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Bruce Springsteen’s Daughter Jessica Makes Olympic Equestrian Team
Born to jump? Jessica Springsteen, daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, has made the jumping squad for the U.S. Olympic equestrian team. As NBC reports, Jessica and her horse Don Juan van de Donkhoeve will both travel to Tokyo when the pandemic-delayed 2021 games kick off later this month. Jessica first began riding at the age of four on her parent’s farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey. She was named an alternate rider for the 2012 Olympics, then missed the cut in 2016. Now 29 years old and ranked No. 27 in the world, her Olympic vision is finally coming into focus. “Been dreaming of this since I can remember!” she wrote on Instagram. “Endless gratitude for my team, friends and family for helping me make this a reality. We are Tokyo bound!! Honored to be a part of this tea...
Buckherry Singer Josh Todd Became a Certified Phlebotomist During the Pandemic
Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd has made the most of his time during the pandemic. Not only did he record a new album with his band, he became a fully certified phlebotomist, also known as a health professional who draws blood from patients for medical testing. While speaking with SiriusXM host Eddie Trunk about Buckcherry’s recently released ninth studio album, Hellbound, Todd discussed the various activities he engaged in during lockdown. “I got into action. I’m not one that really sits around for too long. I never get on the pity potty. I just go, ‘Okay, what am I gonna do with this time? I’ve got all this time. How can I utilize it wisely?’ And making the Hellbound record was one of them.” He went on to say that he participated in a lot of addiction recovery Zoom meetings and started pla...
Blade’s Stephen Dorff Slams Marvel Movies, Says Black Widow “Looks Like Garbage”
Marvel may be at the top of the food chain in terms of superhero cinema, but for one former star, they’re just cattle. Stephen Dorff, who played villain Deacon Frost in 1998’s Blade, has criticized the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in particular throwing shade at the upcoming Black Widow for looking “like a bad video game.” Speaking with the UK’s Independent about his new film, Embattled, Dorff was asked about what roles he looks for in modern Hollywood. The actor took that as a prompt to bash the company that elevated his career by making him the star of one of the first successful post-Batman comic book adaptations. “I still hunt out the good shit because I don’t want to be in Black Widow,” said Dorff, continuing, “It looks like garbage to me. It looks like a bad video g...
Hugh Jackman Teases Possible Return As Wolverine In MCU
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sean Dempsey – PA Images / Getty Back in 2017 when Old Man Logan hit screens, Hugh Jackman swore up and down that it would be his last time donning the adamantium claws as Wolverine in 20th Century Fox’s Marvel universe. Fast forward four years later and it seems like Jackman might be hinting at the return of Weapon X, but in the Marvel Studio’s current MCU. Recently the Australian actor who ascended to stardom playing a Canadian mutant took to his IG page to play with fanboy’s emotions and posted a few stories that have given hope to X-Men fans around the world. The first was a picture of Wolverine’s claws. No caption needed. The second was a picture of Jackman hanging out with Marvel Studios’ President, Kevin Feige. Could it be? Could Hugh Jackman be re...
Racist New Jersey White Man Got A Visit From Black Protesters After Rant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / Screencap A white Mount Laurel, N.J. man found himself on the wrong end of protests this past Monday after he went on a racist rant last Friday, threatening the Black man he verbally assaulted by telling him his address. Taking the invitation to pull up, several dozen protesters showed up at the man’s door as he was casually escorted from his home by local police. According to a report from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, reportedly got into a verbal spat with a Black neighbor last Friday and hurled racist slurs before inviting the man to his home by telling his address. The entire exchange between Mathews and the neighbor was caught on video and has since gone viral. During the video, Mathews tells the man to “come see me”...
Uriah Heep Singer John Lawton Dies at 74
He joined Heep in 1976 in time to appear on their 10th studio album, 1976’s Firefly, replacing original lead singer David Byron, as well as 1977’s harder-edged Innocent Victim, which featured the easy-rockin’ AM-radio single “Free.” Lawton’s final studio recording with UH was 1978’s smoother Fallen Angel, followed by the Live in Europe ’79 concert album. Following his run in UH, Lawton continued to perform with other bands, including Rebel and GunHill (which later changed its name to the John Lawton Band) and former Heep producer/songwriter Ken Hensley in the Hensley Lawton Band. He also briefly re-joined Heep in 2013 for two weeks during a European tour to fill-in for ailing vocalist Bernie Shaw, released a handful of solo albums and dabbled...
