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As the weather warms up and music fans spend more time outside in the coming months, the prevailing sounds of our playlists look to shift from the chilly, downtempo mood music of autumn and winter to the upbeat, tropical styles that soundtrack poolside shindigs and rooftop day parties. Murda Beatz has announced his contribution to this trend, “No Más,” coming on July 8. The Canadian producer has enlisted his own “summer anthem” Avengers to assist with the vibe-setting, including Anitta, J Balvin, Pharrell, and Quavo.

In addition, the song will be accompanied by a video that follows the crew as they say, “F*ck it, let’s head to Miami,” which is, of course, one of the premier warm-weather destinations and the perfect visual companion to a song with so much Latin flavor. No doubt the new musical direction for the frequent Drake collaborator was at least partially inspired by one of his collaborators in particular; in addition to working on music together, Murda and Anitta recently went Instagram official as romantic partners.

“No Más” is out on 7/8 via Warner Records. Pre-save it here.

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Rudy Giuliani is not having an easy time of it lately. First, he was viciously attacked by a man who lightly tapped him on the back and might have called him a “scumbag” at a ShopRite in Staten Island while he was stumping for his son, New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani. Then, Giuliani the Younger lost his primary bid, making the Slap Heard ‘Round the World all for naught. And after all that campaigning, Andrew announced that his “Iron Man” and “tough as nails” dad just underwent heart stent surgery. Even worse: the former New York City mayor has been reduced to hawking history’s ugliest sandals for MyPillow maniac Mike Lindell. And now he and Lindsey Graham have been subpoenaed to testify about election meddling in Georgia.

But Rudy’s biggest problem—aside from marrying his cousin—is that that pesky insurrection he purportedly helped to orchestrate just won’t go away. And after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson mentioned Rudy’s name several times in her testimony, both as someone who helped in the planning of the events of January 6th and someone who asked for a pardon afterward, things really blew up.

Giuliani’s first attempt to discredit Hutchinson in a now-deleted tweet went sideways when he accidentally incriminated himself by stating: “The January 6 Witch Hunt Cabal has now exceeded even its prior fraudulent. The last witness was a reckless liar. Contrary to her false testimony she was never present when I asked for a pardon.” (When he became the butt of many jokes, he quickly deleted that and replaced it with a tweaked version that didn’t make him sound like a total criminal.)

But, really, what seems to be Rudy’s biggest issue: that everyone thinks he’s a criminal. On the July 1st edition of Giuliani’s hysterically named “Common Sense” podcast, he complained about the way he has been treated.

Everyone in Washington wants to make me a liar and a crook, and I’m not. But I know I have to protect myself I could’ve asked for a pardon for a very good reason – because I don’t want to get framed. I know I didn’t do anything wrong. I know I don’t act like they do. I don’t lie like Raskin and Schiff. I don’t take money like Pelosi and Biden and their families. I’ve spent most of my time putting crooks like them in jail. And I’ve acted honorably all my life. But I know they frame people. I know people they framed. So it would have been perfectly legitimate to ask for a pardon—not because I’m guilty of anything. But because they’re going to try real hard to make me guilty of something.”

Like, say, attempting to overturn the results of a completely legitimate election?

It was fun while it lasted, Rudy.

For over a decade now, Queen and Adam Lambert have been performing together, first linking up in 2011, following Lambert’s rise to stardom on American Idol in 2009. Since then, Queen and Lambert have put on hundreds of shows around the world, including a sold-out 10-show run at London’s O2 Arena last month. Turns out the band was filming those shows and now they’re gearing up to present them as Rhapsody Over London, a new concert film.

Rhapsody Over London will premiere on Kiswe’s global streaming platform on July 24 and is only set to be available until July 31. Aside from the base film, additional concerts and interviews will also be available to purchase.

The film includes 28 songs and will be accompanied by a live Q&A with Brian May, Roger Taylor, and Lambert. Fans have until July 19 to submit video questions for the band. The concert was filmed using 26 cameras, over 100 film technicians, so the band went all out for this production.

