Boygenius — the supergroup of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker — are getting ready to release their highly anticipated debut full-length The Record later this month. So far, singles “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry,” “True Blue,” and “Not Strong Enough” are making the wait even harder, but luckily they’ve given fans another preview.
They debuted an unreleased track, “Cool About It,” last night (March 1) at the annual Tibet House US benefit show in New York City after being added last-minute. The performance is haunting and beautiful. Watch a clip below. They also played “Not Strong Enough.”
The Record is sure to be an emotional experience, especially considering the chaotic writing of the LP. “Lucy first sang ‘We’re In Love’ a cappella to Phoebe, in Phoebe’s bed, on New Years Day in 2022,” the press release explained. “They were holding each other’s faces: a function of totally legal drugs. Lucy was weeping and did not blink. Later, in the studio, Julien thought the song was too… long. In retrospect, Julien hadn’t been ready to engage. When the truth sank in, the truth of a love song, she went away for six hours. (Julien: ‘It’s still a learning process to know the difference between being scrutinized and being seen.’) Then she came back. She was ready.”
Watch their performance of “Not Strong Enough” above.
The Record is out 3/31 via Interscope Records. Find more information here.
The Los Angeles Lakers won’t have the services of LeBron James for an indefinite period of time. James went down with a foot injury during the third quarter of L.A.’s comeback win over the Dallas Mavericks earlier this week, saying that he heard something pop. While he finished out the game, the expectation is now that James will miss multiple weeks with the injury.
It’s the worst possible thing that could happen to a Lakers team with aspirations of making a push during the stretch run of the regular season. But if there is a silver lining, it’s that James won’t need to go under the knife to remedy the situation. According to Chris Haynes on the #thisleague UNCUT podcast, James’ injury won’t require surgery, and if need be, he could “probably” play right now, even if he would be in considerable pain.
“So what I can say on LeBron is that sources did inform me that he will not require surgery, that’s good news,” Haynes said at the 32:02 mark of the pod. “And so, that’s good news for the Lakers. Right now, it’s all about time and the rehabbing process. This is why it’s a crucial period: The Lakers have to really do what they can to buy him some time. What I mean by that is they gotta win, they gotta win a chunk of games, move up these standings to keep buying LeBron some time. That’s what it’s gonna take during this process.
“Could LeBron get out there and play right now? It’d be a risk, but I think he probably could, if he necessarily had to,” he continued. “But it’s too much of a risk, it’s too much pain right now. The plan right now is to give him as much time as heal for this rehab process, but the Lakers gotta win.”
Los Angeles is 30-33 and sit in 13th place in the Western Conference, a full game back of the New Orleans Pelicans for the 12-seed and the final play-in spot.
LANNDS are soaring to new heights. The psych pop duo, composed of LA-based vocalist-guitarist Rania Woodard and multi-instrumentalist Brian Squillace, are gearing up for the release of their debut LP after years of dropping one off projects and singles. Music For The Future, out Friday on Run For Cover, combines Woodward’s angelic vocals with bright percussive elements harkening back to the likes of aughts indie pop mainstays like Neon Indian and Cut Copy.
On Music For The Future, sparkling chords, airy melodies, and gritty beats are juxtaposed to create irresistible, dance-ready anthems. With tracks like “K Town” and “Vega,” LANNDS manage to make blown out earworms — all while taking a DIY approach. Each song on Music For The Future was entirely produced and engineered by the duo themselves. “When we do it ourselves, even if it’s a little more ‘home done’ sounding, it’s just more us,” Squillace says.
Ahead of the release of Music For The Future, LANNDS sat down with Uproxx to talk Green Day, mac and cheese, and Connect Four in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Drippy plant psych pop
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Squillace: Sh*t that old people f*ck with.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Woodard: Brooklyn. We had a great show at Rough Trade. RIP.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Woodard: My family in the sense that it allows me to be more vulnerable and talk about my real problems and traumas, and as an artist I feel like that’s important.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Woodard: My mom’s mac and cheese.
What album do you know every word to?
Squillace: Green Day’s Dookie.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Woodard: Bon Iver in Charleston, SC. He was touring on 22 A Million, and you could hear a pin drop.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
Squillace: Shorts and flip flops. Whatever is the most chill and lets the audience know that we are definitely not cops.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?
“Linger” by the Cranberries.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
Woodard: “Beyonce tour manager”
What album makes for the perfect gift?
Squillace: There is a legend that if you give someone Shania Twain’s Up they will have good luck for 20 years.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
Squillace: We stayed at a motel in Detroit that was under construction and full of drug dealers. Not the cool kind. And we kept hearing strange noises from the room beside us, overall terrifying.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
Woodard: In 2017 I got drunk at John Shannon’s house, and Jesse Brantman gave me my first stick and poke tattoo. It’s a pizza triangle.
What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?
Squillace: If you mean hitting the skip button on Spotify That artist would be Fred Again..
