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Foo Fighters, Machine Gun Kelly and The Strokes will play the 2022 edition of Lollapalooza Chile, taking place March 18-20.
The bill also includes Jane’s Addiction, Phoebe Bridgers, A Day to Remember, Turnstile, jxdn and The Wombats. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit LollapaloozaCL.com.
The Foos are also set to headline the other two South American Lollas next year, taking place in Argentina and Brazil.
In related international Foo news, Dave Grohl and company canceled their scheduled performance at last weekend’s Formula 1 Grand Prix race in Abu Dhabi due to “unforeseen medical circumstances.”
Kesha is calling all her animals to see her live in concert when she hits the road in 2022.
The “TiK ToK” singer relished the fact she’s finally going on tour again and unveiled a slew of upcoming dates. “SURPRISE!!!,” she announced on Instagram. “2022 is going to be it. For all the reasons. Bout damn time. AND I’m taking the party back out on the road!!”
The tour kicks off March 21 with a stop in Milwaukee, WI and will run for seven dates before wrapping in Hollywood, Florida on March 30. Tickets are now available for pre-sale on Kesha’s official website and will go on general sale this Friday, December 17.
Kesha, who says she “cannot WAIT to get wild N WEIRD with y’all,” will then launch her second Kesha’s Weird + Wonderful Rainbow Ride cruise. The four-day trip departs from Miami, FL, on April 1 and will sail to Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas.
Not only will fans be able to hang out with Kesha on the boat, they’ll also be spoiled with lavish amenities, high-octane performances and some “gag-worthy activities,” per the press release.
“Due to popular demand I am returning to incite the party and enhance the boogie yet again this coming spring,” Kesha said of her upcoming plans. “Secure your tickets to ensure a night full of letting your demons run wild.”
You can reserve their spot by visiting the official Sixthman website.
Cardi B says several times in the Grammy-nominated hit “I Like It” that she likes her diamonds. Now, thanks to that very song, she just added another precious gem to her collection.
The 2018 smash, which features Latin artists Bad Bunny and J Balvin, officially sold over 10 million copies as of Monday and is now RIAA-certified Diamond. The honor comes shortly after her Maroon 5 collab “Girls Like You” earned the prestigious title. When that happened last month, Cardi became the first female rapper to boast two Diamond-certified tracks — and now she has three.
Cardi’s breakout single, “Bodak Yellow,” was her first song to achieve Diamond certification.
“My album came out in 2018 and it’s still breaking records. I have a solo [diamond emoji] record, a feature [diamond emoji] record and now ANOTHER [diamond emoji] record from a collab with 2 people that I look up to and love so much,” Cardi wrote on Instagram. “I remember like it was yesterday when this song went #1 and now it’s Diamond. I honestly just can’t believe this is happening! I’m so proud to have two songs off my debut album go Diamond.”
The 29-year-old is already setting her sights to breaking even more records, and told her fans, “I hope I can achieve the same or even better on my next one.”
“I Like It” was the fourth single off of Cardi’s debut album, Invasion of Privacy. The rapper promised she’s working on its follow-up, which is coming out “next year.” The album’s title and release date are unknown at this time.
Primus is bringing back the band’s A Tribute to Kings Rush tribute tour for another go-round.
The “My Name Is Mud” outfit has announced a 2022 leg of the run, set to kick off April 15 in Oklahoma City. The 46-date outing will come to a close June 25 in Las Vegas.
As with the first leg, which took finally launched this past summer after a pandemic delay, the A Tribute to Kings tour finds Primus performing Rush’s 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in full, as well as a selection of their own songs.
Tickets to the 2022 shows go on sale this Friday, December 17, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Primusville.com.
The superstar announced on Tuesday that Garth Brooks: The ONE Man Show will take over the Dolby Live at Park MGM for a two-night stay on February 4 and 5.
“I look forward to celebrating my birthday early that weekend in Vegas,” Garth, who turns 60 on February 7, says in a statement. “Getting to sing and hear everyone singing is my favorite thing.”
Seating is limited. Tickets go on sale December 22 at 1 p.m. ET.
Garth is no stranger to Sin City: he performed the Garth at Wynn residency from 2009 to 2014, his first multi-concert experience since 1998.
The country giant will also continue on his Stadium Tour next year, selling more than 100,000 tickets to his concert in Baton Rogue, Louisiana. He also has stadium shows set in Orlando, Florida and Fayetteville, Arkansas before concluding the tour with a five-night stint at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.
The Sun is reporting that Tom Cruise felt the need for speed once again, which is why he flew 300 cakes as Christmas gifts across The Pond.
The publication reports Cruise sent the gifts via his private jet, as a sweet token of appreciation to his U.K.-based crew of the next Mission: Impossible film.
