Bring Me the Horizon has postponed its upcoming headlining European tour, set to kick off in February.
The run, which also features A Day to Remember and Poorstacy on the bill, will now launch a year later, in February 2023.
“Unfortunately due to the ongoing COVID situation across Europe, our February EU headline tour needs to be postponed,” BMTH says. “We want to bring you the full show with no holding back — the true Post Human experience — but we need to do it safely.”
“Post Human” refers to Horizon’s ongoing EP series, which began with 2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror. The release date for the next installment, which is expected to feature the single “DiE4u,” has yet to be announced.
For the full list of rescheduled Bring Me the Horizon tour dates and all ticket info, visit BMTHOfficial.com.
Michael Ray has achieved a personal milestone with his #1 hit, “Whiskey and Rain.”
The song about nursing one’s heartbreak away with a glass of something strong has officially become Michael’s first multi-week #1, sitting in the top slot on the Billboard Country Airplay chart for the second consecutive week.
“Y’all don’t know how happy that makes me,” Michael says in an appreciative video on Instagram as he thanks fans and friends for continuing to request the song on country radio. “Pour a little whiskey and know that this is your #1 too.”
“Thank you just doesn’t seem like enough……. WHISKEY AND RAIN IS OFFICIALLY MY FIRST TWO-WEEK #1!!!!” he adds in the caption. “I’m sending all the love and support I’ve felt and continue to feel for this song right back to each and every one of y’all who called and requested it, streamed it like hell, and sung it loud back to us on tour. This #1 belongs to all of us!!!”
“Whiskey and Rain” is the singer’s fourth #1 single. It’s featured on his 2021 EP, Higher Education.
Starting today, David Bowie‘s entire music catalog is available for Peloton users, and in conjunction with the launch, three brand-new mixes of Bowie songs by contemporary artists also have premiered exclusively for the home exercise platform.
The songs, 1980’s “It’s No Game (Pt. 1),” 1983’s “Let’s Dance,” and 1975’s “Golden Years,” were remixed, respectively, by alternative rocker St. Vincent and DJ/producers Honey Dijon and TOKiMONSTA.
St. Vincent says she chose to remix “It’s No Game (Pt. 1)” a song from David’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, “because it has a part 2 on the record, and I figured maybe Bowie wouldn’t mind so much if I made a part 3.” She adds, “I wanted to take Bowie’s throat-shredding vocal take from part 1, and make it front and center.”
Honey Dijon notes, “When I was asked to remix one of my favorite David Bowie songs, I chose ‘Let’s Dance’ because it’s a true celebration of music and movement — just like Peloton!”
As for TOKiMONSTA, she says she relates to Bowie because he was “an amazing innovator,” pointing out that he “was always reinventing himself and pushing the envelope of music, while somehow never ceasing to be authentically himself.”
The David Bowie Collection, including the remixes, will be available for various exercise classes under the “Collections” sections in the Peloton App or the Peloton hardware touchscreen.
For non-Peloton members, a free two-month trial of the app is available. Visit OnePeloton.com for more details.
After decades in the business, logging roles in productions as varied as the still-acclaimed X-Men 2 to HBO’s awards magnet Succession, to voicing over McDonald’s spots, Scottish actor Brian Cox is spilling the tea.
In his new memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, which GQhas excerpted, the Emmy-winning actor reveals some of his favorite working experiences, and those he turned down.
Cox calls his “incredible” 25th Hour boss Spike Lee “simply one of the best directors I’ve ever worked with,” who has a “knowledge of the cinema…second to none.” Lee is also “diplomatic,” Cox explains, as Spike “firmly” dealt with unwanted input from co-star Ed Norton, who Cox calls “a nice lad and a bit of a pain in the arse because he fancies himself as a writer-director.”
Cox dishes on why he didn’t take a role of Robert Baratheon in HBO’s Game of Thrones, explaining, the money “wasn’t all that great.”
The actor adds, “I can’t tell you whether or not he was an important character, and I’m not going to Google it just in case he was, because I turned it down.”
Slyly, he then adds of the one-season role, “…I passed on it, and Mark Addy was gored by the boar instead. (I lied. I did google it.)”
When it comes to another near-miss, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Cox says it “would have been a money-spinner,” but jabbed that the films are the “‘Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow’ show.”
He calls Depp “so overrated.”
Cox says, “I mean, Edward Scissorhands. Let’s face it, if you come on [set] with hands like that and pale, scarred-face make-up, you don’t have to do anything. And he didn’t. And subsequently, he’s done even less.”
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According to Twitter, manifestations are the new resolutions: The number of tweets from people hoping to turn their dreams into reality has grown 100% over the past three years. If you don’t think it works, Twitter has enlisted some celebrities — including Demi Lovato, Niall Horan and Megan Thee Stallion — to prove that it does.
The social media platform’s new campaign involves billboards rolling out on Tuesday in eight cities — including New York, LA, Toronto, Chicago, Houston and Toronto — all highlighting past tweets from stars that later became a reality.
For example, on February 7, 2010, Demi tweeted, “One day, I’m gonna sing the national anthem at a super bowl. Onnnee dayyy.” On February 2, 2020, they did just that, belting out “The Star Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl LIV in Miami.
On January 16, 2010, Niall Horan tweeted, “applied for xfactor,hope it all wrks out.” Of course, the Irish singer’s time on X Factor resulted in him being put together in a group with four other guys. That group, One Direction, went on to sell more than 70 million records worldwide. Today, Niall is a successful solo artist.
