Report: Teyana Taylor Halloween party interrupted by gunshots

Report: Teyana Taylor Halloween party interrupted by gunshots
Report: Teyana Taylor Halloween party interrupted by gunshots
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Gunshots were reportedly fired outside of Teyana Taylor‘s Halloween party Saturday night in Hollywood.

Three armed men attempted to rob three woman who were standing outside of the bash held at the Sunset Room, according to TMZ. One female was reportedly pistol-whipped, and then a security guard exchanged gunfire with one of the men. No injuries were reported, and bullets were found in cars parked near the venue. TMZ further reports the three men left the scene and it is unclear whether anything was stolen. No arrests were made.

As previously reported, Taylor is now preparing for her farewell tour, titled The Last Rose Petal. “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard,” she wrote on Instagram in September when she announced the tour. “However for every goodbye, God makes the next hello closer.”

The 30-year-old singer/actress/fashion designer will kick off her 12-city tour on November 7 in San Francisco. Stops will include Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Detroit and New York City. Her final performance will be November 30 in Atlanta.

“Come out and watch me leave it all out on the stage” she added. “One last time.

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Harry Styles to christen New York arena with final show of his tour

Harry Styles to christen New York arena with final show of his tour
Harry Styles to christen New York arena with final show of his tour
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Harry Styles will wrap up his Love on Tour trek November 28 with a newly announced show that will also serve as the grand opening of a new New York-area venue.

The show will be the first concert held at the new UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York, which is just outside New York City proper.  Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 5 at noon via Ticketmaster.com.  There’s a presale registration going on now via Ticketmaster Verified Fan program, with those tickets going on sale November 4.

Harry’s next show is November 3 in Milwaukee, WI.  As previously reported, he played two “Harryween” shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden over the weekend, during which he dressed, respectively, as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and a clown.

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Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen & more country artists performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen & more country artists performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen & more country artists performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Country music fans watching the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be thankful to see some of their favorites in the lineup, including Carrie Underwood and Jimmie Allen.  

The retail giant unveiled the acts set to appear during the 95th annual broadcast on Monday, and among them are Jimmie, Chris Lane and Mickey Guyton, along with a special performance by Carrie. 

The multi-Grammy winner will deliver a dose of holiday cheer with a performance of her original Christmas song, “Favorite Time of Year.” It’s featured as a Special Edition bonus track on her 2020 album, My Gift.   

Jimmie will perform from the Green Giant’s Harvest in the Valley float, while Chris will helm the Mount Rushmore’s American Pride display and Mickey will be on Mass Mutual and the NHL’s hockey-themed float, Winning Winter Together.

The country stars will perform alongside multi-genre acts including Kim Petras, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth, Rob Thomas and Nelly, the latter of whom recently dropped a country collaborations album, Heartland. 

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes over the streets of New York City and airs live on NBC from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on November 25.

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Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson scheduled spoken word tour for 2022

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson scheduled spoken word tour for 2022
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson scheduled spoken word tour for 2022
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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has announced a U.S. spoken word tour for 2022.

The outing is set to kick off January 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and will wrap up March 12 in Las Vegas, followed shortly thereafter by a run through Canada.

For the uninitiated, Dickinson’s spoken word performances find him “taking a humorous and often satirical look at the world from his own very personal perspective, treating the audience to private insights into his drive and ambition, peppered with plenty of Maiden anecdotes.” That will be followed by an audience Q&A session.

“The more left-field and quirky the question, the more interesting and compelling the response is likely to be!” a press release promises.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 5. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Dickinson’s website, ScreamforMe.com.

Maiden, meanwhile, will return to the road for a European tour in June 2022. The metal legends just released a new album, Senjutsu, in September, which is the highest-charting Billboard 200 album of the band’s career.

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Fugees postpone reunion tour to 2022

Fugees postpone reunion tour to 2022
Fugees postpone reunion tour to 2022
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The Fugees long-awaited reunion tour has been postponed until 2022.

Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel announced on Instagram that the tour is being pushed back “to ensure the best chance that all cities on the tour are fully open so we can perform for as many fans as possible. With so much excitement around the reunion tour, we are also happy to announce that we will be adding more cities and dates!”

Following their first concert in 15 years on September 22 in New York City, the tour was set to kick off November 2 in Chicago. The trio was also scheduled to perform in Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Newark, and Washington, D.C. They then planned travel abroad to Paris, London, Nigeria and Ghana.

The tour is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fugees’ landmark 1996 album, The Score. When the group announced the tour in September, Hill explained why they were finally getting back together.

“I decided to honor this significant project, its anniversary, and the fans who appreciated the music by creating a peaceful platform where we could unite, perform the music we loved, and set an example of reconciliation for the world.”

Wyclef added, “As I celebrate 25 years with the Fugees, my first memory was that we vowed, from the gate, we would not just do music we would be a movement.”We would be a voice for the un-heard, and in these challenging times, I am grateful once again, that God has brought us together.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Radiohead unearths previously unreleased song, “Follow Me Around,” for upcoming ‘Kid A Mnesia’ reissue

Radiohead unearths previously unreleased song, “Follow Me Around,” for upcoming ‘Kid A Mnesia’ reissue
Radiohead unearths previously unreleased song, “Follow Me Around,” for upcoming ‘Kid A Mnesia’ reissue
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Radiohead has unearthed a previously unreleased song called “Follow Me Around.”

The track is one of several rarities included on Kid A Mnesia, an upcoming combined reissue of 2000’s Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac.

“Follow Me Around” is accompanied by a video starring Memento and Iron Man 3 actor Guy Pearce. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.

