Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson played for 21 seasons in the major leagues, starting with the Kansas City Athletics in 1967 and retiring as a Los Angeles Angel in 1987.
But it was the year he spent playing minor league ball in Alabama that he opened up about in a Fox Sports pregame show at Rockwood Field in Birmingham. Jackson had played 114 games with the Birmingham Athletics before being called up to the majors, and when Alex Rodriguez asked him how it felt to be back in that place, he said bluntly that it was “not easy.”
As a Black player in 1967, Jackson faced virulent racism when the team traveled throughout the South, from restaurants to hotels to fancy venues the team was invited to. He shared examples of being called the n-word and not being allowed into various establishments. He said he’d never want to go through that experience again and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
He also shared how his managers, coaches and teammates had his back during such incidents. They refused to eat where he couldn’t eat or sleep where he couldn’t sleep. He said they helped him refrain from responding to racist attacks when he was “ready to physically fight.”
Watch him tell his story:
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Here are his remarks in full:
“Coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled. Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it. But I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. People said to me today, I spoke, and they said, ‘Do you think you’re a better person, do you think you won when you played here and conquered?’ I said, ‘You know, I would never want to do it again.’
“I walked into restaurants, and they would point at me and say, ‘The n***** can’t eat here.’ I would go to a hotel, and they would say, ‘The n***** can’t stay here.’ We went to Charlie Finley’s country club for a welcome home dinner, and they pointed me out with the N-word: ‘He can’t come in here.’ Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, ‘We’re going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers. We’ll go where we’re wanted.’
“Fortunately, I had a manager in Johnny McNamara that, if I couldn’t eat in the place, nobody would eat. We’d get food to travel. If I couldn’t stay in a hotel, they’d drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. Had it not been for Rollie Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe and Sharon Rudi, I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
“The year I came here, Bull Connor was the sheriff the year before, and they took minor league baseball out of here because in 1963, the Klan murdered four Black girls—children 11, 12, 14 years old—at a church here and never got indicted. The Klan—Life Magazine did a story on them like they were being honored.
“I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. At the same time, had it not been for my white friends, had it not been for a white manager, and Rudi, Fingers and Duncan, and Lee Meyers, I would never have made it. I was too physically violent. I was ready to physically fight some — I would have got killed here because I would have beat someone’s ass, and you would have saw me in an oak tree somewhere.”
People praised the commentators and show producers for letting Jackson say what he wanted to say without interrupting or cutting him off. Some shared that it’s vital to hear this part of our history from first-hand sources, as there are Americans who forget or deny that such incidents were commonplace within current adult lifetimes. Even knowing that Black players had a lot to overcome as segregation waned, it hits differently when you hear specific details.
Jackson’s story is a difficult but important reminder that Civil Right Act of 1965 changed the laws but didn’t magically flip the racist beliefs that made it necessary in the first place. But it’s also a good reminder that individual Americans rejecting those beliefs and standing up for racial justice is a part of our national history as well.
Chance The Rapper’s comeback trail continues with “Stars Out,” the latest single from Star Line, the follow-up to the Chicago rapper’s debut album, The Big Day. While previous singles “Buried Alive” and “Together” were heady, introspective songs about Chance’s efforts to rebuild his confidence and take care of his family after his first album underperformed, “Stars Out” is more celebratory, with Chance in more of a party mode, pulling out his Rolls-Royce Phantom to flex for a night on the town. However, Chano’s serpentine lyricism is still on full display, with rapid-fire punchlines peppering a jazzy instrumental.
Although it’s getting a little late in the year for Chance to hit his intended release window of spring 2024, Chance has probably earned himself a little grace with his confident singles. He also deserves a little after experiencing some upheaval in his personal life; in April, it was revealed he and his wife Kirsten Corley had agreed to a divorce after a trial separation — a decision that definitely prompted some soul-searching for the noted wife guy. Now that he’s recalibrated his identity to account for the loss, though, he’s got the release of Star Line to look forward to — and so do we, the fans.
George Kittle has established himself as one of the NFL’s best and most complete tight ends, helping the San Francisco 49ers offense in any way he can. Kittle is an elite receiver, with three 1,000 yard receiving seasons as a pro, including the 2023 campaign, but takes just as much pride in his blocking as he does running routes.
