The Black Keys are “Going Down South” this fall for a trio of intimate tour dates.
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney will play Athens, Georgia, on September 20, St. Petersburg, Florida, on September 21, and Oxford, Mississippi, on September 23. The trek is dubbed the World Tour of America, a reference to each stop on the itinerary being named after a city from another country.
“Dan and I have joked about doing a tour of American cities named after other cities in the world since we were touring together in a van,” Carney says. “It feels like now is as good a time as any, and we are excited to play in some places we haven’t played since the early days of the band and for fans that have not had a chance to see us in a while.”
Tickets will go on sale this Friday, July 23, at 10 a.m. local time via TheBlackKeys.com.
Along with the tour, The Black Keys have also announced a partnership with the Save the Music Foundation to raise money for music education programs in Mississippi schools.
The Black Keys released a new album called Delta Kream this past May. It’s a collection of covers paying tribute to Mississippi hill country blues artists including R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
The IOC steered the bidding for the 2032 Games towards Brisbane, avoiding rival bids. The city was given exclusive negotiating rights in February, leaving officials in Qatar, Hungary and Germany disappointed with the failure of their own planned bids.
It will be the first Games in Australia since the 2000 Olympics in Syndey. Prior to that, Melbourne hosted the Olympics in 1956.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison told the IOC that Australia knows “what it takes to deliver a successful games.” That, in an 11-minute video call with IOC members.
Brisbane is the latest host city to be named, and will follow the Summer Games in Paris in 2024, and the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. The IOC describes the Brisbane project as “a passion-driven, athlete-centric offer from a sports-loving nation.”
Events will be held across the Australian state of Queensland. The city of Brisbane says it already has more than 80 percent of stadiums and event venues in place, which will allow it to avoid excessive spending.
Coheed & Cambria has dropped a new song called “Shoulders.”
The ripping tune, which you can download now via digital outlets, follows Claudio Sanchez and company’s 2018 album, Vaxis – Act I: The UnheavenlyCreatures, as well as their 2020 single “Jessie’s Girl 2,” a sequel to Rick Springfield‘s ’80s hit.
“Shoulders” is accompanied by a sci-fi lyric video, which might hint at the direction Coheed’s ever-expanding concept might take with future releases. You can watch that now streaming on YouTube.
In a recent interview with Heavy Consequence, Sanchez shared that a new Coheed album is indeed in the works, describing it as a “modern record.”
“It’s a Coheed and Cambria record, but it’s looking forward, not backwards,” he said.
Coheed will launch a U.S. co-headlining tour with The Used in August.
Tiger Woods is opening up about life and parenthood in his new series, A Round with Tiger: Celebrity Playing Lessons.
The first episode, which was filmed just one day before he was seriously injured in a California car crash on February 23, debuted Tuesday onGolf Digest and features Jada Pinkett Smith. The two engaged in a round of golf as they discussed an array of topics, including parenthood, where 45-year-old Woods shared what he’s learned from his daughter, 14-year-old Sam.
“I don’t like boys,” he joked, before adding that she’s “daddy’s little girl.”
“She’s definitely taught me how to be more patient,” he added. “I don’t ever want her to leave home.”
The five-time Masters winner is also father to 12-year-old son, Charlie, and revealed that he didn’t coach his son on how to play golf because he didn’t want him to feel any pressure. However, it seems even without the coaching, Charlie inherited some of his father’s skill.
“He just watches me do it, and then he kind of does it,” Woods said of Charlie, agreeing with Pinkett Smith that his son is “a natural.”
Woods also opened up about the discipline and resilience he practiced, stating, “I’m always fighting, you know, and I’m always trying to get better. That’s all I know. I feel like I’m never out of the fight, you know, in that regard. I’m always pushing.”
Woods is still recovering from his car crash injuries. Golf Digest begins the video with a title card the states it was released “with the blessing of Tiger and his guests.”
Dolly Parton gave her husband Carl Dean a birthday he’d never forget. To mark his 79th birthday, the country legend slipped into the iconic bunny outfit she wore on the cover of Playboy in 1978.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Parton — who was all dolled up — revealed how she planned on spoiling her husband of 54 years.