Kid A Mnesia will be released this Friday, November 5. It also includes the newly uncovered song “If You Say the Word.”

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Elton John scores top-10 album with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’; launches his own line of eyewear

Elton John scores top-10 album with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’; launches his own line of eyewear
Elton John scores top-10 album with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’; launches his own line of eyewear
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Elton John has scored his 21st top-10 album on the Billboard 200 with his latest studio effort, The Lockdown Sessions, which debuted at #10 on the chart after earning 29,000 equivalent album units during its first week out. Seventeen thousand of that sum were for album sales.

The Lockdown Sessions boasts collaborations Elton recorded virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic with a wide variety of artists. The album includes the U.K. pop-rock legend’s latest top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” a duet with British pop star Dua Lipa that mashes up four of Elton’s earlier songs. The single reached #21 on the Hot 100 last week.

The album also features collaborating with Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and many others.

Elton scored his first top-10 album back in January of 1971 with his self-titled 1970 record, which reached #4 on the tally. His most recent album to break into the top 10 was 2016’s Wonderful Crazy Night, which peaked at #8.

Meanwhile, over the past few days, Elton’s social media pages have featured several iconic photos of the performer without his signature glasses. Well, now we know why: He’s launching his own line of eyewear.

A video on Elton’s Instagram announces the news, with the caption, “I’m just not myself without my glasses. Which is why I’m very excited to finally announce my eyewear collaboration with @walmart and @samsclub. Designed by me to celebrate you!”

The video shows a wide range of specs in many shapes, sizes and colors, though none as quite elaborate as some of the ones Elton wore in the ’70s. As Elton notes, the proceeds will support his Elton John AIDS Foundation.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Darius Rucker to play theaters across the US on 2022 tour

Darius Rucker to play theaters across the US on 2022 tour
Darius Rucker to play theaters across the US on 2022 tour
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Darius Rucker is stepping into new territory with an upcoming theater tour. 

With Darius Rucker Live, the “Beers and Sunshine” hitmaker has booked a 12-city tour that visits theaters all around the country, including New York’s Beacon Theatre, the Chicago Theatre, Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and more. 

After decades of playing arenas as a solo act and as part of Hootie & the Blowfish, Darius says these intimate theater performances have been on his bucket list.

“It’s been a dream of mine for a while to bring our show to these beautiful theaters. Some of my favorite venue memories over the years are at places like the Apollo in New York or the Royal Albert Hall in London, as it’s just a different experience when you’re that close,” he says in a statement. “I’ll just say that this tour will have a lot of firsts, even for me.” 

The tour begins on February 17 at The Met in Philadelphia and wraps up on April 1 in New Orleans. Caylee Hammack joins as the opening act. 

Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. ET. Visit Darius’ official website for the full list of tour dates.

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Everybody loves you now: Billy Joel’s debut album was released 50 years ago today

Everybody loves you now: Billy Joel’s debut album was released 50 years ago today
Everybody loves you now: Billy Joel’s debut album was released 50 years ago today
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It’s Billy Joel‘s golden anniversary as an artist: 50 years ago, on November 1, 1971, his first album, Cold Spring Harbor, was released. Here are some things you may not know about the record that first introduced us to Billy’s talents:

–The album was named after a hamlet on the north shore of Long Island, New York, near where Billy grew up. The cover photo shows him standing on Harbor Road in Cold Spring Harbor.

In 2011, Billy said he made Cold Spring Harbor because he wanted other artists to hear his songs and record them; he was advised the best way to do that was to make an album of them and then go on the road.

–One of the songs on the album, “Tomorrow Is Today,” was inspired by the depression Billy had gone through the year before, which culminated in him attempting suicide by drinking furniture polish, followed by a hospital stay to recover.

–Due to a technical error, the Cold Spring Harbor master tapes were transferred to vinyl at the wrong speed, making Billy sound, he said, “like a chipmunk.” It was finally remastered in 1983, but Billy still thinks he sounds like a chipmunk.

–Cold Spring Harbor flopped, but when Billy included a few of its songs on his 1981 live album Songs in the Attic, one of them, “She’s Got a Way,” became a top-40 hit — 10 years after he first recorded it.

–In 2011, when Billy’s catalog was reissued as a box set, he said of Cold Spring Harbor, “You don’t have to pay a lot of attention to this one. It’s the embryonic Billy Joel, I suppose.”

Here’s the full track list of Cold Spring Harbor:

“She’s Got a Way”
“You Can Make Me Free”
“Everybody Loves You Now”
“Why Judy Why”
“Falling of the Rain”
“Turn Around”
“You Look So Good to Me”
“Tomorrow Is Today”
“Nocturne”
“Got to Begin Again”

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Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey smashes Halloween pumpkins and declares, “It’s time!”

Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey smashes Halloween pumpkins and declares, “It’s time!”
Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey smashes Halloween pumpkins and declares, “It’s time!”
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Halloween is officially over, and you know what that means: Mariah Carey is giving us all permission to start celebrating Christmas.

In a video posted to social media Monday, we see three pumpkins spelling out “It’s not time.” Then we see Mariah in a red sparkly dress armed with a candy cane striped baseball bat. As the clock strikes midnight on November 1 and her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” starts to play, Mariah takes the bat and smashes the pumpkins.

“It’s time!” she says, as the video cuts to her decked out in full-on Christmas mode. We also see a flash of a present with “11/5” on it — a hint of something being released on that date, perhaps?

The clip ends with the message, “It’s time!!! To smash that pumpkin and treat it as pie…cause we still gotta get through Thanksgiving!!!”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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