Brett Eldredge has announced a tour to go along with Songs About You, his forthcoming new album.
Kicking off on June 19 — just two days after the album comes out — the Songs About You Tour will begin in Brett’s home state of Illinois and extend through late September. A rotating cast of supporting acts will join the singer at his shows, including Lauren Alaina, Breland, Caylee Hammack, Nate Smith and Shelby Darrall.
Tickets go on sale next Friday, May 20, but members of Brett’s The Locals fan club will have access to a pre-sale beginning May 17.
Along with his tour news, Brett dropped another new song off of his Songs About You album Friday. Called “Wait Up for Me,” the piano ballad counts down the minutes until two lovers are reunited at the end of a long day.
Conversations with Friends takes the “it’s complicated” relationship status to a whole new level.
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, from the same team that brought us 2020’s Normal People, follows the intersecting relationships between four people. Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane play best friends and exes Frances and Bobbi, who become entangled with a married couple, Nick and Melissa, portrayed by Joe Alywn and Jemima Kirke.
“I was really interested in kind of, I guess, the dynamic between these four characters and how, you know, when one shifts how it affects all the others,” Oliver says of what drew her to the story.
It’s a four-way affair of sorts, which Alwyn and Oliver can only describe as “a mess.” “I guess it’s a really productive ‘love mess,’ in a way,” Oliver laughs.
One thing’s for sure — the show is definitely a conversation starter. So what conversations are the cast hoping to spark when people watch?
“I hope maybe they’re, like, sitting with their partner and they’re like, ‘Would you ever…?’ And I just want to see how that one unfolds,” Lane says.
“I would like to see people have the F***, Kill, Marry conversation after they watch this,” Kirke adds, laughing.
(NEW YORK) — Frank James, the man accused of opening firing on a Brooklyn, New York subway train last month, wounding 10 people, pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court to a two-count indictment that includes a federal terrorism charge.
Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo are set to star in a new comedy series from Disney’s Onyx Collective.
Unprisoned, created by relationship author Tracy McMillan, is inspired by McMillan’s own life. It follows a relationship therapist and single mom, played by Washington, whose life gets thrown for a loop when her father, played by Lindo, gets released from prison and comes to live with her and her teenage son.
Washington and Lindo will also serve as executive producers on the eight-episode series.
“From the moment Tracy McMillan brought this project to [my production company] Simpson Street, we knew that it had the potential to be provocative, groundbreaking and life-affirming,” Washington says in a statement. “I love this show. I love these characters and the stories that they inspire. And I’m extremely excited to be working, once again, with both Onyx Collective and ABC Signature and honored to be collaborating with this talented group of creative partners.”
Washington previously produced the Onyx legal drama Reasonable Doubt.
Unprisoned marks the first scripted comedy series from Onyx. It will be streamed exclusively on Hulu in the U.S.
(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore police are searching for the gunmen who killed a pregnant woman, leaving her newborn in the hospital in critical condition.
Officers found a man and a 38-year-old pregnant woman shot inside a car at about 8:13 p.m. Thursday, Baltimore police said.
Both victims were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where the man was immediately pronounced dead, police said.
The woman gave birth and was pronounced dead a short time later, police said.
The newborn is in critical condition as a result of the emergency delivery, not the shooting, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters.
Police said they believe at least two gunmen fired multiple shots.
The suspects’ car pulled up next to victims’ car as it was parking, and one person fired out of the passenger window into the victim’s car, police said. Authorities believe the second gunman then got out of the driver’s side and fired into the victim’s car, police said.
“To be quite honest and frank, I don’t really give a s— what the conflict was,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters. “We cannot have folks shooting at pregnant women in our city.”
Harrison called it a “very, very violent, brazen assault.”
He added, “We will do everything within our power to find who did this, catch them and hold them accountable.”
Katy Perry revealed one way she keeps her relationship with fiancé Orlando Bloom healthy — couple’s therapy.
