KISS, Judas Priest, Foo Fighters and Stone Temple Pilots are among the many acts that will be performing at the 2022 Aftershock festival, taking place October 6-9 in Sacramento, California.
STP are part of the lineup for the fest’s first day, which will be headlined by Slipknot and also will feature Rob Zombie, Evanescence, Killswitch Engage and Bad Religion, among others.
KISS will headline day two, October 7, which also will see performances by Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Chevelle, GWAR, Helmet, Alice Cooper band guitarist Nita Strauss, Bullet for My Valentine, and more.
Headlining on October 8 will be My Chemical Romance, while other performers that day will include Papa Roach, Halestorm, A Day to Remember, The Distillers and Theory of a Deadman.
Foo Fighters will headline Aftershock’s final day, while the bill also will feature Shinedown, Bring Me the Horizon, The Pretty Reckless, The Struts, Zakk Sabbath, and more.
Dua Lipa is headlining the OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival with Foo Fighters and Rihanna‘s boyfriend, A$AP Rocky. The show runs July 29 to July 31 in Montreal, with Dua performing on the final day. The Kid LAROI, Charli XCX, Machine Gun Kelly and more will also be there. Weekend passes are available now and single-day tickets go on sale February 25 on the OSHEAGA website.
Pink can read your kid a bedtime story. The singer, who partnered with Calm, voiced a new story called The P!nk Sheet that’s available now. The story is about “Ring, a little girl with big dreams and an even bigger circus tent,” the app teases. Pink hopes the tale will help her young listeners feel “less afraid of the dark and of being alone” and let their “imaginations run wild as they drift off to peaceful rest.”
The Weeknd was kissing DJ Simi Khadra at his 32nd birthday bash in Vegas, reports TMZ. This isn’t the first time the “Save Your Tears” singer was spotted with Simi — the two were seen having dinner in Los Angeles on February 3. Previously, The Weeknd was romantically linked to Angelina Jolie, who’s believed to be the subject of his latest single, “Here We Go… Again,” in which he sings about his “movie star” girlfriend.
Doja Cat revealed her plans for 2022, telling Billboardthat she is excited to perform at the upcoming Grammy Awards and doing nothing at home. “I cook and I play video games and I go on [Instagram] Live and I make an a** of myself,” she declared. Doja also revealed how she wastes time on Instagram — by looking “at pictures of makeup and fashion and cats, and that’s pretty much it.”
Earlier this week, country fans were shocked to learn that Sam Hunt’s wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, had filed for divorce from her superstar husband, as well as the fact that she’s about six months pregnant — something that the couple hadn’t shared before their divorce news broke.
Over the course of the couple’s five-year marriage, and the years of on-again, off-again dating that led up to it, fans got to know Hannah Lee through Sam’s music.
His first album, Montevallo, was named after her Alabama hometown, and lots of its songs — like “Take Your Time,” “Break Up in a Small Town” and “Make You Miss Me” — seem to point to their tumultuous love story and powerful connection.
But Sam took the guesswork out of who he was writing songs about on “Drinkin’ Too Much,” a heartbreak ballad presumably written during a period of separation. The lyrics call Hannah Lee by name, and read “I’m sorry I named the album Montevallo/ I’m sorry people know your name now/ And strangers hit you up on social media.”
The singer’s record-breaking mega-hit, “Body Like a Back Road,” isn’t nearly as obviously directed toward Hannah Lee, but it’s safe to say that she served as at least part of the inspiration behind it. When Sam performed it at the 2017 ACM Awards, Sam walked out into the crowd and sat beside her in the audience as he sang.
Hannah Lee filed for divorce late last week, according to TMZ. She cited adultery as her reason for requesting the divorce, and asked for primary custody of their unborn child. However, on Tuesday, she withdrew her divorce complaint, according to People. She asked that the petition be “voluntarily nonsuited without prejudice,” which means she can file for divorce again in the future.
Machine Gun Kelly is getting ready to rumble to rumble, virtually.
The “Bloody Valentine” rocker is curating the soundtrack for the WWE 2K22 wrestling video game. The playlist includes songs by Bring Me the Horizon, Motörhead, Royal Blood, Turnstile, Asking Alexandria and KennyHoopla.
Additionally, MGK will be a playable character in the game.
Kelly’s WWE 2K22 role was announced in a video co-starring wrestling legend The Undertaker, who suggests that the soundtrack “needs more gongs,” in reference to his intro music.
WWE 2K22 will be released March 11.
Kelly, meanwhile, is keeping his sports streak alive — in the past month, he performed at a pre-Super Bowl concert and during the NHL All-Star Game, and played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game.
Marvel movie star and Academy Award-nominated The Power of the Dog actor Benedict Cumberbatch is getting that famously long famous name set in stone.
