This week is a light week in the sneaker and apparel world, with just a few notable drops that caught our eye. Various brands are still shaking through their winter supplies, giving us an uneven selection of bright spring colorways and dreary and drab winter fits, but as the weather continues to warm up we can be sure to see larger selections of t-shirts, shorts, light layers, and bright seasonal hues.

Considering we’re living in a bit of a lost season, color is no matter. Go with what you’ll want to be wearing when people can actually see you again. Before we know it we’ll hit summer and all step out to rock our massively expanded quarantine wardrobes. Or just all embrace nudism or drab Yeezy earth tones. The future is murky. For now, keeping rocking that sweatshirt for three days straight — no one is watching.

Let’s dive into the best sneaker and apparel drops of the week.

Adidas YEEZY 700 V3 Alvah

Ye’s latest iteration of the YEEZY 700 sees the sneaker’s black and grey mesh upper overlayed with a TPU cage accent for a look that is both subdued and futuristic. The 700 seems to be Kanye’s sneaker of choice lately, as we’ve seen the silhouette consistently experimented with this year while the popular 350 seems to remains visually consistent. We’ll take experimentation over cookie-cutter consistency but what can we say? We miss the old Kanye.

The Adidas YEEZY 700 V3 Alvah is set to drop on April 11th for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair through YEEZY Supply.

Air Jordan 7 Hare 2.0

No sneaker has ever said “EASTER!” as hard as the Air Jordan 7 Hare 2.0. Granted, no other sneaker has tried, but regardless, the Air Jordan 7 Hare will have you stepping out (figuratively speaking) in fly pastel style with it’s soft-toned grey-green faux-fur upper and bubblegum pink collar accents. The sneaker sits atop an iced rubber outsole, has white on pink Jump Man branding, with an angular “23” heel stamp.

The Air Jordan 7 Hare 2.0 gives off mad Bugs Bunny on Easter vibes… in a good way.

The Air Jordan 7 Hare 2.0 is set to drop on April 8th for a retail price of $250. Pick up a pair through Nike SNKRS or at Foot Locker.

K-Swiss x Commonwealth Classic 66

At first glance Commonwealth’s take on K-Swiss’ Classic 66 looks like an ordinary all-white sneaker, but the details are everything with this sneaker. There is nothing “ordinary” about this iteration of the Classic 66, its upper is composed of suede, leather, synthetic materials, and textile, each panel utilizing a different material, and assembled in a unique pattern that gives the sneaker’s an asymmetric look side by side. Additionally, the Classic 66 features a padded tongue and leather lining for added comfort, Commonwealth tag branding, and sits atop a creped rubber outsole.

In short: It’s only an ordinary white sneaker to people not paying attention.

The collaborative K-Swiss and Commonwealth Classic 66 is set to drop on April 9th for a retail price of $90. Pick up a pair exclusively through Commonwealth.

Nike KD 13 Hype

If Baz Luhrmann designed a sneaker, it would look something like the new Nike KD 13 Hypes. This sneaker is as gaudy and over-the-top as it gets thanks to the graphic gold-chain and flowers upper. The sneaker is apparently inspired by Kevin Durant’s pump-up playlist of southern trap bangers and soul classics that get him in the mind-set to dominate on the court — no word on how exactly gold chains and flowers play into the design though. Are the gold chains representing trap? Why are flowers representing soul music? Is it just supposed to inspire the spirit of the genres? That maybe works.

Regardless, rhey look fresh.

The Nike KD 13 Hype are set to drop on April 10th for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair through the Nike SNKRS App.

Teddy Fresh Spring Shirt Collection

Teddy Fresh is still up and running amid the COVID-19 crisis and the label’s latest simple spring t-shirt collection is bright enough to bring the sunny outdoors of Spring right into your home. Who needs to be outside for Spring? Just slip on a Teddy Fresh fat striped t-shirt and you’ll emit enough good vibes to uplift your whole household. The latest collection is available in a variety of sizes from x-small to 3XL and the Teddy Fresh website is full of fit details to help ensure everyone can find the size that works best for them.

