Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, who’s also a member of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, has released a new track from his upcoming solo album Now and the Evermore.
The song “Love Is Everywhere,” and it comes with a trippy, partially animated video. Even if you don’t like the song, you’ll want to watch the video for the adorable footage of different animal species expressing love for one another. C’mon, who doesn’t want to see a puppy snuggle with a rooster, or a dog frolicking with a baby deer?
Speaking about the song, Hay says, “I think what this song is attempting to counter, by at least some measure, is the end result of the continued tragic global catastrophe of separation. The colossal calamity of believing yourself to be separate from everything and everybody else. Refusing to consider the possibility that we all are part of this planet’s structural fabric. Every day I feel love, and I’m happy that I do.”
Now and the Evermore, the title track of which features Ringo on drums, will be out March 18. Hay will launch a solo tour that same day that will keep him on the road through May 12. Starting June 2 in Boston, he’ll join Ringo for the All Starr Band’s summer tour.
Bring Me the Horizon and Ed Sheeran have premiered an official studio version of their joint rendition of “Bad Habits.”
The unlikely pairing first came together at the U.K.’s Brit Awards earlier this month, with BMTH putting a heavy spin on Sheeran’s single “Bad Habits.” The response was so strong that Sheeran and Horizon frontman Oli Sykesannounced earlier this week that they’d be releasing a studio recording of the collaboration.
“From receiving the email asking whether we’d like to open the BRITS with Ed Sheeran to us chatting and bouncing ideas to rehearsing and then performing and now releasing, this has needless to say been pretty mental,” syskes says in a statement. “But we are all about pushing the boundaries of our own and other genres, so this felt like the perfect challenge.”
You can download the studio version of Bring Me the Sheerizon’s “Bad Habits” now via digital outlets.
Good news and bad news for Stranger Things fans today. On the positive, the show has been renewed for a fifth season. However, that will be the Emmy-nominated show’s last.
That’s the word from the show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, who addressed fans in a press release Thursday, noting the penultimate season will be split into two parts: The first launching on May 27, and the second on July 1.
Netflix teased the announcement on Twitter, which comes nearly three years after Season 3 ended, with the streaming giant’s Los Angeles movie marquee noting, in upside-down letters, “Every end has a beginning.”
The Duffer Brothers noted, “Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things. At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four, but — as you’ll soon see for yourselves — we are now hurtling toward our finale.”
They continued, “There are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things; new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes. But first we hope that you stay with us as we finish this tale of a powerful girl named Eleven and her brave friends, of a broken police chief and a ferocious mom, of a small town called Hawkins and an alternate dimension known only as the Upside Down. As always, we are grateful for your patience and support.”
The breakup of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham fueled many of Fleetwood Mac‘s most famous songs. But Stevie now says that if they’d split when they really wanted to, Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t have been around for them to record those songs.
In a new interview in The New Yorker, Stevie explains, “I broke up with Lindsey in 1976. We’d only been in Fleetwood Mac for a year and a half, and we were breaking up when we joined Fleetwood Mac. So we just put our relationship kind of back together, because I was smart enough to know that, if we had broken up the second month of being in Fleetwood Mac, it would have blown the whole thing.”
“I just bided my time, and tried to make everything as easy as possible, tried to be as sweet and as nice to Lindsey as I could be,” Stevie continues. “He wasn’t happy, either. Then something happened that was, y’know, ‘We’re done’…it was time.”
“The band was solid, by that time, so I could walk away knowing that he was safe. And that the band was safe. And that we could work it out,” she concludes.
Speaking about two classic songs inspired by the breakup, Stevie says, “I always laugh because Lindsey’s ‘Go Your Own Way’ and my [song] ‘Dreams’ are, like, counter songs to each other. I’m, like, ‘When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know,’ and he’s, like, ‘Packing up, shacking up’s all you want to do.’”
She notes, “He’s looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and I’m saying, in my more airy-fairy way, we’re gonna be all right. We’ll get through this.”
Stevie has several festival performances booked for this year, while Buckingham has a slew of tour dates lined up for the month of April.
(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — In his state trial for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Travis McMichael testified he is not a racist. But prosecutors in his federal hate crimes case have presented the jury with numerous statements, text messages and social media posts to allege racism was the underlying motive for why he, his father and their neighbor chased down and killed the 25-year-old Black man.
