Philadelphia Showbiz Latest News and Updates

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, will be returning in April with her follow-up to 2021’s “Daddy’s Home,” and as looks evident from the new album’s title, “All Born Screaming,” things may be a bit more hard-edged than last time. The album arrives April 26, via a new label imprint for St.

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have announced “Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: Sweat”, their joint 2024 North American tour.XCX and Sivan are set to co-headline the tour with opening support from Shygirl for all of the dates. Kicking off at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on September 14, the duo will make their way across the country making stops in major cities such as Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Denver, Los Angeles and more.The tour will wrap up at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on October 23.

Shaheem Reid Imagine being Fat Joe, a fan of wrestling since boyhood. You used to watch the likes of Mil Mascaras, Chief Jay Strongbow and your absolute favorite, Don Muraco, on WWF programming with your grandfather every week on TV. You grew up to become a hip-hop star — and before you know it, WWF has invited you to be their guest at the sport’s biggest event of the year, WrestleMania.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 shook New York City this morning, with the tremor, lasting more than a few seconds and rattling windows, furniture and apartment floors, reportedly was centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, 40 miles west of New York City.

Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra are experiencing a “Strange Magic.”After announcing their 2024 farewell ‘Over and Out Tour’ in mid-March, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have extended their run adding second shows in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.The hitmakers will now perform back-to-back nights at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Sept. 16 and Tuesday, Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Christina Diamantas has been promoted to partner at Thruline Entertainment on her 15-year anniversary at the company, where she started in 2009 as an assistant and became a manager in 2015. She becomes Thruline’s ninth manager/partner.

5 Seconds Of Summer’s Luke Hemmings has announced details of a solo tour, which will see him perform across the UK, Europe and North America later this year. Find ticket details below.Set to take place across the spring, the new run of live shows come as part of the singer-songwriter’s ‘Nostalgia For A Time That Never Existed’ tour and follow the announcement that he will be dropping a new EP later this year.The opening show of the tour will be held at Le Bataclan in Paris on May 4, and is followed by a slot at Fabrique in Milan two days later (May 6).

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign will be airing its recently introduced spot “For You” on ABC affiliates in battleground markets during tonight’s Oscarcast.

Thinus Ferreira Guest Contributor South African rural community thriller “Snake,” the closing film of the 6th Joburg Film Festival, is a feature that wouldn’t have been made if it wasn’t for streamer money. Based on the heart-wrenching 2011 book by Tracey Farren, who also penned the screenplay, a powerless farm girl Stella, played by 9-year-old Lamiyah Barnard, becomes the only one who can stop a smarmy and mysterious interloper who arrives with a flute and dazzles everyone in a rural town, hiding his nefarious intent while going on a killing spree.

Kings Of Leon have announced a 2024 world tour with dates in London and North America.The band – comprised of Caleb, Jared, Nathan and Mathew Followill – are set to embark on a string of live dates in support of their forthcoming ninth album ‘Can We Please Have Fun’.They are set to play BST Hyde Park in London on June 30, with the likes of Paolo Nutini and The Vaccines performing as well along with other special guests who have yet to be announced.From there, the band will then head off to the Moody Center in Austin Texas on August 14 to kick off the US leg of tour. The band will make their way through the states, making stops in major cities such as Houston, Fort Worth, Phoenix, Inglewood, Palm Springs, Berkley, Santa Barbra, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Toronto and Laval.

Rita McKenzie, known for staging the longest-running one-woman show in theatrical history, died Feb. 17 in Los Angeles days before her 77th birthday. She succumbed to what her family described as a long-term illness.

EXCLUSIVE: Screen icon Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Creed) is set to return to the wintery streets of Philadelphia in The Epiphany.

The Super Bowl is here!

Fans are gearing up for a big night of football, entertainment and music as Super Bowl LVIII game day is here. Although many viewers will have their eyes locked on their screens for the big game, a lot of fans also clamor for the Super Bowl’s big entertainment spectacle – the halftime show.The Super Bowl halftime show has seen massive stars over the years, and Usher will be the latest to headline in 2024. With over 50 years of Super Bowl halftime shows, many star-studded performances have shocked and bored fans.

Sunny Day Real Estate have returned with their first new single in 10 years, ‘Novum Vetus’, and announced a run of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their seminal album ‘Diary’.The emo legends, who announced their reunion in 2022, had been teasing the song earlier this week by sharing a minute-long snippet to Instagram. The sound soundtracks a video of an artist drawing the phrase “novum vetus”, (Latin for “everything old is new again”) and then sketching out a boat at sea, over which frontman Jeremy Enigk was heard singing: “The day we died inside, the world was suffering / 10,000 words collide but no one said a thing / the day we died inside the walls come tumbling down.”Although ‘Novum Vetus’ is only just seeing the light of day, it was first conceived when Sunny Day Real Estate were recording 1998’s ‘How It Feels to Be Something On’.

The Amazing Race is officially back in 2024!

