Month: August 2023

You won’t be seeing Tomi Lahren at Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk & Steakhouse any time soon.

This weekend, the conservative commentator tweeted, “A dude drinking Bud Light says… my wife wears the pants. I said what I said.” The New York Post speculates that Lahren is referring to Kid Rock, who was recently spotted drinking a Bud Light at a Nashville concert despite his performative outrage about the beer. The “Cowboy” singer filmed himself shooting Bud Light cans over an ad campaign featuring trans activist and TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.

Kid Rock’s commitment to the anti-Bud Light boycott was called into question further when it was learned that his Nashville restaurant, the Honky Tonk Rock & Roll Streakhouse, continued serving the beer even while country stars like Travis Tritt and John Rich vowed to opt for alternatives.

Previously, Kid Rock praised Lahren for her “racist” rant about Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality. “Could not have said this any better. I am not exactly sure who this woman is, but she has a seat at my dinner table anytime she wants!” he wrote on Facebook). That invitation has probably been rescinded.

(Via the New York Post)

Cardi B fans have been waiting a long time for a full body of work from the Bronx artist. While she’s certainly been productive since releasing Invasion Of Privacy in 2018, the long list of collaborations she’s done since then has merely whet fans’ appetites for a new full-length project of Cardi’s signature sass. Her most recent singles include drops with Latto (“Put It On The Floor Again“), GloRilla (“Tomorrow 2“), FendiDa Rappa (”

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“), and her husband Offset (“Jealousy“), but they’ve only increased the fervor for her next solo album.

To that end, fans recently got some good news. In her recent cover feature for Vogue Mexico, Cardi teased that her new album could be on the way sooner than later. While she didn’t reveal exactly when, she did say that it would come after her next single. “I’m not going to release any more collaborations, I’m going to publish my next solo single,” she said. “Now I’m working on the cover and ideas for the next album because it’s definitely coming. Everyone always tells me that I should release the album now, they did it when I launched ‘WAP’ and ‘Up,’ but I always let them know that I’m not going to wait long to release it after all these singles. So stay tuned because it’s going to come out very soon.”

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Jonas Brothers launched The Tour with back-to-back sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium on August 12 and 13 — the start of their most ambitious international tour yet with 54 semi-newly added dates across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Overall, The Tour will stretch into June 2024.

So far, Nick Jonas accidentally fell into a hole in the stage but recovered impressively quickly, and the actress Sophie Turner poked fun at her husband, Joe Jonas, with a Taylor Swift-inspired friendship bracelet. Fitting, because Joe, Kevin, and Nick are in their The Eras Tour era — delivering a three-plus-hour set spanning their entire discography.

According to No-Guilt Fangirl, the Jonas Brothers have so far been taking the stage between 8 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. local time for each show.

That’s mostly corroborated by setlist.fm, where fans have recorded that the Jonas Brothers took the stage at 8:20 p.m. and 8:35 p.m. at Yankee Stadium on August 12 and 13, respectively, before starting at 8 p.m. in Boston on August 15, 8:05 p.m. in Toronto on August 19, and 8 p.m. in Chicago on August 25.

This week, The Tour will visit Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday, August 30, and the Minnesota State Fair in Saint Paul, Minnesota on September 1. September will also see the Jonas Brothers perform at iconic venues, such as MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. See all of their remaining dates here.

Ed Sheeran is ditching mathematics symbols for his newly announced next album, Autumn Variations, but he’s not quite done with his Mathematics Tour and Subtract Tour.

Over the weekend, the simultaneous North American treks landed in Seattle, Washington, where Sheeran promoted Autumn Variations at Starbucks. His Subtract Tour show happened on Friday, August 25, at Paramount Theatre, and then Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour lit up Lumen Field on Saturday, August 26. The latter featured proud Seattleite Macklemore.

“That was insane. 81,000 people and a Lumen Field record,” Macklemore captioned an Instagram carousel. “The entire show/production/you as a human…The best. Thank you for having me Ed.”

Macklemore and Sheeran also jointly posted an Instagram Reel that captured their performance of “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” Sheeran captioned it, “What a moment, bringing out @macklemore in Seattle for a home crowd. Will never forget that energy in the stadium. Thank you Ben for your time, and your city rocks x”

On July 15, Eminem made a surprise appearance during Sheeran’s stop at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan to perform “Lose Yourself.”

Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour is scheduled to visit BC Place in Vancouver, BC on September 2, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 9, and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on September 16 before its finale on September 23 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

Mirroring the Mathematics Tour schedule, Sheeran’s more intimate Subtract Tour will finish out at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre on September 1, Oakland’s Fox Theater on September 15, and Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium on September 22.

