Month: August 2023

Ariana Grande recently revealed that she had a week full of celebrations planned for the 10th anniversary of her beloved debut album Yours Truly.

The agenda included fun surprises for fans such as a Q&A session and a merch capsule. However, the most exciting part by far was the announcement of a special digital deluxe edition of Yours Truly, featuring live recordings of some of the original Yours Truly tracks she performed in London.

It’s out today (August 25), and the live versions of “Honeymoon Avenue” and “Daydreamin’” come with videos. The singer dons blonde curls and a blue two-piece, the bottom being a sprawling skirt that sways as she performs emotively, commanding the attention of the room with her ethereal soprano.

There’s also a version of “The Way” that has the late rapper Mac Miller, who the singer famously dated for several years. It serves as the album’s final track, a bittersweet note to leave on. It displays their cosmic chemistry, immortalized in this hopeful, sweet song as their voices intertwine.

A special vinyl edition of Yours Truly will be available on Monday (August 28).

Listen to “Honeymoon Avenue (Live from London)” above and “Daydreamin’ (Live from London)” below. Find the album stream below that.

Mac Miller is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Lil Yachty’s Field Trip Global Tour will kick off on September 21. But before hitting the road, the eccentric rapper has decided to treat fans to a flurry of singles including “Solo Steppin’ Crete Boy,” “Slide,” and appearing on Miguel’s “Number 9.” He’s not done there. As he teams up with producers MitchGoneMad & WessGoneMad, the musician dropped the new track “Tesla.”

The song isn’t at all sanctioned by the company’s head honcho, Elon Musk, but it is just as erratic as the businessman. Yachty isn’t letting fame stop him from letting the public know that he’s not above getting his hands dirty, rapping, “He get tough, on four pills, he get killed / Send that b*tch home, actin’ goofy, my cup spilled / B*tch, you for real? ‘Kay, damn / B*tch, we the new Beatles, shoot a film, Regal / In the air, eagle, I don’t want it if it’s legal / Throwback this Tesla, throw back that mmm.”

Of course, Lil Yachty isn’t going to let the song go without an official visual. Yachty will reconnect with Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett for the supporting video to bring the off-kilter track to life with vibrant coloring, dramatic editing, and more. Yachty’s longtime friend Drake’s new music may not have dropped, but that isn’t holding him back from doing his own thing.

Sean Hannity wants to make it clear that he is still very much Team Trump. While the former president and Fox News have been increasingly at odds thanks to Donald Trump publicly snubbing the network by skipping the first GOP debate to sit down with Tucker Carlson, who was fired by Fox, Hannity continued to carry water for his old pal.

While breaking a Fox News alert on Trump’s mugshot, Hannity accidentally said the image is Joe Biden before catching himself and then leaning into the mistake with a joke for the MAGA crowd.

“You are looking at Joe Biden’s– oh, I’m sorry, Donald Trump’s official mugshot. Joe Biden will be soon enough,” Hannity quipped. “Anyway, moments ago, the 45th president walked into the notorious Fulton County, Georgia jail.”

It didn’t take long for people on social media to question the authenticity of Hannity’s slip-up. Several people accused the moment of being a bit, and a lame one at that. While others couldn’t help but notice that Hannity seemed visibly pained while reporting on what is now Donald Trump’s fourth arrest.

The former president is reportedly nervous that the numerous defendants in the Georgia indictment will flip on him, and he’s no doubt shared those concerns with Hannity who has remained in constant touch with Trump.

You can some of the reactions to Hannity’s flub below:

(Via Acyn on Twitter)

On Thursday evening, ex-President Donald Trump surrendered at the Fulton County Jail on a basket full of serious RICO charges. He proceeded to self-report his own weight (he somehow gave identical measurements to many fine athletes), and from there, he posed for an angry-looking mugshot, but before that happened, a fake mugshot went viral.

