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While Wolf Alice was already scheduled to open for Halsey at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and for Bleachers at Red Rocks in Colorado in June, they’ve just announced a thorough slate of their own headlining tour dates through North America. The illustrious British band are continuing to tour their latest album, 2021’s Blue Weekend, after a run of sold out North American shows late last year.

Led by magnetic singer Ellie Rowsell, Wolf Alice have established themselves as one of the foremost UK rock and roll groups. Blue Weekend was nominated for the Mercury Music prize last year, making it so that each of their three albums have gotten a nod, including a win for 2017’s Vision Of A Life.

Check out Wolf Alice’s full North American tour dates below and get tickets beginning this Friday, February 4th, at 10 a.m. local time here.

03/21 — Atlanta, GA @ The Buckhead
03/22 — Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
03/24 — Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony
03/25 — Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom
03/26 — Harrisburg, PA @ Harrisburg University XL Live
03/28 — Montreal, QB @ Corona Theatre
03/29 — Toronto, ON @ Opera House
03/30 — Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
04/o1 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
04/o2 — Grand Rapids, MI @ Elevation
04/o5 — Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe
04/o6 — Madison, WI @ Majestic
04/o8 — Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
04/11 — Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
04/12 — St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
04/14 — Austin, TX @ Emos’
04/15 — Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
04/16 — Houston, TX @ House of Blues
06/20 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
06/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl #

* opening for Bleachers
# opening for Halsey

(Spoilers from Hulu’s Pam & Tommy will be found below.)

Pam & Tommy is a gloriously decadent show that takes viewers back to the days of the fledgling Internet. The show even depicts then-spouses Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee using the Internet for the very first time while they attempt to ascertain how the heck people are watching their stolen sex tape. Jilted home-repair contractor Rand Gauthier did a truly despicable thing while attempting to settle the score with Tommy, and Pamela got caught in the crossfire.

It’s no wonder that Pam — who found herself positioned quite differently in the public eye compared to her rock ‘n’ roll husband — doesn’t feel like watching the show. Pam’s circle confirmed that she did not co-sign (and wasn’t involved with the making of) this limited series, which is based upon the Rolling Stone article by Amanda Chicago Lewis. According to Us Weekly, an Anderson friend confirmed that she “won’t be watching.”

Further, here’s what another Anderson pal told The Sun:

“Pamela has no intention of watching this God awful show, absolutely not. Never. She’s never heard of the actors playing her or Tommy, and doesn’t care to know them. She and her family think the show is a cheap knockoff. The whole thing is a joke to them.”

Another addition to the friend pile: Courtney Love posted a now-deleted Facebook entry about how the series is “further causing” Anderson to relive a time that she’d rather forget, which has caused her “complex trauma.” Further to that point, star Lily James told Net-a-Porter that she hoped to receive a blessing from Pam on the show, but that didn’t happen, even though “I was really hopeful that she would be involved… My sole intention was to take care of the story and to play Pamela authentically.”

Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tommy’ premieres with three episodes on Feb 3.

(Via Us Weekly, The Sun, USA Today & Net-a-Porter)

Justin Bieber and Hailey have been married for a little over two years now and some fans have been wondering when the couple will start a family of their own. The subject came up once again during a recent interview Hailey did with The Wall Street Journal.

“There’s this thing that happens for women when you get married,” she said. “Everybody always assumes it’s: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby. Well, what about all the things I want to accomplish in my business?” Hailey noted that she always thought she was going to be a young mother, but as of late, she’s let go of that idea. “I think I had it ingrained in my head that I was going to want to have kids right away and I was going to want to have kids super, super young,” she said. “Then I turned 25 and I’m like, I’m still super, super young!”

Her comments come after Justin Bieber shared his desire to start a family soon. “My intention for 2021 is to continue to set goals and have fun while doing them,” he said during his 2021 documentary Justin Bieber: Our World. “Make sure I put my family first… and hopefully we squish out a nugget.”

You can read Hailey Bieber’s full interview with The Wall Street Journal here.