The Teddy Fresh Spring Shirt collection is out now. Shop the looks at the official Teddy Fresh webstore.

Awake NY Archive Sale

Awake NY is holding a special archive sale to aid coronavirus efforts in New York City, donating a portion of their proceeds to the New York Immigration Coalition and Make The Roady NY, two organizations that are providing aid and support to immigrant and working-class communities laid-off due to the coronavirus outbreak and social distancing measures in New York City. Awake NY will be marking down their fits by a huge 50-70 percent, so you’re likely to grab some really great outfits for super cheap.

The sale will be held entirely online and begins at 10 am EST on April 8th. Shop the looks at the Awake NY online store.

Palace Spring Drop 9

Palace keeps delivering the goods with its week nine drop of the now-massive Spring 2020 collection. The London label is keeping things winter-ready with a collection of branded split-tone hoodies, sweatshirts, and crewnecks, rounding out the collection with some graphic t-shirts and a snakeskin bucket hat. Most pieces in the collection drop in a variety of bright spring-ready colorways.

So hit the collection early or you’ll be left with nothing but the rejected colors.

The ninth Palace Spring 2020 drop is set for April 10th at 8 am PDT. Shop the looks at the Palace webstore.

Tiger King may have wrapped up its seven episode run (minus an alleged special on the horizon), but the saga shows no signs of slowing down as the Netflix docuseries continues to dominate headlines and social media. In a new interview with People, friends and colleagues of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, talk about what it was like to watch his obsession with Carole Baskin spiral out of control and eventually land him in prison on a murder-for-hire charge.

“Carole was the first thing on his mind every morning and the last thing on his mind every night,” said Kelci “Saff” Saffery, a former staffer at Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park. Others echoed the same concern as they watched Exotic launch an all-consuming war against Baskin in which he suffered a crippling financial loss after she successfully sued him for copyright infringement.

“When I first met Joe, he was all about the animals, and he was one of the most kindhearted, lovable, smartest guys in the industry,” says Maldonado-Passage’s friend Tim Stark, a former zoo owner. “When he started doing battle with Carole, I told him he was going to get his ass kicked. He just kept going on. He didn’t listen.”

“Joe wanted to be the big cat and he wanted to show Carole Baskin,” Stark adds.

While those close to Exotic have blunt words for People about watching the Tiger King star take a dark turn that ultimately landed him behind bars, Baskin doesn’t exactly come off smelling like roses either. Both she and Exotic are accused of losing sight of the animals while focusing on their feud.

Saffery mirrors that sentiment, saying both Maldonado-Passage and Baskin began their feud as animal lovers “standing up for what they believed was right. “But it started to not be about the animals. I don’t think that it was only about egos, but I do think they started to focus more on Carole and Joe and less on the bigger picture. And nothing came out of it. It’s the worst kind of love story.”

If all of this sounds like the backdrop for an insane drama filled with ego clashes and murder, well, there’s a reason why Tiger King is now one of Netflix’s biggest hit. In just its first 10 days, the docuseries already came within striking distance of Stranger Things 3, the streaming service’s current reigning champ. Of course, that’s based on Netflix’s unofficial numbers, but based on Tiger King‘s viral success, we wouldn’t be surprised if it’s drawing viewers in by the droves.

(Via People)

Performing livestream concerts from home has become the new normal these days. Aside from artists going at it on their own, organizations and other entities have been hosting multi-artists performance series (like Indie Mixtape, for example). One of the latest, Isol-Aid’s Lunch Without Borders, went down yesterday, and one of the artists performing was Julien Baker. She made the most of her 17-minute set (which somebody graciously uploaded in full on YouTube) by debuting a new song called “Mercy.”

Her rendition of the track, featuring just acoustic guitar and vocals, was minimal and absolutely lovely. Before playing the song, she said of it, “It’s a new one. It’s not newly written, but it’s not on a record or anywhere. And it’s a song about other people showing you how to be a better person by being better people than you, at you, which requires a lot of humility, which is an important and necessary lesson, and probably one of many that we’re all learning.”

