Wolfgang Van Halen has announced a deluxe version of his band Mammoth WVH‘s self-titled debut album.
The expanded collection is due out November 11 and includes three bonus tracks: “Talk & Walk,” which was previously exclusive to the Japanese version of the album, and the previously unreleased songs “As Long As You’re Not You” and “Goodbye.”
The original Mammoth WVH was released in June 2021. It includes the singles “Don’t Back Down,” “Epiphany” and “Distance,” Wolf’s tribute song to his late father, the iconic Eddie Van Halen.
Mammoth WVH is heading to Europe with Alter Bridge in November, followed by a U.S. tour with Myles Kennedy and company that’ll launch January 2023. Before that, Wolf will perform at the Los Angeles Taylor Hawkins tribute concert on September 27; he played Foo Fighters‘ London tribute show earlier this month.
The next era of Paramore is officially about to begin.
Hayley Williams and company have announced a new single called “This Is Why,” which will premiere on September 28. You can presave it now.
“This Is Why” is the first fresh offering from Paramore in five years. The group’s most recent album is 2017’s After Laughter, which spawned the single “Hard Times.”
The single announcement comes after Paramore launched a mysterious calendar on their website earlier this week. Initially, Friday’s date, September 16, was left blank but now reads, “presave t.i.w.”
The next marked date on the calendar is Monday, September 19, which promises Paramore will “start spreading the news.”
Meanwhile, Paramore is set to launch a U.S. tour in October, marking the band’s first live dates since 2018.
Charlie Puth‘s new album CHARLIE is coming out October 7, and he’s now announced he’ll be bringing his new songs live to fans this fall.
Charlie’s One Night Only tour gets underway in Red Bank in his home state of New Jersey on October 23 and wraps up in Los Angeles on November 9. Tickets go on sale to the general public on September 23 at 10 a.m. local time.
A presale is available to fans who have Old Navy, Gap, Athleta or Banana Republic store credit cards: That starts September 19 at 10 a.m. local time. Visit charlieputh.com/tour to access the presale.
Charlie has also released a new track from CHARLIE today: “I Don’t Think That I Like Her,” featuring Travis Barker on drums. It follows the previously released tracks “Left and Right,” “Light Switch,” “That’s Hilarious” and “Smells Like Me.”
(WASHINGTON) — After trying for weeks to hammer out a compromise to codify gay and interracial marriage, Senate negotiators announced Thursday they will delay a vote on their legislation until after the November election while expressing confidence it will eventually pass.
“Through bipartisan collaboration, we’ve crafted commonsense language that respects religious liberty and Americans’ diverse beliefs, while upholding our view that marriage embodies the highest ideals of love, devotion, and family. We’ve asked Leader Schumer for additional time and we appreciate he has agreed. We are confident that when our legislation comes to the Senate floor for a vote, we will have the bipartisan support to pass the bill,” the group said in a statement.
“It takes a lot of the political sting out of it to say this is not about the midterm election,” said GOP negotiator Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio whose own son came out as gay several years ago.
“This is about getting a result that helps a million families across America who are concerned about what might happen,” Portman added.
When asked if she was disappointed in the delay, lead GOP sponsor Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told ABC, “No. I think we’re in very good shape, very good shape, and I think this bill is going to pass.”
“I think we managed to thread the needle on the religious liberty concerns,” added Collins, referencing a primary concern of would-be GOP supporters.
Supporters had hoped to kick off consideration of their bill, the Respect for Marriage Act, as early as Thursday, but the GOP concerns — including a last-minute issue with potentially jeopardizing the tax exempt status of churches and non-profit schools with policies perceived as anti-gay — mounted as negotiators tried to find the requisite 10 GOP Republican votes to get by a filibuster by others in their conference.
“We have just put together language that is finalized. That has tremendous, I think, respect for the input that we’ve received on religious freedom. But the fact of the matter is it’s only about 18 hours old –– less than that, and we think that it’s fair for the members who are interested, who have worked with us, to give them an opportunity to do that,” said Sen Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who helped rally GOP support.
“And, you know, there have been some that said the timing of the vote was political. This is clearly, I think, a situation where we want to make our members feel comfortable with it. And I’m confident that we’ll ultimately pass it,” said Tillis.
“I think that’s a wise decision,” GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri told reporters of the pushed-back vote, adding, “It will get more votes.”
When asked why it was wise, Blunt, a respected, longtime member of the “whip” teams in both chambers of Congress who corral votes and is retiring at year’s end, said, “I think if you do it after the election, it’s clearly not something that you’re doing just for political purpose. And I think people will think about it more thoughtfully because of that, and a handful of them likely to decide to be somewhere after the election that they wouldn’t have been with a vote that was purely – at least likely – a political ploy.”
