According to TMZ, rapper Lil Tjay, born Tione Merritt, is out of emergency surgery after he was shot in New Jersey early Wednesday morning.
ABC affiliate WABC said police officers responded to a call at the Promenade in Edgewater at 12:08 a.m., where they found two men with gunshot wounds. At the time of the report, both men had been taken to the hospital to be treated for their wounds.
Authorities told WABC the shooting “does not appear to be [a] random act.”
Lil Tjay teased his new song “Stressed” earlier this month and was expected to go on tour starting June 25.
Bring Me the Horizon has announced a new single titled “sTraNgeRs.”
The track is set to premiere Wednesday, July 6. You can presave it now, which will also enter you for a chance to win tickets to see BMTH at the Reading & Leeds Festival in August.
“sTraNgeRs” will follow Horizon’s 2021 single “DiE4u.” The English rockers have been working on a new EP for their Post Human series to follow 2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror.
Meanwhile, frontman Oli Sykes is collaborating with Chinese artist Alice Longyu Gao on a new song called “Believe the Hype,” which arrives Wednesday, June 29. That track is available for presave, as well.
Other recent BMTH and Sykes collaborations include songs with Machine Gun Kelly, Tom Morello and Ed Sheeran.
Multitalented superstar Chris Brown has sung with some successful music artists throughout his career, but there’s one person he has yet to partner with. When Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast host Walloasked the singer who in the industry he’d wish to collab with, he mentioned Beyoncé.
“Honestly, realistically — I probably said it once before but probably Beyoncé,” Brown said. “Only because of what that would look like.” The singer detailed his plans for the potential “dope song” with a matching music video of the two dancing together.
Brown said his hopeful partnership with Queen Bey would be “like a check off my to-do list.” And of course he’d never turn down the opportunity, the two popular singers simply need to make it happen.
Wallo, like some fans who left comments on Instagram, says he didn’t realize the duo had never officially teamed up before. Back in 2015, a remix to her hit song “Jealous” surfaced online, which features Brown’s vocals. According to Billboard at the time of the song’s release, Brown tweeted about the mashup, saying he “did the jealous remix some months ago for the Beyoncé collaboration album but it was never used.”
Brown is gearing up to drop his forthcoming 10th studio album, Breezy,on June 24, while Beyoncé has been prepping fans for Renaissance, her first solo studio album since Lemonade in 2016.
With a price tag of just under $400, this stuffed animal isn’t going to be one you want to give to the kids.
The legendary German toy company Steiff has teamed up with Elton John to create a limited edition Elton teddy bear that’s a tribute to both Elton and his 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Just like Benny in “Benny and the Jets,” the teddy sports a “mohair suit” of soft fur and also rocks a pair of exclusive sunglasses from the Elton John Eyewear collection.
Images from the Yellow Brick Road album cover appear on the teddy’s footpads, and he has detailing that makes him look like he’s wearing a baseball jacket with “Elton John” embroidered on the back, as Elton does on the album cover. He’s even wearing a “diamond” cross earring in one fuzzy ear, just like Elton does, and the signature Steiff button in his ear is gold-plated.
Only 3,000 Elton teddies will be produced, at $395 a pop. You can preorder them now; they ship October 31.
As the new face of CoverGirl, Kelsea Ballerini has several favorite products, but her go-to is the Exhibitionist Mascara.
The singer says that this particular brand of mascara adds another level of glam to her look, taking her makeup routine to the “next step.”
“If you wanted to get a little more glam for a special occasion, or for me, a show, it’s the mascara that takes you to the next level. I’ve used it for shows—the commercial was filmed at an actual show that I did in Oklahoma, and I used it to get ready for that—and everything can be a little bit more dramatic on stage,” she tells New Beauty. “So it’s definitely my go-to.”
The “Peter Pan” hitmaker also cites the brand’s tinted lip balm as a favorite item, particularly the peach color.
Among Kelsea’s other favorite things is a glass of cabernet, which she says is her go-to drink. She says Shania Twain‘s classic “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” is her hype song.
Former Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura is sharing more about her unexpected exit from the band last month.
In a tweet announcing the news, the “Bring Me to Life” outfit wrote, “It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways.”
The band added, “We will always love her and support her, and can’t wait to see what she does next!”
Majura, who joined Evanescence in 2015, later wrote in her own tweet that, while she has no “hard feelings” toward her now-former bandmates, the split was not her decision.
Now, in a new interview with the YouTube show Coffee with Ola, Majura reveals that she’s still in shock over what happened.
“After being married six years, all of the sudden, you’re divorced,” she says.
Recalling when she got the phone call with the news, Majura remembers thinking, “Is this a bad joke?”
“After I got the news, I hung up … and I just laid there on the floor, staring at the ceiling, wondering what that was,” she says. “[I was] literally looking over to my suitcase that I had already started packing, because I was two weeks from going out on the road until pretty much the end of the year.”
