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Ahead of their upcoming Summer Road Trip 2024 tour, Train has released an upbeat new single.
Of "Long Yellow Dress," Train frontman Pat Monahan says, "Have you ever had a dream more real than reality? Me too. There she was in a long yellow dress. Do I know her? It’s obvious that I’m supposed to find her so I can’t stop looking. She’s out there somewhere."
The band plans to give the song its live debut at their upcoming performance at London's Royal Albert Hall on April 30. The show, part of Train's first U.K. tour in seven years, will be recorded and released as Train Live at Royal Albert Hall this summer.
After touring the U.K. and Europe, Train returns to the U.S. for the Summer Road Trip 2024 tour, a co-headlining trek with REO Speedwagon that starts July 8 in Somerset, Wisconsin. It's currently scheduled through a September 11 show in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Billie Eilish's upcoming album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is her third album, but she says it's a throwback to her first one.
“I feel like this album is me,” she tells Rolling Stone. “It’s not a character. It feels like the When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? version of me. It feels like my youth and who I was as a kid.”
“It was the best time of my life," Billie says of her debut album.
“This whole process has felt like I’m coming back to the girl that I was," she adds of making HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. "I’ve been grieving her. I’ve been looking for her in everything, and it’s almost like she got drowned by the world and the media. I don’t remember when she went away.”
The album's also meant to be experienced as a whole, FINNEAS says, so Billie isn't releasing any singles.
"Every single time an artist I love puts out a single without the context of the album, I’m just already prone to hating on it," she says. "I really don’t like when things are out of context. This album is like a family: I don’t want one little kid to be in the middle of the room alone.”
Rolling Stone notes that one track sure to inspire questions is "Lunch," described as a "bass-heavy banger" about Billie crushing on a girl.
Regarding her sexuality, which became a headline in 2023, Billie tells Rolling Stone, "That song was actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real. I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after. I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn’t understand, until last year..."
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After appearing on the two biggest albums of 2024, Post Malone is now branching out into his very own universe.
Post is creating what's described as an all new "IP (intellectual property) universe" based on his own original story. To bring it to life, he's partnered with Vault Comics and Platinum Dunes, the production company by director Michael Bay and Brad Fuller that brought you A Quiet Place, the Purge films and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, among other projects.
The story is set in medieval times and involves an armored 18-wheeler sent back from the future to battle a horde of demons threatening to take over Europe. "I’m so pumped to share this bad*** story with the world, and I couldn’t ask for better partners than Michael Bay and Vault to help bring this story to life,” Post says in a statement.
The story will first arrive through Vault in 2025 as a graphic novel, which will then lead to a feature film.
“I love working with talented people, and Post Malone is incredibly gifted,” says Bay, who's directed blockbusters like the Transformers films, Armageddon, The Rock and Bad Boys I and II. “I am excited to work with him on such an intriguing idea, and when you add Vault to the mix, it raises the bar to another level. This new IP is just what the graphic world needs right now.”
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Teddy Swims has just announced a new leg of his I've Tried Everything But Therapy tour, kicking off in September in Reno, Nevada, and Teddy says he's expecting fans of all ages to come see him.
Speaking about his fans, Teddy told ABC Audio a few months ago, "They're the best. [At my shows], everybody's lovin' on somebody, there's an 8-year-old there and there's an 80-year-old ... everybody. Every shape, size, color, it's every demographic, man. We love it."
The new tour dates kick off September 6 in Reno, with this leg scheduled to wrap up October 21 at House of Blues in Anaheim, California. Tickets go on sale April 26 at 10 a.m. local time; visit TeddySwims.com for full dates and information.
Of course, a highlight of Teddy's live shows is his performance of his smash hit "Lose Control." But according to Teddy, fans have been treating the song like a hit single long before it ever made the charts.
"When we first started playing 'Lose Control' live, people were singing that song, you know?" he told ABC Audio. "And then when I play it even now, I don't think, like, live-wise, it's changed at all. 'Cause it was a hit at my first time singing it and it's still a hit when I'm singing it the next time."
As previously reported, Teddy will release a deluxe edition of his album I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), called (Part 1.5), on April 26. It features four new songs.
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Katy Perry's fiancé, Orlando Bloom, is the star of a new show called Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, which features the British actor doing scary, death-defying stunts like sky-diving and free rock climbing. And Katy says she's supportive of all this, but enough already.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Katy says that when Orlando was filming the show, "Oh my gosh, I was like, 'I need a ginger ale. My stomach was turning!'" She adds, "Every time he called me I was just thanking God. At the end of the day he gives me a call when they're shooting those things. It was like, 'There it is! It's his number.'"
