Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda says that the band doesn’t currently have any new music or live performance plans.
In a recent Twitch stream captured by the Linkin Park Live fan account, Shinoda said, “The only Linkin Park news I have for you is that we talk every few weeks, I talk to the guys or some of the guys.”
“There’s no tours, there’s no music, there’s no albums in the pipeline,” he added. “Let me just tell you that. Just keep in your minds that that is not happening…I’m just gonna say that much, for not.”
That future of Linkin Park has been up in the air since the death of vocalist Chester Bennington in July 2017. The band members reunited for a guest-filled memorial concert in October 2017, but haven’t done anything together since, aside from releasing a 20th anniversary Hybrid Theory reissue.
In explaining his new comments, Shinoda says, “Anytime the band says anything or does anything, everyone tries to start up the hype train. And we’re like, ‘No, no, no, no. Don’t start the hype train. You’re gonna disappoint yourself.'”
Kenny Chesney launched his long-awaited 2022 Here and Now Tour over the weekend, marking the return of one of country music’s most high-energy, physical live shows.
Putting on a show like that requires Kenny to be in top physical form, and he puts a lot of effort into his diet and exercise habits. “My brain, my soul, my heart, cardiovascular-wise — I have to prepare all of me to do what I do,” the singer tells USA Today.
With a two-year, pandemic-induced break from touring, Kenny took a more relaxed approach to what is typically an intense pre-tour fitness regimen that he starts at the beginning of each year.
“I wasn’t in my traditional routine of getting off tour in August or September and going to the islands to be the other person and drink and eat what I want through Christmas,” he continues. “The second week of January I’d start preparing for the other six months, so I started a little earlier this year.”
That prep entails a comprehensive diet and exercise plan with the help of a trainer, Kenny says.
“I measure my food; it’s a pretty intense diet. And my trainer mixes it up,” he explains. “It’s a lot of cardio, a lot of interval training to get my heart rate up.”
The 2022 Here and Now Tour extends through this summer, wrapping with two Foxborough, Massachusetts stops on August 26 and 27.
Stevie Nicks has booked a bunch of festival dates for 2022, but now she’s added four headlining shows to her schedule.
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will perform June 10 in Ridgefield, Washington; June 12 in Mountain View, California; June 16 in Salt Lake City; and June 21 in Noblesville, Indiana. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 29 via LiveNation.com.
That’s in addition to her shows on May 11 at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, and May 14 at the Gorge in George, Washington. Vanessa Carlton will open those shows.
As previously reported, Stevie will also headline the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 7, Bonnaroo on June 19 and Jazz Aspen Snowmass on September 4.
In addition, she’ll perform on September 17 at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now festival, September 24 at Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Sound on Sound Festival, and September 30 at Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Fest in Dana Point, California.
Hayley Williams made her Coachella debut in a big way over the weekend during Billie Eilish‘s set.
The “bad guy” artist invited the Paramore frontwoman onstage during her set during Coachella’s second weekend this past Saturday.
“It’s my first Coachella, whoa!” Williams said. “Thanks for sharing this with me, this is sick!”
Williams joined Eilish for an acoustic performance of the Paramore classic “Misery Business,” as well as a rendition of Eilish’s “Higher Power.”
Notably, the “Misery Business” performance marks the first time Williams has sang the song publicly since she declared in 2018 that Paramore wouldn’t be playing it for a “really long time.” For the Coachella performance, Eilish handled the controversial line “Once a whore you’re nothing more/I’m sorry, that’ll never change,” though she didn’t sing the word “whore.”
Williams’ surprise appearance follows Eilish inviting Damon Albarn onstage for her weekend-one Coachella set to perform the Gorillaz song “Feel Good Inc.” Albarn himself returned to Coachella for weekend two to guest during electronic artist Flume‘s set. They performed a new song together called “Palaces,” which has since been officially released.
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With the vinyl release of his eighth studio album, Call Me if You Get Lost,Tyler, the Creator has found himself back on top of the charts.
According to Billboard, the 16-track project, which won Best Rap Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards, jumped from number 120 to number one on the Billboard 200 this past weekend, marking the album’s second nonconsecutive week at the top spot.
The vinyl, which was announced and released on April 6 via Tyler, the Creator’s Twitter, sold 49,500 copies, making it the largest sales week for a hip-hop album on vinyl or for a solo male album on vinyl, according to data resource organization Luminate, as reported by Billboard.
The 31-year-old megastar also gained another record-breaking title recently, when his CMIYGL tour sold a total 389,000 tickets, earning him $32.6 million. The tour, which sold out 32 North American arenas, surpassed both J. Cole‘s The Off-Season tour and The Millennium Tour 2021, making it the highest-grossing hip-hop tour, post-pandemic.
After his final tour stop in Washington earlier this month, Tyler posted a thank-you message on Twitter, saying, “happy you enjoyed the tour. was fun. thank you.”
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart was feted in Washington, D.C. Sunday night by a host of celebrities, there to pay tribute as he accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
It was the first presentation of the award since 2019, when Dave Chappelle received it. The comic was among those who showed up to honor Stewart, saying of his stewardship of The Daily Show after 9/11, “The news was off the chain and Jon was the only voice that helped people decipher that madness.”
In accepting the prize, Stewart noted, “There’s a lot of talk about what’s going to happen to comedy — you know, ‘the Slap’ — and will comedy survive in this new moment? Comedy survives in every moment.”
Referencing his bust of Twain, Stewart added, “This man’s decapitated visage is a reminder that what we have is fragile and precious.”