Majura says that she’s hurt, but is “getting there every day.” She adds that she’s already received offers to join other bands, but is instead taking time to work on a new solo album.
In place of Majura, Evanescence moved longtime bassist Tim McCord to guitar, while Emma Anzai of Sick Puppies has joined on bass.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced a new signature guitar as part of his partnership with Gibson.
The Dave Mustaine Flying V EXP Rust in Peace is a new take on the iconic model, featuring an “alien tech green” finish. Named after Megadeth’s 1990 album, the guitar “delivers the powerful, heavy sound and exceptional playing performance on the stage and in the studio that Dave demands,” a press release declares.
For more info on the Flying V EXP Rust in Peace, which will set you back $2,999, visit Gibson.com.
Mustaine first announced his partnership with Gibson in 2021. The collaboration has so far yielded the non-Rust in Peace edition of the Flying V EXP as well as the Dave Mustaine Songwriter acoustic guitar.
In related news, Megadeth is seemingly preparing to finally release new music from the band’s anticipated new album, The Sick, the Dying…and theDead!, the long-in-the-works follow-up to 2016’s Dystopia. A cryptic social media post hints at something new dropping this Thursday, June 23.
Could we have had Kate Bush‘s music in the MCU and Stranger Things?
According to Thor: Love and Thunder star Christian Bale, director Taiki Waititi wanted to put a Bush-inspired dance scene in the upcoming movie.
Bale shares that nugget in an interview with Total Film while talking about his approach to his Love and Thunder character, the villain Gorr the God Butcher.
“There’s obviously sort of a Nosferatu slight attitude,” Bale explains. “Taika and I wanted to do a whole dance, which we didn’t get to do, but we had all this sort of Kate Bush stuff that we worked at.”
As for why the scene didn’t work out, Bale says, “I think [Waititi] just realized he was never going to be allowed to put that in the final film.”
While we won’t be hearing Bush’s music in Love and Thunder, she’s already quite busy with the Stranger Things-driven resurgence of “Running Up That Hill,” which has hit the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart following its placement in the newly premiered fourth season of the Netflix show.
The 1985 song’s newfound popularity has been so huge that the normally press-shy Bush has now given a rare interview, speaking with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour program.
Meanwhile, Thor: Love and Thunder premieres in theaters July 8.
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The 2022 Glastonbury music festival has finally returned to England and although Harry Styles is not slated as a performer this year, rumors are swirling that he has something up his sleeve.
British station Capital FM reports the “As It Was” singer might put on a secret session. Apparently, fans are convinced he will crash Billie Eilish‘s headlining set this Friday. Basically, fans are counting on a surprise set because Harry has shouted out the 20-year-old singer in the past.
Then again, fans also believed Billie would make a cameo on Harry’s new album, Harry’s House — but a collab never came into fruition.
Fans have widely speculated Harry will do something for the legendary music festival ever since it was announced it would return this year. They also looked at the Grammy winner’s packed touring schedule and noticed he has nothing slated for this weekend.
Harry is next set to perform in Hamburg, Germany, this Sunday, which is only fueling rumors that he’ll jump onto the Pyramid stage sometime this weekend.
Headlining acts bringing on a secret performer is nothing new. During the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, headliner Miley Cyrus brought on her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, and rapper Lil Nas X during her performance.
On the heels of releasing his debut solo album, Speed of Heat, last Friday, former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has lined up a series of California tour dates in support of the record.
Baxter currently has six shows on his schedule: July 30 in Sutter Creek, July 31 in Mill Valley, August 1 in Oakland, August 2 in West Hollywood, August 3 in Solana Beach and August 4 in San Juan Capistrano.
The new series of shows follows Baxter’s East Coast outing in May. Baxter’s band features Speed of Heat co-producer CJ Vanston on keyboards, as well as Mark Damian on drums and Hank Horton on bass.
“CJ suggested Mark and Hank and I didn’t actually meet them until we started rehearsing for the tour,” Baxter says. “But we meshed immediately, and the initial dates went so well we don’t want to stop.”
As previously reported, Speed of Heat is a 12-track collection that features a mix of original tunes and select covers. Among the latter are versions of the Steely Dan classics “My Old School” and “Do It Again,” and the 1960 instrumental “Apache” that was popularized by The Shadows.
The album features Baxter singing lead on some tracks, as well as some guest vocalists and musicians, including his one-time Doobie Brothers bandmate Michael McDonald, country star Clint Black, Toto keyboardist David Paich and blues-rock singer/guitarist Jonny Lang.
McDonald lends his vocals to a song called “My Place in the Sun,” which he co-wrote with Baxter and Vanston, while Paich plays an organ solo on the “My Old Town” cover.
