The LA and NYC dates are, so far, Florence’s only announced U.S. shows for 2022. In April, the band will play a trio of concerts in the U.K., followed by some European festival performances in the summer.
Just last week, Florence + the Machine announced the details of their next album, Dance Fever. The follow-up to 2018’s High as Hope will arrive on May 13.
Machine Gun Kelly has officially premiered his collaboration with Bring Me the Horizon, “Maybe.”
The “Bloody Valentine” rocker and Horizon frontman Oli Skyespreviously teased the joint tune at a Los Angeles event earlier this month. Kelly then confirmed that the song would appear on his forthcoming album, Mainstream Sellout, when he revealed the record’s track list earlier this week.
Mainstream Sellout arrives March 25, and reunites Kelly with his Tickets to My Downfall producer, Travis Barker. It also includes the previously released songs “Emo Girl” and “Ay!,” featuring WILLOW and Lil Wayne, respectively.
Judy Greer can now be seen in NBC’s based-on-real-life series The Truth About Pam, opposite Oscar winner Renee Zellweger, who plays Pam Hupp, a woman who allegedly murdered her friend in 2011 and tried to pin it on the friend’s husband.
In Greer’s long career, she’s has appeared in beloved rom coms like 13 Going on 30, adventure movies like Jurassic World, slasher pics like the recent Halloween Kills, and she also has voiced the spacey, sex-crazed Cheryl Tunt on Archer since the animated series launched in 2009.
Greer is also part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Maggie Lang, the estranged wife of Paul Rudd‘s Scott Lang in the Ant-Man movies. Maggie’s a great mom, and is supportive of her ex-husband’s Avenging, but alas, Greer tells ABC Audio, her character has no superheroic abilities.
“I still wish I had a superpower. I’m still waiting for that,” Greer says, smiling. “I was like, ‘Can…my character just…have like one little superpower, like a baby one, like something tiny that…maybe like rubbed off on her at some point or something? No? Nothing?’…Maybe someday.”
Greer adds, modestly, “I would just like a tiny one, you know?”
As for getting to act in MCU projects, Judy says, “I think it’s always an honor to be asked to be a part of a massive franchise like that, of course. And so now I just want more,” adding with a laugh, “Never satisfied.”
We’ll just have to wait and see if she gets her wish when the third film in the series, Ant-Man: Quantumania, hits theaters July 28, 2023.
The Truth About Pam airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC and also streams on Peacock and Hulu.
If you ever wondered why Taylor Swift cast The Maze Runner and Teen Wolf actor Dylan O’Brien in her short film for the epic, 10-minute-long version of “All Too Well,” it was because she felt he’d be great ad-libbing — and she was right.
For a profile of O’Brien for Bustle, Taylor told the publication via email, “Dylan was my first choice for the ‘All Too Well’ short film because he has that versatility I was looking for. I’d seen his work and heard nothing but wonderful things about him as a person.”
“Ultimately I want to work with people who love what they do and come at it with enthusiasm, because that’s how I approach creating things too,” she continued. “I had a feeling he would be great at ad-libbing and adding nuance to his character…He absolutely blew me away and I feel really lucky that I gained such a great friend from the experience, too.”
According to Bustle, Taylor sent O’Brien a “novella-length text message” asking him to take the role and he said yes right away. While shooting the post-dinner party argument scene, Taylor let O’Brien and co-star Sadie Sink come up with what they’d be saying to each other — and she liked it so much that she decided to highlight it.
O’Brien tells Bustle, “Everything was planned to be to music. But then when we played out that scene [with dialogue], [Taylor] immediately marched over and was just like, ‘This is it. I’m going to play this in the video.’”
He adds, “The confidence to just identify that in the moment on set and take in what we were bringing to it [shows how] she’s so sound with relationships and her instincts.”
Muse has released a trailer for the music video to “Compliance,” the band’s upcoming new single.
The 20-second clip shows a mysterious hooded figure wearing a gold mask. The same figure is featured is the video teaser Muse released last week, which is soundtracked by a chant of the phrase, “The will of the people.”
The full “Compliance” video premieres this Thursday, March 17, at 12 p.m. ET.
“Compliance” follows the January release of the single “Won’t Stand Down.” The songs are the first new music from Muse to follow their 2018 album, Simulation Theory.
A new album titled Carry Me Home, featuring an archival live recording of late Band singer/drummer Levon Helm and gospel/soul legend Mavis Staples performing together with their respective solo groups, will be released on May 20 on CD and digital formats.
The album was recorded in the summer of 2011 at one of the popular Midnight Ramble events held at Helm’s barn and studio in Woodstock, New York.
The show’s set list featured a mix of vintage gospel, soul, folk and blues tunes, along with renditions of Bob Dylan‘s “You Got to Serve Somebody” and The Band’s “The Weight.” Mavis was famously featured performing the latter tune with her family group The Staple Singers and The Band in the classic 1978 concert film The Last Waltz.