Baker wrapped up her 2019 by dropping a pair of new singles, “Tokyo” and “Sucker Punch.” She also has some new material this year, thanks to her inclusion on Hayley Williams’ upcoming album Petals For Armor (alongside fellow Boygenius members Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus).

Watch Baker’s full set above, with “Mercy” beginning at 14:07 into the video.

Of the many TV shows based on podcasts (seriously, there’s a lot!), Homecoming might be the best. True, there’s only been one season, but it was a really good season, and it’s coming back later this year with a new lead actress: Janelle Monáe. “There’s no replacing Queen Julia,” the actress-musician told Entertainment Weekly, referring to season one star Julia Roberts, but Monáe has an electric presence herself. And she’ll be joined by familiar faces from last season, including Hong Chau (excellent in Watchmen) and Stephan James, as well as fellow newcomers Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack

As for what season two is about: Jackie (Monáe) “wakes in a rowboat adrift a lake, with no memory of how she got there — or even who she is. Her ensuing search for identity will lead her into the heart of the Geist Group, the unconventional wellness company behind the Homecoming Initiative,” according to the official plot synopsis.

“It’s doing something that is unique in the television space,” Monáe said about Homecoming. “When I read these episodes, I was like, ‘Oh wow, this is still going to have a very special quality and take everyone in an unexpected place.’ It’s even more elevated this season — and even more suspenseful.” Homecoming season one was already super suspenseful, so I’m both excited for new episodes, and dreading them.

Homecoming returns to Amazon later this year.

Burgeoning Indiana songwriter Omar Apollo returns after a prolific 2019 with his first song of the new year. Apollo’s “Imagine U” arrives as an alluring, melodic anthem about modern heartbreak.

Produced by frequent collaborator Kenny Beats, Apollo’s “Imagine U” is a slow-burning effort. Wonky synths and a grumbling guitars provide an ardent backdrop for Apollo’s lovelorn vocals. “I miss you feelin’ on my waist, you never told me I was rushin’ / But my mind’s changin’ every day, I’m glad that you could even trust me,” Apollo sings.

In a statement, Apollo described his songwriting process for the track:

“I’m all about the feeling when it comes to music. The lyrics and melody came to me so naturally and I feel like free thinking is what’s missing in a lot of music nowadays. There’s a guitar part I played that’s pitched up as soon as the song starts that I love and when I first made the song that part was all I had. I was obsessed with it — I kept playing it on loop cause it felt so good to me. I was listening to a lot of daft punk at the time so I was really inspired by those themes.”

Listen to “Imagine U” above.

Omar Apollo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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The NFL Draft is just over two weeks away, and with live sports elsewhere on hiatus, there is an even greater spotlight on this year’s crop of prospects. The 2020 Draft will look very different, as it will happen virtually, with teams drafting from home and there being few pro days and individual workouts so teams are reliant more on game film and what information they got on players from the Combine than ever before.

As always, the quarterback class garners the biggest headlines, as it includes the presumptive top overall pick as well as a few other potential top 10 picks in the mix. In this space we will begin our positional big board series with the signal callers, looking at various tiers of quarterbacks, from those that may start immediately to mid-to-late round picks to wild cards that have the highest potential variance.

We start with the top tier, that we believe features two former SEC quarterbacks that have separated themselves from the pack.

Tier 1

Joe Burrow: Burrow has the full toolkit, as draft folks like to say. He’s hyper accurate, smart with the football, and has the arm strength to push the ball downfield when the time calls for it. He has ample mobility and simply doesn’t make backbreaking mistakes. Even in his first season at LSU in 2018, he was fairly efficient and didn’t turn the ball over. Then he got in an offense tailored for him by Joe Brady and company and took off to a new level. The lesson there is, he’s got all the tools and you need to mold what you do to amplify those things rather than try to force him to do whatever you prefer as a coaching staff.

