System Of A Down and Deftones are planning the ultimate alt-rock bash this summer. On August 17, the two aughts alt-rock favorites will headline a special show in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Joining them are Vowws, Viagra Boys, and The Mars Volta, during what Golden Gate Park is billing as the park’s first-ever “after dark” show (the show begins at 3 p.m. and is expected to run until 10 p.m.)
Seeing all these bands together for one night is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Gen-Xers and millennials, who can’t wait to get their hands on tickets. System Of A Down’s only other show so far for 2024 is at Vegas’ Sick New World festival and Deftones are only playing at Coachella and Lollapalooza. Thankfully, tickets for this one-off are dropping sooner rather than later, and fans will be able to purchase them beginning this week.
When Do Tickets For System Of A Down And Deftones’ San Francisco Concert Come Out?
Fans can purchase tickets to the one-off concert starting Thursday (April 11th) at 10 a.m. PT. This will be a Live Nation presale, where fans can use the code RIFF. General on-sale will begin Friday (April 12) via Ticketmaster.
Additional information about the special San Francisco concert can be found here.
After HBO delivered a grand slam adaptation of the hit video game series The Last of Us, Amazon has stepped up to the plate to take a crack at Fallout. Like The Last of Us, Fallout is also a wildly popular gaming franchise set in a post-apocalyptic world, but this one is more desolate and barren thanks to, well, all of the nuclear fallout. (Get it? Like the title.)
Set to start streaming this week, Fallout arrives under the guidance of Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan, who brings all of his sci-fi skills to the table along with the show’s most powerful weapon: Walton Goggins. The Justified star plays The Ghoul, a 200-year-old bounty hunter wandering the wasteland. However, Goggins is more than just the deformed gunslinger. The actor spends a significant amount of time in the past as Cooper Howard, a movie star who has front row seats to the end of the world.
Based on the early reviews, Goggins and Fallout are a powerful combo. You can see what the critics are saying below:
From the very first minutes of the Nolan-directed premiere, Fallout boasts a strong sense of place. Lucy’s vault is midcentury suburbia rendered in Space Age steel, dotted with incongruously chipper slogans (“Don’t lose your head!”) and populated by unsettlingly cheery citizens in matching jumpsuits. The surface world that Lucy finds herself in after a catastrophe is the polar opposite — a retrofuturistic Wild West mishmash caked in the kind of grime that’d be impossible to wash off even if there were enough water to go around. But the biggest shock for Lucy is that the world’s hard-bitten survivors have no interest in her people’s lofty notions of re-civilizing the planet.
The first half of “Fallout” is undoubtedly the strongest, as Lucy tries to grapple with the lies she’s been told about the world while barely keeping herself alive. Still, even as the storylines linger too long in less exciting places, viewers are eager to see how the varied mysteries and secrets of the surface and the dwellers will reveal themselves. Bizarre but intensely fun, “Fallout” is like nothing you’ve ever seen; for that reason alone, you won’t be able to turn away.
And of course, there’s Walton Goggins. Everyone thought that his casting as a ghoul was spot-on and guess what? It’s spot-on. But you may not realize just what a dual role it is, as yes Goggins is a badass, somewhat villainous ghoul gunslinger with a CGI-ed out nose, but there are lengthy stretches of the show about his time before the war as a Clint Eastwood-type movie star who starts shilling for Vault Tec while slowly learning the company’s actual plans.
Beyond its overall tone – a world filled with violent delights in a science-fiction setting – Cooper Howard, played by Walton Goggins (Justified), is perhaps the most direct line to Westworld. He is reminiscent of the Man in Black in Nolan and Joy’s sci-fi western, a violent cowboy with intimate knowledge of the world that he puts to frequent, terrifying use. Goggins is the kind of actor who effortlessly stands out in any cast, and even behind Ghoul prosthetics, Fallout is no exception. Goggins has one of my favorite lines in the show, citing the danger of getting distracted by bulls*** when trying to complete a primary mission. It is effective as a standalone joke and a reference to the inspirational video game.
It’s not hard to see why Amazon went to bat for Fallout. This is a weird, often hyper-violent, sometimes satirical black comedy that sits comfortably next to The Boys. While never quite as puerile or gross as some of Vought’s most extreme moments, Fallout consistently uses the darkness of its irradiated landscape to spin surreal jokes, from a talking brain-in-a-jar to an organ-harvesting robot spouting the honeyed tones of Matt Berry (of What We Do in the Shadows fame).
