Red Hot Chili Peppers have premiered the video for “The Drummer,” a track off the band’s new album, Return of the Dream Canteen.
The clip finds the “Californication” outfit performing in a club of well-choreographed dancers. The song itself doesn’t identify the titular “Drummer,” only that they are “Leaning without any meaning/ Outside of the Club Troubadour,” which refers to the famed venue in — you guessed it — California.
You can watch “The Drummer” video streaming now on YouTube.
Return of the Dream Canteen, which also features the single “Tippa My Tongue” and the Eddie Van Halen tribute “Eddie,” is out now. It’s the second Chili Peppers album of 2022, following April’s Unlimited Love.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck led the stylish crowd of A-list attendees at Ralph Lauren’s first show on the West Coast Thursday night.
The couple dressed in coordinating black looks on the carpet for the star-studded affair.
Lopez and Affleck are longtime fans of the brand, and both wore custom Ralph Lauren for their wedding on August 20.
The brand presented its Spring/Summer 2023 menswear and womenswear collections at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
Other attendees at the glamorous affair included Jessica Chastain, John Legend, Diane Keaton, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Laura Dern, Lily Collins, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pineand Sylvester Stallone.
Prior to the show, the brand detailed the inspiration for the spring collections on its social channels.
“The #RLSP23 collections draw inspiration from the World of Ralph Lauren and the dream of California — one of joy, optimism, and endless pursuit of a life well lived,” a description for the collection read. “Each collection is imbued with Ralph Lauren’s spirit of personal style and individuality, uniting it with the spirit of California living and dreaming.”
Ralph Lauren also shared a statement on the significance of the California collection ahead of the show.
“For the first time, I bring my dream of living to California, celebrating a way of life that I have always believed in — a mix of grit and glamour, energy and inspiration,” he said.
Could Katy Perry and Thomas Rhett have another collaboration up their sleeves? It sure looks like it, according to matching posts on their social media accounts.
The pop star dropped a dramatic backlit shot of the pair, with Thomas holding a guitar. She didn’t offer much more info in the caption, only tagging TR and listing a date: “10.18.22.”
Thomas shared the same picture and the same short caption — except he tagged Katy in his post.
What the two stars might have in the works is anyone’s guess. It could be something new having to do with their duet, “Where We Started,” which is the title track of TR’s most recent album and came out this spring.
It’s possible October 18 marks the day they plan to drop the “Where We Started” music video. Then again, who knows? They could be teasing an entirely new collaborative project.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have premiered the video for “The Drummer,” a track off the band’s new album, Return of the Dream Canteen.
The clip finds the “Californication” outfit performing in a club of well-choreographed dancers. The song itself doesn’t identify the titular “Drummer,” only that they are “Leaning without any meaning/Outside of the Club Troubadour,” which refers to the famed venue in — you guessed it — California.
You can watch “The Drummer” video streaming now on YouTube.
Return of the Dream Canteen, which also features the single “Tippa My Tongue” and the Eddie Van Halen tribute “Eddie,” is out now. It’s the second Chili Peppers album of 2022, following April’s Unlimited Love.
You can finally check out The Weeknd‘s haunted house at Universal Studios, and now we know how much thought and care was put into making the horrifying display.
The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare opened last month and pays homage to his After Hours album. It’s part of Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.
Halloween Horror Nights executive producer John Murdy chatted with Entertainment Tonight about the new attraction, which is billed as a “surreal living nightmare filled with grotesque characters and themes.”
He said The Weeknd — born Abel Tesfaye — had “a very specific idea. He wanted to focus on what he would refer to as ‘the universe of After Hours.’ … He wanted to take that album and turn it into a haunted house experience.”
Murdy loved the direction the haunted house was going because The Weeknd’s visuals do have nightmarish elements to them. “There’s something really dark going on [in Abel’s music videos]. In some ways, darker than a lot of other things we do,” he said.
Murdy said the partnership worked because The Weeknd “thinks very cinematically.”
The single-house experience transports thrill-seekers into the After Hours fantasy world and is soundtracked to the songs “After Hours,” “In Your Eyes,” “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “Save Your Tears” and “Too Late.”
“I always wanted my own Halloween Horror Nights haunted house, as Halloween has always been significant to my music, so this is a total dream come to life,” The Weeknd said in a statement when announcing his new venture. “I feel like my music videos have served as a launching pad for a collaboration like this, and I cannot wait for people to experience this madness!”
Jefferson Airplane was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, and the three surviving members of the influential San Francisco band’s classic lineup — singer Grace Slick, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady — attended the ceremony.
