Volbeat has premiered the video for “Shotgun Blues,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Servant of the Mind.
The clip takes us to New York City in the year 1902, and finds the Danish rockers providing the soundtrack to a condemned man’s final moments before his execution by electric chair. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.
Servant of the Mind, the follow-up to 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound, arrives December 3. It also includes the single “Wait a Minute My Girl.”
Volbeat will hit the road next year in support of their new album on a co-headlining tour with Ghost, kicking off January 25 in Reno, Nevada.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Less than 24 hours stand in the way between us and Taylor Swift‘s re-recorded Red album. To amp up the excitement, one of the album’s collaborators admits just being able to be a part of it made her cry.
Phoebe Bridgers, who is featured on the song “Nothing New,” tells Billboard that working with Taylor has “just been a dream.”
The indie rock artist teased, “I just am so excited to have people take it at face value the day that it comes out, because I got teary recording it. I just couldn’t be more excited.”
Red (Taylor’s Version) — her remake of the 2012 Grammy-nominated album — drops Friday.” Nothing New” is a song Taylor wrote when recording the original album, but it didn’t make the cut. Now, it’s being released as one of the “Songs from the Vault” tracks on the re-recording.
Bridgers says Taylor’s decision to rerecord her old albums has taken the music industry by storm.
“It’s really inspiring for me and a lot of musicians,” she said. “I think a lot of people make a couple of records [and are] like, ‘Oh wow, I hit the top, I’m great now,’ and the fact that she just has always wanted more from the world — like, “No, no, no, f*** you, I’m going to make it again, I’m going to make it better, and it’s going to belong to me’ — is the coolest.”
Trying to follow up one of the biggest songs of the last 20 years or so is a tall order, which is why Rob Thomas says he isn’t concerned about whether or not “Move,” his new duet with Carlos Santana, is as successful as their first duet, “Smooth.” But Rob says the reason he specifically doesn’t worry about that stuff is because of some advice that Carlos gave him 21 years ago.
“I’m three years younger now than Carlos was when we first did ‘Smooth,'” Rob tells ABC Audio. “And at that very, very young age, Carlos taught me something that was very, very important that I hold on to, which is: The world is not as complicated as you make it seem sometimes, and you really are only in control of your motive, your intention and your purpose.”
According to Rob, Carlos told him, “Those are the three things that you can control. And whatever the outcome is, that’s going to be the outcome, but you can’t worry about it while you’re putting something into [the universe].”
“So, I don’t think I’ve ever really been concerned about whether something was going to perform,” Rob says, addressing the topic of “Move’s” success versus that of “Smooth.”
“When I do something and I’m creative and I’m listening to that frequency in the universe that gives me a song, then I feel like I’ve already succeeded,” the Matchbox Twenty frontman states. “And I think the only time that I fail is if I stop listening to that — or I start trying to control it.”
In addition to “Move,” which in addition to Carlos also features American Authors, Rob has a new holiday album out, Something About Christmas Time.
Debuting on Hulu today, Veterans Day, is the ABC News-produced documentary 3212 Un-Redacted.
The film centers on a military operation in 2017 that resulted in the deaths of four U.S. Special Forces soldiers, killed in an ambush by ISIS fighters near Tongo Tongo, Niger, and the Pentagon cover-up afterward.
The investigations into the operation resulted in the families of the fallen — Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black and Sgt. LaDavid Johnson — being lied to to protect senior military members.
“The conclusion of the first major investigation by United States Africa Command, which oversees operations on the continent, was that this team [3212] had embarked on a rogue mission which was intended to capture or kill a senior ISIS commander,” says ABC News’ James Gordon Meek, one of the film’s producers. “They said that these men were — again, most of them were Green Berets — ‘poorly trained and ill-prepared, and did not have basic soldiers skills to engage in such an operation.'”
“What they didn’t tell [the families] was the involvement of CIA, which was part of the mission,” Meek continues. “And most importantly, they didn’t tell them that the ground commander, Capt. Mike Perozeni, had actually pushed back on the missions that he was supposedly ‘going rogue; to carry out… [H]e made repeated calls and texts to his superiors, saying, ‘This is a bad idea…'”
Those who survived were investigated, and their reputations sullied.
