Lewis Capaldi had three special surprises for the crowd at his show at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night: the Jonas Brothers.
Billboard reports that during the encore, the Scottish singer brought out Joe, Nick and Kevin, who are in town for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live appearance. “We are Lewis Capaldi, thank you for being here with us tonight,” joked Joe.
Nick added, “We actually won a contest as Lewis Capaldi’s biggest fans to come up here and play a song for you.” The group played their 2008 song “Lovebug,” with Lewis joining in on the second verse.
Lewis posted video from the performance on Instagram and wrote, “I can’t believe I’m now a Jonas brother,” referring to himself as “the bonus bonus jonas.”
JoBros also posted video of themselves before the show: It shows them walking on the street outside Radio City Music Hall, with Nick saying they’re going to pop in and ask if he’d left them play a song. The rest of the video shows them hanging out backstage and fans in the audience losing their minds as they join Lewis onstage.
“The great thing about NYC is you can walk a few blocks and end up playing a song with @lewiscapaldi at Radio City,” they wrote. “Thanks for having us mate!”
BTS’ Suga has released the new single “People Pt.2 (feat. IU)” from his upcoming solo album, D-DAY, which will be released under the name Agust D. “This song was written when I couldn’t do anything due to COVID-19 and when I thought, ‘I lost everything,’” Suga explains in the video for the song. “So it conveys the message I wanted to tell myself.” D-Day is set to drop April 21.
JP Saxe just dropped the new tune “I Don’t Miss You,” which features John Mayer on guitar. “’I Don’t Miss You’ is me trying to lie to myself about my feelings, how I distract myself from them, how I compartmentalize them, and how I ultimately lose to them,” Saxe shares. “I Don’t Miss You” is the lead single off Saxe’s forthcoming album, due out later this year.
David Guetta is back with a new single, “Baby Don’t Hurt Me,” which features the classic hook from Haddaway’s hit ’90s dance track “What Is Love.” Guetta’s new song features Anne-Marie and Coi Leray, with Ed Sheeran nabbing a songwriting credit. The tune is the follow-up to Guetta’s hit with Bebe Rexha, “I’m Good (Blue),” which was released in 2022.
David Bowie fans will soon be able to watch the documentary Moonage Daydream without leaving the comfort of their own homes. The doc, from Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director Brett Morgan, will debut on HBO Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m. and will also stream on HBO Max.
Moonage Daydream focused on Bowie’s catalog from 1970 to 1977, with Morgan having access to unseen footage of Bowie, as well as art and poetry from his personal collection. The movie was described as “a sublime kaleidoscopic experiential cinematic odyssey that explores Bowie’s creative, spiritual, and philosophical journey.”
The film, which screened during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, received high praise from critics and was nominated for five Critics Choice Awards, winning for Best Editing. It also earned a BAFTA Best Documentary nomination.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) InPaint, Owen Wilson plays a Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross-like public broadcasting painting superstar — a very big fish in the very small pond of Vermont.
He’s got a ’70s perm, a sweet van and a bevy of groupies, but when a new painter comes along (newcomer Ciara Renée), the soft-spoken star faces a crisis.
The Goldbergs‘ matriarch Wendi McLendon-Covey plays Wendy, one of Nargle’s fangirls, who waits on him hand and foot as a fellow public TV channel employee.
She explained to ABC Audio the allure of the man in the van. “Wow,” she exclaims. “What is the appeal? What isn’t the appeal? Someone who looks that fly just driving down the streets of Vermont with a pipe, speaking out of his loudspeaker on the top of his van. I mean, what’s not to love?”
She adds, “I never grew up watching painting shows, but I do know what it’s like to fall in love with someone’s potential, which of course leads to nothing.”
Wendi adds, “She’s stayed in love far too long and it’s time to move forward, and she just can’t do it and neither can any of these groupies of Carl Nargle’s until a new painter comes in and just disrupts everything. And then we realize, ‘Oh, wait, we’ve really been wasting our lives.'”
Michaela Watkins plays Katherine, Carl’s long-suffering ex.
She says of the experience, “We laughed our a**** off.”
Unlike other comedies, Paint doesn’t go for big gags or broad laughs, in spite of its spoof-ready conceit. “You’re right,” Watkins agrees. “Like, that is my sweet spot for comedy. Dry, real, subtle and going for the long joke. That’s for me.”
The track spotlights the good and bad moments of Ashley’s life and how she stands by every decision she’s made in her life.
“Momma says get my ass my to church/ Daddy says get my ass to work/ Doctor says I gotta give up on these smokes/ Everybody’s got something to say/ About how I gotta change my ways/ Well, I got something to say of my own/ Hell, there’s hell everywhere I go/ So I’m sticking with the devil I know,” the Arkansas native confesses in the chorus.
“We’re always hearing something from somebody who thinks they know what’s best for us,” shares Ashley, who co-wrote the song with Jeremy Stover and Bobby Pinson. “Lose weight, your hair’s too curly, change this, change that. Things just seem to go better when you trust your own lens to see what’s good for you.”
“The Devil I Know” follows Ashley’s new single, “Light On In The Kitchen,” which dropped in February. Ashley is slated to release a fourth studio album this fall.
