The sophomore effort from the “When I’m Gone” outfit is called Can’t Find the Brakes. The release date hasn’t been announced, but you’ll be able to hear lead single “Won’t Take Me Alive” — described in a press release as a “literal, take-no-prisoners-balls-out rocker” — when it drops July 7.
Can’t Find the Brakes will be the sophomore follow-up to Dirty Honey’s 2021 self-titled debut, which spawned the singles “The Wire,” “California Dreamin'” and “Another Last Time.”
Dirty Honey is currently on tour in Europe. They’ll be back in the U.S. later this year while opening for Guns N’ Roses.
Country superstar Luke Combs, who you may have seen duetting with Ed Sheeran at the ACM Awards in May, now has his own pop hit with a cover version of Tracy Chapman‘s 1988 top 10 hit “Fast Car.” The song is one Luke says he’s loved ever since he first heard it when he was 5.
“That song’s just been a huge part of my life for a really long time. It’s one of the first songs I remember hearing,” Luke explains. “It’s probably my first favorite song that I ever had. [I] spent tons of time listening to it with my dad in his pickup truck when I was a kid.”
“It just caught my attention,” Luke says of the song, which is about a couple who want to break free of their struggles. “Ever since I could play guitar, it was one of the first songs I wanted to learn … I never forgot it. It never came out of rotation.”
While in college, Luke would cover “Fast Car” all the time, but after he made a video of himself performing it during lockdown, fans called for him to release it.
“The fans were like, ‘Man, you ought to do an official version of this,'” he told reporters. “And … it just finally felt like the right time … and so I’m thankful to have been able to do that.”
Luke also likes to think about all the younger people who haven’t heard the song before.
“I think there will be a lot of people that would be exposed to that song for the first time that will fall in love with it as much as I did,” he notes. “So that was the hopes in recording it.”
You can find “Fast Car” is on Luke’s current album, Gettin’ Old.
Sara Bareilles and fiancé Joe Tippett revealed their engagement back in January, and now they are sharing the details of what went down before she said “yes.”
Tippett tells Peoplegetting engaged was something they had been talking about “for quite some time,” and they had “been looking for the perfect ring and couldn’t find it.” But he says on a trip to Mexico City “we found this cheap little ring in a market that we both love. And we were like, ‘That’s the thing for now!'”
He shares, “We were up on a roof at sunset, the sky was on fire and we were listening to music and slow dancing, and it was like, ‘Okay, now!’ I asked and she said yes and I was like, ‘Well f***, I forgot the ring, I have to go down and get it!’ So then I came back up, got down on one knee, we did the deal and it was great.”
“I love it. It’s just — it’s sweet,” Bareilles says of the ring, a small gold band in the shape of a feather.She says before they picked it, they were putting too much pressure on finding “the ring.”
“Like most things, it’s really easy to get tricked into caring about the wrong things,” she says. “We keep coming back to, ‘Why are we doing this?’ And it’s like, ‘Oh, because I love you.'”
Jeezy wants to help the next generation by preventing them from making the same mistakes he did in life, so he’s written a book in which he’ll share a few gems. Titled Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, the rapper uses parts of his life story to teach the rules and principles he learned from surviving his darkest and most insurmountable moments. He credits the learned rules and principles for his chart success in music, as well as his rise as a leader within the hip-hop culture.
“Sometimes you have to go through some things—even some things that are excruciating and that you think you’ll never survive—in order to get where you want to be,” said Jeezy, born Jay Jenkins. He hopes to encourage readers to get through their tough days with lessons on how to bounce back from setbacks and surround themselves with people who want to see them win, among other things.
“In this 50th year anniversary of Hip Hop, there is no one we’d rather partner with than Jay ‘Jeezy’ Jenkins,” said Matt Baugher, publisher of Harper Collins Leadership. “Adversity for Sale details not only his remarkable story but the depths of knowledge he has to pass on to others. This book is his latest contribution to modern culture and we’re all better for it.”
Adversity for Sale, which is now available for preorder, will go on sale August 8.
As “Tennessee Orange” continues its ascension on the country charts, Megan Moroney is recalling how the song almost never saw the light of day.
