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Andy Grammer is known for being the good guy in the music industry, but he admits he sometimes struggles with his mental health — and says that’s perfectly normal.
Speaking to Healthline, the “Fresh Eyes” singer said the pandemic forced him to take a hard look at how he was managing and coping with his mental health struggles.
“[When] it got completely quiet and I was not allowed to leave my house and not allowed to be around thousands of people and not allowed, honestly, to just be distracted, I was forced to sit with myself, and that was not super fun,” Andy admitted.
He added, “[I] realized, oh, I got a lot of work inside, invisible work to do here that I don’t think I would have done as soon if it hadn’t been for the pandemic.”
Andy is encouraging his male fans to take their mental health seriously in an upcoming appearance on the Man Enough podcast. His forthcoming episode tackles “what it is about guys that we feel like going to therapy is weak or something.”
“I had to be completely destroyed to say, ‘Ok, fine, I’ll go to therapy.’ Why does it have to be that way? Why do I have to be so clearly not capable of going about my day to then say, ‘Ok, I think I need some help,'” he questioned.
Andy also hopes to normalize going to therapy because it can be scary for some.
“I was afraid to own the darker sides of myself. So, therefore, it’s just a little bit scary to acknowledge that to even yourself that you’re not perfect,” he explained. He urged his fans to “deal with the stuff inside yourself” so you can become “a complete version of yourself.”
If you’re a Rolling Stones fan, you’ve no doubt seen the photo of the band members in drag on the U.S. version of the single “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” Now, you can see that photo come to life: The original 1966 video for the song has been officially released.
Director Peter Whitehead created the black-and-white video using footage from the single artwork photoshoot. All five original members of the band — Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones — are shown dressed as women, standing around on a New York City street. Well, everyone is standing around except for Wyman: He’s sitting in a wheelchair wearing a women’s military uniform, which includes a skirt and pumps.
The footage of the band in drag is intercut with a clip of Jagger walking through what looks like an art fair on the street, plus random shots of the other band members.
Along with that visual, the band has released a live performance video of the same song, also shot by Whitehead. That one — filmed on September 23, 1966 during a performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall –shows the band being mobbed onstage by screaming fans.
“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” was a top 10 U.S. hit in 1966.
Ozzy Osbourne has premiered the second episode of his ongoing series, which documents the making of his new solo album, Patient Number 9.
The episode, titled “The Sabbath Connection,” focuses on Ozzy’s reunion with Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi on the record. Iommi plays on two Patient Number 9 songs: “No Escape from Now” and “Degradation Rules.”
In between, a number of the other Patient Number 9 guests and collaborators — including Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan, Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo, Black Label Society‘s Zakk Wylde, Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith and producer Andrew Watt — share what Black Sabbath means to them.
You can watch “The Sabbath Connection” streaming now on YouTube. The third and final episode premieres next Friday, September 30.
Patient Number 9 was released earlier this month. It also includes guest spots from Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
(WASHINGTON) – Republicans are going on the attack in Wisconsin — drawing a “fact check” in rebuttal from the state’s Democratic governor — as they press what they see as an advantage on the issue of crime and law enforcement support in the final weeks before crucial midterm races there.
A recent spate of ads released by GOP groups attacking the Democratic nominees running for office have pushed them to go on the defense, with incumbent Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday working to debunk, he said, a TV spot from the Republican Governors Association that claimed his policies played a role in the release of hundreds of violent criminals by the state’s parole commission.
Democratic operatives say conservatives’ focus on crime is a distraction from other key issues on which voters view them less favorably, like abortion access post Roe. Evers’ Republican challenger, Tim Michels, opposes abortion in almost all cases.
“I’m principled; my wife and I, we know we have to answer to somebody higher than anybody on the face of this earth. We’re pro-life because of our faith,” he has said.
But a Marquette University Law School Poll released earlier this month analyzing Wisconsin’s Senate and governor race showed that 61% of registered voters were concerned about crime. The issue ranked among the top-five issues for voters in the state.
In response to the RGA ad, which sought to link Evers to the release of “over 800 convicted criminals,” “270 murderers and attempted murderers” and “44 child rapists,” the Evers campaign said “of the 884 convicted criminals released under Gov. Evers’ administration, nearly half were released because their release was required by law.”
His campaign stressed that, in Wisconsin, “only the parole chair can decide who gets let out of prison on parole. The governor has no role in these decisions,” adding that the parole chair, John Tate, “never received a full confirmation hearing” and that he was unanimously recommended for confirmation by a Republican-controlled Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety.
And as to the RGA ad’s claims that the governor’s “liberal policies” have made local communities less safe, Evers’ campaign pointed out that the governor signed a bill in April preventing violent criminals and sex offenders from being released early from prison in the future. Evers contrasted that with Michels, who opposes gun law changes including so-called “red flag” legislation, which would allow law enforcement to remove firearms from people they believe may present a danger to themselves or others.
