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Green Day, Metallica and Machine Gun Kelly are among the headliners for Lollapalooza 2022, taking place July 28-31 in Chicago’s Grant Park.
The bill also includes Måneskin, Jane’s Addiction, Glass Animals, Royal Blood, Turnstile, Wet Leg, Dominic Fike, King Princess, Wallows, girl in red, WILLOW, Manchester Orchestra, Local Natives, Dashboard Confessional, Bob Moses, COIN, Sam Fender, The Regrettes, The Wombats and KennyHoopla.
The other headliners are Dua Lipa, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Lil Baby and Kygo.
Tickets go on sale today at noon CT. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit Lollapalooza.com.
Van Morrison has just announced a new series of U.S. concerts, most of which will take place this September.
The new shows are scheduled for September 1 in Bridgeport, Connecticut; September 3 in Boston; September 4 in Lenox, Massachusetts; September 7 in Vienna, Virginia; September 8 in Philadelphia; September 10 in Forest Hills, New York; October 12 in Phoenix, Arizona; and October 15 in Saratoga, California.
Tom Jones will be opening for Van at the New York concert, while Curtis Stigers will be the support act in Philadelphia.
Tickets for most of the concerts will go on sale to the general public this Friday, March 25, at 10 a.m. local time. The shows in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Vienna, Virginia, will be available starting April 1, while tickets for the California event will go on sale on April 8. Pre-sale tickets also will be available
for select dates; visit VanMorrison.com for more details.
Van also has a variety of previously announced spring U.S. shows scheduled for April and May, as well as a three-show Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace taking place on October 7, 8 and 9 that was postponed from February.
As previously reported, Morrison’s song “Down to Joy,” from the film Belfast, will be competing for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category this Sunday, March 27. The 2022 Academy Awards will air live on ABC starting at 8 p.m. ET.
The Prince of Darkness is soon about to get a new heir.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne‘s son Jack is expecting a new baby with fiancée Aree Gearhart. The child will be his first with Gearhart, following his three kids with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.
“Exciting news!!!” Jack wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday alongside a photo of him sitting next to Gearhart with a hand on her stomach. “[We] are expecting a baby in the summer! Baby #4 here we come!”
CMT has unveiled the first round of star-studded performers for the 2022 CMT Awards.
Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Maren Morris and Kane Brown are among the artists set to take the stage at the show in Nashville, along with Miranda Lambert, co-host Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Little Big Town, and Cody Johnson, who tops the country charts this week with “Til You Cant.”
Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson will also light up Music City with a performance of their hit duet, “Never Say Never,” while Maren will team up with her husband Ryan Hurd. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Kane is the most-nominated act at the fan-voted awards show, with four nominations. Kelsea, Mickey Guyton, Breland and Cody tie for second place, with three nods each.
Voting is open now and closes on April 4 at 10 a.m. ET. Kelsea and Marvel film actor Anthony Mackiewill co-host the CMT Awards when the show airs live from Nashville on its new network home of CBS and Paramount+ on April 11 at 8 p.m. ET.
“Quavo and Karrueche Tran are dating. Things are causal between them, but they are seeing each other and like spending time together,” an insider tells the outlet.
Rumors that the rapper, whose birth name is Quavious Keyate Marshall, and the Claws actress are dating were fueled earlier this month when the duo was spotted dining at West Hollywood hot spot The Nice Guy. This isn’t the first time the duo have sparked romance rumors, though. Back in 2017, Quavo, 30, and Tran, 33, furled speculation when they seemed to be vacationing together with others in St. Martin.
However, they both went on to have separate relationships. Tran dated former NFL star Victor Cruz for three years before splitting in February 2021, while the “Stir Fry” rapper dated Saweetie for three years before it was revealed they’d ended things in March 2021.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) It’s all love over here. Cardi B is joining Summer Walker and SZA to bring fans “No Love (Extended),” dropping Friday.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, Summer announced, “Yall guessed it, my girl @IamcardiB jumped on “No Love” with me & @Sza.”
The 25-year-old singer added, “I can’t wait for y’all to see the video Friday!”
Shortly after the reveal, Summer and Cardi hopped on Instagram Live to celebrate, where they showered each other with compliments and shared their excitement for fans to hear the song. In her own social media posts, the “Up” rapper expressed that she’s bringing a new sound to the record that fans haven’t heard form her before.
“Ommmmmggg I’m soooo excited and nervous!” Cardi wrote alongside a photo of the song’s artwork. “I have never sounded the way I do on this record but I love it ! Hope you guys love it too.”
