Mariah Carey previously announced her new Vegas residency titled The Celebration Of Mimi, which will kick off tomorrow, April 12 at Park MGM’s Dolby Live theater. Carey has also since added more dates to her show, so it will run through the summer. More information about her residency can be found here.
Here’s what to know about Carey’s merch and how to buy it.
How To Buy Mariah Carey’s Las Vegas Residency Merch
When Mariah Carey starts her new residency tomorrow, she will also be selling some merch for it — which will be available at the venue. As of right now, it has yet to be revealed what specific items there will be and what they’ll look like.
For those who either don’t want to wait in Carey’s merch line or can’t make it to her Vegas residency, she has treated fans by putting some items from her The Butterfly Returns residency on her website. There are currently four options available. She has two hoodie offerrings — one that reads “Always Be My Baby” in white and a black crop top hoodie that reads “Obsessed” after her two songs. Both cost $60.
She also is selling a white “MC” logo beanie for $25 and a white t-shirt with a butterfly on the pocket. The latter is on sale right now for $21.25. It’s unclear if she will add anything else tied to the new residency.
Bob Marley: One Love was released on Valentine’s Day with many critics praising star Kingsley Ben-Adir’s portrayal of the iconic musician. The film centers on Bob Marley’s inspirational rise to fame amid political conflict in 1970s Jamaica and was directed by King Richard’s Reinaldo Marcus Green.One Love also stars Lashana Lynch, Michael Gandolfini, James Norton, Anthony Welsh, Naomi Cowan, and Sheldon Shepherd.
One Love surpassed $175 million at the worldwide box office so far, and it can still be seen in theaters, but if you want to check it out from home, you’re in the right place. Being a Paramount production, the biopic is set to be released on Paramount+ on Friday, April 12. You can also purchase the film on digital from Amazon Prime, YouTube, and the other usual suspects.
Ben-Adir, who was prepping for the role while on the Barbie set, said that getting into character was the hardest part of the filming experience.
In February, he told The New York Times that taking on the role of Marley was difficult but important for him to grapple with. “I understood that the internal journey of Bob had to be about safety. The film is an exploration of trauma, and what it means to feel like you’re not safe or not loved in your own country,” Ben-Adir explained, adding, “He needed music.”
In February, Peso Pluma signed his first-ever brand partnership with Sony. “I’m excited for the opportunity to collaborate with Sony’s ‘For The Music’ campaign to continue opening pathways for Latin music,” Pluma said in a statement at the time. On Thursday, April 11, Pluma and Sony jointly announced the launch of the ULT POWER SOUND series, which is described in a press release as “a new series of Bluetooth speakers and headphones designed to make users feel like they are front row at a concert.”
“The powerful sound and massive bass of the ULT POWER SOUND® series excites me,” Pluma said in a statement. “As a musician who relies heavily on bass when creating my music, I feel that these products provide the best listening experience for my fans, and there is nothing else like it.”
How To Buy Peso Pluma & Sony’s Ult Power Sound Series Speakers
The product launch includes ULT TOWER 10, ULT FIELD 7, ULT FIELD 1, and ULT WEAR. According to a press release, each product will be available sometime in “spring 2024” at Sony’s official website, Amazon, Best Buy, and “other Sony-authorized dealers.”
The pricing is based upon “suggested retail price”:
ULT TOWER 10: $1,199
ULT FIELD 7: $499
ULT FIELD 1 in black, forest gray, off-white, or orange: $129
ULT WEAR in black, forest gray, or off-white: $199.99
In one of Sony’s promotional videos, Pluma jaunts into a quiet museum with a smirk because he knows he’s about to use the ULT TOWER 10 to put on an impromptu concert for the unsuspecting museumgoers. The paintings even come to life!
Watch that video above or the behind-the-scenes video below.
Only J. Cole would include Gucci Mane in a list of features on the opening track of his new mixtape, Might Delete Later, and then turn him into Big Rube. Like most of J. Cole’s output, how you feel about this probably depends on how you feel about J. Cole, in general.
