Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley have some fun together at the Tennis Channel and Brother’s Bond Bourbon Pre-US Open Kick Off Event held at Hole in the Wall in the Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City on Tuesday (August 23).
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Pale Waves have been busy.
Like, really busy. Last year, they unleashed their sophomore record Who Am I? - which saw them embrace an early 00s mall-rock aesthetic indebted to the likes of Avril Lavine and Michelle Branch. It was their most successful album in the UK so far - charting at Number 3 on the Official Albums Chart and debuting at Number 1 on the Official Independent Albums Chart for good measure.
Their third album - and second in just over years - Unwanted deepens and darkens their pop-punk approach, closer now to early-career Paramore or the heaviness of Kelly Clarkson's underrated third album, My December. On tracks like the anthemic Reasons To Live or the heart-breaking Clean, it's clear that Pale Waves have worked hard, very hard, to make this their most meaningful album yet - one destined to tear up any post-pandemic stage they find themselves on.
We jumped on the phone with Pale Waves' lead guitarist and vocalist Heather Baron-Gracie, to find out why and how their darkest album yet was actually not that intense to record, and why it's just a myth you really have to suffer to make great art.
I think the pandemic really shaped where we wanted to go in terms of direction. We really missed playing live, we were such a touring band [before COVID], and we knew that when we could get back on stage, we wanted to have loads of fun.
Hence why we went heavier and more dramatic in terms of...everything! We're a lot more grown up and comfortable now in terms of playing our instruments, even. We wanted to expand on that, we wanted to challenge ourselves with this record.
We wanted to touch upon darker subjects for sure. Whether that be jealousy, anger, loss...I feel like I've channeled a lot of different
Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley have some fun together at the Tennis Channel and Brother’s Bond Bourbon Pre-US Open Kick Off Event held at Hole in the Wall in the Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City on Tuesday (August 23).
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Pale Waves have opened up about wanting to work with Blink-182’s Travis Barker in a new interview.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read, the band said they want to work with the drummer in the future and revealed that he almost worked with them on their latest album, ‘Unwanted’.Barker was set to appear on an ‘Unwanted’ track but couldn’t because of scheduling conflicts.Ciara Doran told NME they “know our paths will cross one day, though, I’m sure of it.”Elsewhere in the Big Read, Pale Waves lead vocalist and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie opened up about the band’s near-fatal bus crash.Three of the four members of Pale Waves — Doran, Hugo Silvani and Charlie Woods – as well as the band’s crew — were on the bus during the accident which took place in February of 2020. The four-piece had been supporting Halsey on her European arena tour, and were set to play at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin.The vehicle slid into a ditch while travelling between Sweden and Germany.
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Pale Waves have shared a cover of Wheatus’ ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ as part of a new live session recorded for Apple Music – scroll down the page to listen to it now.The Dirty Hit-signed band were the second act to take part in the platform’s new Antidote Editions series, which gives fans the opportunity to listen to alternate versions of artists’ tracks.Along with three tracks from their new album ‘Unwanted’, Pale Waves included their cover of Wheatus’ 2000 hit. “‘Teenage Dirtbag’ has been a song that all of us for years have adored as soon as we were asked to cover a classic, we all immediately thought of it,” the band said in a press release.The group’s new version of the classic song stays faithful to the original, but adds new layers to the guitar-led framework.
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Pale Waves lead vocalist and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie opened up about the band’s near-fatal bus crash in this week’s NME Big Read cover story.Three of the four members of Pale Waves — Ciara Doran (drums), Hugo Silvani (guitar) and Charlie Woods (bass) as well as the band’s crew — were on the bus during the accident which took place in February of 2020. The four-piece had been supporting Halsey on her European arena tour, and were set to play at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin.The vehicle slid into a ditch while travelling between Sweden and Germany.
Starring on a TV drama is hard enough, but Sophia Bush had to do so while putting some IRL personal drama aside.
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Sophia Bush is sharing some rare comments about working with her ex-husband Chad Michael Murray.
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Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston hang out with some mascots on the field ahead of a charity baseball game in Albuquerque, New Mexico over the weekend.
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul had a mini reunion when they attended the unveiling of bronze statues honoring their multi-layered characters from the iconic TV show.Cranston and Paul were joined by Albuquerque, New Mexico Mayor Tim Keller, other local politicians as well as the AMC hit show's creator Vince Gilligan for Friday's unveiling of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman statues at the city's convention center.According to, no tax dollars were used to erect these statues. It was commissioned, the news agency reports, by Gilligan and Sony Pictures. The show had a tremendous run from 2008 to 2013, spawning the hit prequel . And it's the success of those shows that prompted Keller to acknowledge the show for the positive economic impact it's had in the area that now enjoys a thriving film industry.«While the stories might be fictional… jobs are real every single day,» Keller said.
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul attend an unveiling of statues dedicated to their Breaking Bad characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Friday (July 29) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.