Before Slick, Kaukonen and Casady hit the podium to accept the honor, Doors drummer John Densmore gave a speech acknowledging the group’s main members, including late singer/guitarist Paul Kantner, vocalist Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce chair Lupita Sanchez Cornejo, who emceed the event, then read a proclamation declaring it Jefferson Airplane Day in Hollywood.
Slick, who hasn’t appeared in public very often in recent years, began by declaring, “I am one lucky b****. I’ll tell you why. Jack and Jorma are … real musicians. I’m a screw-off who got lucky.” She then explained how, with little experience, she decided to be a rock singer after seeing Jefferson Airplane play in a small club and soon formed her own band, referring to her pre-Airplane group The Great Society.
“It turns out I did have the right voice for rock ‘n’ roll,” Slick noted. “It’s very loud, and I didn’t have any trouble singing over people.”
Also during her speech, she thanked a close female friend who she said saved her life a couple of months ago, revealing the friend got her to a hospital after she’d gone into septic shock.
In addition, Slick pointed out the hat she was wearing belonged to Kantner, who was the father of her only child, daughter China Kantner. “At least his DNA is here today,” she quipped.
You can watch the whole ceremony on the Walk of Fame’s official YouTube channel.
Since putting out her Subject to Change album last month, Kelsea Ballerini has been vocal about how excited she was to enlist her real-life friends — Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson — as duet partners on their honky-tonkin’ collab, “You’re Drunk, Go Home.”
The three artists have their music careers in common, but that’s not all: for one thing, they’ve all experienced divorce. Carly and Kelly both announced their divorces in 2020, while Kelsea’s currently in the thick of hers. She broke the news to fans in August that she and husband Morgan Evans were calling it quits.
“I mean, obviously when we were recording [‘You’re Drunk, Go Home’] things were different,” Kelsea told ET Onlineon the red carpet for this week’s CMT Artists of the Year when asked if their respective divorces were a bonding experience for them.
“Like I said, we’re friends in real life, and the thing about that is you see us when we’re glittery and we’re doing red carpets — but we have real-life conversations,” Kelsea went on to say. “So it’s really nice to be able to have people that are my peers and heroes that I can go to for music advice, and also life advice.”
At the same event, Carly told ET Online that she’s proud to be able to support Kelsea, who was a big part of her support system when she went through her divorce.
“Kelsea was there through mine,” she said. “I’m there for her through hers.”
Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish-born actor who played Hagrid, the friendly giant in the Harry Potter films, has died, his reps confirmed.
He was 72.
The star, born Anthony Robert MacMillan, appeared on the big and small screen for decades, having gotten his start in stand-up comedy. Coltrane shifted to television, appearing in shows including Flash Gordon, and the beloved Brit shows Blackadder and Cracker.
Coltrane appeared as a shady Russian arms dealer in a pair of James Bond films with Pierce Brosnan in the lead: Brosnan’s first, the franchise reboot Goldeneye in 1997, and his third 007 film, 1999’s The World is Not Enough.
However, it was playing Rubeus Hagrid in the film adaptations of JK Rowling‘s books, beginning with 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, for which Coltrane is arguably best known. Hagrid’s famous line — “You’re a wizard, ‘arry!” — became a catchphrase for the series. The actor reprised the role for 2019’s Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, a roller coaster attraction at Universal Orlando Resort.
Megan Thee Stallion is ready to take over SNL this weekend.
The rapper, who will be hosting for the first time and serving as musical guest, previewed her appearance in a series of teasers with cast member Heidi Gardner.
In the first clip, Megan introduces herself and Gardner says, ”It’s going to be an awesome show, all we have to do is write it.” To which a surprised Meg asks, “We got people working on that, right?”
Another clip has Heidi introducing herself as Heidi Thee Gardner and Megan telling her, “Don’t do that.” And in another teaser, Heidi proclaims the episode will be “a real ‘Hot Girl’ SNL.” Megan sticks out her tongue and does her signature “Ah!” – which Heidi tries, and fails, to imitate.
Meg previously appeared on SNL as musical guest back in 2020, where she performed her hits “Savage” and “Don’t Stop.”
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Blink-182 has premiered the video for “Edging,” the band’s first new song with Tom DeLonge in over 10 years.
The clip features DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker performing at a carnival while surrounded by a group of people in full-body rabbit costumes. The trio soon goes from rocking rabbits to hunting rabbits, who meet a grisly end by the time the credits roll.
You can watch the “Edging” video streaming now on YouTube.
The song “Edging” premiered earlier Friday and marks Blink’s first release since announcing their reunion with DeLonge earlier this week. The band will embark on a worldwide tour in 2023 and plans to release a new album that DeLonge calls “the best album of our career.”