"I can't stop him, and I just want to let him know, 'Honey, I'm impressed and I'm proud of you,'" she joked. "'I'm so impressed with you. Please don't ever do this again. If that was all to impress me, you did it. Now stop.'"
Orlando will probably have to stay home in the future, since Katy has plans for new music and possibly a world tour. After all, someone has to stay home and watch their daughter, Daisy.
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Music videos by Dua Lipa and Tyla will be screened at the upcoming Tribeca Festival, which will take place in New York City June 5-16. Dua's clip for "Illusion" and Tyla's video for "Water" are among the 10 videos being screened. Visuals by Bad Bunny, Conan Gray, The Black Crowes and Zach Bryan are among the other festival selections.
"Espresso" has become Sabrina Carpenter's first top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and she celebrated the milestone with a note of gratitude to her fans on her Instagram Story. "Thank You Coffee Loverssssssss," she wrote, along with a screen grab of the story announcing her achievement.
Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department continues to break records. It's sold 700,000 copies just on vinyl, breaking the record for the largest sales week for an album on vinyl since 1991, when data company Luminate began tracking sales electronically. It breaks the previous record of 693,000 copies, set by 1989 (Taylor's Version) in 2023.
Speaking of Taylor, she released a new YouTube Shorts video that features behind-the-scenes footage of the creation of The Tortured Poets Department. In the video, Taylor is seen in the studio recording the album. There's also footage of her posing for some of the album's official photographs. "A fortnight making TTPD ... Brought to you by YouTube Shorts #ForAFortnightChallenge," the video's description reads.
A trailer for Jennifer Lopez's new film Atlas is now available. The sci-fi movie features JLo as Agent Atlas, who's trying to stop the world's first "AI terrorist," played by Simu Liu.
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Harry Styles and Tyla are among the nominees for this year's Ivor Novello Awards, also known as The Ivors.
The awards, which have been handed out since 1956, are the most prestigious music honor in the United Kingdom. They celebrate excellence in British and Irish songwriting, and are peer awards, voted on by other British and Irish songwriters and composers.
Harry is nominated in the category of Most Performed Work for "As It Was," which actually won in this category in 2023. The award is for the song that's been heard the most in broadcast, online and general performances in the past year, which just goes to show how insanely successful "As It Was," released in 2022, continues to be.
Also nominated in that category is "Boys a Liar Pt. 2" by PinkPantheress and Ice Spice.
Meanwhile, Tyla's breakthrough hit "Water" is nominated in the category of Best Contemporary Song, while RAYE's debut album, My 21st Century Blues, is up for Best Album.
The winners will be revealed May 23 at a ceremony in London.
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Over the years, Rihanna has worn her share of stunning red carpet looks — and her share of extremely racy looks, as well. But now that she's a mother of two, Rih says she's experiencing some regrets over that.
For a TikTok posted by Vogue, Rihanna was asked if she had any "fashion icks." The Fenty mogul replied, "It's gonna sound hypocritical, 'cause I did so much s*** in my life. I had my nipples out, I had my panties out."
"But now those are the things, I guess, as a mom, and as an evolved young lady — young! Emphasis on young! — they're just things that I feel that I would never do," she continued. "And I’m just like, ‘Oh my God, I really did that? Nips out?’”
Rihanna was also asked if she had a favorite Met Gala look. She chose her 2015 look, which featured a massive yellow, fur-trimmed, embroidered cape made by a Chinese woman named Guo Pei to go along with the theme of China: Through the Looking Glass.
Describing it as a "fur stole that went all the way down the stairs," Rihanna smiled, "Nobody will ever forget that."
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In 2023 and early 2024, Pitbull toured with Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin as part of The Trilogy Tour, but now, Mr. Worldwide is going solo.
The "Feel This Moment" rapper will kick off his Party After Dark tour August 21 in Bristow, Virginia, with special guest T-Pain. The tour is currently scheduled to wrap up October 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tickets go on sale starting April 26 at 10 a.m. local time via LiveNation.com. VIP packages are also available at VIPNation.com.
Pitbull's most recent album, 2023's Trackhouse, features T-Pain, Lil Jon, country star Zac Brown and CHIC leader Nile Rodgers, among other acts. Earlier in 2024, he put out an EP called Trackhouse (Daytona 500 Edition), which features country stars Tim McGraw and Dolly Parton.
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