Foo Fighters will be celebrating Music’s Biggest Night on stage.
Dave Grohl and company are set to perform during the 2022 Grammys, taking place April 3 in Las Vegas. They join the lineup alongside the previously announced Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, Brothers Osborne, BTS and Brandi Carlile.
Other newly announced performers include Jon Batiste, H.E.R., Nas and Chris Stapleton.
The Foos are nominated for three Grammys this year: Best Rock Album for Medicine at Midnight, Best Rock Performance for “Making a Fire,” and Best Rock Song for “Waiting on a War.” In their career, the band’s won a total of 12 Grammys.
You can watch the Grammys live April 3 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
Wendy Williams has posted an Instagram video in which she blasts the people she claims have frozen her access to her own money.
As previously reported, in court documents, Wells Fargo requested a conservatorship for the talk show host because it believes “she is the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation” — an allegation Wendy has denied.
“My thing is that I’ve been asking questions about my money and when I begin asking questions about my money, suddenly Lori Schiller has got no response regarding my money. I want my money. This is not fair,” Williams says in her post. Schiller, a financial advisor at Wells Fargo, reportedly led the bank to freeze Wendy’s funds.
“Wells Fargo has no questions and answers regarding my money. This is not fair,” Wendy goes on. “And Lori Schiller and Wells Fargo has this guardianship petition about keeping me away from my money.”
The former talk show host previously told Good Morning America that the situation has prevented her from fulfilling her financial obligations, including mortgage payments and employee payroll.
In her video, Williams also puts her former manager, Bernie Young, on blast, claiming, “I know for a fact that Bernie Young used my American Express card to hire an attorney to file a petition against me. That was done with my American Express card.”
“You’re no good…,” she says of Young, who according to a recent report in The Sun claimed Williams’ affairs need to be overseen because “she suffers serious health problems.”
Wendy continues, “A former doctor… had medical information about me that I never even got! It was sent over to Lori Schiller. So I haven’t gotten this stuff. I fired this doctor and, again, all I want to know is where is my money? This is not right! And certainly, this is not fair.”
“The New York court system, without evidence is being weird to me,” Wendy laments.
In February, Wells Fargo denied any “improper actions” to People, claiming, “The financial well-being of our clients is at the heart of everything we do.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers will be dropping a new song called “Not the One” this Friday, March 25.
Bassist Flea revealed the news on his Twitter alongside a 30-second preview of the upcoming track.
“‘Not the One’ is coming on Friday!!!” Flea wrote alongside the clip. “Yeeeeeeeeh mutha.”
“Not the One” will appear on RHCP’s forthcoming album Unlimited Love, due out April 1. It’ll be the third track to be released from the record, following lead single “Black Summer” and the funky “Poster Child.”
The Peppers will launch a worldwide tour in support of Unlimited Love this summer. The U.S. leg kicks off in July.
Luke Combs was scheduled this week to record a performance to air during next month’s CMT Music Awards, but those plans have been scrapped due to a positive COVID-19 test.
The Tennesseanreports the news, explaining that Luke originally planned to record a performance for the show with Kane Brown at an undisclosed location on Thursday. Old Dominion has stepped up to fill Luke’s performance slot.
“Unfortunately, Luke Combs won’t be with us tomorrow,” a spokesperson for CMT said on Wednesday. “He is quarantined with COVID. He’s bummed to miss seeing everyone!”
As of Thursday morning, Luke himself hasn’t issued a statement about his absence from the show or updated fans on how he’s feeling. It’s also unclear whether or not his wife, Nicole, is quarantining with him. She had COVID-19 back in December 2020, and on her Instagram stories, described her recovery process as “brutal,” saying, “I’ve had all the symptoms, except for a fever. It beat me up.”
Nicole is currently pregnant with the couple’s first child, a boy. She’s due this spring.
The 2022 CMT Music Awards will air on CBS on April 11. Luke is nominated in the categories of Male Video of the Year and Video of the Year, both for his music video for “Forever After All.”
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Leona Lewis is going to be a mom!
On Wednesday, the “Bleeding Love” singer announced that she’s expecting, sharing a stunning photo of herself in a form-fitting black dress that showed off her growing baby bump.
“Can’t wait to meet you in the Summer,” she captioned the Instagram post.
Lewis’ husband Dennis Jauch also announced the news, sharing the same photo and captioning it, “Biggest gift I could’ve asked for coming this Summer.”
“You’re one hot a** Mama,” he added,
This is the first child for Lewis, 36, and Jauch, 33. The couple wed in 2019.
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Joe Jonas was one of Jimmy Fallon‘s Tonight Show guests on Wednesday and discussed a number of things, including the Jonas Brother‘s ritual of warming up before a show with a theatrical version of “All Star” by Smash Mouth.
“I find it really warms my vocals up and gets me in the right mindset,” Jonas explained, after which Jimmy pulled out a microphone and coaxed Joe into giving the audience a demonstration..
Joe also talked about the Jonas Brothers’ Las Vegas five-night mini residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM on June 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, his collaboration with Tanqueray, Bridgerton, and the Elvis impersonator who officiated his marriage to Sophie Turner — the latter of which turned out to be a big mistake.
“Everybody signed [non disclosure agreements] except Elvis,” he explained. “He didn’t do anything crazy, but we woke up and turned on the local news and there he is…doing interviews.”