Tyler, the Creator‘s been pushing his latest project, Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale, but that hasn’t stopped him from celebrating another one of his albums. In honor of the 10th anniversary of his second studio album, Wolf, he’s released the instrumentals for the record, as well as a new line of merch.
“WOLF instrumentals out now,” Tyler tweeted. “All my age 20/21 beats for ya ears.” A post about the merch is on the Golf Wang’s Instagram account, displaying the T-shirts, hoodies, socks, caps, varsity jacket and four-LP vinyl box set in the collection.
The items are available for preorder on golfwang.com through April 13 and available to purchase at LA and New York flagships stores.
(NEW YORK) — The United States will face an uphill battle in any efforts it takes to free detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich — who has been imprisoned in Russia for over a week — because of the seriousness of the espionage charges against him and the fact that Moscow shows no sign of backing down, experts told ABC News..
Despite the fact that senior members of the Biden administration have repeatedly said the charges against Gershkovich — are unequivocally false, Russia views the allegations as more serious than other cases in which they’ve made prisoner swaps.
While the relationship between the U.S. and Russia has plummeted to a near all-time low in recent years, hostage diplomacy has been a rare area of cooperation between the powers. In 2022, the administration was able to secure the release of two Americans from Russia via prisoner swaps—WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was jailed for nearly 10 months after being detained on drug charges, and Trevor Reed, who was imprisoned for almost three years for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
In a statement released Thursday, Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Gershkovich was “detained red-handed while trying to obtain classified information, using his journalistic status as a cover for illegal actions qualified as espionage” and attempts by the U.S. to pressure Russian authorities to release him were “futile and meaningless.”
Interfax, a Russian news agency, reported on Friday that Russian investigators had formally charged Gershkovich with espionage, and that his lawyers filed for an appeal, which is scheduled to be heard in a Moscow court in mid-April.
Gershkovich’s lawyers and the Wall Street Journal have also denied the accusations against the reporter.
“The legal avenue is one of several avenues we are working to advocate for Evan’s release. We continue to work with the White House, State Department and relevant U.S. government officials to secure Evan’s release,” the Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief Emma Tucker said in a letter to her newsroom on Tuesday.
But John Woodward, a former CIA officer and international relations professor at Boston University, predicts there’s a long road ahead for Gershkovich.
“I would not want to be Evan at the moment,” he said.
He suggested that if a prisoner swap were to be arranged, Russian President Vladimir Putin would want a “spy for a spy,” referencing Russia’s deep loyalty “to individuals who have committed espionage on their behalf.”
But that requirement is likely to complicate any deal with the U.S., as illustrated by the so-far futile efforts to free Paul Whelan, an American arrested in 2018 while visiting Moscow. He was convicted on espionage charges, which the U.S. vehemently denies, and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison colony.
Whelan was left out of the prisoner exchange that freed Griner. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last month that the U.S. had put forth a new proposal to free Whelan months ago, but so far Russia has not publicly shown any interest in accepting.
While the details of Blinken’s offer are unknown, Sergey Cherkasov, a Russian national accused by the Department of Justice of operating as an illegal agent for the country’s intelligence service, could be more enticing to Moscow according to experts.
Danielle Gilbert, a foreign policy fellow at Dartmouth College who specializes in hostage diplomacy, said the timing of Gershkovich’s arrest—just days after Cherkasov was charged by the U.S. in late March–is very “suspicious,” and that the reporter’s arrest could have been a retaliatory act by Moscow.
The Russian government has denied that Cherkasov is a spy, and he has not yet appeared in court to address the allegations made by American investigators.
However, the Department of Justice claimed in a statement that the evidence in the case shows that Cherkasov spent years illegally gathering information about American entities and passing it along to his handlers in Russia’s intelligence community, undermining U.S. national security.
Cherkasov is currently incarcerated in Brazil on fraud charges. The Brazilian and the U.S. legal systems, as well as a possible extradition, could slow any movement, according to sources familiar with standard practices related to prisoner exchanges.
Gilbert said Russia has also expressed interest in a deal that would secure the release of Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov, a convicted assassin serving a life sentence in Germany since 2019.
“It is not unheard of for other countries to get involved,” she said.
However, drawing a third country in to such an exchange could establish a dangerous precedent for the U.S., according to administration officials, who have also expressed doubt over Russia’s interest in Krasikov is genuine or another negotiating tactic.
Beyond the spying allegations and lack of trade options, Woodward said he believes Gershkovich’s prior reporting on Putin could work against him, delaying negotiations.
Woodward believes that Gershkovich’s “strong Russian background, linguistically and culturally” alongside his “hard-hitting reporting” on Russia definitely factored into the arrest.
“There’s a strong retaliatory aspect to this,” Woodward said. “I’m sure [Gershkovich] developed some good information and leads.”
So far, administration officials have declined to speculate on what exactly prompted Russian authorities to arrest Gershkovich, saying it is too soon to make an assessment.
Efforts to free Gershkovich are still in a nascent phase. The Biden administration has not yet formally classified the reporter as wrongfully detained, a designation that would transfer his case to the Office of the Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs—effectively, the U.S.’ chief hostage negotiator.
