Kate Hudson and The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson were married from 2000 to 2007 and share a son together, 21-year-old Ryder. In a new interview, Hudson talks about what prompted her to jump into marriage with the rocker.
During an appearance on the You’re Doing Fine…Just Keep Goingpodcast, Kate says she met Robinson in New York when she was 20 and instantly knew she wanted to be with him, quickly telling people, “I’m marrying this guy.”
“I just, like, jump in the deep end of everything I do,” she shared. “People thought it was impulsive, but it was more like I was just, like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to dive right into this. I’m not gonna second guess it. I’m in love with him. I’m not gonna pretend, like, “Oh, we should wait.” I’m madly in love and I want to marry him.’ And so I just didn’t think twice.”
She notes, “I’m kind of still like that except with a little more wisdom under my belt.”
Although Kate says the marriage got complicated and didn’t last, Robinson showed her “what it felt like to be unconditionally loved,” noting they “worshipped each other” and “were so in love.”
(MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa.) — The “supposed friend” and business partner of a Pennsylvania mother found dead two weeks after he reported her missing has now been arrested for her murder, authorities said.
Jennifer Brown, 43, of Limerick Township, was reported missing on Jan. 4 by Blair Watts when she failed to pick up her 8-year-old son from the bus stop, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.
Watts, 33, reportedly told police he saw the mother the previous afternoon and had watched her son that night in a planned sleepover with his three children to “give Jennifer a break,” Steele said. However, Brown, described as an attentive and loving mother, had not sent her son’s daily medication with him for the sleepover, and her son could not reach her throughout the day on Jan. 4, which was “highly unusual,” Steele said.
Brown’s car was found parked outside her home and her keys, purse, computer tablet and work cellphone were found inside her residence, though her personal cellphone was missing and had been silent since the morning of Jan. 4, Steele said.
Brown’s body was found two weeks later, on Jan. 18, buried in a shallow grave behind a warehouse in Royersford, authorities said. The Montgomery County coroner determined the cause of death to be “homicide by unspecified means,” and that Brown had three broken ribs, according to the district attorney’s office. She appears to have died from asphyxiation, Steele said.
“While it took more than a month to arrest Watts, Montgomery County detectives and Limerick Township detectives feared and suspected early on that this devoted mother to an 8-year-old boy with special needs had either been kidnapped or killed,” Steele said during a press briefing Thursday. “And as detectives uncovered evidence piece by piece, the picture of what happened to Jennifer has become more and more clear.”
During the course of the investigation, detectives determined that Brown planned to invest in Watts’ Phoenixville restaurant, Birdies Kitchen, Steele said. Though the restaurant was slow to move forward and on Dec. 28, three months after expressing interest in a property, one of the property owners told Watts that they would not be moving forward with a lease, according to Steele.
On Jan. 3, two cash transfers totaling $17,000 were made from Brown’s computer tablet to accounts controlled by Watts, though the money was “never part of a written agreement between Brown and Watts,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement. The transfers took multiple attempts and went through after two-factor authentication was disabled, according to Steele.
On Jan. 4, Watts showed up to the Phoenixville restaurant property and allegedly told the property owner that he now had money to put down on a lease, the district attorney said.
Authorities believe Brown was murdered on Jan. 3, before the cash transfers were made, then Watts “tried to cover his tracks and get rid of her body before he reported her missing,” Steele said.
The movement of Brown’s personal cellphone and Watts’ cellphones show that Watts allegedly had her phone until it became inactive at 7 a.m. on Jan. 4, Steele said. Brown’s son also reportedly saw Watts holding his mother’s personal cellphone — identified by his school photo on its lock screen image — on Jan. 3, after Watts picked the child up from the school bus, authorities said.
Watts’ cellphone activity and surveillance footage allegedly tracked Watts to the area where Brown’s body was found buried the morning of Jan. 4, Steele said. A cadaver dog deployed to search two Jeeps known to be driven by Watts also allegedly indicated the presence of human remains in the vehicles, the district attorney said.
There was no sign of a struggle inside Brown’s home, which Watts allegedly had access to through a set of keys, according to Steele. Investigators did find pieces of plastic in the carpet that they later determined matched a plastic hair clip that was found along with her body, Steele said.
Watts, of Royersford, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of first-degree murder, third-degree murder, theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud. He was denied bail and is being held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility awaiting a preliminary hearing, online court records show.
