Incubus will kick off 2023 with a quick run of tour dates.
The four-show outing launches January 31 in Corpus Christi, Texas and will stay in the Lone Star State for stops in San Antonio on February 2 and Houston on February 3 before wrapping up February 4 in New Orleans.
Incubus’ 2022 included a summer tour with Sublime with Rome. The outing was briefly interrupted after frontman Brandon Boyd injured his back.
The most recent Incubus release is the 2020 EP Trust Fall (Side B), which followed the band’s 2017 album, 8. Earlier this year, Boyd dropped a new solo album called Echoes & Cocoons.
Joe Nichols is living with an attitude of gratitude that’s reflected in his new single, “Good Day For Living.”
The title track of his most recent album, “Good Day For Living” captures how he shapes his reality through positive thinking.
The song’s lyrics allow him to see the bright side of life’s unfortunate situations, such as when the air conditioning blows out or money falls out of his pocket. He vows to not make “no worry no bigger than it is when it isn’t.”
Though Joe didn’t write the track, it does capture how he walks through life with gratitude.
“I think the number one take away for me emotionally is that it’s filled with gratitude, the kind of happiness that comes along with gratitude. In my personal life, I feel like the happiest moments of my life are always followed by gratitude,” he explains of the “fun song.” “That changes my perspective on the way I live. Situations or circumstances or things in life, good and bad, don’t change how I think — the way I think changes how I see things. So this song in a very lighthearted, ditty, ‘what’s a guy got to do’ kind of way, represents that very thinking.”
“Good Day” is nearing the top 30 on country radio, serving as his biggest hit since his 2014 chart-topping single, “Yeah.” Joe is also known for hits “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “Gimme That Girl” and “Sunny and 75.”
Joe wrapped his Good Day For Living Tour in September and has shows booked through the end of the year.
As promised, earlier on her Instagram, Taylor Swift released the video for “Bejeweled,” at the stroke of midnight Tuesday with a little help from some friend for the Cinderella-inspired clip.
Swift plays “House Wench Taylor,” who’s forced to scrub the floor while her wicked step sisters, played by Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, as well as “Stepmommy,” Oscar-winning actress Laura Dern, prepare to attend a ball in hopes of getting a marriage proposal from the prince.
We then see Swift transform herself into a “Bejeweled” princess who leaves a stream of glitter in her wake, splashes around in giant champagne glasses with “Fairy Goddess” Dita von Teese and ghosts Jack Antonoff.
“I want[ed] to make a video that is just for the fans who like certain things like glitter and easter eggs and lots of little cameos, she told Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on The Tonight Show.
“So basically I was thinking about Midnights, the the concept, and I was like, ‘Where do we hear about a lot?'” she continued. “We hear about it a lot when we talk about the Cinderella fairytale. And so I was like, ‘What if we did a little twist on a Cinderella story and I could cast my friends.”
The video also contains “a psychotic amount of Easter eggs” in the video, said Taylor, who claimed to have “a PDF file for the Easter eggs in this video,” because there are so many we could not keep track.”
Todd Rundgren is among the well-known music artists taking part in the 2022 edition of the Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour, which kicked off earlier this month and is plotted out through a a November 13 concert in Phoenix.
Rundgren tells ABC Audio that he’s glad that he was able to choose some songs from his favorite era of Bowie’s career, David’s early-’70s period, to perform on the trek.
“I think I was lucky in that I sort of demanded and was granted songs that I thought would work well for me, like ‘Life on Mars?’ and ‘Space Oddity’ and ‘Changes,” Todd notes. “So I got to claim a lot of that early ‘songwriter-ly’ stuff.”
He adds, “The young David Bowie wrote songs with great changes and words you could identify with.”
Rundgren also is singing a couple songs from a bit later in Bowie’s career — “Young Americans” and “Station to Station” — while admitting he’s not as enamored with much of David’s later work.
Meanwhile, Rundgren reports that he isn’t playing as much guitar on the tour as he initially expected, while pointing out that he’s doing a lot of costume changes during the shows, as is his tour mate Angelo Moore of the band Fishbone.
“It’s up to him and I to kind of … keep things lively [with] costume changes and props and that sort of thing,” he notes.
