Korn has premiered a new remix of “Worst Is on Its Way,” a track off the band’s new album, Requiem.
The updated recording was made in collaboration with noise rock band HEALTH, who previously worked with Nine Inch Nails, and features hip-hop artists Danny Brown and Meechy Darko.
You can listen to the remix now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Requiem, the 14th Korn album, was released in February. It also includes the single “Start the Healing.”
In other Korn news, Jonathan Davis and company have launched their own brand of hot sauce dubbed Here to Slay. You can order a bottle now via the hot sauce site Heatonist.com.
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(WASHINGTON) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees appear to have undergone “excessive, invasive, and often unnecessary gynecological procedures,” at one of their privately managed facilities according to a Senate report released this week.
Whistleblower and advocacy groups lodged complaints in 2021 into the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, which is managed by LaSalle Southeast, alleging that a doctor was giving unnecessary hysterectomies on ICDC detainees.
The Senate committee did not disprove the whistleblower allegation, but said the doctor in charge of the facility, Dr. Mahendra Amin who holds no board certifications, was a “clear outlier” with regard to the number of procedures performed and the type of procedures he performed.
“ICDC housed roughly 4% of female ICE detainees nationwide from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Amin accounted for roughly 6.5% of total OB-GYN visits among all ICE detainees in the same time period,” the report says. “However, he performed nearly one-third of certain OB-GYN procedures on ICE detainees across the country between 2017 and 2020 and more than 90% of some key procedures.”
Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations — the committee that produced the report — decried the findings.
“This is an extraordinarily disturbing finding, and in my view represents a catastrophic failure to respect basic human rights,” he said in a statement.
An independent doctor whom the committee had look at Dr. Amin’s procedures, found he had “poor performance” on basic OB-GYN treatments and did not “follow the current recommendations regarding pap smears mangement.”
The 108-page report says Dr. Amin is under criminal investigation and soon after ICE discovered these treatments they moved all detainees from the facility.
The committee also found that there were “failures” to secure informed consent of detainees at offsite medical procedures performed on them.
“Anyone held in the custody of the U.S. government should receive proper medical care,” the report says. “The Subcommittee’s investigation into ICDC found that was not always the case for the female ICE detainees at that facility. Additionally, for years, deficiencies in detainee medical care that were identified by multiple DHS oversight components went unaddressed.”
At a hearing on Wednesday, the head of ICE’s medical treatment said because ICE terminated the contract with the Irwin County Detention Center, the recommendations of the report couldn’t be fully implemented.
In a new interview with Apple Music, the Icy Girl says making the song “felt very intense but in a good way.”
“And it was fun because I was just like, I was venting about all my experiences when I thought that I was dealing with a man that I can trust, and then it turns out he had a big mouth,” she says. “So it was a lot of storytelling and I just put all my experiences into one song.”
“That’s what I get for kissin’ on these frogs/He got mad and told my business to the blogs,” she raps on the track.
The song is off Saweetie’s The Single Life project, which drops Friday.
“I made a deal with myself last year,” she tells Apple Music. “I said, ‘If you’re going to continue to create music, create music for women, create music to empower them, create music to inspire them through my experiences.’ So I feel like this is my most honest project ever and, hopefully, the little girls, the women, the OG women, the grannies, whoever’s listening, I hope it gets them through whatever they’re going through.”
In a wide-ranging discussion about both his career and his new book,Cinema Speculation, at New York City’s Town Hall Wednesday evening, Quentin Tarantino gave some hints as to what’s in store for him.
The Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction writer explained to the night’s host, film critic and author Elvis Mitchell, that he’s looking to shoot an eight-episode TV series next year. Variety points out that Tarantino, however, didn’t share any details on the project.
If the TV project he mentioned comes to be, it would be the filmmaker’s first foray into TV since shooting a two-parter C.S.I. installment back in the original CBS crime drama’s heyday. He’s also said he’s written real-life scripts for Bounty Law, the late-’50s TV show on which Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood character Rick Dalton starred, according to the film.
While the conversation was as expansive as the cinematic knowledge in his new 400-page book, Tarantino dropped a few nuggets that will have fans doing some speculation of their own: notably, what Marvel Comics property he’d be willing to adapt.
Earlier in the promo run for the book, Tarantino said he wouldn’t be a “hired gun” for Marvel Studios, but on Wednesday night, he said he had a soft spot for Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, a WWII-set adventure featuring Nick Fury, who in the MCU has been portrayed since 2008 by frequent Tarantino collaborator Samuel L. Jackson.
The Howling Commandos were featured in a few MCU properties on both the big and small screens, notably 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, as well as Marvel Studios’ animated What If…? series on Disney+.
Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
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(WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is stepping down from House Democratic leadership but will remain in Congress.
