BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow and Billie Eilish have just been announced as the first group of artists who’ll be performing on the Grammy telecast.
They’ll all take the stage next month, along with country duo Brothers Osborne and singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile, according to Variety.
BTS is up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Butter,” while Billie and Olivia each have seven nominations, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Olivia is also up for Best New Artist. Billie’s already won seven Grammys in her young career.
Lil Nas X, who already has two Grammys at home, has five nods, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year. Jack Harlow’s two nods come from his work on Nas’s Montero album.
The Grammys, hosted by Trevor Noah, are taking place in Las Vegas on April 3. They’ll air at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and will stream on Paramount+.
It’s official! Coi Leray and Nicki Minaj‘s collaboration is on the way.
Taking to Instagram Monday, the rappers announced that the new single, titled “Blick Blick,” will drop Friday, March 18. Both artists shared a snapshot of the song’s artwork, which features the artists back to back, holding pastel-colored weapons in front of a vibrantly colored background.
“TRENDSETTERS LOADING….. My new single “Blick Blick” w| The QUEEN @Nickiminaj drops this FRIDAY 3/18,” Coi captioned the post.
Nicki also shared the release date in her Instagram, writing, “F R I D A Y 3.18.22.”
“I did pull it,” she admitted. “But the label hit me going hard. But rlly I had a private convo w|coi & that’s what changed my mind. Not the label.”
“I just felt bad that she was robbed of telling the world in her own way @ her own time. But that’s water under the bridge now. Good vibes all 2022,” she concluded.
The trek, which features over 40 dates in all, gets underway June 3 with a show in Maryland Heights, Missouri, and is mapped out through a September 25 concert at the famed Red Rock Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The outing includes a four-show engagement at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on July 26, 27, 29 and 30.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, March 19, at 10 a.m. local time. Presale tickets will be available starting Tuesday, March 15, at 10 a.m. local time. Visit JacksonBrowne.com for more information.
As previously announced, prior to the headlining trek, Browne will mount a joint Canadian tour with James Taylor that begins April 21 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and runs through a May 12 concert in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Browne will be accompanied by longtime touring band throughout the outing with Taylor and on his subsequent headlining tour.
Normani, the 25-year-old R&B sensation who was once part of the group Fifth Harmony, is gearing up to drop a new single this Friday.
“FAIRRRRRRRRR is coming in FOUR DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!,” the “Motivation” singer captioned an Instagram post with a photo of the single’s cover art and the pre-save link.
On Monday, a snippet of the new song was released on YouTube, with fans and celebrities alike going into a frenzy over the 30-second teaser.
Normani sings, “Is it fair that you moved on? / ‘Cause I swear that I haven’t / Is it right that you’ve grown? / And I’m still stuck in habits / ‘Cause I’m finding it strange / That you’re better than average / Hearts didn’t break down the middle / Tell me how did that happen?”
“Let’s GO!,” Cardi B said on Twitter, sharing the cover image. Another user deemed this week, “Normani week,” while sharing an animated image of a flying flag with Normani’s face.
“Fair” will be the first project to follow the singer’s wildly popular 2019 hit, “Wild Side,” featuring Cardi B.
The singer is set to perform the track on Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Fallon‘s Tonight Show.
After blowing up on TikTok, L.A. singer/songwriter Em Beihold‘s song “Numb Little Bug” is climbing the radio charts. Em wrote it because the pills she was taking for her anxiety made her feel numb. And while she’s thrilled that fans are telling her how much they relate to the song, she also thinks it’s kind of a sad commentary on our society.
“Well, it’s not a good thing…!” she laughs. “I’m getting all these messages and DMs and comments all saying, ‘Oh, this is exactly how I feel. I feel so seen,’ and that’s incredible and gratifying. But at the same time, I feel not good that so many people feel the same way!”