Bruce Springsteen’s Daughter Jessica Springsteen Qualifies For Olympic Equestrian Team
Bruce Springsteen‘s 29-year-old daughter Jessica Springsteen has been named to the U.S. Olympic equestrian jumping team. Jessica, one of the premier horse jumpers in the country, will make the trip to Tokyo with her horse, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve. She celebrated the good news in an Instagram post on Tuesday morning (July 6). “Been dreaming of this since I can remember! Endless gratitude for my team, friends and family for helping me make this a reality,” she wrote. “We are Tokyo bound!! Honored to be a part of this team with @laurakraut @teamkpf and @mclainward.official. There’s no horse in the world I’d rather be on this journey with, thank you Don! You’re my horse of a lifetime Let’s go USA!” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are ...
Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ Returns to Top 10 on Top Album Sales, Hits No. 1 on Vinyl Albums Chart
Call Me sold 55,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 1, according to MRC Data. Physical album sales comprise 50,000 of that figure (40,000 CDs and 10,000 cassettes) while digital album sales comprise 5,000. Call Me was made available as a 15-track standard digital download album, as well as in a 16-track deluxe digital and a streaming edition with one bonus track (“Safari”). The 16-track physical edition of the album, on CD and cassette, added a different bonus cut (“Fishtail”). A vinyl LP release has yet to be announced. The CD and cassette were exclusively sold via the artist’s webstore and sold out within a day. They were available a la carte, as well as in four limited edition deluxe box sets that sold for $25 each. (The box sets included either a CD, shirt and poster or...
Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani Share Wedding Photos: ‘Dreams Do Come True!’
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani have shared the first official look at their picture-perfect wedding. “July 3rd 2021 dreams do come true !!!” Stefani wrote on Instagram Monday night (July 5), two days after the couple tied the knot. The singer shared three beautiful images from the couple’s wedding, and Shelton re-posted them on his Instagram as well. Stefani tagged a number of people who helped their special day come together, from designer Vera Wang (Stefani wore a custom-designed gown, shown in more photos here) to photographer Jeremy Bustos — and Carson Daly, who officiated the couple’s wedding, according to NBC’s Today. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with givin...
Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ Set to be Crowned Again on U.K. Albums Chart
If it keeps its momentum when the weekly chart is published this Friday, it’ll mark the album’s fifth week at the summit, and its first stint at the top since the LP ruled the chart for four straight weeks in November and December 1981. With more than six million copies sold, Queen’s Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in the history of the U.K.’s recorded music industry. Also, it has logged 952 weeks in the Official Albums Chart to date, behind just ABBA’s Gold (1,000 weeks) and Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend (984 weeks). Queen last ruled the U.K. chart with 2020’s Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around The World, their first time leader since 1995’s Made In Heaven. Ahead of its release, Royal Mail released a collection of stamps to commemorate the group’s 50-ye...
Fueled by Euro 2020, Soccer Anthems Kick a Goal In Midweek U.K. Chart
If England progress to the final, and go all the way – something the team has never done in the UEFA tournament – expect the single to keep scoring. If it does, it would give the track a fifth stint at No. 1, extending its national chart record. Meanwhile, “Vindaloo” (Union Square Music) by Fat Les, the collective of Blur bassist Alex James, actor Keith Allen, and artist Damien Hirst, is at No. 40, and is charting to its first appearance in the top tier since 2010, when it reentered at No. 32 around the time of the World Cup. Also, New Order’s former chart-leader “World In Motion” (London) is at No. 57. “World In Motion,” which features a rap by retired soccer star John Barnes, was the Official World Cup 1990 song. Down the list, rap duo Krept & Konan are at No. 73 with “Olé (We Are En...
Morrissey Describes Pandemic as “Con-vid”, Likens Government Restrictions to Slavery
Morrissey’s big mouth has struck again: In a new interview conducted by his nephew Sam Esty Rayner, the outspoken singer referred to the pandemic as “Con-vid” and compared government-imposed restrictions as akin to slavery. His comments came as part of a lengthy interview designed to promote his upcoming album, Bonfire of Teenagers. But Morrissey and Rayner dedicated much of the interview to lamenting about the state of Britain during the pandemic. “The bigger problem is that nobody can any longer agree with anyone else, and this is the main outcome of Con-vid,” Morrissey commented. “It has brought the worst out in people, and we weren’t ever in this together. We are deprived of seeing and hearing other people, and above all, you want to be with others who see and hear what you see and hea...