Michels said in June: “It’s not the guns. It’s a cultural problem today. And a lot of it is a byproduct of the whole ‘defund the police’ movement, where cops became bad guys.”
The Republican Party and their Wisconsin nominees have also spotlighted two members of the law enforcement community who have publicly announced that they never actually endorsed Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, despite their names being initially filed under a list by the campaign detailing officers who support him.
Both La Crosse County Sheriff’s Captain John Siegel — who is running for county sheriff — and Racine County Deputy Malik Frazier’s names were listed but have since been removed by the Barnes campaign. The coalition of law enforcement that supports Barnes now includes 15 members, two of whom are active-duty sheriffs from Rock County and Green County.
Wisconsin Right Now first reported on Siegel’s removal from the list. Siegel told the outlet that he never endorsed the lieutenant governor and that he did not plan to endorse anyone in the state’s Senate race.
When reached by ABC News, Lt. Michael Luell, a spokesman with the Racine County Sheriff’s Office, said that Deputy Malik Frazier “expressed some level of surprise” when he saw his name on the list of law enforcement who supported Barnes.
“[Frazier] stated that he may be personally supporting Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, but he did not intend to professionally endorse him, and that professional endorsement was a mistake made by the Barnes’ campaign,” Luell said. (La Crosse County Sheriff’s Captain John Siegel did not respond to a request from ABC News for comment.)
The Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican-aligned super PAC, has recently published multiple ads targeting Barnes’ support to eliminate cash bail, an issue that its supporter say would remove an excessive financial burden on people accused of even minor infractions — but which the GOP ad contends would set “accused criminals free into the community before trial.”
In a statement to ABC News in response to the negative ads, Maddy McDaniel, a Barnes campaign spokeswoman, said: “Ron Johnson defended the criminals whose insurrection injured 140 police officers. He loves to point fingers about crime, but then voted against police funding while Lt. Governor Barnes and Governor Evers actually invested in public safety and law enforcement.”
Some outside Democratic strategists cast the Republican ads focusing on crime as “fear mongering” and a distraction from their other weaknesses on the trail.
“There’s no question that [Republicans] want people to be scared,” said Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki, adding, “They’re trying to create an alternative environment that they think is better for them politically. But we know that the biggest story in American politics this year is the attack on women’s reproductive freedom.”
A new Spectrum News/Siena College poll released this week showed Evers with a 5-point lead over Michels in a race that FiveThirtyEight says favors Evers. The Spectrum/Siena poll also asked voters about their take on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that overturned Roe v. Wade, with 72% of Wisconsinites polled saying they want a new abortion law in the state versus relying on the state’s “1849 law” that broadly bans the procedure.
In a Marquette Law School poll released last week, 51% of Wisconsin voters surveyed said Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson “doesn’t share their values” versus 41% for Lt. Gov. Barnes.
Zepecki, the strategist, said that he believes “nobody buys” that Evers is “just flinging open the jail cell or ushering people out into the streets. That’s insane.”
As for the two members of law enforcement who were removed from the list of endorsements for Barnes, Zepecki said he does not foresee that negatively influencing the relatively small share of undecided voters in Wisconsin.
“I think this is much ado about nothing,” he argued. “This is the stuff that happens when you got campaigns that are trying to do 7,000 things with not enough staff and not enough time before Election Day, so I have a hard time believing that this has got to change anybody’s mind in this election, particularly talking about the truly undecided voters.”
Alec Zimmerman, a spokesperson for Johnson’s campaign, had another view: “Mandela Barnes can’t even tell the truth about who is endorsing his campaign — voters shouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth.”
On Wednesday, Johnson’s campaign announced a bipartisan coalition of 51 sheriffs who had endorsed him.
Speaking to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, Stevie explains that she was a fan of the song, penned by Stephen Stills, when it first came out. When she was living in San Francisco in 1968, she told herself, “I’m going to record that song one day.” Then, earlier this year, Stevie says, “It just came into my head”; she recorded the song in May.
Stevie claims she had “no idea” that Stephen originally wrote the track about the Sunset Strip curfew riots in LA in the ’60s. But she feels that “For What It’s Worth” is relevant today because in that song, Stills managed “to cover everything that everybody’s complaining about, and fighting against, in the entire world.”
The song includes the lyrics, “There’s battle lines being drawn/nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.”
“He managed, in that song, to touch on everything so subtly,” she explains. “You could have said, ‘Okay, is that song about gun violence? Is that song about women’s rights? Is it about immigration?’…you could take it all in, to be about anything that you personally wanted it to be about.”
Stevie tells Lowe it “seemed to be the right time” to cut the song and adds that her message to fans is, “I hope that…whatever your views on anything are, I hope that you can rise above that and take it for what it is. And also, I just hope you like the song.”
Did you know Barbra Streisand had another album in mind to serve as her debut? Almost six decades later, the legendary singer is finally releasing Live at Bon Soir, which she had recorded in November 1962.
