A recent Dead & Company concert was rattled by a fan who tragically fell to his death. Witnesses say the man attempted to perform a flip on a balcony.
The New York Post reports that the incident happened at the band’s show at Citi Field in Queens, New York, on Friday. Police have withheld the name of the deceased but confirmed that the concertgoer was a man in his 40s.
According to the report, witnesses and police say the man attempted to do a flip and plunged 30 to 50 feet to his death from the fifth floor. It is unclear when the incident took place during the concert.
A driver working outside Citi Field told the Post, “He was unresponsive and he hit the ground head first.” The driver also claimed that the man was “drunk.” Police sources corroborated the claim that the man was under the influence of alcohol, according to the newspaper.
The fan was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital and later died. The man’s identity reportedly will not be released until police notify next of kin.
Representatives for Dead & Company haven’t issued a public comment as of Monday morning, nor have the band’s socials made mention of the incident.
Dead & Company includes Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, as well as singer/guitarist John Mayer, ex-Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.
Black Label Society has announced a new album called Doom Crew Inc.
The 11th studio effort from Zakk Wylde and company — and their first since 2018’s Grimmest Hits — is due out November 26. You can listen to the lead single, “Set You Free,” now via digital outlets.
“We incorporated Father Dario even more into the solos, doubling with me and being more involved in that regard,” says Wylde, referring to guitarist Dario Lorina. “It really, truly is a two-guitar album, more so than ever. A twin guitar band, whether it’s the Allman Brothers or Judas Priest, with harmony lines, unison lines, and trading off solos.”
Here’s the Doom Crew Inc. track list:
“Set You Free”
“Destroy & Conquer”
“You Made Me Want to Live”
“Forever and a Day”
“End of Days”
“Ruins”
“Forsake”
“Love Reign Down”
“Gospel of Lies”
“Shelter Me”
“Gather All My Sins”
“Farewell Ballad”
Whether it’s the wrestling ring or the silver screen, John Cena is no stranger to the spotlight.
The actor and WWE star joined “Good Morning America” fresh off the heels of Summer Slam and ahead of the release of his latest movie, “Vacation Friends.”
Cena opened up about not winning his 17th WWE Championship title, saying, “Unfortunately WWE don’t give a silver medal.”
“I think I will try to do the best I can until I feel I’m offending the consumer,” he said. “There’s nothing like the energy of being in that ring with the audience around.”
He continued, “I’ve had the fortunate opportunity to do a whole lot of stuff. That energy is indescribable. That place is my home. I wouldn’t be who I am without it. The audience is my family — I want to be kind to them — I still feel good even though I finished second so I still feel I have something to contribute.”
Prior to the temporary production shutdown brought on by the pandemic, Cena said he and the cast of “Vacation Friends” were “paid 12 hours to party every day” while filming on location in Puerto Rico.
“The crazy thing was we filmed right up until the world shut down,” he said. “So we had this crazy bond for two weeks and then we were down for eight months.”
Cena said his production was one of the first to go back to work in Atlanta.
After a blockbuster summer, starring in a variety of roles from the “Suicide Squad” to “F9: The Fast Saga,” Cena said, “I don’t want to classify myself as like ‘OK stay in this lane.'”
When asked what types of roles he enjoys the most, Cena replied, ” I wouldn’t put myself as an action guy — I just like to entertain. I really do. I think when I read a story and am moved by it — that’s what I enjoy.”
As for the fate of his future “Fast and Furious” appearances, Cena took an opportunity to plead with “those who are listening and make those decisions.”
“We’re gonna see an F10, I just don’t know if we’re going to see me in F10,” he said with a laugh. “I really do love the ‘Fast’ family and it’s a movie that is continuing to crush worldwide. I think today we passed 700 million worldwide, in this environment, which is an unbelievable achievement — I really hope I can get invited back for ‘Fast 10.'”
“Vacation Friends” begins streaming on Hulu Friday, Aug. 27.
Hulu is owned by a division of Disney, ABC’s parent company.
