Bring Me the Horizon has announced a new single titled “sTraNgeRs.”
The track is set to premiere Wednesday, July 6. You can presave it now, which will also enter you for a chance to win tickets to see BMTH at the Reading & Leeds Festival in August.
“sTraNgeRs” will follow Horizon’s 2021 single “DiE4u.” The English rockers have been working on a new EP for their Post Human series to follow 2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror.
Meanwhile, frontman Oli Sykes is collaborating with Chinese artist Alice Longyu Gao on a new song called “Believe the Hype,” which arrives Wednesday, June 29. That track is available for presave, as well.
Other recent BMTH and Sykes collaborations include songs with Machine Gun Kelly, Tom Morello and Ed Sheeran.
With a price tag of just under $400, this stuffed animal isn’t going to be one you want to give to the kids.
The legendary German toy company Steiff has teamed up with Elton John to create a limited edition Elton teddy bear that’s a tribute to both Elton and his 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Just like Benny in “Benny and the Jets,” the teddy sports a “mohair suit” of soft fur and also rocks a pair of exclusive sunglasses from the Elton John Eyewear collection.
Images from the Yellow Brick Road album cover appear on the teddy’s footpads, and he has detailing that makes him look like he’s wearing a baseball jacket with “Elton John” embroidered on the back, as Elton does on the album cover. He’s even wearing a “diamond” cross earring in one fuzzy ear, just like Elton does, and the signature Steiff button in his ear is gold-plated.
Only 3,000 Elton teddies will be produced, at $395 a pop. You can preorder them now; they ship October 31.
(SAN FRANCISCO) — A search was underway Wednesday for a gunman who shot two people, one fatally, on a packed Muni commuter train in San Francisco, police said.
The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. as the light-rail train was moving between stations, according to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Kathryn Winters.
Winters said police were initially called to the city’s Forest Hill Muni station for a report of a shooting, but the train had already pulled away, Winters said. Offices caught up to the train at the busy Castro Street Station, where they discovered the two victims, Winters said.
She said the gunman and commuters aboard the train ran off as soon as it stopped and the doors opened at the station.
Winters said one victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A second individual was taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
The shooting happened ahead of this Sunday’s Pride Parade in San Francisco and in the heart of the city’s popular Castro District, which is expected to be filled with revelers celebrating LGBTQ pride this weekend. Winters said preliminary evidence showed that the shooting has no connection to this coming weekend’s activities or directed at the city’s LGBTQ community.
San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar told ABC station KGO-TV in San Francisco that police informed her that the shooting occurred during a confrontation the gunman had with the victim who died.
“We do know the shooting happened after a heated verbal argument,” Melgar said.
It was not immediately clear whether the gunman and the deceased victim knew each other. She said the second victim who was wounded was an innocent bystander.
Winters said homicide detectives are securing surveillance video from the train and the Forest Hill and Castro stations in hopes there is footage of the shooting that can help them identify the assailant.
Police only released a vague description of the perpetrator as a man wearing dark clothes and a hooded sweatshirt.
Melgar asked any commuters who were on the train and witnessed the shooting to contact police immediately.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — The suburban Minneapolis city of Brooklyn Center has tentatively agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Daunte Wright, the unarmed Black man who was fatally shot during a 2021 traffic stop when a white police officer says she mistook her handgun for a stun gun.
The development was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Wright’s family, who said the pending agreement includes reforms in Brooklyn Center police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that led to the death of the 20-year-old Wright.
Antonio Romanucci, one of the family’s attorneys, said in a statement that Wright’s loved ones hope the changes in police policy prevent similar incidents from occurring.
“Nothing can explain or fill the emptiness in our lives without Daunte or our continued grief at the senseless way he died,” Wright’s parents, Katie and Arbuey Wright, said in a joint statement to ABC affiliate KSTP. “But in his name, we will move forward, and it was important to us that his loss be used for positive change in the community, not just for a financial settlement for our family.”
