Måneskin has dropped off the lineup for England’s upcoming Reading & Leeds festivals due to “unforeseen scheduling conflicts.”
“We love and miss the U.K. and all of our beloved U.K. fans,” the Italian rockers write in a statement. “We’re absolutely gutted to longer be able to play these shows.”
Reading and Leeds, which consists of two separate festivals featuring the same lineup taking place over the same weekend, will be held this year August 26-28. The bill includes Rage Against the Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me the Horizon, Wolf Alice, Glass Animals, Halsey, Bastille and All Time Low.
Måneskin will be launching their first North American headlining tour Halloween night in Seattle. They plan to return to the U.K. in 2023.
Blondie has debuted a 1978 home recording of a previously unreleased song called “Mr. Sightseer” as the latest advance track from the band’s expansive forthcoming box set, Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982, which is due out August 26.
The song was recorded on a four-track reel-to-reel machine in the bedroom of singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It will be featured on the B-side of a 7-inch vinyl single that boasts Blondie’s recently rediscovered rendition of The Doors‘ “Moonlight Drive,” which previously was made available as an advance track.
Reflecting on “Mr. Sightseer,” Harry says, “The lyric is not good at all … The song’s not too bad. It’s just a little simplistic. It didn’t ever get really developed or finished.”
As previously reported, Against the Odds focuses on the influential New Wave band’s original heyday and is fully authorized by the group.
The retrospective, which can be preordered now, will be available in multiple formats and configurations, including an eight-CD set and a Super Deluxe Collectors’ Edition that features 10 12-inch vinyl LPs, a 10-inch LP and the aforementioned vinyl single.
The vinyl box set features 124 tracks, 36 of which are previously unreleased. The collection contains remastered versions of Blondie’s first six studio albums — 1976’s Blondie, 1977’s Plastic Letters, 1978’s Parallel Lines, 1979’s Eat to the Beat, 1980’s Autoamerican and 1982’s The Hunter — and four LPs of outtakes, demos, remixes, alternate versions, home recordings and other rarities.
The box set also includes extensive liner notes and track-by-track commentary from current and former Blondie members.
Blondie: Against the Odds will also be available as a four-LP package, a three-CD set and digitally.
(UVALDE, Texas) — The frustrations of a community still reeling from a mass shooting were on full display Monday night as a procession of Uvalde residents confronted school district leaders over their response to the massacre that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
Trustees of the Uvalde CISD School Board convened the special session to present plans for the upcoming school year, including upgrading security measures and an announcement that all students K-12 would be offered the opportunity to attend classes virtually.
But during the open forum portion of the evening, attention returned to the fallout from the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School.
“We want results,” one man said. “Has anybody lost their job? Has anyone been terminated?”
“We still need answers,” a woman added.
“This is not going to be swept under the rug,” said another.
More than two-and-a-half months since the shooting, several of the roughly 100 attendees sought basic answers about the law enforcement response, including chain-of-command communication.
When board trustee JJ Suarez, a former police officer who responded to Robb Elementary, told one questioner that he did not remember who told him the shooting was “a barricade situation” and claimed not to have heard gunshots from inside the school, members of the audience heckled him.
“I heard the shots,” one woman shouted before imitating the sound of gun shots. “I still hear that sound.”
Suarez replied that his failure to ask if children were still inside the classrooms will “haunt [him] every day.”
Trustees also faced questions about school district police chief Pete Arredondo and why a decision whether to fire him has not yet been made. The board responded that it is following “due process,” adding that it is considering multiple new dates for a hearing on Arredondo’s future.
Arredondo remains on leave while an investigation into the conduct of law enforcement during the shooting on May 24 marches forward. Last month, the Uvalde school district postponed a closed hearing to consider whether to terminate Arredondo as its police chief and has not yet set a new date.
A special committee in the Texas legislature issued a report last month that found Arredondo had “failed to perform or to transfer to another person the role of incident commander.” Arredondo previously told the Texas Tribune he did not consider himself the on-scene commander during the shooting.