“I mean, I’ve always written as my own therapy and it’s just a cathartic process, and I feel better after, but it’s insane the response that it’s had,” Em tells ABC Audio of the song, in which she sings, “Do you ever get a little bit tired of life/like you’re not really happy, but you don’t want to die?”
“People with all different sorts of mental health issues or mothers with postpartum depression…they’re saying they relate to the lyrics as well,” she notes. “That’s just beyond me. I would never have imagined, but I’m so honored to have been able to do that for someone.”
“Everyone expects me to be the happiest ever because the song is blowing up and I’m so grateful,” she explains. “But…I have been numb, because I don’t know how to process it!”
“I think when I see people sing the lyrics back to me in a live show, maybe it’ll hit,” she continues. “But right now…it’s not computing at all!”
Thomas Rhett is looking ahead to his upcoming Bring the Bar to You Tour with Parker McCollum and Conner Smith for many reasons. One of those reasons is that he won’t be going on the road only as a performer, but also as a mentee.
The superstar is bringing newcomer Conner as one of his opening acts. The Nashville native went viral on TikTok with “I Hate Alabama” earlier this year, and recently made his chart debut with his new single, “Learn From It.”
“I love him. I see so much of myself in him,” Thomas says. “I think because we both started in this career at 21 years old, and he’s young now, I’m getting older, and it’s fun to get to watch somebody develop their sound and develop their songwriting. Getting to watch him come into his own has been really cool.”
Additionally, the tour will be somewhat of a family affair, as Dos Primos, the tequila company Thomas owns with his cousin, Jeff Worn, serves as the official sponsor.
“It seemed very fitting,” the singer says of the partnership. “We get to bring the energy, we get to bring the party to your town, and get to do it with Conner Smith and Parker McCollum. Just really looking forward to it.”
The tour begins on June 17 in Gilford, NH and concludes on October 15 in Dayton, Ohio.
After Hailey Bieber was taken to the hospital with stroke-like symptoms last week, her husband Justin Bieber “never left her side,” a source close to the singer tells People.
Hailey suffered a small blood clot in her brain, but she “recovered completely within a few hours,” she later wrote on social media. But when it first happened, the source tells People, “There was a lot of panic. Justin texted everyone he knew and asked everyone to pray for her and he never left her side.”
“He was saying that he can’t lose her, that whatever it takes, he wanted the best medical treatment available,” the source adds. “He would’ve done anything to help her. It was a moment for them both to be reminded about mortality, and focusing on what really matters.”
And even though Hailey is now fine — and even attended Justin’s concert on Sunday — the source says Justin is “probably more traumatized than she is” by the experience.
“He realizes, and is telling people around him, how much Hailey is his rock, and how she saved him from a dark time…and that he needs to appreciate her every day,” the source dished. “He’s going to keep an eye on her and help her however he can. And he has everyone around him praying for her continued good health. It shook him up.”
Justin praised Hailey on Instagram for being a trouper, captioning a photo of them together, “Can’t keep this one down.”
A “restored and expanded” version of The Police‘s 1982 documentary The Police: Around the Worldwill be released on May 20 in multiple formats and configurations.
The film, which originally was issued on VHS tape and laserdisc, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time ever, with restored video and remastered audio, as well as four full bonus performances of songs featured in the doc.
In addition, the new release, titled The Police: Around The World Restored & Expanded, will be packaged with a newly created soundtrack album that will be available on either CD or as a colored-vinyl LP. The album includes performances of songs from the band’s first two albums recorded at shows in Japan, Hong Kong and the U.K.
The Police: Around the World captures the band on stage and behind the scenes while touring the globe in 1979 and 1980. The film features singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland visiting Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Egypt, Greece, France, South America and the U.S., as they rock out in various venues, check out the local sights, meet fans and more.
“Like Napoleon, we wanted the world. Out of the messy and fervent atmosphere in London at that time we conceived the idea to go all around the world and film the whole adventure,” writes Summers in the release’s liner notes about what inspired the the documentary. “As far as we knew no rock band, at least, had ever done that. We had just about enough popularity to get booked around the globe. Plans were made.”
