Month: November 2022

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Country Daypop

Thomas Rhett earns 20th No. 1 with “Half of Me”

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Thomas Rhett has earned his 20th No. 1 single with “Half of Me” featuring Riley Green. Rhett’s latest No. 1 marks a milestone for the country singer, who has now earned 20 No. 1 hits in less than 10 years, beginning in 2013 with “It Goes Like This.”

Rhett shared in a celebratory Instagram post alongside a video called “One Decade, Twenty Number Ones” that features clips of all his chart-toppers to date.: “#HalfOfMe officially makes 20 number ones as an artist in 10 years. This milestone occurring on a week of gratitude couldn’t be more fitting. There’s so much to be thankful for this year. I’m just absolutely humbled and floored. And I have a feeling the next decade is going to be even better.” Rhett also asked fans to share their favorites in the comments, saying “I gotta know… which one has been your favorite?! Tell me ⬇”

“Half of Me”, co-written by Rhett, his father Rhett Akins, Josh Thompson, and Will Bundy, is the second single off his latest album, Where We Started. 

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Dierks Bentley and Billy Strings team up for the single ‘High Note’

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Dierks Bentley is teaming up with Billy Strings for his newest track, “High Note,” off Bentley’s forthcoming tenth studio album arriving in early 2023.

The bluegrass-inspired collaboration with Strings features the legendary Jerry Douglas on dobro, Sam Bush playing the mandolin and Strings and Bryan Sutton on guitar.

In addition to sharing the new song, Bentley and Strings also released a music video for the tune, which was filmed at The Station Inn. You can take a look at the official music video for “High Note” – here.

WATCH: Dierks Bentley’s “High Note” Featuring Billy Strings

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Entertainment Daypop

Take a look at Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in new ‘Babylon’ featurette

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Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, the stars of the upcoming film Babylon, appear in a featurette for the movie. Babylon follows multiple characters ‘as they experience the decadence and debauchery of early Hollywood.’

Writer and director Damien Chazelle, Pitt and Robbie star alongside cast members Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart and Tobey Maguire. Says Chazelle:  “Babylon is about a group of people who find themselves in early Hollywood at a time of extreme depravity and debauchery and excess. It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever tried to do.”

Pitt plays Jack Conrad, “the biggest film actor at the top of his game,” while Robbie portrays Nellie LaRoy, “an aspiring actress.” Says Pitt of their characters: “They have an ambition to be part of something bigger than themselves.”

Babylon opens in theaters Dec. 23; take a look at the featurette – here.

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ABC shares details for ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023′

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ABC and dick clark productions announced that “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023” will return once again to Times Square and has expanded to Disneyland, headlined by 18-time host and executive producer of the show, Ryan Seacrest. Actress and producer Liza Koshy will return as co-host in Times Square alongside Seacrest, and country artist Jessie James Decker will also join the duo in Times Square as the Powerball co-host for her fourth consecutive year.

Disneyland will become home to an additional Rockin’ Eve celebration with veteran hostess Ciara overseeing festivities. The Disneyland segments will be pre-taped prior to the New Year’s holiday. This year’s broadcast event will also kick off Disney 100 Years of Wonder celebration.

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” will air Saturday, Dec. 31, live on ABC, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EST.

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ABC shares details for ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023′

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ABC and dick clark productions announced that “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023” will return once again to Times Square and has expanded to Disneyland, headlined by 18-time host and executive producer of the show, Ryan Seacrest. Actress and producer Liza Koshy will return as co-host in Times Square alongside Seacrest, and country artist Jessie James Decker will also join the duo in Times Square as the Powerball co-host for her fourth consecutive year.

Disneyland will become home to an additional Rockin’ Eve celebration with veteran hostess Ciara overseeing festivities. The Disneyland segments will be pre-taped prior to the New Year’s holiday. This year’s broadcast event will also kick off Disney 100 Years of Wonder celebration.

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” will air Saturday, Dec. 31, live on ABC, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EST.

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Rock Daypop

Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, Nikki Sixx and Johnny Depp join together for ‘Crossbone Skully’

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Crossbone Skully, the multi-dimensional brainchild of Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires member Tommy Henriksen, has debuted its lead single along with an animated short on the way. Cooper, along with Joe Perry, Nikki Sixx, and Johnny Depp will be featured in the animated short of the first single ‘Evil World Machine’, set to premiere on November 26 at the San Diego Fan Expo.