What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Woodard: I had friends come together and help me furnish my first LA apartment. They all pitched in money so I could by furniture.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Woodard: Don’t overthink everything, trust your gut. Everyone is so wrapped up in their own problems that they don’t care what you’re doing, so do whatever you want.
What’s the last show you went to?
Woodard: Porches solo show at the Echo.
What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?
Woodard:Independence Day starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
Squillace: I’m absolutely 100 percent undefeated at connect four.
Music For The Future is out 3/3 via Run For Cover. Pre-order it here.
You have to be really smart to get on Jeopardy, obviously, because they don’t just let anyone walk on set and make educated guesses (though they do allow that sometimes). The latest crop of contestants is actually former high school champions who are returning in their old age to battle it out as college contestants.
Audrey Satchivi, a senior at Indiana University, decided to share her interesting hobby when prompted by host Mayim Bialik. “Yeah, so I’m kind of an old soul,” the contestant explained. “I’ve been collecting some things that are kind of obsolete now.” You’ll never guess what she said next!
Satchivi continued, “I’ve been collecting records, CDs, and DVDs. I just got a new DVD, and I’m really excited about it, but I miss my childhood a little bit I guess,” she said. Satchivi might not realize these items are less obsolete than expected, as vinyl sales have increased significantly over the last two decades. Considering the fact that Satchivi was not even alive back then, it makes sense that it seems like a foreign concept.
Of course, Bialik didn’t really know how to react to that, adding an “alright” before moving on. Sometimes, that’s all you can do.
I just shriveled up into dust when Audrey said her collection of “obsolete things” included “records, CDs, and DVDs” #Jeopardy
Still, Satchivi ended up taking home $5,000 after Tuesday’s episode, which is equal to about 250 or so CDs, which will be a nice addition to her growing collection of obsolete items. Maybe she could consider adding Blu-Ray into the mix! Those might actually be retro in the coming years.
It’s normal to get excited when there are quite literally a million dollars on the line, but it seems like Pat Sajak has become a little too accustomed to being around giant sums of money.
After a contestant on Wheel of Fortune almost yanked that coveted million-dollar tile before making her guess, Sajak had to take a minute to remind her of the rules, as he has to do occasionally. “No, no, no, ba-ba-bo-bop,” Sajak blurted out, before providing the very important rules for the game that has been on for nearly 50 years. “Now, here’s what you do. You see, you call a letter,” this might seem obvious, but when there is a sparking green dollar sign in front of you, something you cannot control yourself.
Luckily, the contestant guessed a letter that happened to be in the puzzle, so she was able to grab the tile, but not before Sajak exclaimed, “You put a million dollars in front of someone they just get goofy.” This would make sense since Pat is just a goofy guy all around, and he’s surrounded by millions every night!
It’s Pat’s world, we’re all just living in it. But we might not be living in it long, as Sajak has expressed interest in ending the landmark show soon. Last fall, he told Entertainment Tonight that he might be throwing in the vowel towel soon. “We’re getting near the end. It’s been a long [time]. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near.” Perhaps he should really take this time to embrace all of the quirky contestants before it’s too late.
“I’m really so excited for where music is at,” she told Billboard reporters Lyndsey Havens and Rania Aniftos. “Madison Beer, Olivia Rodrigo, I mean, Billie Eilish is my love. I just feel such a lovely — I don’t know. Like, these are my people. It’s so interesting to be in a room of people where you can actually — for the first time, for me — wave to everybody. I feel like, in a way, all the little sounds I wanted to hear on the radio, they’ve caught up to this moment.”
Billboard posted an endearing clip of Petras and Del Rey backstage.
“Like, literally, all the cool people anywhere only listen to you,” an animated Petras told Del Rey, as Del Rey humbly laughed off the compliment before giving her a hug. “Literally, anyone you want to hang out with, you’re their queen. That’s what you want in life! Any cool artist, too. You’re their f*cking queen, and you should know.”
All of those cool people will soon be able to exclusively listen to Del Rey’s ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Ocean Blvd. In the meantime, they could settle for “Setting Sail On A Distant Horizon” by her dad, Rob Grant, ahead of his newly announced forthcoming album, Lost At Sea.
Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Ocean Blvd is out 3/24 via Interscope/Polydor. Pre-save it here.
Some movies based on Disneyland / Disney World attractions are better (the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie) than others (the rest of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies). 2003’s Eddie Murphy-starring The Haunted Mansion, based on the top-five Disney ride, falls somewhere in the middle. It’s… fine? Hopefully the next Haunted Mansion movie is better, however.
The “next” Haunted Mansion movie, you say? I do say. It stars Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Winona Ryder, Dan Levy, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis (as Madame Leota), Chase Dillon, Jared Leto (as the Hatbox Ghost), and hopefully the voice of Paul Frees. It wouldn’t be the Haunted Mansion without an introduction from the Ghost Host.
You can watch the teaser trailer above.
“As a lifelong fan of the Haunted Mansion attraction, I’m beyond excited to share the teaser trailer for our new film adaptation featuring an incredible cast,” director Justin Simien said. “Our team has worked tirelessly to create a scary, funny and cinematic otherworldly adventure for both new and die-hard fans to enjoy! I can’t wait for audiences to experience this big screen version of the iconic Disney attraction.” Here’s more:
Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion” is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Haunted Mansion comes out during the spookiest time of the year: LATE JULY.
