The 1982 Motörhead album Iron Fist is being reissued in honor of its 40th anniversary.
The deluxe package will be released September 23 and includes various demos, alternate versions and instrumentals as well as a previously unreleased full live recording of Motörhead’s 1982 concert at Scotland’s Glasgow Apollo.
You can watch a new video for the demo version of the Iron Fist title track, featuring archival live footage, now on YouTube.
The original Iron Fist had the tough task of following Motörhead’s 1980 album, the iconic Ace of Spades, as well as the band’s beloved 1981 live album, No Sleep ’til Hammersmith. It would also end up being the last Motörhead album to feature the trio’s classic lineup of Lemmy, guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil“Philthy Animal” Taylor.
Louisiana rapper JayDaYoungan was shot and killed Wednesday in his hometown of Bogalusa, police confirmed in a Facebook post. He was 24.
“On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 at 5:50 pm the Bogalusa Police Department received a call of a shooting in the 600 block of Superior Avenue,” authorities said. “Officers responded and found that one victim had been transported by POV to Our Lady of the Angels Emergency Room. Another victim, still on scene, was critically wounded and was treated on scene by EMS, then transported to OLA ER.”
In another post, officials identified the victims as JayDaYoungan, birth name Javorius Scott, and close family member Kenyatta Scott Sr., who is in stable condition.
“Detectives are currently conducting interviews and working leads,” the post added.
JayDaYoungan is best known for his songs “23 Island,” “Elimination” and “Opps.” His most recent EP, All Is Well, came out in March.
Drama, what drama? Selena Gomez grilled bestie Francia Raisa about her red flags when it comes to prospective dates.
The duo played the viral “he’s a 10, but…” game on TikTok, where a player is asked if looks are enough for them to overlook a potential deal breaker.
“He’s a 10, but he only likes to roleplay Star Wars,” Selena challenged before following up with, “Is that weird? I don’t know if that’s weird.”
“Is it weird that I’ve never seen Star Wars,” Francia quipped, earning a knowing grimace from the Grammy nominee.
The Grown-ish star also shot down a potential date with a good-looking man who “hates everything that you’ve ever been in.” Selena admitted that would also be a deal breaker no matter how handsome that person was. “Bye, boy,” she said. “Sorry but I need the love.”
The two similarly dismissed prospective boyfriends who hate dogs and would never let them drink wine again.
Selena seemed open to dating a 10 with stinky breath, while Francia joked she’d be okay dating a hunk who hated her best friend.
Following reports of an intense falling out in 2019, fans were thrilled to see the two leading ladies back together again — especially after Selena, who suffered from lupus complications, received a life-saving kidney from Francia in 2017.
As seen by this new TikTok, it appears the two’s friendship is stronger than ever.
(NEW YORK) — With communities around the country suffering from extreme temperatures, just months after some of those same locations saw unbearable cold snaps, some state leaders are taking the initiative with proposals to help people navigate the consequences of climate change.
In California, state leaders have been pushing a legislative package that they say plans around the new normal of consistent 100-degree weather. Proposals like an extreme heat ranking system, similar to ones used in hurricanes, mandate cooling during high heat days and the creation of a chief heat officer are crucial for the wellbeing of residents, according to the bills’ supporters.
“We cannot wait for the federal government to do something,” state Assemblywoman Luz Rivas, who co-introduced the bills, told ABC News. “People are dying of extreme heat every day.”
Environmental experts agreed and said that more states and localities need to focus on extreme weather policies that are tailor made for their regions and do so soon.
“We don’t have any national adaption plan and as far as I know there is no talk about it,” Sarah Pralle, an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University who specializes in environmental policy, told ABC News. “That’s going to hurt us as more and more states experience these climate induced disasters.”
California legislators work to beat the heat
In May, the California state Assembly passed a series of bills that provide safeguards and protections for residents during high heatwaves, and are currently awaiting hearings in the state senate.
