Halestorm has shared a cover of the Adele hit “Hello.”
Lzzy Hale and company took on the 2015 single in response to a fan asking them to “put a metal spin on that.” They pretty much do just that, replacing the piano with heavy guitar riffs that crash around Hale’s vocals.
You can watch Halestorm’s version of “Hello” streaming now on YouTube.
Halestorm has been in a covering mood lately, having also recently shared renditions of Fleetwood Mac‘s “The Chain” and Dolly Parton‘s “Jolene.”
As for original music, Halestorm released their newest album, Back from the Dead, in May. It features the singles “Back from the Dead,” “The Steeple” and “Wicked Ways.”
You can watch the “Oceanic Feeling” video streaming now on YouTube.
The video’s premiere coincides with the one-year anniversary of Solar Power, which dropped August 20, 2021. The album, Lorde’s third studio effort, was not initially as critically or commercially successful as the New Zealand artist’s previous releases, which she revealed in a newsletter to fans earlier this year was “at times painful to sit with.”
“I learnt a ton about myself and how I’m perceived by making and releasing this album,” Lorde wrote. “I feel significantly more connected and alive in my art practice and life than pretty much ever before.”
Another fan favorite is returning to the Sex and the City franchise.
Actor John Corbett will reprise his role as Aidan Shaw, a furniture maker who was the on-again, off-again boyfriend of Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Carrie Bradshaw in the original series. The couple got engaged in season 4, but ultimately broke it off. Aidan also made an appearance in the 2010 film Sex and the City 2.
The character will return in HBO Max’s reboot of the series, And Just Like That…, for multiple episodes, Deadlineconfirms.
And Just Like That… premiered in December 2021 focusing on three of the four main leads: SJP, Cynthia Nixon as Miranda and Kristin Davis as Charlotte. Kim Cattrall, who portrayed Samantha in the original Sex and the City, did not return to the role.
In the first episode of the revival, Carrie’s husband, Big, portrayed by Chris Noth, shockingly died from a heart attack after using a Peloton bike. In February, executive producer Michael Patrick King said it was “possible” that Corbett would return as Aidan in the new series.
Season 2 of And Just Like That… is slated to premiere in 2023.
(NEW YORK) — It has now been two months since the start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for the youngest Americans, and despite some initial enthusiasm from a select group of parents, the vast majority of children under the age of 5 remain completely unvaccinated.
About 941,000 children, under the age of five have now received their first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, newly updated federal data shows. The overall total represents approximately 4.8% of the 19.5 million U.S. children in that age group.
Just 182,000 of those children, or less than 1%, have been fully vaccinated.
When broken down by age group, data shows that the majority of children under 5 who have received at least one shot are between the ages of 2 and 4 — 682,000, compared to just 259,000 children under the age of 2.
Preliminary data reported by states shows that several states in the Northeast currently have the highest share of children under 5 vaccinated with at least one dose. Washington, D.C. continues to lead the nation with nearly 15% of its jurisdiction’s children under 5 vaccinated with their first shot, followed by Vermont (10.4%), and Massachusetts (6.87%).
Mississippi has the lowest percentage of children under 5 vaccinated, with 0.47% of children with their first shot, followed by Alabama (0.64%) and Louisiana (0.79%).
The overall totals, thus far, are notably lower than prior predictions, which had already suggested the initial rollout would be sluggish.
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey found that many parents remain reluctant to vaccinate their young children.
As of July, 43% of parents with children ages 6 months to 4 years old said they will “definitely not” get their child vaccinated against COVID-19. In comparison, when polled in April, 27% of parents had stated they would “definitely not” get their child vaccinated against the virus.
Thirteen percent of parents said they would only inoculate their child, if required, and 27% reported they were waiting to see whether to vaccinate their child.
Only 7% of parents reported they got their child vaccinated right away, while another 10% of parents said that they were still planning to get their child vaccinated “right away.”
However, some officials have said that more children, particularly those under 5, may be vaccinated as the rollout continues, and they visit their pediatrician for their annual visit.
To date, about 29.6 million children ages 17 and under have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. However, data also shows that just under 43.4 million eligible kids are still completely unvaccinated.
Less than a quarter of eligible children, ages 5 to 17, have also been boosted.
(NEW YORK) — The Northern Lights may be visible as far south as Pennsylvania and Iowa on Friday, Space Weather Prediction Center from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
The remarkable sky lights may come down farther south due to a geomagnetic storm that began on Wednesday, experts said.
The storm is the result of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is a powerful burst of magnetized plasma from the sun’s corona, its outermost layer.
Scientists detected two CMEs erupting on the sun and aimed for Earth, which they expected to arrive on August 18.
The CMEs can combine to create a geomagnetic storm, scientists say, to reach strong levels that may create auroras closer to the equator than usual.
The auroras, which make up what we know as the Northern Lights, form when high-energy particles from the sun collide with Earth’s atmosphere. The particles glow because they excite the gasses in the sky.
Stronger energy brings the glowing particles farther from the poles, experts say.
Leading up to the stronger storm, scientists said a coronal hole high-speed stream arrived on Thursday night to create a more minor geomagnetic storm.
A coronal hole is a cooler area in the sun’s outermost layer that can generate high-speed solar wind that is full of charged particles that can get spread across the solar system.