During a performance at Barefoot Country Music Festival in New Jersey this weekend, Carrie Underwood got caught in the rain — but she kept the music going.
Carrie shared a video to Instagram that shows her belting out her signature hit, “Before He Cheats,” strutting down the catwalk as rain pours down around her onto the packed crowd. But the weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the concertgoers, who sang loudly with the superstar.
“I’m siiiiiiinging in the rain. Such a fun night in Jersey at the @barefootcountrymusicfest !!! I couldn’t have hoped for a better crowd…or better weather!” Carrie captioned the special moment, thanking fans for the love.
She and Jason Aldean are racing up the charts with their collaborative duet, “If I Didn’t Love You,” which is currently at #15 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
Marlon Wayans revealed in a new interview that a promise he made to his mother is why he has never married.
The 49-year-old actor recently spoke with Essenceand explained, “I never got married because I knew my mom needed me.”
Wayans, whose mother, Elvira Alethia, died last year at age 81, continued, “On her death bed, I said, ‘Can I tell you something woman?’ She was in a lot of pain and she was fighting to stay alive and I say, ‘I’m 47 years old and I’ve never been married because I always wanted you to be my number one girl.'”
“My mother turned over, she looked at me, she grabbed my hand, and she pulled me close to her. I said ‘I know, I love you too,'” the Respect star shared.
Said Wayans, “I gave her a kiss and I said, ‘I’ll see you soon, but not that soon because I got a s*** load of life to live.’ She laughed in pain, and I gave her a kiss, and those were my last words to my mom.”
The White Chicks star said he is now starting to open up to the idea of marriage and told the outlet, “Yeah, I probably got one in me. Just one.”
“I like things to bend and not break, and I feel like when you get married, you have to get divorced in order to either be separated or together,” he added. “I like friendships because you just learn each other and you just grow and you just get better.”
The comedian shares two children — Amai Zackary Wayans, 21, and Shawn Howell Wayans, 19 — with longtime partner Angela Zackery. The two, who never married, went their separate ways in 2013.
The Killers‘ new album, Pressure Machine, has debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
The seventh studio effort from Brandon Flowers and company enters the chart at number nine with 26,000 equivalent album units, 22,000 of which were traditional album sales.
With Pressure Machine, each of The Killers’ seven albums has landed on the Billboard 200 top 10, with 2017’s Wonderful Wonderful being their only number-one. As impressive as that might be, it doesn’t hold a candle to The Killers’ chart performance in the U.K., where they’ve hit number one on the Official Albums Chart with every studio record.
The Killers were poised to play songs from Pressure Machine during this past weekend’s We Love NYC concert in Central Park before the event was scrapped due to inclement weather caused by Hurricane Henri. However, viewers of the CNN broadcast caught a backstage rendition of “Mr. Brightside” with guest backing vocals by CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King, who filmed the performance.
In her first-ever video, posted Monday, the singer lip syncs to U.K. rapper Dave‘s “Screwface Capital” and its line “My outstanding payments swift like Taylor.” As she does, we see her modeling her various album aesthetics — from folklore to evermore to her Fearless reissue — ending with a look from her upcoming Red reissue.
“Lots going on at the moment: Red (my version) vinyl is up for presale on my site and oh I’m on tiktok now let the games begin,” Taylor captioned it.
Just an hour after posting, the video had racked up over 500,000 views and counting.
Another study, published this month in the medical journal JAMA, found that two-thirds of U.S. children’s calorie intake comes from ultra-processed foods, defined as ready-to-eat foods that contain “little to no whole foods,” like frozen pizza, chips and cookies.
The greater the intake of processed foods, the more sugar a child is likely consuming, which can lead to lifelong health complications, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes, experts say.
“The added sugars for most kids are going to show up in the packaged, processed foods,” said Maya Feller, a New York-based registered dietitian and nutritionist. “For the most part, you don’t have tablespoons of sugar dumped into their homemade food, so it’s actually in whatever product they’re consuming.”