Not all of it holds together, but in its best moments the show underlines the game’s themes, poking at the ludicrousness of conservative doctrines when the empire has already crumbled. The Vault satirises nuclear-family mundanity, relocated underground in a hermetically sealed suburbia; the Brotherhood Of Steel’s cool exosuits are a spin on cultish feudalism. Ultimately, Fallout is playing not just with the iconography but also the power fantasy of the games — of one person deciding the fate of the world.
Cailee Spaeny had a monumental 2023 thanks to her role in Priscilla, but 2024 is gearing up to be even better for the actress. She stars in Alex Garland’s epic Civil Warand the upcoming space thriller Alien: Romulus, but all of that is nothing compared to her encounter with Taylor Swift at this year’s Golden Globes.
The Priscilla actress met Swift at the ceremony in January, where she was nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor. Not only did the two talk about their love of Kansas City football (one player in particular), but Swift also gushed over Spaeny’s breakout role in 2021’s Mare of Easttown alongside Kate Winslet. These are the types of conversations one should put on their resume.
Spaeny recalled the encounter in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I was so inarticulate,” she said. “I was like, ‘Your hair is so pretty,’ and I said to myself, ‘Oh my God, really!? Is that the only thing you’re going to say.’ I also said, ‘I’m a Chiefs fan and I love you,’ but I didn’t know what to say. And she was like, ‘Yeah, it’s all in one place now.’ And I was like, ‘Exactly!’ So I don’t have many fangirl moments, but that one was a big deal. Anyone my age would agree that you can’t keep your chill in that moment.”
It doesn’t matter how old you are! Adam Sandler also finds interacting with Swift to be nearly impossible.
Ruby Cruz, fellow Mare star (say that five times fast), was impressed with Swift’s memory. Spaeny added, “Taylor Swift brought up that she loved Mare of Easttown, which is so crazy, and Ruby [Cruz] went, ‘I’m in Mare of Easttown, too!’ And then Taylor said, ‘But you were blonde in Mare of Easttown, weren’t you?’” This is true, as Cruz famously switches up hair quicker than Swift’s wardrobe changes.
Spaeny added, “So I don’t know what that says about Taylor. Maybe it’s just that she’s a massive Mare of Easttown fan, which is very cool.” It should not be surprising that Swift has a good memory since she has to remember the lyrics to 44 songs every night on her Eras Tour. To be fair, her crowd probably sings/screams about 98 percent of it.
Luckily, Spaeny will be able to remember her moment with Swift forever, thanks to their brief meeting. “It was like I was looking at a real-life Disney princess. That photo is really great and sums it all up.”
If Leslie Knope lived in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, she might look something like Ella Purnell’s Lucy – the plucky, wide-eyed heroine of Amazon Prime Video’s latest streaming big swing, Fallout.
An adaptation of Bethesda’s massively popular RPG franchise, the show is produced by Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and helmed by Graham Wagner (The Office) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel). With those credits in mind, it’s no wonder the series sports a uniquely weird, retro-futuristic, atom-punk aesthetic – filled with enough Easter eggs to make gamers happy, and plenty of fascinating lore to entice newcomers.
Welcoming the uninitiated is where Purnell’s character comes in. A naively optimistic vault dweller sheltered from the consequences of nuclear fallout as part of a privileged few, Lucy is untested and ignorant of the world as it stands now. The bombs may have dropped hundreds of years earlier, but she, like us, is experiencing this lawless land – ravaged by centuries of drought and decay, ruled by ruthless anarchy – for the first time.
As she embarks on a rescue mission across a West Coast desert, she confronts plenty of unknowns – mutated Ghouls played by Walton Goggins, armored knights, strange scientists with killer K9 sidekicks, and an eclectic array of radioactive monsters hoping she doubles as a midday snack. Purnell, fresh off a stint on Showtime’s breakout drama Yellowjackets, is no stranger to survival stories, or IP that comes with big expectations. (She’s played in the Zack Snyder universe before.) But Fallout is a different beast, a decades-spanning gaming franchise with weighty themes disguised beneath offbeat satire and darkly comedic undertones, filled with an intimidating amount of world-building, dozens of iconic storylines, and breathtaking action sequences. Translating that to the small screen took Purnell out of her comfort zone – tasking her to swim with Gulpers, perform decapitation by hacksaw, and travel halfway across the world to film panoramic scenes of 2296-era Los Angeles on long-forgotten stretches of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.