FBI analyst Amy Vaughn testified on Wednesday that she found a digital onslaught of messages, mostly from Travis McMichael, in which he allegedly routinely used racial slurs to describe Black people and advocated violence against them.
In one instance, Vaughn testified that the 36-year-old McMichael posted on social media his reaction to a news report on a confrontation between two white people and two Black people, allegedly saying Black people needed to be made examples of.
“‘They’d be scraping up brain matter if this happened to my wife or daughter,'” Vaughn read out loud from McMichael’s alleged message in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia.
McMichael, his 64-year-old father, Gregory McMichael, a former Georgia police officer; and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, have each been charged with one count of interference of Arbery’s civil rights and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels are also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and Travis McMichael faces an additional count of using a firearm in relation to a violent crime.
If convicted, the men could be sentenced to life in prison. All three are already serving life sentences, the McMichaels without the possibility of parole, after a state jury convicted them last year of murdering Arbery.
Derek Thomas, Travis McMichael’s childhood friend, testified on Wednesday that he was shocked by a violent, racist response Travis McMichael allegedly gave to what he said was supposed to be a funny video of a Black man playing a prank on his white friend.
Thomas said he was so disturbed by Travis McMichael’s texted response that he called him to confront him about it. When asked to read Travis McMichael’s text in court, Thomas declined and instead spelled out the racial slur he used to describe Black people.
Vaughn said her investigation led to the discovery of racist online posts by Bryan and bigoted comments Gregory McMichael used to describe Black people.
While the FBI was unable to get access to Gregory McMichael’s phone because of its encryption, Vaughn testified that investigators did find posts he made on Facebook that she read in court, including one in which he allegedly wrote, “The gun in the hand is worth more than the entire police force on the phone.”
Vaughn said the FBI also uncovered numerous online posts from Bryan in which he allegedly express his resentment over a relationship his daughter developed with a Black man. In one post Vaughn read in court, Bryan allegedly wrote, “This is the only thing I said I would never accept” and added, “If she doesn’t give a f— about herself, why should we?”
Arbery was out for a Sunday afternoon jog on Feb. 23, 2020, in the Satilla shores neighborhood near Brunswick, when the McMichaels assumed he was a burglarizing a home under construction in their neighborhood, armed themselves and chased him in their pickup truck. Bryan joined the five-minute pursuit, blocking Arbery’s path with his truck. He recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery with a shotgun during a struggle.
While the McMichaels claimed they chased Arbery not because he was Black, but because he was trespassing at their neighbor’s house, prosecutors on Wednesday showed the jury videos of Travis McMichael trespassing while on a hunting trip. In one of the videos, Travis McMichael is seen smiling while standing next to “No Trespassing” signs.
Prosecutors also showed the jury an online post in which Gregory McMichael allegedly wrote, “There’s private property and then there’s private property, you know?”
In her opening statement in the high-profile trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bobbi Bernstein told the jury she will also present evidence that Bryan told investigators that after Travis McMichael shot Arbery he allegedly heard him yell a racist epithet at the victim as he lay dying on the pavement.
Bernstein told the panel that while it is not illegal to use racial slurs, “these slurs can provide you with evidence as to why a defendant did what he did.”
Kim Kardashian has reportedly requested to be granted a divorce from Kanye West — without her estranged husband’s approval.
Radar Online reports that her lawyer, Laura Wasser, made the motion in court because Kim claims that Kanye has been served with the divorce papers and has not responded.
The motion reportedly reads: “[Kanye] and I both deserve the opportunity to build new lives. Therefore, I am asking that my request to bifurcate and terminate our marital status be granted. I have requested several times that [Kanye] agree to bifurcate and terminate our marital status. [He] has not responded to my request…I have been attempting to settle our dissolution with [Kanye] since I filed for divorce in February 2021.”
Kim added, “No counseling or reconciliation effort will be of any value at this time.”
In December, the star of Hulu’s The Kardashians reality show submitted a formal request to a judge asking to be declared legally single amid pending divorce. Since then, West has repeatedly asked Kim to come back to him, and recently attacked Kim’s current boyfriend, Pete Davidson, on social media. Over the weekend, in posts that have since been deleted, Kanye claimed on Instagram that Hulu is using Pete to keep Kim away from him. Then on Tuesday, Ye apologized.