For more information about tickets, click here, and find the band’s upcoming tour dates below.

07/06 — Madrid, Spain @ WiZink Center
07/07 — Madrid, Spain @ WiZink Center
07/10 — Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Arena
07/11 — Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Arena
07/13 — Paris, France @ AccorHotels Arena
07/15 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis
07/17 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena
07/18 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena
07/20 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena
07/21 — Oslo, Norway @ Telenor Arena
07/24 — Tampere, Finland @ Tampere Deck Arena
07/25 — Tampere, Finland @ Tampere Deck Arena

Despite how messy the original Pretty Little Liars turned out to be (probably because they had multiple people posing as “A” and also they added in some secret twins towards the end of the series…the whole thing was very confusing) HBO Max has moved forward with a new spinoff series of the uber-popular teen slasher drama.

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin follows a new group of liars set in the fictional town of Millwood. The trailer shows all of your typical teen drama tropes: dances, school assemblies, and your run-of-the-mill mass murderer. Just another day in high school!

The series is the third spinoff in the PLL franchise, but the first to be on HBO Max, so there is some room for more gore. Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin stars Bailee Madison, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Chandler Kinney, and Zaria.

Here is the official HBO Max description:

Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in present day, a disparate group of teen girls — a brand-new set of Little Liars — find themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin committed by their parents two decades ago…as well as their own. In the dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, we find ourselves miles away from Rosewood, but within the existing Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand-new town, with a new generation of Little Liars.

The series begins streaming July 28th on HBO Max. Check out the trailer above.

As much as I love summer, there is one thing I could do without: bugs. More specifically, mosquitoes. Those pesky little buggers can wreak havoc on a beautiful summer day. Who hasn’t spent time outside in summer and then come in all itchy and covered in bites? There are multiple reasons why some people are more susceptible to mosquito bites than others, but there’s a new one that likely isn’t on people’s radars. Mosquitoes could be attracted to the odor certain viruses create in the body.

There is evidence that mosquitoes are attracted to the odor given off by mice infected by the parasite that causes malaria. Now, a team is looking at how the scent of mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and Zika would attract mosquitoes to people rather than mice.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the two viruses, the most important thing to know about them both is how dangerous they are to humans. Some effects of dengue include vomiting, aches and pains, and in severe cases, internal bleeding, according to the CDC. Zika virus is best known for being dangerous for pregnant women, as it can cause certain kinds of birth defects in fetuses, per the CDC.

Because both viruses rely on mosquitoes for transmission, it begs the question: Do people infected with either viruses give off extra tasty odors? That’s what the team was looking to discover.

“I mean, the infection just increase[s] the chance to be located by a mosquito,” Penghua Wang, an immunologist with University of Connecticut Health, told NPR.

Wang and the rest of his team set out to find out if it’s true that infected people become mosquito chow, and undertook a study, which was recently published in the journal Cell. In the study, they blew two different types of air: one infected with either of the two viruses and one without, over two different groups of mice. As to be expected, the mosquitoes buzzed around those infected mice like they were a buffet dinner.

“These two viruses can alter a person’s body odor to be more attractive to mosquitoes,” Wang said. What happens is that the smell alters the skin’s microbiome to make it more appetizing to the blood-sucking little critters. Wang explained to NPR that he was “excited” by this new development as it could lead to a lot of understanding of virus transmission by mosquitoes.

While this is an incredibly positive prospect, it’s important to keep in mind that experimenting on mice isn’t really the same as experimenting on people. And just because this is going well with mice doesn’t mean it will go well with people. But, during the study, the team discovered that people infected with dengue had similar attention from the mosquitoes.

The other promising thing? Since they’ve discovered the attraction, they were also able to find a possible treatment plan. They discovered that when they gave the sick mice a vitamin A supplement, the mosquitoes lost interest. Knowing this information can help researchers explore how Zika and dengue spread. According to Wang, in some of the areas where dengue and Zika are most common, many people are vitamin A deficient.

Whatever they discover, I’m very curious to see if this information will offer insight on not only how diseases get spread, but also what makes people (like me) more susceptible to getting bitten in the first place.