Personally, I’m sort of mystified by him. As a beneficiary of the Wild West days of the blog era, he’s been unexpectedly successful using a style that, by practically any other metric, should be woefully out-of-style, a quixotic, backward-looking flow harkening to the days when Rawkus Records had backpack rappers overachieving left and right. (This isn’t a slight on Rawkus, by the way. But let’s just say that the rappers who most inspired J. Cole weren’t exactly known for their commercial successes amid the shiny suit era.)
I wouldn’t call Cole a “relic,” but his worshipful, borderline quixotic approach to lyrics-over-everything rap has made him a divisive figure among hip-hop fans. My pet theory is that his connections to Jay-Z and the anything-goes openness of the era into which he made his entry into the public consciousness meant he got way further than perhaps he should have with a style that many fans see as regressive and boring. Certainly, he got further than a whole slew of similarly ’90s-obsessed underground sound revivalists.
This isn’t even a new observation for me. In myKOD review in 2018, I said his fifth studio album “doesn’t hold up when you think about it critically for more than ten seconds.” In my review for its follow-up, The Off Season, I questioned whether his commitment to the craft of rap “leads to a more entertaining product” at the end of the day.
I even wrote a feature in 2021 comparing him to controversial director Zack Snyder — a comparison that has taken on some fascinating dimensions in the wake of the critical panning of Syner’s latest two-part film project, Rebel Moon. The obvious parallel is Cole’s new mixtape, which has drawn attention for its warlike intentions — and Cole’s meek withdrawal thereof in the span of a weekend.
That it was the second project overshadowed by this overblown feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar is telling. Even more so is the microcosm of the project in the example I cited above. I’m unsure who exactly was clamoring for Gucci Mane, Big Guwop, the godfather of trap, to perform Def Poetry spoken word like Dewey Jenkins in The Boondocks. And I hate to fall back on cliché, but I found the effect more soporific than energizing, the way their previous collaboration, “There I Go” with Mike Will Made-It was.
Might Delete Later arrived by surprise as fans awaited word of Cole’s long-promised seventh album, The Fall-Off. He’d previously explained the portentous title as the ultimate answer for his self-questioning after reaching the mountaintop of his success. “I had a real talk with myself… ‘You made it to where you wanted to make it to. Do you wanna keep going or do you just want to chill and go start a family? Do you want to retire right now?’”
Might Delete Later might have been better served with a release date after fans had also received that answer, because its misplacement ahead of The Fall-Off suggests mileage on those metaphorical legs that encourage — or even demand — a little more time on the sidelines. Or maybe even the purchase of a spiffy suit and putting that communications degree to work on a regional cable affiliate (what’s the rap equivalent of a broadcast analyst job? Please, just no more podcasts [shudders]). Cole does what he does here, admirably, but… it doesn’t feel like he’s pushing himself, growing, getting better, or feeling the exhilaration he touted as his goal in Slam‘s profile of him a few years ago.
Even the highest point of the tape, the Dipset-sampling “Ready ’24,’ is a nostalgic nod to Cole’s high-school days, complete with an appearance from an original Diplomat, Cam’ron. It’s a moment designed to invoke the same excitement of The Rock reappearing in the WWE a few months before Wrestlemania, but winds up having a similar effect to that particular stunt; a crowd disappointed that the focus had shifted from the possibility of an electrifying future to a storied but stodgy past. Hip-hop has always been about moving forward; why is J. Cole so obsessed with looking back?
And if he’s going to insist on holding over traditions from rap’s past, why, of all things, does he keep employing rap’s problematic treatment of queerness? In an era in which Cakes Da Killa, Lil Nas X, Saucy Santana, and more can share space and mic time with vanguards like Jack Harlow and Latto, J. Cole’s antitrans punchlines on “Pi” feel like the most cumbersome ball of cobwebs clouding his ambitions of immortality. For someone who wants to sit on the mountaintop, he still seems more cozy in his caves, excavating lyrical gems — and the occasional lump of coal — than surveying the landscape and spreading his wings. J. Cole may not be falling off just yet, but his approach could use a refresh.