The Woodstock show marked the last time that Mavis performed with Levon, who died of cancer at age 71 in April 2012.
In advance of Carry Me Home‘s release, a performance of the traditional spiritual song “You Got to Move” has been made available as a digital single, and a video of Staples singing the song with Levon, his group and her own band has debuted at the ANTI- Records label’s YouTube channel. Mavis’ group included her sister and fellow Staple Singers member Yvonne, who passed away in 2018 at age 80.
A vinyl version of Carry Me Home will be released on June 17.
Mavis, 82, has more than 40 concerts on her 2022 tour schedule, which includes a lengthy stint as the opening act on Bonnie Raitt‘s U.S. summer tour:
Here’s the full track list of Carry Me Home:
“This Is My Country”
“Trouble in My Mind”
“Farther Along”
“Hand Writing on the Wall”
“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
“Move Along Train”
“This May Be the Last Time”
“When I Go Away”
“Wide River to Cross”
“You Got to Move”
“You Got to Serve Somebody”
“The Weight”
A new study claims One Directionhas the most positive fan base, while Rihanna‘s followers are the most negative.
WordTips observed the 186 biggest fan followings on Twitter, including the type of language fans have used, and calculated the number of negative versus positive expressions per 1,000 words.
While 1D’s followers heaped praise onto the group, Rihanna wasn’t so lucky. The study claims her fans are becoming antsy in anticipation of her promised new album, for which they’ve been waiting for over six years, and are complaining about it in droves on Twitter, with 186 negative words per 1,000.
This also means Rihanna’s fans are more negative than those who play Call of Duty, says the study, which ranked them in second place, with 184 negative expressions per 1,000 words.
The artist with the second-most negative fan base was The Weeknd, followed by Cardi B in third.
As for One Direction, their fans uttered 322 positive words out of 1,000, but that doesn’t mean there are no negatives: their angrier fans are the fifth-most negative in the survey.
The haters weren’t hating on Taylor Swift, either, who is tied in second place with reggaetón superstar Daddy Yankee. Both fan bases uttered 315 positive words per 1,000. Zayn Malik — who famously left 1D — had the fourth-most positive fa nbase on Twitter, with 309 positive interactions out of 1,000.
Also boasting the happiest fans was Shawn Mendes in fifth place.
Sam Hunt played a headlining set at Florida’s Strawberry Festival over the weekend, and he had a very special guest join him onstage.
During his show-closing performance of “Body Like a Back Road,” Sam invited Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski — known to his fans as “Gronk” — to join him in the spotlight. Gronk was clearly a fan, singing and dancing along to Sam’s hit single as he bent over to greet fans in the front rows.
Sam has been absent from the spotlight ever since news broke that he was getting divorced from his wife Hannah Lee Fowler, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child. Sam and Hannah never publicly announced the pregnancy, but court documents pertaining to the divorce reveal that she’s due in May.
Sam’s newest release is “Wishful Drinking,” a duet with Ingrid Andress.
Mod Sun has premiered the video for his latest single, “Rich Kids Ruin Everything.”
The clip finds the “Flames” rocker with a group of friends in an empty parking lot as they perform an elaborately choreographed dance with shopping carts. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
“A shopping cart represents the perfect duality of consumerism and people with nothing,” Mod says. “For this song, I wanted to make an art piece instead of a narrative.”
“We see so much of the same thing in videos lately,” he adds. “My goal is always to push the boundaries of not repeating myself. I’ve never had a video with dancing and choreography before and I think this is the perfect song for it.”
“Rich Kids Ruin Everything” dropped last week. It’s the lead single off Mod’s follow-up album to 2021’s Internet Killed the Rockstar, which features the Avril Lavigne collaboration, “Flames.”
Following its inclusion in the hit movie The Batman, streams of Nirvana‘s “Something in the Way” increased by more than 700%. Now, the song — featured on the band’s landmark 1991 album Nevermind — has taken over the Billboard charts.
The song has debuted at number five on Billboard‘s Hot Alternative Songs chart and number six on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. That’s thanks to the fact that its downloads increased by nearly 1900%, and it was streamed close to eight million times between March 4 and March 10.
Meanwhile, “Something in the Way” is number two on the Rock Streaming Songs and Rock Digital Song Sales charts, and number four on the Alternative Digital Song Sales and Alternative Streaming Sales tallies. It’s number 20 on Digital Song Sales, and number 27 on Streaming Songs. This marks Nirvana’s first appearance on the latter chart, which has existed since 2013.
But wait, there’s more. Nevermind is now number one on both the Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts. It’s the album’s second appearance on top of both charts; the first happened last year, in connection with the album’s 20th anniversary.
“Something in the Way” is used multiple times in The Batman, and was also heard in the movie’s trailer. In fact, the song heavily influenced writer-director Matt Reeves‘ interpretation of the comic book icon. Speaking to Esquire magazine, Reeves said his Caped Crusader is “like a Batman Kurt Cobain.”