Appearing on Chelsea Handler‘s Dear Chelsea podcast, Katy fielded a question from a fan wanting to know how she can stop yelling so much at her boyfriend.
The “Roar” singer’s initial advice was to take “three deep breaths” before speaking. “I know it sounds also like a cliché,” Katy admitted, adding, “I know what it’s like to have been yelled at as a child,” and insisting shouting at someone is “not going to work.”
Katy then shared, “Orlando and I do couple’s therapy, and we love it because it keeps us in tune, and the resentment can get really strong when you’re both working hard.”
Noting how things are different when one’s in the professional spotlight, Katy said, “when you want to come back to being normal in a domesticated world where you have a child and stuff like that, you have to really learn how to be kind of different out there in the big and in the small. And so we’ve had a lot of success with that couple’s therapy.”
Katy also spoke about her 2017 breakup with Bloom, admitting it came during “the worst year of my life” because she had to “evolve and grow” into a better person. Katy credited going through the Hoffman Process — a week-long retreat designed to eradicate negative habits and behaviors — for helping her get to a space where she was ready for that kind of relationship.
Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross guest on a new song from jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez.
The track, titled “I Think We’re Past That Now,” features a vocal performance from Reznor that shifts from an eerie whisper to a more forceful delivery, while Ross provides the main synth line. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.
Aside from working with them on the same song, Sánchez has another thing in common with the NIN duo: they’ve all composed music for film. Reznor and Ross, of course, have scored movies including The Social Network and Soul, while Sánchez provided the percussion-heavy soundtrack to the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which won Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars.
Nine Inch Nails, meanwhile, just returned to the stage last month to play their first live show since 2018. Their next scheduled concert takes place at Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival on May 22.
Just in time for Friday the 13th, Apple TV+ teases the star-studded animated film Luck. The teaser has Simon Pegg voicing Bob, a black cat who welcomes viewers to the Land of Luck.
It’s here, you see, that luck is partitioned out to our world, both good and bad — but don’t put that on the black cat himself. Bob explains that in his native Scotland, black cats are good luck.
Instead, the magical creatures of Land of Luck work behind the scenes, like the critters in Monsters, Inc., to affect the human world. However, when a human lands there — also a la Monsters, Inc. — things go awry.
Sam, the unluckiest girl in the world, voiced by theater vet Eva Noblezada, accidentally ends up in Luck, with comedic results.
The film, which also stars the voices of Oscar winners Jane Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as The Suicide Squad‘s Flula Borg and Free Guy‘sLil Rel Howery,debuts August 5 on Apple TV+.
Are Post Malone and Bob Dylan planning to collaborate? According to Posty, the legendary singer slid into his DMs and the two have “been chatting.”
“I have not met Bob Dylan, but we have been — Um. I don’t know how much I’m at liberty to discuss — but we’ve been chatting… We’ve chatted,” Malone said Thursday onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “He kind of slid in my DMs.”
The “Circles” singer didn’t reveal any details about what the two have been talking about, but he says being able to talk to one of his icons is an “incredible” experience.
“He’s the best! He’s so fun” Post raved. “Always appreciated the music and appreciated the songwriting.” He also revealed he has a Bob Dylan tattoo on his left arm.
Post also revisited his old YouTube channel, where he — with no visible tattoos — went by his birth name, Austin Richard Post. Only one video remains on the account: a 2013 cover of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.”
“My original plan was… I think I was 16-something, but I was like, ‘I’m gonna do a bunch of covers, and we’re gonna see if anybody likes them,” he told Fallon. “We did some Bob Dylan, and I think that’s just about it, but I recorded a bunch that I never uploaded.”
Post also teased his forthcoming album, Twelve Carat Toothache, which drops June 3. Post credits the album for reviving his love for making music after a three-year slump. “For the longest time I lost my passion for making music. I lost the drive,” he explained. “And one moment that snapped and said, ‘You know what, this is why I’m here, and this is what I want to do. This is what I was meant to do.'”
