Six men charged in the hazing of a University of Missouri student have been back in court.
19-year-old Danny Santulli was allegedly ordered to drink a liter of vodka as a fraternity event. The incident left him blind, in a wheelchair, and unable to speak.
Preliminary hearings for the six were set for September and October.
Five others are charged in the incident.
Springfield Police are looking for a man who tried to rob a Kum and Go store on West Smith Street in North Springfield this morning.
Police say the man had a gun and demanded money, but the clerk refused and the man took off. The same store was robbed early Thursday morning.
Officers believe this morning’s would-be robber held up a Fast and Friendly store at Kansas and Elfindale Thursday.
With Will of The People, Muse goes nine albums-deep in a career that had muscles from day one.
The trio of Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme typically approaches music (and the performance of it) with the mindset that it should blow your hair back — if not entirely off.
It’s an attitude that has worked convincingly, yielding Grammy and Brit Awards, No. 1 records, and placing Muse among the world’s stadium-filling elite.
Will of the People dropped at midnight. Entirely self-produced by the British band, it carries the previously-released cuts “Won’t Stand Down,” “Compliance,” “Kill Or Be Killed,” the title track and “You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween,” which comes to life with a music video referencing all the horror films that kept you awake as a kid.
Never the type to repeat a trick, Muse’s Will of The People is a trailblazer in the Web3 space. An NFT version of the album will be eligible for inclusion in the U.K. and Australian charts, through a partnership with digital platform Serenade.
Will of The People is the followup to 2018’s Simulation Theory, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.K., for the band’s sixth leader in their homeland. Four Muse albums have impacted the top 10 on the Billboard 200, with 2015’s Drones going all the way to No. 1.
Stream Will of The People below.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
This week, DJ Khaled returns with help from some A-list rap peers (as well as from the Almighty), Britney Spears‘ comeback begins via a collab with fellow pop immortal Elton John, and Eiffel 65 are finally back in our lives thanks to David Guetta and Bebe Rexha.
DJ Khaled, God Did
The rest of Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist this week could scarcely boast a greater list of A-listers and rising talents as DJ Khaled’s typically star studded new affair, God Did, including Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend, Kanye West, Eminem, Future, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, 21 Savage and Roddy Ricch — and that’s just on the first five tracks. Rap fans will no doubt find plenty of potential personal favorites from the 18-track set to choose from; our early picks for highlights include the soulful 21 Savage showcase “Way Past Luck,” the Eddie Murphy-sampling Migos near-reunion “Party All the Time” and of course, the eight-minute title track, capped by an epic Jay-Z verse sure to dominate Twitter this weekend.
Elton John & Britney Spears, “Hold Me Closer”
After Elton John made pop magic alongside Dua Lipa repurposing songs from his past over a euphoric dance-pop beat on 2021’s “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix),” could he capture lightning in a bottle twice using the formula in 2022 with Britney Spears — in her first major appearance on record since the end of her conservatorship? The answer, surprisingly, seems to be yes. “Hold Me Closer” stitches verses from 1992’s “The One” with the eternal chorus to 1971’s “Tiny Dancer,” over a blissful beat helmed by pop powers Cirkuit and Andrew Watt — and once again, the whole somehow ends up more than the sum of its parts. Spears’ welcome presence is more supportive than leading, but this should certainly help tide her fans over until she’s ready for.her proper star return.
Lil Tjay, “Beat the Odds”
It’s of course totally impossible to listen to Lil Tjay‘s emotional new solo single “Beat the Odds” without hearing it in the shadow of the recent attempted robbery that nearly resulted in his murder — not the least of all because Tjay raps about it himself in the new single. “I took seven shots, no shame/ Back to wall, I’m still gon’ blow you down, I ain’t no stain,” he spits over a dolorous piano-led beat from KXVI, DesirezBeats and KBeaZy. The song is a triumph of survival — metaphorical and literal — but it’s also strikingly weary, as Tjay testifies, “They be like ‘Tjay, why do you move around with all them f–kin’ guns?’/ I just tell ’em that’s ’cause I don’t wanna die.”
Lolahol, “Lock&Key”
The first official song release by 25-year-old singer-songwriter Lolahol will understandably draw the most headlines for the fact that its creator — whose real name is Lourdes Leon — is of course the daughter of an all-time pop great. But in truth, “Lock and Key” would be a head-turning debut from any up-and-coming talent. It’s an alternately dreamy and frenetic alt-pop transmission whose glitchy, drum-and-bass-reminiscent beat provides the perfect sense of claustrophobia for the emotional clutter of the song’s lyrics — which only find respite on the immediately stunning chorus refrain of “I need a breeze/ Whisk me away.” It doesn’t require any Madonna comparisons — though that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t also have sounded great on Ray of Light.
Rema feat. Selena Gomez, “Calm Down”
Afrobeats singer-songwriter Rema has been enjoying one of the summer’s international breakout hits with the irresistible sway of his love song “Calm Down” — cracking the top 10 of Billboard‘s U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, and also climbing to a new high of No. 94 on this week’s Global 200 chart (dated Aug. 27). And as Wizkid’s “Essence” did around this time last year during its own ascent, the song’s success has triggered occasion for a high-profile remix featuring a North American pop star — in this case Selena Gomez, whose low-key pop vibes feel right in line with the song’s entrancing grooves. It doesn’t really need Gomez to be a hit, but hopefully her presence should accelerate the process just the same.
