Offset is thankful Calvin Harris paid homage to his cousin Takeoff last weekend at Coachella. The musician had honored the late rapper by playing a previously unreleased version of his hit “Slide” on which Take was featured.
“This so hard, man, thank you,” Offset wrote alongside a post about the tribute.
“Slide” was originally heard on Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 with Frank Ocean and Migos members Offset and Quavo. People reports Take’s verse came from his collab on “Holiday,” also from Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, which includes other guests Snoop Dogg and John Legend.
Takeoff passed away after being shot outside of a Houston bowling alley in November. In his latest tribute, Offset tatted a detailed portrait of Take on his back.
As promised, fresh from their history-making headlining performance at Coachella, Blackpink has confirmed more live shows across the U.S.
The group’s World Tour [Born Pink] Encore will be comprised of four stops: East Rutherford, New Jersey’s, MetLife Stadium on August 12; Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on August 18; San Francisco’s Oracle Park on August 22; and LA’s Dodger Stadium on August 26.
For information on how you can register or verify your registration for the Blink Membership Presale and for the general presale, visit blackpinklive.com. To be eligible for the presale, you have to have a Blink Membership via Weverse and register on that platform.
The presale starts April 26 at 10 a.m. local time. American Express® Card Members can access a presale that same day starting at 12 p.m. local time. VIP tickets will also be available starting Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. Those give you access to a preshow soundcheck by the group, limited-edition merchandise, great seats and more.
The general sale begins Friday, April 28, at 10 a.m. local time.
Blackpink will headline Coachella’s second weekend on April 22.
Jon Langston is slated to drop a new song, “Ain’t No Cowboy” on Friday, April 21. Jon announced the news on Twitter with a teaser video featuring him stepping into and driving away in a tractor.
Emerging artist Chase Matthew has unveiled a haunting music video for his heartbreaking song “Come Get Your Memory.” The track doubles as the title of his forthcoming 25-song album, which arrives June 9.
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Caitlyn Smith has dropped her highly anticipated new album, High & Low. In conjunction with the release, Caitlyn appeared on CBS Mornings to talk about the inspiration behind her deeply personal 14-track collection. In case you missed it, watch the interview on YouTube.
Tory Lanez appeared in an LA courtroom Monday after his attorneys filed a motion for a new trial in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
Lanez, who was convicted on December 23, 2022, of shooting and injuring the hip-hop star, was initially set to be sentenced in January, but the sentencing has been delayed several times after he obtained new attorneys.
Lanez’s current attorneys, Jose Baez and Matthew Barhoma, filed a motion for a new trial in March, arguing in part that certain evidence presented at trial and some statements made by witnesses on the stand were prejudicial to their client, including an Instagram post and a photo of Lanez’s gun tattoo. The motion, which was obtained by ABC News, also takes issue with the forensic testing and claims that Lanez’s right to counsel of his choice was violated.
The rapper’s defense team said in court on Monday it plans to file a supplemental response to the motion on May 1, which has further delayed his sentencing.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting this case, filed a motion on April 6 asking the judge to deny the defense’s request for a new trial.
In the motion, which was also obtained by ABC News, prosecutors argued the defense’s argument for a new trial “lacks substance.”
The judge on Monday set a hearing for May 8, with the expectation that the sentencing will happen within 30 days of that hearing if the motion for a new trial is denied.
Lanez was found guilty by a jury of three charges for shooting and injuring Megan, born Megan Pete, in both feet in an incident in the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2020. Lanez is facing up to 22 years and eight months in prison.
Get ready for another taste of Ed Sheeran‘s upcoming album, Subtract:On Instagram, the singer announced that Friday, April 21, he’ll release new song “Boat” and a video for the track.
“Boat is the first song I wrote and finished for Subtract, it’s where it all began, and a good way to kick off the album,” he wrote, adding, “hope you love it as much as I do x.”
“The waves won’t break my boat,” Ed sings over acoustic guitar in a clip of the song’s video. It shows him plunging off a cliff in a car, then emerging from the water as the waves crash into him.
“Boat” is the second song Ed has released from Subtract, following “Eyes Closed.” Subtract, the final installment of Ed’s “mathematics” albums, arrives May 5. As previously reported, on May 3 Disney+ will debut a four-part docuseries about Ed called The Sum of It All.
Sting is extending his time on the road. The singer has added nine new dates to his My Songs 2023 tour, which hits North America this fall.