Cumberbatch will receive the 2,714th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Monday morning, in an award ceremony at which his Star Trek: Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige will honor him.
“Benedict Cumberbatch career spans across genres,” says Hollywood Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez in a statement. “[H]e is one of England’s prized exports, and we are proud to welcome him to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”
The Doctor Strange lead’s star will be located at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard; the ceremony will be livestreamed exclusively at WalkofFame.com.
(ATLANTA) — Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. rose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial disparities that existed before the pandemic were perpetuated, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report looked at data from the CDC’s National Centers for Health Statistics and compared 2020 rates to rates in 2018 and 2019.
Maternal deaths were defined as women who died either while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy.
In 2020, 861 women in the U.S. died of maternal causes — a rate of 23.8 per 100,000 live births, the report found.
This is an increase of 14% from the 754 deaths that occurred in 2019 and up 30% from the 658 deaths that occurred in 2018. In 2019, the rate was 20.1 deaths per 100,000 and even lower in 2018 at 17.4 per 100,000.
The reasons for the increase during the first year of the pandemic were not stated in the report, although the author said the virus likely played a role.
Racial disparities continue
There were large disparities when it came to race and ethnicity. The report found that Black women died of maternal causes at nearly three times the rate of white women, up from around 2.5 times higher than in 2019.
The rate for Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2020 and the rate for white women was 19.1 deaths per 100,000. For black women, the rate increased nearly 26% from the year prior.
Black women also died at higher rates than Hispanic women, who had a rate of 18.2 deaths per 100,000 births in 2020 — a more than 40% increase from the previous year.
What’s more, increases from 2019 to 2020 among Black women and Hispanic women were statistically significant while the increase over the same time period for white women was not viewed as significant, the report said.
The report also looked at maternal mortality rates by age and found that the rates increased as women’s ages did.
The lowest rate was for women under age 25 at 13.8 deaths per 100,000 live births and the highest rate was for women aged 40 and over at 107.9 per 100,000 births, about 7.8 times higher. Older mothers also experienced an increase in mortality that was statistically significant, according to the CDC.
Several studies have found that women who become pregnant after age 35 are considered “high-risk” because they are at an increased risk for complications impacting either the baby or mom including premature birth, excessive bleeding during birth and eclampsia..
Dr. Donna Hoyert, a health scientist in the NCHS’s Division of Vital Statistics and author of the report, said this is likely one of the reasons for the higher mortality rates among older women.
“That and there are a smaller number of individuals who are at the end of reproductive ages, so the statistics become much more variable from year to year,” she told ABC News.
COVID-19 ‘likely’ contributed to rise
The report did not offer theories for why maternal mortality rates rose in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, previous studies have shown that pregnant women are at increased risk of severe complications and death from COVID compared to the general population.
It could also help explain the higher rates among Black women, with Black Americans more likely to suffer from severe effects of the virus than the white population.
“Yes, the pandemic likely contributed to the increase from 2019 to 2020 and beyond that,” Hoyert said. “As the pandemic plays out, we want to see how it affects overall mortality rates and our trend of comparable data over time.”
She continued, “There’s been other studies that have come out further documenting continuing morality from COVID-19 and excess mortality associated with that, so it will be something to look into.”
(CHICAGO) — The family of Irene Chavez – a woman who died in Chicago police custody last December after an apparent suicide – filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and several police officers.
“What we know is Irene Chavez died in the care and custody of the Chicago police. The officers knew Irene had mental health challenges,” Andrew Stroth, the family’s attorney, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Stroth referenced a video of Chavez released last week by the Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, where Chavez is seen arguing with arresting officers and telling them that she is a military veteran who suffers from PTSD.
Those details are also documented in a police incident report released by COPA.
“CPD officers ignored this information and failed to modify standard arrest procedures to accommodate Irene’s mental health needs,” the lawsuit, which was obtained by ABC News, alleges.
“Not only did CPD officers refuse to accommodate Irene’s disability during the arrest, but they intentionally escalated the situation by mocking Irene and her friend, and using foul, aggressive language,” the lawsuit says.
The Chicago Police Department told ABC News that it does not comment on pending litigation and has referred all questions about the case to COPA.
The City of Chicago’s Law Department did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment but told the ABC station in Chicago, WLS, on Tuesday that “The City has not yet been served with a complaint and will have no further comment as the matter is now in litigation.”
The documents and videos related to the death of Chavez were released as part of an investigation by the civilian oversight agency looking into Chavez’s death.
Body camera video released by COPA shows Chavez arguing while being arrested hours before her death.
According to police, the 33-year-old woman died after an “attempted suicide” on Dec. 18, 2021, at the 3rd District Police Station. The official cause and manner of death are pending autopsy results, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office told ABC News.