David Guetta & Bebe Rexha, “I’m Good (Blue)”
Are you ready for Eiffel 65 to be back in your life (and perhaps on your radio dial and/or streaming playlists)? Star producer David Guetta and pop fixture Bebe Rexha certainly hope so, as their new single “I’m Good (Blue)” leans heavily on the unshakeable turn-of-the-century smash referenced in its parenthetical. This “Blue” borrows both the original’s synth riff for its own cascading piano hook, and the infectious chorus melody for its EDM-era-reminiscent hook, sung in preparation for the imminent Best Night Ever. If TikTok is any indication, the timing is right on — when Rexha posted an early version of the collab (which a caption explaining it as something she and Guetta had worked on “years ago”) earlier this month, the clip got over 1 million likes.
A woman who attacked a pedestrian in the Roundtree Neighborhood last year is getting a trail date.
Jimicia Wells is accused of assaulting a woman she thought was leaving her ex-boyfriend’s house.
Wells found a woman’s purse at her ex-boyfriend’s house.
She saw the woman walking past his yard, thought she was the owner of the purse and attacked her.
Wells trial date is October 11 for a felony first degree assault charge.
DJ Khaled is on some kinda streak.
God Did dropped at midnight via We the Best/Epic Records, and is the hip-hop star’s 13th studio album. Like so much of his catalog, it’s filled with A-list collaborations, from Drake to Kanye West and Future, R&B artists SZA and John Legend, Jamaican dancehall stars Buju Banton, Bounty Killer and Sizzla, and there’s a contribution from the late Juice WRLD.
Spanning 18 tracks, the new project also contains “Staying Alive,” the Drake and Lil Baby-assisted update on the Bee Gees’ disco classic. The first single from God Did, “Staying Alive” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs and Streaming Songs charts, and peaked at No. 21 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, for his best performance there in two years.
The new set is the followup to 2021’s Khaled Khaled, the prolific music man’s third leader on the Billboard 200 chart, following Grateful (in 2017) and Major Key (2016). Khaled Khaled was his sixth No. 1 on the Rap Albums chart.
“To get to a 13th album is, like, beyond incredible for me,” he told Billboard‘s Carl Lamarre,. “The greats that I look up to, when I see how many albums they put out, I’m on the right track. And I know how hard it is to be in this game — some people can’t make it past their first single or their first album.”
Will God Did become DJ Khaled’s lucky 13th album?
Stream it below.
A Dallas County man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Pike County.
The Highway Patrol says a motorcycle, ridden by 64 year old Randy Wilson of Urbana, ran off U-S 54 and struck a sign before rolling down an embankment.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger, 61 year old Lisa Wilson, also of Urbana, was airlifted to a St. Louis hospital with serious injuries.
Fans can finally “calm down” — Rema and Selena Gomez’s new collaboration, a remix of Rema’s “Calm Down,” is finally available as of Friday (Aug. 26) for streaming.
The collaboration marks Gomez’s first collaboration of 2022, and follows her guest appearance on Coldplay’s 2021 single, “Let Somebody Go” hailing from the British rock band’s ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres. Meanwhile, Rema has been busy teaming up with several R&B and hip-hop artists, including Chris Brown, AJ Tracey, and 6LACK.
Gomez and Rema announced their collaborative effort a few after a video of Gomez meeting Rema backstage at his Rave & Roses World Tour started making the rounds on social media before quickly going viral. After the pair’s meeting, the Rare beauty founder posted a black and white photo of herself and Rema with a GIF caption that read “coming soon” to a Aug. 17 Instagram Story.
“Calm Down” is the second single from Rave & Roses, Rema’s debut studio album. 2022 has seen the Nigerian Afro-fusion artist both rising on the charts, and making moves on the road. “Soundgasm,” the lead single from his debut album, peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart. “Calm Down” has since reached No. 56 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, and peaked at No. 7 on Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs.
Coming up for Rema is more dated Rave & Roses World Tour — in the coming weeks, the star will be making stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto and Montreal.
Stream Rema and Selena Gomez’s remix of “Calm Down” below.
Are you ready, ONCE? TWICE‘s new album, Between 1&2, arrived on Friday (Aug. 26), and is now available for fans to stream.
The group — which consists of members Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu — released the seven track album early on Friday morning. The LP is led by single “Talk That Talk,” which received a corresponding music video that also arrived on the album’s release date.
On the album, Chaeyoung has a solo writing credit on “Basics,” and Jihyo is credited for writing “Trouble.” Dahyun also has solo writing credits on tracks “Gone” and “When We Were Kids.” Other tracks on the K-pop record include “Queen of Hearts,” “Brave,” and “Gone.”
The set arrives just two days after TWICE’s management group, JYP Entertainment, revealed that Jihyo tested positive for COVID-19. According to their official statement, the singer tested positive “[after using a] self-diagnosis kit at 10:30 a.m. and is currently quarantined, following the guidelines from health department after testing positive for COVID-19 [through] antigen testing.” JYP added they will “prioritize our artist’s health and put our best effort [into] her quick and healthy recovery.” (Jihyo’s COVID-19 case marked the fourth for the group in 2022 alone.)
Between 1&2 is the follow-up to TWICE’s Formula of Love: O+T=<3, released in November 2021. The set peaked at No. 3 on the all genre Billboard 200, and spent a total of eight weeks on the chart following its release.
Watch the brand new music video for “Talk That Talk” and stream Between 1&2 in its entirety below.
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