Ed Sheeran has announced a special run of concert dates in support of his new album, – [Subtract].
The – [Subtract] Tour will consist of 14 intimate shows at theaters and auditoriums across North America. He’ll play the album in full, coinciding with his previously announced Mathematics stadium tour.
The new dates kick off at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida, on May 19, and wrap at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on September 22.
To secure tickets, fans must register for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program. Registration opens on Friday, April 28, at 10 a.m. ET and closes on Sunday, April 30, at 11:59 p.m. ET. The Verified Fan sale begins Tuesday, May 2, at 10 a.m. local time.
The Gaslight Anthem is officially back with new music.
The reunited New Jersey rockers have premiered a song called “Positive Charge,” marking their first fresh material in nine years.
You can listen to “Positive Charge” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video is streaming now on YouTube.
The Gaslight Anthem released their last album, Get Hurt, in 2014. In 2015, they announced they were going on hiatus, which was only briefly interrupted in 2018 for a run of shows celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2008 album, The ’59 Sound. Gaslight then got back together in 2022, declaring they were “returning to full time status as a band,” and launched an international tour.
A new Gaslight album is also coming, but while you wait for that, you can catch them on their upcoming U.S. tour, kicking off May 1 in Houston, Texas. Gaslight’s also just announced a fall headlining tour, launching September 16 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Bruce Springsteen‘s 1982 solo album, Nebraska, is the subject of a new book, Deliver Me From Nowhere, by author Warren Zanes. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, The Boss reveals just how important that album is to him.
“If I had to pick out one album and say, ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick Nebraska,’” Springsteen shares.
In a teaser clip of the interview, Springsteen says at the time he made the album he was struggling with where he was in his life.
“I think in your 20s, a lot of things work for you,” he says. “But in your 30s, your 30s is … where you start to become an adult. And suddenly I looked around and said, ‘Where is everything? Where is my home? Where is my partner? Where are the sons and daughters that I thought I might have someday?’ … I realized none of those things are there, none of them.”
He adds, “So I said, ‘OK, the first thing I’ve gotta do as soon as I get home is remind myself of who I am and where I came from … and what I want to do … and where I’m going.’”
CBS Sunday Morning airs at 9 a.m. ET on CBS.
As for Springsteen, he and the E Street Band kick off the European leg of their tour in Barcelona, Spain, on Friday, April 28. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceSpringsteen.net.
Ice Nine Kills guitarist Dan Sugarman has dropped off the band’s upcoming tour dates due to health issues.
In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Sugarman shares that he recently found a lump on his neck and, after a “bunch of biopsies, MRIs, a bunch of sleepless nights,” he “got the call that nobody ever wants to hear.”
“I have a team of incredible doctors that I trust in,” Sugarman says. “We have a plan and I am ready to continue my healing surrounded by friends, family, loved ones and the amazing support of people like you. That said, it’s becoming apparent that I need to sit home and sit out, at least on the very beginning, of the tour of a lifetime, literally the tour of my dreams, all in order to focus on my health and my healing.”
Ice Nine Kills just launched a tour of Europe, which features dates opening for Metallica. In the summer, they’re joining Falling in Reverse for a U.S. tour. Bad Wolves‘ Doc Coyle will help fill in for Sugarman for the shows that he misses and will be playing Sugarman’s signature Murder Axe guitar.
“I just need you guys to know that it’s already in the books that I’m OK,” Sugarman says. “I’ve been OK, I’m gonna be OK.”
If you’d like to assist Sugarman with his medical expenses, he’s offering various merch items, instruments and private guitar lessons.
(WASHINGTON) — A push led by Democrats to give more time for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA, failed on Thursday.
The measure didn’t win the support needed to clear a key 60-vote threshold, with the final tally being 51 to 47. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer changed his vote to no in order to bring it back again in the near future.
“This issue is too important, and we are not giving up,” Schumer said in brief remarks after the vote.
Almost all Republicans voted against the legislation, though Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, lobbied for it in floor remarks before the vote.
“We’ve certainly made great strides as women since 1923, but there is a lot more that needs to be done,” she said.
The ERA, first introduced in Congress a century ago, would enshrine gender equality in the Constitution and states that rights “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Democrats renewed efforts to ratify the ERA following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer, which ended the national right to abortion and prompted a wave of state-level bans on the procedure.
In recent weeks, a new legal battle over medication abortion has been thrust to the fore after a federal judge in Texas sought to suspend the government’s decades-old approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone.
The Supreme Court has since paused that ruling as proceedings continue in lower courts.
“If you look at the terrible things happening to women’s rights in this country, it’s clear we must act,” Schumer said in a floor speech on Thursday.
The ERA was passed with bipartisan support in 1972 but ultimately fell short of the three-fourths majority of states needed to ratify it before a deadline set by Congress.
The resolution voted on Thursday in the Senate would’ve removed the deadline for state ratification.
“There is no good reason — none — for this chamber, this Congress and this nation to bind itself to limitations set 50 years ago,” Schumer argued ahead of the vote.