“We weren’t even going to put out ‘Tennessee Orange,'” Megan reveals to ABC Audio.
“It was almost football season about the time it was supposed to come out. And I was like, ‘Honestly, if we don’t put this out now, I’ll probably write another Georgia-like-ish football-ish song that I’ll probably like better in a year by the time next football season comes around. So if we don’t put this one out now, it might never get put out,'” adds the Georgia native.
That eventually led to the serendipitous September 2022 release of “Tennessee Orange.” Nine months later, the song’s now on its way to being Megan’s first #1 hit.
“The opportunity came and we just decided to put it out,” Megan shares of the decision her team and label home Sony Music Nashville made. “We were just following up something for the EP because I felt like my fans wanted something else. So we were like, ‘Sure, we’ll give them this one.'”
“Tennessee Orange” is featured on Megan’s debut album, LUCKY. The song’s currently #3 and rising on the country charts.
Fans of The Rolling Stones will now be able to show their love of the iconic rockers on their feet.
Skechers just announced a new collaboration with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band. The Skechers x The Rolling Stones collection will feature eight collectible styles all “emblazoned with unmistakable attributes from both Skechers and The Rolling Stones.”
Skechers and The Stones have been previewing the collection online, which features the iconic Rolling Stones tongue and lip logo on high-tops, slip-on sneakers, white sneakers and more.
The shoes will be available for men, women and kids starting Thursday, June 15, although details on price are not yet available.
And Stones fans already seem excited by the collaboration. “at last ! Something fashionable for the over 50’s,” one person commented, while another added, “When you need to go to the gym but can’t stop being a rock chick.”
The Skechers news comes not long after the band announced a new collaboration with Keurig, the limited edition “Start Me Up” iced coffee kit. It went on sale June 6 and is already sold out.
A year after Johnny Depp was awarded a $1 million settlement from his defamation suit against Amber Heard, the actor is reportedly making good on his promise to donate the money to charity.
Last June, a Virginia jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard, 37, was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and no punitive damages. Virginia law states that punitive damages are capped at $350,000, so Depp received a total of $10.35 million.
Both Depp and Heard appealed the verdict but decided to drop them and reached a settlement that was announced in December.
When Travis Braun – creator of the new series Pupstruction – was interning at ABC World News Tonight during his college days, he had no idea how far his journey with Disney would go. But, as he told ABC Audio, his love for the company has stayed consistent.
“My parents had to literally drag me outside and turn off the TV to go play because all I wanted to do was just watch Disney Channel,” Braun said. “I grew up as a Disney kid my entire life and had always loved cartoons and animation and all the Disney classics. Working at ABC World News was a kind of a stepping stone into that.”
Now he’s creating those TV shows he would stay in watching. Pupstruction, which premieres on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney Plus on June 14, is inspired by Braun’s childhood spent working for his family’s auto racing business alongside their beloved chocolate Labradors.
“Dogs have always been really near and dear to my heart and everything that I’ve made,” Braun said. “It felt natural to me to take those two things – my love of dogs and this mechanical building experience – and put them together and make this show Pupstruction, which is about a family construction team that happens to be all dogs.”
But that’s not where the real-life inspiration stops. “Working on race cars brought my family together. We all had our specific roles on the team,” Braun said. “That made our family so close, I think, in a way that other families didn’t necessarily have.”
Braun made sure that kind of dynamic was represented on the show. “In Pupstruction, it’s building that brings this family together,” Braun said. “I hope that the show can maybe bring families together, too.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Colorado 7, Boston 6
NY Yankees 7, NY Mets 6
Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 5
Cincinnati 5, Kansas City 4
Houston 6, Washington 1
San Diego 6, Cleveland 3
Seattle 9, Miami 3
LA Dodgers 5, Chi White Sox 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 11, Toronto 6
LA Angels 7, Texas 3
Oakland 2, Tampa Bay 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
San Francisco 11, St. Louis 3
Chi Cubs 11, Pittsburgh 3
Philadelphia 15, Arizona 3
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Vegas 9, Florida 3 (Vegas wins 4-1)
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Indiana 87, Washington 66
Atlanta 86, New York 79
Seattle 83, Phoenix 69
(WASHINGTON) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday called on his fellow Republican presidential candidates to have “more courage” and “to speak out” against those already offering to pardon former President Donald Trump.
