Luke Bryan recounts the early musical experiences he shared with his older brother, Chris, in his newly released tune “Songs You Never Heard.”
In the lyrics of the track, Luke tips his hat to country greats like Keith Whitley, Clint Black and George Strait. But there’s a tragic twist to the story he tells in the song: Chris died in a car accident when Luke was just 19 years old.
In the years that have elapsed since his brother’s death, a huge amount of great country music has come out — including Luke’s own massive catalog of hits. Now, he sings in the song, he can’t help but think of tunes like Strait’s 2001 hit “Run,” which his brother would have loved, if he’d been alive to hear it when it was released.
“Time marches on, there’s a lot of new/ Music and memories we’d be drinking to/ I think about it and I laugh until it hurts,” Luke sings. “‘Cause I can hear you singing along/ To songs you never heard.”
Luke also opens up about his brother’s death in the five-part docuseries Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary, which is available to watch now via Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV.
CHVRCHES is gearing up to release a new album called Screen Violence, and now the trio has teamed up with something of an expert on the subject: famed horror director John Carpenter.
Carpenter, who is also a composer, has released a remix of the Screen Violence song “Good Girls.” To return the favor, CHVRCHES remixed Carpenter’s piece “Turning the Bones,” a track off his 2021 album, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death.
Both remixes are available now via digital outlets.
Screen Violence is due out August 27. It also includes the lead single “He Said She Said,” and the Robert Smith collaboration “How Not to Drown.”
(“Good Girls” remix video contains uncensored profanity.)
Good news/bad news for Stranger Things fans. Those jonesing for any information about new episodes just got some — but they’ll have to wait until 2022 to actually see what happens.
Netflix just revealed a new peek at the upcoming fourth season, teasing the return of the global hit sci-fi show. The action in the snippet comes at a rapid-fire pace, but the residents of Hawkins, Indiana will apparently have their hands full.
“Holy mother of…” Gaten Materazzo‘s Dustin says, reacting to an unseen horror.
The growing menace can be summed up with Millie Bobby Brown‘s warning as her character, Eleven:
Halsey just unveiled another new way to experience her upcoming album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.
After previously announcing an IMAX “film experience” set to the music of the album, the singer has now announced a one-night-only “global performance experience.”
The digital performance, presented by Moment House, takes place on August 29. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET at MomentHouse.com/Halsey.
The album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, comes out August 27. The If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power film experience will be screened in select IMAX theaters in the U.S. for one night only on Wednesday, August 25.
Mary J. Blige rocks a stylish plaid suit for the September cover of InStyle magazine…”The Fashion Issue.”
“IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!” the Grammy-winning singer writes on Instagram, sharing photos from her cover shoot. “This black woman finally got her first @instylemagazine cover and a spread.”
In other photos, 50-year-old Blige wears a tiger-print jumpsuit, a leather hooded jacket, and a golden three-piece Gucci set paired with a long cape.
During the interview, the Queen of hip-hop soul reveals that she keeps her phone close by her bed to write down any inspirational lyrics that come to mind, especially in the wee hours of the morning. Lately, Blige has taken inspiration from other R&B vocalists, including H.E.R., whom she says “has a phenomenal voice and is a great writer.”
Blige continues, “Jazmine Sullivan moves me, EllaMai moves me, [and] Lucky Daye. So many dope artists out there are doing something great.”
As a veteran in the music industry, Blige bluntly advises younger artists, “Stay on your business. Know the state of your money. Get life insurance. Get all kinds of insurance.”
Along with preparing new music, Blige says she’s finally embracing her single status after divorcing her husband of 13 years in 2018.
“Divorce, that took a load off. The day that I began to lighten up is the day my skin began to brighten, my eyes began to brighten,” she says. “Now I keep beautiful people around me. I’m single, without a kid, and I’m having a good time. I’m doing the most.”
Scotty McCreery is hoping to bring fans together with his brand-new “Same Truck,” a song that points out that we’ve all got more in common than we might realize.
“But we’re all in the same truck / Heading down a different two lane / Kickin’ up the same dust / Praying for the same rain,” Scotty sings in the song’s soaring chorus. “Closing down the same bars / Different wishes on the same stars…”
The song is the title track of his upcoming album, which is due to arrive on September 17. Also on the project’s track list is “Why You Gotta Be Like That” and his current top-ten hit, “You Time.”
The truth behind “Same Truck” is one that’s become clearer to Scotty the more he tours and travels, he says.
“We’re all more alike than we are different. I’ve witnessed that on almost a daily basis as I talk with people and watch them while traveling around the world to perform,” he reflects. “This is my way of saying that we’re all on the same team here; let’s all work toward getting along again. Let’s build each other up.”
While Scotty’s fans may all be driving the “Same Truck,” they’ve got the chance to pre-order a different — and exclusive — version of the new album starting this week. The limited-edition version of Same Truck features alternate cover art.
After their two shows at Radio City Music Hall this week, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have released a new music video for their duet of the Cole Porter-written classic, “I Get a Kick Out of You.”
In the video, the two are seen in the studio trading verses on the jazzy tune. Whenever Tony starts singing, Gaga looks at him lovingly with tears in her eyes. She even goes to embrace him at one point.
Tony, who turned 95 this week, has been battling Alzheimer’s disease.