Trump was in and out of the jail in a jiffy, and then he proceeded to pass on deranged memes that referred to himself as the most wonderful president of all time. However, Trump surely as confident in being proven innocent as he appears while boasting about his alleged awesomeness. It seems that 45 is worried about his assets, specifically Mar-a-Lago, which he referred to as the “Winter White House” (being seized by the feds). A listing on Zillow curiously corresponds to Trump’s Palm Beach address, and there’s an aerial view of a property supposedly sold for $422 million on August 4. The Zestimate, however, is listed at just over $24 million.

Newsweek the legwork to verify that this property’s previously most recent sale date corresponds to the date Trump originally bought what would become The Mar-a-Lago Club:

The listing also mentioned that the last time that the property was sold was on April 6, 1995—the exact same date when the former president turned the residence, which he purchased in 1985 for $2 million, into The Mar-a-Lago Club. At the time, Zillow said the property was acquired for $12,000,000.

While Zillow does not provide details about who bought the property, the website SunBiz said that the current owner of Mar-a-Lago is a company called Mar-a-Lago Inc., owned by the former president’s eldest son.

Nothing about the transfer outwardly appears to be illegal, although you never can tell what will pop up when it comes to the Trump family. As far as anyone knows, Donald intends to keep living at his private residence on the property, which is the same place where he stored classified documents in a bathroom and allegedly showed them off for bragging rights. As the kids say, what a clown show this is turning out to be.

(Via Newsweek & The Express)

There’s a substantial enough community of foot enthusiasts online that they maintain the website wikiFeet, an impressively thorough collection of photos of celebrities’ feet. Dua Lipa is well aware of what’s going on here, and she’s even taken the time to check out her wikiFeet profile.

As Entertainment Weekly notes, this topic came up on a new episode of Lipa’s At Your Service podcast, during which she chatted with comedian Ziwe about her new book Black Friend. In one of the book’s essays, Ziwe write about discovering her wikiFeet profile, and Lipa noted, “I read that essay. And I have to confess, I went on wikiFeet to just look at… I looked at both of our ratings. Your rating’s gone up since you wrote the essay. It’s a horrible website, by the way. I hate feet. So while I was reading your essay I was very… I felt seen. Anyway, let’s not talk about feet.”

Lipa later added, “While I was looking at your feet, I was like, ‘This is way more research I’ve ever done for any of my podcast guests.’”

Here’s Lipa’s wikiFeet profile if you want to check it out (it’s safe for work, unless your workplace prohibits foot photos). Her profile has 2,846 total votes, and of those, 1,730 are “beautiful,” 449 are “nice,” 348 are “OK,” 187 are “bad,” and 132 are “ugly.” All in all, there are 891 photos of Lipa’s feet on the site. The feedback in the comments section is mixed: One commenter wrote, “She’s special Damn,” while another said, “She might be the most beautiful singer/actress/celeb in the world, she’s incredible, but these feet are atrocious, they look like hands, the toes are all over the place, they’re really bad, and it’s unfortunate because she’s an amazing person, it’s just her feet are hideous.”

Check out the At Your Service episode with Ziwe above.

Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Drea de Matteo frequently wore wild outfits on The Sopranos. Now she’s taking it all off.

This week, the actress, who gave one of the best performances as Adriana La Cerva on arguably the greatest TV show ever, announced that she’s joined OnlyFans. de Matteo’s profile photo for her account shows her wearing nothing but boots while smoking a cigarette in an unmade bed. The bio reads, “THE SOPORNOS.” That pun alone is worth the cost of a subscription ($15/month).

Since The Sopranos ended in 2007, de Matteo has often leaned into her astronomical success on the show. She hosted the re-watch podcast Made Women and has sold merchandise including shirts that read “Adriana F*king La Cerva” in the series’ iconic font featuring a handgun in place of the letter “r.”

Have yourself a very Sopranos day by subscribing to de Matteo’s OnlyFans after listening to Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa’s Talking Sopranos podcast while eating Big P*ssy’s pasta sauce.

