<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ronnie Winter, lead singer for the band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, warned followers that he doesn’t want any Trump supporters attending the band’s concerts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The alt-rock singer posted his views in an Instagram video, insisting that anyone who supports President Trump wouldn’t appreciate the “actual words of Jesus” and “acceptance” they’d experience at a show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just doing a quick little PSA. I thought I was pretty clear about all this stuff in 2020,” Winter says in the opening of the video. “As you notice on my Instagram, I did not remove any of that stuff from the Stay Woke campaign, I guess you guys are calling it, from 2020. Look, man, the thing about being woke is: you’re awake, and once you’re awake, you can never go to sleep. And not only has nothing changed but everything they said was going to happen, the woke people, has happened. You have done nothing but prove them right.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His rant continues with professions of faith and how he believes Christianity conflicts with following Trump.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So, here it is again, in case somehow you missed it: Hi, I’m Ronnie Winter. I sing for the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and I actually follow what Jesus says. If you’re a Christian and you’re watching this and you voted for Donald Trump, shame on you. You are not allowed to come to my shows. I don’t want you there. Don’t come to my shows. It’s awesome that you love ‘Face Down’; it’s not for you. It’s not your song, OK? It is not your song.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you voted for Donald Trump, do not come to my shows, ever, not just like these four years,” Winter declares. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He goes on, “Don’t come to my shows because you’re going to hear a lot of woke propaganda, and you’re going to hear the actual words of Jesus, and you’re going to see a lot of acceptance from all areas of life and races, and you’re just going to see a lot of, like, harmony. OK? That’s not what you’re about, OK? Don’t come. Refunds are available. Forever, don’t come. Goodbye.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clips of the video started circulating on social media, with many people questioning the relevance of the band, whose best known song “Face Down” debuted in 2006.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Who?” one commenter </span><a href="https://x.com/itsreallyleah/status/1935265726459482411"><span style="font-weight: 400;">asked</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Bold move from a band most people forgot existed,” another </span><a href="https://x.com/MrSutharr/status/1935217780250571008"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Forgot? I never heard of them, never,” a third commenter </span><a href="https://x.com/Axiosxhristos/status/1935292675336577490"><span style="font-weight: 400;">echoed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus formed in Middleburg, Florida, in 2003. Besides “Face Down,” they haven’t had any major mainstream hits. </span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyoncé rode a vintage car through the air &#8212; but does that hold a candle to getting busted by the cops while playing a Columbia, Missouri, house party?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an era where over-the-top concerts and sky-high ticket prices dominate headlines, The All-American Rejects are taking a different approach. The pop-punk band, which rose to fame in the early 2000s, is reconnecting with fans on their House Party Tour, which brings the band to intimate, fan-suggested venues. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frontman Tyson Ritter explained the motivation behind this unconventional approach.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I recently read something about people financing festival tickets, the complete inaccessibility of the concert experience in 2025, and how it&#8217;s juxtaposed against these wild and weird economic times,&#8221; he told </span><a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/all-american-rejects-interview-house-party-tour.html#:~:text=%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20says.-,%E2%80%9CI%20recently%20read%20something%20about%20people%20financing%20festival%20tickets%2C%20the,our%20shows%20can%20still%20work.%E2%80%9D"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vulture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a recent interview.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This realization led to the band investing their own money to bring live music directly to fans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We took $50,000 out of our own pockets, booked a bus,” Ritter explained. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For me, it was that we could find an opening and an opportunity as four guys from Oklahoma who didn’t come from much.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I was raised in a trailer house, my first concert was sitting on my porch listening to a band that was playing at an outdoor pavilion,” Ritter added, noting that the backyard tour is also a form of protest against the music industry status quo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was like, this is the reason people are showing up. It’s the have-nots and have-littles in the middle-of-nowhere America who keep the lights on for our country. They’re often drive-through states for many of these big tours. Who’s playing Ames, Iowa? Who’s playing Green Bay, Wisconsin? Unless it’s a big arena with the big old sponsor,” he told the outlet.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You’re seeing it now where these giant artists — I’m not going to say her name — aren’t really selling out their shows anymore, and they pay for these arenas to make it look like they did,” Ritter added. “The first 25% of the arena gets sold from people buying $300 tickets, and they don’t even know that the local promoter is getting hundreds of free tickets to fill the rest of the venue.”</span></p>
<p>The House Party Tour has taken off in a large part because younger concertgoers never got to experience intimate concerts. And since Gen Z <span style="font-weight: 400;">is all about nostalgia, they were eager to latch onto something they’d heard about, but had never got to try firsthand.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We did a show in LA that was the kind that you have to do when promoting new music. It left a sour taste in our mouths and in this giant gorilla of an industry we’re clawing our way back into, we decided to put on a show the next day,” Ritter told </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/05/21/all-american-rejects-singer-tyson-ritter-pop-up-shows-interview/83777418007/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, adding that the band first played at the home of a University of Southern California student with just five hours notice.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He added, “We start playing and there were [40 ounce bottles of beer] hoisted in the air and people crowd surfing. I looked into some of their eyes and I saw a rite of passage moment was happening. That they’re going, ‘I saw pictures of my parents doing this, but I never got to.