When LeVeque gave birth to her oldest son nearly three years ago, she said she was shocked to see how hard it is to control sugar intake in even young kids.
“I know firsthand that added sugars and too much even natural sugar in something like orange juice wreak havoc on us internally, on our metabolic goals, so when I became a mom, it was mind-blowing,” she said. “Even the [portable food] pouches available to children are all sugar.”
It’s a fight every day to keep the sugar, processed foods and inflammatory oils out of our homes. To the moms, my gatekeepers out there in the trenches….keep fighting the good fight for good health! These little brains, organs and bodies need an adult in the room. #saynotosugar
LeVeque recently launched a “Fab 4 Under 4” guide for parents that adapts the “Fab 4” principles she created to help adults support blood sugar balance in kids.
“We think that kids are not vulnerable to the effects of sugar, but in fact they’re more vulnerable,” she said, noting that blood sugar spikes caused by sugar can affect everything from a child’s mood to their ability to learn. “These are formative years for children and, in my opinion, they’re drugged with sugar, and it’s not their fault when we look at the increased access to processed foods in their pantry,”
Here are five tips from LeVeque and Feller to help parents reduce the amount of sugar in their children’s diets.
1. Balance sugar with protein, fat or fiber.
Parents can help reduce the impact of sugar kids consume by balancing it with other macronutrients, according to LeVeque.
“If you’re going to have sugar, even natural sugar in the form of fruit, you absolutely have to balance that with protein, fat or fiber,” she said. “That blood sugar response needs to be blended with other foods.”
A breakfast of pancakes and strawberries, for example, would cause a double spike in blood sugar, where serving pancakes with a protein like peanut butter or turkey sausage would help counter the blood sugar spike brought on by the pancakes.
2. Know what sugar your child is consuming at home .
Both Feller and LeVeque acknowledge it’s inevitable that children will consume sugar at celebrations like birthday parties or at friends’ houses, and that’s okay.
What parents can do, however, is make sure they keep the foods their kids eat daily at home low in sugar.
“Make sure that with every food in your house, you know where the sugar is,” said LeVeque. “My kids are going to have sugar but they’re not going to have sugar in their ketchup or their marinara or granola bars,” “We’re going to pull it out of the everyday things and be very strategic.”
3. Read food labels.
There are more than 70 ways that sugar can be listed on a food label, so parents need to not only read food labels, but read them carefully.
Look out for words that end in “ose” (like glucose, dextrose, sucrose), as well as words like juice concentrate, syrup, honey, maple, coconut sugar and agave, according to LeVeque.
“Sugar is sugar. It doesn’t matter what type it is,” she said. “I don’t care if it’s natural, organic, vegan, paleo, keto, look for the sugar.”
Feller echoes that parents should also be wary of food labels that feature healthy buzz words to advertise a product that nonetheless contains sugar.
“It’s challenging for parents in the current food landscape to figure out what constitutes a healthy pattern of eating,” she said. “When a parent goes to a grocery store and they see 100% carrot juice, sure it is a better choice than a sugar-sweetened beverage, but it would also be great to offer your child a carrot.”
4. Talk to your child about how foods make them feel.
LeVeque said she talks to her sons about what the foods they eat do for their bodies, like building muscle.
“I want my kids to have the foundation of knowing how healthy eating makes them feel and knowing the expectation of their family, that we eat to nourish our bodies,” she said. “So when they’re crying and having a meltdown after a sugar crash, it’s having the conversation, ‘I see that you’re upset now … I bet if you had a little bit of protein and a lot of water, you’d feel a lot better.’”
5. Encourage your child to eat what you eat.
“You don’t need kid foods,” said LeVeque, adding that the kids’ foods nearly always contain more sugar. “People think, ‘Oh, I need to get my kids the kids’ yogurt,’ but that’s just something you’re being told, that kids need kid food and kids need kids’ meals.”