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 via Gingerbread Man Records. Find more information here.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The new Undisputed lineup made its debut on Monday, with Michael Irvin, Richard Sherman, and Keyshawn Johnson all joining Skip Bayless at the desk on FS1 — which appears to be the exact same desk that was used for Bayless and Shannon Sharpe, making for a fairly tight set.

It did not take long for the new reality to set in on Bayless that he is not in control of his show anymore now that there are three others on the desk, capable of derailing the show with their own arguments that he doesn’t get to be involved in. Naturally, one of the first of those came in a discussion of the Dallas Cowboys, in which Michael Irvin explained that he had told star receiver CeeDee Lamb to catch the ball more with his body rather than his hands to try and avoid some of his drop issues.

Now, if that runs counter to everything you’ve ever heard about catching the ball as a receiver, you aren’t alone as Richard Sherman immediately told the Playmaker that was the worst advice he’s ever heard, leading to an incredible Irvin rant while Skip could only sit there and take it all in.

Keyshawn does his best to get things back on track and be a translator of sorts between what Irvin was trying to say — which is, in traffic, catching close to the body helps relieve tension and avoids drops — and what Sherman was getting out of it. The biggest takeaway here really is that Skip is now a passenger on his own show and that, in and of itself, is very funny to see.

Quavo gets away from all to relax and vent while offroading in the video for “11.11” from his new album, Rocket Power. While the whole album is dedicated to his late bandmate/nephew Takeoff, “11.11” is one of the songs that most heavily focuses on Quavo’s sense of loss and frustration. In it, he reflects on both Takeoff’s death and the fracture between them and fellow Migos member Offset on the day of Takeoff’s funeral, which took place on November 11th, 2022.

Meanwhile, in the video, Quavo drives a four-wheeler down a forest path, then finds space to light up and reflect on the brotherhood between him, Offset, and Takeoff. “I watched my brother Takeoff go to heaven, an angel,” he raps. “We celebrate eleven-eleven.” And of Offset, he says he can still count on him despite their past friction, rhyming, “I’ll call on him if I need a partner / Even though what he did was kinda / It’s bigger than us and let’s not remind her / We together, n****, get the chopper.”

At the time of Takeoff’s death, he and Quavo were wrapping up the rollout of their album Only Built For Infinity Links, and Offset was on the outs with his former crew. However, in the wake of Takeoff’s death, Quavo and Offset did eventually put their past differences behind them to pay tribute to him at the 2023 BET Awards.

Watch Quavo’s video for “11.11” above.

At the end of this week, the Power Universe will make its way back to television screens all over thanks to Power Book IV: Force. The Tommy Egan-led show will premiere its second season on September 1, and it turns out that it’s just the beginning for the Power Universe in 2023 into 2024. STARZ announced today that Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three will premiere on December 1. That comes a little over a year after the show’s second season ended with Raquel, Marvin, and Lou-Lou absorbing a coordinated attack from the Italian mob.

The news about Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three also comes with new photos that give a new look into the new season. They give us a first look at new cast members Wendell Pierce and Erika Woods as “Snaps” and “Pop” Henry, as well as Grantham Coleman as “Ronnie.” Other photos give us a season three preview of Patina Thomas as “Raquel Thomas,” Mekai Curtis as “Kanan Thomas,” and Tony Danza who reprises his role as the Italian mobster “Stefano Marchetti.”

In an interview with Uproxx after the season two finale, Power Book III: Raising Kanan showrunner Sascha Penn spoke about what to expect for the show’s third season:

I do think that in season three, there’s a lot that happens, and there are some new characters that emerge. We’ve done, I think, a very decent job pacing this thing out so we can get to where we are now. Like I said to you earlier, if you don’t care about these characters, you’re not going to care about the show. We’ve spent a good amount of time over the past two seasons developing these characters, making them feel human, and exploring their humanity. I think we’ve done a good enough job that people are responding well, right? So I think if you liked the finale, you’re going to really, really like season three because season three continues on with the groundwork that the finale laid out.

You can view images from Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three below.

‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season three debuts on STARZ on December 1. Seasons one and two are available now to stream on the STARZ app.

Superbloom Festival is bringing premiere acts to Olympia Park and Olympiastadion Munchen in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, September 2 and Sunday, September 3.

The 2023 edition is headlined by Martin Garrix and Imagine Dragons, but that’s far from all that the versatile lineup has to offer. The festival shared the full schedule of set times across its nine stages: Olympic Stage, Super Stage, NeoNeo Stage, The Hideaway, and Spectacular, Spectacular Ground, Younique Stage, Your Planet, and Super Brain.

On Saturday, September 2, Dermot Kennedy will perform on the Super Stage from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. local time. Ellie Goulding (3:45-4:45 p.m.) will warm up the Olympic Stage for Garrix’s headlining set, which will run from 9:15 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. local time.

