The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
ste said the tour will mark the beginning of his “next era” of music. He views the live performances as an opportunity to introduce new material to audiences, allowing the songs to evolve through connection before ultimately recording them for his forthcoming album.Tickets will be available through artist presales beginning Friday.
“It’s about getting the music to a point where you and your community and everybody is acquainted with the sound and feeling of it,” he said. “You’ve explored every aspect of it. You’ve arranged and rearranged, then go record and share it, versus the opposite, which is most often the case. It’s fresh and brand new. Then you go on tour, and you start discovering things in the music on stage you didn’t even know were there in the studio.”Along with introducing fresh sounds, Batiste said he’ll incorporate some improvisation.“I’m always going to find a space in the show where there’s improv,” he said. “That’s at the heart of what I’m all about in trying to represent the cultural music that I come from. I really take a responsibility to push forward. This is about bringing people together, channeling the moment and communal expression.”
NEW YORK (AP) — A newly discoveredtracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a
Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud
, has been visible through telescopes and binoculars over the past few weeks with its streaming tail, but experts said it may not have survived its recent“We’ll soon be left with just a dusty rubble pile,” astrophysicist Karl Battams with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory said in an email.
Comets are balls of frozen gas and dust from billions of years ago. Every so often, a comet passes through the inner solar system.“These are relics from when the solar system first formed,” said Jason Ybarra, director of the West Virginia University Planetarium and Observatory.
The newest comet was discovered by amateur astronomers, who spied it in photos taken by a camera on a spacecraft operated by NASA and the European Space Agency to study the sun.The comet won’t swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flybys included