Might Delete Later is out now via Dreamville/Interscope.
With Coachella kicking off just about a day from this writing, you might be looking to get familiar with the works of the headlining acts, Doja Cat, Lana Del Rey, No Doubt, and Tyler The Creator. While you can learn more about what songs the latter might be performing right here, you can click the others’ names to see their potential setlists.
So, what songs will Tyler The Creator be performing?
While there’s no way to know for sure until he’s actually onstage, we do know he won’t be performing any songs from his new album — because he doesn’t have one coming (yet). At least, that’s what he says, but you know Tyler… always looking to surprise his fans.
Naturally, that setlist was dominated in large part by Tyler’s most recent album, Call Me If You Get Lost, with performances of “WUSYANAME,” “LUMBERJACK,” and “DOGTOOTH.” Meanwhile, fan favorites from across his career popped up in the set, with early breakout “Yonkers,” fan-favorite “IFHY,” and “Tamale” filling out the midpoint. Of course, his critical darlings Flower Boy and Igor were both well-represented, with examples from each making up the remainder. I wouldn’t be surprised if he performs “See You Again,” “Earfquake,” and “New Magic Wand,” which were some of the standouts from those albums.
We’ll find out on Saturday at 11:40pm. For more set times, click here.
In the lead-up to the premiere of X-Men ’97, Marvel confirmed that The Gentlemen star Theo James had joined the voice cast as a “fan favorite character.” While James’ role has yet to be revealed, Marvel may have just tipped its hand to who his character might be.
In a new promo that piggybacks off the explosive events of X-Men ’97 episode 5 (We won’t spoil it for you, but it was cataclysmic enough that fired showrunner Beau DeMayo broke his silence to explain what just happened.) a surprising Marvel character is teased. He definitely fits the bill for “fan favorite” because it’s none other than Captain America.
Cap’s signature shield makes a notable appearance at the very end of the teaser, but we should note that there is no official confirmation on whether James is voicing the Star-Spangled Avenger. He could easily be playing another character (Doctor Strange is rumored to appear.) but the arrival of Captain America in X-Men ’97 is pretty huge. It’s also fitting as the teaser emphasizes that a war is coming, which certainly tracks after the events of episode 5.
“Like many of us who grew up on the OG cartoon, the X-Men have now been hit hard by the realities of an adult and unsafe world,” DeMayo wrote in a Twitter post breaking down the tragic episode. “Life’s happened to them. And they, like we did, will have to decide which parts of themselves they will cling to and which parts they’ll let go of in order to do what they’ve been telling humanity to do: face an uncertain future they never saw coming.”
X-Men ’97 streams new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.
Conan O’Brien is often on the lookout for a friend, but he recently took a break from that to have some hot sauce, which is good to do every once in a while. The comedian/former talk show host/Now You See Me star sat down with Sean Evans for a new episode of First We Feast’s Hot Ones, and the power of hot sauce always tends to bring out the worst in people.
As a longtime host, O’Brien has had his fair share of awkward interactions, and Evans wanted to know the worst thing a guest can do while being interviewed. As we know, it can get pretty awkward fast, even without all of the scorching hot sauce.
O’Brien said that the worst thing a guest can do is “tell the audience it’s not going well,” which is something a lot of guests seem to do when they don’t know what to say. He explained:
“I’ve seen it happen many times, it’s an amateur move because the host can do a lot to let people think it’s going great even if it’s not… there are many things the host can do… audience wants to see a good show, they want to see a good interview, and I was always amazed when someone would come out and they’d be doing OK… and then would just go, ‘This just isn’t going well is it?’… you look out at the audience and it be 200 people sitting there and I’d see 200 souls leave 200 bodies cause they were just told they were not getting a good show.”