In a 2021 interview with Vulture, de Matteo, who has also been on Sons of Anarchy, Desperate Housewives, and Mayans M.C., discussed how playing Adriana affected her post-Sopranos career. “It’s never easy after you come up with a huge show like that because the expectations are so high. It usually takes a long time for people to erase that from their psyche, and it hasn’t been easy for me to find the roles that I love,” she explained. “But now I just want to play a character like that all over again because it was the richest with the most layers. And that accent was the most fun.”

You can subscribe to de Matteo’s OnlyFans here.

(Via Page Six)

The Killers have shared a lot of music in the past few years. Imploding The Mirage arrived in 2020, followed by Pressure Machine in 2021. Shortly after that record, they said they were “figuring out” another one.

Their new ’80s-influenced song “Your Side Of Town” is their first material since their one-off track “Boy” unveiled in August of last year. “Your Side Of Town” bursts with fervent synths and Brandon Flowers’ impassioned vocals, tinged with hypnotic Auto-Tune: “I’m hanging on your side of town / I notice when you’re not around / Can’t keep my cool, I’m burning inside / A broken heartbeat, barely alive,” he sings with an air of melodrama.

The band is possibly eager to put out new stuff considering their upcoming festival slots. They’ll be performing at New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival next to bands like Foo Fighters, Weezer, and Greta Van Fleet in the middle of September. Then, they’ll be headlining the annual Las Vegas music festival Life Is Beautiful alongside Kendrick Lamar and Odesza at the end of that month. A few days after that, they’ll be hitting the Ohana Fest in California with acts like Foo Fighters, Father John Misty, Haim, and Japanese Breakfast.

Listen to “Your Side Of Town” above.

This week it was reported that Ed Droste of the fine art-rock band Grizzly Bear is now working as a therapist. That this was news at all speaks to the weird navieté that we as indie-rock fans have about the financial realities of the musicians we love. Steven and Ian begin the episode by talking about the “Joe jobs” of indie-rock lifers, and the potential “indie star to therapist” pipe line.

From there, the guys talk about Steven’s recent column on the best soundtrack albums of all-time, and why the golden age for soundtracks is from the mid-’80s to the early ’00s. While it’s true that a big film like Barbie can still spin off a successful soundtrack, the golden age of B and C-tier soundtracks — when an otherwise forgotten film like 1993’s Judgment Night can be paired with a famous soundtrack — seems to be over.

After that, Steven and Ian review new albums by hardcore collective The Armed and the Chicago guitar-pop band Ratboys. In Recommendation Corner, Ian praises the bloghouse throwback DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ and Steven gives the nod to the new solo album from Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 152 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

There is one team — or, more specifically, one player — who has basketball fans ready to tune in to Group F at the 2023 FIBA World Cup. That would be the Slovenians, which are led by Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic. In addition to his exploits as one of the best basketball players in the world, Doncic has become revered for his ability to find an extra gear when he throws on a Slovenia uniform and get them to a point where they’re punching above their weight.

That’s bad news for the remainder of Group F, which features three other teams that are looking to knock them from their perch — entering the tournament, no team the Slovenians are tied with Serbia and the United States for the best odds to win their group. Everything else appears to be a battle for second place between Georgia, Venezuela, and Cape Verde, but the great thing about international tournaments like this is that one bad day at the office can change everything. If any of these teams can get a little lucky, perhaps they can beat Slovenia and position themselves as the potential group winners.

Here are the full odds to win the group, via DraftKings.

Slovenia -2500
Georgia +1400
Venezuela +2500
Cape Verde +5000

Here, we’re going to go through Group F and let you know the players to watch, along with the schedule and the game you’ll want to check out.

Players to Watch

Walter Tavares (Cape Verde): NBA fans might remember Tavares from his time with the Atlanta Hawks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Since leaving the U.S., Tavares has been a standout for Real Madrid, as he’s accomplished just about everything he can in European basketball. The reigning EuroLeague Final Four MVP, Tavares very well might be the second-best player in this group, and will be the player Cape Verde turns to as it makes its World Cup debut.

