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Foo Fighters have announced another batch of headlining U.S. shows.
The six-date run spans from August 4 in Spokane, Washington, to October 5 in El Paso, Texas. The Breeders will support on select dates.
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 14, at 10 a.m. local time. A presale begins Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FooFighters.com.
Along with the headlining shows, Foo Fighters lead the bill for the just-announced 2023 edition of Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Festival, taking place September 29 to October 1 in Dana Point, California.
The Pearl Jam frontman himself will also be an Ohana headliner, along with The Killers. Others on the bill include HAIM, Pretenders, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Glen Hansard, Japanese Breakfast, The War on Drugs, Lucius, Dhani Harrison and The Chicks.
Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 13, at 10 a.m. PT; a presale for members of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club is open now. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit OhanaFest.com.
Foo Fighters are making their live comeback this year following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022. Their first show back is scheduled for May 24 in Gilford, New Hampshire. A new drummer has yet to be announced.
SZA‘s SOS Tour is not yet over, it’s simply on a hiatus. The singer will follow her successful 17-city run with 31 new dates across Europe and North America.
SZA will return to the road on June 1 with a performance at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, ending the European leg of her tour on June 21. In September, she’ll make her way back to North America to revisit Brooklyn, Houston, Los Angeles and other cities before wrapping it all up on October 29. She’ll be accompanied by RAYE while in European cities and will perform without previous opener Omar Apollo during her North American run.
Presale tickets for the European leg of SZA’s first arena tour will go on sale April 12 at 10 a.m. local time, with remaining tickets going on sale April 14 at 12 p.m. local time via szasos.com.
North American fans can start seeking tickets during the Live Nation presale, taking place April 13 at 10 a.m. local time. The general sale will kick off April 14 at 12 p.m. local time via szasos.com.
Motionless in White and In This Moment are teaming up for a U.S. co-headlining tour this summer.
The joint outing, dubbed the Dark Horizons tour, launches July 8 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and wraps up August 19 in Albany, New York. The bill also includes Fit for a King and From Ashes to New.
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 14, at 10 a.m. local time. A presale begins Tuesday at noon ET.
Looks like the Jonas Brothers will be playing a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium this summer.
After announcing their one-night-only performance of five of their albums at the legendary stadium on August 12, they’ve just added a second show “due to incredible demand.”
The general sale for the new show begins Friday, April 14, at 10 a.m. via jonasbrothers.com. A Citi cardmembers presale starts Wednesday, April 12, at 10 a.m. ET, while a Verizon presale starts on the same day at the same time.
One of the five albums the group will be performing will be their upcoming release, The Album, due out May 12. It features the already released tracks “Waffle House” and “Wings.”
Billy Idol is ready to rock Las Vegas again. The singer has announced a new set of dates at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Billy Idol: Live in Las Vegas will consist of five new shows, October 20, 21, 25, 27 and 28.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 15, at 10 a.m.
The news comes as Idol is currently on the road on a spring tour, which is set to hit Hollywood, Florida, on Tuesday, April 18. A complete list of tour dates can be found at BillyIdol.net.
(WASHINGTON) — The Democratic National Committee announced on Tuesday that its 2024 convention will be held in Chicago.
The convention will take place Aug. 19 through 22 at the United Center and the McCormick Place Convention Center, with between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates expected to attend, a source familiar said in confirmation of what was first reported in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Chicago had been in competition with Atlanta and New York City for the large political event.
The choice comes a week after Democratic victories in the Midwest, including an outsized win for the left flank of the party with the Windy City’s election of progressive Brandon Johnson last Tuesday.
“The DNC is returning to the Midwest, a critical Democratic stronghold: Illinois along with Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota — part of the ‘blue wall’ — were crucial to the 2020 victory of President Biden and Vice President Harris and to Democrats’ success in the 2022 midterm elections,” the DNC wrote in a statement.
The choice also comes in the wake of a large loss for Midwest progressives for the coming election cycle, with South Carolina unseating Iowa as the first state in the nation to vote on a Democratic nominee for president.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday reaffirmed his commitment to the Midwest.
“Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention,” said Biden. “Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. From repairing our roads and bridges, to unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating over 12.5 million new good-paying jobs, we’ve already delivered so much for hard working Americans – now it’s time to finish the job.”
Eddie Van Halen married One Day at a Time actress Valerie Bertinelli eight months after meeting her at a concert in Shreveport, Louisiana.
They welcomed their first and only child, Wolfgang, in 1991, but the marriage didn’t last and Bertinelli filed for divorce in 2005. Despite the end of their marriage, the pair remained close over the years. In fact, Bertinelli and Van Halen’s second wife were both at his side when he died in 2020.
As for Wolfgang, he went on to follow in his father’s footsteps. He performed with his dad in Van Halen from 2006 to 2020 and also fronts his own project, Mammoth WVH, which released their self-titled debut in 2021.
(NEW YORK) — The number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States shows “no signs of slowing,” new federal data shows.