Meek says releasing the film today is a reminder of the importance of Veterans Day, and its focus on those who fought, and who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation.
“As Congressman Mike Waltz says in the film, there’s no exception. The family should always be told the full truth, and they were not in this case,” Meek adds.
Get ready for a double dose of Jack White in 2022.
The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather rocker has announced not one, but two new solo albums to be released next year. The first, titled Fear of the Dawn, will arrive April 8, followed by the second, Entering Heaven Alive, dropping July 22.
The records mark White’s fourth and fifth solo releases, and his first since 2018’s Boarding House Reach.
White’s single “Taking Me Back,” which just dropped in October, is the opening track off Fear of the Dawn. The acoustic version of the song, dubbed “Taking Me Back (Gently),” closes out Entering Heaven Alive.
Along with the album announcements, White has premiered the video for “Taking Me Back,” which finds him rocking both guitar and drums while showing off his new blue hairstyle. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
Here are the track lists for Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive:
Fear of the Dawn
“Taking Me Back”
“Fear of the Dawn”
“The White Raven”
“Hi-de-ho” feat. Q-Tip
“Eosophobia”
“Into the Twilight”
“Dusk”
“What’s the Trick?”
“That Was Then (This Is Now)”
“Eosophobia (Reprise)”
“Morning, Noon and Night”
“Shedding My Velvet”
Entering Heaven Alive
“A Tip from You To Me”
“All Along the Way”
“Help Me Along”
“Love Is Selfish”
“I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
“Queen of the Bees”
“A Tree on Fire From Within”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
“A Madman from Manhattan”
“Taking Me Back (Gently)”
The 14th studio effort from the “Freak on a Leash” metallers will arrive February 4, 2022. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s The Nothing.
Our first preview of Requiem is the lead single “Start the Healing,” which is available now for digital download. You can also watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Here’s the Requiem track list:
“Forgotten”
“Let the Dark Do the Rest”
“Start the Healing”
“Lost in the Grandeur”
“Disconnect”
“Hopeless and Beaten”
“Penance to Sorrow”
“My Confession”
“Worst Is on Its Way”
Meghan Trainor is a first-time mom, which means she’s still learning her fair share of painful parenting lessons. However, she hopes that by sharing her biggest parenting fail “so far,” she can spare other moms from the same embarrassment.
The Grammy winner revealed to Ellen DeGeneres‘ Mom Confessions that she and husband Daryl Sabara would take their newborn son, Riley, out on morning walks. But instead of giving the baby some fresh air and sunshine, they accidentally gave him heat rash.
“We would take him on these walks out here in California, and I would come home and he would have these little red bumps all over him,” said Trainor, 27. “I sent pictures to my pediatrician after the third day in a row, and I was like, ‘What’s going on? I rub cream on him. I don’t know what this is!'”
After finding out that Riley had heat rash, the Clash of the Cover Bands judge sheepishly admitted, “I was boiling my son on my morning walks. So, don’t do that!”
Mayo Clinic says infants can develop heat rash in hot, humid weather. However, the biggest culprit is overdressing, with the institution advising parents to dress their infants in lightweight, cool clothing when in those conditions.
Mayo Clinic says heat rashes go away on their own, but notes that cool baths or being taken out of the hot temperatures can also help.
(NEW YORK) — With supply chain issues hitting the fresh food industry, due to delays and struggles to get products from farms to store shelves, certain Thanksgiving staples like cranberries will have a steeper cost and potentially less stock.
Ocean Spray president and CEO Tom Hayes joined Good Morning America on Thursday to address the upcoming run on Thanksgiving items and how his company’s signature fruit has had to stay afloat amid supply chain woes.
“Ocean Spray has had supply chain challenges, the whole industry has. We will continue to do our best to keep supplies going and supplies on shelves, but we’ve had to be resilient this year,” Hayes said. “We’re owned by 700 family farms and they continue to do everything they have for 90 years to keep the supply flowing, but it has been a challenge. Whether it’s steel cans and making supply chain adjustments, we have had to do it, and this year has been difficult of course.”
When it comes to price forecasting, Hayes explained that his company “unfortunately” has to pass on the rising production costs to consumers.