On Monday, Whoopi Goldberg, who’s long called out others on The View for insensitive comments, made insensitive comments on The View. During a discussion involving the Holocaust, Goldberg made the historically incorrect claim that the Nazi’s round-up and extermination of Jewish people was “isn’t about race.” After being roundly condemned, she apologized, but that hasn’t shielded her from further trouble.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Goldberg has now been suspended from the daytime chat show for two weeks. In a statement, ABC News president Kim Godwin, said, “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”

Goldberg’s comments came during a discussion of Maus, Art Spiegelman’s seminal graphic novel, which depicts the story of the Holocaust with groups represented by different animals, including Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Americans as dogs, etc. Published between 1980 and 1991, when collected it became the first (and so far only) graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize. Recently it was banned by a school board in Tennessee, partly for its depiction of nudity (involving cartoon animals, trying to survive the Holocaust). The backlash has made the two-part collection a bestseller all over again.

Earlier it was reported that, despite her apology at the beginning of Monday’s show, Goldberg was in “deep s*it” with ABC brass, who were demanding a “fuller retraction” than the one she gave.

(Via THR)

(Spoilers from Hulu’s Pam & Tommy will be found below.)

Pam & Tommy covers the early days of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s doomed marriage. They married (on the beach, in swimsuits) only a few days after meeting in 1995, and the show even depicts their awkward flight back to Los Angeles, where they attempted to figure out whose home to live in together and whether they actually had anything in common. The early days were, as expected, fan-freaking-tastic, but the good times (as depicted) didn’t last too long. Also in 1995, disgruntled construction contractor Rand Gauthier retaliated against Tommy (and his alleged refusal to pay up) by stealing the couple’s safe and distributing their sex tape all over the internet.

Naturally, this caused conflict for the couple, especially when Pam felt that Tommy didn’t understand why people viewed her much more harshly than her fellow sex tape participant. Ultimately, however, the tape doesn’t appear to be the overriding reason for the split after becoming parents to two sons. Rather, the marriage was all-but-officially over in 1998 when Tommy was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no context to felony spousal battery against Pam. As the LA Times reported at the time, Lee also found himself under three years of probation, and Malibu Municipal Judge Lawrence J. Mira lamented the latest in a string of violent incidents by the rocker:

“What I see here is a very clear–very disturbing, in my judgment–pattern of conduct in which otherwise resolvable matters are handled by violence,” Mira said. “You do it whether it’s a family member or a third party. That’s intolerable in any kind of civilized society.”

Mira also required Lee to undergo counseling and donate money to a battered women’s shelter, among other conditions of avoiding three years in prison. Those developments aren’t covered in Pam & Tommy, which does, though, highlight Tommy’s erratic behavior, which eventually became a source of frustration for many who endured his tantrums.

Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tommy’ premieres with three episodes on Feb 3.

Brandon Ingram got to watch the final few minutes of the New Orleans Pelicans’ game against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. The Pelicans were up by double-digits in the game’s final two minutes, and with Detroit in need of a whole lot of very quick baskets, Frank Jackson got the ball, attacked the rim, and went up for a layup.

His issue was Ingram was waiting for him at the rim, and because Ingram is taller and has very long arms, he was able to block this very easily and emphatically. After it happened, Jackson went the deck, so Ingram bent over and lovingly flexed and screamed in his face.

One referee did not think there was a whole lot of love going on here, and as a result, Ingram got booted from the game.

Now, it’s worth mentioning a few things here. Ingram and Jackson both went to Duke, with the latter enrolling one year after the former was a standout for the Blue Devils. Then, after Ingram was traded by the Lakers to New Orleans, the pair spent some time as teammates before Jackson made his way up to Detroit. This explains why Jackson, after the game, expressed that Ingram was just having some fun.

The Pelicans won, 111-101.

Though plenty of hip-hop heads are more than familiar with exactly how talented Black Thought (aka Tariq Trotter) is, he’s always ready to remind everyone at the drop of a hat. Whenever the uninformed posters of the internet reveal their ignorance of his immense skill level, Black Thought fans always rush to defend his honor. It’s almost become a meme itself at this point, but not quite, because he really is that good! Just in case anyone was left with any doubts, Trotter recently returned to his old stomping grounds at The Tonight Show to discuss a project he briefly left the show to work on.

Trotter took a hiatus from The Roots and late night to help adapt John Ridley’s novel Black No More into a musical that will be playing in New York until February 27 (tickets here). So of course, Jimmy Fallon had his former coworker back on the show to actually talk about the musical and what Trotter experienced during the process of working in live theater. But it wouldn’t be a Black Thought appearance if there wasn’t also some off-the-cuff freestyling, right? After sharing some middle school memories, and with just a tiny bit of mild coaxing, Trotter unleashed a bout of speed-rapping — on command, no less — that’s so epic it really does put most MCs to shame. Kendrick better come with that rumored new single as soon as possible if he wants to stay in the running for greatest rapper alive, at least that’s how I feel when I watch Black Thought take the mic. Check it out above.