UPROXX chatted with Purnell about that once-in-a-lifetime experience, the appeal of survival stories, and why she thought she had botched her audition for the show.=
Lucy is billed as someone who could star in a toothpaste commercial but could also kill you. How do you audition for that?
They described me to her as Leslie Knope meets Ned Flanders and I could just so picture that. Then I read the script and I familiarized myself a little bit with the games and the tone. This was before my audition. I guess I really wanted to play her pulled back. She is very self-assured. Obviously, she’s innocent and she’s naive and she’s privileged, and all of those things we already know about vault dwellers, but there’s more to her than meets the eye. There’s a danger, there’s a toughness, there’s an idea that if she was given the chance, if she was put in a situation, she could be someone else entirely, and that’s exactly what happens when she leaves the vault.
But I actually thought my audition went really badly and then I somehow got the part. I think my first words on the phone were, ‘Are you sure?’
What gave you the impression you weren’t going to get the part?
I mean it was on Zoom and it’s always kind of awkward. Someone’s always on mute and I don’t know, it was just a feeling. But here I am so what do I know?
Did you get a chance to play the game?
I absolutely did. They told me I didn’t have to [but] it was really important to me to respect the source material. I also love prep. I love to research. I guess I’m kind of like Lucy in that way. So I wanted to have more context, more stuff to sink my teeth into. I’m not very good at the actual playing of the game. I have trouble with the controls, so I spend a lot of time watching other people play on Twitch and YouTube and stuff like that.
I mean, the thing about jumping into a franchise, especially something that’s so well-loved and it’s been around for so long is there is so much information online. There is so much lore and at first, that’s obviously very intimidating, but the more you dive in, it’s just intoxicating. There’s just so much to learn and it made it even more powerful when I walked onto the set for the first time or I put the vault suit on for the first time. It’s truly, for lack of a less pretentious word, humbling to realize what you’re getting yourself into. And yeah, I really wanted to do justice to the source material and I wanted the fans of the game to enjoy it, but at the same time, this was my Lucy. She doesn’t exist in the games and I really wanted to play her a certain way.
The tricky thing about a video game adaptation is attracting non-gamers while doing justice to fans of the source material. Is there anything that might surprise audiences in terms of how the show straddles that line?
I think they did an incredible job bringing all of the details that are in the game to life — the vault suits, the Pip-Boys, the Nuka-Cola, the Radroach, there’s so much. Even the sets, they’re meticulously replicated. But also the themes, which is something that must be so, so difficult. One of the themes of the game is choice. The player gets to make all these different choices that directly affect the trajectory of where your character’s going to go, the journey, and they took that and demonstrated it with three separate characters that represent three different places. You are in the game. You start the games as a vault dweller, that’s Lucy, at the very beginning. Maximus is the only character who spent all of his time, his entire life in the Wasteland. [That’s] a very different experience.
Then there’s the ghoul who is a survivor. He has adapted in the way he had to and he’s been doing this a long, long time. You get these three kinds of archetypes that they’ve pulled from the game, and I just think that it’s so smart the way they did it — balancing the tone of drama and action with the comedy. Even the gore, even in moments that seem like they could be pulled out of a horror film, there is some ridiculous, satirical, absurd element that makes it Fallout.
Thinking of the parallels between Lucy and Jackie, your character on Yellowjackets – did working on that survival story prepare you in any way for this one?
I do think that things happen for a reason sometimes and everything that I’ve done, every piece of my work has kind of helped me in the next one, in a way. I’ve been lucky enough to get to explore survival as a theme in my work — and I say lucky because it’s something that fascinates me. It doesn’t always have to be these big-scale life-or-death situations. Even how you survive an emotion, how you survive an experience, a breakup, a divorce, a death. How do you just survive as a person and do you change? Do you lose your way, your morals? I think with Yellowjackets, you take Jackie and you put her in this impossible situation that she never thought she’d be in… she knew exactly who she was and what she was going to get out of her life, and then the plane crashed. It all went bottoms up and she tried to bend to adapt but she couldn’t. She bent so hard that she broke.