In addition to Rundgren and Moore, the Celebrating David Bowie tour lineup also features ex-King Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, Spacehog‘s Royston Langdon and veteran singer/songwriter Jeffrey Gaines.
In addition, guest artists will make appearances at select shows, including Thomas Dolby, who will perform in Annapolis, Maryland, on October 31 and November 1. Visit CelebratingDavidBowie.com for a full list of dates.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, concluded its first season in a big way, drawing the premium cabler service’s biggest audience since GoT‘s conclusion in 2019.
House of the Dragon 9.3 million viewers Sunday night across all platforms, based on a combination of Nielsen and first party data, according HBO. That despite stiff competition from Sunday Night Football and the final game of the Major League Baseball ALCS between the NY Yankees and Houston Astros.
“We’re so thrilled to see House of the Dragon catch fire with Game of Thrones fans around the world, as well as new viewers who are discovering the world of Westeros for the first time,” said Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and HBO Max. “Congrats to [Co-Creator/Executive Producer, George R.R. Martin, Co-Creator/Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer, Ryan Condal, Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer/Director, Miguel Sapochnik] and the whole House of the Dragon team on an incredible first season.”
House of the Dragon debuted August 21, to the largest audience for any new original series in the history of HBO and the best series launch on HBO Max across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. The series is averaging 29 million viewers per episode in the U.S.
The complete first season of House of the Dragon is now available to stream on HBO Max.
(WASHINGTON) — With early voting underway in more than half of Florida’s counties as of Monday — 15 days before Election Day — Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging supporters to cast their ballots sooner rather than later, despite calls from Donald Trump and some other Republicans to wait until Nov. 8.
DeSantis has made election integrity a key issue since Trump began trumpeting false claims of a stolen 2020 election and has supported various measures to that end, including the creation of an election police force which made controversial fraud arrests in August.
But the governor has also repeatedly noted that Florida voters should feel confident in their own elections — and feel confident voting early or by mail, two methods that Trump has baselessly criticized as allowing fraud.
After returning to the trail in the wake of Hurricane Ian, DeSantis split with Trump on this issue. The former president told Nevada rally-goers on Oct. 9 that voting early would make it easier for Democrats to cheat. He didn’t provide evidence.
DeSantis’ message, though, is: Any form of voting will do.
At campaign events, he sometimes takes a tally. “
How many of you are going to do a mail ballot?” he asks.
“Early in person?” he adds.
Silence turns into cheers when he asks about “Election Day.”
On Sunday in Bal Harbour, DeSantis pushed back on that preference, telling a packed Jewish community center to get to the polls as soon as possible to avoid a “mulligan” in two weeks.
“If you wait till Election Day, you get a flat tire, you can’t take a mulligan,” DeSantis said then. “Whereas if you vote early, you do it, you’re in the can. If something happens [while you’re on your way], you got another shot at it.”
“We can’t be complacent about this,” he added then.
Democrats, like DeSantis, have been recommending early voting.
“I encourage you not to wait until Election Day,” Val Demings, the Senate nominee challenging GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Florida, a perennial swing state, is the site of several key races this midterm cycle, though Republicans there are optimistic about their chances given voters’ disapproval of President Joe Biden and concerns over the economy and inflation.
DeSantis, for example, is up by about eight points over Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average. He and Crist, a former Florida governor, debated Monday during their lone face-off, in South Florida.
Though early in-person voting began less than a day ago, nearly 1.2 million Floridians have already sent in their mail ballots, state data shows. Michael McDonald, a political science professor and voter turnout researcher at the University of Florida, told ABC News that turnout for this midterm election is shaping up to be on par with 2018, which had the highest turnout of any midterm since 1914.
Registered Democrats have the edge in mail voting thus far, casting almost 50,000 more votes than their Republican counterparts, according to the state Divisions of Elections.
Yet Republicans, who have requested over 400,000 fewer mail ballots, are returning the ones they have at a higher rate. In Florida, whoever requested a mail ballot in 2020 was automatically sent one in 2022. Due to high Democrat mail turnout during the last presidential cycle, it is likely that the disparity in requests is due to the carryover from 2020 and not simply enthusiasm by Democrats about the voting method in 2022, McDonald said.
Historically, Democrats in Florida have turned out more than Republicans for early in-person voting while the GOP then sees larger numbers on Election Day.