This is why it’s so important to tell audiences exactly when to laugh or clap, regardless of whatever the guest is saying. When the audience is given too much power, it can get messy!!!
On the other hand, when Evans asked what future U.S. President O’Brien would want on his podcast, he knew exactly who would be a good guest. “Richard Nixon, Oh my god, it’d be fantastic. He’s such a comedy figure when you think about it and we could get him to [say] ‘Watergate’…and he would try to be funny. It would be fantastic,” he said. Somehow it seems like that would also not go over well with audiences.
First of all, always expect the unexpected with Doja Cat. Predicting Doja Cat’s Coachella 2024 setlist seems like a losing exercise, but it’s worth a try. A few details are confirmed as fact: Doja Cat will headline on Sunday, April 14, and Sunday, April 21; Coachella 2024 headliners also include Lana Del Rey and Tyler The Creator; Coachella 2024 will pump out so many headlines over the next two weeks.
Beyond that, who knows what’s about to happen at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California?
What Songs Can You Expect Doja Cat To Perform At Coachella 2024?
All that said, we can form a solid hypothesis because Doja staged her headlining Scarlet Tour last year. It would make sense for Doja to at least pull from her Scarlet Tour setlist because Scarlet is her most recent album — and it would make a ton of sense for her to use the Coachella stage to debut live performances of Scarlet deluxe album songs, such as “MASC” featuring Teezo Touchdown. Maybe she brings out SZA as a surprise guest for “Say So”? Post Malone for “I Like You (A Happier Song)”? Saweetie for “Best Friend”? It’s all on the board.
For a more concrete guess, check out Doja’s setlist from her Scarlet Tour stop in Chicago on December 13 below (as relayed by setlist.fm).
Fans are now waiting to see what this new release will bring — or if there will be any other disses in store. As of right now, though, the tracklist and those featured on We Still Don’t Trust You have yet to be revealed.
For those who are using Apple Music, here’s what to know about when it will be on the streaming platform.
When Can You Play Future And Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You Album On Apple Music?
Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You will be available starting at midnight ET, or 9 p.m. for those who live on the West Coast. If you’re in a different time zone, it will be out whenever albums typically drop in that location.
Until later tonight, fans can build up their anticipation by listening to their album titled We Don’t Trust You that dropped back in March.
We Still Don’t Trust You is out 4/12 via Epic Records/Boominati Worldwide/Republic Records.
Tom Hiddleston is returning to a familiar role, and no, this time it’s not Loki. The Marvel favorite is reportedly set to star in not just one, but two more seasons of The Night Manager. Hiddleston received rave reviews for his portrayal of Jonathan Pine in the BBC adaptation of the John le Carré novel that aired all the way back in 2016.
While the book itself doesn’t have a sequel, that hasn’t stopped series creator David Farr from crafting a new story for the upcoming seasons that will take place eight years after the events of The Night Manager season 1. Farr hopes the new story will honor le Carré who passed away in 2020.
“John le Carré’s work has long been an inspiration to me and working closely with him on season 1 was an honor and a pleasure. I did not tread lightly into extending The Night Manager beyond the original book, but an idea came to me a couple of years ago which felt truthful to that unique world of dark corners and shady identities. No one marries the suspense of espionage with a deep exploration of the human soul quite like le Carré. I hope that in some way we can pay homage to his uneasy genius in this new exploration.”
Hiddleston also issued a statement confirming his return to the gritty spy series.
“The first series of The Night Manager was one of the most creatively fulfilling projects I have ever worked on,” he said. “The depth, range, and complexity of Jonathan Pine was, and remains, a thrilling prospect. I’m so looking forward to reuniting with Simon and Stephen Cornwell, David Farr, and Stephen Garrett, and to working with Georgi Banks-Davies to tell the next chapter of our story. I can’t wait.”
The new seasons will mark a joint collaboration between the BBC and Prime Video. Filming for The Night Manager season 2 is expected to start later this year. It will run for six episodes, but there is no release date at this time.
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