Police said Chavez was taken into custody after her involvement in a bar fight at the Jeffery Pub Tavern and was belligerent during processing.
Chavez could be heard by police shouting in the holding cell, the report by COPA said. After about five minutes of silence, an officer went to check on her well-being by looking through the window, the report said. That’s when Chavez was found with her shirt wrapped around her neck, tied to a bench and had a “faint pulse,” according to the report.
Video released by COPA shows officers performing CPR before Chavez was transported to the University of Chicago Hospital. According to COPA, Chavez was in “critical condition” at the time and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Iris Chavez, Irene’s sister, accused police of neglect and said officers should have recognized that her sister was struggling with mental health.
“[I’m] Looking at the video and saying to myself, why aren’t they doing this instead? Why didn’t they do this? Or why is he talking to her like that?” Iris Chavez said.
According to the lawsuit, Irene Chavez was a “queer Afro-Latina” woman from Chicago and was a “decorated military veteran” who served in combat zones.
“After her honorable discharge from the military, Irene developed serious post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) and struggled with alcohol dependency,” the lawsuit says.
According to the lawsuit, Chavez was “in the midst of a mental health crisis” when she was arrested and had relapsed to drinking that day after being sober for a month.
“Both Irene and her friend repeatedly told CPD officers that Irene was a veteran, that she had PTSD, and that she needed hospitalization,” the lawsuit says.
Irene Chavez is one of two women to die in Chicago police custody within less than two months.
COPA is also investigating the death of London Marquez, 31, who died on Jan. 27. According to Marquez’s family, she was pregnant at the time of her death.
Chicago police declined to comment on that case and referred questions regarding both cases to COPA.
With an intense preview clip of the footage to come, Netflix has announced that the final seven episodes of its gritty drama Ozark will premiere on April 29.
In the teaser, the series’ two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner, who plays Ruth Langmore, can be seen driving, tears in her eyes. As she speaks in a voiceover, flashes of upcoming scenes play out, including Ruth threatening Jason Bateman‘s and Laura Linney‘s characters, Marty and Wendy Byrde, with a shotgun.
We also see Ruth turning on a light to reveal a massive pile of likely laundered cartel cash.
In the voiceover, she says, “My childhood traumas are not like yours. You see, I’m a cursed Langmore. Long inured to violence and death. And in the case of a Langmore, not soon enough.”
Having arrived at her destination, Ruth focuses on a pistol on the passenger’s seat, as the screen fades to black, replaced by a legend reading, “The end arrives sooner than you think.”
The first part of the hit show’s fourth and final season debuted on the streaming service January 21.
Kerry Washington is celebrating Black History Month by transforming herself into several trailblazing Black women. “Black History is about more than just slavery and Jim Crow. Our history is a tapestry of beauty, culture, power, community, resilience, & strength. And through it all — the pain and the joy — Black women have held it down,” the Scandal star wrote in an Instagram post.
Throughout February, Washington has used wigs, makeup and props to bring awareness to historic Black women on her Instagram page. She’s honored Rosa Parks, the iconic woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955. The Emmy winner has also portrayed Olympic gold medal winning track star Wilma Rudolph, and supermodel Beverly Johnson, with a social media series she calls “Black HERstory.”
In other news, Gabrielle Union is launching a content series with LinkedIn that will focus on uplifting Black and other underrepresented entrepreneurs through topics including gender equity and mental health in the workplace. The three-month series, called Getting Real with Gabrielle Union, will include videos and posts on Union’s LinkedIn profile. The series is part of LinkedIn’s ongoing #IAmProfessional campaign.
Finally, Issa Rae was among the winners Tuesday on the second night of the non-televised portion of the NAACP Image Awards. The 37-year-old actress was honored for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for Insecure. The show received a total of 12 nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and Rae is also up for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series . The 53rd NAACP Image Awards,hosted by Anthony Anderson, will air Saturday, February 26 at 8 p.m. on BET.
In a year that saw Andrew Garfield nominated for an Oscar for playing Rent playwright Jonathan Larsontick…tick…Boom!,and winning praise for playing both televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and Peter Parker No 3. in the blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home, comes the teaser for his latest project.
The versatile British actor will play a religiously devout Mormon detective on the hunt for a double murderer in the series Under the Banner of Heaven, coming to Hulu from FX and Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and Academy Award-winning producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Detective Pyre, played by Garfield, is an elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints “who is committed to his Church and family, but begins to question some of the Church’s teachings through his contact with a suspected murderer,” according to the network.
“The evidence points to things and beliefs that I’ve only ever heard whisperings about,” Garfield says, the only voice heard in the spooky snippet. “I wonder how something so horrific could have come to pass.”
Also starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle and Rory Culkin, among others,the true crime thriller series will be available exclusively on Hulu in 2022.