“It is extravagant, but Tom is an incredibly generous person and he wanted to do something special for everyone who has worked on the movie with him,” a source tells the paper.
While The Sun doesn’t specify, in the past it’s been reported that Cruise is partial to sending the White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake from LA-based Doan’s Bakery to friends and colleagues come holiday time. It’s so well known, in fact, that it’s become known as the “Tom Cruise Cake.”
If you’ve ever had one, you could understand why Cruise undertook the Mission: Gastronomical. The offering from the Woodland Hills, California bakery is a favorite with Hollywood A-listers.
According to Goldbelly, which ships the treats: “They start with a ring of moist, luxurious coconut bundt cake, mix in chunks of sweet white chocolate, layer on rich cream cheese frosting, and then dust it all over with toasted coconut flakes. The result is a delicious, pillowy cake good enough to derail the strictest Hollywood diets.”
Best of all, Goldbelly will ship one of the $99 creations directly to you, so there’s no need to have a celebrity friend with a private jet to get your hands on one.
Carly Pearce isn’t done sharing the story of 29 with her fans just yet.
The CMA Female Vocalist of the Year has extended The 29 Tour into 2022, with 11 additional headlining dates. Kicking off on March 10 at the Walker Theatre in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carly will make stops in Springfield, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Albany, New York and more.
She’ll also perform two shows in her home state of Kentucky, at The Brown Theatre in Louisville and the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland. The tour wraps on April 9 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Opera House.
“The experiences that allowed me to write 29 and 29: WRITTEN IN STONE were some of the most difficult moments of my life but seeing so may faces singing every word of these 15 songs night after night, reminded me of how powerful honesty can be in connecting us with others,” Carly shares in a statement.
Following the devastating tornadoes that tore through Kentucky this weekend and claimed the lives of nearly 80 people people, the Taylor Mill native has partnered with nonprofit PLUS1 to donate $1 from each ticket sale to storm recovery efforts.
The “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” singer launched The 29 Tour in November. Tickets for the new leg go on sale Friday.
Avril Lavigne always knew what her smash-hit single “Sk8ter Boi” was worth, and that’s why she’s turning it into a movie. The singer says she was inspired to go this route after fans begged her to do something special for the single’s upcoming 20th anniversary.
Speaking to the She Is the Voice podcast, Avril said she intends to take her 2002 single to “the next level.”
“Recently, with it being almost the 20th anniversary, a lot of people have been asking me to play this song on some TV shows, so I feel like it keeps getting brought back up and people will always reference it to me. And I’m actually going to turn this song into a film,” the Grammy nominee dished.
Currently, no other details have been unveiled.
Avril also revealed she was inspired to write “Sk8ter Boi” after reflecting on how the status quo pits high school cliques against one another.
“It’s kind of like a missed opportunity at love,” the 37-year-old described. “The skater boy, you know, he’s in love with the preppy girl but, like, she’s too cool for him but then: ‘Five years from now she sits at home feeding the baby, she’s all alone.’ She, like, down the road wishes she would have followed her heart and not lived up to society’s expectations.”
“Sk8ter Boi,” released on September 9, 2002, was the second single off of Avril’s debut album, Let Go.
The landmark 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense is among the 25 films just added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.
Each year the Library of Congress selects a number of films for preservation that are considered to have “cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage.”
Directed by the late Jonathan Demme, who went on to win a Best Director Oscar in 1992 for Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense captures the influential New York-based band performing in December ’83 at a series of shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater, during the height of their popularity.
The 88-minute movie features the David Byrne-led group on a sparsely decorated stage performing many of their best-known songs, including “Once in a Lifetime,” “Burning Down the House,” “Psycho Killer” and “Life During Wartime.” The film also includes a rendition of “Genius of Love,” a hit by Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth‘s side project, Tom Tom Club.
A synopsis of Stop Making Sense from the National Film Registry describes it as “infectious and the quintessential get-up-and-dance experience.”
Turner Classic Movies will screen a selection of this year’s entries as part of a television special on Friday, December 17, starting at 8 p.m. ET.
As previously reported, Talking Heads will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Recording Academy’s upcoming Special Merit Awards ceremony, which will take place at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 30, 2022, a day before the 2022 Grammy Awards.
Here’s the National Film Registry’s complete 2021 class, in chronological order:
Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902) Jubilo (1919) The Flying Ace (1926) Hellbound Train (1930) Flowers and Trees (1932) Strangers on a Train (1951) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Evergreen (1965) Requiem-29 (1970) The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) Pink Flamingos (1972) Sounder (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Cooley High (1975) Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979) Chicana (1979) The Wobblies (1979) Star Wars Episode VI — Return of the Jedi (1983) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Stop Making Sense (1984) Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) The Watermelon Woman (1996) Selena (1997) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) WALL•E (2008)
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) — The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the collapse of an Amazon delivery station in Edwardsville, Illinois, that left six people dead after a tornado pummeled the facility during the height of the busy holiday shopping season.