(NEW YORK) — A new study is offering new clues in solving the medical mystery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), which causes over 1,000 infant deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The study, led by researchers in Australia and published this week in the medical journal eBioMedicine, found that babies who died due to SIDS had lower levels of an enzyme known as Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE).
The previously unidentified enzyme is thought to be involved in the brain pathways that drive a person to take a breath, according to ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a board-certified OBGYN.
“Potentially, this would represent a target for intervention,” Ashton said Friday on ABC’s Good Morning America. “If you could screen babies and found they had a low enzyme level, potentially you could improve that.”
Currently, there is no method to know an infant’s risk for SIDS, which is defined as the unexplained death of a baby younger than the age of 1. In most cases, a SIDS death occurs while a baby is sleeping.
Because of the risk of SIDS, medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), recommend that parent and caregivers place infants to sleep on their back, practice room-sharing without bed-sharing, avoid any soft objects or bedding in a baby’s sleep area and use only firm sleep surfaces such as a crib, bassinet or pack-and-play.
The AAP offers these additional sleep safety recommendations for babies:
1. Until their first birthday, babies should sleep on their backs for all sleep times — for naps and at night.
“We know babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to die of SIDS than babies who sleep on their stomachs or sides. The problem with the side position is that the baby can roll more easily onto the stomach. Some parents worry that babies will choke when on their backs, but the baby’s airway anatomy and the gag reflex will keep that from happening. Even babies with gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) should sleep on their backs.”
2. Use a firm sleep surface.
“A crib, bassinet, portable crib, or play yard that meets the safety standards of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recommended along with a tight-fitting, firm mattress and fitted sheet designed for that particular product. Nothing else should be in the crib except for the baby. A firm surface is a hard surface; it should not indent when the baby is lying on it. Bedside sleepers that meet CPSC safety standards may be an option, but there are no published studies that have examined the safety of these products. In addition, some crib mattresses and sleep surfaces are advertised to reduce the risk of SIDS. There is no evidence that this is true, but parents can use these products if they meet CPSC safety standards.”
3. Keep baby’s sleep area in the same room where you sleep for the first 6 months or, ideally, for the first year.
“Place your baby’s crib, bassinet, portable crib, or play yard in your bedroom, close to your bed. The AAP recommends room sharing because it can decrease the risk of SIDS by as much as 50% and is much safer than bed sharing. In addition, room sharing will make it easier for you to feed, comfort, and watch your baby.”
4. Only bring your baby into your bed to feed or comfort.
“Place your baby back in his or her own sleep space when you are ready to go to sleep. If there is any possibility that you might fall asleep, make sure there are no pillows, sheets, blankets, or any other items that could cover your baby’s face, head, and neck, or overheat your baby. As soon as you wake up, be sure to move the baby to his or her own bed … Bed-sharing is not recommended for any babies.”
5. Never place your baby to sleep on a couch, sofa, or armchair.
“This is an extremely dangerous place for your baby to sleep.”
6. Keep soft objects, loose bedding and other items out of the baby’s sleep area.
“These include pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins, blankets, toys, bumper pads or similar products that attach to crib slats or sides. If you are worried about your baby getting cold, you can use infant sleep clothing, such as a wearable blanket. In general, your baby should be dressed with only one layer more than you are wearing.”
7. Swaddle your baby safely.
“However, make sure that the baby is always on his or her back when swaddled. The swaddle should not be too tight or make it hard for the baby to breathe or move his or her hips. When your baby looks like he or she is trying to roll over, you should stop swaddling.”
8. Try giving a pacifier at nap time and bedtime.
“This helps reduce the risk of SIDS, even if it falls out after the baby is asleep. If you are breastfeeding, wait until breastfeeding is going well before offering a pacifier. This usually takes 2-3 weeks. If you are not breastfeeding your baby, you can start the pacifier whenever you like. It’s OK if your baby doesn’t want a pacifier. You can try offering again later, but some babies simply don’t like them. If the pacifier falls out after your baby falls asleep, you don’t have to put it back.”
