AXS TV has announced a new, rock-themed talk series titled Power Hour.
The show will feature interviews with artists including Halestorm, Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor, Godsmack and Anthrax, along with “fun and insightful segments” with Shinedown, Theory of a Deadman, Alter Bridge, New Years Day, Black Stone Cherry, Lilith Czar, Beartooth and Eva Under Fire, among others.
Power Hour will be hosted by Matt Pinfield, Josh Bernstein and Caity Babs. It’s being produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, the company behind festivals including Welcome to Rockville, Aftershock and Louder than Life.
“It’s exciting to host this show every week with Josh and Caity,” says Pinfield. “Thanks to AXS TV and DWP, there is finally a destination to see all the hottest new rock videos every week on Power Hour. There hasn’t been a destination on TV like this for fans of rock music in a long time.”
Power Hour premieres Wednesday, February 15, at 10 p.m. ET.
REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin is one of the rockers set to appear on Dolly Parton’s upcoming rock album, Rock Star, and he’s spilled the tea on the track they’ve recorded together.
While chatting with the Totally 80s podcast, Cronin revealed he and Dolly recorded a cover of the band’s classic “Keep On Loving You,” although he notes their version is a “dark duet.”
In the song Cronin sings about his woman’s infidelity and his decision to stay with her, but says he realized, “I kind of portrayed myself as more of the good guy than perhaps I was.”
“Perhaps it takes more than one snake in the grass, ‘all coiled up and hissing,’ to tango — if you catch my drift. That’s the reality of the song, you know?” he explains. “So, it gave me the idea that Dolly could sing the first verse, and in the first verse, I’m cheating on her. But then I take the second verse, and in the second verse, I go, ‘Oh yeah? Well, I know all about those men!’”
The two then come together and sing the chorus in harmony, but he notes, “It just slays me, because that’s how the song was meant to be performed; I just didn’t realize it until Dolly called me the other day. So that’s how we’re doing it, and I’m just so stoked.”
Even billionaire pop superstars have to juggle work and family. Rihanna, who welcomed her first child in May 2022, will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. At a press conference on Thursday, she explained why she decided to take on the challenge, despite not having performed live in years.
“When you become a mom, there’s something that just happens where you feel like you could take on the world. You can do anything,” she told Apple Music’s Nadeska Alexis. “And the Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world. So as scary as that was — because I haven’t been onstage in seven years — there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. And it’s important for me to do this this year, it’s important for representation. It’s important for my son to see that.”
She added that representation is “a big part of why this is important for me to do this show,” saying she wants to represent immigrants, Barbados and Black women everywhere.
“That’s key: for people to see the possibilities. And I’m honored to be here. I’m honored to be doing this this year,” she said.
Despite the physical challenges of a nonstop 13-minute extravaganza, Rihanna said the hardest aspect of designing the show was trying to figure out how to cram “17 years of work into 13 minutes.”
“Deciding how to maximize 13 minutes, but also celebrate — that’s what this show’s going to be,” she noted. “It’s going to be a celebration of my catalog, in the best way that we could have put it together.”
While the Fenty mogul didn’t say anything about a new album or tour, she did talk about where she is musically.
“Musically, I’m feeling open. I’m feeling open to exploring, discovering, creating things that are new, things that are different … I just want to play. I want to have fun. I want to have fun with music.”
The Super Bowl airs on Fox Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET.
There are several ways to describe Harrison Ford, but “singer” isn’t commonly one of them. However, a new Shrinking episode might change a few minds … maybe.
In a sneak peek of the upcoming episode, set to premiere Friday, February 10, on Apple TV+, the legendary actor throws it back by singing a beloved ’90s alt-rock song.
The clip posted by E! starts with Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades exchanging jabs with Jessica Williams‘ Gaby, a fellow therapist who offers him a ride to work. Before he jumps into the car, he asks, “Can we play that song I like?”
The song in question is Sugar Ray‘s 1999 hit “Every Morning.” Unfortunately for Ford, his vocals aren’t quite on par with Mark McGrath‘s.
Sugar Ray has yet to respond to Ford’s singing capabilities.
