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Rock Daypop

Billy Idol to embark on 2025 North American tour with Joan Jett

Billy Idol Live at o2 apollo manchester uk^ 20th June 2018

Rock legend Billy Idol is returning to the road and will embark on the It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again! with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

In anticipation of the upcoming tour, Idol starred in a short video featuring his iconic catalog, which also stars comedian Matt Rife, as well as cameos from longtime Idol collaborator and guitar player Steve Stevens and tourmate Joan Jett.

The run of arenas and amphitheaters will kick-off with a first run of shows beginning at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, Arizona on April 30th through May 23rd in Toronto. The second leg kicks off August 16th in Philadelphia and runs through September 25th in Los Angeles

Five dollars from every ticket sold to the Los Angeles show at Kia Forum will be donated to the American Red Cross to support Southern California Wildfire Relief. Billy Idol will also personally match this donation.

Tickets are on sale; head to Ticketmaster for more information.

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Rock Daypop

Billy Gibbons releases new single ‘Livin It Up Down in Texas’

Billy Gibbons performs at America Salutes You and Wall Street Rocks Presents Guitar Legends For Heroes at Terminal 5 on November 29^ 2017 in New York City.

ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has released “Livin’ It Up Down in Texas,” a new track previewed in an episode of the hit Paramount+ series Landman, created by Taylor Sheridan.

Gibbons wrote the single along with Landman stars Billy Bob Thornton (Tommy Norris) and Mark Collie (Sherriff Walt Joeberg).“  “Livin’ It Up Down In Texas was produced by Gibbons at Level14 Studios in Nashville.

Gibbons shared of the song: “A hard-hitting, hard rock bombast of sonic Texas soulfulness! It seemed really natural to team up with Billy Bob and Mark to write a song for Landman. ‘Livin’ It Up Down In Texas’ isn’t, per se, autobiographical, but does encapsulate the oil-stained Lone Star lifestyle as seen each week in the series.”

The release of the track also coincides with a solo tour by Gibbons and his band The BFG, including Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chris “Whipper” Layton and Austin music stalwart Mike “The Drifter” Flanigin. A complete list of dates can be found at billygibbons.com.

Take a listen to Livin’ It Up Down In Texas – HERE.

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Pop Daypop

Teddy Swims and Givēon drop ‘Are You Even Real’

Teddy Swims at the Warner Music Group Pre-Grammy Party 2024 at Citizen News. LOS ANGELES^ USA. February 01^ 2024

Teddy Swims has teamed up with R&B artist Givēon for the new single, “Are You Even Real,” taken off Swims’ new album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2).  The track arrives on the heels of Swims’ recent collaborations “Georgia Ways” with Quavo and Luke Bryan, and “Somethin’ Bout A Woman” with Thomas Rhett.

I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) features collaborations with Muni Long, Coco Jones and GloRilla, and follows the massive success of ‘Part 1’, which includes his multi-platinum hits “Lose Control” and “The Door.”

Swims said of making “Are You Even Real” – “I’m in love with a perfect woman and I am so lucky that sometimes it feels too good to be true!  I’m so grateful to have my dear friend GIVĒON on ‘Are You Even Real’ with me! He is a once in a generation talent, I’m trying to get this man to do a whole record with me!”

Givēon added: “This song came together in such a natural way and it shows. The music, the lyrics, Teddy, and myself. It’s one that makes you replay it over and over. Excited to finally share it with the world.”

See the official music video for Are You Even Real – HERE.

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Pop Daypop

See Bad Bunny learn to dance Salsa in video for “Baile Inolvidable”

Bad Bunny at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Bullet Train' held at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood^ USA on August 1^ 2022.

Bad Bunny has dropped the music video for “Baile Inolvidable” from Puerto Rican filmmaker Jacobo Morales. The song is taken from the artist’s sixth studio album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. 

In the six-minute clip, fans see Morales joining a salsa dance class but oce the class begins, Bad Bunny takes the place of a younger Morales as he learns to salsa. He goes from showing off his moves in the studio to the ballroom where he dances and performs the song with a live band.

