Maren Morris has created a new “olympic sport” onstage.
On Tuesday, Maren posted an amusing video that shows her singing onstage as she tries to track down the security guard to deliver an important message. Dressed in a glitter fringe top and jean shorts, Maren can be seen strutting around the stage performing a cover of Fiona Apple‘s “Criminal” while attempting to get the security guard’s attention to tell him to let her friends stay in the front row.
While singing lyrics, “heaven help me for the way I am/Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done,” the superstar can be seen pointing to the guard as her friends make their way to their front-row seats, not missing a beat.
“The Olympic sport of chasing down the venue security guard to let your friends stay in the front row while also not missing a lyric,” Maren shares in the caption, adding a gold medal emoji for her victorious efforts.
Maren is currently embarking on her Humble Quest Tour, which takes her all across the U.S. and Canada through December.
Three men were arraigned Tuesday on charges they conspired to illegally possess and sell 100 pages of notes and lyrics from the Eagles album Hotel California, including Don Henley‘s lyrics to the songs “Hotel California,” “Life in the Fast Lane” and “New Kid in Town.”
A biographer of the band stole the handwritten manuscripts in the 1970s. In 2005 he sold them to Glenn Horowitz, a rare books dealer and one of the three people charged Tuesday. Horowitz then sold them to Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The charges include conspiracy, criminal possession of stolen property and hindering prosecution.
“There is no room for those who would seek to ignore the basic expectations of fair dealing and undermine the public’s confidence and trust in our cultural trade for their own ends,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
After learning Inciardi and Kosinski were trying to sell portions of the manuscripts, Henley filed police reports, told the defendants the materials were stolen and demanded the return of his property. The defendants responded by engaging in a yearslong campaign to prevent Henley from recovering the manuscripts, prosecutors said.
According to the indictment, Horowitz and Inciardi worked to fabricate the manuscripts’ provenance. Between 2012 and 2017, Inciardi and Kosinski attempted to use that false statement of provenance to coerce Henley into buying back his stolen property.
The men also sought to sell the manuscripts through Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses, and requested that Sotheby’s hide Henley’s claims from potential buyers prior to offering the manuscripts for sale at public auction in 2016.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office retrieved Henley’s stolen manuscripts from Sotheby’s and from Kosinski’s New Jersey residence, including 84 pages to songs from Hotel California.
Shortly thereafter, Horowitz attempted to exploit the recent death of founding Eagles member Glenn Frey to prevent criminal prosecution, claiming that the material originated from Frey.
Muni Long teamed up with California rapper Saweetie for “Baby Boo,” a new single released last month, and now, the official music video is on the way.
With inspiration from the hit ’95 song “My Boo” by Ghost Town DJ’s — which was also sampled in Ciara‘s “Body Party” in 2013 — the new collaboration sounds like a summer favorite in the works.
In an exclusive clip shared with The Shade Room, Long is seen swiping through men on the dating site Blk before showing off her dance moves in a pink and blue cheer ensemble and later teaming up with the Icy Princess for what seems to be a dating competition event.
The new song and upcoming video come at a time when Long is taking the R&B lane by storm. Her long list of writing credits for some of the top names in music precedes her solo singing career and recent singles “Pain,” “Another” and the hit song “Hrs & Hrs.”
Muni made her BET Awards debut last month to perform “Hrs & Hrs” as well as her popular track “Time Machine.”
The official music video for “Baby Boo” drops Wednesday, July 13 at 12 p.m. ET.
The Rolling Stones in 1963; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Today, July 12, marks the 60th anniversary of the first show that The Rolling Stones played under their famous moniker.
As explained in an article posted on BMG.com, the performance took place at London’s famous Marquee Club on Oxford Street. The show came about when British blues outfit Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, which had a residency lined up at the club, was offered the chance to play a live BBC broadcast that evening and accepted, leaving an opening at the venue.
Singer Mick Jagger, who occasionally performed with Korner’s group, was given the chance to fill in that night with the new band he’d been working with, although they didn’t have a name at the time and needed to choose one for the gig. Guitarist Brian Jones came up with The Rolling Stones, taken from a Muddy Waters song.
The band’s lineup for the show featured Jones — who was using the stage name Elmore Lewis at the time, Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, piano player Ian Stewart and bassist Dick Taylor. There remains some disagreement about who, if anyone, played drums with the group that night.
The Rolling Stones played a 16-song set at the show that featured a mix of blues and early rock ‘n’ roll tunes. Here’s the full set list:
“Kansas City” – Wilbert Harrison
“Honey What’s Wrong” — Billy Fury
“Confessin’ the Blues” — Chuck Berry
“Bright Lights, Big City” — Jimmy Reed
“Dust My Blues” — Elmore James
“Down the Road Apiece” — Chuck Berry
“I Want to Love You” — Charles Smith
“I’m a Hoochie Coochie Man” — Muddy Waters
“Ride ‘Em On Down” — Robert Johnson
“Back in the USA” — Chuck Berry
“I Feel a Kind of Lonesome” — Jimmy Reed
“Blues Before Sunrise” — Elmore James
“Big Boss Man” — Jimmy Reed
“Don’t Stay Out All Night” — Billy Boy Arnold
“Tell Me That You Love Me” — Fats Domino
“Happy Home” — Elmore James
Mario‘s recent announcement of his upcoming song, “Main One” with Tory Lanez, was met with negative reactions from social media users.
