Month: July 2024

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Steph Curry leads USA Men’s Basketball to 105-79 win over Serbia in Olympic exhibitions

Stephen Curry of USA Team in action at FIBA World Cup basketball match between USA and Mexico on September 6^ 2014^ in Barcelona^ Spain.

Stephen Curry scored 18 points in his first 11 minutes to lead the men’s USA Basketball team to its third win in the Olympic exhibition round with a 105-79 victory over Serbia on Wednesday at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Curry scored 24 points, and Bam Adebayo added 17, while Anthony Davis finished with seven points, six rebounds and six blocks, and Anthony Edwards (16) and LeBron James (11) contributing towards the win in advance of the Paris Olympics. James said of Curry: “We drew it up for that particular reason, to get him going. He sees one go through the hoop, you see what it opens up for the rest of his game, for the rest of the game for all of us. He set the tone.”

U.S. coach Steve Kerr likes the progress his team has made, and shared: “I think the identity of the team is our depth, the strength of the team is the depth. If we can play in 4- or 5-minute bursts of intense defense, hitting bodies, rebounding, being physical, then it makes sense to play that way. We’ll see if we can keep doing it.”

The Americans will now head to London to play two more exhibition matches before heading to Paris –the first game will take place Saturday against South Sudan, followed by a matchup with Germany on Monday at London’s O2 Arena.

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Milwaukee Bucks’ Khris Middleton recovering from surgery on both ankles during offseason

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According to a report from The Athletic, Milwaukee Bucks three-time All-Star Khris Middleton is recovering from two arthroscopic surgeries on his ankle that took place earlier this offseason.

Bucks head coach Doc Rivers also announced on a broadcast of the team’s summer league game that Middleton had surgery this summer, saying in part: “he was injured, you know, through the playoffs … and just played because, you know, no one else was playing. He played terrific. He had surgery in the summer, but he’ll be fine by the beginning of camp, which is good for us.”

The 32-year-old Middleton underwent a successful surgery on his left ankle immediately following the season, which he injured in an early February game against the Phoenix Suns when he landed on Kevin Durant’s foot while landing after a jump shot.  Then during the Bucks’ first-round playoff loss to Indiana, Middleton sprained his right ankle in Game 2 on April 23 (he remained in the game and finished the series). Middleton also had an arthroscopic procedure on his right ankle in mid-June. Per league sources, he is already back on the court and “doing great.” He is expected to be ready for the start of next season

Middleton has dealt with multiple injuries over the last few years, beginning with a knee sprain in the 2022 playoffs that ended his season in the first round; an offseason left wrist surgery in 2022; and underwent right knee surgery in the summer of 2023.

Middleton is coming up on his 13th year in the league; last season, he averaged 15.1 points, 5.3 assists and 4.7 rebounds on 49.3% shooting from the floor and 38.1% shooting from three in 55 games for the Bucks.

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Country Daypop

Morgan Wallen announces second hometown stadium show in Knoxville, TN

Morgan Wallen performs at CMT's RAMJAM on June 3^ 2019 at TopGolf in Nashville^ Tennessee.

Morgan Wallen announced his homecoming with his return to University of Tennessee (UT)’s Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. later this year as part of his One Night at a Time Tour. Wallen grew up in Sneedville, Tennessee and then moved to Knoxville as a teen. In 2011, he graduated from Gibbs High School, located just outside of Knoxville.

Wallen shared he is bringing the tour to his hometown for what he calls a “homecoming concert” in Knoxville, Tennessee on Sept. 22, where he grew up, featuring Hardy and Ernest as opening acts. Wallen shared on Instagram: ““I’m coming home .. I’ve had the honor of playing in a lot of college, MLB and NFL stadiums the past two years, but getting to play to my hometown at Neyland Stadium, nothing tops this for a boy from East Tennessee.”  Wallen’s social media was accompanied by a video that featured the song “Rocky Top” (one of Tennessee’s state songs) as well as footage of Neyland Stadium, performance shots of Wallen, and images of Wallen wearing an orange Tennessee Vols jersey.

Shortly after the fist announcement, Wallen added a second (and final) hometown show for Friday, September 20th, making him the first artist in the venue’s nearly-100-year history to ever play two nights as the venue.  Morgan’s hometown shows also mark the first time the country singer has returned to Knoxville on tour since headlining the Tennessee Valley Fair in 2019.

With a portion of every ticket purchased to his live shows benefiting The Morgan Wallen Foundation (MWF), the nonprofit recently donated $100,000 to the community of Jefferson City to improve and renovate two local baseball fields. With $80,000 going toward Roy Harmon Field via the City Parks Department and $20,000 toward New Market Field via Jefferson City Little League, the renovations include new infields, bases, dug outs, press boxes, backstop padding, fencing and more.

Tickets for Wallen’s Neyland Stadium shows are on sale via the singer’s website.

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Entertainment Daypop

2024 Emmy Nominations: The Bear and Shōgun lead the list of nominees

Emmy statues at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Microsoft Theater^ L.A. Live on September 17^ 2018 in Los Angeles^ California

Tony Hale (Arrested Development) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary) revealed the nominations for the 76th Annual Emmy Award, making the announcement from El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 17th.