“You’re probably wondering why I’m dressed like this. Well, it’s for my husband’s birthday,” the “Jolene” singer explained. “Remember some time back I said I was gonna pose on Playboy magazine when I’m 75? Well, I’m 75, and they don’t have a magazine anymore!” Playboy stopped publishing its print magazine last year.
Although Dolly was unable to pose for the physical magazine, she was able to do the next best thing — make her very own magazine cover.
“My husband always loved the original cover of Playboy. So, I was trying to think of something to do to make him happy,” the 10-time Grammy winner grinned. “He still thinks I’m a hot chick after 57 years and I’m not gonna try to talk him out of that!”
“What I did for his birthday is that I did a little photoshoot in this lil’ outfit and I had a cover made of the new Dolly… The old new Dolly,” she dished, before showing off a side-by-side comparison of her 1978 cover and its 2021 reboot.
“In the first one, I was kind of a little butterball in that one,” the Emmy nominee winked while pointing to her younger self. “Well, I’m string cheese now! But he’ll probably be thinking I’m cream cheese… I hope.”
Dolly revealed she planned on ambushing her husband later while singing to him. The video ended on a still of Dolly, all dressed up, surprising Carl.
After they were spotted together at Game 5 of the NBA Finals over the weekend, rumors began to circulate that Adele is dating Rich Paul, LeBron James‘ agent. Now a source confirms to People magazine that the two are indeed a couple.
The source says Adele, 33, has been dating Paul, 40 for “a few months.” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst also stated that the game marked the first public outing for Paul and “his girlfriend.”
The source adds that Paul was previously in a relationship with Jennifer Meyer, the ex-wife of actor Tobey Maguire. In addition to LeBron, Paul represents Ben Simmons, Anthony Davis, Lonzo Ball and more through his agency, Klutch Sports Group.
Adele split from her her husband, Simon Konecki, the father of her eight-year-old son, Angelo, in 2019. Since then, she’s also been linked to British rapper Skepta, but that romance has never been confirmed.
Khloe Kardashian is opening up about how she plans to discuss race with her daughter, True.
“I will be always learning and trying to do the best I can do as being her mom,” Khloe said in Monday’s episode of the Role Models podcast. “I’m obviously not a woman of color, but I do want her to be exposed to as much inclusion but variety as possible.”
Kardashian shares her three-year-old daughter with her ex-boyfriend, NBA player Tristan Thompson, who is of Jamaican descent. The 37-year-old reality star added that she didn’t want True “living in a bubble…because we do have this very privileged life, I want her to know all types of life and all types of living and be very aware of that.”
“I know some people get uncomfortable with talking to their kids about race, or they think, ‘Oh we live in a bubble, we never have to address that my child is Black.’ I mean, of course you do,” Kardashian went on. “You’re only setting them up, I think, for failure if you don’t talk about race and probably the things they’re going to endure once they’re in, quote, the real world.”
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star added that the “beauty” of having sisters in the same situation is that they get to have some of those conversations together. Kim Kardashian has four mixed race children with Kanye West, and Kylie Jenner has a mixed race child with Travis Scott.
While Khloe admitted to not knowing exactly at what age she’ll have the conversation with True, she concluded by saying she wants True to grow up in “a world surrounded by love but still very aware that she is a woman of color.”
The “Children of the Grave” are all grown up — Black Sabbath‘s Master of Reality is now 50 years old.
Released July 21, 1971, Master of Reality was the third studio effort from Ozzy Osbourne and company, following the 1970 one-two punch of Black Sabbath and Paranoid.
“It was a different sort of sounding album,” guitarist Tony Iommi tells ABC Audio. “We tuned down, [songs] like ‘Children of the Grave,’ they were tuned down more. It was a bit more sort of a doomier sort of feel, I think, on that album.”
Indeed, with its lower tuning, chugging riffs and slower tempos, Master of Reality is thought to be the forebearer of the doom and sludge metal sub-genres, and one the most influential records in all of metal.
