Saint Motel has announced a livestream for the band’s upcoming concert in New York City, taking place May 1.
The stream begins at 8 p.m. ET via the platform Veeps. For more info, visit SaintMotel.Veeps.com.
The NYC show is part of Saint Motel’s Awards Show tour, during which fans will be able to vote on the set list for each concert.
“What better way to give friends the ability to help design our setlists than by making ticket holders actual voting members,” says frontman A/J Jackson. “We have a lot of surprises in store for this tour. See you at the Awards Show!”
Will.i.am is mourning the death of The Script guitarist Mark Sheehan, who passed away Friday at the age of 46. Will collaborated with The Script on their hit “Hall of Fame” and judged The Voice in the U.K. with Script lead singer Danny O’Donoghue. “My heart is broken…,” he tweeted. “Prayers to Mark’s spirit & family…”
Taylor Swift’s fans are looking out for her post Joe Alwyn breakup. During her concert in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, a fan held up a sign that simply said, “You OK?” Taylor responded with a thumbs-up. The quick interaction was captured by another concertgoer and posted to TikTok.
Doja Cat’s latest tattoo of a human/animal hybrid creature sparked criticism online, with some calling it demonic. But Doja took to Instagram to explain the ink’s real inspiration: illustrations from the 1655 edition of Fortunio Liceti‘s Monsters, about deformities in nature. “Your fear is not my problem,” she captioned her post.
Halsey has parted ways with her longtime label Capitol Records. The split comes almost a year after the singer criticized the label for not allowing her to release “So Good” unless they could “fake a viral moment on TikTok” for publicity. Halsey was signed to Capitol via its subsidiary label Astralwerks in 2014. Halsey’s managers said in a statement to People that they “are excited about exploring a new partnership and sharing new music with fans.”
Taylor Swift’s fans are looking out for her post Joe Alwyn breakup. During her concert in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, a fan held up a sign that simply said, “You OK?” Taylor responded with a thumbs-up. The quick interaction was captured by another concertgoer and posted to TikTok.
Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden concert is getting bumped for the Stanley Cup playoffs. The show scheduled for Saturday, April 22, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 25. All tickets for the original show will be honored at the new one. On April 22, the New York Rangers play the New Jersey Devils in game three of the hockey playoffs.
Adele enjoyed a girls’ trip in Miami over the weekend with pals April McDaniel and Savannah James, NBA star LeBron James’ wife. Adele is, of course, dating LeBron’s agent, Rich Paul. While at a nightclub in South Beach, Adele was captured on video singing along to Katy Perry‘s “Teenage Dream” and Sia and David Guetta‘s “Titanium.”
Kanye West‘s recent controversial behavior has inspired a documentary that’s making its way to BBC. According to Variety, We Need to Talk About Kanye explores how his behavior affects his position in pop culture.
“Ye’s recent behavior has prompted both condemnation and a re-evaluation of his place in popular culture,” says Jeremy Lee, a producer on the documentary. “With recent events as a starting point, the documentary and accompanying eight-part podcast series explore Ye’s two decades in the public eye amid a rumored YE2024 election campaign.”
He notes the documentary is unique because it’s “underpinned with world-class journalism and unique access to members of Ye’s inner circle” and “is a revelation-driven film which sheds new light on recent events.”
We Need to Talk About Kanye, fronted by investigative journalist Mobeen Azhar, has already been acquired by several high-profile broadcasters and platforms, according to Variety. It’s slated to premiere on BBC later this year.
Lee says Ye “is aware of but has no editorial control over the documentary.”
In an Instagram video of the final moments on set, executive producer Eric Kripke thanked the cast and crew of The Boys for wrapping the fourth season.
In an f-bomb-loaded send-off, Kripke thanked his stars and the Amazon show’s crew, calling working on the show “one of the great honors of my life.”
Shown embracing in the video were a bloodied Jack Quaid (Hughie), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko) and Erin Moriarty (Starlight/Annie), and a relatively clean Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and a fist-pumping Tomer Capone (Frenchie). Not seen was Antony Starr (Homelander), so it’s likely the final shot was of the series’ heroes.