Rolling Stonereports Barbra was just 20 years old when she recorded the album over her three-night residency at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village — a month after she signed with Columbia. The Grammy winner intended for this to become her debut album, but plans changed.
Barbra went on to redo several of the album’s songs as studio recordings and then compiled them into the 1963 effort The Barbra Streisand Album. She earned several Grammy wins with the project, including Album of the Year.
Now, 60 years after Live at Bon Soir was shelved, Barbra is finally sharing her original vision with her fans. The album was compiled from the master recordings that had been sitting in her personal collection.
As engineer Jochem van der Saag explained, some editing needed to be done in order to perfect the songs.
“There was a lot of leakage from the instruments into her vocal mic,” he said. “If we wanted to lower the volume of the piano for example, the vocal volume would decrease, too. To give listeners ‘the best seat in the house,’ we used cutting-edge spectral editing technology, clarifying the true artistry of Barbra and her band.”
Barbra hailed the album’s impending arrival on social media, writing, “Live at the Bon Soir… the way she was. This album, which was intended as her debut solo album, will be released November 4th.” The effort holds “Barbra’s earliest live recordings.”
She has since released the original version of “Cry Me a River,” which is now available to stream and download.
Kelsea Ballerini has always tried to share all sides of her life with her fans, and there’s an important reason for that.
“I just feel like it’s my responsibility as someone that people look up to and little girls look up to to show all sides of the human condition and all the sides of being a grownup, that experiences life as it happens,” the singer tells People.
That’s why she’s been so open about her recent divorce from fellow singer Morgan Evans. In the wake of her divorce announcement, she shared an emotional TikTok post of herself, teary-eyed, in a bathtub, lip-syncing along to Katie Gregson Macleod’s viral heartbreak ballad, “Complex.”
“And I’m happy on days that I’m happy and I’m sad on days that I’m sad,” Kelsea concludes.
Friday is likely a happy day for Kelsea: She’s releasing her new album, Subject to Change. The country star also performed the album’s first single, “Heartfirst,” on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Ryan Grantham, who as a young actor starred as Rodney James in 2010’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 shooting death of his mother, Barbara Waite.
CBC reports the 22-year-old Canadian actor, who pleaded guilty to second degree murder in June, won’t be eligible for parole for 14 years.
According to the CBC, Grantham shot his mother with a .22 rifle in the back of the head as she played piano in their home on March 31, 2020. The actor, who also appeared in Riverdale, recorded a confessional video and reportedly stocked up on weapons with the intention of going on a shooting and bombing spree but turned himself in to Vancouver cops instead.
The judge said Grantham was in a psychological “downward spiral” before the crime, smoking cannabis and watching violent content online. She also noted he has shown progress in a prison psychiatry program.
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The Beyhive may be able to hear their queen sing songs from her new Renaissance album live next year.
Beyoncé is reportedly booking stadiums for a world tour in the summer of 2023, according to Page Six.
The “Break My Soul” singer last went on tour in 2018 with her husband, Jay-Z, for The On The Run II Tour to promote Everything Is Love,their duo album as The Carters. They headlined 48 shows around the world for over two million fans, grossing over $250 million.
Beyoncé’s last solo tour was The Formation Tour in 2016, which promoted her sixth studio album, Lemonade.
One of the most popular songs on Renaissance is “Cuff It,” which inspired a viral dance challenge. Since summer has ended and cuffing season has arrived, Queen Bey chose 25 of her favorite “Cuff It” social media dance videos and posted them on Instagram Thursday under the title, “Cuff It Picks.”
There are myriad podcasts out there about crimes, mysteries and unbelievable stories, and evidently, the CIA wants in.
The Central Intelligence Agency has just launched The Langley Files, an official podcast featuring past and present agents as well as “special guests” telling stories — well, those “that they can” reveal — in an effort to “demystify” the mysterious agency.
“At CIA, there are truths we can share, and stories we can tell,” a voiceover says in a teaser recently uploaded to YouTube. “Stories of duties and dedication. Stories of ingenuity and mission. Stories beyond Hollywood scripts and shadowed whispers…”
According to the cast, “The mission of The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast is to educate and connect with the general public, sharing insight into the Agency’s core mission, capabilities, and agility as an intelligence leader…and to share some interesting stories along the way!”
The first guest is CIA Director Bill Burns, who, along with hosts Dee and Walter, tries “to dispel some common misconceptions about the CIA.”
Burns does a pretty good job off the bat, explaining he’s no Jason Bourne: “…I’m most comfortable driving our 2013 Subaru Outback at posted speed limits and that, for me at least, the height of technological daring is when I can finally get the Roku remote to work at home,” he says in the premiere episode.
There’s also a practical aspect to the agency’s decision to go — sort of — public: recruitment. Burns explains that the agency takes all kinds of people to make it work, and he hopes the podcast could help boost diversity within the CIA’s ranks.