A total of 2.53 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were recorded in 2021, according to a new report published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That’s a 5.8% increase from the 2.39 million cases reported in 2020 and a 7% increase from five years ago when 2.37 million STIs were recorded in 2017.
While certain STIs did not reach pre-pandemic levels, others — such as syphilis — are recording the highest numbers seen in more than 70 years.
A total of 176,713 syphilis cases — for all stages of the infection — were recorded in 2021, the highest since the 217,558 cases reported in 1950 and a 32% increase from the 133,954 recorded the previous year, the report said.
The report also found that cases of congenital syphilis, which occurs when a baby is born with the infection after the mother passed it on during pregnancy, rose by 32% from 2,148 to more than 2,800. This resulted in 220 stillbirths and infant deaths in 2021, the agency said.
Meanwhile, gonorrhea rates increased 4% from 206.5 per 100,000 to 214.8 per 100,000. Rates of chlamydia — which make up the majority of STIs — also rose by about 4% from 481.3 per 100,000 to 500 per 100,000.
However, unlike gonorrhea and syphilis, reported cases of chlamydia did not return to pre-pandemic levels, the CDC said.
However, the CDC cautioned that because the disease is typically asymptomatic, these decreases were more likely due to COVID-19-related disruptions than to drops in infections.
According to the CDC, STIs fell rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in March and April 2020, during shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders.
This is due to reduced screenings because many health care clinics either closed or had limited in-person appointments in the early days of the pandemic, limited resources due to programs shifting to help combat COVID-19 and social distancing measures limiting sexual behaviors and activity.
In response, the federal health agency is calling for more action from health care and public health experts with a focus on STI prevention and innovation efforts.
This includes rebuilding and expanding local public health services to offer STI testing and treatments, making these testing and treatment options more accessible and advancing research to prevent STIs through vaccines or post-exposure prophylaxis.
“The U.S. STI epidemic shows no signs of slowing,” said Dr. Leandro Mena, director of the CDC’s division of STD prevention, in a statement. “The reasons for the ongoing increases are multifaceted — and so are the solutions. For the first time in decades, we’re seeing promising new STI interventions on the horizon, but these alone will not solve this epidemic.”
The statement continued, “It will take many of us working together to effectively use new and existing tools, to increase access to quality sexual healthcare services for more people, and to encourage ongoing innovation and prioritization of STI prevention and treatment in this country.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has started to provide access to a group of bipartisan congressional leaders some of the classified materials recovered from the residences of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Tuesday.
Administration officials began sharing the documents with House and Senate leadership as well as the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees — known as the “Gang of Eight” — last week, sources said.
The production follows months of increasingly contentious back-and-forth negotiations between lawmakers and the Justice Department, which now has two separate special counsel probes investigating the potential mishandling of classified materials by Trump and Biden.
Trump is under scrutiny for his alleged obstruction of the government’s efforts to retrieve classified materials he retained after leaving the White House, while Biden has pledged full cooperation with the special counsel investigating him.
Punchbowl News first reported news of the agreement.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the developments. ABC News has reached out to lawmakers in the “Gang of Eight” but did not immediately receive a response.
What is not clear is the level of access to the documents the administration is providing to lawmakers, given sensitivities surrounding the ongoing criminal investigations of Trump and Biden.
Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged those sensitivities when he was pressed on the administration’s hesitance to provide access to some of the materials recovered from Trump, Biden and Pence’s homes in an appearance before Congress two weeks ago, though he also noted negotiations were progressing.
Four months after his near-fatal snowplow accident, Jeremy Renner made a hilarious appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night.
After being introduced as “the Avenger who beat Thanos, Loki and a 14,000-pound snowplow, the indestructible” Jeremy Renner took the stage, walking with a cane, but in amazing spirits.
“Was this a publicity stunt?” Kimmel asked, admitting he “can’t believe” the twice-nominated actor was even alive, let alone looking so well.
It was “a very, very bad way to start the year,” Renner said, noting he broke “35 or so” bones in the incident.
“It’s a giant metal cookie roller” Renner said of the vehicle that he got pulled under while trying to save his nephew from it, adding, “It just missed every vertebrae, did not hit any organs, my brain did not swell, nothing like that.”
“My eye did pop out. That’s weird,” he added with a laugh. “But I got pretty lucky that none of the organs got messed up.”
As for his collapsed lung, the 52-year-old joked, “That’s OK, I got another one.”
The actor, there to promote his passion project Rennervations, which is about to premiere on Disney+, also talked about the support he got from his family and friends. He said it was his friends’ reactions, like his Avengers co-star Chris Evans, that let him know he was in such bad shape. “Terrible actors, they couldn’t hide the fact that I looked awful,” he joked.
Renner also shared that another Avenger, Paul Rudd, visited him in the hospital several times. The Hawkeye star even shared the Ant-Man lead’s fake Cameo call to “Jerry” to cheer him up after his “fight with a snowblower or something.”
