Month: January 2023

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Rock Daypop

Post Malone, Lizzo, and Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline 2023 Bottlerock Festival

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The 2023 Bottlerock Festival is officially scheduled for May 26th-28th, with Post Malone, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X serving as headliners along with Duran Duran, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Smashing Pumpkins. The festival combines some of the biggest acts in music spanning across pop and rock genres. Headliners in the past have included Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, and Imagine Dragons as well as acts like Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Neil Young.

Other veteran acts scheduled to perform this year include Wu-Tang Clan, The National, and Sheryl Crow, as well a Carly Rae Jepsen, Tove Lo, Bastille, Yung Gravy, and Jax. The lineup also has plenty for the indie crowd with standout performers like Japanese Breakfast and Phantogram, as well as Jean Dawson and Sudan Archives.

The three-day music, wine, craft brew and culinary festival will take place in the heart of the City of Napa at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26-28th. Three-day festival tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

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Pop Daypop

Lil Baby and Sam Smith to perform on ‘Saturday Night Live’ this month

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Sam Smith and Lil Baby have been announced as the first musical guests on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 2023. The series returns on January 21, with Smith as musical guest joined by guest host Aubrey Plaza. A week later on January 28, Lil Baby will perform alongside host Michael B. Jordan.

SNL closed out 2022 with a performance from Lizzo, who played ‘Break Up Twice’ and Stevie Wonder‘s festive tune ‘Someday At Christmas’. Other recent musical guests have included SZA, Willow, Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow and Steve Lacy.

Lil Baby and Sam Smith Announced as SNL Musical Guests

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More than 7,000 nurses at NYC hospitals go on strike over contracts

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More than 7,000 nurses at hospitals in New York City began a strike over contracts, with some picketing outside the hospitals where they work on Monday.  The New York State Nurses Association (“NYSNA”), a union that represents more than 42,000 nurses in the state, demonstrated outside four hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital at Madison and East 99th Street in Manhattan, as well as three Montefiore campuses in the Bronx.

The NYSNA has received backing in the strike from city and state officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Council Member Gale Brewer, according to a news release. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul released a statement late Sunday asking for a fair labor agreement with the nurses to ensure they have safe working conditions, adding that “for weeks now, we have been working tirelessly with our partners in New York City to broker negotiations between the nurses and affected hospitals and our efforts have achieved significant progress.”

Strikes were also expected at the Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside hospitals but those strike notices were rescinded by the union after it reached tentative agreements that are subject to ratification, according to the union. The agreement reached Sunday includes a 19.1% wage increase that has been ratified by New York Presbyterian and the Maimonides Medical Center.

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Judge says Georgia grand jury has completed their final report in election probe

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A Georgia special grand jury has completed its investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies for possible interference in the 2020 presidential election.

Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County acknowledged that the investigation was concluded in a court filing Monday and set a hearing on whether to make the report public. McBurney wrote in the order dissolving the grand jury: “The special purpose grand jury, after many months of witness testimony, has now issued its final report. Remaining is the question of publication of the final report. The special purpose grand jury certified that it voted to recommend that its report be published. That hearing to decide whether the report should be made public is scheduled for Jan. 24.” 

McBurney’s order did not describe any of the findings of the report, which was submitted to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who will decide whether to present the report as evidence to another grand jury to consider indictments. Willis opened the probe in 2021 after the audio of a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was published by The Washington Post, where Trump instructed Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes in order to change the outcome of the election in the state. Trump has said that he did nothing wrong in that call.

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Sports Daypop

Arizona Cardinals’ fire coach Kliff Kingsbury; GM Steve Keim stepping down

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The Arizona Cardinals announced Monday that they have fired coach Kliff Kingsbury after four seasons on the job.  The Cardinals also announced that general manager Steve Keim informed has the team that he will step away from his role to focus on his health. The team said in a statement: “We have announced that head coach Kliff Kingsbury has been relieved of his duties. In addition, general manager Steve Keim has decided to step away from his position to focus on his health. The team wishes them well and thanks both of them for their contributions.”

The Cardinals ended their season with a 38–13 loss on Sunday to the 49ers and a dismal 4–13 record.  Kingsbury went 28–37-1 in four seasons leading the Cardinals and had just signed a contract extension at the end of last season that would have taken him through 2027.  Keim had worked in various roles for the Cardinals since joining the team in 1999, and served as Arizona’s GM since 2013.

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Damar Hamlin released from hospital one week after cardiac arrest to continue recovery in Buffalo

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Damar Hamlin has been released from the hospital and has returned home to Buffalo after collapsing on the field during the first quarter of the Buffalo Bills’ NFL game last Monday. The news comes after Hamlin was hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing during the Jan. 2 game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium. He received CPR on the field before being taken via ambulance to the hospital and admitted to the intensive care unit after going into cardiac arrest following a hit.