His attorney, Christopher Mandracchia, denied the district attorney’s allegations in a video statement posted to social media on Friday.
“Yesterday the district attorney’s office made a statement. They stated that my client is a killer. He is not a killer,” Mandracchia said. “He is here presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
“Their case is circumstantial at best, and we look forward to our day in court,” he continued.
Philadelphia ABC station WPVI spoke to Watts over the phone in the days after Brown was reported missing. He told them he did not want to do an interview, but said at the time he was helping detectives and was “stunned” by her disappearance, WPVI reported. He said the two were going to open a restaurant together and that he didn’t think anything was out of the ordinary the day she disappeared, according to WPVI.
Friends of Brown were shocked by her disappearance and noted she was a devoted mother to her son.
“It’s literally like we’re living in a movie that we watch on TV, it’s so surreal and unbelievable,” Tiffany Barron, a spokesperson for the family, previously told WPVI. “Jennifer would never ever just disappear, she would never abandon her son.”
Blackmore’s Night, the group featuring ex-Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife, Candice Night, are about to release the 25th anniversary celebration of their debut album, Shadow of the Moon. Now they are sharing another song from the set.
The latest is a new mix of “Play Minstrel Play,” which features a special guest appearance by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson.
The remixed 25th anniversary edition of Shadow of the Moon is due out March 10, with the album’s iconic artwork refreshed for the new release. It includes two previously unreleased acoustic versions of “Spirit of the Sea” and “Shadow of the Moon,” recorded by Blackmore and Night in 2022. The album is available for preorder now.
Canadian whisky brand Crown Royal has shared more of its upcoming Super Bowl commercial starring Dave Grohl.
In a new clip posted to YouTube, the Foo Fighters frontman produces a shred-heavy rendition of Canada’s national anthem, “O Canada,” performed by Canadian guitarist and Prince collaborator Donna Grantis. Following her rocking performance, Grohl asks Grantis if she wants to start a band, to which she exclaims, “I’m in!”
Meanwhile, another clip is a follow-up to a previously released teaser for the ad, in which Grohl rattled off a list of seemingly unrelated and random items, including “peanut butter” and “Hawaiian pizza.” As it turns out, what those things have in common is that they were invented in or are produced in Canada.
“Today, let’s thank Canada,” Grohl declares.
Super Bowl LVII airs this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on Fox.
Eric Bellinger & Hitmaka, 1(800) HIT-EAZY: LINE 2 — The singer and producer reunited for another installment of their 1(800) HIT-EAZY series. “If you listen to the project from start to finish, you hear a 14-track story filled with love, vulnerability, and betrayal, but this time from the male’s perspective,” Bellinger said of the release.
Mariah Carey, It’s A Wrap EP — The four-song EP was released in celebration of Mariah’s 2009 deep cut “It’s a Wrap.” It features the original song, the remix featuring Mary J. Blige and two other versions of the track.
John Legend, “Wonder Woman” — Want to see a live performance of the song? You’re in luck. Vevo released a video of him singing the track live from the studio.
Kash Doll & DJ Drama, Back On Dexter — The rapper and DJ teamed up for a Gangsta Grillz mixtape that features Babyface Ray, Lakeyah, Sada Baby and more. “It’s my First time dropping a project in 4years it’s was only right i go back to my roots,” Kash wrote on Instagram.
Shy Glizzy, Flowers— The album finds Shy singing about how far he’s come in his rap career. He says it’s his “most personal, poignant and powerful body of work.”
Lizzo featuring SZA, “Special” — Lizzo tapped her friend SZA for a remake of the song from her 2022 album of the same name.
Lucky Daye, “Careful” — After appearing in the visual for Alicia Keys‘ “Stay,” the singer’s dropped his song from the Magic Mike’s Last Dance soundtrack.
Common is walking down memory lane in a recent installment of Vevo Footnotes. As part of the platform’s exclusive content celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, the rapper revisited the visual for “The Light,” off his 2000 album, Like Water, Like Chocolate.
Common credited J. Dilla for the track’s production and Erykah Badu for inspiring the song, which is about the “different dimensions of love and what partnership is.”
Ultimately, Common said, “‘The Light’ was one of the greatest videos I have ever been a part of.” He’s proud that so many people have used the song at their weddings, and hopes that it continues to inspire more love and authenticity in hip-hop.