Vladimir Putin crossed the one-year point in his disastrous Ukraine war by pulling out of a nuclear pact and sending his talking heads onto Russian State TV to suggest going Lex Luthor on the U.S. He’s angry about the U.S. not worshipping him, and worried about assassination, but reportedly, Putin’s biggest cause for stressing over losing power isn’t military conflict but… the possibility of Russia running out of cabbages?
Apparently so. First the Botox (his fave) began to disappear, and the Viagra supply diminished. Also, Russia lost McDonald’s and put up a very sorry imitation, but Putin reportedly (according to digging from The Daily Beast) fears losing cabbage most. That’s because the cardboard-like-but-resilient veggie has always been there for the Russian people through the worst circumstances. So if cabbage supplies run dry, then you know the Russian sh*t has really hit the fan. Rock bottom, in other words, for the Putin presidency.
The Daily Beast has spoken to sources who claim that there is “videotape” and “lots of it” that shows Putin freaking out over cabbage rations:
Putin’s greatest fear is food; specifically, not enough of it to feed Russia’s 143 million people. Despite bumper harvests, the hair-trigger on Putin’s nightmare is abundantly clear in the black-and-white newsreels of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when another Russian imperium was in large part toppled for its failure to put food on the table.
The Daily Beast has written extensively on this subject, and it’s a report worth reading because, hopefully, this alleged footage shall surface. It could do even more damage than Russian soldiers being told to bring tampons from home because there will be no other way to treat their own bullet wounds on the battle field. Meanwhile, CNN has published video of Russian soldiers begging Putin to help them while they watch their comrades die in droves. It’s grim stuff, and he’s worried about cabbage.
Chris Rock has a new Netflix special dropping this weekend, and the Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the comedian will finally unload on the infamous Oscars slap. In the first live comedy special for the streaming platform, Rock will reportedly spend at least five minutes of his hour-long set firing off jokes about the unforgettable moment when Will Smith walked on stage during the 2022 ceremony and slapped the comedian for making a crack about Jada Pinkett Smith.
While the exact jokes that Rock will make are unknown, Huffpost reports that he’s been frequently referencing The Slap at his recent comedy gigs, possibly in preparation for the live show on Sunday:
“The other day, I watched ‘Emancipation’ just so I could watch him getting whipped.”
“The thing people wanna know … did it hurt? Hell yeah it hurt. He played Muhammad Ali! I played Pookie (in ‘New Jack City’). Even in animated movies I’m a zebra, he’s a fucking shark. I got hit so hard, I heard ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears.”
“Will Smith is a big dude. I am not. Will Smith is shirtless in his movies. If you see me in a movie getting open heart surgery, I’m gonna have a sweater on.”
While the special will be Rock’s most prominent remarks about the Will Smith slap, the comedian has tossed out a few zingers about the incident over the past year. Back in May 2022, Rock joined fellow comedian Dave Chappelle for a secret show where the two proceeded to roast Smith and bond over both being attacked on stage.
“At least you got smacked by someone of repute!” Chappelle joked to Rock, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.”
Rock shot back, “I got smacked by the softest n**** that ever rapped.”
Chris Rock’s live Netflix special streams March 4 7pm PT/10pm ET.
Billboard‘s Women In Music 2023 was held in Los Angeles last night, March 1. The annual event was hosted by Quinta Brunson and, as the title suggests, celebrated the impact of several powerful women in music.
Roughly 20 minutes later, Doechii’s mother, Celesia Moore, introduced her as this year’s Rising Star before she took the stage to deliver a dynamic performance of “Persuasive.” (Doechii also teased “new music” is on the way earlier in the day.)
Lainey Wilson, this year’s Rulebreaker Award winner, was up next around the 37-minute mark, and she allowed everyone to catch their breath from Doechii with the ballad “Heart Like A Truck.”
After Ivy Queen and SZA were honored with their respective awards — complete with a video message from Lizzo, who sang her “favorite SZA song” “Warm Winds” and called her friend “the real deal” — Chlöe hyped up Latto as the Powerhouse Award winner.
Chlöe ran through how overwhelmingly successful “Big Energy” has been for Latto and expressed how Latto “has been there for advice … but even more special, she has openly shared her sisterhood with me.”
She continued, “It can be difficult as a young woman to find your own confidence. I struggle with that every day. But just put any Latto record on, and it is hard not to feel like a boss. She is the personification of a powerhouse.”
And Latto backed up Chlöe’s words with a, well, powerful staging of her latest single, “Lottery.”
Becky G later brought”Mamiii” to the stage after she was presented the American Express Impact Award by Dove Cameron, and TWICE capped off the night with a soaring performance of “Moonlight Sunrise.”
Watch performances from Petras, Doechii, Latto and Becky G below, or stream the entire Billboard Women In Music event above.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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