Being able to do it all is why Kittle loves the tight end position, and he wants to give tight ends across the league the tools to succeed. That’s why Kittle, along with Greg Olsen and Travis Kelce, launched Tight End U back in 2018, which has become an annual event bringing in tight ends from across the league, from stars to guys fighting for roster spots, to let them refine their technique, learn from the best, and also unwind a bit before the season starts.
Ahead of the 2024 edition in Nashville, we caught up with Kittle on behalf of Bud Light — who are throwing the fellas a pool party and concert for this year’s Tight End U — to discuss his offseason, wanting to build a brotherhood at the tight end position, why it was important to give tight ends a place to get better, his favorite young tight ends, and a power ranking of the guys that’ll put back the most Bud Lights at the pool party.
How’s the offseason been and now getting into mini camp and all that, how are you feeling as you get ready for another season here?
Offseason’s been really fun. I’ve been able to do enough to kind of get away, let the body recover, rest, let the mind recover, but at the same time have been able to keep on with the training, rehab, all the stuff I’ve been doing to get ready for another football season. Being back in the Bay for a month was really fun, just to see new teammates and old teammates. It’s kind of crazy, cause I feel like this is one of the newer teams I’ve ever been on with the San Francisco 49ers besides like, my first two years. Like, we have an entirely new defensive line, at least that’s what it seems like besides about three guys. We just kind of have new faces all over and guys that are gonna have to have big roles, but after meeting them and having conversations with them, they seem like great guys and I’m glad that we have them on our team.
Besides that, you know, the summer is always a time of, it’s the last 40 days before the season starts. And then it becomes another seven months of like just a grind. And so it’s how much time do I want to keep my mind at ease or what’s my anxiety level of trying to train and be the tip-top shape for training camp. So it’s always a fun, interesting balance that my wife makes fun of me for, but I’ll figure it out at some point.
Part of that is Tight End U, and how did this come about? And why is this something that you still want to make sure is something you’re doing and putting your effort into, as you note, in this time of year where time is precious for you?
Tight End U really, it came about because I moved to Nashville back in 2018. And Nashville is like a booming place where a lot of NFL football players live, because it’s got a very mild weather in the winter, no state income tax, guys really like being able to buy big properties down here. And so, after one of my seasons, I asked Greg Olsen to come down when he was retiring and he was like, ‘Hey, let’s make it a bit of a thing. We’ll get Travis [Kelce] involved, and we’ll start inviting guys.’ And it went from we thought we’re gonna have 15 to 20 guys to we had 50 guys the first year, we’ve had years of 85 and I think this year we’re around the 70 mark.
And just really, the reason we wanted to do it was we wanted to bring guys in to increase the brotherhood of tight end position. Because I think when you think about the tight end position, it’s not like me and Travis Kelce ever really like play against each other. Like, we’re going against each other’s defenses, right? So, you know, and I always root for all the tight ends across the league, except for when they’re playing my team. I think that goes for everybody. But it’s really fun to bring everybody together. Now you have like young guys who, they’re not shy to meet Travis Kelce, they’re not shy to talk to Greg Olsen, David Njoku, Evan Engram, like they feel comfortable going out and talking to these guys.
And that’s a big part of it, I just want everyone feel comfortable talking to each other, making them feel like they know everybody across the league. And then also it’s really fun to when you get to go up there to get to listen to Gronk talk about his yards after catch with the highlight tape. To hear Jordan Reed, who’s one of the best release guys, like one of the best receiving tight ends ever, to hear him talk about his thought process and his releases and then go out into a field and then do those releases. So you feel like you’re adding things to your arsenal. But the same time, when you hear like Travis talk about why he’s running routes and a certain way he’s doing it, it’s giving you an idea of his thinking, so halfway through the season when you’re watching Travis’s film about like, hey, they played the Giants and I play ’em, I have to breakdown this film. Hey, now I have a decent understanding about why he ran the route the way that he did, instead of just sitting there trying to guess.
I think that’s a really cool part too, you’re just understanding the way guys think. Or, I think the best thing is, you bring all these guys together and we always do a panel of like all the vets who’ve been in the league for longer than eight years — anywhere from Travis Kelce guys to guys who have grinded about six teams in eight years. And I think that’s really cool and it just kind of tells young guys, like these are the things I did well, these things that did bad, but I’m still in the league and I’m still grinding.
