From being stuck in a house together to racing around the world! Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss, who met on Big Brother and started dating after the show, are set to compete on the upcoming season of The Amazing Race.
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Gang of Youths have performed a cover of ‘Why Does It Always Rain on Me?’ by Travis while appearing on Australian radio station triple j’s Like a Version segment.The band, who are currently in the midst of a tour of their home country in support of third album ‘Angel in Realtime’, stay relatively faithful to the 1999 original, paring it back somewhat for an acoustic rendition, with frontman Dave Le’aupepe accompanied by strings and piano.Watch Gang of Youths cover ‘Why Does It Always Rain on Me?’ by Travis below:In a post-performance interview, Le’aupepe and Tom Hobden explained their reasons for choosing the cover. “It’s just a really timeless, beautiful song that, we were able to kind of do it quickly and efficiently and beautifully, in a way that we thought was the right standard,” Le’aupepe said.He added: “Also, they’re a band that’s about as uncool as us, and I thought that was really sweet to do it.
We knew that we’d irritate bespectacled music nerds everywhere, so that’s kind of part of it as well.”Le’aupepe also performed ‘Angel in Realtime’ cut ‘Brothers’ solo on piano. Watch that below:Other notable appearances on triple j’s Like a Version segment in recent weeks have included Glass Animals, who covered ‘Say My Name’ by Destiny’s Child, and Wet Leg, who performed a rendition of ‘Smoko’ by The Chats.‘Angel in Realtime’ arrived in February of this year.
In a four-star review, NME called the album “a triumphant exploration of love and live” that resulted in “some of their finest work so far”.The band will tour throughout Australia this month before heading to the US to complete a North American run, before a slew of European headline dates in October and November. See all tour dates here.
.From being stuck in a house together to racing around the world! Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss, who met on Big Brother and started dating after the show, are set to compete on the upcoming season of The Amazing Race.
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Harry Kane's winner for Tottenham Hotspur against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday makes him the all-time topscorer for a single club in Premier League history. The London side had been struggling before the striker scored the winner in the 64th minute.
Former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas has reunited with his on-screen mum Sue Cleaver who he worked alongside for 16 years. The Corrie actors got together in a restaurant joined by Ryan's children Roman and Lilah Rae, who he shares with fiancé and former TOWIE star Lucy Mecklenburgh.
Serena Williams recently announced her retirement to dedicate more time to her family. However, there is something she has been focusing on for a few years besides tennis.During a conversation with Selena Gomez for her mental health platform, Wondermind, the pair discussed how to stay mentally in shape.“Mental fitness for me is just really learn[ing] to shut down,” Williams said. “And you know I did this years ago before even mental health was a topic among everyone’s mind.”“It was more just like, alright, I’m shutting myself down today.
Snail Mail covered Muse‘s ‘Starlight’ during a recent date on her US headline tour – see footage of the rendition below.Lindsey Jordan is currently on a headline tour around North America in support of her second album ‘Valentine’, and stopped by the Fête Music Hall in Providence, Rhode Island on Friday (August 12).During the set, she took on a rendition of Muse’s 2006 single, which appeared on the album ‘Black Holes and Revelations’.Check out Snail Mail’s Muse cover below. At the end of the rendition, she said: “Fuck it, Muse.”A post shared by Dan (@clucleclucle)Earlier this summer, Snail Mail shared a new cover of Superdrag’s ‘Feeling Like I Do’ as part of the Spotify Singles collection.The original version of ‘Feeling Like I Do’ was recorded at the famed Electric Lady Studios in New York and appeared on Superdrag’s 2002 LP, ‘Last Call for Vitriol’.“It’s been really cool getting to cover ‘Feeling Like I Do’ by Superdrag because I love it and I’ve loved it for a while and I was able to make it my own by singing on it,” she said in a statement.Snail Mail will support Turnstile on their upcoming North American tour which is slated to kick off in October.
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Wet Leg have spoken about the “really cool” experience of seeing Harry Styles cover their single ‘Wet Dream’.The pop star recorded a live version of the song in May as part of a special Live Lounge session on BBC Radio 1. It came after Wet Leg – aka Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – were announced as the support act for Styles’ 2023 Australian/New Zealand tour.During a new interview with Apple Music 1, Teasdale recalled first hearing the ‘Harry’s House’ star’s spin on the track when the duo were in a splitter van on the way to a live show.“We were just on our phones, doing a good scroll sesh, and then gradually, one by one, we were like, ‘Oh my God, have you seen this? Oh my God, this appeared on the internet, and it’s Harry Styles covering ‘Wet Dream”,” she remembered.“Hester always describes it as [being like] we were watching intergalactic television like on Rick and Morty.