The Police: Around the World Restored & Expanded can be pre-ordered now and will be available as a DVD/CD set, a Blu-ray/CD package and a DVD/LP collection.
DVD & Blu-ray performance track list:
“Next to You”
“Walking on the Moon”
“Born in the 50’s”
“So Lonely”
“Man in a Suitcase”
“Can’t Stand Losing You”
“Bring On the Night”
“Canary in a Coalmine”
“Voices Inside My Head”
“When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
“Shadows in the Rain”
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
“Truth Hits Everybody”
“Roxanne”
Bonus features — complete live performances of:
“Walking on the Moon” (Live from Kyoto)
“Next to You” (Live from Kyoto)
“Message in a Bottle” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Born in the 50’s” (Live from Hong Kong)
Soundtrack album track list:
“Walking on the Moon” (Live from Kyoto)
“Next to You” (Live from Kyoto)*
“Deathwish” (Live from Kyoto)
“So Lonely” (Live from Kyoto)
“Can’t Stand Losing You” (Live from Kyoto)
“Truth Hits Everybody” (Live from Kyoto)
“Visions of the Night” (Live from Hammersmith)*
“Roxanne” (Live from Hammersmith)
Intro*
“Born in the 50’s” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Message in a Bottle” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Bring On the Night” (Live from Hong Kong)
Good news, Tool fans: you may not have to wait 13 years to hear another album.
In an interview with Cleveland Scene, drummer Danny Carey says that the next Tool record “won’t take us this long,” referring to the protracted gap between 2019’s Fear Inoculum and its predecessor, 2006’s 10,000 Days.
“We even had some stuff left over from the last one that we’ll develop,” Carey says. “We have head starts on three or four new songs.”
While that does sound exciting, we’re taking Carey’s comments with several grains of salt, as there were multiple false starts amid the 13-year wait for Fear Inoculum. Still, it would probably be hard to take longer than 13 years for another new album, so might as well be optimistic.
Tool is currently on tour in support of Fear Inoculum; the outing continues Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. Earlier this month, they released “Opiate2,” a “re-imagined and extended” version of the title track off their 1992 EP in honor of its 30th anniversary.
The hit ABC comedy series Abbott Elementary has been renewed for a second season, the network announced Monday.
The news was shared on Instagram, in a clever schoolwide “memo” sent from the desk of principal Ava Coleman, who is played by Janelle James.
“The camera crew I hired to showcase all that I’ve made happen at our beautiful school thinks I’m a star,” the memo jokes. “With that said, it is with great pleasure that I share they’ll be returning for the 2022-2023 school year! That’s right — Abbott Elementary Season Two is coming to a screen near you.”
According to Deadline, the show was ABC’s strongest comedy telecast of a new or returning series among the 18-49 demographic in nearly two years, with 9 million viewers tuning in for its December premiere.
Star and creator of the show, Quinta Brunson, shared the exciting news on her Instagram with the caption, “Let’s get it.”
Kanye West fired back at D.L. Hughley over the weekend, after the comedian shared his thoughts about Kanye’s “stalker”-like behavior towards his ex, Kim Kardashian.
In response to D.L.’s thoughts that the “difference between him [Kanye] and a restraining order is about 20 hits and a couple of hundred million dollars,” Kanye shared a series of Instagram posts, including a Googled snapshot of the comedian with the caption, “DL lives in Calabasas???????? Yooooo God is good.”
D.L. responded to Kanye in a series of posts on Twitter.
Country star Dolly Parton says she would love for Beyoncé to cover her 1973 hit “Jolene.”
In a recent interview with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, Parton said, “I would just love to hear ‘Jolene’ done in just a big way, kind of like how Whitney [Houston] did my ‘I Will Always Love You.'”