Sen Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a devout Mormon who has worked with negotiators on religious liberty concerns said those had been addressed, but he praised the delay, regardless.
“It’s, in my opinion, an indication they want to see something become law, not just a message, which is good news,” said Romney.
Negotiators worked throughout Thursday with the primary Democratic sponsors, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, buttonholing Republicans as they passed in the chamber earlier for an unrelated vote, showing them bill text.
Sinema joking that her silver-spiked tennis shoes were for getting members going and coming in the chamber.
Portman could be seen going through the group’s latest bill changes line by line with Blunt.
Not everyone was happy with the delay, though.
“If there are Republicans who don’t want to vote on that before the election, I assume it is because they are in the wrong side of history,” said a visibly irritated Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. “Equal marriage has been a part of who we are as a nation. We’ve lived with it for years now. And protecting it by statute is something every single senator and every single member of Congress should be willing to vote for. And if they’re not, they need to go on the record and say so.”
The Respect for Marriage Act passed the House in mid-July with a surprising 47 Republicans voting for it.
That measure is expected to be amended in the Senate, forcing it back to the House for reconsideration. That could prove awkward in a lame duck session if Republicans retake that chamber in the midterms. Speaker Pelosi and her team would be shepherding that bill back through before the GOP takes control in January.
Taylor Swift has been teasing the different colored vinyl versions of her upcoming album Midnights, all of which come with different artwork on the back covers. Now, she’s revealing that if you get all four of the versions, you’ll get a special surprise.
“All right, I’ve been wanting to show you this for a while,” Taylor says in a new Instagram post while rocking ’70s-inspired makeup, hair and clothes. The room is wood-paneled, which also evokes the ’70s.
“So, we have four different covers for the Midnights album. And if you turn them over you there is obviously a back cover to each one of them, they’re each different,” she explains.
Cut to a shot of a wall where all four covers are hanging together to make a large square. The back of each cover has several numbers on it printed on a curve. Together, they form an entire circle of numbers from 12 to 11.
“What I wanted to show you is that if you put all the back covers together, she’s a clock,” Taylor explains. She then repeats, “It’s a clock! It’s a clock! It makes a clock! It can help you tell time.”
She then goes and hugs the wall, saying, “Oh my God, it looks so amazing!”
Conveniently, Taylor is also selling the hands of the clock and shelves to mount the album jackets on, which will make the clock, y’know, work.
Midnights comes out October 21. It’s available in Jade Green, Blood Moon, Mahogany and Moonstone Blue colored vinyl editions. Apparently, the clock trick works with the CD versions of the album as well.
The Emmy-winning series M*A*S*H debuted on CBS 50 years ago this Saturday. It first aired September 17, 1972.
Based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, written by former Army surgeon Richard Hooker, M*A*S*H was an adaptation of the 1970 big-screen film of the same name. Though set in the Korean War, M*A*S*H was also an anti-Vietnam War allegory, following the doctors and nurses of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 4077.
The show starred Alan Alda as surgeon Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, Larry Linville as Maj. Frank Burns, Loretta Swit as head nurse, Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan and Jamie Farr as Cpl. Max Klinger, and it lasted on TV four times as long as the war in which it was set.
“Everybody on this show, all the writers and all the producers and directors and the actors were first class,” Farr told ABC Audio by phone. “They were just the top drawer.”
“They were the greatest bunch of people you could ever possibly work with. And we’re all honored to be a part of that series.”
M*A*S*H* earned 14 Emmy Awards in its 11-season run. TV executive and unofficial M*A*S*H* historian Dan Harrison explains the show broke the mold for television to come.
“It had … really form-busting episodes like ‘The Interview,’ which was shot in black and white and was done as a newsreel. There was an episode called ‘Lifetime,’ where it was done in real time trying to get an arterial graft done in 20 minutes …”
The result is “a show that feels a little bit more contemporary than today in 2022 than other shows that were produced 50 years ago,” Harrison says.
When M*A*S*H* ended on February 28, 1983, it broke the mold again, Harrison explains, when 105 million people tuned in. “While there are some Super Bowls due to population growth that have had more than 105 million viewers … that 60.2 rating is like Joe DiMaggio’s hit streak. It’s never going to be broken … by any show.”
(NEW YORK) — Of all the planning that comes with being a new mom, one woman hadn’t planned for a surprise diagnosis of a neurological condition – just weeks before her due date.
Now, she’s on a journey to spread awareness of Bell’s palsy, a neurological condition that causes temporary facial paralysis or weakness on one or both sides of the face.
Elena Sheppard, who was pregnant with twins at the time, said she woke up one morning in early June with a “weird” feeling around her mouth.
“Later that day, I was having coffee with my husband and he was like, ‘I don’t know what just happened but half your face just fell,’” said Sheppard to “Good Morning America.”