Crossbone Skully is an “avenging superhero”, beginning his journey to rescue humanity on ‘Evil World Machine’. Legendary producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard), came out of retirement to serve as executive producer on the album which was written by Tommy Henriksen and Tommy Denander. Fans will soon get their first look at Crossbone Skully and his world, which inspired its own upcoming graphic novel, ‘Thing #1’.  Henriksens serves as lead vocalist and bassist on the album, with additional voice overs on ‘Thing #1’ by Johnny Depp (The Evil Sorcerer), Cooper (The Bringer of Light), Joe Perry (The Big Bad Bone Crusher), Nikki Sixx (The Crooked Crow), and Kane Roberts (The Alpha Watchman), to name a few in the short, animated film.

Crossbone Skully will also release their debut album in 2023, which delivers a “powerful message in today’s global climate, inviting people of all backgrounds to coexist and break down oppressive barriers”.

You can listen to the lead single, ‘Evil World Machine’, here.

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Rock Daypop

Mötley Crüe announce limited edition box set ‘Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989’

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BMG has announced the release of the limited edition box set, ‘Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989′ featuring the band’s first five Platinum-selling landmark albums pressed on colored vinyl.

1981’s Too Fast For Love will be on white and black splatter, 1983’s Shout At The Devil on yellow and black splatter, 1985’s Theatre Of Pain on hot pink magenta and black splatter, 1987’s Girls, Girls, Girls on cyan blue and black splatter, and 1989’s Dr. Feelgood on Coke bottle green and oxblood splatter. The Crücial Crüe box set will also be released on CD with only 10,000 units of each configuration available globally, available February 17th.

After their highly successful US ‘The Stadium Tour’, Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard will once again reteam for The World Tour in 2023, hitting Latin America in February and March, and the UK and Europe in May, June, and July. Guitarist John 5 will be replacing Mick Mars on the trek, who announced his retirement from touring due to his health.

MÖTLEY CRÜE Unveils New Box Set For Their First Five Albums

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Listen to the new single from Kim Petras ‘If Jesus Was a Rockstar’

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Kim Petras has dropped the new single “If Jesus Was a Rockstar,” the follow-up to her hit single, “Unholy” with Sam Smith.

In a recent interview, Petras shared with The Daily Beast: “I think the point of this song [“If Jesus Was a Rockstar”] is taking away the bells and whistles and the extreme, over-exaggerated characters that I’ve created in the past, especially on Slut Pop and Turn Off the Light. It’s the first time that it’s not an escapist song, and it’s about how I feel as a human in the world right now. It’s the first time that I just felt like the song was meaningful enough to stand by itself.”

Listen to “If Jesus Was a Rockstar” – here.

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News Daypop

Sen. Lindsey Graham testifies before Georgia grand jury in 2020 Trump election probe

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On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., testified before a special grand jury investigating whether President Donald Trump and others illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia. Graham’s appearance before the panel came after a drawn-out legal fight that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court as Graham tried to avoid testifying. He had argued that his position as a senator shielded him from questioning. The courts rejected his assertion but did rule that prosecutors and grand jurors could not ask him about protected legislative activity.

Graham’s office said in a statement he testified for just over two hours and answered the grand jury’s questions: “The senator feels he was treated with respect, professionalism and courtesy. Out of respect for the grand jury process he will not comment on the substance of the questions.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is heading the investigation, is seeking details about phone calls Graham made to top election officials in Georgia amid disproven allegations from then-President Donald Trump about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Willis’ office is probing a pair of post-election phone calls Graham made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff. Raffensperger, a Republican targeted by Trump and his allies, alleged that Graham suggested that he had the authority to reject certain legally cast ballots. Graham denied having made such a suggestion, saying he was trying to understand the state’s process for verifying ballot signatures.

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Supreme Court clears the way for House Democrats to obtain Trump’s tax returns

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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for a House committee to get six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, after a three-year battle by Democrats to obtain the former president’s taxes.

On Tuesday, the court rejected Trump’s Oct. 31 emergency application to block the Internal Revenue Service from turning over the documents to the House Ways and Means Committee. No justice publicly dissented from the decision. The IRS is now free to provide the returns and could do so imminently.

Trump was the first president in four decades years not to release his tax returns, seeking to keep details of his wealth and real estate company, the Trump Organization, private. The Ways and Means panel told the Supreme Court in a legal filing that siding with Trump would harm the constitutional authority of a co-equal branch of government “by in effect preventing Congress from completing any investigation involving a former president whenever there are allegations that the investigation was politically motivated.

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