The parents added, “We hope Black families, people of color, and all residents feel safer now in Brooklyn Center because of the changes the city must make to resolve our claims.”
Romanucci and Jeff Storms, another Wright family lawyer, said the settlement will be the third largest ever awarded in Minnesota history. The city of Minneapolis reached a $27-million settlement with the family of George Floyd, the 46-year-old man who died at the hands of police in May 2020, and agreed to a $20-million settlement with the family of Justine Ruszcyk Damond, who was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer in 2017 after she called 911 to report an assault in progress near her home.
Wright was killed on April 11, 2021, after then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and an officer she was training pulled him over for driving a car with expired registration tags and for having an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror, which is illegal in the state of Minnesota.
After stopping Wright, who was with his girlfriend, police learned of a warrant for him for an outstanding weapons violation. Wright was ordered out of his vehicle and struggled with police when they attempted to handcuff him.
During the confrontation, which was captured on police body-camera video, Potter, a 26-year police veteran, yelled “Taser! Taser! Taser!” But instead of deploying a stun gun, she drew her handgun and shot Wright in the chest as his vehicle sped away and crashed.
A Hennepin County jury found Potter guilty in December 2021 of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison and fined $1,000.
The final terms of the settlement with Wright’s family are pending an agreement on “substantial and meaningful non-monetary relief,” the Wright family attorneys said in a statement.
In addition to more extensive training for Brooklyn Center police officers on “officer intervention, implicit bias, weapons confusion, de-escalation, and mental health crises” and changes in policies, the family is seeking the establishment of a permanent memorial for their son in the city about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
The city of Brooklyn Center has not responded to a request for comment from ABC News.
As the new face of CoverGirl, Kelsea Ballerini has several favorite products, but her go-to is the Exhibitionist Mascara.
The singer says that this particular brand of mascara adds another level of glam to her look, taking her makeup routine to the “next step.”
“If you wanted to get a little more glam for a special occasion, or for me, a show, it’s the mascara that takes you to the next level. I’ve used it for shows—the commercial was filmed at an actual show that I did in Oklahoma, and I used it to get ready for that—and everything can be a little bit more dramatic on stage,” she tells New Beauty. “So it’s definitely my go-to.”
The “Peter Pan” hitmaker also cites the brand’s tinted lip balm as a favorite item, particularly the peach color.
Among Kelsea’s other favorite things is a glass of cabernet, which she says is her go-to drink. She says Shania Twain‘s classic “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” is her hype song.
Former Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura is sharing more about her unexpected exit from the band last month.
In a tweet announcing the news, the “Bring Me to Life” outfit wrote, “It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways.”
The band added, “We will always love her and support her, and can’t wait to see what she does next!”
Majura, who joined Evanescence in 2015, later wrote in her own tweet that, while she has no “hard feelings” toward her now-former bandmates, the split was not her decision.
Now, in a new interview with the YouTube show Coffee with Ola, Majura reveals that she’s still in shock over what happened.
“After being married six years, all of the sudden, you’re divorced,” she says.
Recalling when she got the phone call with the news, Majura remembers thinking, “Is this a bad joke?”
“After I got the news, I hung up … and I just laid there on the floor, staring at the ceiling, wondering what that was,” she says. “[I was] literally looking over to my suitcase that I had already started packing, because I was two weeks from going out on the road until pretty much the end of the year.”
Majura says that she’s hurt, but is “getting there every day.” She adds that she’s already received offers to join other bands, but is instead taking time to work on a new solo album.
In place of Majura, Evanescence moved longtime bassist Tim McCord to guitar, while Emma Anzai of Sick Puppies has joined on bass.
The 2022 Glastonbury music festival has finally returned to England and although Harry Styles is not slated as a performer this year, rumors are swirling that he has something up his sleeve.
British station Capital FM reports the “As It Was” singer might put on a secret session. Apparently, fans are convinced he will crash Billie Eilish‘s headlining set this Friday. Basically, fans are counting on a surprise set because Harry has shouted out the 20-year-old singer in the past.
