Month: June 2022

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Country Daypop

Zac Brown Band announce deluxe version of ‘The Comeback’

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Zac Brown Band’s album The Comeback will be released as a new deluxe edition this fall, featuring guest appearances from fellow country artists.

Blake Shelton collaborates with the ban on a new version of “Out in the Middle,” ZBB’s current single. The duet version of the song will be out June 22, ahead of the deluxe album’s release day. The group said in a statement: “The Comeback is the best album we’ve ever made, and to rerecord a few tracks with some musical legends was such an honor. Blake Shelton is a country music powerhouse and sharing ‘Out in the Middle’ with him, a song that represents our Southern roots and country pride, is absolutely unreal.”

Added Blake: “I’ve always been a big fan of Zac as an artist and especially as a songwriter. This song in particular really resonated with me. It reminds me of where I was raised and where I come from — out in the middle!”

Pre-orders for the deluxe version of The Comeback start July 15.

Zac Brown Band announces ‘The Comeback’ Deluxe album

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Entertainment Daypop

Apple TV+ orders ‘Sugar’ series starring Colin Farrell

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Apple TV+ has given a series order to the genre-bending series Sugar, created by ‘I Am Legend’ co-writer Mark Protosevich and featuring Colin Farrell in the lead role.  Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The new series is directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and executive produced by Protosevich, Farrell, Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon and Scott Greenberg.  Sugar is Kinberg’s second collaboration with Apple TV+ following the sci-fi drama series Invasion. 

Farrell’s previous TV roles include Det. Ray Velcoro on True Detective and Henry Drax in The North Water, and he most recently starred as the Penguin in the film The Batman.

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Entertainment Daypop

Check out the final trailer for Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror film “NOPE”

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Universal Pictures is sharing the final trailer for Jordan Peele’s new sci-fi horror movie Nope, featuring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun.  Barbie Ferreira, Donna Mills, Andrew Patrick Ralston and Keith David also star.

The trailer shows siblings Otis (Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Palmer) investigate the mysterious clouds looming above their family ranch following their father’s death. Otis and Emerald attribute the strange occurrences to a UFO and recruit security camera specialist Kevin (Brandon Perea) and UFO expert Craig (Michael Wincott) to help them capture footage of the aliens on film. The siblings’ efforts seem to anger the extra-terrestrial beings, who begin terrorizing the ranch.

Nope is written and directed by Peele (‘Get Out,’ ‘Us’), and will debut in theaters on July 22.  Take a look at the trailer – here.

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Rock Daypop

Slipknot announces fall run of shows with Ice Nine Kills and Crown the Empire

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Slipknot have extended their 2022 Knotfest Roadshow, announcing a fall leg set to kick off in late September. The new run of dates will launch Sept. 20 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, with shows planned in cities like Austin, Dallas, Albuquerque, and Phoenix before wrapping up on Oct. 7 at the FivePoint Amphitheater in Irvine, California.

Slipknot will be joined on these dates by Ice Nine Kills and Crown the Empire. Tickets will go on sale June 17 at 10 a.m. local time, while a presale will run June 14 through June 16. Full information is on the Knotfest website.

Slipknot have been quiet in the studio of late; kast November, the group released a new song, “The Chapeltown Rag,” which marked their first new music since 2019, when they dropped their most recent album, We Are Not Your Kind.

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Rock Daypop

Jack White shares the video for ‘If I Die Tomorrow’

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Jack White has released a new video for his latest single, ‘If I Die Tomorrow’, taken off his upcoming album ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ which is set for release on July 22.   In the video, Jack walks through a sparse field and forest filled with mysterious characters, which also features washed out blue tones, replicating the color scheme White has taken on during this album cycle.

‘Entering Heaven Alive’ follows Jack’s other recent single ‘Fear Of The Dawn,’ which was released in April. White announced last November that he would release two albums back-to-back in 2022. The first featured singles ‘Taking Me Back’, ‘Hi-De-Ho’ and ‘Queen Of The Bees’.

Take a look at the video for ‘If I Die Tomorrow’ – here.

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Pop Daypop

Megan Thee Stallion joins Season 2 of Starz’s ‘P-Valley’

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Megan Thee Stallion has joined the cast of Starz’s P-Valley.  The 27-year-old rapper will appear in Season 2 of the drama series. Starz tweeted: “We knew nothing was gettin’ past da #PynkPosse! Ya’ll heard right, thee Houston Hottie herself @theestallion is joining us for season 2!“

P-Valley is based on the play by Katori Hall, who also created the series. It stars Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan, Shannon Thornton, Elarica Johnson, Skyler Joy and J. Alphonse Nicholson. Megan’s voice was heard in Sunday’s episode; the rapper will play the character Tina Snow, named after one of her alter-egos. In addition, Megan has written and recorded an original song for P-Valley that will be featured on the show.

