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Coachella 2022 has found new headliners in Billie Eilish and Kanye West, sources tell Variety, with Swedish House Mafia in the mix to be the third.
The news comes after the annual music festival, originally set for April 2020, was postponed four times due to the pandemic. It was first bumped to October 2020, then to April 2021, October 2021 and, most recently, April 2022.
Coachella’s original headliners were supposed to be Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine. However, Ocean moved his appearance to 2023 and after November’s Astroworld tragedy, Scott was dropped from the lineup.
Currently, Coachella is set to take place in Indio, Calif. over the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022. Tickets are already sold out.
American Idol host Ryan Seacrest doesn’t have any children, but he says he’s getting valuable experience by working with Katy Perry, who brings her daughter Daisy Dove to the set. In fact, Ryan predicts that one day, he may actually be capable of being left alone with her.
Speaking to People, Ryan says he’s “practicing” his child care skills with Daisy, who’s 16 months old, so he can be ready if and when Katy ever does decide he’s experienced enough to babysit.
“She’s mentioned the babysitting opportunity, just not officially,” Ryan laughs. “She and Orlando [Bloom] have never officially said, ‘Hey, Ryan, we’re going out tonight. You’re in charge all by yourself.’ But I would be willing.”
“I think she knows that I’m practicing and at the right point, I will be ready to be alone and be a great babysitter or uncle to Daisy as well,” he adds.
Ryan, 47, told WSJ. Magazine last month, “I do want to have kids. But I haven’t even gone down that path, which is nuts at my age. I think in the last year, it’s become clear to me that yes, I do want to do that…. I want to be available and present.”
Katy and Ryan, along with Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, will return for the landmark 20th season of American Idol February 27 on ABC. The three judges and the host recently starred in a hilarious video that imagines what they’d all be doing today if they hadn’t been discovered. As the video imagines it, Luke would be a bartender, Lionel would be an art teacher, Katy would be manning a fireworks stand and Ryan would be hosting bar mitzvahs.
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Founding Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Kenney Jones both recently revealed that they and singer Rod Stewart had been working on songs for a new album by the band. Now Stewart also has commented about the project.
“It’s very, very worthy,” Stewart tells ABC Audio about how the new material stands up to classic Faces tunes.
Reflecting on his former band’s music, Rod adds, “When you dig out tracks that [are], like, 40 years old or whatever, you suddenly realize, wow, we were good and we did have a different sound, chaotic as it may have been.”
As for the status of the record, Stewart says, “We’re working on it.” He notes that depending on whether his planned 2022 Australian tour takes place, “we’ll have two or three months to work on it. And it’s gonna be good.”
Wood, who joined The Rolling Stones after the Faces’ 1975 breakup, wrapped up a U.S. Stones trek in November, although it’s not been announced if the band will hit the road again in 2022. Stewart, who released a new solo album called The Tears of Hercules in November, is scheduled to launch his Australian tour in March. However, ongoing issues with COVID-19 could derail those plans.
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Uncut, Jones shared some more details about the Faces reunion project. According to BANG Showbiz, he told the magazine that the album will feature a “mixture of old and new” material.
“What we’ve decided to do is work on some of the original stuff that we didn’t use,” Kenney explained. “Ronnie and I, in particular, have been working on lots of the old stuff together and we’ve rerecorded a couple of those songs with more of a modern feel.”
Dave Grohl and company now have a total of 14 top-10 hits on the Rock & Alternative Airplay ranking, which measures radio airplay across rock and alternative formatted stations. That breaks what was previously a three-way tie for the most top-10s on the 12-year-old chart with Twenty One Pilots and Cage the Elephant, who both have 13.
The Foos earned the record thanks to their song “Love Dies Young,” the fourth and current single off the band’s 2021 album, Medicine at Midnight. Each of the record’s previous three singles — “Shame Shame,” “Waiting on a War” and “Making a Fire” — also hit the top 10 on Rock & Alternative Airplay.
In addition to breaking Billboard records, Foo Fighters’ 2022 — or, as one might call it, 202Foo — includes returning to the road in continued support of Medicine at Midnight, as well as the premiere of Studio 666, a new horror-comedy film starring all of the band members.
In related news, it was just announced that the Foos will appear on the upcoming Jim Henson Company series Fraggle Rock: Rock to the Rock, set to premiere January 21 on Apple TV+.
While some people may dread turning 30, Selena Gomez says she’s looking forward to celebrating her milestone birthday on July 22.
Telling Peopleshe’s “excited” to turn the big 3-0, Selena declares, “I love growing up. When I was younger, I was scared of it, and I thought by now my life would look so different.”
Now, says Selena, “I’m like, ‘Wow, this is not what I ever expected, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.'”
The Grammy nominee said she has good reason for being enthusiastic about getting older: “I stopped caring about what people have to say, and that’s been wonderful.”
Looking back at how much she’s grown since turning 20, Selena remarked, “A lot has changed for me in a lot of good ways.” One of those good changes, she says, is finally being able to call herself a Grammy nominee after her Revelación album was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album.
“I’m so excited,” she declared. “I couldn’t be more proud.” The Only Murders in the Building star also notes the positive effect the Grammy honor had on her music, which was that it lit a “good fire under my a**.”