Over on Twitter, Cardi provided some more context, sharing, “If you’re going through a break up, but you still low key want the d*** you going to relate to this verse ….. I’m so proud of myself I stepped out my element.”
The original “No Love” with SZA was featured on Summer’s sophomore album, Still Over It, which dropped in November 2021.
“No Love (Extended)” is available for pre-save now.
Last week, Ed Sheeran said his next release would be something of a “curveball,” and he wasn’t lying: He’s releasing two songs with Latin superstar J Balvin — and he’s singing in Spanish.
In an Instagram post, Ed explains, “So I want to share something with you that I’ve been working on. I met @jbalvin in a gym in New York last year. It was just me and him very early in the morning. I recognized his voice when he was on the phone so I just went up and said hi.”
“We chatted so long we ended up having lunch and then afternoon tea. Then just went to being mates who chatted non stop,” Ed continues. “I was in New York at Christmas for shows so we decided to have one day in the studio that led to so so much more, which you’ll find out about soon. But the first two songs we wrote are ‘Sigue’ and ‘Forever My Love,’ they are out soon, and I absolutely love them.”
“He wanted to bring me into his world, and I wanted to bring him into mine,” Ed concludes. “Was a proper challenge learning Spanish for this and I had so much fun doing it. Hope you guys love it as much as I do, and look out for more to come.”
The post is accompanied by sped-up footage of what appears to be a video shoot for either one or both songs. No release date has been announced yet.
J Balvin is one of the best-selling artists in Latin music, and has collaborated with Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, The Black Eyed Peas and Dua Lipa. He also topped the charts along with Cardi B and Bad Bunny with the number-one 2018 smash, “I Like It.”
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Billie Eilish and her brother/producer FINNEAS will perform their Oscar-nominated song “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond film of the same name, during the 94th Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, a source involved with the show tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The Grammy-winning siblings are considered odds-on favorites to take home the Best Original song Oscar, following wins at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice and Grammy Awards.
Two other Bond songs have nabbed Oscars over the past decade: Adele’s “Skyfall,” from the 2012 film of the same name, and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall,” from 2015’s Spectre.
The 94th Annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC on Sunday at 8 p.m. from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Pharrell Williams’ non-profit Black Ambition has announced that applications for its second annual Black Ambition Prize are now open.
The company, founded by Williams in 2020 to empower Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, is looking to fund and support ventures in consumer products and services, media and entertainment, healthcare, technology and Web 3.0.
To enter, ventures must have at least one founder or co-founder that identifies as Black or Latinx. The grand prize winner will receive a $1 million prize. At least six additional teams will receive smaller prizes.
Black Ambition is also offering the HBCU Prize, in which current and former students at HBCUs have the chance to win prizes and mentorship as they develop ideas and launch companies. The grand prize winner will receive a $100,000 prize, while at least seven other teams will receive smaller prizes.
“When you realize how lucky you are to be in the constellation of the universe and when you learn how it really works, you stop buying vehicles and you create vehicles to drive you. That’s what Black Ambition is, it’s a vehicle for impact,” Pharrell says in a statement. “At Black Ambition, we find you and then we fund you.”
German hard rockers the Scorpions kick off their nine-date “Sin City Nights” Las Vegas residency this Saturday, March 26, at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
The shows, which will feature Skid Row as the opening act, will mark the launch of the Scorpions’ 2022 tour in support of their new studio album, Rock Believer, and their first trek since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020.
Frontman Klaus Meine tells ABC Audio that the Vegas residency not only will give the Scorpions the chance to debut some new songs, but also will feature “a whole new production,” including a “new stage set” and an LED screen that will display “some cool scenes.”
Meine adds that the production will offer “so much creativity and so many great ideas, and we can wait to see it…ourselves.”
The powerhouse singer also says playing a Vegas residency is a great experience because “the casinos…treat their artists like royalty,” and “it’s nice for a change not to travel, where…every other day…you wake up in a different city.”
In addition, Klaus notes that fans from around the world can come to Las Vegas and “see a couple of shows, go gambling [and] just have fun.” He adds, “We can understand why so many great entertainers, they love to be in Vegas and play there for weeks and weeks.”
The Scorpions’ Las Vegas shows are scheduled for March 26, March 30 and April 1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 16. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com. After the residency, the band will launch a lengthy European tour leg that begins May 10 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Meine also reports that the Scorpions are planning to mount a “real” North American trek during the “second half [of] this year.”