And on May 27, 2014, Megan Thee Stallion tweeted, “I need a team bc I promise this rap s*** gone take off for me.” Two number ones, three Grammys and six BET Awards later, she’s a global superstar, and one of the 100 most influential people in the world, according to TIME.
Other stars featured in the campaign who manifested their dreams include Shang-Chi star Simu Liu, Insecure star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winning directorMatthew A. Cherry.
As part of the campaign, Twitter is donating to the stars’ charities of choice on their behalf.
The Head and the Heart will be exploring “Every Shade of Blue” in 2022.
Not only is that the title of the “All We Ever Knew” outfit’s newest single, but it also provides the name for their just-announced U.S. headlining tour, kicking off May 20 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The massive outing will run through the spring and into the summer before finally wrapping up October 15 in Nashville.
Tickets to the Every Shade of Blue tour go on sale this Friday, January 21, at 10 a.m. local time, with various pre-sales happening throughout the week. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit TheHeadandtheHeart.com.
Meanwhile, the single “Every Shade of Blue” drops this Friday, as well. It’s the first fresh tune from the band to follow their 2019 album Living Mirage, which spawned the singles “Missed Connection” and “Honeybee.”
Slipknot‘s Knotfest Roadshow is getting back on the road.
The masked metallers have announced a 2022 leg of their ongoing headlining tour, set to kick off March 16 in Fargo, North Dakota. The first half of the outing, which concludes April 17 in Vancouver, will feature support from In This Moment and Jinjer, while the second half, running from May 18 in University Park, Pennsylvania, to June 18 in Chula Vista, California, features Cypress Hill and Ho99o9 on the bill.
“Even with everything going on in the world right now, we’re still extremely excited to come back out in the States, with two different, exciting packages,” says frontman Corey Taylor.
“Whether it’s In This Moment and Jinjer, or Cypress and Ho99o9, we pride ourselves in bringing our fans the epicenter of our music and art,” Taylor adds. “Come celebrate with us, and try to stay as safe as we will be.”
Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 21, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit KnotfestRoadshow.com.
In addition to getting back on the road, Slipknot will be releasing a new album in 2022, if a recent tweet from Taylor is to be believed. The group dropped a new single, “The Chapeltown Rag,” last fall.
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(NEW YORK) — Microsoft Corp. announced plans on Tuesday to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard Inc., the maker of immensely popular franchises including “Call of Duty” and “Warcraft,” for $68.7 billion.
The companies jointly announced news of the all-cash deal on Tuesday, which involves tech giant Microsoft purchasing the controversy-marred gaming company for some $95 per share. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue — behind only Tencent and Sony — Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday.
The deal comes as the gaming industry has become one of the fastest-growing sectors in the entertainment industry, and as Microsoft seeks to accelerate its mobile, PC, console and cloud gaming as well as prepare for the mainstream adaption of the metaverse.
“Gaming is the most dynamic and exciting category in entertainment across all platforms today and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms,” Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, said in a statement. “We’re investing deeply in world-class content, community and the cloud to usher in a new era of gaming that puts players and creators first and makes gaming safe, inclusive and accessible to all.”
The announcement also comes as Activision Blizzard has been rocked by accusations of fostering a culture of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard, and once the deal closes, the Activision Blizzard business unit will report to Microsoft Gaming’s CEO Phil Spencer.
“For more than 30 years our incredibly talented teams have created some of the most successful games,” Kotick said Tuesday. “The combination of Activision Blizzard’s world-class talent and extraordinary franchises with Microsoft’s technology, distribution, access to talent, ambitious vision and shared commitment to gaming and inclusion will help ensure our continued success in an increasingly competitive industry.”
The transaction has been approved by the board of directors for both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, but remains subject to the latter’s shareholder approval, the companies said. It is expected to close in fiscal year 2023.
On Monday, the Full House alum shared the exciting news that her boyfriend of four years, Mescal Wasilewski, popped the question and, well, she said yes.
Alongside a selfie of the two together, which also showed off her new sparkler, Sweetin shared a Maya Angelou quote, writing, “‘In all the world there is No heart for me like yours. In all the world there is No love for you like mine.'”
“I love you Mescal, for always. You’re my person,” she continued. “I can’t wait to see the life that lies
ahead for us. Here’s to us, @ghostfacelito and our life of adventures. Together.”
Sweetin, whose milestone 40th birthday is on Wednesday, January 19, added, “I think I’m really gonna like turning 40.”
Wasilewski also announced the update in relationship status on his Instagram sharing the same photo and adding the caption, “So that happened…”
Sweetin has been married three times before and she has two children — daughters Zoie, 13, and Beatrix, 11.
Despite the hype surrounding The Weeknd‘s suprise release of his album Dawn FM, the project was narrowly beaten to the number-one spot on the Billboard Top 200, and had to settle for a number-two debut.
Instead, it was rapper Gunna who took the top spot with his new mixtape DS4Ever, which features Chris Brown, Roddy Ricch, Young Thug and other big names. Gunna’s album sold 150,300 equivalent album units, while The Weeknd’s album sold 148,000. This is Gunna’s second number-one album
Dawn FM, featuring Jim Carrey, Lil Wayne, Tyler, the Creator and Quincy Jones, becomes The Weeknd’s eighth top 10 album — to date, all of his charting releases have reached the top 10. The album won’t be available on CD until January 28, while vinyl and cassette editions arrive April 29.
On January 12, a 19-track deluxe edition of Dawn FM was released with three new tracks: remixes of “Take My Breath” and “Sacrifice,” plus The Weeknd’s current single with Swedish House Mafia, “Moth to a Flame.”
Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s hits compilation The Highlights is currently at number six on the chart.
