Times are tough, so here’s some good news: Concert promoter Live Nation is bringing back its $25 ticket promotion for this summer.
Starting May 4 through May 10, you can buy tickets for tons of top acts for just 25 bucks each. Among the participating artists are Backstreet Boys, Train, Josh Groban, Shawn Mendes, OneRepublic, Goo Goo Dolls, New Kids on the Block, Maren Morris, Shania Twain, Hanson, John Legend, Norah Jones and even select dates for Rod Stewart‘s Las Vegas residency. Over 3,700 shows in all are part of the promotion.
Miranda Lambert is getting closer to releasing her next studio album, Palomino, and the singer shared some of the project’s backstory via one of its songs.
The singer posted a clip on social media of an unreleased song called “Tourist,” along with a photo montage of herself traveling with her husband, Brendan McLoughlin, plus friends and family.
“‘Tourist’ was the first song we wrote for Palomino and it set the tone for the record,” Miranda explains. “I’ve toured, but I haven’t really gotten to be a tourist. This is the song on the record I want to live out the most.”
Travel is a theme throughout Palomino, with many of its songs written about towns and cities across the country — and the colorful characters who live there. The lead single is “If I Was a Cowboy,” and Miranda has also previewed the album with songs like “Strange” and “Actin’ Up.”
Over 200 artists, including Foreigner, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith and The Who, are taking part in Live Nation’s 2022 Concert Week promotion, which will offer $25 tickets to shows across North American throughout the summer.
Among the many, many other participating tours are Alanis Morissette, Alice Cooper, Barenaked Ladies, The Beach Boys, The Black Crowes, Bonnie Raitt, Chicago & Brian Wilson, Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Duran Duran, Elvis Costello, Goo Goo Dolls, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pet Shop Boys, REO Speedwagon & Styx with Loverboy, Roxy Music, Sammy Hagar, Santana & Earth, Wind, & Fire, Sheryl Crow, Steely Dan, Sting, Tears for Fears, Third Eye Blind, UB40 and ZZ Top.
In total, over 3,700 shows will be discounted as part of the promotion.
The $25 Concert Week tickets will be on sale beginning Wednesday, May 4 at 10 a.m. ET, through Tuesday, May 10. For the full list of participating artists and all other info, visit LiveNation.com.
As part of a presentation on the last day of CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Paramount Pictures revealed the title of the next Mission: Impossible film. Variety reports the seventh adventure of his $3.5 billion-grossing franchise will be Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.
The increasingly expensive film was to be shot concurrently with the eighth movie in the series, but pandemic delays prevented that from happening.
The seventh installment stars Tom Cruise with returning players Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby and Frederick Schmidt, in addition to Henry Czerny, who appeared in the first Mission: Impossible movie back in 1996 as IMF Director Eugene Kittridge.
Necomers include Marvel movie veterans Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff, as well as Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Cary Elwes and Shea Whigham.
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh in the series, is set for release July 14, 2023. Part 2 is slated for theaters on June 28, 2024.
And in other Tom Cruise-related news, his Top Gun: Maverick reportedly enjoyed a debut screening for the CinemacCon audience Thursday morning, ahead of the movie’s May 27 release.
Demi Lovato had quite the surprise for a young fan they met 13 years ago through the Make-A-Wish foundation. After meeting Austen when she was 10 years old, Demi decided to check in with the now 23-year-old.
Make-A-Wish shared the video where Austen, who was battling end-stage kidney disease when she wished to meet Demi in 2009, recalled the event.
“Demi was incredible,” Austen said of meeting the star backstage at one of their concerts. “We were talking and they’re like, ‘Oh, I hear that you sing, can you sing for me?'” Austen admitted she was “a ham” when performing for Demi, choosing to jump into a performance of “This Is Me” from Camp Rock.
“Demi’s like, ‘Oh, you’re really good!’ And I’m, like, freaking out like, ‘One of my idols said I’m a really good singer. That’s so cool!'” Demi later invited Austen to sing with them on stage, the latter of whom said the meeting “made me… into the person I am today.”.
Of course, that walk through memory lane ended at a happy destination — an overdue reunion. Demi rushed Austen and the two shared a heartfelt embrace, with the singer marveling, “You’re so grown now!”
After shedding some happy tears, Demi added, “I remember your little pigtails” before posing for some updated selfies.
Make-A-Wish shared a brief clip of an elated and squealing Austen after the meeting, showing that she is still very much a fan of the “Anyone” singer.
“Today, Austen is a student studying to be a speech pathologist – with hopes to give back to others. The wish experience forever changed Austen – giving her the hope needed to persevere,” Make-A-Wish added in a separate tweet. “That’s the power of a wish.”
Ava Max dropped her brand-new song, “Maybe You’re the Problem,” on Thursday, which doubles as a breakup song and a dance track.
Title track of Ava’s forthcoming album of the same name offers a nostalgic ’80s-style beat and savage lyrics about what really doomed her relationship.
“All the things I heard from your ex/ Now they make a whole lotta sense/ Already feel bad for your next that has to put up with you,” the “Motto” singer declares. Ava also reveals her friends hated her ex, who had a massive ego and would drink and make everything about him.
Ava also teased a forthcoming music video by sharing a clip to Instagram, which features her seductively eating a snow cone with another man, which she captioned, “tomorrow.”
While she didn’t name any names about who inspired the breakup anthem, Ava previously told Billboard her new album was born out of “the hardest year of my life,” declaring, “I’ve never written anything so personal and it’s probably some of the best music I’ve ever written.”
