Foo Fighters have announced a pair of Northeast concerts taking place next month.
The shows will be held September 15 in Syracuse, New York, and September 17 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, August 13, at 10 a.m. ET via FooFighters.com.
Attendees must be either full vaccinated against COVID-19 or receive a negative diagnostic test within 48 hours of entering the venue.
Foo Fighters have been playing concerts this summer while celebrating their 26th anniversary after their 25th anniversary plans for 2020 were scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outing will continue August 17 with the band’s first ever show in Alaska.
Meanwhile, you can also catch the Foos at the Bonnaroo and BottleRock Napa Valley festival in September.
The trailer for the upcoming Oasis documentary chronicling the band’s historic 1996 concerts at England’s Knebworth Festival has been released.
The clip includes footage from the shows, along with voiceovers from awed concertgoers who were lucky enough to attend the massive gigs. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
Fittingly, the trailer premieres on the 25th anniversary of the first Knebworth date: August 10, 1996.
The film, simply titled Oasis Knebworth 1996, will premiere in theaters September 23. As previously reported, both Liam and Noel Gallagher are executive producers on the doc, though it’s unclear how much, if at all, the estranged brothers and former band mates worked together directly on the project.
Oasis Knebworth 1996 will be released as a live album and on Blu-ray/DVD on November 19.
In the spirit of his fun-loving new song, “Redneck Be Like,” Thomas Rhett is trying something new. The singer grabbed a dozen or so of his closest friends to help him pull off a TikTok dance set to his new single.
It’s his first-ever dance on the social media app, and the singer jokingly wrote in his caption, “Never thought I’d see the day where I’d be doing a TikTok dance, but here we are.”
The clip is set to the chorus of “Redneck Be Like,” and shows off Thomas’ choreographed dance moves. But the real star of the show is his hat collection: The singer and his backup dancers all wear cowboy hats in the video, which is filmed in front of a wall decorated with — you guessed it — even more hats.
As it happens, Thomas’ wall of hats — and the room in his house where they reside — was featured in the August/September 2021 issue of House Beautiful. In the magazine, the country star and his wife, Lauren, invited fans inside their Nashville-area home, with designer April Tomlin explaining the inspirations behind their home decor.
According to the article, TR’s hat wall was assembled from his own personal collection of cowboy hats, supplemented with others found on Etsy, and is located in a “low-key eating area in the basement” of his home.
On TikTok, the singer invited fans to tag him in their own versions of the “Redneck Be Like” dance.
You can also catch Thomas’ live performance of “Redneck Be Like” when he hits the road for the return of his The Center Point Road Tour this week.
Shaquille O’Neal is hosting a charity event in Las Vegas and he’s tapped some stars to participate that are almost as big as he is.
Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, Imagine Dragons and Snoop Dogg will all perform at “The Event,” which will raise money for Shaq’s charity Foundation. The Foundation was created to help underserved youth in Las Vegas and Atlanta, and is partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs and Communities in Schools.
Tickets for the inaugural gala, scheduled for October 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, go on sale today via AXS.com/ShaqEvent2021.
“I’m honored to have so many people in the Las Vegas community and beyond, join our efforts to help underserved youth.” said O’Neal in a statement.
He adds, “We are proud to create an inclusive event, one that everyone can be a part of, from the more approachable concert ticket options to the higher-priced table sponsorships. Together, we can provide opportunities and resources for the kids who need them the most.”
Henry Cavill, who stars in Netflix’s The Witcher, opened up about how his on-set injury while filming the popular fantasy series’ second season impacted his mental health.
Speaking to People, the 38-year-old actor said his injury forced him to take things easy, which was a challenge to him considering how often he had to work out to maintain a certain physique for the grueling role.
“When I look back, I realize, yes, it was a hard time,” Cavill confessed. “I think one of the skills I’ve picked up over the years is just forging ahead regardless of difficulty or hard work or trials and tribulations.”
“So when the hamstring injury came, I tried to look at the silver lining. It was like, ‘Ok. I was working insane hours and it was exhausting and I now physically can’t work because I’m on crutches,'” the British actor continued, saying he focused on “taking the time off” so he could heal property and head back to work with peace of mind.
The Man of Steel star said this is an example of how he mentally approaches a serious setback. “When it comes to my mental health, [I] focus on what I can control and work on that,” he explained. “And that gives me something to work towards rather than something to deal with or work through or manage my life through.”
Cavill added he’s completely healed from his hamstring injury and is working on his sprinting, saying his goal is “to build a better engine.”
“One of the things my physical therapy for my hamstring showed me was that I have a lot of capacity in my engine but I have not accessed it,” he said. “It’s something which I really want to build upon.”
Ed Sheeran will perform his debut album + (Plus) in its entirety next month at a special concert in London.
The multi-million-selling album, which was originally released September 9, 2011, helped start Ed on his path to superstardom, thanks to singles like “The A Team” and “Lego House.” The gig at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire will take place September 2, and it’ll mark Ed’s first time playing that venue, which holds just 2,000, since 2011.
Music Week quotes Ed as saying, “While I’ve been lucky enough to continue playing shows across the world, Shepherds Bush Empire is still really special to me.”
“When I first set out in music, one of my main goals was to one day headline SBE and my first gig there is still one of my favorite shows that I’ve played,” he adds. “I can’t wait to get back and celebrate 10 years of + with you.”
