Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley announced his debut EP BK’s Wave Pack, will drop April 13. Kelley shared the cover artwork on Instagram with the caption: “It’s time to set sail! I’m beyond excited to announce#BKsWavePackEP drops one week from today on 4/13. Bringing summertime a little early with “Beach Cowboy”, “Made By The Water”, “Party On The Beach” and “Sunday Service in the Sand”.
Fans who pre-ordered the four-track pack here can enter a sweepstakes to win a beach cowboy hat and customized video message from Kelley.
Twenty One Pilots – comprised of frontman Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun – have announced their new album, ‘Scaled and Icy’, and released the video for their latest single, ‘Shy Away’.
The duo also announced the global ‘Twenty One Pilots – Livestream Experience’, which will take place on the record’s release date of May 21. Fans can pre-order the new album and purchase tickets for the live-stream via twentyonepilots.com.
Doja Cat has teamed up with SZA for the new track ‘Kiss Me More’ set to drop on April 9. Doja revealed the first teaser image of the song on her Instagram page.
‘Kiss Me More’ can be pre-ordered/pre-saved at the link – here. It will be available on multiple streaming platforms including Apple Music and Spotify.
As cases in the United States continue to climb, a top U.S. health official said on Wednesday that the highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the United Kingdom has become the most common strain of the virus in the U.S.
The strain known as B.1.1.7 was identified in Britain last fall and has since been detected in 52 jurisdictions in the United States. Public health officials have urged Americans to get vaccinated as soon as possible in part to prevent new variants of the novel coronavirus from spreading.The United States has also detected cases of a variant first discovered in South Africa that is thought to be resistant to some COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. That strain has been found in 36 U.S. jurisdictions.
The United States is administering about 3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per day on average over the past week. Vaccine supply has increased significantly in recent weeks as Johnson & Johnson has begun making millions of doses of its recently authorized shots. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have also recently boosted their vaccine production capacity. However, daily U.S. cases of novel coronavirus are averaging 63,000 over the past seven days, up 2.3% from the previous seven-day average.
During his speech on the so-called ‘American Jobs Plan’ in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on Wednesday, President Joe Biden defended his plan to raise the corporate tax to help pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure package– but said he’s willing to compromise with Republicans on how high.
The Biden administration has proposed raising the corporate tax rate from the 21% established by Republicans’ 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act to 28%, which would still be lower than what it was between World War II and 2017. The White House said the tax hike would fund the infrastructure plan within 15 years and would be combined with plans to discourage firms from listing tax havens as their address and offshoring profits.
Biden said of his infrastructure and jobs plan: “We have to pay for this. But I’m willing to negotiate that.” However, Biden said he won’t budge on his promise to not raise taxes on people making less than $400,000, adding, “I’m open to ideas about how to pay for this plan, with one exception. I will not impose any tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year. If others have ideas out there on how to pay for this investment, without violating that rule, they should come forward.”
Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, otherwise known as Florida Georgia Line, have earned their 18th No. 1 hit with “Long Live”.
Said Hubbard and Kelley: “Having our fans and Country radio support us all of these years has been nothing short of a blessing. We couldn’t imagine a better song to mark our 18th! Here’s to all of the good times and to many more ‘Long Live’ nights!”
Kelley and Hubbard are working on music separately. Kelley recently inked a deal with Warner Music Nashville for his solo project, which will release later this year. Hubbard has collaborated with Tim McGraw and newcomer Lathan Warlick on recent songs.
On Wednesday, Eric Church announced dates for his Gather Again tour, kicking-off Sept. 17 in Lexington, Ky. The 43-year-old singer will perform shows across North America until May 2022.
Church wrote on Instagram: “We shall rage, we shall roar, we will gather again… The Gather Again Tour is coming.” Tickets go on sale May 7 at 10 a.m. local time.
Next up for Church is a three-part album, Heart & Soul, The first part, Heart, is slated for release April 16.
Gwen Stefani teased fans stating that a new collaboration with rapper Saweetie is on its way — a new version of “Slow Clap.”
Stefani took to Instagram to announce the collab, informing fans it will be released this Friday, April 9, captioning the post: “#slowclap…with a little extra sauce @saweetie coming 4/9 gx”
Taylor Swift surprised fans on Wednesday by releasing a new “From the Vault” song, 2008’s “Mr. Perfectly Fine.” The new track will appear on Swift’s new re-recording of Fearless, which will be released April 9.
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is the first of five albums that Swift plans to re-record after her highly publicized feud with Big Machine Label Group’s Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over her original master recordings.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning state government entities from enforcing the so-called ‘vaccine passports.” According to the governor, this ban would apply to “any public or private entity that is receiving or will receive public funds through any means, including grants, contracts, loans, or other disbursement of taxpayer funds.” The order reads: “Whereas, an individual’s COVID-19 vaccination status is private health information, and no governmental entity should compel disclosure of this information by mandating a so-called ‘vaccine passport’ for COVID-19 or by otherwise conditioning receipt of services on an individual’s COVID-19 status.”
Abbott said in a statement announcing the order: “We will continue to vaccinate more Texans and protect public health — and we will do so without treading on Texans’ personal freedoms.”
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a similar executive order banning businesses from requiring customers to prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get service and barred any government agency in Florida from issuing such documentation to provide proof of vaccinations.