Recently ABC Audio asked executive producer Seth Rogen what he could tell us about the fourth season. “It’s just so crazy,” he expressed.
“Every time I’m like, ‘These guys have done the craziest stuff you could ever do.’ I’ll, like, watch — there’s one set piece in this new season that is, like, I’m disturbed that I work with the people who conceived of it,” he said.
The show’s fourth season will start either late this year or in early 2024.
Erykah Badu is hitting the road this year, and she’s bringing along Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def. The two will embark on a 25-city tour, which includes San Antonio, Nashville, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Philadelphia.
The trek, titled the Unfollow Me tour, will kick off June 11 and wrap over a month later on July 23. Presale tickets are available now. A general sale will go up on April 20.
Erykah teases a slew of “extraordinary guests” at her upcoming shows.
Lil Yachty has not abandoned rap music. He previewed a reminder of his rapping abilities Sunday during a conversation with Twitch streamer Kai Cenat.
The song he teased appears to be a remix of “EA” by Young Nudy and 21 Savage, which replaces Pi’erre Bourne’s trap percussion with drill drums. It’s unclear if or when the full song will actually be released.
Yachty previously dropped “Poland,” tapping into his rap roots after his psychedelic rock album, Let’s Start Here.
Elsewhere in the livestream, he discussed his friendship with Drake, specifically noting one of the craziest things he’s ever witnessed in Drizzy’s home.
“Every bathroom in his house has heated seats,” said Yachty. “And every bathroom in his house, when you walk up to the toilet, it opens and starts playing 2Pac ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’ I swear to God!”
“Every time it’s like, ‘Yeah, you fat muthaf****!’” he continued. “It’s so annoying when you gotta take a s*** ’cause it keeps looping.”
(AUSTIN, Texas) — A bill described as “anti-vaccine” is moving through the Texas legislature and could give lawmakers the power to make decisions about vaccines in schools rather than doctors or administrators.
SB 1024, which was recently passed by a Senate committee — and will soon be voted on by the Texas Senate and the House — could limit schools and local health departments from being able to require or recommend immunizations.
While the proposed legislation mainly focuses on ending COVID-19 restrictions and barring COVID-19 vaccine requirements, public health experts say it could have implications for any kind of vaccine.
The bill states “every child shall be immunized against diphtheria, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, meningococcal disease, mumps, pertussis, polio, rubella, tetanus, and varicella” but not any other disease.
This language could apply to vaccines that are currently in development or for shots that don’t yet exist.
What’s more, legislators would be able to decide whether to add or remove vaccines that are required for students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Texas.
“This is a very concerning trend because it’s not just about COVID,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told ABC News. “It’s not even just about future pandemics, although that’s worrisome as well.”
“It’s a now thing and it will have immediate potential implications by cherry-picking who gets vaccinated and who gets mandated and how much of the population is protected against diseases.”
Chin-Hong said diseases considered to be eliminated from the United States due to vaccines have cropped up in recent years, including several outbreaks of measles and a recent case of polio identified in New York last year.
Health experts say that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and that the bill is the most recent example of a trend of anti-vaccine legislation that has swept the country.
“There is no doubt…that the COVID vaccines are an extraordinary triumph,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told ABC News. “They’ve been very effective, particularly in preventing severe disease, a kind that requires hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, and could lead to death.”
Schaffner continued, “They’ve been used in millions of people around the world. They’re no longer new. They’re no longer experimental. They’re really very solidly established vaccines.”
He said bills like this cast doubt on public health experts and further erode public trust.
The bill authored by Republican State Senator Lois Kolkhorst, who is the chairwoman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which just passed the bill.
If the bill is passed and signed into law, it would go into effect Sept. 1, 2023.
Kolkhorst’s office did not immediately return ABC News’ request for comment, but this is not the first bill she’s introduced regarding vaccine restrictions.
One bill, SB 1025, prohibits the use of vaccine passports to certify vaccination status and would implement a tracking system for adverse events following the administration of vaccines and booster doses.
Another bill, SB 1026, prevents governments, courts, schools and employers from requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination and from discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccination status.