Fans at a Michigan show on Tuesday night ended the night quite worried as Carlos Santan passed out on stage during the show. Santana was performing at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan when he took the fall on stage, but luckily, he was able to get up a short time later and walk away under his own power. The incident occurred during the Miraculous Supernatural 2022 tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, and afterward, Santana shared an update on his well-being through messages from himself and his team.

Santana’s team was the first to share a message as they did through a message on the famed guitarist’s Facebook page. “Rock Legend Carlos Santana was over-taken by heat exhaustion and dehydration during a concert Tuesday (July 5) evening in Michigan,” the message read. “The guitar great was taken from his show at Pine Knob Music Theatre (formerly DTE Energy Music Theatre), an outdoor amphitheater in Clarkston, some 40 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan.”

They continued, “Carlos was taken to the emergency department at McLaren Clarkston for observation and is doing well, it was announced by Santana’s manager Michael Vrionis tonight.” Santana himself chimed in with a message of his own a short time later. “To one and all,” he wrote. “Cindy and I, we are good just taking it easy. Forgot to eat and drink water, so i dehydrated and passed out. Blessings and miracles to you all.”

You can see Santana’s posts on Facebook above.

You may be one of those people who constantly ask, “What exactly does DJ Khaled actually do?” And you know what? It’s high time you learned that it doesn’t matter what DJ Khaled actually does. He makes albums. He makes HITS. And now he’s got — say it with me — another one. That’s right, it’s time for the thirteenth studio album from DJ Khaled, hitmaker extraordinaire, God Did. As of now, there’s no release date or singles… but he’s DJ Khaled. He doesn’t need those things. He’s a one-man self-promotion army. And by god (see what I did there?), he’s gonna make sure you know he’s got an album coming out, even if all he’s got so far is a title.

But considering the eventful rollouts for the last handful of albums from Khaled, we can likely look forward to shenanigans both hilarious and genuinely entertaining as he pulls together the cross-branding opportunities and assembles a massive list of featured artists. His last album, 2021’s Khaled Khaled, featured an impressive slate that included 21 Savage, Bryson Tiller, Buju Banton, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, HER, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Lil Wayne, Megan Thee Stallion, Migos, Nas, Roddy Ricch, and more. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. So yeah, DJ Khaled goes No. 1. He goes platinum. He makes some of the splashiest posse cuts since Heavy D did “Don’t Curse.” He doesn’t make his jumpers though. Can’t do everything.

God Did is out soon via We The Best and Epic.

In the land of sociopolitical opinions, there are smart takes, there are hot takes, there are bad takes, there are sh*t takes, and then there are Tucker Carlson’s takes, which typically fall a few places below wherever a sh*t take would find you. And his newest theory about the reason behind America’s mass shooting problem might be one of his most putrid opinions yet: Blame it on nagging women!

Sigh.

That’s right, ladies. It’s we—not guns, nor mentally unstable individuals with access to guns—who are really to blame for the more than 300 mass shootings that have taken place so far in America this year, because of all our whining about “male privilege.” That can really get to a guy!

As Mediaite reports, Tucker was as sympathetic as ever while reporting on Robert Crimo III, the suspect arrested in connection with the July 4th parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, which took the lives of seven people and injured dozens more. Investigations into Crimo’s past have shown that he’s not a stranger to local police—they’ve been called to his house on at least two occasions, once when he was threatening to kill himself and another when he was threatening to kill his entire family. Though police confiscated weapons from Crimo at the time, including knives and a sword, the 22-year-old was easily able to legally obtain FIVE guns in the Chicago area, including one AR-15-style rifle.

“Would you sell a gun to that guy?,” Tucker asked. “Does he seem like a nutcase? Of course he does.” But Carlson contended that the reason Crimo didn’t stand out is “maybe because there are a lot of young men in America who suddenly look and act a lot like this guy,” and that part of that is because so many young men are “numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out at every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors.” (Note to Tucker: School counselors are generally not licensed medical doctors, meaning they cannot prescribe—and most definitely cannot randomly “hand out”—antidepressants or any other prescription drugs.)