The new additions, which all feature special guest Joe Sumner, Sting’s eldest son, are in Wantagh, New York; Hollywood, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Reno, Nevada; and Austin, Irving and Woodlands, Texas.
The tour is set to kick off September 5 in Toronto, Canada, with dates now confirmed through October 15 in Woodlands. Tickets for the new shows go on sale Friday, April 21, at 10 a.m. local time.
Before bringing the show back to the U.S., Sting is set to tour Europe, with dates kicking off June 1 in Bilbao, Spain. A complete tour schedule can be found at Sting.com.
Back in 2005, Metallica opened two shows for TheRolling Stones — but if you thought the two bands hung out backstage and partied, you’d be wrong. While chatting with Bill Maher for his Club Random podcast, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich revealed the band wasn’t even allowed to make eye contact with Mick Jagger.
Ulrich says the band was sitting backstage at what is now Oracle Park in San Francisco when an assistant told them Jagger was about to walk through to go to his gym and warm up, telling them, “’When he walks through here, please don’t make eye contact with him or talk to him.’”
While Lars says the Stones did take a picture with them, they didn’t exactly get a chance to bond.
“I had dreams, like, I thought, we’re gonna play with the Rolling Stones and you know where I’m gonna spend my whole time, in Keith Richards‘ hotel room, sitting doing those legendary parties ’til nine o’clock in the morning: I’ll be the last one to leave!” Ulrich said. “It wasn’t exactly like that.”
It did have a lasting effect on Ulrich, though, and informed the way he treated opening acts for the rest of their career. “I always go and say hello to our support act. I look them in the eye, I ask them if there’s anything they need,” he says. “It’s a human thing; if somebody comes out and plays on a Metallica stage, I want them to feel at home.”
The new David Johansen documentary Personality Crisis: One Night Only is airing now on Showtime. The film was co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, and producer Margaret Bodde says the Academy Award winner Scorsese was the perfect person to help tell the story of the New York Dolls frontman, who went on to have fame as Buster Poindexter.
“Martin Scorsese has really long been an admirer and fascinated by David Johansen,” Bodde tells ABC Audio. “He loved the New York Dolls, that has been an inspiration for him throughout a lot of the filmmaking that he’s done.” She adds, “I think the idea of reinvention was really fascinating for Marty, when David then became Buster Poindexter or channeling that era of swing music.”
The film is centered around Johansen’s one-man Café Carlyle show, which co-director Tedeschi says gives you a different perspective on Johansen’s career.
“The show was radically different than anything else I’d ever seen partially because he tells the story of his life between the songs,” he explains, “but also because he wrote the songs in the set list, which is unusual for him. I don’t know if he ever did a show where it’s just his songs.”
Bodde adds that Johansen “is really like a musical connoisseur,” and him sharing his life in this way is a unique opportunity to learn about him, noting, “I think David is not someone who really courts that kind of attention.”
Kelly Clarkson has big plans for her 41st birthday next week.
She’s planning a one-night-only concert in LA on her special day, Monday, April 24. She’s calling it “Birthday at the Belasco,” because it’s going down at LA’s Belasco Theater. Kelly says it’ll be a “small, intimate show” during which she’ll perform her new album, chemistry, in its entirety.
“I literally take you on, like, a storyteller ride throughout the album,” she explained on Instagram. “I went through a lot to get to this moment, so I just felt like it deserved a ‘moment’ … I just felt like there’s nothing that could really visually tell this story other than me telling it, so I wanted to do something different for this release.”
Tickets for the show go on sale April 17 at 12 p.m. PT via Ticketmaster, but if you can’t make it, Kelly says the show is being filmed for future release.
Old Dominion is slated to release a brand new song, “I Should Have Married You,” on Friday, April 21.
“There must be a lot of people out there that either need to hear this or need to say it,” shares lead singer Matthew Ramsey, who wrote and produced the track with Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung, Brad Tursi and Shane McAnally.
“If you dance hard enough and sing loud enough, maybe the regret will go away! So crank up ‘I Should Have Married You’ this Friday – and thank you for hounding us about this one since we teased it a few months ago!” Matthew adds.
A press release also offered a peek at the song’s retrospective lyrics: “That’s just the way it goes/ I should have seen it through/ I should have let you know/ I should have said I do/ Back when I still had the chance, yeah/ I should have married you.”
Old Dominion’s latest set of music is their Memory Lane (Sampler), which arrived in January. The four-song EP includes the title track, which is number 17 and climbing on the country charts.