But in 2020, as Democrats increasingly favored mail ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans also began to lead in early in-person voting. McDonald said.
“Republicans in the state of Florida don’t see as much of a threat from allowing those different forms of voting and promoting it, because they know that their campaigns are capable of turning their supporters out,” McDonald said.
“DeSantis has very, very deep pockets for his campaign. So they’ve got a machine that can do the voter mobilization,” he added.
Rubio, who is also seeking reelection, held a rally on Monday to promote early in-person voting. He has echoed some of Trump’s suspicions about other early voting methods. At a debate last week with Demings, Rubio said that “there’s danger involved in drop boxes” because someone could attack them.
Republicans in other states have both criticized early voting periods and encouraged their voters to use “whatever way you want,” as Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake put it earlier this month.
“If you have a mail-in ballot, I think that you should mail it in. I want people to vote,” Lake said then.
Separately, she recently suggested to ABC News that she didn’t like that “Election Day” had become “election season.”
Demings, for her part, has spent the last two days touring from the Panhandle to the Keys to get out the vote.
Although Democrats have a substantial mail-ballot request lead, many of those votes remain outstanding.
“The challenge is going to be for the Democrats to really motivate their voters. And if they can, we’ll start seeing it in the statistics,” McDonald said.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia 120, Indiana 106
Toronto 98, Miami 90
NY Knicks 115, Orlando 102
Houston 114, Utah 108
Chicago 120, Boston 102
Memphis 134, Brooklyn 124
San Antonio 115, Minnesota 106
Portland 135, Denver 110
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Washington 6, New Jersey 3
Ottawa 4, Dallas 2
Winnipeg 4, St. Louis o
Edmonton 6, Pittsburgh 3
Vegas 3, Toronto 1
Carolina 3, Vancouver 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Chicago 33, New England 14
(NEW YORK) — Unilever recently announced a voluntary recall of 19 popular dry shampoo aerosol products sold in the United States due to concerns about benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer.
Exposure to benzene, which is classified as a human carcinogen, can occur through inhalation, ingestion, or through skin contact and can result in cancers including leukemia and blood cancers, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Humans are exposed to benzene daily through things like tobacco smoke and detergents, but exposure can be considered dangerous depending on the dose and duration of contact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unilever said that it is pulling the products “out of an abundance of caution” and that the company has not yet received any reports of adverse event relating to the recall to date.
The recalled products were produced before October 2021 and retailers have been notified to pull the affected products from shelves.
A complete list of the affected products and consumer codes can be found here. No other products from Unilever or its brands are impacted by this recall, the company stated in a press release.
The list of affected products include:
Dove
Dove Dry Shampoo Volume and Dullness
Dove Dry Shampoo Fresh Coconut
Dove Dry Shampoo Fresh and Floral
Dove Dry Shampoo Ultra Clean
Dove Dry Shampoo Invisible
Dove Dry Shampoo Detox and Purify
Dove Dry Shampoo Clarifying Charcoal
Dove Dry Shampoo Go Active
Nexxus
Nexxus Dry Shampoo Refreshing Mist
Nexxus Inergy Foam Shampoo
Suave
Suave Dry Shampoo Hair Refresher
Suave Professionals Dry Shampoo Refresh and Revive
TRESemmé
TRESemmé Dry Shampoo Volumizing
TRESemmé Dry Shampoo Fresh and Clean
TRESemmé Pro Pure Dry Shampoo
Bed Head
Bed Head Oh Bee Hive Dry Shampoo
Bed Head Oh Bee Hive Volumizing Dry Shampoo
Bed Head Dirty Secret Dry Shampoo
Rockaholic
Bed Head Rockaholic Dirty Secret Dry Shampoo
The recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Unilever urged consumers to stop using the affected aerosol dry shampoo products immediately and visit the company website for eligible product reimbursements.
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials are flatly rejecting as false repeated Russian claims being made to senior western officials that Ukraine is preparing to use a radioactive “dirty bomb” in Ukraine, saying at the same time they are not seeing any indications that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons.
In this weekend’s phone calls to top officials at the Pentagon, Russian military leaders indicated that the alleged Ukrainian use of a dirty bomb would be a justification for an escalation in the conflict, a U.S. official told ABC News.