“We also had Ring Pops as our wedding rings, and he was trying to sell the Ring Pop wrappers on eBay,” he added.
Earlier, Joe joined Jimmy in a game of TikTok Duets, where they took turns completing TikTok users’ songs with their own improvised lyrics.
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Prolific hit songwriter Desmond Child will headline a special songwriting-themed edition of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp scheduled to take place April 7-10 in Nashville.
Child, who has co-written such classic songs as Bon Jovi‘s “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Aerosmith‘s “Dude Looks Like a Lady,” KISS‘ “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” and Ricky Martin‘s “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” will be joined by — as he describes them — “spectacular featured guests,” including Steve Cropper, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Marti Frederiksen and Desmond’s “all-time hero,” Felix Cavaliere from The Rascals.
Attendees will be expected to bring their own original songs to the camp, and Child will share his expertise on how to hone their compositions. In addition, he will give campers assignments to write various types of tunes, and campers also will collaborate with each other on songs.
Of course, the guest mentors also will be on hand to impart their songwriting knowledge.
“I’m gonna be attending every single one of those [sessions] if they don’t have me busy doing mine,” Child tells ABC Audio, “because there’s something to learn from everybody.”
Regarding his own participation in the camp, Child says, “I have all of this knowledge inside that I’m dying to share…with young people [who]…even if they don’t make it their career…have that kind of appreciation of…how a song is made and how it’s constructed and what makes a song successful.”
In addition to the various aspects of songwriting, the camp will focus on such topics as recording demos, navigating through the music business and much more.
Desmond says that for him, though, “the main thing is to be inspired by art, by creating.”
Visit RockCamp.com for full details about “Desmond Child & Friends” camp.
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett kicks off a 36-date North American tour leg with a two-show engagement this Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
The trek, dubbed “Genesis Revisited: Seconds Out + More Tour,” is plotted out through a May 19 concert in Seattle. As the trek’s name implies, Hackett and his solo band will be performing Genesis’ 1977 live double album Seconds Out in its entirety at each show. Steve tells ABC Audio that the concerts also will feature some material from his new solo album, 2021’s Surrender of Silence, “and some old favorites as well.”
Hackett notes that Seconds Out is an album “much loved by fans,” and says about the performance, “[W]e’re doing full-length things. We’re doing all the introductions, all the ins and outs to try and give people the works.”
As for his band’s preparation for the trek, Steve says, “They’re sounding spectacular. They sound wonderful. And it’s not easy music. I won’t pretend that it is. You have to be on your mettle the whole time.”
Nine of the U.S. concerts that Hackett is playing on the tour actually are rescheduled dates from shows that were postponed in 2020 and 2021. Those concerts also will include a full performance of Genesis’ 1973 studio album Selling England by the Pound, as well as Seconds Out.
In other news, a two-CD/three-LP version of Hackett’s his 2019 concert album Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live at the Royal Festival Hallwill be released on May 6.
The collection, which previously was issued as a two-CD/DVD/Blu-ray set, documents an October 2018 show in London that featured Hackett and his touring band accompanied by the 41-piece Heart of England Orchestra.
Machine Gun Kelly earned his first number-one album on the Billboard 200 with 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, and he’s aiming to do that again with his next record, Mainstream Sellout.
Speaking with Billboard about his sales hopes for the upcoming effort, the “Bloody Valentine” rocker says, “One thing about Machine Gun Kelly: He doesn’t lose to the Encanto soundtrack.”
That may be easier said then done, since the “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”-spawning album ruled the Billboard 200 for eight straight frames before rapper Lil Durk dethroned it just this week. Billboard also notes that Kelly sounded “about 10% like he’s joking” when he made his declaration.
Still, Kelly is certainly confident in the material of Mainstream Sellout. “I’ve waited for this,” he says. “The confidence to hit ‘play’ and know that what’s about to come out of the speakers is what I’ve wanted to say all along.”
Like Tickets to My Downfall, Mainstream Sellout was recorded with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, and continues Kelly’s pop-punk sound after spending his early career as a rapper. As Kelly tells Billboard, he originally planned to go back to rap for a Tickets follow-up, but he found he “love[s] playing guitar.”
“The 2010s was great for singers and rappers, and I was part of that,” Kelly says. “But I think we needed something else: We needed an instrument.”
He adds, “Kids come up to me like, ‘Dude, the first time I ever saw someone play guitar in concert was at your concert — and now I take guitar lessons.'”
Gwen Stefani’s rocked a stellar array of looks over the years, but her latest might just be her best outfit yet — at least, if you ask her country superstar husband, Blake Shelton.
Gwen shared a hilarious step-by-step tutorial on how to rock true country style on TikTok this week, captioning the video, “why come back as a Country Boy when I can dress like one now?!” Of course, Blake’s chart-topping “Come Back as a Country” blasts in the background of the clip.
Even when she’s emulating his style, Gwen’s still the fashion expert of the household: The camera shows her hand-picking various items from Blake’s closet, and slaps her husband away when he tries to reach for the incorrect ball cap.
The results? A perfectly oversized hunting shirt, with baggy jeans and cowboy boots, plus the singer’s blonde hair pulled back under her cap. At the end of the video, Blake nods his approval toward the camera.
Gwen and Blake got married last summer on Blake’s Oklahoma ranch. His wedding vows to her came in the form of a song he wrote — and subsequently released to the public — called “We Can Reach the Stars.”