“Every Morning” peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went to #1 on four other Billboard charts — Adult Alternative Songs, Adult Top 40, Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Top 40. To date, the song is the band’s highest-charting single.
Shrinking, which features a theme song sung by Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard, premieres new episodes every Friday on Apple TV+.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Harrison Ford is winning praise for showing off his comedy chops in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, but he goes even further in a new clip posted by E!. In the snippet from the forthcoming episode, Ford also shows off his singing ability.
For better or worse.
The scene has Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades exchanging “uncomfortable” jabs with Gaby, a fellow therapist who offers him a ride to work. That’s when he asks Jessica Williams‘ character if she “can play that song that I like,” which turns out to be Sugar Ray‘s “Every Morning.”
Although Gaby rolls her eyes at the request, moments later they’re duetting, even trading a high-five at the lyric mentioning a one-night stand.
The show itself may seem an out of character choice for the Indiana Jones actor, but Ford insists it all came down to the script from two-time Ted Lasso Emmy winner Brett Goldstein.
The 80-year-old actor explained to The Hollywood Reporter, “After two years of sitting on my a** during COVID, and waiting … for Indiana Jones to start … I wanted to do different things. So [Shrinking] came along, and then, very quickly after that, 1923 came along. I took the job without a script on both of them, on faith that the people who created the projects were going to deliver me a good script.”
He added, “I’m excited to do another season of both.”
Show co-creator Bill Lawrence, another Ted Lasso vet, insists to the trade Ford has the chops — for comedy, if not singing alterna-pop. “Initially, your thought is, ‘OK, you’re gonna write Harrison Ford gruff and everyone will do comedy around him.’ A couple of episodes in, you’re like … ‘Harrison Ford’s here to make comedy, not to react to comedy.'”
REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin is one of the rockers set to appear on Dolly Parton’s upcoming rock album, Rock Star, and he’s spilled the tea on the track they’ve recorded together.
While chatting with the Totally 80s podcast, Cronin revealed he and Dolly recorded a cover of the band’s classic “Keep On Loving You,” although he notes their version is a “dark duet.”
In the song, Cronin sings about his woman’s infidelity and his decision to stay with her, but says he realized, “I kind of portrayed myself as more of the good guy than perhaps I was.”
“Perhaps it takes more than one snake in the grass, ‘all coiled up and hissing,’ to tango — if you catch my drift. That’s the reality of the song, you know?” he explains. “So, it gave me the idea that Dolly could sing the first verse, and in the first verse, I’m cheating on her. But then I take the second verse, and in the second verse, I go, ‘Oh yeah? Well, I know all about those men!’”
The two then come together and sing the chorus in harmony, but he notes, “It just slays me, because that’s how the song was meant to be performed; I just didn’t realize it until Dolly called me the other day. So that’s how we’re doing it, and I’m just so stoked.”
Hardcore fans probably already know Cronin’s been on Dolly’s radar for some time: she covered the band’s “Time for Me to Fly” as the opening track on 1989’s White Limozeen.
The Rolling Stones are the subject of a new Vevo-hosted YouTube series that launched on Thursday. The Rolling Stones Chronicles, co-produced by BBC Motion Gallery and ABKCO, is comprised of six documentary shorts, with each focused on a different Stones hit from the ’60s.
Each clip features interviews with the band, along with historical documentary footage of world events that were taking place at the time.
The weekly series kicks off with The Last Time (EP1), soundtracked by the top five single of the same name, which reveals how early rock ‘n’ roll and Chicago blues influenced the band. In addition to archival interviews with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,it features footage of B.B. King, Little Richard and others.
“The Rolling Stones Chronicles puts the band’s music in context with history,” says Robin Klein, executive producer of the series. “While they were very much of that time, The Rolling Stones themselves served as a vehicle for, and reflected and inspired change.”
Future episodes will be set against such Rolling Stones classics as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “She’s A Rainbow,” “Street Fighting Man” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” wrapping March 16 with an episode featuring “Gimme Shelter.”
Linda Ronstadt is the latest artist to see a chart resurgence thanks to one of her songs being featured in a popular series. In Ronstadt’s case, it’s the tune “Long Long Time,” which has jumped back on the chart thanks to its inclusion in the third episode of the hit HBO series The Last Of Us.