Under Rivas’ extreme heat ranking bill, the state’s Environmental Protection Agency would issue alerts with either a letter, number or color indicator that would warn a specific community about the heat threats to their area.
The assemblywoman noted that different parts of the state experience worse effects from heat waves, such as communities closer to the desert that are experiencing drought or neighborhoods that are higher risk for wildfires, and need different disaster preparations.
“The alert would provide recommendations to people with adequate time and how to compare and when it’s best to remain indoors,” Rivas said.
If passed, the warning system would make California the first state in the nation to have an extreme heat alert system, according to the assemblywoman.
Rivas said her heat related bill would create a chief heat officer, an extreme heat advisory council and interagency heat task force under the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. That officer and agencies would be tasked with preparing local governments with short- and long-term efforts to safeguard people from the heat and would provide grants for projects such as cooling centers in rural areas.
Rivas noted that several cities around the world, such as Athens and Miami, have recently created chief heat officer roles to streamline the process for getting mitigation efforts done and to have a dedicated staff focused on the high heat.
“In California we have multiple programs that can be spread over many agencies, but the idea of having this centralized position and office is crucial,” the assemblywoman said. “I think our local governments need the support from a statewide officer.”
Other approved heat related bills that are making their way through the state include assembly bill 2243 that would get a “ultraheat heat standard” for people working outdoors and require access to cool water and frequent rest periods, and assembly bill 2597 which would change building codes to require “safe maximum indoor air temperature” in newly constructed and existing dwelling units.
A good start that others can follow
Environmental experts tell ABC News that California’s bills could inspire other states and even the federal government to adopt similar measures.
Pralle said that the bill to create an extreme heat office will be beneficial, if approved, because it would keep the momentum for solutions to heat related problems consistent.
“The problem with disaster policy is there is a lot of attention during and after the disaster, we move onto different things,” she said. “The bad news about climate change is that these disasters keep happening so the conversations about policy have to keep going. So having an office whose job is to stay focused on this problem is a good thing.”
Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, who has advised lawmakers in state legislators across the country on policies, told ABC News that it is difficult to gauge the success of environmental policies because of the rapidly worsening climate change effects.
“All of these adaption strategies are hard to do, because you’re spending money today and you’re not getting credit or results until years later,” he told ABC News. “Even climate scientists don’t understand the number of disruptions that are coming and how much we have to adapt.”
But when one state comes up with successful programs, Kammen said others are quick to follow suit. He cited California’s 2018 adoption of the zero carbon emissions as an example.
The executive order mandated state agencies to meet a goal of 100% carbon free electricity by 2045 and called on various state agencies to work on proposals to achieve the goal.
As of today, 20 other states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have adapted similar zero carbon goals, according to the Clean Energy States Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of state energy organizations.
“State actions are invariably the way we test drive policies,” Kammen said.
Kammen said the latest California heat policies would be beneficial to other parts of the region, even those with completely different environments. He emphasized that the bills aimed at identifying which populations are most vulnerable to extreme heat is a topic that every state is dealing with.
“We need to be able to protect the most vulnerable. Those local and state efforts that invest in cooling are critical,” he said.
Kammen said other states have considered similar bills in the past for requiring workplace and housing safety during high heat and extreme cold weather, including New York. Policy makers will be keeping tabs on the progress of California’s bill and take any successful components that will apply to their states’ vulnerable neighborhoods, he predicted.
Kammen added that even states that haven’t made past investments or policies in combatting extreme weather are now facing the reality of climate change and taking legislative action.
He noted that Texas’s energy company began rolling out funding and proposals to improve its energy efficiency with new energy storage units which can provide clean fuel during outages after the stage was rocked by the cold winter storms in 2021.
“Texas to this day actually has the most energy storage that is now scheduled to be built. There are more energy storage projects in the build queue than the rest of the country combined,” Kammen said.
