Luke Combs is one month away from releasing his highly anticipated new album Growin’ Up, and he’s getting fans excited with the teaser of a new song.
On Monday, the superstar singer shared a snippet of “Used to Wish I Was,” the sixth track on the album, which finds him referencing Bill Dance, the famous fisherman and host of the show Bill Dance Outdoors, and former Atlanta Braves baseball player Chipper Jones Jr. among the people he tried to emulate while growing up.
But Luke is now in a season of life where he fully accepts himself as he is, as he confirms in the chorus. “I’m just an old Carolina good old boy/Boys I ain’t got no choice/I couldn’t be anybody but me even if I tried/I used to wish I was/But I’m glad I’m not,” he sings.
In addition to “Used,” Luke has also teased “Tomorrow Me” and “The Kind of Love We Make,” which will be released on June 17. Its lead single, “Doin’ This,” is in the top five on country radio. The album drops in full on June 24.
(NEW YORK) — Billie Eilish is opening up about living with Tourette’s syndrome.
In a new episode of David Letterman’s series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the singer, who was diagnosed at the age of 11, spoke about her tics and living with the disorder.
During the interview, Eilish appeared to start “ticcing.” When Letterman asked about it, she said, “It’s really weird; I haven’t talked about it at all.”
She added, “I’m very happy to talk about it. I actually really like answering questions about it because it’s really interesting, and I am incredibly confused by it. I don’t get it.”
The “Happier Than Ever” singer then detailed her various tics, including wiggling her ear, raising her eyebrow, clicking her jaw, moving her head, opening her mouth and flexing various muscles in her arms.
“These are things you would never notice if you’re having a conversation with me, but for me, they’re very exhausting,” she said.
Eilish said she had been unhappy with her tics, but now, she told Letterman, they’re a “part” of her. “I have made friends with it, so now I’m pretty confident in it,” she said.
“So many people have it and you’d never know. A couple [other] artists have come forward and said, ‘I’ve always had Tourette’s,'” Eilish revealed. “And I’m not going to out them because they don’t want to talk about it. But that was really interesting to me because I was like, ‘You do? What?'”
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The Kid LAROI is just starting to understand the world of banking and investing — so who better to receive advice from than Elon Musk?
LAROI spoke of the Tesla CEO on Australian radio station Nova and explained he didn’t feel intimidated to ask the multibillionaire for some financial tips. “He’s actually a really down to earth (guy),” the “Stay” singer said, noting the two were “hanging out” at a Saturday Night Live after-party.
LAROI performed his hit “Without You” with SNL musical guest Miley Cyrus in May 2021. Musk was the week’s host.
The 18-year-old Australian singer said he “went up” to Musk and asked for financial tips. “He basically … told me to invest in something that I love,” he said. “I thought (that) was great advice.”
While LAROI was hoping the SpaceX founder would have given him “an entire plan,” the singer said of the exchange, “I walked away realizing, ‘Damn, that is probably the best financial advice you could give anyone.’ Because I mean, if you don’t believe in something, then how is everybody else gonna believe in it?”
“He could tell me something to invest in, whatever. But if I don’t believe in it, then why would I do it,” LAROI shrugged.
Also during the interview, the singer called out fake friends and gave some fashion advice to his fans — he warned against wearing “band T-shirts that I don’t listen to.”
In an Instagram post, Vin Diesel revealed he got his “dream” actor to play his character Dom Torreto’s grandmother in Fast X: Rita Moreno.
Diesel took to social media alongside the EGOT-winning legend and co-star Michelle Rodriguez.
“It’s been my dream forever to work with Rita Moreno, and the fact that she’s here playing my grandmother makes my soul smile,” the actor and producer said, adding, “I’m so blessed.”
Moreno added, “You know what … I think my old age was waiting for you to invite me. Isn’t that nice?”
Diesel growled a sweet, “Awww!” in response.
Rodriguez added an enthusiastic, “Rita Moreno in the house, baby!”
Runaway June‘s Jennifer Wayne had a very special guest join her at the Grand Ole Opry.
Jennifer and her husband, Austin Moody, welcomed their first child, daughter Lily, in April, and she recently made her Opry debut. During Runaway June’s Opry performance over the weekend, Jennifer brought Lily to the show, holding the slumbering baby in her arms as she posed for photos with bandmates Natalie Stovall and newest member, Stevie Woodward, along with Lauren Alaina.
Another picture shows Opry star Connie Smith holding the 1-month-old in a group photo with Runaway June, Lauren and fellow country legend Jeannie Seely. But Lily wasn’t asleep the entire time, as proven in one adorable photo where her eyes are open while donning a pair of pink noise-cancelling headphones. Another snap shows her parents posing in front of the Opry sign while Lily is strapped into a carrier.
