Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ headlining performance at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this weekend will be a “celebration” of late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“We’re going to play our hearts out,” drummer Chad Smith tells Billboard.
The Peppers joined the Jazz Fest lineup in place of Foo Fighters, who canceled all of their upcoming tour dates following Hawkins’ unexpected death on March 25.
“We’re taking Alison, [Hawkins’] wife, with us and it’s going to be a celebration,” Smith says. “That’s what she wants. She doesn’t want it to be anything other than, ‘Let’s celebrate music, let’s celebrate our friends, let’s celebrate Taylor. This is what he would want and he would be very happy that you guys are playing and he would want it be nothing but a positive experience.'”
Smith adds, “So we’re going to do all that and she’s going to be part of that and I’m very honored that we can do that with her.”
As previously reported, Nine Inch Nails will be replacing Foo Fighters at the Boston Calling and Welcome to Rockville festivals, while Arcade Fire will be stepping in for them at Osheaga. Arcade Fire’s Win Butler has said that his band will be dedicating their set to Hawkins.
Dolly Parton’s Grace and Frankie cameo is getting closer, according to the Netflix show’s co-stars, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Jane, Lily and Dolly all co-starred in the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5 back in 1980, so it seems only fitting that they’d reunite on Grace and Frankie. Now that the show’s in its final season, time is running out for Dolly to make her appearance — but she’s showing up in the nick of time.
Jane and Lily offered some details on the reunion to ET Online recently, explaining that Dolly’s cameo will be in the series finale, and her story line is truly something special.
“It’s not just the fact that Dolly shows up. It’s how she shows up. What the story is that brings her on. It’s just beyond perfect,” Jane explained. “We were both just so moved when she turned that chair around and there she was.”
Grace and Frankie, Netflix’s longest-running original series, concludes this year after seven seasons. The final episodes will drop April 29.
And though Jane and Lily — frequent collaborators since the ‘70s — are sad to say goodbye to their characters, their time working together isn’t done yet.
“Over the last few months, we made a movie together, right after, and we are working on another movie right now,” Jane explains.
So who knows? Lily and Jane might get another shot at sharing the screen with Dolly in the years to come, even after the curtains close on Grace and Frankie.
After multiple teases, Sam Smith has finally dropped their new single and video, “Love Me More.”
In the song, Sam starts out full of self-doubt, singing, “Have you ever felt like being somebody else?/Feeling like the mirror isn’t good for your health?” but then, they turn a corner, singing, “Every day I’m trying not to hate myself/but lately it’s not hurting like it did before/Maybe I am learning how to love me more.”
The video opens with footage of Sam as a toddler, cuts to them alone in their house while a friend leaves a voice mail urging them to come out, and ends with them dancing with a crowd of people at a club and getting cozy with a guy on the dance floor.
“I wrote this song for anyone who feels different, anyone who has to stop themselves every day from saying unkind things to themselves, in their head, all the time,” Sam explains in a statement. “I felt like that for the longest time and slowly I’m learning how to just be nice to myself.”
“I wanted to share that because I captured it in this song,” they add. “Over the last two years, music has been my therapy more than ever. So I hope this song can be your friend.”
“Love Me More” is described as “the beginning of what will undoubtedly be yet another remarkable chapter for Sam.” No word yet on a new album, though.
After teasing it earlier this week with a goofy teaser video called “I Feel Funny,” Justin Bieber has now officially dropped his new single, “Honest,” featuring Houston rapper Don Toliver.
Speaking to Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1 about why he collaborated with Toliver, Justin explains, “I just love his melodies…he has a really amazing cadence to his songs and his music. And I’m just a genuine fan. He’s very unique. And he just is himself. And that’s what I love about any artist that can just has a lane and does what they do and does it well.”
In the video, Justin and Toliver, along with two women, ride snowmobiles through mountains and hang out in the snowy woods, wearing a variety of fabulous puffer coats. In one James Bond-ish moment, a man in black starts shooting at them, but the woman riding with Justin on the back of the snowmobile takes him out.
Lyrically, the song seems to be another tribute to Justin’s love for his wife, Hailey: “You’re modest, I like it/You stay down and you the baddest/You kept it real with me from jump” he sings. “I like that hazel on you/I look straight in your eyes, holy matrimony.”
When Toliver comes in, he raps about “me and JB smoking skunk” and hands Justin what appears to be a joint, from which he takes a hit. The clip ends with Toliver, Justin and the two women sitting around a fire in the snowy woods, smoking.
Future’s highly anticipated new album, I NEVER LIKED YOU, dropped on Friday and the hot new project is filled with star-studded features from Drake, Gunna & Young Thug, Kodak Black, Kanye West and more.
Ye appears alongside his longtime friend Future in the music video for “Keep It Burnin,” which was also delivered on Friday. The fiery new track, which Future teased earlier this week, first showed up on Ye’s Donda 2.
The 16-track project comes nearly two years after his RIAA Platinum-selling album, High Off Life, marking the Atlanta rapper’s ninth studio collection and first full-length project since his collaboration with Lil Uzi Vert on Pluto x Baby Pluto.
In a recent cover story for GQ, Future opened up about his vulnerability on the album, saying, “I’m putting myself out there. Sharing my lifestyle with the world. Sharing my pain with the world. Sharing my ups, sharing my downs with the entire universe. I believe in the energy of the universe and manifestation. That’s why I’m giving myself, because I’m willing to correct myself. I don’t want to just…be wrong. I’m willing to give you all of me, so you can tell me how to build on me, and make me a better me.”