More work needed
Pralle said the California bills and other state initiatives are a good start to mitigating extreme temperatures but emphasized that those actions alone won’t be enough to help people.
She said many of the proposals issued by states call for more studies and aren’t changing the laws fast enough to deal with the problem.
“There are lot of good ideas out there, but my concern is that they’re not regulatory enough,” she said.
Pralle also emphasized that while hyperlocal environmental policies help to remedy communities specific extreme heat problems, they also come with hinderances. For example, state environmental policies may conflict with ones issued at the national level and lead to confusion among local officials.
“Having some innovation and ideas and having people do different things isn’t a bad thing,” she said. “However there comes a time when you have a patchwork of programs and that can be confusing.”
Pralle said that the best outcome for a state specific climate policy would be one that is successful enough to prompt the federal government to copy and implement nationally.
She contended that it’s going to take the entire country has to band together and move quickly, and any small step from local governments works.
“A national approach is better, but it’s been difficult to get that done. States do need to step in,” she said.
(CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C.) — A 13-year-old girl is dead and six people are under arrest after police alleged the suspects unleashed a barrage of gunfire with an assault weapon into her South Carolina home, striking her as she was playing video games in a room with a younger child.
The girl’s death has rocked the small community of Cheraw in Chesterfield County and even stunned the suspects, who allegedly attacked the child’s home while looking for the intended target they believed lived there, authorities said.
“They just seemed in shock at the whole situation. Sometimes I feel like they think it’s just a big game,” Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Capt. Wayne Jordan said of the suspects in an interview with ABC affiliate station WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Once your life is over, it’s over. You don’t start over, you don’t start the game over. These kids do not comprehend what they’re doing.”
The sheriff’s office announced the arrests Wednesday of five men and a woman ranging in age from their late teens to mid-20s. Five of the suspects are charged with murder and attempted murder and a sixth suspect was arrested on charges of obstruction of justice, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded early Tuesday morning when the suspects allegedly drove to the girl’s home in Cheraw, a northeast South Carolina community of roughly 5,000 people, and fired multiple shots into the residence, Jordan said. At least one of the suspects was wielding an assault rifle, Jordan said.
At the time of the shooting, the teenage victim, whose name has not been released by authorities, was in a room with a younger child playing video games and was hit by a stray bullet, Jordan said.
The shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between two groups and the suspects allegedly believed one of their rivals was inside the house, Jordan said.
“From what I understand, the 13-year-old child was not the target. There was another target at the house, or they (the suspects) felt was at the house,” Jordan said.
The five murder suspects were identified by the sheriff’s office as Kyron Robinson, Michael Flowers, Jr., Michael Johnson, Timothy Byrd and Trevoin Gary. The suspect charged with obstruction of justice was identified as Genesis Evans, according to the sheriff’s office.
It was not immediately clear if the suspects have hired attorneys or are awaiting a judge to appoint public defenders to represent them.
In the new full trailer to Blonde, the Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, we see the screen legend grappling with her onscreen persona and how it conflicts with her troubled “real” life.
“How did you get your start…in movies?” Bobby Cannavale‘s character asks Marilyn. “I guess I was discovered,” she replies. “I know you’re supposed to get used to it, but I just can’t.”
According to IMDB, Cannavale is playing “The Ex-Athlete”; In real life, of course, Monroe was married to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
She adds, “I’ve played Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe. I can’t face doing another scene with Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn doesn’t exist.”
“When I come out of my dressing room, I’m Norma Jean,” Marilyn protests, referring to her real name.
The trailer juxtaposes the star’s glamorous celebrity life with a private life that’s in shambles: Monroe dealt with invasive paparazzi and suffered from mental illness and the after-effects of an abusive childhood.
“Watched by all. Seen by none,” a title card sums up the star — and the person behind the facade.
Based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates and also starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Emmy winner Julianne Nicholson, Blonde debuts September 28 on Netflix.