When LeVeque’s sons begin eating solid foods, she serves them a portion of her own meal when they are out to eat, for example.
“I’ll order chicken and a side of veggies or a salad and order extra protein and put a little chicken on his plate with some avocado,” she said. “And when kids get to the age that they need another meal, order a real meal, take half of it home and you have lunch the next day. Not only did your kid eat healthier, but you have a healthier lunch for the next day.”
“Kids love to cook and they’re super capable,” said Feller. “Sometimes it takes time to prepare food with them, but we have to change our mindset and be okay with the idea that there will be times where we’re going to spend time preparing something.”
“You have to get your kids involved,” echoed LeVeque. “And get your kids involved in making the vegetables and the protein and the dip. They don’t care what they’re making with you. You believe that they’re going to be disappointed that they’re not making cookies, but they are so excited to make a vinaigrette with you, a kale salad with you, to barbecue with you.”
When LeVeque does bake with her son, she uses tricks like swapping bananas for sugar in their favorite blueberry muffin recipe.
“Swapping in bananas for even half of the sugar in the recipe helps,” she said. “Because the sugar in banana is wrapped up in fiber, there won’t be as much of a high blood sugar spike and crash.”
Try these low-sugar recipes from LeVeque and Feller
Ingredients:
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup unsweetened vanilla nut milk
2 bananas (smush them in the peel before placing in a bowl so you don’t have to fork them as long)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups almond flour
1 scoop @bewellbykelly vanilla protein powder (or 1/4 cup coconut flour)
2/3 cup tapioca or arrowroot flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups blueberries
Directions:
Mix wet and dry ingredients, and place in a greased muffin tin (can grease with coconut oil).
Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
“I slather the muffins with almond butter and ghee, yum!” said Leveque.
As Aerosmith prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the band has announced a new wide-ranging partnership with Universal Music Group that, for the first time, brings together the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ entire recording catalog on one label home.
The global deal also will include upcoming music projects, merchandise items and new audio-visual content, including films, television programs, online presentations and more.
In addition, the partnership also will make available material from the vaults of Aerosmith’s Vindaloo studio, as well as from the personal archives of the band’s five members — frontman Steven Tyler, guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer. The band mates also will participate in curating collections of their music, photos, video content, artwork, memorabilia and more.
Forthcoming releases will include previously unseen and unheard rarities from throughout Aerosmith’s long career.
“It’s been a long road but I’m extremely happy and proud to say on behalf of Aerosmith we have been able to bring our 50 years of music under one roof by partnering with UMG,” Perry says in a statement. “This will allow us to bring our music to our fans in ways we never were able to before. It’s something we’ve dreamed about happening for a long time…It’s an incredible way to celebrate 50 years and the many more years to come.”
Adds UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, “On the band’s 50th anniversary, Aerosmith continues to influence the course of music not only through their iconic catalog but also through film, television and video games and their inimitable style…We look forward to building upon their incredible legacy and ensuring their music continues to inspire fans around the world.”
Corey Taylor‘s wife Alicia has shared an update on her husband’s health after he announced last week that he’d tested positive for COVID-19.
In a tweet posted Sunday evening, Alicia wrote, “Corey is doing well and thanks everyone for the sweet thoughts and messages.”
“Ready to get him home as soon as it’s safe, so I can take care of him!” she added. “He (very luckily) hasn’t lost his sense of taste or smell so I send him stupid amounts of snacks, hydration powders, and yummy desserts.”
Corey revealed the news of his diagnosis last Friday, a day after he concluded a U.S. tour in support of his 2020 debut solo album, CMFT.
“I woke up today and tested positive, and I’m very, very sick,” Taylor said while announcing his scheduled appearance at last weekend’s Michigan pop culture convention Astronomicon would be canceled. He added that he’s vaccinated, and that he “should be OK.”
Wanted to give you guys an update:
Corey is doing well and thanks everyone for the sweet thoughts and messages. 🥰
Ready to get him home as soon as it’s safe, so I can take care of him! 🖤