Season 2 follows The Pynk strip club, as it ‘struggles to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, a battle for the throne, and the possibility of some new blood shaking up the locker room.’  P-Valley set a record with its Season 2 debut, drawing 4.5 million multiplatform viewers in the United States alone, up 1,018% from its Season 1 debut.

P-Valley Season 2 airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Starz.

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Pop Daypop

Members of BTS announce indefinite hiatus to focus on their solo careers

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BTS’s band members—who include RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook—announced they are taking a hiatus in a video posted to social media on June 14.  The K-pop stars didn’t note how long the hiatus will last, but expressed their desire to explore solo projects.

The band said: “.. BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don’t give you time to mature. You have to keep producing music and keep doing something.  We can’t help but think of our fans no matter what, we want to be the kind of artists that are remembered by our fans. I think now we’re starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to be remembered by our fansI think that’s why we’re going through a rough patch right now, we’re trying to find our identity and that’s an exhausting and long process.” 

As other members teared up as they discussed the break, RM said: “I want BTS to go on for a long time. We have to go through this to do that. I want it to last long and for BTS to last long, I think I have to retain who I am.” 

Jungkook said: “We’re each going to take some time to have fun and experience lots of things. We promise we will return someday, even more mature than we are now.  There’s so much more to come.”

BTS started forming in 2010 after Big Hit Entertainment founder Bang Si-hyuk recruited RM followed by Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, with the band officially debuting in 2013. BTS experienced a surge of popularity in 2015 and had become a global phenomenon by 2017, earning two Grammy nominations, six no. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and an ARMY of fans.

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Sports Daypop

Golden State Warriors defeat Boston Celtics 104-94 to take 3-2 lead in NBA Finals

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The Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics 104-94 on Monday, to take the 3-2 lead in the NBA finals.

The Warriors Andrew Wiggins (26 points and 13 rebounds) and Klay Thompson (21 points) combined for 47 points to take Golden State to victory. The Celtics Jayson Tatum led with 27 points and 10 rebounds, while Marcus Smart added 20 points and Jaylen Brown scored 18 points; however the Celtics committed 18 turnovers and 10 missed free throws in Game 5.

The Warriors are now within one win to take the championships, which would be their fourth title in the last eight years.

Game 6 of the NBA Finals will be held ​​Thursday, June 16th in Boston.

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News Daypop

Yellowstone National Park shuts down all entrances amid heavy flooding conditions

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On Monday, Yellowstone National Park closed all entrances into the park amid heavy flooding conditions which caused rockslides, mudslides on roadways, and power outages in multiple areas of the park. The National Park Service (“NPS “) said in a statement: “Effective immediately, no inbound visitor traffic will be allowed into the park until conditions stabilize and the park can assess damage to roads and bridges and other facilities. This includes visitors with lodging and camping reservations.” In a statement earlier Monday morning, the NPS said visitors currently in the northern portion of the park were being evacuated.

Yellowstone National Park said in a Facebook post: “Effective immediately, all entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily CLOSED due to substantial flooding, rockslides and mudslides on roadways from recent unprecedented amounts of rainfall and flooding. No inbound traffic is allowed “until the conditions stabilize and the park can assess damage to roads and bridges. The North, Northeast, West, South and East entrances are all closed.”

The NPS added that due to heavy rainfall expected over the next several days, roads may be closed “for an extended period of time,” and those who plan to visit the park “in the upcoming weeks should pay close attention to the status of road conditions.   Multiple sections of roads throughout the park have been washed out between Gardiner and Cooke City, Montana, and multiple bridges may be affected. Multiple roads in the southern portion of the park are also on the verge of being flooded, further restricting access.”

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Bear market hits Wall Street as Dow Jones tumbles 876 points, stocks, bonds, crypto dive

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Wall Street plunged into what’s called a bear market on Monday, as investors grew increasingly fearful about a fragile economy and rising interest rates. The S&P 500 was more than 20% below its record set early this year.

The Dow (INDU) sank 876 points or 2.8%. The Nasdaq was down by 4.7% and has tumbled more than 10% in the past two trading sessions.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 151.23 points to 3,749.63 and dropped 21.8% below its record set early this year to put it into what investors call a bear market.  Prices fell worldwide for everything from bonds to bitcoin, and some of the sharpest drops hit what had been big winners of the easier low-rate era, such as high-growth technology stocks and other former darlings of investors. Tesla slumped 7.1%, and Amazon dropped 5.5%. GameStop tumbled 8.4%.

Some of the biggest hits came for cryptocurrencies, which soared early in the pandemic. Bitcoin dropped more than 14% from a day earlier and dropped below $23,400, putting it back to where it was in late 2020 and down from a peak of $68,990 late last year.

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