Over the weekend, in an unprecedented series of phone calls to senior defense officials in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey, senior Russian defense officials repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was possibly preparing to use a dirty bomb.
A dirty bomb is an explosive device paired with radioactive material that is intended to widely disperse radiation over a wide area while a nuclear weapon is a device that uses nuclear fission to produce a massive atomic or thermonuclear explosion.
“Obviously, we’re concerned about these allegations that the Russians raised, them, not us,” John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications told reporters on Monday. “They’re the ones that made a public issue of this.”
“We reject the false allegation that the Russians made in the phone call that they placed at their request to (Defense) Secretary Austin, that the Ukrainians were planning to use a dirty bomb,” said Kirby. “We just reject that allegation. It’s just not true.”
On Sunday and Monday, in a rare move, Russian defense minister Sergey Shoygu and Russia’s top military commander Gen. Valery Gerasimov initiated phone calls to their American counterparts and, according to Russia’s defense ministry, raised their concerns that Ukraine was preparing to use a dirty bomb.
Those calls, and similar calls to other western leaders, resulted in a joint statement by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France rejecting the Russian claim as a pretext to escalate tensions in Ukraine.
“Our countries made clear that we all reject Russia’s transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory,” said the statement. “The world would see through any attempt to use this allegation as a pretext for escalation. We further reject any pretext for escalation by Russia.”
A U.S. official said that, in this weekend’s calls to top officials at the Pentagon, Russian military leaders described any alleged Ukrainian use of a dirty bomb as a justification for an escalation in the conflict, presumably a reference to the use of nuclear or chemical-biological weapons.
However, U.S. officials pointed out repeatedly on Monday that they are not seeing any indications that Russia’s military is making preparations for the use of nuclear weapons.
“We continue to see nothing in the way of preparations by the Russian side for the use of nuclear weapons and nothing with respect to the potential use for a dirty bomb at this point,” said Kirby. “We’re watching this as closely as we can.”
“We have seen in the past that the Russians have, on occasion, blamed others for things that that they were planning to do,” said Kirby.
Meanwhile in Moscow, the Russian government continued to say that Ukraine was preparing to use a dirty bomb.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed that Russia was in possession of information alleging that Ukraine was preparing dirty bombs at locations in Kyiv and central Ukraine.
Earlier, the Russian defense ministry had published a map indicating that Ukraine was preparing a dirty bomb at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that has seen constant shelling for weeks.
(ST. LOUIS) — A 16-year-old girl and a 61-year-old woman were killed by a gunman in a shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday morning, according to authorities.
The gunman “was quickly stopped by police,” there was an exchange of gunfire and the suspect has also died, according to the St. Louis Public School District and St. Louis police.
Seven other victims, ranging from 15 to 16 years old, were hospitalized with injuries including gunshot wounds, police said. All were currently listed in stable condition, according to police.
During a press conference Monday evening, police identified the suspect as 19-year-old Orlando Harris, a former student who graduated from the high school last year.
Police said Harris has no prior criminal history, and they’re working to establish a motive, saying Monday night there are “suspicions that there may be some mental illness that he was experiencing.”
The shooting was reported at about 9:10 a.m. local time, police said. As students fled the building, they reported that a gunman was armed with a long gun, police said.
Authorities did not say how the gunman entered the building but police stressed that the school’s doors were locked.
Seven security guards were in the school, according to St. Louis Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams. Officials said security staff identified the suspect’s efforts to enter the school and immediately notified other staff.
Police said “the scene is secure and there is no active threat.”
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said at a press conference she had visited students at the school when the year started.
“They were bright eyed, bushy tailed. We laughed, we sang, we danced. And now to be here for such a devastating and traumatic situation breaks my heart,” she said. “I’m heartbroken for these families who send their children to our schools hoping that they will be safe. Our children shouldn’t have to experience this.”
The mayor added, “I’m sure that everyone involved is going to have to deal with the trauma that will reverberate across our community.”
When asked about the shooting, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Monday’s press briefing, “We need additional action to stop the scourge of gun violence.”
“Every day that the Senate fails to send assault weapons ban to the president’s desk, or waits to take … other commonsense actions, is a day too late for our families and communities impacted by gun violence,” she said.
ABC News’ Ben Gittleson, Darren Reynolds, Matt Foster and Teddy Grant contributed to this report.