After multiple media outlets, including ABC News, reported on a demotion Arredondo received in 2014 at a prior job, Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell acknowledged that he made the decision to hire Arredondo and said he contacted previous employers but was not told about the demotion.
Harrell also laid out several new initiatives taken by the board to shore up security across the school district in the coming year. Those updates include:
33 Texas DPS officers being assigned to UCISD
500 cameras being installed across the district
Campus monitor role to be created — this person will walk school grounds throughout the day, noting lock, gate and door statuses on an iPad that the district will then be able to review
Each school will have a single point of entry all students, faculty and guests must utilize
An audit on the district’s Wi-Fi set to be completed Wednesday
Other notable speakers at Monday’s session included a woman who said her daughter with special needs cannot reasonably attend class virtually, and a rising fourth grader in the school district who requested upgrades to school lighting, automatic door locks and the installation of ballistic glass. (Harrell had said earlier in the meeting they were still looking for funds for ballistic glass.)
After fielding concern about the conduct of school administrators and law enforcement moving forward, Harrell said “it’s going to take a while to regain that trust.”
“The trust has been damaged. The trust has been broken,” Harrell said. “It’s going to take all of us to fix it.”
Ava Max is the latest Sketchers ambassador, and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” hitmaker teased her new collection on Instagram. The Uno Collection contains ultra colorful sneakers that are now available to purchase.
Priyanka Chopra is on vacation with husband Nick Jonas and the two shared an adorable poolside photo of their baby, Malti. The infant is cuddling her mom while Nick is decked out in orange swim trunks and aviator glasses.
Britney Spears revealed on Instagram she wanted to get married in Italy — more specifically St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The singer made headlines after claiming she wasn’t allowed to get married at a Catholic Church. Britney also revealed she hired the wedding planner who took care of Madonna‘s nuptials.
Another teaser for the new season of The Voice, which sees Camila Cabello serving as a first-time coach, is here. It shows her getting along with her fellow coaches Blake Shelton, John Legend and Gwen Stefani.
Charlie Puth confirmed he “just turned in the album,” tagging his label, Atlantic, in a new Instagram Story. His forthcoming album, Charlie, is due out October 7.
Britney Spears revealed on Instagram she wanted to get married in Italy — more specifically St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The singer made headlines after claiming she wasn’t allowed to get married at a Catholic Church. Britney also revealed she hired the wedding planner who took care of Madonna‘s nuptials.
Priyanka Chopra is on vacation with Nick Jonas and the two shared an adorable poolside photo of their baby, Malti. The infant is cuddling her mom while Nick is decked out in orange swim trunks and aviator glasses.
Halsey is co-headlining the Krakow Live Music Festival, taking place in Poland from August 19 to August 20. Lewis Capaldi is also serving as co-headliner, as is rapper Future. Tickets are on sale now.
Another teaser for the new season of The Voice, which sees Camila Cabello serving as a first-time coach, is live. It shows her getting along with her fellow coaches Blake Shelton, John Legend and Gwen Stefani.
Speaking of teasers, the boys of BTS tried tapping into their latent psychic powers in a clip promoting the newest episode of RUN BTS. The septet play the game Telepathy to prove they’re so tight-knit they can read each others’ minds.
Ava Max is the latest Sketchers ambassador, and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” hitmaker teased her new collection on Instagram. The Uno Collection contains ultra colorful sneakers that are now available to purchase.
A new music video has been released on what would have been King Von‘s 28th birthday. On Tuesday, August 9, the rapper’s estate dropped the visual for “Get it Done” featuring OMBPeezy, one of 19 songs on his posthumous album, What It Means to Be King.
The video sees Von and Peezy meet up as a group of guys in the area plot to attack them. A few steps ahead, the observant duo manages to drive away in a Maserati before the men can act.
Von and Peezy are then captured flaunting wads of cash in the car and rapping their lyrics in what appears to be a remote building.