The Olympic Stage lineup is even more stacked for Sunday, September 3: RAYE (1-1:45 p.m.), Giant Rooks (2:15-3:15 p.m.), Sam Fender (4-5 p.m.), Ava Max (5:45-6:45 p.m.), Jason Derulo (7:30-8:30 p.m.), and Imagine Dragons (9:15-10:45 p.m.).

The Super Stage will also host Zara Larsson from 4:50 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. local time, while Nessa Barrett (7-7:45 p.m.) and Cat Burns (8:15-9:15 p.m.) will perform over on the NeoNeo Stage.

Check out the full lineup and schedule below, and find more information here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

If you’re in the Windy City this weekend, you can catch the third-annual ARC Music Festival. The three-day dance festival kicks off Friday at Union Park headlined by Eric Prydz, Cassy, Toni Varga, Nina Kraviz, Dalton Taylor, John Summit, Ilario Alicante, Dennis Cruz, Fisher, Loco Dice, Nic Faniciulli, Tale Of Us, Vintage Culture, Black Coffee, and Hiroko Yamamura. You can check out the full schedule on Instagram, but the schedule for some of the notable sets can be found below.

Friday, September 1

The Grid

2:00 — Portals & Parachutes
3:00 — Christoph B2B Franky Wah
4:00 — Tinlicker
5:00 — Adam Beyer
6:30 — Boris Brejcha
8:30 — Eric Prydz presents Holo

Elrow

2:00 — Eskuche
3:00 — Colette B2B DJ Heather
4:00 — Sam Divine
5:30 — James Hype
7:00 — Walker & Royce
8:30 — Cassy B2B Toni Varga

Expansions

2:00 — Hiroko Yamamura B2B DJ Minx
4:00 — Mall Grab B2B Kettama
5:30 — Anfisa Letyago
7:00 — Boys Noize
8:30 — Nina Kraviz

Saturday, September 2

The Grid

2:00 — Inphinity
3:00 — Schak
4:00 — Eli Brown
5:00 — Patrick Topping
6:30 — Fatboy Slim
8:00 — John Summit

Elrow

2:00 — Xovi
3:00 — Eskuche
4:00 — Dombresky
5:30 — Toni Varga
7:00 — Lee Foss B2B Gene Farris
8:30 — Ilario Alicante B2B Dennis Cruz

Expansions

2:00 — DJ Lady D
3:00 — Moodymann B2B Carl Craig
4:30 — The Blessed Madonna
6:00 — Hot Since 82
7:30 — Fisher B2B Loco Dice B2B Nic Fanciulli

Sunday, September 3

The Grid

2:00 — Hotpretty
3:00 — Miss Monique
4:00 — Kevin De Vries
5:00 — Âme B2B Dixon
6:30 — Peggy Gou
8:00 — Tale Of Us

Elrow

2:00 — Kevin Knapp
3:00 — Fleur Shore
4:00 — Kyle Walker
5:30 — Toni Varga B2B Eskuche
7:00 — Wade
8:30 — Vintage Culture

Expansions

2:00 — TBA
3:00 — Themba
4:00 — Carlita B2B Chloé Caillet
5:00 — Derrick Carter
6:30 — Mochakk
8:00 — Black Coffee

In 2009, four stars of the then-new The CW series The Vampire Diaries were arrested for allegedly flashing motorists from a bridge in Georgia. Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Sara Canning, Nina Dobrev, and Kayla Ewell, as well as photographer Tyler Shields and actress Krystal Vayda (who wasn’t on the show), “were taken into custody, paid a fine to a bonding company, and were released the same day,” according to reports at the time. Despite the accusation, the only flashing that took place was the flash from a camera.

The actress says while on a road trip with her castmates (the show shoots nearby), the group decided to stop to take pictures on a bridge. That’s when they were rushed by Monroe County cops. “They were like, ‘We’re getting calls that people are flashing,’” Ewell says. “And we’re like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa.’” The actress says that after showing police their photos, the group was asked to follow officials to the police station, where they were ticketed for loitering on a public walkway.

“I have no idea,” Ewell told Entertainment Weekly when asked why they were accused of lifting their shirts. “We are not the type of girls who flash our breasts. In all honesty, the size of my breasts aren’t necessarily something people would be interested in. It’s so ridiculous. I would never do that.”

And yet, the rumor persists, so much so that nearly 15 years after the incident, Carina Adly Mackenzie, a writer for The Vampire Diaries spin-off series The Originals, settled it once and for all.

“Okay I’m saying it. They were doing a photo shoot (not for TVD, just for a photographer friend) on the bridge. The ‘flashing’ reported by drivers was A CAMERA FLASH and it was misinterpreted by the officer. The misunderstanding was cleared up and everybody went home,” she tweeted.

Now this is how you pose for a mugshot photo.

(Via EW)