Pelosi, 82, made the announcement in a dramatic floor speech on Thursday after gaveling the House into session, receiving a hearty standing ovation from her colleagues.
“With great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,” Pelosi said, noting she will continue to represent her California district, as she has for 35 years. “The hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect.”
The first woman to hold House speakership — Pelosi is the Democratic Party’s longest-serving House leader. Her decision will have a major impact on Democrats in their new position as House minority.
Pelosi’s fellow California delegation sat in the front of the chamber as the announcement was made.
House Democratic leadership — Reps. Pete Aguilar, Katherine Clark, Hakeem Jeffries, Jim Clyburn and Steny Hoyer — all sat together in the chamber, and were joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Not many Republicans were in the chamber to hear her speech. Notably absent was House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who celebrated his party’s control of the House Wednesday night by telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “We have fired Nancy Pelosi.”
Pelosi began her speech with an ode to the Capitol itself, describing how she saw it for the first time when she was young as she accompanied her father, the late Maryland Rep. Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., to his swearing-ceremony.
“This is the most beautiful building in the world because of what it represents,” Pelosi said. “The Capitol is a temple of our democracy, of our Constitution, of our highest ideals.”
“When I first came to the floor at 6 years old, never would I have thought that I would go from homemaker to House speaker,” she said.
Pelosi reflected on her time working with “three presidents”: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — notably not mentioning former President Donald Trump.
She celebrated the increase in diversity of the caucus over the years, noting when she came to Congress in the 1990s there were just 12 Democratic women in the group. Today, she said, there’s more than 90.
“And we want more,” she said, which received another standing ovation.
Pelosi’s spokesperson Drew Hammil said Wednesday she planned to make remarks on her political future, doing so just hours after ABC News projected that Republicans had officially won majority control in the U.S. House, ending a four-year Democratic majority despite a strong midterm showing for the party.
Pelosi delivered a warning in her speech that the Jan. 6 insurrection showed the democracy is still fragile, and so “must be forever defended.”
And despite losing the House, Pelosi said the midterm elections showed Americans “resoundingly rejected violence and insurrection, and in doing so, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.”
“And now we owe to the American people our very best to deliver on their faith, to forever reach for the more perfect union, the glorious horizon that our founders promised,” she said.
A source told ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott that Pelosi took home two different versions of floor speeches Wednesday night. As she arrived at the Capitol Thursday morning, Pelosi, wearing white and flanked by her top aides, did not respond to questions about her political future.
Pelosi had said the attack on her husband Paul would impact her decision to stay in House leadership post-midterms. On Thursday, she took a moment to thank and praise her husband as “my beloved partner in life and my pillar of support.”
Prior to the attack, several members have called for a younger generation of Democratic leadership. The top three Democrats in the House are all in their 80s.
While it’s unknown who exactly will succeed Pelosi, she addressed the next generation of leaders on Thursday, saying she’s “grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility.”
Among the top contenders for the jobs are Jeffries of New York for speaker, Clark of Massachusetts for minority whip and California’s Pete Aguilar is expected to be the caucus chair.
The current two other top leaders in the Democratic caucus, Hoyer and Clyburn, are stepping aside from their roles. The leadership elections are scheduled for the end of November.
President Joe Biden released a lengthy statement just after the speech concluded chronicling Pelosi’s career with praise and commending her for her “dignity.”
“Because of Nancy Pelosi, the lives of millions and millions of Americans are better,” Biden said, “even in districts represented by Republicans who voted against her bills and too often vilify her.”
“History will note she is the most consequential Speaker of the House of Representatives in our history,” the president said. “There are countless examples of how she embodies the obligation of elected officials to uphold their oath to God and country to ensure our democracy delivers and remains a beacon to the world.”
Maren Morris is lending her voice to not one but two upcoming Disney holiday specials.
In this year’s installment of The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, fans can catch Maren’s performance of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”
The annual celebration, hosted by siblings Julianne and Derek Hough, returns on Sunday, November 27 and features performances filmed at California’s Disneyland and Florida’s Disney World. The fun begins at 8 p.m. ET and will feature a few sneak peeks at what’s new and exciting at Disney, including a glimpse at the newest Disney Cruise Line ship.
On Christmas Day — December 25 — Maren will return for Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade with a performance of “When You Wish Upon a Star.”
For both specials, Maren’s repping the country genre on an all-genre bill. Black Eyed Peas, Meghan Trainor, Ne-Yo and Chloe Flower are just a few of the acts who will perform during both seasonal presentations.
The parade kicks off at 10 a.m. ET. The Houghs will return as co-hosts, along with Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola and grown-ish’s Marcus Scribner.
Both specials will air live on ABC. The Magical Holiday Celebration will be available to stream the next day on Hulu and Disney+, while the parade will stream live on Hulu.