Tua Tagovailoa: The areas of concern with Tua Tagovailoa are: 1. He’s had a handful of injuries, with the most recent one being a dislocated hip, 2. He was surrounded by blue-chip athletes at the other 10 offensive positions at Alabama, which will not be the case relative to the competition in the NFL. I would, however, implore folks to ignore both of those, because Tagovailoa is a marvel. While undersized, he boasts a strong arm with elite accuracy, processes the game remarkably well, makes good decisions, has the mobility to extend plays if need be, and is an all-time gamer. He very well might have been our QB1 if he stayed healthy, regardless of Burrow’s Heisman-winning campaign. A stat: Burrow set the NCAA record for passer efficiency (202) last season. He topped a record set by Tagovailoa (199.4). However, before he got hurt, Tagovailoa was on pace to obliterate his own record with a passer rating of 206.9. Don’t overthink this, teams that need a signal caller. Just take him.

Tier 2

Jordan Love: It is easy to see Love and compare him to Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen. Both are Mountain West products with strong arms, all the natural talent in the world, and the ability to improvise. The difference: Unlike Allen, who never really put it all together in college, Love was outstanding as a redshirt sophomore, completing 64 percent of his passes for 3,567 yards, 32 touchdowns, and six picks. He took a step back in his redshirt junior campaign — his head coach left, while the offense returned one other starter — but still completed a hair under 62 percent of his passes for 3,402 yards with 20 scores and 17 interceptions. He could use a year of being coached up, and a situation like the Chargers, who have Tyrod Taylor and can be patient with him, might be perfect. There’s no guarantee Love pans out — he could go in the first 10 picks, he could be in for a tumble towards the end of round one — but if he does, he has the potential to be special.

Justin Herbert: The Oregon signal-caller has always looked the part, but his production is maddeningly inconsistent, particularly against top competition. He has games where he looks like a guy worthy of top-pick hype (see his back-to-back last season against USC and Arizona), but then follows that with a performance like he had against Arizona State. His footwork can get lazy and he oscillates between being terrified of taking risks and then overcompensating with overconfidence in his arm strength that will get him in trouble. He has the tools to be a starter in the NFL (including running ability that he showed off during the Rose Bowl) and he wowed folks during the Senior Bowl, but color me skeptical that he’ll ever shake free of some of his bad habits. That’s not to say he’s not worth a first round pick, but I’d feel much better about him going in the 20s (to Jacksonville or New England) than in the top 10.

Tier 3

Jalen Hurts: Will he be an All-Pro signal caller? Probably not, but we would not bet against this dude being something in the league. Hurts has the toughness, poise, and competitive spirit that front offices love, and while he is not a finished product, he’s shown the signs of being a really good modern quarterback. He’s safe with the football (sometimes to a fault), more than comfortable with his legs, and showed that he can impact games with his arm while at Oklahoma, completing a tick under 70 percent of his throws for 3,851 yards, 32 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. A patient team will help him continue to grow as a passer, but even if that does not happen, he’ll raise the level of any QB room he’s in. For a team with a quarterback need at the end of round one or the top of round two, Hurts is the guy.

Jake Fromm: What an interesting evaluation Fromm is. He can’t run, isn’t a particularly great athlete, and doesn’t have a strong arm at all. He will also rarely make the wrong decision before or during plays, will memorize the team’s entire playbook within 10 minutes of getting it, played in a very conservative, run-heavy offense in college (thereby limiting what we know about him as a player), and approaches quarterbacking like an ultra-savvy point guard who just knows how and where to put the ball for his guys. Going sometime on Day 2 sounds about right, and at the bare minimum, he has a long career ahead of him as a backup/perfectly respectable spot starter.

Jacob Eason: The lack of in-person workouts might hurt Eason more than any other QB. He has some absolute horror shows on tape (Stanford, Cal, Colorado, and Utah were all disasters), and he needed to get some team to fall in love with his size and arm talent in an in-person workout to vault up draft boards. As is, I’d be surprised if Eason goes higher than the third round and could slip to Day 3 if folks have too many questions from his tape that he can’t answer in a workout.