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dubbed the most powerful man in television and known as “the king of TV” — is the secret buyer of Richard Gere’s Westchester estate, Gimme Shelter can exclusively reveal. Gere’s Pound Ridge compound first hit the market last year for $28 million. Murphy, who did not return calls at press time, paid $24.15 million for the property.
ABBA have paid tribute to Olivia Newton-John who died yesterday (August 8) aged 73.The Australian singer and Grease actor passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California, as confirmed by her husband John Easterling in a statement.“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” the message read.Today (August 9), ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (aka Frida) both paid their respects to Newton-John in a post on the Swedish group’s official social media pages.The pair crossed paths with the late star in 1974 when both she and ABBA competed in that year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton.Newton-John, who was representing the United Kingdom, came in fourth place with her track ‘Long Live Love’. ABBA were crowned overall winners that evening with their hit ‘Waterloo’.Alongside a photo of ABBA and Newton-John on-stage together, Frida wrote: “What do you feel, what do you say when the nice, kindest and most loving woman leaves us to travel somewhere else.“The heart aches to know Olivia’s brave fight against an, in her case, invincible enemy.
Beyoncé’s seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, a news anchor in Philadelphia snuck 15 of the R&B titan’s song titles into a live-broadcast traffic report.“Traffic is getting ‘Heated’ and it’s starting to ‘Break My Soul’ just a little bit,” NBC 10’s Sheila Watko said in her presentation last Tuesday (August 2), referencing two songs from ‘Renaissance’. She noted later in the broadcast – which earned the approval of Bey’s own mother, Tina Knowles – that she’d planned to do to a reference-laden report on the album’s release date (July 29), but couldn’t do so since there was a crash that day and she “had to be serious”.To the groans – and one emphatic “ooh!” – of her co-hosts, Watko continued in her report: “We’ve had a ‘Formation’ of traffic cones all morning … that’s still blocking two right lanes, you might want to move over ‘to the left, to the left’.”Celebrating her effort, co-host Keith Jones declared: “Sheila Watko, you ‘Run The World’.”Take a look at the full report below:Yesterday (August 8) saw ‘Renaissance’ debut at Number One on the US’ Billboard 200 chart.
Rebel Wilson played the role of best supporting girlfriend this week when she shared her pride over her partner, Ramona Agruma's latest venture.SEE: Rebel Wilson looks so in love in tender moment with girlfriend Ramona AgrumaThe Pitch Perfect star took to her Instagram Stories to share a shot from Ramona's sustainable fashion company, Lemon Ve Limon after it branched out into kidswear. The photo sees a young girl modeling a blue hooded sweater with blue and pink ties.WATCH: Rebel Wilson and Ramona Agruma twin in stunning dresses for night outCaptioning the sweet image, Rebel gushed: "My girl now crushing it with kids wear!" She also tagged Ramona and Lemon Ve Limon in the post.Ramona founded the company, which focuses on affordability and comfort, in 2021, just one year before she met her now-girlfriend, Rebel.
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Mudvayne‘s singer fell off stage while performing ‘Not Falling’ at a show in Georgia, US.The incident on Wednesday (July 27) was captured on camera and shows Chad Gray tumbling off the front of the stage at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta.Gray was heard still singing the song out of shot after the fall, which suggests that he was unhurt in the incident.‘Not Falling’, which is the lead single from the band’s second album, 2002’s ‘The End Of All Things to Come’, arrived around mid-way through the band’s 13-song set (via Setlist.FM).Mudvayne’s are currently on a reunion tour after regrouping in 2021 for shows.Gray has since told Avenged Sevenfold‘s Johnny Christ on his Drinks With Johnny podcast that Mudvayne’s reunion will carry over to the studio. The band hasn’t released an album since their 2009 self-titled release.The nu-metal band, who formed in 1996 and is made up of Gray (vocals), Greg Tribbett (guitar, backing vocals), Matthew McDonough (drums, synthesizer) and Ryan Martinie (bass), went on hiatus in 2010, a year after their fifth studio album.Since then, Gray had been fronting the band Hellyeah, of which Mudvayne guitarist Greg Tribbett is a former member.
BTS‘ J-Hope and IU have collaborated on performances of ‘Equal Sign’, ‘Pierrot Laughs At Us’ and ‘Safety Zone’.The rapper recently made a guest appearance on IU’s ongoing talk show IU’s Palette, during which he spoke about his recently released solo record ‘Jack In The Box’. In between interview segments, both J-Hope and IU performed two songs from J-Hope’s new album, ‘Equal Sign’ and ‘Safety Zone’, as well as the B-side track ‘Pierrot Laughs At Us’ from IU’s 2014 album ‘A flower bookmark’.The duo’s rendition of ‘Equal Sign’ sees IU take charge of the vocal-heavy portions of the song while J-Hope delivers the rap verses.