“What an epic night at the @opry !! Stevie and Lily made their debut,” Jennifer writes with a series of heart emojis. “So much love and joy!”
Fozzy has announced a fall North American headlining tour.
The outing will kick off September 8 in Columbus, Ohio, and will wrap up October 10 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 27, at 10 a.m. ET.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FozzyRock.com.
Fozzy will be touring in support of their new album, Boombox, which was released earlier this month. The follow-up to 2017’s Judas features the singles “I Still Burn,” “Sane” and “Nowhere to Run.”
The Scorpions have released “The Language of My Heart” as their latest single, a bonus track from the French version of their new studio album Rock Believer.
The track is available now as a digital download and via streaming services, while a lyric video has premiered at the veteran German rockers’ official YouTube channel.
The touching ballad is a celebration of Paris, inspired by the brutal terrorist attacks that took place at the historic Bataclan theater and other parts of the city in November 2015 and left 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
“It’s a tribute to France, with its wonderful culture and our fantastic fans,” says Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine.
The Scorpions were the first band to stage a concert in Paris following the attacks, just 10 days later, when they played the AccorHotels Arena for a crowd of 20,000.
Last week, the band gave “The Language of My Heart” its live debut during a new concert at the Paris venue. The show kicked off a European tour in support of Rock Believer that runs through a July 18 concert in Lisbon, Portugal. The Scorpions recently announced dates for a North American leg that also will feature Whitesnake and that gets underway on August 21 in Toronto.
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It seems that Liam Payne‘s indiscretions have torpedoed his engagement to Maya Henry. For the second time in three years, the couple has broken up, E! News confirms.
The breakup comes after Maya expressed her anger at seeing photos of Liam with someone else. A fan page had posted a shot of Liam and a woman embracing, and mistakenly identified the two as Liam and Maya. But Maya commented, “Please stop sending me these pictures of my fiancé wrapped around another woman. This is not me and it’s hard enough knowing this has happened without seeing it. Enough now.”
Liam and Maya started dating in 2019, and became engaged in 2020. They split up in June of 2021, with an insider blaming the breakup on “busy schedules” and poor communication. During that time, Liam said on a podcast, ” I’ve just not been very good at relationships.”
However, later that year, they got re-engaged. In March, Liam told People that Maya was “still my fiancée,” adding, “We’re very, very happy at the moment. Probably the happiest we’ve been.”
Liam is also the father of five-year-old son Bear, who he shares with his ex, Cheryl Cole, whom he dated from 2015 to 2018.
(NEW YORK) — Police have identified a suspect in connection with the unprovoked fatal shooting of 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez on a Q train in New York City on Sunday, according to police sources.
The sources identified the wanted suspect as Andrew Abdullah, a 25-year-old man from Brooklyn with about 20 prior arrests, including an outstanding gun charge from last year. He also has prior arrests for assault, robbery, menacing and grand larceny, sources said.
Abdullah has three cases that are still pending, including an April arrest for fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property for allegedly being found with a stolen motorcycle, as well as a June 2021 arrest for violating a protective order and March 2021 arrest for assault.
Detectives have also recovered the gun used in the shooting.
It is believed the suspect handed the gun to a homeless man as he fled the Canal Street station. The homeless man then apparently sold the gun for $10 to a third person, who reported it to police, the sources said.
The New York Police Department released surveillance photos Monday of the suspect believed to have shot Enriquez taken shortly after he exited the subway.
The motive for the shooting is still unknown.
In January 2020, Abdullah was arrested as part of a gun-related case and in May 2017 he was charged with second-degree attempted murder as part of an 83-count federal indictment of the Harlem-based street gangs Fast Money and Nine Block. Abdullah was sentenced to three years in federal prison, but served just four months before being released in 2019.
Witnesses say the suspect, alleged to be Abdullah, was pacing back and forth in the last car of a Manhattan-bound train around 11:45 a.m. when he pulled out a gun and fired it at Enriquez unprovoked, according to NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey.
The shooting comes a little over a month after a Brooklyn subway rider opened fire on a train car, wounding 10 people. The suspect in that shooting, Frank James, was arrested one day later in lower Manhattan.
Transit crime is up 62.5% in the city year-to-date from 2021, according to NYPD statistics.
The rapper and designer, who was previously briefly suspended from the social media platform, returned on Monday with a post teasing his latest business venture.
Alongside an image of his upcoming redesign of McDonald’s packaging, which looks like a burger in the shape of a box with the famous Golden Arches on top, reads the caption, “Ye teams up with legendary Muji industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa to reimagine McDonald’s packaging.”
The burger post comes just after Ye shared the same image in an Instagram Story and wrote underneath, “Next week it’s the fries.”
No further information yet about the collaboration or when it’s expected to launch.
Instagram in March suspended Kanye’s account for 24 hours for posting questionable content about his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