“In Evan’s case, we are working through the determination on wrongful detention, and there’s a process to do that, and it is something that we are working through very deliberately but expeditiously as well,” Blinken said during a press briefing on Wednesday. “And I’ll let that process play out. In my own mind, there’s no doubt that he’s being wrongfully detained by Russia.”
National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby did not say whether the U.S. would consider a prisoner swap for Gershkovich on Thursday.
“We’re doing what we can to keep his employer and family informed. Our focus is squarely on that right now,” he said.
American diplomats in Moscow are also still working to gain access to Gershkovich, but have made little progress despite interventions from the Blinken and the U.S. ambassador to Moscow on his behalf, a senior State Department official told ABC News.
ABC’s Cindy Smith, Ellie Kaufman, and Tanya Stukalova contributed to this report.
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(NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning Thursday for clinicians and public health departments in the United States to be on the lookout for cases of a rare Ebola-like virus.
The warning is in response to outbreaks of Marburg virus disease, one in Equatorial Guinea and the other in Tanzania — with neither country reporting outbreaks before this year.
So far, no cases have been reported in the U.S. nor have any other outbreaks been reported, but the CDC says the warning “provides information about these outbreaks to increase awareness of the risk of imported cases in the United States.”
In a press conference on March 21, Tanzania’s health minister announced an outbreak among a group of fishermen. Of the eight cases, five were fatal.
Meanwhile, in Equatorial Guinea, there have been 14 confirmed cases since Feb. 7, with 10 of the patients dying, according to the CDC.
Currently there is no evidence that the outbreaks in the two countries are related, and they appear to be independent clusters in which the virus spilled over from animals to humans, the federal health agency said.
Marburg virus disease is a rare illness caused by the Marburg virus, which is a so-called cousin of Ebola virus.
The first cases were identified in European laboratory workers who were handling African green monkeys imported from Uganda.
The virus can spread either from animals to humans or via person-to-person contact either through contact with infected blood or other fluids or objects contaminated with those fluids.
According to the CDC, the incubation period — the time between infection and onset of symptoms — can last anywhere from two to 21 days.
A person is not contagious until symptoms appear, which can include sudden fever, headache, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal symptoms, or unexplained bleeding.
The CDC says doctors should screen for the disease if someone has symptoms and may have been exposed to the virus while in an affected area — such as if they attended a funeral or visited a healthcare facility.
The disease can cause serious complications include internal bleeding and organ damage.
“Clinical diagnosis of Marburg virus disease be difficult,” the CDC said. “Many of the signs and symptoms of MVD are similar to other infectious diseases (such as malaria or typhoid fever) or viral hemorrhagic fevers that may be endemic in the area (such as Lassa fever or Ebola). This is especially true if only a single case is involved.”
There is currently no known treatment for the disease with therapies focused on supportive measures such as balancing fluids, maintaining oxygen levels and blood pressure.
According to the World Health Organization, past outbreaks have had case fatality rates of between 24% and 88% with an average rate of 50%.
Twisted Sister reunited earlier this year for their Heavy Metal Hall of Fame induction, and it may not be the last time we see them perform together.
Frontman Dee Snider, who was just revealed to be The Doll on The Masked Singer, says he expects to reunite with his bandmates in conjunction with the 2024 elections — especially since politicians keep using their song “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” but not in the way it was intended.
“Next year, you’re gonna see some Twisted Sister reunions at different political rallies that need our support,” Snider tells Yahoo! Entertainment. “The band has a concern that the song is being co-opted by the extreme right … and we want to make sure that people still know it’s a song for everybody and it does not represent that selfish micro group.”
He adds, “It is really for the mass people, the moderate people, the people that just want to live their lives, be themselves, and not have people tell ’em they can’t be themselves.”
Snider, who was known to wear makeup as part of his Twisted Sister stage getup, is particularly upset about some of the drag bans that are being passed across the country.
“My band would not be allowed to perform in Texas,” he says, because of the band’s makeup wearing. “So, do I stand with the [LGBTQ+/drag] community? 100%.”
He’s also noted that he’d be more than happy for the LGBTQ+ and drag communities to use his song. “I’m very in favor of free expression on every level,” he says. “And I will stand with the community, if they ask me to stand with them. I am with them.”
Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers” has already set plenty of streaming records, but now the song has hit a unique milestone on the Billboard chart.
It’s now only the seventh song ever to simultaneously be number one on the three different flavors of Billboard‘s charts that measure radio airplay on pop radio stations: Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Adult Contemporary.
In the 27 years that the three charts have coexisted, the only other songs that have done this are Adele‘s “Easy on Me,” “Hello” and “Rolling in the Deep”; Ed Sheeran‘s “Thinking Out Loud”; Sam Smith‘s “Stay With Me”; and Celine Dion‘s “Because You Loved Me.”
Oddly, the “Party in the U.S.A.” singer is the only American artist to have pulled off this feat.
“Flowers” is from Miley’s new album, Endless Summer Vacation. The latest single from the album, “River,” is currently climbing the charts.