Von was hard at work before he was shot and killed outside of an Atlanta nightclub on November 6, 2020. He was celebrating the release of his debut album, Welcome to O’Block, just moments before the tragic shooting.
After he passed, his estate released What It Means to Be King, which included collaborations with G Herbo, 21 Savage, Fivio Foreign, Tee Grizzley, Lil Durk, Moneybagg Yo and Dreezy. He reportedly had over 200 unreleased songs at the time of his death.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the EGOT-winning creator of Hamilton, is putting the musical phenomenon to work to support abortion access in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Miranda has created Ham4Choice in collaboration with the online fundraising platform Prizeo for a “once-in-a-lifetime Hamilton experience” to raise “much-needed funds for organizations providing abortion access and reproductive health services.”
For a donation of as little as $10 given between August 9 and September 22, donors get a chance to win the grand prize.
The grand prize winner and a guest will be flown to Hamburg, Germany, to attend Hamilton‘s opening night on October 6. Before seeing the first German translation of the musical, the winner and their guest “will meet Lin-Manuel Miranda at an exclusive pre-show reception and attend the post-show celebration.”
From there, it’s off to London for another showing of Hamilton — this time in English — and a meet and greet with the cast there. A performance in New York City is next, as is memorabilia to commemorate their travels.
Hotel and airfare for the three-city tour is all included.
They add the more one donates, the more chances you’ll get to win — and “the more support will go toward funding abortion access and care.”
In a statement, Miranda noted, “We are devastated by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating the right to abortion which has been a right since 1973. … We’re stronger when we work together. We can stand up for every person’s right to make decisions about their own body and their own lives. Join Hamilton & Friends in the fight for reproductive access and reproductive choice today.”
Tyler Braden has released the fan-favorite track “Try Losing One” as his official single to country radio this week. It’s featured on his debut album, What Do They Know.
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Jon Bon Jovi and football have long gone hand in hand: He once owned Arena Football League champions Philadelphia Soul; he and others unsuccessfully tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014; and he’s also a pal of Patriots owner Robert Kraft. So maybe it wasn’t so odd that he was seen at Notre Dame football training camp Sunday giving the first team a pep talk.
Jon, whose son Jesse Bongiovi once played for the Irish, gave the team some good advice, reports Notre Dame Insider. Senior lineback Jack Kiser told the publication, “Him being a Notre Dame parent, the first thing he said was, ‘Thank your parents.’ But then he just talked about, ‘Live in the moment. Don’t take this for granted. So, just enjoy every day, and the dog days of camp are not too bad.’”
Kiser also said that Jon reminded the players that never again will they “be around a group of 100 … guys that we consider our brothers, our closest friends.” Jesse, who was also there, echoed what his dad said and told the players, “Just keep those relationships going,” according to Kiser.
Jon also made a cameo in the video the team tweeted out, featuring the team attempting to sing “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
Lainey Wilson has a new single coming and it sounds pretty sweet.
On Monday, the singer revealed that her new single, “Watermelon Moonshine,” will be released Friday. In a clip of the song posted on Instagram, Lainey teases the lyrics that associate young love with the libation.
“I was his and every bit of that boy was mine/Too young to know what love was/We were learnin’ on a sweet buzz/There’s never nothin’ like the first time/Mine’s always gonna taste like/Watermelon moonshine,” she sings in the chorus.
“Not to be dramatic, but could this be a new single coming next week?” a fan asked, with Lainey replying, “sure is. #watermelonmoonshinewill be out Friday and there’s more big news coming then too,” adding #bellbottomcountry and #countrywithaflare.
The singer recently hit pause on touring to be with her father, who is experiencing health issues. She resumed her live shows last week.
“A weekend out west – watermelons, birthday wishes, a little dancin’, a little more rock ’n roll, and a lot of hearts singin’ along with me in honor of my Deddy’s tough like a truck spirit,” she says. “Especially grateful for y’all’s voices and prayers this weekend.”
The “Things a Man Oughta Know” singer has tour dates scheduled through November.