Three states in recent years voted to ratify the amendment — Nevada in 2017, Illinois in 2018 and Virginia in 2020 — and advocates argue that has propelled it to the state threshold needed for the resolution to be added to the Constitution.
However, the courts and Department of Justice have disagreed, citing the prior missed deadline from Congress that Thursday’s vote would have addressed.
“States have met the threshold ratification, the only thing standing in our way is the arbitrary deadline set by Congress,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott last month.
Pressley and other members of the the ERA Caucus and the Democratic Women’s Caucus on Thursday marched through the Capitol to the Senate for the vote.
The Biden White House has expressed support for the ERA, saying earlier this week that Congress should act quickly.
“In the United States of America, no one’s rights should be denied on account of their sex,” press secretary Karine Jean-Piere told reporters. “It is long past time to definitively enshrine the principle of gender equality in the Constitution.”
Lionsgate has released a tense trailer to the prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Based on bestselling author Suzanne Collins‘ 2020 novel of the same name, the film takes place years before the trilogy that starred Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen.
Here, Tom Blyth stars as an 18-year-old Cornelius Snow — the man who became Donald Sutherland‘s evil President Snow in the original films — and his mentoring of Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute played by West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler.
EGOT winner Viola Davis plays the diabolical Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul. She says of the Games, “What happens in there — fueled with the terror of becoming prey — see how quickly we become predator? See how quickly civilization disappears?”
Gaul shapes Snow into the tyrant he becomes.
For now, Snow has to contend with Game of Thrones Emmy winner Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, the powerful creator of the Hunger Games. “Do you hear that, Coriolanus? It’s the sound of Snow falling,” he taunts his eventual successor.
The studio teases of Zegler’s Lucy Gray, “[A]fter she grabs Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to ‘turn the odds in their favor.'”
The synopsis continues, “Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.”
Lucy Gray shows off her moral compass, too, saying in the clip, “There’s natural goodness built into us all. We can step across that line into evil, or not.”
The trailer also shows Jason Schwartzman preening as “Lucky” Flickerman, the predecessor of Stanley Tucci‘s flamboyant host Caesar Flickerman.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes debuts in theaters worldwide on November 17, 2023.
The National‘s new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, is out now and with it comes the band’s much anticipated collaboration with Taylor Swift, “The Alcott.”
“[Frontman] Matt [Berninger] wrote the main part of the song to some music I had written which Taylor had heard and I knew liked, so I thought it might be something she would really click with,” says guitarist Aaron Dessner, who previously worked with Swift on her two 2020 albums, folklore and evermore.
“I sent it to [Swift], and was a little nervous as I didn’t hear back for 20 minutes or so,” Dessner explains. “By the time she responded, Taylor had written all her parts and recorded a voice memo with the lyrics she’d added in a dialogue with Matt, and everyone fell immediately in love with it. It felt meant to be.”
Berninger adds that “The Alcott” is about “two people with a long history returning to a place and trying to relive a certain moment in time.”
“It’s got the feeling of a last-ditch effort to hold onto the relationship, but there’s a hint of something positive where you can see the beginnings of a reconnection,” he says.
You can listen to “The Alcott” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying lyric video streaming now on YouTube.
First Two Pages of Frankenstein, the ninth album from The National, also features Phoebe Bridgers on two songs, “This Isn’t Helping” and “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend.”
The National will launch a U.S. tour in support of First Two Pages of Frankenstein May 18 in Chicago.
Katy Perry has lost a trademark battle with Katie Perry, an Australian fashion designer who had sued the singer for using her moniker on merch.
BBC reports that Katie Taylor, who sells clothes under her birth name, Katie Perry, claimed that merchandise sold for the pop star’s 2014 Australian tour infringed on the trademark she owns.
A judge agreed Friday, writing in her ruling, “This is a tale of two women, two teenage dreams and one name.”
The judge added that Katy the singer used the name in “good faith” and does not need to personally compensate the designer, but her company, Kitty Purry, must pay damages. Those damages will be decided next month.
(NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops have liberated nearly 30,000 square miles of their territory from Russian forces since the invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, but Putin appeared to be preparing for a long and bloody war.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Apr 28, 4:47 AM EDT
Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities kill 21, including children
Russian airstrikes targeted several cities across Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 21 people, Ukrainian officials said.
The city of Uman in central Ukraine’s Cherkasy Oblast was the worst affected. One of the strikes hit an apartment building, killing at least 19 people, including three child, according to Cherkasy Oblast Gov. Ihor Taburets. The attack happened at around 4:30 a.m. local time, when most people would have been asleep. Several other buildings were also damaged or destroyed. Rescue teams are searching for survivors in the rubble.
Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city and a major industrial hub located in southeastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, was hit by “high-precision” strikes in the early morning hours, leaving a woman and a 3-year-old child dead, according to Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov.
Russian strikes also targeted Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital and largest city, but there were no reports of any casualties or damages. It was the first such attack on the capital in 51 days, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration. Preliminary data shows 11 cruise missiles and two drones were destroyed in Kyiv’s airspace, the city military administration said.
One person was killed and 23 people, including a child, were wounded in a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv early Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The missile struck a block that had apartments, houses and a historic building, according to Zelenskyy.