You can enter to win tickets on Ed’s website through Sunday, August 15.
The London show will be Ed’s first headlining concert since he wrapped up his record-breaking Divide tour in August of 2019.
As a member of Slipknot, Shawn “Clown” Crahan is used to wearing a mask. But that’s not the reason he’ll continue to wear a face covering, even in a post-pandemic world.
Speaking with Forbes, Crahan revealed that he’s “not ever going to stop wearing a mask, COVID or not.” Why? Because “people are filthy all over the world.”
“We live in a filthy world, and we live in a world where people don’t wash their hands, they wipe their nose and they open the door and then you touch it,” Clown says. “I have four children and I know what it’s like to drop your kid off at school and they come home sick and then you’re sick.”
Of course, Clown’s comments probably aren’t surprising to anyone who’s heard Slipknot’s Iowa classic, “People=S***.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Clown speaks about the progress on new Slipknot music, and how the pandemic has affected the “highly intense” recording process.
“When we were in the studio if we were in the control room and around the engineers that worked for the studio, we had to wear masks,” Crahan explains. “If we were in the live room where we were recording around each other, and we had all been tested, we didn’t have to wear masks. But, if an employee was in there we’d have to put them on.”
“Now I think about nine months ago and it was even more restrictive,” he adds. “So it’s been very challenging to say the least.”
Slipknot’s most recent album is 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind.
Paul McCartney‘s new Hulu docuseries McCartney 3, 2, 1 is the latest installment of what’s shaping up to be a huge year for Beatles and Beatles-adjacent material. That includes the pending release of Peter Jackson‘s Get Back, to the just-released 50th anniversary edition of George Harrison‘s All Things Must Pass, to McCartney’s own album, McCartney III Reimagined. But McCartney thinks there will always be a demand for Beatles material, because there’s always going to be someone out there who’s yet to discover them.
“There’s so much stuff out there. But I think that’s one of the reasons The Beatles keep going — because you keep discovering another little thing,” Paul tells Rolling Stone in a new interview featuring him and his 3,2,1 co-star Rick Rubin. “I always think everyone’s heard all the stories. As you get older, you think, “Am I just repeating all my stories?”
Paul Continues, “But I rationalize, well, there’s only one answer to the question, ‘How did you meet John [Lennon]?’ I can’t make another meeting up. I can maybe try and explain how we met in a slightly different way. But I’ll still talk to someone and they say, ‘What? You dreamed [the melody of] “Yesterday”?’ And so I’ll tell the story again, but it’s like, ‘You sure you haven’t heard this?’ But not everyone has.”
And, as Paul points out, “As we go on and the young people come onboard, there’s a lot of stuff they haven’t heard.”
You can hear Paul tell a lot of those stories in McCartney 3, 2, 1. Rubin believes the the docuseries is a hit because “it doesn’t come across as product.” Or, as Paul notes, “People feel like they’re watching us talk. Which is exactly what’s happening.”
John Boyega admits he was a bit intimated by his Naked Singularity character Casi, an overzealous public defender who rails against the corrupt criminal justice system.
“I [felt] quite distant when I read the script,” Boyega tells ABC Audio. “I felt quite distant as a person to the character of Casi. I’ve never gone to school to study this practice and then going onto the field as a public defender to kind of basically help influence the fate of defendants — [it’s] kind of scary.”
In the film, which is part courtroom drama, sci-fi and heist-thriller, Boyega plays a social justice warrior who decides to help a client with a multi-million dollar drug heist. This all happens while viewers learn that the world is expected to ominously “collapse in 12 days.”
Although Boyega says he was going into uncharted territories when he took on the role of Casi, the Star Wars alum says he did eventually find some common ground with his character.
“Casi having a conflict about his position and job was where my interests were,” Boyega says.
“Because I guess as the maybe ignorant civilian who hasn’t worked in those kind of high sectors, I feel like, ‘Don’t you guys ever want to sabotage anything?'” he laughs, referring to the court cases.
“So, I guess because of that curiosity — actually dealing with a character that actually has a chance to make some real bank, some real money, and to get out of the system too — was definitely interesting to me,” Boyega explains. “So that’s where my interests — my in was.”
Naked Singularity, also starring Olivia Cooke, is in select theaters and will be available on video on demand on Friday, August 13.
Nicole Kidman says she does not have to worry about what husband Keith Urban thinks when she films some of her steamier love scenes.
Speaking with E!’s Daily Pop, the Big Little Lies star revealed that Keith is fully supportive of what she does — even when it comes to her stripping down for the camera.
“My husband is an artist, so he understands all of it, and he also does not get involved,” Nicole said of her husband of 15 years. “He sees the show at the very end when it’s a show, all edited together.”
The 54-year-old Australian actress added that Urban has “fresh eyes” when it comes to her filming her movie and television roles because “he doesn’t read any script, he really doesn’t know what’s going on on the set.”
“He’s got his own career that he’s completely absorbed in,” the Academy Award winner cracked. “He doesn’t know much about what I’m really doing.”
The pair wed in 2006 and share two daughters, 13-year-old Sunday Rose and 10-year-old Faith Margaret.
Nicole stars in the upcoming Nine Perfect Strangers, set to premiere on Hulu on August 18.