The Bear and Shōgun dominates the list of this year’s nominees, with The Bear setting a new record for nominations in a single year in the comedy category with a whopping 23 nods (the record was previously held by 30 Rock with 22 nominations in 2009).  Shōgun led this year’s drama category with 25 nominations.

Due to the Hollywood strikes, the 2023 Emmy Awards were presented in January 2024 — with shows such as Succession winning the Emmy for best drama series, and The Bear winning six Emmy Awards in the comedy categories.

To be considered eligible to the 2024 Emmys, all television shows, limited series, or made-for-TV film entries must have been released between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024. The Emmys are voted upon each year by the members of the Television Academy. The final round of voting will come to a close on Aug. 26

The 76th annual Emmy Awards ceremony will be held on September 15 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ABC.  For the fullest of nominations, head HERE.

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Glenn Close joins Kim Kardashian in Ryan Murphy’s Hulu legal drama

Glenn Close at the 14th Governors Awards at the Dolby Ballroom on January 9^ 2024 in Los Angeles^ CA

Glenn Close has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair, a legal drama starring Kim Kardashian for Hulu.  Close will also serve as an executive producer alongside Murphy and Kardashian.

All’s Fair, which was first announced in December 2023, is described as a “glossy and sexy procedural in which Kardashian (who worked with Murphy on the most recent season of American Horror Story) plays a top divorce attorney and the owner of an all-woman L.A. law firm. Details about Close’s role on the show is currently being kept under wraps

Close won back-to-back Emmys in 2008 and 2009 for another legal drama, FX’s Damages,  as notorious lawyer Patty Hewes, which also earned her a Golden Globe for her work on the show. Close is a 14-time Emmy nominee and won her other statuette for the TV movie “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story.” The actor also earned Golden Globes for starring in the films “The Lion in Winter” and “The Wife,” and is an eight-time Oscar nominee, including nods for her film debut “The World According to Garp”, “The Big Chill,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” and “Fatal Attraction.”  She most recently starred in Hillbilly Elegy in 2021, and has recently had recurring parts on Apple TV+’s The New Look and Tehran.

Murphy serves as writer, director, and executive producer on “All’s Fair,” the first series to be announced under his new overall deal with Disney following the end of his Netflix deal. As previously mentioned, Kardashian and Close will serve as executive producers along with Kris Jenner, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, and Holly Jeter. 20th Television will produce in association with Ryan Murphy Television.

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Rock Daypop

Ghost teams with VEEPS for global online premiere of concert film ‘RITE HERE RITE NOW’

The band Ghost performs live at Pine Knob Music Theater with special guest Amon Amarth. Clarkston^ Michigan -USA- August 14^ 2023

Ghost’s film, RITE HERE RITE NOW, is set for a global online premiere and will make its debut on the streaming platform VEEPS on July 20th.  A statement on the VEEPS website reads: “Join The Congregation for the global broadcast premiere of RITE HERE RITE NOW.”  VEEPS will also mark the event by airing an exclusive Q&A with Ghost’s Tobias Forge, film co-director Alex Ross Perry and live director Jim Parsons, which was filmed at the movie premiere in London last month.

The band’s Papa Emeritus IV also posted on X: “[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY] We wish to inform you that global access to RITE HERE RITE NOW will be available starting on July 20th streaming exclusively on Veeps. Visit http://ghost.veeps.com for full information and to purchase your tickets. And be sure to join The Congregation for the premiere event at 12pm PDT / 8pm GMT. #RiteHereRightNow”

RITE HERE RITE NOW was given an initial cinema run worldwide on June 20, raking in $5 million plus across its four-day release. The film includes concert footage of Ghost performing at The Forum in Inglewood, California last year, as well as premiering the new track ‘The Future Is a Foreign Land’. The film has since become “the highest-grossing hard-rock cinema event ever in North America.”

In addition, Rite Here Rite Now: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, mixed by Rich Costey, will be released worldwide on July 26th. The 18-song complement to the film marks the band’s first-ever original soundtrack. To preorder, head: HERE.

Tickets for the global online premiere of Rite Here Rite Now are on sale now via VEEPS.com/ghost.

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As I Lay Dying share video for the single “The Cave We Fear To Enter”

As I Lay Dying in concert on June 22^ 2010 in St Petersburg^ Russia. ST. PETERSBURG^ RUSSIA - JUNE 22.

As I Lay Dying returns with their new single, The Cave We Fear To Enter, alongside the official music video directed by Tom Flynn, which you can check out: here.

The new track was co-produced by guitarist Phil Sgrosso and Hiram Hernandez, mixed by Aaron Chaparian and mastered by Ted Jensen. Vocalist Tim Lambesis shares: “This is the first time I’ve written lyrics based on an idea started by someone else in the band. Sometimes, when we try out different melodies, we’ll temporarily use words that just happen to fit as a placeholder. But in this song, Ryan [bass player/vocalist Ryan Neff] chose words that he felt represented what he had been processing leading up to the demo. It felt right for me leave that therapeutic expression in place. So, when I took over, the imagery of a cave where you face your fears came to mind. While I only know a little of Joseph Campbell’s work, the imagery brought to mind a quote of his that I remembered and used for inspiration as well.”