Whereas Lucy keeps on bending, and you’ll see when you watch the show, where she ends up at the end of the season is so different. It’s a different character from who she was at the beginning of the season. That fascinates me how you can put one person or a hundred different people in the same situation and every single person is going to react differently.
Is it a good or a bad thing that Lucy starts to bend, to lose some of her do-gooder optimism in the Wasteland?
Does she lose that part of herself? I’m a human spoil machine [so] I’ll try to say, I think almost everyone gets lost along the way and sometimes they come back to themselves and sometimes they do not. I think that Lucy… all the experiences that she has in the Wastelands change her, but I think the challenge for Lucy is how can she survive and still hold onto that moral compass and still believe. Is it possible to believe in the Golden Rule and live in the Wastelands at the same time? Is it possible? I don’t know, but it makes for really good TV.
You filmed in some remote locations – like hyenas living in abandoned mines, remote. What were some of the joys and challenges of that?
We didn’t come across any hyenas or jackals. Maybe some people did. I personally didn’t, but it was an ever-present risk [which] makes life exciting. It might be cheesy, but there weren’t any challenges. We got to film in some of the most beautiful locations in the world and we’re the first and the last people to ever film there – only eight people on a four-hour helicopter ride to get to this abandoned shipwreck That is not lost on me what an insane, lucky experience that is. Who knew the Namibian coastline could replicate the Pacific coast so wonderfully, but it does. I’m really excited for people to see Lucy exiting the vault and bear in mind that is in Africa where we shot that. It’s crazy.
You’ve done plenty of adaptations – whether it’s books or films in the Zack Snyder universe. How do you handle the expectations and the criticisms?
There’s nothing you can do about it. I have adopted the philosophy and mentality that what is not in my control is none of my business. It’s not my job to make people like my work. It’s my job to make work and I hope you like it, and if you don’t, you’re still talking about it.
All episodes of ‘Fallout’ will be available to stream on Amazon Prime on April 10 at 9PM ET
Is Kevin Costner returning for the final episodes of Yellowstone? It’s the question on everyone’s (well, mostly dads’) lips. The actor, who got into a rumored disagreement with creator Taylor Sheridan, commented on whether he’ll be back during an appearance at CinemaCon on Tuesday.
“I’d like to be able to do it, but we haven’t been able to,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I thought I was going to make seven [seasons], but right now we’re at five. So how it works out — I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on. Maybe it will. Maybe this will circle back to me. If it does and I feel really comfortable with [it], I’d love to do it.”
He continued, “[John Dutton] needs to be proactive in what happens and I’ve kind of had my own fantasy how [his final arc] might be. But that’s Taylor’s thing. I said as much to him a while back. I had thoughts how it could happen, but we just have to see.” Forget, Kev, it’s Yellowstone (Taylor’s Version).
Costner was at CinemaCon to promote his upcoming, Horizon: An American Saga, the first part of which opens in theaters on June 28. Meanwhile, the second half of the final season of Yellowstone premieres on November 10, with or without its cowboy hat-wearing star.
Before TikTok was the go-to app for new music discovery, aspiring rappers once launched their ambitions via SoundCloud, the streaming platform that was credited (or blamed, depending on how you look at it) for an entire new wave of young, unconventional rap stars. That number included Lil Nas X, who despite blowing up after willing his breakout single “Old Town Road” to unprecedented success on TikTok, made his original bid for stardom on SoundCloud with the mixtape Nasarati.
So, with a sequel, Nasarati 2, on the way, it only makes sense that he’s once again using SoundCloud to roll it out (although he’s still making use of TikTok to promote it). He previously shared the first song, “Light Again,” there, and today, he followed up with the second, “Right There.” While Nas’ past output has leaned toward pop rap, this song is more house-influenced, with a four-on-the-floor beat produced by Ojivolta. Lyrically, the song is a club come-on in which Nas reminds his romantic interest that he’s got a busy schedule, limited time, and just one life to live.
Nas took a little break from music after completing his Long Live Montero tour last year, but made his comeback this January with the controversial “J Christ” video. After fending off criticisms of mocking Christianity — after being demeaned nearly his entire career by Christians who objected to his sexuality — he pondered “Where Do We Go Now?” before announcing that he’s coming full-circle with the release of Nasarati 2.
No Doubt is headlining Coachella 2024, the first weekend of which kicks off in a few days. Given the band’s last album was back in 2012, there were questions about if they’d release any new music tied to their reunion this year.