“That’s just a reality. We have a lot of costs going up — all ingredients, transportation. It is something that is continuing to affect us as a company and we do have to pass those on,” he said. “Remember, they’re family farms, so we have to make sure they have a livelihood too and we’re balancing that. We haven’t taken pricing in 10 years at Ocean Spray. We’re doing our best to keep costs down, but we have taken pricing and are looking forward to still having a great season.”
By the end of October, there were already some shortages on other crucial Thanksgiving items.
Turkeys were 60% out of stock, which was a little more than half of stock compared to the same time last year. Yams and sweet potatoes were 25% out of stock, while stock on refrigerated pies were down 5% and cranberries were 20% out of stock.
If consumers shop early, those products should be available, but — with price increases at the highest in 30 years — they will cost more.
To save some money on the total bill, experts recommend shopping now for non-perishable items and considering a potluck style Thanksgiving to spread the cost around.
“This is our super bowl at Ocean Spray,” Hayes said. “We are working day in and day out, all night in a lot of cases, to deliver products to the market.”
“My advice is to be absolutely flexible. Whether it’s jellied, whole or fresh cranberries,” he added. “Plan early and make sure you get to the grocery store. It will be a happy Thanksgiving, but you have to demonstrate more flexibility than you have in the past.”
(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — A boy who weighed just 15 ounces at birth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature infant to survive.
Curtis Means, of Alabama, was born on July 5, 2020, when his mom, Michelle Butler, went into labor just 21 weeks into her pregnancy and gave birth to twins in an emergency C-section.
Curtis’s sister, C’Asya, died one day after birth, but Curtis survived while being cared for in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) at University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women and Infants Center.
Bulter said she remembers praying that one of her twin newborns would survive the premature delivery.
“My prayers have been answered,” Butler told Good Morning America. “I gave God my little girl and he let me continue to be the mother to Curtis.”
Curtis, who was born 132 days premature, was so delicate at birth that Butler said she had to wait four weeks after giving birth to hold her son. At the time, he could fit in palm of her hand.
Curtis would go on to spend the next nine months in the RNICU, where doctors and nurses cared for him around the clock.
Butler, also the mother of two older children, ages 14 and 7, commuted from her house to the RNICU three or four times a week, a three-hour commute round trip, to see her son. On days she could not visit in person, Butler said the nurses would coordinate video calls so she could see Curtis.
“It was ups and downs, good and bad days,” she said. “For a couple of weeks he’d do really well and then he’d get sick and go about five steps backwards.”
Though he had a less than 1% chance of survival at birth, according to doctors, Curtis graduated from the RNICU after 275 days.
Butler took him home on April 6, 2021, where he met his siblings for the first time. They had not been able to visit Curtis in the RNICU due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“I surprised my kids,” said Butler. “They didn’t know we were coming home and they were so excited.”
Six months after that surprise, Butler and Curtis returned to the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women and Infants Center, where they were surprised by doctors and nurses who presented them with the Guinness World Records certificate naming Curtis as the world’s most premature infant to survive.
Curtis, now 16 months old, now weighs nearly 19 pounds.
He is still on oxygen and is still on some medications, but is continuing to thrive at home, according to Butler.
“He’s a happy baby,” said Butler. “He’ll laugh and smile at you.”
Looking back on Curtis’ long journey since birth, Butler said she would encourage other parents of premature babies to be their child’s “biggest advocates.”
“Us parents are the biggest advocates for our children, so whatever you feel in your heart you go by it,” she said. “And continue to pray.”
Selena Gomez is heading back to the kitchen with a fourth season of her HBO Max show Selena + Chef.
The streamer announced the renewal of her home cooking show on Wednesday and revealed that the upcoming season will feature an exciting change of scenery. For season four, Selena, along with her friends and family, will head to a beach house to continue their cooking lessons.
Like previous seasons, the “Lose You to Love Me” singer will expand on her cooking skills with the help of all-star chefs. They’ll also continue to highlight a different charitable organization during each episode, hopefully adding to the already $400,000 raised.
Selena said in a statement, “I am looking forward to another season of being in the kitchen with some of the world’s best chefs. Hopefully, my skills have improved. More importantly, we’ve been able to raise money for incredible charitable organizations.”
Season four of Selena + Chef is slated to premiere next year.
