stores and via Ulta.com.
Rock and Roll Beauty has also launched collections inspired by Def Leppard and Jimi Hendrix.
Ozzy, meanwhile, just released his new solo album, Patient Number 9, last month.
Depeche Mode has announced their first new album and tour since the passing of member Andy “Fletch” Fletcher in May.
The record, the follow-up to 2017’s Spirit, is titled Memento Mori and will arrive spring 2023. The worldwide tour will launch with a U.S. leg running from March 23 in Sacramento, California, to April 14 in New York City, followed by a trip to Europe through May, June, July and August.
“We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time,” says Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore. “After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.”
“Fletch would have loved this album,” adds frontman Dave Gahan. “We’re really looking forward to sharing it with you soon, and we can’t wait to present it to you live at the shows next year.”
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DepecheMode.com.
Ed Sheeran was honored with the European Song of the Year award Monday night at the BMI London Awards, held at London’s Savoy Hotel.
Ed and one of his co-writers, Johnny McDaid, shared the award for “Bad Habits.” In a video acceptance message, Ed said, “We had so much fun making the song and it has been so much fun playing the song out on the road and seeing the reactions of people all around Europe and I can’t wait to go out and do some more.”
The honor is nothing new for Ed, who also won the award in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Ellie Goulding was presented with the President’s Award. Billboardreports that in her acceptance speech, she spoke about the importance of ambition, and advised aspiring artists, “Don’t listen to those people who have anything to say about you wanting bigger and better — because you deserve it.”
Awards were also handed out to the “Most-Performed” songs of the year, which included “Bad Habits” and a few other Ed songs: “Afterglow” and “Shivers.” Other winners included Elton John and Dua Lipa‘s hit “Cold Heart,” Duncan Laurence‘s “Arcade,” Taylor Swift‘s “Exile” and Ava Max‘s “My Head and My Heart.”
The event also recognized older songs for hitting milestones in number of plays on TV and radio. For example, Queen‘s “Another One Bites the Dust” and Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” were both honored for nine million plays.
In addition, A-Ha’s “Take On Me” was honored for eight million plays, The Police’s “Roxanne” and Elton John‘s “Rocket Man” were honored for seven million plays and “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars was honored for six million plays.
Kanye West has the internet in an uproar after photos of him wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt surfaced online.
Ye, 45, wore the controversial shirt, during his surprise Yeezy Season 9 show at Paris Fashion Week on Monday. Instead of people talking about his latest designs though, it was what his shirt that got people talking.
Jaden Smith, who was in attendance at the show, left after seeing the Donda rapper’s outfit.
“I Had To Dip Lol,” he tweeted, before adding, “True Leaders Lead.”
“I Don’t Care Who’s It Is If I Don’t Feel The Message I’m Out,” he wrote in a following message. “Black Lives Matter.”
Meanwhile, Candace Owens wore the same shirt and shared a picture of herself with Ye to Twitter.
Other fans took to social media to share their thoughts as well, with one writing, “Mind you kanye was just calling [Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner] the kkk 2 weeks ago and now he’s wearing a white lives matter shirt.”
Another expressed, “Sending a “WHITE LIVES MATTER” t-shirt down a runway in Paris is literal insanity and no amount of gospel is getting that man through Heaven’s gate, I’m so sorry.”
A third user didn’t seemed phased by the outfit choice, tweeting, “You lot are shocked at Kanye wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt like the man didn’t support Trump.”
When she’s not working on her music, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter H.E.R has been gearing up to take on the role of Princess Belle in the 30th anniversary live action special of Beauty and the Beast.
The R&B star says she’s “so excited” about the project and looking forward to adding some of her own flare to the beloved character.
“Oh my gosh, I’m so excited! I’ve been in the studio, playing with the arrangements, of course staying true to the original but giving it a new fresh twist,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “It’s gonna be like H.E.R. but also Belle, you know? And I’m really excited.”
The casting of the 25-year-old musician is a historic one; it’ll be the first time Belle will be played by a Black and Filipino woman.
“I can’t believe I get to be a part of the Beauty and the Beast legacy,” H.E.R. said in a statement. “The world will see a Black and Filipino Belle! I have always wanted to be a Disney princess, and I get to work with two wonderful directors — HamishHamilton and my favorite, JonM.Chu. It is very surreal.”
H.E.R., who will also serve as a producer for the special, added that she “couldn’t be more grateful” for the opportunity.
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration will tape live in front of a studio audience and air Thursday, December 15, on ABC.
There are many special moments in Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani‘s seven-year relationship, but there’s one in particular that stands out in Gwen’s mind.
While appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Gwen and host Kelly Clarkson were reminiscing on some of Gwen’s famous fashion moments, including the red gown she wore to the Vanity Fair Oscar’s afterparty in 2016.
But the dress wasn’t the only memorable aspect of the event, as it also marked Gwen’s first red carpet appearance with her now-husband.
“That was my first public date with Blake Shelton,” Gwen confirms while looking at the throwback photo. “He never does red carpets.”
The pop superstar took the country singer as her date to the party, where she was performing; the couple hit the town after the event.
After dating for six years, the pair tied the knot in Oklahoma on July 3, 2021. But Gwen still has fond memories of their first official public outing.
“That melts me when I see it because it’s such a moment for me. A good one,” she describes.
Blake and Gwen have also reunited on the set where they met, retuning as coaches for season 22 of The Voice.