Philadelphia and Memphis top the list of metropolitan areas with the highest incidence of STDs in the United States, according to an annual analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The seventh annual study, by Innerbody Research, the largest online medical and wellness testing guide, drew its data from the CDC’s latest STD Surveillance data, ranking the top 100 metropolitan areas based on the number of cases, per 100,000 population, of HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. The latter three diseases are among the most commonly reported new sexually transmitted infections.According to the analysis, the top 10 cities with the highest STD rates were:The data — marking the first from the post-COVID-lockdown period — shows that Philadelphia jumped from having the fifth-highest STD infection rate in last year’s study to the highest rate in this year’s study.

Squid have released their tense new single ‘Fugue (Bin Song)’ – listen below.An outtake from their second LP ‘O Monolith’, ‘Fugue’ dives into drummer/vocalist Ollie Judge’s interest in animism by imagining a bin coming to life: “Animism, I’m in your grip / You help me make sense of all this / I see the surface every day / Animated alive through yellow spray.”On their social media, Squid wrote: “Bin Song is now out of the bin! Some of you might remember this song that was called Fugue from our live set over the last few years, was a pretty permanent fixture for a long while!“This track never made it onto O Monolith but is taken from a session with Dan Carey at Real World in Spring 2022 + thanks to John McEntire for adding some magic.”NME reviewed ‘O Monolith’ back in June, where we said in a four-star review: “If Squid can make daring, experimental music sound as fun as this, then they will take some stopping.”Squid are due to depart on a US tour with Water From Your Eyes as support acts.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Charles Osgood, the witty CBS News journalist who shepherded “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades — a longer tenure than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt — died Tuesday at 91 years of age after living for a period of time with dementia, according to CBS News. He also hosted a durable radio-news segment, “The Osgood File,” between 1971 and 2017.

Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced their joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power which is set to kick off later this year.The co-headlining tour will see Power provide opening support and is set to kick off on Friday, May 31 at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. From there, the are set to make stops in major cities such as Nashville, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Toronto, Philadelphia, Queens, Mansfield, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Irving and more.The tour will wrap up on Sunday, June 30 at Fiddler’s Green in Denver, Colorado.

Bananas.In their eight years of existence, Savannah’s alt-baseball team has introduced absurd rules, dancing umpires, players on stilts, showy on-field introductions, flaming bats and many more quirks to the game.Plus, former Major League Baseball icons like Johnny Damon, Barry Zito, Jake Peavy, Hunter Pence and Bill “Spaceman” Lee have all suited up for the team.“I see Banana Ball as its own sport,” head coach Tyler Gillum told the NY Post. “It’s all about creating joy.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Eddie Cockrell, who reviewed films for Variety for many years and programmed for several film series, died of liver failure Dec. 29 in Sydney, Australia, according to his sister Ann. He was 67.

Every January, we get the opportunity to start fresh, wipe the slate clean: a tabula rasa of new beginnings opens before us, full of hope and promise. That was before Donald Trump. Any hope that Trump would exit like other presidents who failed to win a second term — Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush most recently — and move into the private sector and do different work were sundered forever on Jan. 6, 2021 with the violent insurrection at the Capitol.

A day after revealing on New Year’s Eve on Fox that the newly formed United Football League will kick off in June, co-owners Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia took to ESPN to unveil the cities and coaches for the inaugural season.

John Oates is speaking out amid his ongoing legal battle with bandmate Daryl Hall, saying he has “moved on” from the experience.

Fabien Frankel (House of the Dragon) and Alison Oliver (Saltburn) have been cast in key roles in Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby’s upcoming HBO crime drama series, starring Mark Ruffalo.

A dad was given a devastating diagnosis just five months after he developed a hoarse voice. Seamus Meenagh, 54, has suffered from acid reflux throughout his life, with it being regularly monitored in case it developed into something more serious.

Brett Goldstein.Goldstein, known for his irascible character Roy Kent on Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso,” just added 14 stand-up shows in U.S. and Canada to his 2024 calendar as part of his ongoing ‘Second Best Night Of Your Life Tour.’“There will be swears,” the two-time Emmy winner shared in an Instagram announcement post.This time around, he’ll hit major cities like Philadelphia, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Milwaukee and Phoenix from January through May.Plus, Goldstein will headline a pair of shows at Los Angeles’ upcoming Netflix Is A Joke Festival on Saturday, May 4 with Mae Martin and then a solo gig on Friday, May 10.And if you’re wondering how much tickets will cost you to see Roy Kent live, we’re here to let you know they’re not exactly cheap.At the time of publication, our team found some seats going for as low as $57 before fees on Vivid Seats.However, that price is a bit of an outlier.

is upon us, and if you're anything like the Glamour beauty team, you've probably gone down an Instagram rabbit hole to find out who's who of pro athlete wives and girlfriends—and noticed their impeccable game-day glam.As shown by , an essential part of being a WAG is , and that means attending game days fitted in team colors and with photo-ready makeup. Makeup artist , who has worked with WAGs from teams like the Philadelphia Eagles, Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cleveland Browns, describes WAG makeup as something that will go with any outfit.

Nicki Minaj has pulled out from today’s (December 4) iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball tour date in Chicago, but will be replaced by Lil Wayne.The rapper announced her withdrawal yesterday (December 3) on X. “Hope it doesn’t make you sad,” she wrote. “I won’t be able to perform [tomorrow] in #Chicago for Jingle Ball.