Bennett and Gaga’s two-night engagement at Radio City Music Hall, One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, marked Tony’s last live performances in New York City. It was recorded for an upcoming TV special.
Gaga and Tony’s new duets album, Love for Sale, will be out October 1.
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(ALBANY, N.Y.) — A former New York State employee has filed a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, a spokeswoman told ABC News.
This is believed to be the first complaint filed against the embattled governor in wake of Tuesday’s Attorney General report which concluded he violated state and federal law in sexually harassing at least 11 women.
The woman who filed the complaint is a former assistant to the governor who is identified as “Executive Assistant #1” in Attorney General Letitia James’ report released Tuesday.
“Since approximately late 2019 the Governor engaged in a pattern of inappropriate conduct with Executive Assistant #1,” the report said.
The conduct included close and intimate hugs, kisses, touching and grabbing of her backside and suggestive remarks, according to the investigators. The report listed that Executive Assistant #1 had what appeared to be the most serious allegation against Cuomo, accusing him of reaching under her shirt and fondling her breast in the Executive Mansion in Albany in November 2020.
Cuomo has denied all allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.
Cuomo’s lawyer Rita Glavin said in a response to the report Tuesday that the governor “never groped Ms. X,” adding, “This claim is false, as the Governor has stated repeatedly and unequivocally.”
Earlier this week the lawyer of another accuser, Lindsey Boylan, said she intends to sue Cuomo for allegedly retaliating against her after she came forward.
“Our plan is to sue the governor and his and his co-conspirators,” Boylan’s attorney, Jill Basinger, told ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” citing the retaliatory actions outlined in the AG report.
The New York State Assembly’s impeachment investigation into Cuomo “is nearing completion,” officials said Thursday, and the Judiciary Committee will meet Monday morning to discuss the probe.
So far at least five district attorney offices — Manhattan, Albany, Westchester County, Nassau County and Oswego County — have launched investigations into Cuomo for alleged incidents outlined in the report that took place in their jurisdictions.
“The governor certainly seems to form a pattern of behavior that shows a sense, at a minimum, of an entitlement and a disregard of the well-being of others and the self-respect of many women,” Oswego District Attorney Gregory Oakes said to local ABC affiliate in Rochester WHAM.
(WASHINGTON) — Spirit Airlines customers should expect hundreds more cancellations in the coming days as the airline works to rebuild its network.
CEO Ted Christie said weather issues coupled with staffing shortages led to mass flight cancellations at the airline this week.
“How we got here really starts with a very challenging, operating month in the month of July,” Christie said in an interview with ABC News. “Weather delays and logistics delays throughout the air transportation system built throughout the course of the month and ate away at all the redundancy that we had in our system.”
By the end of July, Spirit was forced to cancel flights for lack of crew availability, leading to a crew disruption throughout the airline’s network.
“They were in the wrong places at the wrong time,” Christie said. “And we needed to start to build that puzzle back together again. And, unfortunately, that takes our group a lot of time to do.”
The carrier has canceled more than 1,700 flights this week alone. Christie said he expects the cancellations to continue into early next week.
“We are starting to turn the tide here and get our operation back moving again,” Christie said. “There will still be cancellations over the next few days, but we can start to build back to a full operation.”
Amid the breakdown at the airline, passengers were left stranded at airports across the country.
Maria Martinez was stuck in Tampa, Florida, for three days, trying to get home to Detroit.
“We boarded the plane, they de-boarded us out of the plane and then they told us it was canceled,” Martinez told Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ.
“It’s been a terrible week for us, for our guests,” Christie said. “We offer our apology to all of our guests that have been impacted here, and to our team members who are working really hard it’s been a rough week for sure.”
Despite this, Christie said he believes they have “taken care of” their guests and have provided adequate accommodations and vouchers.
“We believe we’ve taken care of our guests at this point, and we think we’re caught up there. We’ve either gotten them reaccommodated on Spirit or another airline or we’ve put them into a hotel or gotten them where they needed to be.”
Christie acknowledged Spirit’s reputation has taken a hit due of the issues. He hopes his airline will learn from it.
“While we strive for perfection in everything we do, in the times that we don’t we are humble enough that we look inside and figure out ways to get better and Spirit has been getting better over the last five years or so, and while this has been a terrible last few days we have to do the same thing here.”
Christie said Spirit will be working over the next few days to not only rebuild its network, but its trust with passengers.
“We have to do everything in our power to earn back their confidence, their business,” he said. “And that starts with building the airline back, making it as reliable as we want it to be.”
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Michael Bublé is postponing his U.S. tour dates as COVID-19 cases in the country continue to rise.
The Canadian native announced on Friday that his live shows for August in the U.S. have been moved to October “due to concerns over the rising number of Coronavirus infections,” according to a statement shared on his official Twitter account.
The new dates begin on October 15 in Uniondale, New York and conclude on October 28 in Jacksonville, Florida. All previously purchased tickets will be honored at the rescheduled dates.
The “Haven’t Met You Yet” singer is currently scheduled to resume the tour on September 9 at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with more shows set for October and November.
The announcement comes as COVID-19 cases surge in the U.S. due to the Delta variant. In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that more than 80 percent of new COVID-19 cases in the country were caused by the Delta variant. The CDC is now recommending that fully vaccinated people wear masks in indoor public places in areas of high transmission.