Stewart also said of using comedy to speak truth to power, “The real threat is not the fragility of audiences” or “the pronoun police,” but rather, “the fragility of leaders.”
Others who took part in the ceremony included Jimmy Kimmel and former Daily Show correspondent Olivia Munn, there with her partner, comedian John Mulaney. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson were also there, with Pete also serving as one of the night’s guest speakers.
Other Daily Show vets, including Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert also spoke; the latter appeared remotely thanks to his recent COVID-19 diagnosis.
Gary Clark Jr. acted as the award ceremony’s house band, and Stewart’s fellow Garden Stater Bruce Springsteen joined the blues musician for “Come Together.” Springsteen also played an acoustic version of “Born to Run,” according to accounts.
An edited version of the awards ceremony will air June 21 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
Jake Owen has a busy summer ahead of him: he’s embarking on a 34-city headlining tour that will take him to cities across the country May through October.
The trek begins on May 5 in Ohio at Hobart Arena, followed by a pre-Kentucky Derby performance at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall in Louisville on May 6.
Along the way, he’ll make stops at the famous Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth and several festivals, including Country Stampede on July 15, Faster Horses on July 22, Watershed Festival on July 31 and more. The tour wraps on October 1 in Georgia with a performance at City of Buford Fall Concert. Visit his official website for a full list of dates.
“Looking forward to getting back out there, bringing smiles and happiness and some new tunes. The world needs more of that,” Jake shares.
While his current single, “Best Thing Since Backroads,” is climbing the charts, the Florida native has also been sharing new music on socials, and is set to drop another new track, “1×1,” on Friday.
Lynch & Campbell onstage in 1979; Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band, The Dirty Knobs, now have a very familiar face behind the drum kit: original Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch.
On Facebook, Campbell explained that Matt Laug, the drummer for The Dirty Knobs, has “a commitment touring in Italy through the end of June,” so Lynch will be filling in for him on all the band’s shows through a June 26 show in Aspen, Colorado.
Lynch’s first gigs with the band took place over the weekend in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. Their next show is April 28 in Houston. Laug will rejoin the band in July.
Campbell describes Lynch as “an old friend who I love dearly,” adding, “We’ve had the best time reconnecting.”
Lynch was a member of the Heartbreakers until he left in 1994; he was replaced by Steve Ferrone. He reunited with the Heartbreakers for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to the Heartbreakers, Lynch, who is also a songwriter and producer, contributed to albums by The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Toto, Warren Zevon and many other artists.
Lynch & Campbell onstage in 1979; Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band, The Dirty Knobs, now have a very familiar face behind the drum kit: Founding Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch.
On Facebook, Campbell explained that Matt Laug, the drummer for The Dirty Knobs, has “a commitment touring in Italy through the end of June,” so Lynch will be filling in for him on all the band’s shows through a June 26 show in Aspen, CO.
Lynch’s first gigs with the band took place over the weekend in Boulder and Denver, CO. Their next show is April 28 in Houston. Laug will rejoin the band in July.
Campbell describes Lynch as “an old friend who I love dearly,” adding, “We’ve had the best time reconnecting.”
Lynch was a member of the Heartbreakers until he left in 1994; he was replaced by Steve Ferrone. He reunited with the Heartbreakers for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to the Heartbreakers, Lynch, who is also a songwriter and producer, contributed to albums by The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Toto, Warren Zevon and many other artists.
(HONG KONG) — A new COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing is raising fears that China’s capital could be sent into a hard lockdown, like the one in Shanghai that’s entering a fifth week.
Beijing residents are stocking up and clearing shelves, despite authorities telling residents there are enough supplies to go around.
About 3.5 million residents in Beijing’s affluent Chaoyang district, which includes the central business district, will have to undergo mandatory mass testing three times this week to contain a spike in cases, with 70 infections reported citywide there since Friday.
China’s daily cases rose 4% to 20,194 on Monday, most of them in Shanghai. The city has now recorded 506,000 infections since the start of March.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has put his personal stamp on China’s “Zero Covid” strategy, defended his government’s approach as recently as last Thursday, when he delivered a keynote speech via video to the Boao Forum for Asia, China’s answer to the Davos forum.
“Safety and health are the prerequisite for human development and progress. For humanity to clinch the final victory against the Covid-19 pandemic, more hard efforts are needed,” he said.
The Chinese leader has made it clear before that he wants to keep the capital city COVID-free. A lockdown in Beijing would add political strain to a strategy of which the economic and social costs are growing by the day.
Chinese stocks dropped to the lowest levels in two years Monday over fears of more curbs to the nation’s capital.
Beijing’s Communist Party Secretary Cai Qi was quoted in Beijing Daily newspaper on Sunday as saying, “Important pandemic measures cannot be left waiting till the next day … all at-risk sites and individuals involved in these cases must be checked that day.”
Chinese health official Pang Xinghuo said on Sunday that cases have been spreading undetected in the city for about a week.
Health workers in Shanghai put up green metal barriers this weekend in some areas where cases are detected. In a notice circulated on Chinese social media, the epidemic control office for the Pudong New Area in Shanghai Authorities referred to this method as “hard isolation,” which is meant to provide a physical barrier between areas with different risk factors and keep the roads clear.
Shanghai reported 51 more deaths on Monday, prompting another round of mass testing for residents in the next few days.
Authorities had hoped to ease restrictions once social transmission was significantly reduced, but the measures have remained strict for most residents in the financial hub.