Tier 4

Anthony Gordon: Like every Washington State quarterback, teams will need to coach the air raid out of him. In one year as the starter in Pullman, Gordon put up admirable numbers — 71.6 percent completions, 5,579 yards, 48 touchdowns, 16 picks — thanks to his quick release, solid arm, and ability to see the entire field. He has to learn how to play quarterback instead of playing quarterback for Mike Leach, but we like him as a solid Day 3 project.

Tyler Huntley: A theme you’ll see is a fondness for Utah guys on our various positional big boards, and Huntley is no exception. He was ubltra-efficient (73.1 completion percentage on 10.3 yard per attempt), had a strong 19-4 TD to INT ratio, and while he doesn’t do a lot that jumps off the screen, he’s just a very solid quarterback and decision-maker. I can see him having a lengthy career as a backup who has success in spot starts if he’s got a quality team around him.

James Morgan: Much like the FIU team as a whole, James Morgan took a step back in 2019. He came into the season as someone worth keeping an eye on, but stumbled both in raw production and efficiency as the Panthers never were able to get off the ground. A look at his 2018 season shows the potential that might get him selected on Day 3, as he’s got prototypical size, quality arm strength, and takes care of the football.

Jake Luton: He’s 6’7, so expect to hear about how tall he is any time he is mentioned on a football broadcast for however long his career lasts, but I’m intrigued by Luton mostly due to his success last year in lifting Oregon State out of the basement of the Pac-12. He was efficient, didn’t turn the ball over, and when he was on, he made some throws that popped off the screen. There’s a lot of the same questions that come with any quarterback of his size (mobility, efficiency in the throwing motion, etc.) but his 2019 campaign was impressive for a program where it’s tough to be impressive, and he’s worth a Day 3 flier from someone.

Wild Cards

Khalil Tate: Do you remember when Tate was your favorite college football player? We are, admittedly, suckers for good college players, something that will stick out in our draft boards. Does Tate stick at QB? Does he get moved to running back or wide receiver as a way to show off his dynamic athleticism, showing off his arm on gadget plays for a creative coach? Who knows! Who cares! We just wanna see Tate play football somewhere.

Cole McDonald: Let’s talk about the premiere chaos quarterback of the 2020 NFL Draft. McDonald burst onto the scene in 2018 as he led Hawai’i to wins over Colorado State and Navy to open the season, but the wheels came off late in the campaign. In 2019, it was more of the same as he Jekyll & Hyde’d his way through the season (often varying wildly in success from drive to drive of the same game). He thrived at times in the Run N’ Shoot, putting up video game numbers, but his confidence in his arm pushing the ball down the field led to some of the worst interceptions you’ll ever see. I have no idea what McDonald is at the next level or if he can help a team, but I do know I want to watch any time he’s on the football field, for better or worse.

Shea Patterson: Here is the guy who interests us the most among late-round fliers or UDFAs. Patterson is short, has small hands, and doesn’t have an arm that will knock your socks off. His accuracy fell off between his junior (64.6 percent) and senior (56.2 percent) campaigns, but in terms of yards per attempt (8 both years), touchdowns (22 and 23, respectively), and interceptions (7, 8), he was the same QB. What has been a constant for Patterson: new offensive coordinators. In four college campaigns, he had four separate OCs, five if you count the co-offensive coordinators Ole Miss had during his true freshman year. Maybe he doesn’t pan out, but he can anticipate throws well and move a bit. Get him in a system and let him learn and he may be worth a gamble.

Bryce Perkins: Sadly, I doubt Perkins stays at quarterback, but he was an awful lot of fun at Virginia. He is a bulldozer when he takes off and runs, which is likely why he’ll end up at some H-back/receiver/tight end spot in the NFL, but he was a more than solid quarterback in his senior season. Perkins showed some real progression as a passer, as he threw the ball a lot more and maintained pretty strong efficiency. He has the ability to extend plays and breakdown a defense, and is a comfortable and solid passer in the short game. The mechanics aren’t the best in the world, but given the strides he took last year I would like to see him get some more development time at the QB spot, despite knowing that likely won’t be afforded to him.