OSHA spokesman Scott Allen told ABC News that compliance officers from the agency have been at the complex since Saturday to provide assistance.
“OSHA has six months to complete its investigation, issue citations and propose monetary penalties if violations of workplace safety and or health regulations are found,” Allen told ABC News in a statement. “No further information will be available until OSHA has completed their investigation.”
The Edwardsville Fire Department is still working to clear debris from the Amazon site and transition the property back to the company’s control as of Monday, city officials said in a statement on Facebook, saying the transition will take place “in the near future when emergency crews have completed their efforts.”
As of Monday, everyone reported having been at the Amazon facility when the tornado struck on Friday evening has been accounted for, and there are no further reports of missing individuals. One individual remains hospitalized with “serious injuries,” the city’s statement added, and six people have died.
“We’re deeply saddened by the news that members of our Amazon family passed away as a result of the storm in Edwardsville,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, told ABC News in a statement Monday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone impacted by the tornado. We also want to thank all the first responders for their ongoing efforts on scene. We’re continuing to provide support to our employees and partners in the area.”
Edwardsville city officials identified the names of the six deceased on Sunday, who ranged in age from 26 to 62.
Among the victims identified by authorities was Larry Virden, 46, whose daughter Justice Virden told ABC News’ Rob Marciano for Good Morning America, “I walked out of that building after they told me my dad was gone, and I dropped to my knees and screamed at the sky at the top of my lungs.”
“I said, ‘No, my dad’s coming home,” Justice Virden said. “‘I need my daddy. He can’t leave.'”
The other victims of the tragedy are: Deandre Morrow, 28, of St. Louis, Missouri; Kevin Dickey, 62, of Carlyle, Illinois; Clayton Lynn Cope, 29, of Alton, Illinois; Etheria Hebb, 34, of St. Louis, Missouri; and Austin McEwen, 26, of Edwardsville, Illinois.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, known for representing the family of George Floyd, announced that he was representing the family of Morrow and meeting with other injured workers and their families.
“The family members we represent are deeply distraught and want answers to their questions. We are seeking to determine if Amazon did everything in its power to warn employees of the incoming danger from the tornado and provide a designated safe area for employees to shelter,” Crump said in a statement Monday evening.
“We are asking Amazon employees who worked at the fulfillment center to assist us with our investigation and help us understand what warnings were given and what procedures followed,” the statement added.
One tornado out of a barrage that raged through six states late Friday touched down just outside of the Edwardsville Amazon facility at around 8:30 p.m. local time, according to Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford.
“There’s about 150 yards of the building that were impacted by the tornado. The walls on both sides of the building collapsed inward; the roof of the building collapsed downward,” Whiteford said during a news conference Saturday, where he also announced that the efforts were shifting from rescue to recovery. “These walls are made out of 11-inch thick concrete, and they’re about 40 feet tall, so a lot of weight from that came down.”
Whiteford also said that a shift change was going on when the tornado struck, causing further confusion for rescue efforts regarding how many workers were in the building at the time.
The building directly impacted by the storm was a delivery station that had opened in July 2020, according to Amazon, and was approximately 1.1 million square feet with approximately 190 employees across multiple shifts.
Amazon said it was donating $1 million to the Edwardsville Community Foundation, in addition to working with local officials to assist with recovery efforts. The company also said it was reaching out to the victims’ families to see how it can best support them.
The company said the site received tornado warnings and alerts, and employees worked quickly to ensure as many people as possible could get to a designated shelter-in-place location. In this case, the site got tornado warnings between 8:06 and 8:16 p.m. local time, and site leaders directed people on site to immediately take shelter. It appears the tornado formed in the parking lot and struck the building at 8:27 p.m., according to Amazon, which said it all happened incredibly fast.
The majority of the workers took shelter in a primary designated location, and a small group took shelter in another part of the building that was then directly impacted by the tornado, according to Amazon, which said this is where most of the deaths occurred.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who stepped down as CEO of the e-commerce giant earlier this year, reacted to the news on Twitter late Saturday. Bezos took some heat from critics on social media for a seemingly delayed response as his private space-tourism firm Blue Origin was launching a crew — that included ABC News’ Michael Strahan — on a suborbital jaunt earlier Saturday.
“The news from Edwardsville is tragic. We’re heartbroken over the loss of our teammates there, and our thoughts and prayers are with their families and loved ones,” Bezos wrote. “All of Edwardsville should know that the Amazon team is committed to supporting them and will be by their side through this crisis. We extend our fullest gratitude to all the incredible first responders who have worked so tirelessly at the site.”