“I think that’s a beautiful thing about hip-hop,” he said. “This was just one of those songs that allowed us as males to feel like we could express love in a pure way — say what we’re feeling and not be afraid. It took me a long time to understand that.”
In a statement accompanying his episode’s release, Common thanked Vevo “for always supporting my work.” “This is dope to be a part of Vevo Footnotes. This is the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and man … hip-hop has changed my life in ways that I can’t even fathom,” he said. “I thank God for hip-hop, and thank y’all for celebrating ‘The Light’ and including it in Footnotes for the celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary.”
The Recording Academy’s Beach Boys tribute concert was filmed earlier this week, and featured a previously unannounced collaboration by The Pretty Reckless‘ Taylor Momsen and The Struts‘ Luke Spiller.
After footage of their joint performance surfaced online following the taping, Momsen confirmed it in an Instagram post reading, “I guess the cat’s out of the bag.”
“It was an honor to perform at the Grammy’s tribute to @thebeachboys with my new found friend @lukestruts amongst so many great artists,” Momsen wrote. “It was a blast.”
The post also includes photos of Momsen and Spiller together alongside Beach Boys member Mike Love.
The concert, dubbed A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys, will air at a later date on CBS and stream on Paramount+. The announced performers include Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Beck, St. Vincent, Mumford & Sons and My Morning Jacket.
Luke Combs just can’t stop writing love songs about his wife, Nicole.
The beginnings of his new track, “Love You Anyway,” go back to Valentine’s Day 2020, when the two were engaged but had not yet tied the knot. At a show, Luke dedicated “Beautiful Crazy” — one of his number ones — to his fiancée, saying: “If you’re in here, I love you. If not, you know I do anyway.”
That struck a chord with co-writer Dan Isbell, who already had the title “Love You Anyway” as an idea for a song in his phone. Later, when the two got together with Ray Fulcher, the “heartbreak and love song all in one” was born.
“We loved the idea as a title and decided to write about loving someone so much that even if you knew from the beginning they were going to break your heart, you’d love them anyway,” Luke explains. “It came off very poetic and we wanted to find the words that could really give meaning to what we were trying to say, but as we say in the song, we didn’t know if there were deep enough words made for that.”
“Love You Anyway” is out now, ahead of the March 24 release of its accompanying album, Gettin’ Old.
Elvis Costello and Crowded House are among the artists featured in AXS TV’s new Live From the Artists Den series, kicking off February 15 at 9 p.m. ET.
The concert series launches with a special concert by John Legend at New York City’s Riverside Church, with Costello’s episode set for April 12 and Crowded House headlining the April 19 episode.
“Live From the Artists Den is the perfect complement to AXS TV’s new Wednesday night lineup, highlighting a fresh slate of classic concerts, the latest rock news, and so much more,” Katie Daryl, AXS TV’s vice president of programming, shares. “We are proud to present these landmark Live From the Artists Den concerts, boasting powerhouse performances from an impressive roster of iconic artists, as they play their biggest hits in intimate sets at some of the world’s most legendary venues.”
Other artists featured in the series include Mumford & Sons, Gary Clark Jr., Cage the Elephant, Ed Sheeran, Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz, Zac Brown Band and Dierks Bentley.
Legendary Canadian band The Guess Who is ready to drop some new music. The band just announced their brand new album, Plein D’Amour, which translates to full of love.
“We couldn’t think of a better time to introduce the world to an exceptional collection of songs that exude positivity and cohesive energy, a much needed cultural antidote. Now we ARE love — Plein D’Amour!” Michael Staertow shares. Founding member Garry Peterson adds, “After recording this album, and living with it for a while, I believe this is the best album that I have played on.”
And the band is giving fans a taste of what to expect with the just-released first single from the record, “The King.”
According to lead vocalist Derek Sharp, who wrote the song, “The King” was inspired by “‘all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.”
He added, “However, loving kindness is a universal balm, which can not only put Humpty together again, but turn him into a Prince!”
The album is a follow-up to 2018’s The Future IS What it Used To Be. So far a release date for Plein D’Amour hasn’t been announced.
Fans can also catch The Guess Who on the road. They are currently on a U.S. tour, which hits Lincoln City, Rhode Island, on February 17. A complete list of dates can be found at theguesswho.com.