Stabbing Westward vocalist Christopher Hall has shared that he’s been diagnosed with throat cancer.
In a Facebook post Wednesday, he wrote, “I’d like to apologize to everyone who made travel plans to see us in August and September. We’ve had to put those shows on hold while I deal with a serious health issue.”
Hall added that his current “prognosis is really good,” but he’ll need to undergo surgery and “6-8 weeks of chemo and radiation.”
“Unfortunately, I won’t be singing anytime soon,” he wrote. “I’m hoping to be feeling more human by Halloween and have my voice back by Christmas.”
Stabbing Westward just released a new album called Chasing Ghosts in March, marking the group’s first full-length effort in over 20 years.
Madonna knows biopics are hot right now, and that’s precisely why she got the jump on making one about her life.
Speaking with Variety, the Grammy winner said making a biopic was about self-preservation and integrity.
“I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an extraordinary film. It was also a preemptive strike because a lot of people were trying to make movies about me,” said Madonna. “Mostly misogynistic men.”
The hitmaker continued, “So I put my foot in the door and said, ‘No one’s going to tell my story, but me.'”
That mentality of ensuring her life story stays firmly hers also extends to her music. While heavy-hitting musicians such as Justin Timberlake and Bruce Springsteen have sold their catalogs for hefty sums, Madonna vowed to never go that route.
“They’re my songs. Ownership is everything isn’t it?” she quipped.
As for when fans will be able to see her forthcoming biopic, Madonna says she’s still tinkering on the script. “I have a very long script that is really hard for me to make shorter,” she confessed. “I’ve been whittling away at it, but it’s like hacking off my limbs.”
Madonna had co-written the biopic with Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, who spoke with ABC Audio about the experience.
“I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody with a work ethic like that before. Madonna is just on another level,” the Juno writer said. “If you had told me when I was in the fifth grade that someday I would get to hang out with Madonna….and sit at her knee as she shared the stories of her life? I would never have believed you.”
Cody added, “I can’t really say that much about [the movie] but I can say that I’m profoundly grateful for the experience.”
The Cure has announced a deluxe reissue of the band’s 1992 album, Wish,in honor of its 30th anniversary.
The three-disc set includes newly remastered audio of the original record, a collection of demos, outtakes and rarities, and perhaps most excitingly, the four tracks from the much sought-after 1993 cassette tape Lost Wishes, which has never before been released on CD or digital.
The Wish reissue will be released October 7. You can also pick up a cassette reissue of Lost Wishes that same day.
Wish is The Cure’s ninth album, which spawned the hit single “Friday I’m in Love.”
Meanwhile, The Cure has continued to chip away at a new album, which frontman Robert Smith has said will finally arrive later this year. It’s important to note he’s been saying the same thing since 2019.
Olivia Rodrigo caught up with her old High School Musical: The Musical: The Series‘ castmates on the red carpet premiere of season three.
The “good 4 u” hitmaker shared a photo of her posing with Sofia Wylie, Joshua Bassett and Matt Cornett, the rumored ex-boyfriend who supposedly inspired her SOUR album.
She captioned the post, “love all these people so so so much. knowing and working with them has been one of the greatest joys of my life,” adding “wildcats forever” and a red heart emoji.
Another snap shows Olivia enjoying a cast photo with everyone who appeared in the third season, including guest stars Jason Earles, JoJo Siwa and Corbin Bleu.
The “drivers license” singer continued the celebration, later sharing HSM’sInstagram post on her Stories alongside three red heart emojis. The post, which read, “We all remember THAT summer!” contained more photos of the cast, including a sweet snap of Olivia wrapping an arm around an excited JoJo Siwa.
Olivia has starred in the show since 2019 as the aspiring singer Nini. Creator Tim Federle previously told ABC Audio that she will have a “meaningful sendoff” in the new season so she can pursue her singing career full-time.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is streaming its third season on Disney+.