The 35-year-old was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy.
At the time, Sheppard had never heard of the condition.
According to the NIH, Bell’s palsy affects less than 1% of the U.S. population. Pregnant women are two to four times more at risk, according to a study in the Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey.
Sheppard said she still struggles with symptoms nearly three months after her diagnosis.
“My eye is tearing right now, that’s a big symptom,” she said. “I can’t close this eye at all, and in the beginning, I had to tape it shut. I can’t move my lip at all. I can’t scrunch my nose.”
Sheppard has since given birth to two healthy twin boys, Casper and Lyle.
“I do what I think is smiling,” said Sheppard. “It’s more scary than frustrating honestly, because you can’t help but think, ‘Is this what my face is gonna look like forever?’”
According to the NIH, symptoms improve within 3 weeks in most cases, but symptoms can last longer for others. In addition to sudden weakness in the face, those with Bell’s palsy can have trouble closing their eyes or mouth.
“This isn’t just cosmetic, not to minimize that, but you can have tearing issues. You can have damage to the cornea. You can have issues swallowing food or chewing food,” ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton explained on Good Morning America Friday.
Bell’s palsy and a stroke can have similar symptoms, so anyone experiencing these symptoms should seek medical attention immediately.
When it comes to treatment for Bell’s palsy, Ashton said they’re mostly supportive.
“We tend to give steroids, antiviral medications for pain, over-the-counter Tylenol or ibuprofen,” Ashton said. “Most will recover. It can take a very long time. And sometimes the results can be permanent. But the bottom line is, if you notice any of these symptoms, you want to get to an emergency room. Make sure it’s not a stroke since that’s life-threatening.”
The condition can occur at any age and affect any gender. The exact cause remains unknown.
Sheppard said she, and her husband, are focused on taking on the next challenge of parenthood, but she said she wanted to share her story to help others.
“We see images of perfection all the time and that’s completely unrealistic to everybody’s lives,” she said. ”I think if I had seen more images of this, it probably wouldn’t have been as scary. So I think just normalizing all the different things that can happen to a body is really important.”
(NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Fiona is taking aim on the Caribbean and is set to bring heavy rain and possible flash flooding and mudslides to Puerto Rico.
A tropical storm watch has been issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where there are heavy rains and gusty winds on Friday.
The heavy rain will continue this weekend with the threat of flash flooding and mudslides lingering.
Most of Puerto Rico could see 3 to 6 inches of rain, but the mountains could see 6 to 10 inches.
Widespread power outages are possible across Puerto Rico.
By Sunday night into Monday early morning, Fiona will approach the Dominican Republic where it could make landfall as a strong tropical storm.
Fiona’s winds are expected to approach 70 mph, which is considered a strong tropical storm (a category 1 hurricane begins at 74 mph).
Up to 15 inches of rain could hit the island of Hispaniola and flash flooding and mudslides are possible.
After moving over the high mountains of Hispaniola, the storm will weaken as it reemerges in the Atlantic Ocean near Turks and Caicos.
It is too early to tell if Fiona will have any impact on the mainland United States.
Chrissy Teigen is opening up about the pregnancy loss she suffered two years ago, now calling it an abortion.
“Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John [Legend] and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions. It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention,” Teigen explained while speaking at social impact agency Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit Thursday, per Entertainment Tonight.
“Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion,” Teigen author continued. “An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago.”
Teigen elaborated that it took the overturning of Roe v. Wade for her to come to the realization of what had actually happened, and explained that Legend was the one who initially brought it to her attention.
“I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way,” the model recalled. “I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”
The admission comes a month after Teigen, 36, and Legend, 43, revealed they are currently expecting their fourth child. The pair are already parents to six-year-old daughter Luna and four-year-old son Miles.
NBC’s Saturday Night Live unveiled some new faces Thursday for its upcoming 48th season. Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker will be added as feature players on the late-night comedy show, following the departures of longtime regulars Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney at the end of last season. Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and featured player Aristotle Athari joined them in departing over the summer. There’s no word yet on whether the remaining cast from last season will all return when the new season kicks off October 1…
Netflix on Thursday dropped the trailer for its new limited series From Scratch, starring Zoe Saldana. Based on Tembi Locke‘s memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, the series follows Saldana as Amahle “Amy” Wheeler, an American student studying abroad in Italy who enters into a complicated whirlwind relationship with Lino, a Sicilian chef, played by Eugenio Mastrandrea. From Scratch features eight episodes and premieres on Netflix October 21… (Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)
Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell are teaming up for Amazon’s untitled reimagining of Butch and Sundance from Joe and Anthony Russo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are being kept under wraps, but sources tell the outlet series will take place in “an alternate America akin to Apple’s For All Mankind and Amazon’s former Man in the High Castle“…