The news of Hamlin’s release was announced via the team’s social media on Monday, which included a statement on behalf of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that “he [Lamar] is doing well and this is the next stage of recovery.”  Hamlin also tweeted: ‘Headed home to Buffalo today with a lot of love on my heart. 🫶🏾 Watching the world come together around me on Sunday was truly an amazing feeling. The same love you all have shown me is the same love that I plan to put back into the world n more. Bigger than football! 🫶🏾’

During a press conference on Monday, Dr. William Knight IV, a professor of emergency medicine at the UC Medical Center and director of the Emergency Medicine MLP Program, revealed Hamlin had returned home to Buffalo.  Knight said: “I traveled with him to the airport this morning with our UC Health air care and mobile care crew, including teammates who were with us on the field when Mr. Hamlin collapsed.” 

Hamlin live-tweeted the Bills and Patriots game on Sunday in support of his teammates just a day after thanking fans for showing their support in his first social media post since being hospitalized. He wrote on Instagram: “The Love has been overwhelming, but I’m thankful for every single person that prayed for me and reached out. We brung the world back together behind this. If you know me you know this only gone make me stronger. On a long road keep praying for me!”

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Tyler Hubbard releases ‘Me For Me’ ahead of debut solo album

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Tyler Hubbard has released the new track “Me For Me,” ahead of the debut of his self-titled debut solo album, due out on January 27. Hubbard c0-wrote the new song with fellow artists and friends Russell Dickerson and Thomas Rhett, and co-produced with Jordan Schmidt.  “Me For Me” is also accompanied by an unofficial music video, which you can view- here.

Said Hubbard of the song: “We set aside a few hours and just thought we’d see what happens. We ended up writing ‘Me For Me,’ which quickly became one of my favorites because it really felt personal and real. I love when an unexpected song falls out of thin air, especially with two of your best buds. I couldn’t wait to get into the studio with Jordan and bring the song to life.”

To pre-order Tyler Hubbard’s self-titled debut solo album, head here.

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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy expecting their third child

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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy are expecting their third child together. The notoriously private couple made the pregnancy announcement to People through their representatives.

Danes, 43 and Dancy, 47, were married in September 2009 in a quiet ceremony in France, after first meeting in 2006 while filming the movie Evening in Newport, Rhode Island. The couple share two sons together, 10-year-old Cyrus Michael Christopher, and 4-year-old Rowan.

The couple’s news comes after nominees for the Golden Globe Awards were announced last month, where Danes was nominated in the “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” category for her part in “Fleishman Is in Trouble.”  The eight-episode FX series on Hulu co-stars Jesse Eisenberg; Danes plays Rachel, the wife of Eisenberg’s character Toby Fleishman.

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Aubrey Plaza & Michael B. Jordan to be first 2023 hosts on ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Aubrey Plaza and Michael B. Jordan will be the first two Saturday Night Live hosts kicking-off 2023.

NBC revealed Plaza will host Jan. 21 for the first time, along with musical guest Sam Smith, who will be on the show for the third time. Plaza stars in HBO’s The White Lotus and in Emily the Criminal, which is currently streaming on Netflix.

On Jan. 28, Michael B. Jordan will make his SNL hosting debut, featuring Lil Baby as musical guest, which marks his first appearance on the show as well. Jordan recently reprised his role as Erik “Killmonger” Stevens in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and will make this directing debut with Creed III. Jordan stars in and directed the film, which arrives in theaters March 3.

The second-half of Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 will air on both NBC and Peacock.

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Eagles announce additional 2023 “Hotel California” tour dates

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The Eagles are extending their “Hotel California” tour with additional shows in 2023 set for Jacksonville, Florida (Mar. 25); an encore performance in Tampa, Florida (Mar. 28); Columbia, South Carolina (Mar. 30); Knoxville, Tennessee (Apr. 1); Greensboro, North Carolina (Apr. 4); and Newark, New Jersey (Apr. 7).

Each concert will feature Hotel California performed live in its entirety from start to finish. The current Eagles lineup — comprised of Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill — will be accompanied by an orchestra and choir. After a short intermission, the band will perform a full set of their greatest hits. All shows will begin at 8 PM.

Pre-sale tickets for the “Hotel California” 2023 Tour are available starting Thursday, January 12, starting at 10 AM local time, with a limited number of VIP packages, including premium seats, exclusive merchandise, parking & more. General tickets sales begin Friday, January 13th at 10 AM local time through Ticketmaster. Head to Eagles.com for complete tour and ticket information.

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