Along with “Children of the Grave,” Master of Reality also spawned the Sabbath classic “Sweet Leaf.” The pot-inspired track begins with Osbourne exclaiming, “Alright now!”, which he brought back with his 2020 solo song, “Straight to Hell.”
Despite its now legendary status, Master of Reality wasn’t warmly received by critics — Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, for example, panned it as “dimwitted” and “amoral exploitation.”
Meanwhile, the cover artwork for Master of Reality became almost as iconic as the music itself. In 2020, Sabbath released a t-shirt in support of the Black Lives Matter movement using the same font from the Master of Reality cover.
(NEW YORK) — A family is sharing a stark new warning for others about the alleged dangers of the Peloton Tread+ treadmill after they say their son was sucked under the belt and severely injured.
Ygal and Sarah Saadoun spoke exclusively to ABC News about their 4-year-old son, who they said suffered third-degree burns after getting pinned underneath the workout equipment.
“This treadmill is a death trap for children,” Ygal Saadoun said in the interview airing Wednesday on Good Morning America.
“Children should not be sucked under a conveyor belt that can kill them,” he added. “Period.”
In July 2020, the Saadouns dropped their child off with another family for a sleepover. Just hours later, the young boy was sucked under the treadmill’s belt while playing next to the machine and was rushed to the hospital in extraordinary pain, the parents said.
“We were shocked to see the extent of the burns. My son was covered in burns,” the father told ABC News. “We were shocked to hear that a treadmill can do that to somebody.”
Nearly two dozen other families have reported children being hurt by the Peloton Tread+ and one even died from their injuries.
In May, the New York-based fitness company announced a recall of its Tread+ and Tread treadmills due to risk of injury and offered a full refund to anyone who purchased them until November.
“The fact that the Peloton [Tread+] has neither a safety guard or sensor to me is extremely worrying,” Sarah Saadoun told ABC News.
Peloton surged in popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic with its at-home workout machines, like the $4,300 Tread+, as people stuck at home turned to interactive fitness.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission first issued an “urgent warning” about the Peloton Tread+ in April, urging users with small children or pets at home “to stop using the product immediately.” The CPSC said kids could become “entrapped, pinned and pulled under the rear roller” of the equipment.
Peleton initially called that warning “inaccurate and misleading,” but then backtracked with CEO and co-founder John Foley publicly apologizing on GMA.
“We did make a mistake by not engaging with the Consumer Product Safety Commission in a more productive dialogue earlier in the process,” Foley told GMA in May.
However, the Saadoun family said it was too little, too late.
“I read the statement from the company after knowing that so many kids had been injured, that a child had died and still insisting that their product was safe and taking weeks to actually recall the product,” Sarah Saadoun told ABC News. “That was when we decided we need to sue this company.”
The family’s lawsuit against the company claims Peloton “knew or should have known” that the treadmill “was extremely and unreasonably dangerous.”
Lawyers for the family pointed out that other at-home treadmills have a safety guard on the back of the machines to prevent such accidents.
“Part of what the Saadoun family wants is to raise awareness about how dangerous this treadmill is,” their attorney, Nathan Worksman, told ABC News.
“We think a better, more safe, not defective product design would have avoided this child’s injuries,” another one of their attorneys, Jordan Merson, added.
When asked for comment, Peloton told ABC News in a statement: “We take this incident, and all others reported to us involving our products, very seriously. We care deeply about the safety of our community and recognize the trust our members place in us to develop safe products. We continue to cooperate with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on this recall.”
(MILWAUKEE) — The Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Championship 105-98 Tuesday night, beating the Phoenix Suns four games to two.
Giannis Antetokounmpo became the series MVP, after putting up 50 points during the Game 6 win. Antetokounmpo averaged 31.9 points per game during the NBA Finals — the most ever in NBA Finals history.
This is the Bucks’ second title — the first being 50 years ago in 1971.
Watch the full report, including highlights, from ABC’s Good Morning America below:
