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Testament has a new member: Dave Lombardo.

The former Slayer drummer has rejoined Chuck Billy and company after previously playing with the thrash metallers on their 1999 album, The Gathering.

“I’ll state the obvious,” Billy says in a statement. “We are more than overwhelmed to welcome back Dave Lombardo to play drums with Testament…Dave added immense power when he joined the band for The Gathering, and we are ecstatic to see what new flavor he will bring back to Testament.”

Lombardo adds, “This is a long-awaited reunion that was bound to happen. Once upon a time, we created a thrash masterpiece. I have no doubt that our musical chemistry will pick up exactly where we left off. I love the Testament family and am very excited to be joining them once again. Pure brutality awaits.”

Lombardo takes the place of longtime Testament drummer Gene Hoglan, who left the band earlier this year.

You can catch Lombardo live with Testament on their upcoming The Bay Strikes Back tour, which launches in April.

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“The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act,” designating lynching as a federal hate crime, was passed by the House on Monday and is now on its way to the Senate to possibly be signed into law.

The historic bill was approved on the last day of Black History Month and 65 years after Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was murdered in a brutal lynching in Mississippi in 1955.

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush, who authored the House bill, said its passage marked “a day of enormous consequence for our nation.”

“I was eight years old when my mother put the photograph of Emmett Till’s brutalized body that ran in Jet magazine on our living room coffee table, pointed to it, and said, ‘This is why I brought my boys out of Albany, Georgia,'” Rush said. “That photograph shaped my consciousness as a Black man in America, changed the course of my life, and changed our nation.”

This is not the first time the lynching bill was introduced; according to the Washington Post, passage of the bill failed nearly 200 times. In 2020, GOP Sen. Rand Paul blocked the bill from passing, worried it would “conflate lesser crimes with lynching.”

According to ABC News, the senator now supports the bill, saying in a statement, “I’m pleased to have worked with Senators Cory Booker and Tim Scott to strengthen the final product and ensure the language of this bill defines lynching as the absolutely heinous crime that it is, and I’m glad to cosponsor this bipartisan effort.”

The bill passed in a 422-3 House vote, with Republican leaders Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Chip Roy of Texas all on the opposing side.

If signed into law, the hate crime is punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Following the season-two finale of HBO’s Euphoria, superstar actress Zendaya and show composer Labrinth released the full version of the gospel-inspired track “I’m Tired.”

A snippet of the track was first heard in the season’s second episode, during an emotional church scene with Zendaya’s character, Rue, who struggles with sobriety. At the end of the season finale, the last minute of the song — and Zendaya’s vocals — are heard while Rue reflects on her sobriety journey.

Zendaya sings, “Hey Lord, you know I’m trying. Hey Lord, you know I’m trying. It’s all I got, is this enough? Hey Lord, I wanna stay.”

The star expressed gratitude to Labrinth in a Monday Instagram story, saying, “Thank you bro for allowing me to write, create and share space with you on this very special song. I learn so much from you every time we work. Excited for what’s to come.”

In an interview with Variety, Labrinth discussed what it was like writing the track and even appearing in the final episode.

“I [sang], ‘Hey lord, you know I’m tired.’ And then she was like, ‘Oh s***!’ And we just started writing the song,” the singer, songwriter said. “It was all of that impulsive inspiration, you know? And then being in the scene, I was like, ‘I haven’t performed for a while and I’ve not been on American TV before or been an actor before… I [was] like, just be in the moment.”

“I’m Tired” isn’t the first track produced by the duo. Labrinth started contributing music to the show during season one, composing “All for Us” for the season’s finale.

Considering Euphoria was greenlit for season three, fans may get much more of the Zendaya-Labrinth dynamic combo.  The show is available to stream on HBO and HBO Max.

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Blink-182‘s Travis Barker has a new reality TV show in the works.

According to Deadline, the series will be called Inked and Iced, and will explore Barker’s passion for tattoos and diamond dental implants alongside so-called “diamond dentist” Dr. Tom Connelly.

Episodes of Inked and Iced will feature “celebrities and musicians undergoing high-end diamond dental implants while simultaneously receiving full-body tattoos, all while under anesthesia,” Deadline reports.

“Inked and Iced is about self-expression, the human body as an art canvas, capitalism, eccentricity and entrepreneurship,” says Aengus James of This Is Just a Test Media, one of the entertainment companies developing the show with Barker.

The premiere date for Inked and Iced has yet to be announced.

Barker previously starred in the reality show Meet the Barkers — alongside his two kids and then-wife Shanna Moakler — which aired 2005-2006 on MTV.