It’s been over a year since Donald Trump had the most powerful job on the planet, but it’s not as though he’s been taking a much-needed rest. Instead, he’s been busy. He failed at being a blogger. He’s trying to launch his own (predictably shady-sounding) social media service. He’s held rallies, where he spouts things even close cronies think are misguided. And, of course, he’s mired in legal and economic woes that he’s desperately tried to obstruct.

One of them is the length investigation by the New York State Attorney General’s office into the his business, the Trump Organization. (This is not to be confused with the similar one conducted by the Manhattan D.A.’s office.) AG Letitia James has already revealed that her team has uncovered “significant evidence” of fraud, which may not bode well for Trump nor his older kids (although he’s already reportedly which one should go to prison instead of him).

His latest move? As per Reuters, his attorneys filed a motion accusing James and others in the New York State office of “selective prosecution,” investigating his company only because of their “dislike of his speech and political views.” What’s more, all this uncovering of alleged illegal activities has helped to “interfere with his political ambitions.” After all, while he’s yet to throw his hat in the race of 2024, he has promised that, should he wind up back in the White House, he’ll pardon the violent supporters who tried to help him overturn the election he lost.

In a statement, James responded to the accusations, pointing out that this is the first time during the lengthy investigation that they’ve made this dubious claim.

“Throughout the three years of this investigation, they have never questioned our legal authority until Donald J. Trump himself was subpoenaed to testify,” James said. “As with every investigation, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead.”

This all comes after a busy weekend for Trump, which had him, among other things, straight-up confess to wanting former veep Mike Pence to overturn the election, finally saying the quiet part loud.

(Via Reuters)

Things aren’t so hot for Matt Gaetz right now, to put it mildly. The federal investigation into his ties to a sex trafficking ring continue to ramp up as the walls close ever in. Speaking of, there’s a chance he had sex with a minor. The Florida representative is so toxic he’s even affecting any fellow Trumpist lawmakers foolish enough to get into business with him — which is to say Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The Daily Beast has a new report on the dwindling fortunes of Gaetz, whose campaign committee, Friends of Matt Gaetz, lost almost $100,000 in the last year — namely around the time said federal investigation and its unseemly details were made public.

Also not doing well is his joint fundraising committee with Greene, the Twitter-banned representative. Back in October, it was reported that the PAC, called Put America First, was close to broke after only six months. Jump a few months and The Daily Beast is reporting that it’s “all but officially gone bust,” with the final quarter “notably bad.” How notably bad? Since September, it’s reportedly had a single donation — from Gaetz himself;

The $18,922 transfer from Gaetz’s campaign to the Gaetz-Greene enterprise appears to have been necessary to pay off the PAC’s final outstanding obligations. The committee, “Put America First,” has no money left.

It’s not just Gaetz or his joint PACs that are starving for cash. Greene herself has reportedly blown half her congressional salary on mask fines. And knowing her, that number could only rise.

(Via The Daily Beast)

It’s been almost six months since Halsey released their fourth album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which they described as “a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth.” The album, which Halsey created with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails’ Atticus Ross, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and earned them a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2022 Grammys. Now Halsey’s ready to bring the project on the road as they recently announced their Love And Power Tour which kicks off in May. Halsey will also bring a pair of singers with them for the tour.

Who Is Opening The Halsey Tour?

Halsey has invited singers PinkPantheress and Beabadoobee along with them for the Love And Power Tour. London’s PinkPantheress first rose to fame in 2021 for videos on TikTok. Her breakout track, “Break It Off,” tallied more than half a million plays on the app by the end of August and she saw similar success with songs like “Pain.” In October she released her debut mixtape To Hell With It and later announced her first string of shows in the United States.

As for Beabadoobee, she first got big in 2020 with a string of singles before releasing her debut album, Fake It Flowers. More recently, she released her fifth EP, Our Extended Play. During an interview with Uproxx last fall, Beabadoobee confirmed that she’s in the “beginning process” of her sophomore album.

You can check out the full dates for the tour below. Tickets for it will be available this Friday here.