“The terrorists will not get away with this yet another crime against humanity,” the president said in a statement.
-ABC News’ Will Gretsky
Apr 26, 12:50 PM EDT
Zelenskyy has 1st call with China’s Xi Jinping since war began
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping in what was the two leaders’ first official contact since January 2022, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Xi announced that he will send a special envoy to visit Ukraine and “other countries” to work on a political solution.
“I believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine’s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations,” Zelenskyy said in a statement on Twitter.
The Chinese government’s official position still refuses to call the war an “invasion.”
The call between the two leaders is said to have lasted an hour, according to Zelenskyy’s office.
“Before the full-scale Russian invasion, China was Ukraine’s number one trading partner. I believe that our conversation today will give a powerful impetus to the return, preservation and development of this dynamic at all levels,” Zelenskyy said in a statement.
-ABC News’ Karson Yiu, Cindy Smith and Will Gretsky
Apr 25, 1:03 PM EDT
At least 2 dead, 10 injured in strike that hit Ukrainian museum
At least two people were killed and 10 injured after a Russian missile hit a Ukrainian museum Tuesday, officials said.
The local history museum is located in the city center of Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.
“The terrorist country is doing everything to destroy us completely. Our history, our culture, our people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media while sharing a video that showed the damaged building. “Killing Ukrainians with absolutely barbaric methods.”
Apr 24, 5:48 AM EDT
Russian passports pushed on occupied Ukraine
Russian officials have warned Ukrainians in occupied Kherson that they may be “deported” if they don’t accept Russian passports, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said Monday.
“Russia is using passports as a tool in the ‘Russification’ of the occupied areas, as it did in Donetsk and Luhansk before the February 2022 invasion,” the ministry on Twitter.
Residents of Kherson have been warned of penalties for those who don’t accept Russian passports by June 1. Some may be removed from the territory or may have their property seized, according to the U.K.
Apr 23, 11:42 PM EDT
Russia says US has denied journalist visas, vows it ‘will not forgive’
Russia said Sunday that the U.S. has denied visas to Russian journalists who wanted to cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trip to New York.
Lavrov promised that the decision will not be forgotten by their side.
“The country that calls itself the strongest, smartest, most free, fairest has chickened out, has done a silly thing and shown what its sworn assurances on protecting freedom of speech, access to information and so on are worth,” he told reporters at the airport before his flight to New York.
“Most importantly, you can be sure: we will not forget, we will not forgive this,” the minister told the pool of journalists who have not been granted U.S. visas.
The journalists had planned to cover Lavrov’s appearance at the United Nations to mark Russia’s chairmanship of the Security Council.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the U.S.’s decision “outrageous” on Sunday, Interfax, a Russian news agency, reported.
-ABC News’ Anastasia Bagaeva, Edward Szekeres, Natalia Shumskaia
Apr 21, 3:35 PM EDT Over 16,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in the EU so far
Over 16,000 Ukrainian soldiers trained in the European Union, Josep Borrell, an EU representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said Friday.
The EU has delivered over $600 million of ammunition and missiles to Ukraine, according to Borrell.
-ABC News’ Oleksiy Pshemyskiy
Apr 20, 7:08 PM EDT
Russian warplane accidentally fires weapon into Russian city of Belgorod: Defense ministry
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that ammunition from a Russian Su-34 military aircraft fell in Belgorod, a city in the southern region of Russia.
“On the evening of April 20, during the flight of the Su-34 aircraft over the city of Belgorod, an abnormal descent of an aviation munition occurred,” the agency said.
The ministry claimed buildings were damaged but there were no immediate reports of victims. An investigation is underway, according to the agency.
-ABC News’ Will Gretsky
Apr 20, 5:18 PM EDT
Ukraine’s ‘rightful place’ is in NATO: Secretary-General
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, to highlight the more than €150 billion of support to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion.
“Allies are now delivering more jets, tanks, and armored vehicles, and NATO’s Ukraine fund is providing urgent support,” he said in a statement. “All of this is making a real difference on the battlefield today.”
While in Ukraine, the secretary-general visited Bucha and paid his respects to the victims of Russian atrocities.
He also laid a wreath at the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine, paying tribute to all those who have lost lives or suffered wounds in defense of their homeland.
“Ukraine’s rightful place is in the Euro-Atlantic family. Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. And over time, our support will help to make this possible,” Stoltenberg said.
-ABC News’ Will Gretsky
Apr 20, 4:13 PM EDT
Russian athletes will not be accepted in 2024 Olympics if war goes on: Paris mayor
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, which is hosting the 2024 summer Olympics, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Russian athletes “cannot be accepted in Paris,” if the war with Ukraine is still ongoing when the games begin.
“Paris is the capital of human rights,” Hidalgo said in a statement. “We are trying to convince athletes, international federations and countries. We stand with you.”
Hidalgo and Vasco Cordeiro, the president of the European Committee of the Regions, met with Zelenskyy as part of the International Summit of Cities and Regions Thursday.
Zelenskyy thanked Hidalgo for her support and presented her with Ukraine’s “Rescuer City” honorary award.
-ABC News’ Max Uzol and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