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Caitlyn Smith still remembers being a kid in Minnesota, watching country music award shows like the ACMs, so she’s in awe of the fact that she’s now a nominee for New Female Artist of the Year. 

“My manager told me, and I remember a surreal feeling of ‘pinch me is this a dream? Is this real?'” she describes. “I grew up watching the ACMs and all the award shows, so I’ve definitely dreamed of this for a very long time. It feels very weird to finally be ‘it’s here now.’ It feels crazy.”

Though she’s been part of the Nashville scene for several years, Caitlyn recently scored her first top-40 country hit with the Old Dominion collaboration, “I Cant.” She says that when she first signed her record deal in 2017, country radio was lacking in representation of female artists, with only Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert in the top 20. But Caitlyn’s grateful for the shift she’s seen in recent years that’s allowed her to make her mark in country music. 

“A lot has changed in the last five years. I came here to write country songs, but I didn’t know there was a place for me in country music when I first started recording music,” she explains. “In that time, so many incredible females like Maren [Morris], Ingrid Andress, Kelsea Ballerini, they’ve all paved this way in country radio for there to be more room for women. It’s a place that I’ve always wanted to be and not knowing if I’ve had a space, and thank goodness for all those women.”

Caitlyn continues, “I feel like I finally do have a space, and I feel grateful for Old Dominion for hopping on the song and really bringing me out on the road and helping me out.”

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With more and more artists coming out with a summer tour, Live Nation is making sure you get to see as many as possible.  Their all-new Lawn Pass allows concertgoers to attend shows at their venue of choice throughout summer 2022.

A Lawn Pass ticket allows you to attend up to 40 concerts this summer at one of a select number of Live Nation amphitheaters for a total of $199, plus fees.

The promoter says Lawn Pass not only will allow fans to catch concerts at their local selected music venue, they will also be able to access some select sold-out shows. “Each Lawn Pass purchaser will receive a custom personalized credential with their name that serves as their ticket on each show day,” Live Nation says, adding that the pass is good up to 40 shows.

The Lawn Pass will allow concertgoers to check out Goo Goo Dolls, Josh Groban, Backstreet Boys, OneRepublic, Rod Stewart, Santana, EWF, Tears for Fears, Steely Dan and many others at their local venues, with more artists to be announced.

Only a limited number of Lawn Passes will be available per venue and go on sale today, March 1, at 10 a.m. PT at LawnPass.LiveNation.com on a first-come-first-serve basis.  Check out the website to find eligible venues and artists.

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Kane Brown is revealing the inspiration behind his daughter Kodi Jane‘s name. 

Just before the new year, Kane and his wife, Katelyn, made the surprise announcement that they had welcomed their second child into the family, joining two-year-old daughter Kingsley. 

In an interview with the Superstar Power Hour podcast, Kane shares that he and his wife wanted to stay on the theme of using “K” in the name, and originally had another idea in mind. 

“We were of course trying to think of a ‘K.’ The whole time when we had Kingsley, our next baby we were going to name them Knight,” he explains, according to People. “We were hoping it was going to be a boy at first, but when we found out it was going to be a girl I was like, ‘We could still name her Knight.'”

But during the couple’s gender-reveal party, Kane suggested the name Kodi, which was a hit among the intimate crowd of family and friends in attendance, and led to a discussion about how they were going to spell it. Kodi’s middle name, Jane, is taken from that of Katelyn’s grandmother.

The couple welcomed the baby on December 30 in Nashville. “New year, New family member. Welcome to the family Kodi Jane. Secrets finally out,” Kane shared in an Instagram post, alongside a photo taken at the hospital about her birth.

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With more and more artists coming out with a summer tour, Live Nation is making sure you get to see as many as possible. Their all-new Lawn Pass allows concertgoers to attend shows at their venue of choice throughout summer 2022.

A Lawn Pass ticket allows you to attend up to 40 concerts this summer at one of a select number of Live Nation amphitheaters for a total of $199, plus fees.

The promoter says Lawn Pass not only will allow fans to catch concerts at their local selected music venue, they will also be able to access some select sold-out shows. “Each Lawn Pass purchaser will receive a custom personalized credential with their name that serves as their ticket on each show day,” Live Nation says, adding that the pass is good up to 40 shows.

The Lawn Pass will allow concertgoers to check out 5 Seconds of Summer, AJR, Goo Goo Dolls, Halsey, OneRepublic, Backstreet Boys and many others at their local venue, with more artists to be announced.

Only a limited number of Lawn Passes will be available per venue and go on sale today, March 1, at 10 a.m. PT at LawnPass.LiveNation.com on a first-come-first-served basis.  Check out the website to find eligible venues and artists.

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