Asked about other White House hopefuls promising to pardon Trump, were he to be convicted, Hutchinson slammed such pledges as “wrong,” “unjustified,” and “bad precedent.”
“They’re politically pandering to get votes using the federal pardon power,” he told “ABC News Live Prime” anchor Linsey Davis in the wake of Trump’s arraignment on federal charges. “It incenses me as somebody who’s had to use the pardon power as governor and respects that power as president. You don’t use it as a campaign wedge issue or a campaign tool, so I’m offended by that as someone who loves our justice system in America.”
“It’s wrong for candidates to be promising that — whether it’s to a former president, or whether it’s to an average Joe that’s out there — you just don’t do that during the campaign. I want our candidates to show more courage and to speak out about this and provide leadership,” he added.
Trump was arraigned earlier Tuesday in Miami after he was indicted on 37 federal criminal counts stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified materials while out of office, including, prosecutors claim, holding onto government secrets and showing them to unauthorized people. He pleaded not guilty and has called the case a “hoax.”
2024 hopefuls split on indictment
While Hutchinson has been quick to call Trump a “distraction” to the 2024 race, other Republican candidates are getting behind the former president, who remains the front-runner in the race and is very popular with the Republican base. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy held a press conference on Tuesday in Miami to rally support and issued a letter to other 2024 hopefuls asking that they all commit to pardoning Trump.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Cranston, Rhode Island, Mayor Steve Laffey have joined Hutchinson in condemning Trump’s conduct, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Tim Scott have criticized, instead, what they call a “weaponization” of the federal government in bringing charges against Trump.
“This case is a serious case …. But in America, you’re still innocent until proven guilty,” Scott said on Monday.
Others have had evolving reactions as more details on the indictment become public.
Former U.N. ambassador under Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley initially slammed the charges as “prosecutorial overreach, double standards and vendetta politics,” but added days later, after the 49-page indictment was unsealed, “If what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.”
By Tuesday afternoon, Haley told “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show”: “I would be inclined in favor of a pardon, but I think it’s really premature at this point when he’s not even been convicted of anything.”
Hutchinson, who has said “no” to pardoning Trump, continues to call on him to resign from the race but doesn’t expect that will happen. He’s also asked the Republican National Committee to not require candidates who qualify for the debate stage to pledge to support the eventual nominee “if they are found guilty of espionage or a serious felony.”
The RNC has not offered to change its requirement.
“I’m not going to be supporting somebody who is convicted or who has wrongfully handled material that jeopardizes the security of the United States,” Hutchinson told Davis on Tuesday. “We’re gonna be negotiating this language to assure that there’s not going to be a circumstance that we’re bound to support somebody who is convicted of a very serious felony.”
“I hope it’s something that I can live with because I want to be on the debate stage — but there’s certain principles you don’t cross,” he said.
Weighing in as a former federal prosecutor
A former federal prosecutor, Hutchinson served as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas during the Reagan administration before serving three terms in the U.S. House and two terms as Arkansas governor, among other roles in public service. He’s repeated that Trump carries the presumption of innocence until proven guilty but called the indictment “thorough” and the charges “very serious.”
“Whenever you look at the specificity that’s laid out in the indictment, it’s a very strong case,” he said Tuesday. “As [Trump’s former Attorney General] Bill Barr said, if half of it is true then it’s a very devastating case that’s being presented.”
Hutchinson said the American people deserve to see a speedy trial as Trump’s case coincides with the 2024 race for president.
“I’ve actually tried cases in which classified information was involved, and it does have a level of complexity … it is more complex than normal,” Hutchinson said. “I hope that the judges and the courts understand that you have to be fair to the defendant and give them the right to prepare. But at the same time, there’s extraordinary public interest for our nation in getting this issue resolved in a timely fashion.”
Hutchinson is polling at less than 1%, according to an average from FiveThirtyEight.
He said he’s determined to make the first debate stage on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee.