The tight end position, it’s such a unique spot because you’re tasked with doing so many things and each team is going to ask you to do different things. And how important is that to give young guys that idea of the breadth of the position and the things you’ll be asked to do. One offense might be more receiving, one offense might be more blocking, downfield, short stuff, and bringing everybody together and letting them see kind of the world outside of their locker room and their system. How important is that to developing those skills?
I always say the tight end position, in my opinion, is the most fun because it’s the only position where you actually get to do everything. I get to run routes, catch the ball, score touchdowns. I get to run block defensive ends. I get to do gap scheme with my offensive tackles, rollout linebackers. I get to pass pro $150 million rush ends, which is really fun for me. And like I’ve had reverses in the past, I got to run the ball and Trey Burton threw a touchdown in the Super Bowl. So like tight ends actually gonna try everything. You see Kelce throwing the ball randomly from time to time even on plays aren’t called for him to throw it.
So tight ends get to do everything, which is really fun, and what I want is I want all these young tight ends is to realize that because you play tight end, you get all these opportunities, I want them to have confidence in everything that a tight end does. So when their coach calls them and says like, ‘Hey, you have to pass pro, and if this guy blitzes, you have to pick up the defensive end by yourself.’ I want him to have an understanding of like, okay, I learned at Tight End U this year, I’m gonna keep my head on the inside shoulder, let them win upfield, don’t lunge, keep my head out of it, and like try to run him by. And I’m going to try to give guys tips, so they’re not just in the dark there.
And one thing too is I think at the tight end position, there’s a lot of great tight end coaches in the league, but I think that there’s not a lot of great tight end coaches in college. So I think a lot of young guys don’t really pick up on all the tips that you need to learn. Now I was very lucky when I got the NFL I had a tight end coach, John Embry, who coached Tony Gonzalez and he coached some Buccaneers Pro Bowl tight ends, so he’s had a really solid string of Pro Bowl tight ends. And he kind of taught me the foundation of being an NFL tight end as opposed to what I was in college, and helped me learn a lot. So I just try to pass on some of those tips to all the young guys.
This year you’ve got a partner in Bud Light who’s gonna help you have a little fun off the field as well, how did that come together and how excited are you to give the guys a little pool party so they can wind down a bit as well?
One thing I love about tight ends is that we’re all pretty easygoing, and a thing I really love about Bud Light is their goal is just to make everything really easy and enjoyable. Whether it’s a backyard pool party, whether it’s a country concert, whether you’re just hanging out with your friends, I really enjoy that about Bud Light. And you know, they’ve been a partner since day one of Tight End U since we first started it four years ago. They’ve been a partner of mine since 2020, and so just it’s really fun to be able to partner with somebody who also sticks around for the entire thing. So that’s been really fun. We’re really looking forward to the backyard pool party. We got a DJ, let guys let loose a little bit. Let ’em have some fun out there in a pool in this Nashville heat and humidity. It’ll be good for the boys a little bit, I’ll tell you that much.
Power ranking, who’s gonna put down the most Bud Lights at the pool party?
That’s a great question. I think it’s going to be a toss up between me and Goedert. Dallas Goedert’s an absolute stallion. He’s one of my favorites. And so that’s my goal. It’s going to be me and him, and then maybe I get my guy [Robert] Tonyan in on that a little bit. He needs some encouragement once in a while, but I think I can get him going.
What’s the advice that you really hope guys can take away from Tight End U beyond just the specifics of the on field craft, but the thing you really want the young guys who come in to take away from the experience?
Well, like I said, I was really lucky. I had an awesome [tight ends] room when I was a rookie, right? I had a vet tight ends coach who was super old school, we’re gonna work our tails off, I’m gonna make it as simple as possible, and I’m gonna try to give you all the tips that you can use on your tool belt, like your Batman [belt] that you can use in a game. But then I also had to vet tight ends in that room between Garrett Celek, who was an eight year guy, and Logan Paulsen, who was like a 10 year guy. Both long tenured tight ends who were known not for receiving stuff, but their reliability and stuff like that.