Sandro Mamukelashvili (Georgia): A former second-round pick by the Milwaukee Bucks, Mamukelashvili joined the Spurs after getting waived last March and played the best ball of his professional career. In 19 games with seven starts, the former Seton Hall standout averaged 10.8 points and 6.8 rebounds a night, and was able to parlay that into a new, 1-year deal with San Antonio. Now, he’ll look to carry the momentum from his strong end to the season into the World Cup for a Georgia side that has a real chance of making it out of the group.

Luka Doncic (Slovenia): This one’s pretty easy, no? Doncic is the best player in the entire tournament, the single biggest reason Slovenia has a chance to medal, and looks to be in absolutely unbelievable shape as the tournament approaches. On the heels of a disappointing NBA season for the Mavericks, look for Doncic to have a monster tournament with the hopes of having it be a springboard to a big year in 2023-24.

Mike Tobey (Slovenia): The New York native and Virginia alumnus has carved out a nice career for himself in Europe, as he now plies his trade for Crvena zvezda after spending a few years in Spain. Tobey was excellent at the Tokyo Olympics as the Slovenians finished in fourth place, as he averaged 13.7 points and a tournament-best 10.5 rebounds per game while shooting 61.4 percent from the field. Doncic is obviously the team’s star, but don’t be surprised if Tobey is a gigantic piece of the puzzle.

Nestor Colmenares (Venezuela): The main reason Venezuela has a shot to get out of the group is its continuity, as a number of it players were on the roster at the 2019 World Cup when the team made it out of the group and finished 14th. Colmenares has been around the block for quite a while, as the 35-year-old forward has won gold with the team at the 2015 FIBA AmeriCup and at the 2014 and 2016 FIBA South American Championships. He averaged 10.3 points and 6.4 rebounds in World Cup qualifying.

Schedule/TV Info (all times EST)

Aug. 26
Cape Verde vs. Georgia, 4:00 a.m., ESPN+
Slovenia vs. Venezuela, 7:30 a.m., ESPN+

Aug. 28
Venezuela vs. Cape Verde, 4:00 a.m., ESPN+
Georgia vs. Slovenia, 7:30 a.m., ESPN+

Aug. 30
Georgia vs. Venezuela, 4:00 a.m., ESPN+
Slovenia vs. Cape Verde, 7:30 a.m., ESPN+

Game to Watch

Georgia vs. Venezuela: It would be a real shock if anyone other than Slovenia ended up winning the group. As such, if we’re assuming that both Georgia and Venezuela will lose to Slovenia and beat Cape Verde, their final game in group play will determine which team is going to move on to the second round of the tournament. The runner-up to this, of course, is every Slovenia game, because the chance to watch Doncic play international ball is always a delight.

You’ve just been arrested for a fourth time this year, you’ve paid your $200,000 bond, and your mugshot went public. What do you do next? If you’re Donald Trump, you share deranged memes on Truth Social.

On Thursday, Trump was arrested at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on felony charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. Once he posted his bond (and his lovely mugshot appeared on shirts, both official and unofficial), he returned to then-Twitter, now-X for the first time in two years, but his heart is with Truth Social. “I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL. IT IS MY HOME!!!” Trump wrote before going on a meme-sharing spree.

In one, taken from John Wick (leave Keanu out of this), he’s surrounded by guns with words like “DEMOCRATS,” “INDICTMENT,” “PEDOPHILES,” and “COMMUNISTS” written on them. In another, he’s smiling ghoulishly while underneath his chin, it reads, “The Face You Make When You Have the Hottest and Most Beloved Social Media Site On the Internet.”

Other memes include: a MAGA supporter asking, “Remember when we had a president who never ever stopped working for America?” (the pic is from Trump’s “walk of shame” following a poorly-attended rally, which is very funny); Pepe the Frog hanging out in Trump’s jacket pocket, for some reason; and an edit of Trump’s mugshot calling him the “greatest president ever” (there’s a lot of mugshot memes). “We love you!!!!” the meme maker wrote, knowing that Trump wouldn’t hear it from his wife.

(Via Mediaite)