Bad Bunny recently spoke to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, revealing that “Baile Inolvidable” was his favorite song of the album and shared that the song is about a man who cannot forget the woman he loved, especially one that taught him how to dance. He added, “It’s a very special song that I have in my mind for maybe two years. The whole composition, it was in my mind way before the song was created. The whole song is made with new young musicians from Puerto Rico. All of them are 20 years old, 21, 22 they’re really young kids, straight from the Escuela Libre de Música, it’s like the public music school from Puerto Rico.”

Watch the full music video for “Baile Inolvidable” – HERE.

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News Daypop

Suspect arrested in Ohio warehouse mass shooting that killed 1, injured 5

October 13^ 2020 Columbus Police Vehicle as Vice President Mike Pence motorcade passes by.

Authorities confirmed that the suspect in the shooting at an Ohio warehouse that killed one person and wounded five was arrested Wednesday morning.  The suspect, Bruce Reginald Foster III, was arrested at a home in nearby Columbus on Wednesday morning. Foster was turned over to police in New Albany (about 15 miles northeast of downtown Columbus) where the shooting took place Tuesday night around 10:30 p.m. at the KDC/One cosmetics facility, where authorities say the suspect worked. (per CNN).

Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Deville said:  “Normally what we prefer to do is have people come out and surrender to us. He refused to come out. Our guys did have to make entry.”

New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones said during a Wednesday morning press conference the motive for the mass shooting was unknown, and there were no reports of any kind of confrontation or dispute that would have prompted the shooting.  Foster had been at work “for some time” before the shooting, which happened about 10:30 p.m., Jones said.

Police added that those injured had been taken to a local hospital, and family members of those involved were still being notified.  Jones said 150 workers were evacuated from the warehouse after the shooting, many of whom did not know what had happened until authorities ushered them into a neighboring, secure building.

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President Trump signs executive order to ban transgender women from women’s sports

President Donald Trump talks to journalists at the Oval Office at the White House March 12^ 2020 in Washington^ DC.

President Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity. The measure, according to White House officials, is called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order.” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him: “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”  

Wednesday’s order — titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” — coincides with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and will involve how his administration will interpret Title IX, the law best known for its role in pursuing gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses.  The order mandates that Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools, be interpreted as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports. Those not in compliance jeopardize any federal funding they receive and could face legal action, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt adding at Wednesday’s press briefing: “The policy of this administration is that there are only two sexes — male and female. Pretty simple.”

The White House official said transgender female athletes can compete on co-ed or male teams, and have argued that transgender girls and women athletes have biological advantages that are unfair and unsafe for other girls and women: “This is about preserving women’s sports for women, and that if you are not a woman, you should absolutely have opportunities in sports, but the burden should not always be on women to accommodate that.”

The executive order follows a Republican measure that passed the House last month, known as the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” which would amend Title IX to recognize a person’s “sex” as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Schools that allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls” risk losing federal funding.

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Sports Daypop

President Trump signs executive order to ban transgender women from women’s sports

President Donald Trump talks to journalists at the Oval Office at the White House March 12^ 2020 in Washington^ DC.

President Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity. The measure, according to White House officials, is called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order.” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him: “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”  

Wednesday’s order — titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” — coincides with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and will involve how his administration will interpret Title IX, the law best known for its role in pursuing gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses.  The order mandates that Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools, be interpreted as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports. Those not in compliance jeopardize any federal funding they receive and could face legal action, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt adding at Wednesday’s press briefing: “The policy of this administration is that there are only two sexes — male and female. Pretty simple.”

The White House official said transgender female athletes can compete on co-ed or male teams, and have argued that transgender girls and women athletes have biological advantages that are unfair and unsafe for other girls and women: “This is about preserving women’s sports for women, and that if you are not a woman, you should absolutely have opportunities in sports, but the burden should not always be on women to accommodate that.”

