Brothers Osborne, comprised of John and TJ Osborne, will release their third studio album, Skeletons, on Oct. 9. The upcoming project follows the release of the Brothers’ 2016 debut album, Pawn Shop, and 2018 sophomore album, Port Saint Joe.
John and TJ Osborne had a hand in writing all 12 songs on Skeletons, including the title track, which was just dropped.
Listen to “Skeletons” at the link: here.
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Justin Moore has earned his ninth No. 1 single with “Why We Drink,” which has hit the top spot on both the Billboard Country Airplay chart and Mediabase chart this week.
“Why We Drink” is featured on Justin’s 2019 album, Late Nights and Longnecks, which also features the No. 1 hit, “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home.”
Justin will commemorate his first headlining show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in May 2018 by releasing a new 17-song album, Live at the Ryman, on Sept. 25. The 17-song album features many of Justin’s fan-favorite No. 1 hits, including “Small Town USA,” “You Look Like I Need a Drink,” “and Somebody Else Will.”
Take a look at the video for “Why We Drink” at the link: here.
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Real Housewives of New York City star Dorinda Medley announced Tuesday that she will not be returning for another season after six seasons on the show. The Bravo star broke the news on Instagram just weeks after filming the RHONY Season 12 reunion.
“What a journey this has been. I have laughed and cried and tried to Make it Nice… But all things must come to an end. This was a great outlet for me to heal when my late husband Richard passed away. I have met so many interesting people and learned so much about myself, about life and about women along the way.”
Medley joined the RHONY cast in 2015, and quickly became s a fan-favorite Housewife. She is the second member of the New York City cast to exit in recent months, following Tinsley Mortimer’s departure in June. As of press time, the remaining cast members of RHONY are Ramona Singer, Luann de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan and Leah McSweeney.
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Kevin Hart is revealing that he battled COVID-19 back in March, making a full recovery months later. Hart told guests at Dave Chappelle’s An Intimate Socially Distanced Affair show in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Chappelle reportedly spent $100,000 on coronavirus rapid testing for the outdoor shows he held over the summer. Other performers included Questlove, Bill Burr and Michelle Wolf.
Said Hart of his diagnosis, “The problem is that I had it around the same time as Tom Hanks, and I couldn’t say anything because he’s more famous than I am.” Hanks and wife Rita Wilson announced on Instagram in March that they’d both tested positive for COVID-19, after arriving in Australia to work on Hank’s latest movie.
Hart has been spending most of his time during quarantine at home in Los Angeles. His wife, Eniko Hart, is pregnant with their second child, due this month.
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David Byrne’s American Utopia, the Spike Lee-directed version of Byrne’s concert that ran on Broadway, will arrive on HBO and HBO Max on Oct. 17. The announcement came along with a one-minute teaser video for the film, which you can view here. The film will have its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Songs from both Talking Heads and Byrne’s solo career are included in the show, which ran at New York’s Hudson Theatre between October 2019 and February 2020.
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A representative for Chris Cornell’s estate has said the upcoming biopic focusing on the musician’s final days is unauthorized.
Walk the Line actor Johnny Holiday will portray the Soundgarden frontman in Black Days, and filmmakers are still searching for additional cast members to play a variety of characters, including Cornell’s wife, Vicky. An announcement on the film’s official website reads: “From the cast of the Academy Award-winning Walk the Line comes a based-on-true-events story. John Holiday embodies a legend.” No further details have been revealed.
Cornell’s estate representative has said the movie is “not sanctioned or approved by the estate”, adding, “No one contacted the estate for any information.”
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Calvin Harris and The Weeknd previously teased their new collaboration, Over Now, with a picture from the studio; and now they’re confirming it with a series of promo posters.
In a post on The Weeknd’s Instagram page, the release date for Over Now was revealed to be this Friday, August 28th, with the duo being billed as “Calvin Harris x The Weeknd,”
‘Over Now’ follows Harris’ latest track, which released under his Love Regenerator moniker last month titled ‘Live Without Your Love’.
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Taylor Swift’s Folklore just marked its fourth straight week at the top of the Billboard 200, making it the first album by a female artist to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 in nearly five years.
Swift unseated Adele, whose 2015 album, 25, was the last album from a female to spend 4 weeks at No. 1. Adele held on to the top spot for seven consecutive weeks.
Folklore is the first of Swift’s albums to spend four straight weeks at No. 1. She has previously spent three weeks at the top with three of her other albums (Red, 1989 and Speak Now).
Folklore dropped less than a year after Swift’s most recent album, Lover, from August 2019.
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On Monday, the California Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Scott Peterson, who was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son on Christmas Eve 2002. Peterson, now 47, has been held on Death Row in San Quentin prison since his sentencing in 2005. A California jury convicted Peterson of killing Laci, a 27-year-old substitute teacher, and the fetus of their son Connor in December 2002, at their Modesto home and dumping their bodies from a boat in San Francisco Bay, where they washed ashore months later.
The court on Monday found errors in the trial judge’s jury selection process, including removing potential jurors from the pool because they did not support the death penalty. The court ruled prosecutors may retry the case if they wish, asking again for the death penalty. In 2012, Peterson’s lawyers appealed his death sentence.
Supreme Court judges Monday upheld Peterson’s guilty conviction of first degree murder for the death of Laci and second-degree murder for the death of their unborn son. The trial received widespread publicity for years and was the subject of multiple documentaries and true-crime television shows.
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A scaled-back Republican National Convention kicked-off on Monday night in in Charlotte, N.C., with a roll call vote to formally renominate President Donald Trump to the Republican ticket this November. Vice President Mike Pence made brief comments at the convention after he was also renominated.
The overall theme of the convention is “Honoring the Great American Story. A Trump campaign official said they will be highlighting “the promise and greatness of America” and the President’s “leadership and what he has planned for the future. Each night will also have a sub-theme; on Monday, it was “Land of Promise.”
In-person events, including Monday’s roll call of delegates, took place at the Charlotte Convention Center. Other events will mostly be virtual, including Trump’s acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. Speakers on Day 1 of the RNC included Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who were charged after waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters near their property; Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina; Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana; former South Carolina Gov. and Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; and Donald Trump Jr.
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