Ticketmaster announced Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour has broken several records “and parts of our website.”
Ticketmaster issued a statement Thursday regarding Taylor’s historic Verified Fan pre-sale, which sent fans into meltdown mode.
“We knew this would be big. Over 3.5 million people pre-registered for Taylor’s Verified Fan, which is the largest registration in history,” the statement explained.
Of that number, Ticketmaster invited 1.5 million fans to take part in the Verified Fans pre-sale, but a “staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn’t have invite codes drove unprecedented traffic on our site, resulting in 3.5 billion total system requests – 4x our previous peak.”
“Never before has a Verified Fan on sale sparked so much attention,” Ticketmaster continued. The company then revealed, “Over 2 million tickets were sold for Taylor’s shows on Nov. 15 – the most tickets ever sold for an artist in a single day.” The company maintained “every ticket was sold to a buyer with a Verified Fan code.”
Ticketmaster vowed to use this as a learning lesson to “improve the experience.” It concluded, “The biggest venues and artists turn to us because we have the leading ticketing technology in the world – that doesn’t mean it’s perfect, and clearly for Taylor’s on sale it wasn’t.”
As for those upset fans who were left empty handed, Ticketmaster says the math isn’t on their side. “Based on the volume of traffic to our site, Taylor would need to perform over 900 stadium shows (almost 20x the number of shows she is doing)… that’s a stadium show every single night for the next 2.5 years,” they remarked.
Fans have one last chance at tickets. While presale tickets for the Eras Tour are sold out, general ticket sales go live Friday at 10 a.m. local venue time.
For those who missed the Duran Duran docu-concert A Hollywood High when it aired in theaters, there’s now another chance to check it out. The film is set to air on the streaming platform Veeps from December 18 to January 2.
A Hollywood High features footage from the band’s historic rooftop concert in Los Angeles earlier this year, along with interviews from the band members and never-before-seen archival footage. The stream, which costs $17.99, will mark the first time Veeps has aired a show enabled with 4K / UHD, Dolby Digital & Atmos, making them the first platform to offer such high-quality sound and audio.
Duran Duran is also sharing a new version of their latest album. They’ll release Future Past (Complete Edition) on November 25, a two-LP set that includes the record’s 15 original tracks along with a cover of David Bowie’s “Five Years.”
Earlier this month, Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; fans can check out their induction when HBO airs the celebration on Saturday, November 19.
This year’s ninthannual American Reality Television Awards will be available to experience inside the Metaverse, where you can sip drinks at the virtual cocktail bar and enter a VIP screening room. Those who prefer a more traditional viewing method can watch the show on OutTV and MonstersAndCritics.com.
Vivica A. Fox, who has been featured on reality programs such as Dancing with the Stars and The Masked Singer, will be emceeing the event, with nominees ranging from American Ninja Warrior to The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Despite the award show’s mission to bring serious recognition to the most talented minds both in front of and behind the camera of reality programs, she wants the audience to know there will still be a lot of fun during the broadcast.
“I’m also going to do some skits, so you’ll get to see your girl, Vivica,” she says. “I did a skit for The Deadliest Catch that is absolutely hilarious. Also with Dr. Pimple Popper, I did a skit with her as well, too. We did some dancing. I mean, it was just really, really fun.”
Kristen Moss and Andrew Ward founded the awards in 2012 after feeling there was a lack of recognition for those who worked on unscripted programming. Moss tells ABC Audio reality television leads to understanding and togetherness: “We’re getting a glimpse into lives we’ve never seen. We’re hoping that it’s bringing the world closer together.”
To see who takes home the award for Best Feel Good Show or Reality Royalty, tune into the the ARTAs on Thursday, November 17, at 8 p.m. ET on OutTV, MonstersAndCritics.com and the Metaverse by going to ReelMood.com/theartas.
Rock artists, including Alice in Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell and Bush‘s Gavin Rossdale, are mourning the death of longtime tour tech and photographer Scott Dachroeden.
In an Instagram post accompanied by a photo of Dachroeden, Cantrell writes, “You captured so many great moments over the years my friend.”
“This was the last one I snapped of you,” the “Man in the Box” rocker adds of the picture. “Having a beer and a laugh, playing a game of 4 ball with me and the fellas. Rest easy my brother.”
Rossdale has also shared a photo of Dachroeden alongside his dog Chewy.
“I learnt a lot from Scott’s energy and warmth,” Rossdale writes. “I’ve known him since we began, but what a treat to tour with him recently…I was so glad to spend time with him.”
Commenting on Rossdale’s post, Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale, who also worked with Dachroeden, writes, “I’ve been in tears since I heard.”
Dachroeden had been in the hospital with stage 4 cancer. A GoFundMe was launched earlier this month to help him pay his medical bills.