A release date for Ava’s second studio album has yet to be announced. Her last record, Heaven & Hell, was released in September 2020.
People unveiled their 2022 “The Beautiful Issue” on Wednesday, naming Zendaya, Halle Berry and Viola Davis to the magazine’s annual list of “funny, brilliant” women.
“Everything I’ve experienced is what connects me to the world,” said Davis in the issue, who recently released her personal memoir, Finding Me.
Also featured among the list of more than 120 women is Batman star Zoë Kravitz, who let the magazine in on a piece of advice she’d tell her younger self: “Don’t worry, it gets weirder.”
Tracee Ellis Ross also made the list, revealing her secret to what makes her feel beautiful. “I feel most beautiful at around 5pm when I’m fresh-faced, post-moisture mask, while giggling and reaching for a lovely glass of wine,” the black-ish star said.
NAACP Image Award-winner Regina Hall is featured as part of the issue’s breakout group of women, dubbed “Not Just a Pretty Face.” She spoke about her belief that beauty starts from within.
“Beauty’s subjective,” Hall said. “It also fades fast. A beautiful heart — that’s probably the best way to be beautiful. That beauty lasts long.”
The “Cuties to Beauties” segment shines a light on the “group of dazzling ladies started out as supersweet kids,” like Yara Shahidi and Mickey Guyton.
Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King open up about their 46-year friendship, including the start of it all as news co-workers who were left stranded at their news station due to a thunderstorm.
“We ended up talking all night long,” Winfrey said. “We’ve literally been friends ever since.”
(NEW YORK) — A new red flag warning has been issued from Nevada to Oklahoma where 60 mph winds and very dry conditions could create a dangerous fire situation.
The Southwest will continue to be hammered by gusty winds until the end of the week.
The critical fire weather in the Southwest continues with red flag warnings in effect across seven states from Nevada to Texas. Dry airmass remains in place across the region with relative humidity in the single digits and surface winds 20 mph or higher; isolated gusts could reach to 60 mph.
A cold blast brought wind chills in the teens and 20s from the Midwest to the Northeast Thursday morning.
Another cold morning is expected on Friday in the Northeast, with winter-like conditions expected.
The weather will be warmer in the Northeast over the weekend.
Gusty winds and a cold air mass across the Northeast region will make it feel like temps are in the 20s and 30s.
These dry gusty winds are elevating fire danger across parts of the Northeast Friday, with red flag warnings in effect from Delaware to Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia and much of New Jersey.
A new storm system is headed into the Heartland on Friday with severe weather possible, including tornadoes, from Northern Texas to Nebraska, with an enhanced risk in place just north of Oklahoma City, across eastern Kansas and into southeastern Nebraska.
Oklahoma City, Wichita and Tulsa are some of the cities in the bull’s-eye for possible tornadoes and huge hail.
This severe weather threat moves east into the Midwest by Saturday.
Paducah, St. Louis and just south of Chicago are the areas in the bull’s-eye for damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornados on Saturday.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump said his head of security “did nothing wrong” during a 2015 protest at Trump Tower at which five Hispanic men allege they were assaulted.
Trump called the protesters “troublemakers” during a deposition last October, according to a transcript made public Wednesday in Bronx Supreme Court, where Trump, his campaign, and his head of security, Keith Schiller, are being sued by Efrain Galicia and other demonstrators who say they were “violently attacked” during a protest over Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“I think they were troublemakers, yes I do. I think they were,” Trump said of the plaintiffs during the deposition.
“He did nothing wrong,” Trump said of Schiller. “He went out — I didn’t know about it — but he went out, he heard there was a disturbance and he went out.”
Video of the altercation showed Schiller smacking a protester in the face after he appeared to reach for a sign that said “Trump: Make America Racist Again.”
“And he went out, he took the sign down. He then walked away. And he was attacked from behind, and they tried to get his gun. I don’t even know if he was carrying a gun. But if he was, they were obviously trying to get it,” Trump said.
Trump denied having any knowledge of the protests in real time, despite attorneys for the demonstrators saying they have evidence to the contrary.
Toward the end of the deposition the questioning turned to a 2016 Trump campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during which Trump told the crowd, “If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?”
The plaintiffs’ attorney asked whether Trump meant to incentivize the crowd to engage in violence.
“No,” Trump replied. “I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than — tomatoes are bad, by the way.”
Trump said it would be OK with him for his security to use force to stop someone from throwing fruit.
“To stop somebody from throwing pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that — yeah, it’s dangerous stuff,” Trump said, according to the transcript.
Carly Rae Jepen is back and getting ready to release her new music, promising fans will not have to wait too much longer to hear it.
The “Call Me Maybe” singer announced her song, “Western Wind,” drops March 6 and shared the link where you can pre-save it before it goes live. She also showed off several promotional photos, one of which is a black and white image of her dressed in a lace dress and staring contemplatively at the camera. The other is of her in a flowing, golden gown standing on top of a large tree branch.
Carly Rae teased some of the song lyrics on Instagram, writing, “But could you give me peace of mind if I return to you in time my golden arrow.” This isn’t the first time she leaked a few verses. She also tantalized fans on Tuesday with some more lyrics and an additional promotional shot of her in a saffron-colored dress and overlooking what appears to be an orchard.
Carly previewed “Western Wind” when she performed at Coachella, but she remains coy on whether or not this is the first single of a new album or just a standalone.
The “Good Time” singer’s last album was Dedicated Side B, which she released in May 2020. “Western Wind” arrives next Friday, May 6, at midnight ET.