Then again, fans also believed Billie would make a cameo on Harry’s new album, Harry’s House — but a collab never came into fruition.
Fans have widely speculated Harry will do something for the legendary music festival ever since it was announced it would return this year. They also looked at the Grammy winner’s packed touring schedule and noticed he has nothing slated for this weekend.
Harry is next set to perform in Hamburg, Germany, this Sunday, which is only fueling rumors that he’ll jump onto the Pyramid stage sometime this weekend.
Headlining acts bringing on a secret performer is nothing new. During the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, headliner Miley Cyrus brought on her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, and rapper Lil Nas X during her performance.
Could we have had Kate Bush‘s music in the MCU and Stranger Things?
According to Thor: Love and Thunder star Christian Bale, director Taiki Waititi wanted to put a Bush-inspired dance scene in the upcoming movie.
Bale shares that nugget in an interview with Total Film while talking about his approach to his Love and Thunder character, the villain Gorr the God Butcher.
“There’s obviously sort of a Nosferatu slight attitude,” Bale explains. “Taika and I wanted to do a whole dance, which we didn’t get to do, but we had all this sort of Kate Bush stuff that we worked at.”
As for why the scene didn’t work out, Bale says, “I think [Waititi] just realized he was never going to be allowed to put that in the final film.”
While we won’t be hearing Bush’s music in Love and Thunder, she’s already quite busy with the Stranger Things-driven resurgence of “Running Up That Hill,” which has hit the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart following its placement in the newly premiered fourth season of the Netflix show.
The 1985 song’s newfound popularity has been so huge that the normally press-shy Bush has now given a rare interview, speaking with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour program.
Meanwhile, Thor: Love and Thunder premieres in theaters July 8.
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Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced a new signature guitar as part of his partnership with Gibson.
The Dave Mustaine Flying V EXP Rust in Peace is a new take on the iconic model, featuring an “alien tech green” finish. Named after Megadeth’s 1990 album, the guitar “delivers the powerful, heavy sound and exceptional playing performance on the stage and in the studio that Dave demands,” a press release declares.
For more info on the Flying V EXP Rust in Peace, which will set you back $2,999, visit Gibson.com.
Mustaine first announced his partnership with Gibson in 2021. The collaboration has so far yielded the non-Rust in Peace edition of the Flying V EXP as well as the Dave Mustaine Songwriter acoustic guitar.
In related news, Megadeth is seemingly preparing to finally release new music from the band’s anticipated new album, The Sick, the Dying…and theDead!, the long-in-the-works follow-up to 2016’s Dystopia. A cryptic social media post hints at something new dropping this Thursday, June 23.
On the heels of releasing his debut solo album, Speed of Heat, last Friday, former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has lined up a series of California tour dates in support of the record.
Baxter currently has six shows on his schedule: July 30 in Sutter Creek, July 31 in Mill Valley, August 1 in Oakland, August 2 in West Hollywood, August 3 in Solana Beach and August 4 in San Juan Capistrano.
The new series of shows follows Baxter’s East Coast outing in May. Baxter’s band features Speed of Heat co-producer CJ Vanston on keyboards, as well as Mark Damian on drums and Hank Horton on bass.
“CJ suggested Mark and Hank and I didn’t actually meet them until we started rehearsing for the tour,” Baxter says. “But we meshed immediately, and the initial dates went so well we don’t want to stop.”
As previously reported, Speed of Heat is a 12-track collection that features a mix of original tunes and select covers. Among the latter are versions of the Steely Dan classics “My Old School” and “Do It Again,” and the 1960 instrumental “Apache” that was popularized by The Shadows.
The album features Baxter singing lead on some tracks, as well as some guest vocalists and musicians, including his one-time Doobie Brothers bandmate Michael McDonald, country star Clint Black, Toto keyboardist David Paich and blues-rock singer/guitarist Jonny Lang.
McDonald lends his vocals to a song called “My Place in the Sun,” which he co-wrote with Baxter and Vanston, while Paich plays an organ solo on the “My Old Town” cover.