The “Just A Friend” singer took to Twitter Monday to unveil the single’s cover art and alert fans of its release this Friday writing, “S/O to my bro @torylanez ! We went crazy tap in!”
Fans were quick to resurface a previous tweet by Mario in which he spoke openly about the Megan Thee Stallion and Lanez shooting case and emphasized the need to “Protect black women.”
“This @theestallion & @torylanez situation got me in awe. Sad AF?” he wrote on Aug. 21, 2021. “Knowing Tory personally this s**t crazy to me. Black men we gotta learn how to control our ego, anger etc. at some point the switch gotta turn off! Protect black women! Heal black men. Love & respect each other.”
“This you?” one Twitter user wrote, sharing a snapshot image of Mario’s tweet.
“Mario had women swooning 2 weeks ago during and after that Verzuz,” another said, referencing the recent Verzuz battle between Mario and fellow R&B singer Omarion. “And now he’s about to completely undo all of that by putting out a record with Tory Lanez. Are artists’ teams really this stupid?”
Another user tweeted saying, “Mario doing a song with Tory Lanez doesn’t make a lick of sense. Did he not read the room?”
In an Instagram Live video, Mario seemingly doubled down on his decision to work with the Canadian rapper.
“As an independent artist doing his thing, it’s a lot of artists that don’t work as hard as he do. Regardless of whatever, the music is what it is,” Mario said.
Life on the road as a famous country star may sound glamorous, but Old Dominion is here to set the record straight.
Before hopping onstage recently, the band took to Instagram to share the hilarious reality of life backstage while on tour, with a video of bass player Geoff Sprung casually clipping his nails.
“It’s the little things, it’s the small details — people don’t see them, but they can feel them,” Geoff remarks outside the tour bus as patrons can be seen streaming into the stadium in the background. “Earlier I did my toes. You can tell a show when I’ve done my toes. A little more spry, a little more fluid,” he adds jokingly.
“It’s a glamorous lifestyle. This is how the stars do it it, right?” OD quips in the caption.
The CMA Award-winning band has been keeping fans updated on all the adventures they’ve had while on the road as part of Kenny Chesney‘s stadium-sized Here and Now Tour, taking place through the end of the summer.
The nominations for the 2022 Emmy Awards were announced today, and two Beatles-related documentary series came away with multiple nods.
The Beatles: Get Back, the three-part Disney+ docuseries about the January 1969 recording sessions that yielded the band’sLet It Be album, scored five nominations. The program will vie for the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award, as well as for trophies honoring outstanding directing, picture editing, sound editing and sound mixing.
In addition, the Hulu documentary series McCartney 3,2,1 received three nominations, for outstanding cinematography, sound editing and sound mixing. The six-part program featured Paul McCartney talking with producer Rick Rubin about the music thathe created with The Beatles and as a solo artist.
You can check out the full list of nominations at Emmys.com.
Get ready MAX fans! The “Lights Down Low” singer is gearing up for a new headlining tour that’ll take him on the road this fall.
Simply titled the 2022 North American Headline Tour, MAX will kick off the seven-week trek in Santa Ana, California on October 17. Then, he will visit 30 stops that’ll take him across North America’s biggest cities — including Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston, Orlando, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago and many more.
MAX will also include a special two-night event in his hometown of New York City, where he will take over Irving Plaza on November 25 and November 26.
The jaunt wraps up just in time for Christmas, with a final pit stop planned on December 12 in St. Louis, Missouri.
MAX won’t be roaming across the continent by himself — he’s tapped artists Sara Kays and VINCINT to open for him on select dates. Other guest openers will be announced in the coming weeks.
To further hype fans for the forthcoming tour, MAX will unleash the all-new single “Wasabi,” due out July 22. It is now available to pre-save.
As for tickets to the forthcoming tour, those go on sale Friday, July 15, starting at 10 a.m. local time on MAX’s official website. You can also access information regarding VIP passes and pre-sale ticket sales, which are set for Wednesday, July 13.
Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” can now add “helped secure Emmy nomination” to its list of post-Stranger Things accomplishments.
The Neftlix sci-fi show’s music supervisor Nora Felder is up for Outstanding Music Supervision at the 2022 Emmys, specifically for the episode “Chapter Four: Dear Billy.” While “Running Up That Hill” is used throughout the latest Stranger Things season, it’s heard most prominently in “Dear Billy” when — spoiler alert — the 1985 single helps the character Max Mayfield escape from the Upside Down villain Vecna.
Since its placement in Stranger Things, “Running Up That Hill” has become a resurgent hit, giving Bush her first ever top-five hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and hitting #1 in her native U.K. The massive success of the song led the normally press-shy Bush to issue several public statements and even give her first interview in years.
Puscifer has announced a fall U.S. headlining tour in continued support of the Maynard James Keenan-led band’s latest album, 2020’s Existential Reckoning.
The outing begins October 13 in San Francisco and will wrap up November 22 in Prescott, Arizona. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 15 at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Puscifer.com.
Along with the tour news, Puscifer has also released a video for the remix of the Existential Reckoning song “Bullet Train to Iowa,” done by Keenan’s A Perfect Circle bandmate Billy Howerdel. You can watch the animated clip streaming now on YouTube.