As I Lay Dying just kicked-off of their US headlining tour in northern California, with support from Chelsea Grin and Entheos.  They will then take their Through Storms Ahead Tour to Europe, beginning November 15th in Würzburg, Germany. For tickets and more information on all shows, visit the band’s official website.

To stream “The Cave We Fear To Enter” head HERE.

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Pop Daypop

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan share ‘Cowboys Cry Too’

Kelsea Ballerini at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Arrivals at Allegient Stadium on March 7^ 2022 in Las Vegas^ NV

Kelsea Ballerini released her new single, “Cowboys Cry Too,” featuring Noah Kahan, just weeks after Ballerini announced her upcoming fifth studio album , the follow-up to her 2022 release, Subject to Change. The singer, 30, captioned a collection of photos and videos of her in the recording studio on Instagram: “Album: recorded mind: lost dibs: unimpressed.”

Cowboys Cry Too featuring Kahan, 27, comes almost two months after the duo joined forces on the stage of the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, merging their hits “Mountain With A View” and “Stick Season.” The track was co-produced by Ballerini and Vanderheym in Nashville, with Kahan’s vocal produced by Gabe Simon. The song also features lead electric guitar from John Osborne of Brothers Osborne.

Shared Ballerini: “In our world and culture and echo chamber of highlight reels and pretty things, sometimes real feelings start to feel like something you just set aside or push down to keep up. Especially the way so many men grow up, that kind of toxic masculinity mindset of ‘saddle up, brush it off.’ I wanted to write my perspective and essentially celebrate the vulnerable men in my life, and Noah adding his really unfiltered perspective into it just brought it to life in a more meaningful and beautiful way.”

Kahan adds, “It’s the writers who are willing to go to the awkward places that inspire me. Kelsea is one of those, and I knew if we could find something we both believed to sing, it would expand how we look at the way we live, what society decides and we should reject. ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ is everything I believed our collaboration could be.”

Listen to Cowboys Cry Too via YouTube – HERE.
To stream Cowboys Cry Too, head HERE.

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Country Daypop

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan share ‘Cowboys Cry Too’

Kelsea Ballerini at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Arrivals at Allegient Stadium on March 7^ 2022 in Las Vegas^ NV

Kelsea Ballerini released her new single, “Cowboys Cry Too,” featuring Noah Kahan, just weeks after Ballerini announced her upcoming fifth studio album , the follow-up to her 2022 release, Subject to Change. The singer, 30, captioned a collection of photos and videos of her in the recording studio on Instagram: “Album: recorded mind: lost dibs: unimpressed.”

Cowboys Cry Too featuring Kahan, 27, comes almost two months after the duo joined forces on the stage of the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, merging their hits “Mountain With A View” and “Stick Season.” The track was co-produced by Ballerini and Vanderheym in Nashville, with Kahan’s vocal produced by Gabe Simon. The song also features lead electric guitar from John Osborne of Brothers Osborne.

Shared Ballerini: “In our world and culture and echo chamber of highlight reels and pretty things, sometimes real feelings start to feel like something you just set aside or push down to keep up. Especially the way so many men grow up, that kind of toxic masculinity mindset of ‘saddle up, brush it off.’ I wanted to write my perspective and essentially celebrate the vulnerable men in my life, and Noah adding his really unfiltered perspective into it just brought it to life in a more meaningful and beautiful way.”

Kahan adds, “It’s the writers who are willing to go to the awkward places that inspire me. Kelsea is one of those, and I knew if we could find something we both believed to sing, it would expand how we look at the way we live, what society decides and we should reject. ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ is everything I believed our collaboration could be.”

Listen to Cowboys Cry Too via YouTube – HERE.
To stream Cowboys Cry Too, head HERE.

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James Blake and Lil Yachty release their collab, ‘Bad Cameo’

Lil Yachty preforms at The Fillmore. Detroit^ Michigan -November 5 2023

Lil Yachty and James Blake officially released their new collaborative album, Bad Cameo, along with an official visualizer for the album’s title track.

Blake and Yachty announced earlier this year that they were working on a collaborative album; Blake serves as co-producer alongside his regular collaborator Dom Maker, with Yachty adding additional production. There are no credited guest vocalists.

Speaking with Complex for their recent cover story, Blake, 35, noted that he’s been a fan of Yachty’s work “for years.,” with Yachty, 26, adding he was a fan of Blake and even sent him a DM back in 2020 to praise his album Assume Form.

Blake also teased that Bad Cameo boasts “a really vulnerable side of Yachty;” telling Complex: “I’ve been a fan of Yachty for years. And when I heard his last record [Let’s Start Here], I was like, this is really a turn. Not many artists are brave enough to do something that’s kind of opposite of the last thing they did.”

To stream ‘Bad Cameo’ head here.
Take a look at the visualizer for ‘Bad Cameo’ – here.

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