Billboardreports the song, which originally appeared on the 1970 album Silk Purses, tops the Rock Digital Songs Sales, LyricFind U.S. and LyricFind Global charts, with the latter two ranking the tracks gaining momentum on lyric searches and usages.
From January 27 to February 2, “Long Long Time” went from negligible downloads to 6,000, which was an increase of 11,181% and enough to land it on top of the Rock Digital Song Sales chart. The song also saw a 1,042% increase in official streams during that week, from 79,000 to 903,000.
“Long Long Time” is just one of several songs that has seen renewed interest thanks to a popular series. Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down Again” returned to the charts thanks to its appearance in The Last Of Us’ premiere episode, and of course, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)” landed in the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 after it was featured on Netflix’s Stranger Things last year.
(WASHINGTON) — Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was attacked in her Washington, D.C., apartment building on Thursday morning, her office said later that day.
“This morning around 7:15 a.m., Rep. Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building,” Nick Coe, Craig’s chief of staff, said in a statement. “Rep. Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,” he added.
Craig, who has represented Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District since 2019, called 911 and the attacker fled the scene, according to Coe. He said there was no evidence the attack was politically motivated.
“Rep. Craig is grateful to the DC Metropolitan Police Department for their quick response and asks for privacy at this time,” Coe said.
A police report obtained by ABC News states that the altercation began when Craig reported seeing a man acting erratically in her apartment building, as if “as if he was under the influence on an unknown substance.”
Craig said she told the suspect “good morning,” according to the police report, and she went to the elevator where the suspect followed her and started to do push-ups in the elevator.
The congresswoman told police that with “a closed fist [the suspect] punched her on the chin area of her face, and later grabbed her neck.”
Craig fended him off by pouring hot coffee on him, and he escaped before officers could arrest him, according to the report. D.C. police told ABC News that the attack is under active investigation.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said Thursday afternoon that he had spoken with Craig and she was doing OK.
“Angie’s a dear friend of mine,” Walz said at a governor’s panel hosted by Politico in Washington. “She represents part of a district that was part of my district when I was in Congress at one time. I was able to speak with her this morning and she talked a little bit about this. At this time, we do not know that it was politically motivated.”
Walz continued, “I think Angie is physically going to be OK. Nobody, you know, at this point in time, [knows] the trauma that she’s experiencing.”
While Craig’s office said her attack did not appear to be political, threats against lawmakers have been high in recent years, according to authorities.
A record-breaking 9,625 such threats were reported in 2021, according to statistics released by the U.S. Capitol Police, and 7,501 threat cases were investigated by Capitol Police in 2022.
“The threats against Members of Congress are still too high,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said last month.
In a statement, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries called the attack on Craig a “terrifying assault” and said he had asked the House sergeant-at-arms and Capitol Police to work with the congresswoman to “to ensure that Angie and her family are safe while in our nation’s capital and at home in Minnesota.”
ABC News’ Mariam Khan and Lauren Peller contributed to this report.
Lizzo gave her fans a treat on Thursday: a new remix of her song “Special” that features SZA.
This reveal comes days after “About Damn Time” took home the Grammy for Record of the Year. Without warning, Lizzo took to Instagram on Wednesday and shared a brief video announcement. “‘Special’ featuring SZA drops tomorrow,” she said with a slight smile.
Of course, fan reaction was intense, with one writing, “You just going to say that casually?” Another also called out Lizzo’s calm demeanor in their comment, “you’re saying it like it’s not a big deal.”
The rapper maintained the same energy when releasing the song, simply telling fans, “It’s out!”
The remix features SZA handling the opening verses before harmonizing with Lizzo through the chorus.
Lizzo previously performed the song with SZA during her November performance at the Kia Forum, which was recorded for the HBO Max show Lizzo: Live in Concert. The singer had shared a clip of their performance when the film premiered and said of SZA, “My actual sister. I could cry thinking about you right now. Nothing could make special more special than you.”
SZA raved about their friendship when talking to Rolling Stone’s Music Now podcast, saying, “We just have so much fun together. And I feel like she gets me. She’s another person who has hella music tastes and doesn’t fit in anybody’s box of anything.”