It may be safe to say Future’s proud of his latest body of work: Prior to the album’s release, the rapper tweeted about his ambitious expectations, saying, “When the album drop ain’t no being humble…Da biggest.”
I NEVER LIKED YOU is now available for streaming on all major platforms.
(NEW YORK) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2022, after years of growth, according to a new report.
Economists had expected consumer spending to accelerate in March, as rising wages prompted more American spending on services such as dining out and travel.
Watch the full report from ABC’s Good Morning America:
The “severe and persistent muscle spasms” that have been plaguing Celine Dion for months don’t appear to be going away any time soon. The star is now postponing her 2022 European shows to 2023.
Celine was unable to launch her new Las Vegas residency at Resorts World last November due to the condition, and now she says her recovery is taking longer than she had hoped.
“I’m so sorry we have to change our tour plans for Europe one more time; first we had to move the shows because of the pandemic, now it’s my health issues causing us to postpone the shows,” Celine says in an emotional video statement. “I am doing a little bit better…but I’m still experiencing some spasms.”
“I need to be in top shape when I’m on stage,” she adds. “I honestly can’t wait, but I’m just not there yet… I’m doing my very best to get back to the level that I need to be so that I can give 100% at my shows because that’s what you deserve.”
Celine adds, “I appreciate your loyalty…thank you so much for the messages of love and support that you always send to my social media. It means a lot to me.”
Celine also took the opportunity to say that she stands with the people of Ukraine, adding, “I hope and pray that this war ends soon.”
The rescheduled shows start in February of 2023 and run through April, and then resume in August and run through October. It’s possible that between April and August, Celine’s hoping to return to Las Vegas.
(NEW YORK) — Trevor Reed’s family said President Joe Biden may have saved their son’s life, doing everything he could to bring Reed home, in their first interview since seeing their son on U.S. soil.
“Ultimately it was President Biden,” Joey Reed, Trevor Reed’s father, said in an interview Friday on Good Morning America. “We’ve said all along if we could just speak to the man, we think he would make this happen and that’s exactly what happened. He did everything that we had said he would do and it’s amazing and we can’t thank him enough.”
He added, “We believe he may have saved Trevor’s life.”
Reed, a former Marine from Texas, was released from Russian prison on Wednesday as part of an international prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia. He had been held in Russia since 2019.
Trevor Reed’s family said they met with him on Thursday for a few hours. His mother, Paula Reed, said it was the first time they got to hug him, saying “it was heaven.”
The Reeds said they received a phone call early Thursday morning from Roger Carsten, the presidential envoy on hostage affairs, who handed the phone to Trevor Reed, who was on a plane headed to the U.S.
Reed was arrested in Russia, while on a trip visiting his girlfriend, after Russian authorities alleged he grabbed the wheel of a police car and assaulted a police officer while drunk.
Reed denied the allegations and maintained his innocence. A year later he was sentenced to nine years in prison. After several appeals he was moved from a Moscow prison to a remote prison colony.
Reed was exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, a convicted drug trafficker.
Reed’s parents said their son has a long road to recovery, in an interview with ABC News’ David Muir on Wednesday.
He is currently in a medical facility receiving care, but his family did not have a complete update on his health on Friday.
“We don’t really have a whole lot of answers yet. He’s getting testing done. He is at a top-notch medical facility and getting great care so we’re excited about that but we won’t really know more for a few days,” Paula Reed said.
The Reeds lobbied for years for the U.S. to negotiate for their son’s release, even personally pleading with Biden.
Other Americans, including Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, are still being held in Russia.
“Our hearts go out to them and we can only imagine how disappointed they are that their loved ones didn’t get to come home,” Paula Reed said.
She added that Whelan’s release was the first thing her son brought up when the family spoke.
“He said he didn’t feel well and we said, ‘Do you mean physically?’ He said, ‘No, mom. I feel terrible that Paul still there and I’m here.’ And he said when I get better, I’m going to start advocating for them to bring Paul home right away,'” Paula Reed said.
James Corden will step down as host of CBS’ The Late Late Show in 2023.
The British comedian, who will have hosted the show for eight-and-a-half years by the time he leaves, made the announcement on Thursday’s show.
“This will be my last year hosting the show,” he told his audience, explaining, “When I started this journey, it was always going to be just that — a journey, an adventure. I never saw it as my final destination.”
“I never want this show to overstay its welcome in any way, I always want to love making it,” he continued. “And really think that a year from now, that’ll be a good time to move on and see what else might be out there.”
In addition to his late-night gig, Corden has starred in films such as Peter Rabbit, Cats and The Prom. He is also a partner in Fulwell 73, the production company responsible for Hulu’s The Kardashians and Camila Cabello’s Cinderella, and will star alongside Sally Hawkins in Amazon’s upcoming comedy-drama series Mammals.
Corden replaced Craig Ferguson, who hosted The Late Late Show for nine years with help from comic and impressionist Josh Robert Thompson, who voiced Ferguson’s robotic sidekick, Geoff Peterson.
Corden’s first show aired on March 23, 2015. Since then, he’s introduced popular viral segments like Carpool Karaoke, Drop the Mic and Spill Your Guts.
