Both members of a United Kingdom-based indie band, along with their tour manager, were killed in a car crash in Arizona, PEOPLE can confirm. The Liverpool duo Her’s, made up of Stephen Fitzpatrick, 24, and Audun Laading, 25, died along with tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson, 37, on Wednesday, the band’s record label said on Facebook. According to the band’s Facebook page, they had played a show in Phoenix on Tuesday, and were driving to Santa Ana, California, for a Wednesday show. The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed that a car crash took place on Interstate 10 around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, when a pickup truck collided with a van, killing four people — the three people in the van, and the driver of the pickup truck, a 63-year-old male from Murrieta, California. “On March 27, 2019, just after 1 a.m., a wrong-way driver was reported eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-10 from milepost 64,” the Arizona Department of Public Safety told PEOPLE. “DPS and La Paz County Sher...
Lil Uzi Vert’s relationship with his record label has seen better times. At the beginning of 2019, Lil Uzi Vert announced that he was retiring. He was frustrated with his label situation and with the hoops he needed to go through to drop new music. In an Instagram post he said, “I deleted everything I wanna be normal. I wanna wake up in 2013.” This frustration was not exactly new to Uzi, who preferred to release music when he felt like it, instead of adhering to the outdated and often slow release schedule the music industry typically adheres to. After losing his phone while crowd surfing at his own show a couple years ago, he more or less lost the files to an entire album, and decided to just drop some of the songs on SoundCloud instead. The appeal of the instant connection of this method is obvious, and Uzi knows how to write a hit without label interference. In a just world, we’d have some version of Uzi’s sophomore album, Eternal Atake, by now. It is still extremely odd that on...