It seems like Jonas Brothers are trying to cover the entire New York Tri-State Area with live performances. After playing five shows on Broadway in Manhattan and announcing two shows at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, they’ve finally planned one in their home state.
On Monday, the trio announced a May 23 show at the Hard Rock Live stage in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Nick, Joe and Kevin were raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, which is farther north.
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, April 21; check the Hard Rock’s Instagram account for info on how to get them. The trio’s new project The Album arrives May 12.
The group has also shared an adorable photo of the three of them as little kids on a boat with their parents.
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(WASHINGTON) — At least three Republican senators have said they will not support a move to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on the Senate Judiciary Committee — saying they wouldn’t want to help Democrats advance President Joe Biden’s agenda.
On Monday afternoon, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who sits on the committee, became the most recent Republican to voice his opposition to temporarily replacing Feinstein as she’s proposed while she recovers at home from having shingles, signaling an uphill battle Senate Democrats face in securing a replacement.
“Never, not once, have we allowed temporary substitutes on committees, and now is not the time to start. Republicans are not going to break this precedent in order to bail out Senator Schumer or the Biden administration’s most controversial nominees,” he claimed. “Senator Feinstein has been a mainstay of this body for more than three decades, and I hope to see her back in these halls soon. But until then, President Biden’s most controversial parts partisan judicial nominees will have to wait,” he added later.
With lawmakers returning to Washington on Monday from a two-week recess, Senate Democrats were poised to find a senator to temporarily replace Feinstein on the committee, the first step in freeing up a log-jam of politically important judicial nominations accumulated in her absence.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, where Democrats hold a mere one-seat majority, as they do in the full chamber, is the first stop for the president’s judicial nominations. With lifetime appointments, judges can deeply shape how the nation’s laws are interpreted.
After the 89-year-old senator said last week she was extending her already six-week absence from the Senate due to complications related to having shingles, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would grant her request to find another Democratic senator to temporarily serve in her place.
But Republicans may not allow for what’s typically a routine move to go forward smoothly.
Any hopes to pass Feinstein’s replacement through a unanimous consent vote were quashed over the weekend, when Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a committee member tweeted an op-ed questioning why Republicans would cooperate with Feinstein’s ask, and said, “Republicans should not assist Democrats in confirming Joe Biden’s most radical nominees to the courts.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also a committee member, joined Cotton on Monday to argue that helping Schumer to replace Feinstein would amount to helping Democrats “pack the court with activist judges.”
“I will not go along with Chuck Schumer’s plan to replace Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee and pack the court with activist judges,” Blackburn tweeted on Monday. “Joe Biden wants the Senate to rubber stamp his unqualified and controversial judges to radically transform America.”
It will now take at least 60 votes to pass the resolution required to temporarily replace Feinstein on the high-stakes committee, meaning at least 10 Republicans need to join Democrats in the 51-49 chamber under narrow Democratic control.
And with Cornyn adding his voice, it’s unclear how much other opposition Democrats might face.
Schumer, for his part, didn’t appear concerned with the objectors when he returned to the Capitol on Monday and said he planned to bring the matter to the floor later this week.
“We should have a temporary replacement until she returns and we’re hopeful Republicans will join us on that,” he told reporters. “It’s the only right and fair thing to do.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., acknowledged on ABC’s “This Week” that Feinstein’s absence could become a bigger problem for Democrats if it extends into votes on raising the debt ceiling, for instance.
“If this goes on month after month after month, then she’s gonna have to make a decision with her family and her friends about what her future holds, because this isn’t just about California; it’s also about the nation,” Klobuchar said. “So it’s going to become an issue as the months go by. But I’m taking her at her word that she’s going to return.”
Despite at least two House Democrats calling on her to resign, lawmakers might not have to wait much longer for the oldest member of Congress to return.
“I spoke to Senator Feinstein, just a few days ago,” Schumer said. “She believes she will return soon.”
Until she does, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, also 89 but three months shy of Feinstein’s age, has the distinction of being the oldest lawmaker in Washington — as of Monday.
ABC News’ Trish Turner and Lalee Ibssa contributed to this report.