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ritter said the band recaptured a feeling from long ago. “We felt cool,” he told Vulture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So after that night, we all put our heads together to see what would be possible. My wife’s getting ready to bring our second child into the world, and she’s due in a week and a half. I told my manager, ‘What if we do as many as we can in this week-and-a-half space? Let’s do it the same way we did when we started out. Let’s reach out to college radio stations and local businesses. Let’s ask for a $5 donation at the door.’ It was that simple.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since then, the Rejects have performed in a variety of unconventional venues, including a Minneapolis bowling alley and fans&#8217; backyards in “flyover states” like Iowa and Missouri. These pop-up shows emphasize spontaneity and a return to the communal spirit of live music.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite not making money hand over fist like other artists charging hundreds or even thousands of dollars per ticket, the band has been prioritizing connection with fans over profit. And they’re finding new fans in addition to the millennials who remember viral hits from the early aughts like “Swing Swing,” “Move Along,” and “Gives You Hell.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the case of getting </span><a href="https://people.com/all-american-rejects-backyard-gig-shut-down-by-cops-11741776"><span style="font-weight: 400;">busted by the police</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> while performing at the University of Missouri, the patrol sergeant admitted to listening to The All-American Rejects in college and allowed the band to play “one more song” before the party had to disperse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Their choice? The viral 2008 jam “Gives You Hell.&#8221; Obviously.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The House Party Tour coincides with the release of &#8220;Sandbox,&#8221; the band&#8217;s first new song in almost 14 years. They will be opening for the Jonas Brothers on an actual stage beginning on August 10, but for now, they’re gaining fans and publicity by proving they don’t think they’re too good for a classic middle America roller rink.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And instead of being embarrassed or feeling like it’s beneath them, the band is proud of the route they’ve chosen. “This is going to be a feather we fly in our cap, and we’re going to Yankee Doodle as far as we can go,” Ritter said. “I felt like I was watching an echo of a yesterday that got me into doing this.”</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lizzo announced she’s been picked to play rock-and-roll pioneer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sister Rosetta Tharpe when she makes her lead acting debut in a new biopic about the gospel singer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DHlw_1rP0-0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>, the 36-year-old singer/rapper &#8212; born </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Melissa Jefferson &#8212; said she was excited to finally be able to share the role she landed in </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amazon’s MGM Studios&#8217; film, titled “Rosetta.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Black people made rock n roll yeaaaah,” Lizzo wrote, adding on her </span><a href="https://people.com/lizzo-lands-first-lead-acting-role-as-rock-star-rosetta-tharpe-i-m-so-excited-and-honored-11702324?taid=67e1a8ea142e3e00010ce375&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram Story</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &#8220;It&#8217;s finally out ya&#8217;ll. I&#8217;m so excited and honored.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the part, the four-time Grammy award winner will take on the role of the gospel singer who is credited with being one of the first artists to appeal to both rock n’ roll and R&amp;B audiences, </span><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/lizzo-rosetta-amazon-mgm-studio-1236347889/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deadline</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gaining popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, Tharpe’s work with the electric guitar and spiritual lyrics got her the title of “Godmother of rock and roll,” the outlet noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Natalie Chaidez (&#8220;The Flight Attendant,&#8221; &#8220;Queen of the South&#8221;) and Kwynn Perry (&#8220;Tigerbelles,&#8221; &#8220;The Burned Photo&#8221;) are writing the screenplay. Producers on the project include Lizzo, Kevin Beisler, and Significant Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker, the outlet added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no word yet on a director, The </span><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lizzo-rosetta-tharpe-biopic-amazon-mgm-1236171384/?taid=67e197b32a0fbf0001c9f60c&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hollywood Reporter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer previously appeared on the big screen in Jennifer Lopez’ “Hustlers” in 2019 when she played the role of a stripper named Liz, </span><a href="https://people.com/lizzo-lands-first-lead-acting-role-as-rock-star-rosetta-tharpe-i-m-so-excited-and-honored-11702324?taid=67e1a8ea142e3e00010ce375&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People magazine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lizzo recently took to social media and wrote a series of </span><a href="https://x.com/lizzo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> claiming poor treatment of famous black rockstars, ahead of the news on Monday about her movie.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think seeing and hearing a black woman make real music with radical joy triggers miserable people… but I follow in the footsteps of Janet, of Funkadelic, of Earth Wind and Fire… nobody’s doing it like me for Us,” the rapper </span><a href="https://x.com/lizzo/status/1901752174323155058"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &#8220;And I stand on that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Aretha [Franklin] &amp; Whitney [Houston] got backlash for being ‘too pop’ and they kept going… and so will I,” she added. “I’m out here reclaiming rock n roll for US…”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The way this world treats black women is sickening… blacklisted Janet and now 20yrs later y&#8217;all calling her music ‘cute black girl bops’ &amp; giving her flowers… Dogged Whitney for her love life &amp; called her a drug addict for laughs but now y’all wanna honor her,” Lizzo continued. “Y’all laughed at Tina’s abuse and never let her forget… The least protected person in America</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">…”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In August 2024, Lizzo said she was that taking a hiatus from the limelight after multiple </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lawsuit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lawsuits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> were filed against her starting in 2023 by former employees, as previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-said-shes-taking-a-gap-year-following-harassment-lawsuit-drama"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-walks-back-rage-quit-in-new-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lizzo Walks Back Rage Quit In New Post</a></strong></p>


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