But this is where Carlson took a sharp right turn and went full caveman by putting an equal part of the blame for acts of violence committed by mentally unstable individuals on the “women” authority figures in their lives, who make them angry:

[T]hey’re angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents’. They’ll be worse. That’s all but guaranteed. They know that. They’re not that stupid. And yet the authorities in their lives—mostly women—never stop lecturing them about their so-called privilege. ‘You’re male, you’re privileged!’ Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So, a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you surprised?

Well now that you put it that way, Tucker… wouldn’t the non-privileged males be angrier? And how did you calculate that most of the authority figures in these young men’s lives are women? Most importantly: Is there anyone at Fox News who’s vetting what Carlson is saying before it goes on the air?

Carlson, of course, has other questions, including: Is there a connection between antidepressants and mass shootings? While logic would dictate that a psychologically unwell person would take medication to help with their condition, and might also be more prone to violence, Carlson’s assumption is the reverse. That it’s the medications that are causing people to act out in homicidal ways. But given that approximately 13.2 percent of American adults are currently taking antidepressants, it would seem that easy access to guns might be the bigger problem. Tucker might want to check that out.

(Via Mediaite)

An early aughts favorite has returned: Limewire is back, and this time, you won’t have to worry about potentially crapping out your computer with viruses, as the new iteration of Limewire is a 100-percent legal NFT marketplace.

Austrian brothers Paul and Julian Zehetmayr purchased the rights to Limewire back in March, as they announced their plans to convert the once-notorious peer-to-peer file sharing platform into a marketplace for music non-fungible tokens.

“We see a huge demand in the entertainment space for platforms that recognize and appreciate artists for their talent and put them in the driver’s seat,” said the Zehetmayrs in a statement. “Limewire presents a new commercial opportunity for artists of all sizes and genres to engage with their fans, gain more exposure in a unique way, and retain more of their earnings.”

Reigning in the new era of Limewire are artists across a variety of genres, including Brandy, Nicky Jam, Aitch, Dillon Francis, Soulja Boy, and Travis Barker. Some of the NFT products include new music, behind-the-scenes videos, and exclusive artwork.

“I have always been interested in Web3 and NFTs so I am pretty stoked to release my first NFT collection and to do it on Limewire,” said Barker. “I hope that my NFT collection will inspire aspiring artists and fans who want to learn about my creative journey and how I make music. Limewire has created a platform that makes exciting content like this accessible to all of my fans — even ones who are unfamiliar with Web3.”

Every so often, one’s reminded that Bill O’Reilly is still around and acting like the same old Bill O’Reilly. This usually happens because O’Reilly has alerted everyone to his presence by saying something (at least moderately) awful, long after he became known for (reportedly) grunting like a wild boar while referring to a female coworker as “Hot Chocolate.” A $30 million sexual harassment settlement later, and O’Reilly went on from Fox News to become a podcaster who ranted about clothing sizes. He’s also been melting down at airports and threatening to have people fired because he (like everyone else) is experiencing massive airport delays lately.

O’Reilly’s ranting elsewhere now, and he’s hopping mad about anyone threatening any type of gun control law. O’Reilly is also very upset about Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker speaking about the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, outside of Chicago. A lone gunman killed at least seven people and injured dozens, and O’Reilly seems to be awfully angry after Pritzker (accurately) stated that the Founding Fathers were referring to muskets, rather than assault weapons when crafting the Second Amendment.

Here’s a video clip from O’Reilly’s own website (via Ron Filipkoswki on Twitter). He unleashed a racially charged rant for the ages here:

There’s no telling why O’Reilly was tying “minority gangs” to this mass shooting, which was carried out by a Robert E. Crimo III, a 21-year-old Caucasian male who’s been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Investigators have revealed how Crimo (via CNN) allegedly planned the mass shooting “for several weeks” and disguised himself by wearing women’s clothing as he attended the Fourth of July parade. The suspect remains in custody.