During a new cover interview for Nylon, lead singer Gwen Stefani addressed whether they would be returning with another record.
Here’s what to know.
Will There Be New No Doubt Music After Their Coachella 2024 Reunion?
Stefani told the publication that she was “open to anything,” but No Doubt has no plans for new music as of right now. Their Coachella reunion will more just be an ending of sorts to the band, since they got their start back in 1986 and Stefani went on to keep a solo career.
When the band worked on their 2012 album Push And Shove, Stefani struggled with being away from her family and seems to suggest that she doesn’t love all the songs that came from it.
She describes that Coachella is “going to be a really nice bow to tie on the relationship, because we were kids [when we met],” she said. “I already know what it’s going to feel like because we’re just so in sync when we’re onstage. It’s going to feel like riding a bike again. We’re going to be laughing, and we’re going to look at each other and go, ‘Oh my gosh — there you are.’”
The madcap trailer features Joker and Harley seemingly making a break from Arkham Aslyum where the two of them are both inmates. This is a significant departure from the comics where Harley was originally a psychiatrist at the facility before being seduced by the Clown Prince of Crime. That departure from the source material has some people convinced that the Joker sequel might take another big swing with their relationship.
Do Joker And Harley Quinn Get Married In Joker: Folie À Deux?
The Joker: Folie à Deux trailer is filled with several musical vignettes where Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck/Joker is occasionally wearing a suit similar to his appearance in the first film. Harley and Joker are often seen romantically dancing together in different locations, and this could be to celebrated their wedding bliss. Plot details are being kept closely under wraps, so there’s no way to know for certain. The characters never wed in the comics, but like the first film, Joker: Folie à Deux, is putting its own spin on the iconic Batman villain.
There’s also the matter of whether any of their activities outside of Arkham are actually happening, or if Joker and Harley are having a shared delusion of escaping the facility. For all we know, the events of the film are all inside Arthur or Harley’s head.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4.
The Hot Girl Coach is sharing the details of her go-to workouts. In a profile for Women’s Health, Megan Thee Stallion shared how she keeps a healthy mind and body (ody-ody-ody). As part of her cover feature, she participated in an “Everything But The Sweat” video where she broke down her workout routine.
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Meg starts each morning with prayer. Afterwards, she puts anime on the television for background noise, then goes onto her balcony to meditate. She then thinks about her daily tasks, plays with her dogs, and then goes about doing her “hot girl activities.”
“I definitely prefer to workout in the morning,” Meg said in the video, “because you are really that girl if you jump out the bed and have working out on your mind. If you start your day with sweating, and squatting, and punching, and lifting, and doing ab workouts and stuff, you have no choice but to really tackle your day the same way.”
As she prefers to workout as soon as she wakes up, Meg prefers to keep her pre-workout meals light, her go-to’s including turkey bacon and two hard-boiled eggs, or a green juice made with spinach, kale, ginger, turmeric, collagen powder, and apples. Additionally, Meg takes supplements to help maintain her wellness.
“I definitely take vitamin C and I take magnesium,” said Meg. “Magnesium helps with my muscle aches and vitamin C like helps with the bone cartilage, because I’m on stage and like squatting for 60 to 90 minutes, and I need these knees and they be asking, what’s the secret to the making knees?”
Elsewhere in the video, Meg revealed the music on her workout playlist, which includes music by Young Dolph, Key Glock, and of course, her own song, “Freak Nasty.”
You can watch the full video above.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Specifically, it will be held on the Polo Field and is going to run from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. as the first-ever “after dark” show to take place there, according to Consequence. It’s also a special occurrence, since System Of A Down’s only other show so far for 2024 is at Vegas’ Sick New World festival. Furthermore, Deftones are only playing at Coachella and Lollapalooza.
For those looking to go this summer, here’s what to know about securing tickets.
How To Buy Tickets For System Of A Down And Deftones’ San Francisco Concert
Tickets for System Of A Down and Deftones’ Golden Gate show will first be available in the artist pre-sales that open today (April 10) at 10 a.m. PT. Additional pre-sales — including for Live Nation, Another Planet Entertainment, and Ticketmaster — will open up on Thursday, April 11.
From there, the concert’s tickets will open to the general public on Friday, April 12 at the same time.
Additional information about the one-day-only concert can be found here.
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