“I’m working on my communication. I can benefit from a team of creative professionals, organizers, mobilizers and community leaders,” West wrote. “Thank everybody for supporting me. I know sharing screen shots was jarring and came off as harassing Kim. I take accountability. I’m still learning in real time. I don’t have all the answers.”
Rihanna waited a little while to show us how she and boyfriend A$AP Rocky celebrated Valentine’s Day like “nerdz.”
On Wednesday, the Grammy winner shared a carousel of photos showcasing the gifts she received, which starts off with a charming bouquet made completely out of LEGO. It appears A$AP Rocky also got his hands on some colorful LEGO-print wrapping paper, which he used to wrap several gifts, including a single pink rose.
Other gifts included a card embossed with lyrics from Method Man‘s “All I Need,” and a sunset dinner by the ocean. The snap also caught a look at a chunky ring on Rihanna’s pinkie finger, which spells out “Rih” in diamonds.
The two revealed last month that they are expecting their first child together, but have yet to reveal a due date or a name.
Strange creatures stalking strangers trapped in a place that may or may not be on this earthly plane. Sound familiar? Cue the Smoke Monster!
Not quite, says former Lost star Harold Perrineau. “We have actual monsters! Not smoke monsters!” he says of his new thriller/drama From, hitting EPIX this weekend.
Perrineau plays Sheriff Boyd Stevens, overseeing a run-down town where very bad things can happen to its residents after sundown. And it’s his job to keep folks alive, he tells ABC Audio.
“He’s got a kind of sadness but also a real commitment. Like he’s going to get these people out of here as safely as he humanly can, and he really does not care what you think or feel or if you are in his way,” says Perrineau.
It’s familiar turf for the actor, who played Michael Dawson on ABC’s Lost. From shares some of the DNA that made Lost such a polarizing hit — right down to members of the creative team that worked on it. But Perrineau says they’re on a separate path here.
“We all learned so much from Lost,” says Perrineau. “Things to do, and things not to do…we realize this is a very, very different job and we have different tools at hand and we have different agendas.”
And while both shows are edge-of-your-seat fantasy thrillers, Perrineau thinks From has real-world parallels.
“We’ve all been like, ‘Hey man! If you were in a plane crash, what would you do? Who would you eat first?’ Here, it’s like, ‘Hey man! If you were trapped in your house, and you couldn’t go out? Because there are monsters out the door?’ Wait a minute. Aren’t we living like that right now?” (AUDIO IS ABC 1-ON-1)
Michael Bublé is gearing up for the release of his new album, Higher, which comes out this month. He also shared in a new interview what it was like recording his version of Paul McCartney‘s song “My Valentine,” with Paul himself in the studio.
Speaking with ET Canada, the crooner revealed that just about everyone in his inner circle was amazed he was able to “get” Sir Paul to help out on a song. “But I didn’t get him,” Michael insisted. “He called us!”
Michael explained that Paul’s manager told him, “We know you’re making a record and Paul thinks that you would do this song really great!” Michael said he jumped at the opportunity to put his spin on “My Valentine,” which Paul originally recorded for his 2012 album, Kisses on the Bottom.
The “I’ll Never Not Love You” singer also admitted to geeking out when he called Sir Paul to ask the legendary artist if he’d co-produce the track.
“I got the U.K. number and I said, ‘Hello,’ and this man said, ‘Oh, it’s Paul Macs,’ and I said, ‘Hey, it’s Mike Bubs,'” Bublé recalled. “When he said he would do [the song], I didn’t know what to do! So I just started to punch my fist in the air and I was quiet about it…and then he thought he lost me.”
Glass Animals has premiered a new live video for “Heat Waves.”
The clip, which was recorded during a show in New York last year, captures an energetic performance of the hit single, matched by an exuberant crowd loudly singing along.
“That was a frickin’ dream, thank you,” frontman Dave Bayley exclaims at the end of the performance. “So incredible.”
“Heat Waves,” which appears on Glass Animals’ 2020 album Dreamland, has become the band’s breakout hit, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The song’s success has led to a Best New Artist nomination at this year’s Grammys.
You can see Glass Animals live for yourself on their upcoming U.S. tour, which kicks off in March.