The executive order follows a Republican measure that passed the House last month, known as the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” which would amend Title IX to recognize a person’s “sex” as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Schools that allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls” risk losing federal funding.

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Sports Daypop

Milwaukee Bucks trade Khris Middleton in exchange for Wizards’ Kyle Kuzma

Kyle Kuzma at the 2018 ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theatre LA Live. LOS ANGELES^ CA - July 18^ 2018

Per a report on Wednesday from ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Milwaukee Bucks have traded Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson and a pick swap to the Washington Wizards in exchange for Kyle Kuzma, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and second-round draft pick compensation. The NBA trade deadline is set for Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.

Middleton spent the last 12 seasons in Milwaukee, inclduding the Bucks’ 2020-21 NBA championship run. He was averaging 12.6 points on 51.2% shooting from the field in 23 games this season—his lowest scoring average since 2013-14. Middleton has a $34 million player option for the 2025-26 season; if he activates that option, he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2026. The Bucks are now about $300,000 below the second apron after the trade.

Kuzma has spent the last four seasons with the Washington Wizards. In 32 games this season, Kuzma is averaging 15.2 points per contest while shooting 42% from the field and 28.1% from three-point range. Kuzma is under contract through the 2026-27 campaign.

Johnson, the No. 23 pick by Milwaukee in the 2024 NBA draft, has appeared in just seven games this season and scored a total of 20 points. He is averaging 13.7 points and 4.8 assists in 10 games for the G League Wisconsin Herd.

Baldwin, a first-round pick by the Golden State Warriors in 2022, has now been traded twice in his young career. Baldwin registered 2.1 points in 4.6 minutes per contest in 22 games for Washington this season.

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Country Daypop

The War And Treaty shares the single ‘Save Me’

The War and Treaty^ a husband and wife duo consisting of Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter^ performs on stage at the 2024 Soundside Music Festival. Bridgeport^ Connecticut - September 29^ 2024

The War And Treaty is dropping new music from their upcoming fifth studio album with the single “Save Me.”

The new track, from the duo of Michael and Tanya Trotter, is the sixth preview from their upcoming LP titled Plus One, a collection of 18 songs set for release on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.

Michael shared in an interview: “What you’re hearing on this record are the different styles of our love. Sometimes our love sounds like the sacredness of gospel. Sometimes it’s the passionate lovemaking of R&B. Sometimes it’s like the emergency of a soul song. Sometimes it’s the storytelling of a country song, three chords and the truth. Sometimes our love feels jazzy. And sometimes it’s the story of the blues, it’s heartbreak and pain. It’s all us.”

Tanya adds: “I was very mindful of this, once we started getting recognition. My mother was a first-generation American from Panama. Michael served his country. For us to be able to do this and be acknowledged by these longstanding organizations, who were not welcoming to people that look like us, is absolutely astonishing. I’m totally in the moment, understanding what is happening. Tomorrow is not promised. We have children, and we want to leave this legacy for them.” 

Listen to “Save Me” – here.
Plus One is available to pre-order and pre-save – HERE.

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Entertainment Daypop

Kristen Bell returning to host the 2025 Screen Awards Guild Awards

Kristen Bell arrives for ELLE Women in Hollywood on October 17^ 2022 in Los Angeles^ CA

Kristen Bell will host the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 23, streaming live (8 p.m. ET/ 5 PT) from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Netflix.

The Screen Actors Guild posted on social media: “Everybody wants this 🤩 Announcing the 31st Annual SAG Awards Host, Kristen Bell. Join us on February 23, 2025 8PM ET / 5PM PT, streaming live on Netflix. ✨ #SAGAwards”

Bell, who last hosted the SAG Awards in 2018, said in a statement issued by the guild: “Thrilled to be hosting the SAG Awards again this year. I’m honored to be asked back and can’t wait to share the evening with my fellow actors, doing what we do best … celebrating ourselves.🙂”

For the full list of SAG Award nominees, head HERE.

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