Selena, who says she “put my heart and soul” into Revelación, also reveals she is working hard on her next studio effort — although she admits that Grammy nod has now made her “more nervous” about her new work.
Selena did not reveal the title or release date of her upcoming studio album.
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Reba McEntire‘s recurring role on Young Sheldon is going strong, as she returns tonight. And while a full-fledged reboot of her own eponymous sitcom has proven elusive, the CBS show could set the stage for a small one.
“Loved working with Annie Potts on Young Sheldon,” Reba told reporters in the fall. “We’ve just gotten through doing an episode and I’m going back in another month to do it again. Rex [Linn] is on his way soon to go back to shoot an episode.”
By all accounts, the Young Sheldon set is a veritable mutual admiration society. Of course, Linn is Reba’s real-life love, and while Potts plays the girlfriend of her ex-husband, Craig T. Nelson, on Young Sheldon, the Designing Women actress couldn’t be fonder of her.
“Hey y’all! Look who’s back!” Potts shared on Instagram this week, along with a shot of the two laughing. “Tune in this Thurs to find out what’s so darn funny… We just LOVE it when @Reba is here!”
Since the Ethel to her Lucy from the Reba sitcom is also on Young Sheldon in an almost-unrelated storyline, the country music superstar dreams of sitcom worlds colliding.
“Melissa Peterman‘s on it,” Reba explains, “so we’re all trying to find a way to get the writers to put Annie Potts, Craig T. Nelson, Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn and myself in one episode.”
“Wouldn’t that be fun?” she beams. “I love Young Sheldon!”
This Saturday, January 8, marks what would’ve been David Bowie‘s 75th birthday, and to mark the milestone, several special releases and events are planned in the coming days.
Most of the events will take place at one or both of the Bowie 75 commemorative pop-up stores that opened in New York City and London this past October.
On Thursday, January 6, the two shops will host the premiere of a new Sony 360 Reality Audio mix of David’s final studio album, 2016’s ★ — aka Blackstar — which was supervised by frequent Bowie studio collaborator Tony Visconti.
Also on January 6, a special livestream event beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Bowie’s YouTube channel will feature songs from David’s A Reality Tour presented in 360 Reality Audio.
Friday, January 7, will see the previously announced release of the TOY (TOY:BOX) box set focusing on Bowie’s previously unreleased 2000 TOY album. An exclusive, limited-edition cassette version of TOY will be sold at the New York and London Bowie 75 stores, as will vinyl and CD editions of the box set.
On January 8, David’s birthday, the New York Bowie 75 store will feature a special Q&A with one-time Bowie band member and TOY producer Mark Plati at 5 p.m. ET.
On Sunday, January 9, the New York and London shops will host screenings of the Selections from A Reality Tour concert film in HD with a SONY 360 Reality Audio soundtrack.
Then, on Friday, January 14, at the New York Bowie 75 store, sax player Donny McCaslin, who collaborated with David on Blackstar, will take part in an interview event that begins at 6 p.m. ET.
Visit Bowie75.com for more details about the events and releases.
Alt-J has released a new song called “Hard Drive Gold.”
The track is available now for digital download and via streaming services, while an accompanying music video has debuted on YouTube. The clip, which was co-directed by frontman Joe Newman, follows a determined pole vaulter, and ends with an apocalyptic twist.
“Hard Drive Gold” will appear on Alt-J’s upcoming album The Dream, which is due out on February 11 and can be pre-ordered now. It’s the third song to be released from the record, following “U&ME” and “Get Better.”
Alt-J will hit the road in support of The Dream on a tour with Portugal. the Man that kicks off February 25 in Pittsburgh.
Cardi B understands the pandemic has been rough for everyone, and joked on Wednesday that maybe the stress of it has finally gotten to her. Taking to Instagram stories, the “Up” rapper explained why she thinks her four-month-old baby is already talking.
“I’m not exaggerating. This baby is talking. I put this on everything I love in the name of Jesus Christ,” she attested in a series of Instagram stories, recalling how she was fawning over her baby boy that morning and asking him if he loves his mommy.
“He replied back like, ‘Yeah!,'” Cardi claimed, saying her son spoke clearly and was not babbling. She also insisted her husband, Offset, also heard it.
The Grammy winner also said her son was speaking while watching the streaming children’s show Cocomelon the other day, where the characters were singing, “If you’re happy and you know it, say ‘Hello!'” — which is exactly what Cardi says her little one did.
“I don’t know if that’s, like, the pandemic thing. I don’t know if, like, if this is normal,” the 29-year-old entertainer said. “This s**t is crazy. I need a camera in this room 24/7 or something.”
In addition to prepping the release of his new album Dawn FM, The Weeknd is also apparently trying to unload some real estate.
The Dirt website reports that since he purchased a mega mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel Air neighborhood for $69 million last year, the singer born Abel Tesfaye no longer needs his penthouse condo in LA’s Westwood neighborhood. He’s put it on the market for a mere $22.5 million, up from the $21 million he paid for the residence a little more than two years ago.
According to The Dirt, the 8,000-square-foot penthouse takes up the entire 18th floor of a building and features four bedrooms and eight baths, floor-to-ceiling windows, a gym and a wine vault.
The building itself offers perks like a helipad, a saltwater pool and spa, and 24/7 security, all of which will cost you more than eight grand a month in homeowner’s association fees.