These high-speed streams can create auroras on Earth, too.
Typically, auroras are most visible from December to February, but viewers have strong chances from September to November, too, experts say.
Stronger solar weather is needed for such a view in the summer months.
Alaska is known as a top U.S. destination for seeing the lights, but visitors can also expect a view in northern Maine during favorable conditions, scientists say.
Experts say that less densely populated areas, where the night sky remains darkest, are most favorable for northern viewing of the magical sky lights.
The Struts have premiered a new single called “Fallin’ with Me.”
“‘Fallin’ With Me’ is something that The Struts have never done before,” says frontman Luke Spiller. “We’ve done a lot of straight-up rock, but this feels different.”
Spiller adds that the track was inspired by the iconic Sunset Strip of Los Angeles.
“The song’s lyrics were written down whilst on numerous nights out with someone that I was seeing at the time,” Spiller shares. “We always kept meeting at the same place on the Sunset Strip, and after a while I had a collection of phrases and lines that all had a certain feel to them.”
You can listen to “Fallin’ with Me” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying lyric video streaming now on YouTube.
“Fallin’ with Me” follows The Struts’ 2020 album Strange Days, which includes guest spots from Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, The Strokes‘ Albert Hammond Jr., and Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen. They also released a collaboration with Paris Jackson, “Low Key in Love,” and a cover of the Queen classic “We Will Rock You” in 2021.
Eddie Vedder has released a cover of “Long Shadow,” a song by late Clash icon Joe Strummer and his backing band The Mescaleros.
The Pearl Jam frontman recorded the track in honor of what would have been Strummer’s 70th birthday this Sunday, August 21.
The original “Long Shadow” was included on the 2003 Mescaleros album Streetcore, which was released a year after Strummer’s death in 2002.
“I just think that what Joe did with The Mescaleros and those records, and those songs, and those words, it was a very communal sound,” Vedder says. “I think when you have a communal sound, the listener feels like they can be part of that community.”
You can watch Vedder’s “Long Shadow” performance streaming now on YouTube.
As previously reported, in commemoration of Strummer’s milestone birthday, a box set collecting all of his work with The Mescaleros will be released on September 16.
Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years features remastered versions of the group’s three studio albums — 1999’s Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, 2001’s Global a Go-Go and Streetcore — as well as a disc titled Vibes Compass that boasts 15 rare and previously unreleased tracks.
Kane Brown’s latest pop release, “Grand,” is getting some love at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards.
The song is one of 16 nominees in the fan-voted Song of the Summer category. He’s up against heavy hitters like Beyoncé, Lizzo, Charlie Puth, Harry Styles and many more. Voting in the category opens on August 25 at 11 a.m. ET, and fans can tap to vote on MTV’s Instagram Story through August 27.
Kane will also be performing his new song on the VMAs stage during the awards show. He’ll be making history when he takes the stage: It will be the first time a male country act has ever performed at the VMAs. Country artists who have performed at the all-genre show in the past include Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves.
“Grand” is the third single off of Kane’s upcoming Different Man album, which is set to drop September 9.
We finally have a release date for Elton John‘s collaboration with Britney Spears, “Hold Me Closer.”
The song, thought to be an interpolation, remix or reimagining of Elton’s classic 1971 tune “Tiny Dancer,” will be released on August 26. The single’s artwork features a famous picture of Elton as a child sitting at a piano, as well as a photo of Britney as a little girl wearing a pink dance costume. Spears’ pic certainly fits the theme of a “tiny dancer.” You can presave the song now.
“Hold Me Closer” will be the first new music from Elton since 2021. Of course, Elton recently scored a major chart hit with “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” his collaboration with British pop star Dua Lipa, which was released last year and went on to reach #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 this past January.
(WATSONVILLE, Calif.) — Three people are dead after two small planes collided mid-air at a California airport on Thursday, authorities said.
The crash occurred shortly before 3 p.m. local time at the Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, an agricultural area located about 50 miles south of San Jose, officials said.
The two planes were attempting to land when they collided, the city of Watsonville said on social media. “We have reports of multiple fatalities,” it said.
A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 “collided while the pilots were on their final approaches,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
One person was in the Cessna 152 and two were in the Cessna 340, the agency said. No injuries were reported to anyone on the ground.
The Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office said Friday that all three onboard the planes were killed in the crash. The names of the victims will be released following family notification.
The city tweeted Thursday that it was “absolutely saddened to hear about the tragic incident that took the lives of several people.”
“The City of Watsonville sends its deepest condolences to the friends and family of those who passed,” it added.
“We are grieving tonight from this unexpected and sudden loss,” Watsonville Mayor Ari Parker said. “I want to express my deepest and most heartfelt condolences.”
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to an aircraft collision on Aviation Way near the airport and secured the scene with the Watsonville Police Department.
“This afternoon, two planes collided and came to rest at and near the Watsonville airport. There are multiple fatalities right now,” Lt. Patrick Dimick said. “There are multiple fatalities. We cannot confirm anything else at this time as we’ve just secured the airport for the NTSB and FAA to arrive and conduct their investigation.”
An investigation is underway by the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA.
ABC News’ Michelle Mendez and Alex Stone contributed to this report.