So I learned how to build this great foundation and if I can just pass on like 10 percent of that information that I was given to these young guys and it sticks at all, I just want to give these guys the confidence in themselves to go out there and earn a roster spot. Because like Tight End U’s not about — like, I love having the big name guys here is great, but if I can like make an impact on one practice squad guy last year and it gives him, like, ‘This gives me a little bit more confidence, I have a little bit more understanding.’ And now he can go out there and make a roster spot, like that’s that’s what Tight End U is about. And so it’s just about giving these guys more tools in their tool belt where they can go back to training camp in 40 days and be like, this is what I learned, this I’m gonna use, these the techniques I’m going to use, and just give them another opportunity to win.
Lastly, is there any guy that stands out as a young guy in the league that you particularly like watching that’s come up recently at the tight end spot?
I think the obvious choice is Sam LaPorta there. He’s an Iowa guy. He had almost 1,000 yards this year, 10 touchdowns, like just an absolute freak. He’s in an offense where he’s featured a ton and Jared Goff does such a good job of all those bootlegs, play action stuff, and hitting tight ends over the middle. But besides LaPorta, I think my guy Michael Mayer out with the Raiders. I think he had a year of learning and he played good football, you know, he made some good plays, but a lot of it was just learning how to be an NFL football player. And I think he’s going to take a huge step forward this year, especially now that added Brock Bowers and like, I don’t think that’s going to take away necessarily from many of his targets, but I think it’s going to just open up their offense. So now you have two really good tight ends and Davante [Adams] on the outside and they still got good running backs. I think that offense is going to be able to take a step forward. I think you’re gonna see Michael Mayer take some good steps.
Jamie Campbell Bower, the actor who plays bad guy Vecna on the Netflix series, discussed season 5 on a recent episode of the I’ve Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDario podcast. “If you thought last season was nuts, this season is just out of control, wild, like, it’s bonkers. It really, really is,” he teased. “It’s bigger. It’s just completely insane. It’s completely insane.”
“Out of control” and “completely insane” also describes me after drinking three (3) White Claws. But when Stranger Things does it, it’s a good thing…
Previously, Bower’s co-star Maya Hawke talked about the final season. “I mean it’s the end of a really long journey. Longer for some of my castmates, even, than me. So it’s really sentimental,” she said. “But as a late addition cast member, I feel like it’s my job to be here to facilitate their feelings and just be grateful and excited to have been a part of it at all.” Hawke added, “We shoot for a long time, so it’s kind of reinvigorating [to bring] the joy and finding it everyday and making it new. It’s a really fun thing to do.”
Stranger Things season 5 will premiere on Netflix in 2025. You can listen to the podcast below.
Way back in December 2022, ASAP Rocky announced the title of his long-awaited fourth studio album: Don’t Be Dumb. However, as recently as last July, there was still no official sign of the album’s release despite the then-recent releases of singles like “Riot (Rowdy Pipe’n)”,” “DMB,” and “Same Problems.”
But Rocky’s longsuffering fans have finally been given a release date, which the rapper apparently announced at the conclusion of his Paris Fashion Week show for AWGE “American Sabotage,” where he previewed music from the album. Don’t Be Dumb is now due on August 30, with a pre-save link going live right after the show. Rocky also shared the link to the American Sabotage collection, which features box sets of the album with merch like T-shirts, hats, and hoodies alongside CDs of the album.
A$AP Rocky is mixing & mastering his new album ‘DON’T BE DUMB’
Although it has been over six years since the release of Rocky’s last album Testing, the Harlemite has plenty of good reasons for the delays. In April 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of a 2021 assault in which he allegedly shot a former member of his ASAP Mob crew. Meanwhile, in more positive news for the fashionable rapper, he and girlfriend Rihanna had two children together, Riot and RZA. Even though he’s still awaiting trial, it looks like Rocky has more to look forward to than not, and now, so do his fans.
Don’t Be Dumb is due on 8/30 via ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds, RCA. You can find more info here.
The “this” in question being kicking ass for nearly two hours in her Netflix movie Trigger Warning, playing a special forces commando who returns home when her father dies mysteriously and his business is put in jeopardy. Not too long ago, Alba was serving as the visionary behind her billion-dollar brainchild, The Honest Company, an eco-friendly brand that’s tailor made for the ingredient-aware crowd.
But in April, Alba took a step back from her duties as Chief Creative Officer of the company and, just a few months later, she’s back on our screens doing what made her famous decades ago. To hear her explain the decision to launch her own production company and partner with the minds behind John Wick and Sicario to make a female-fronted action flick that pays homage to the gritty, knuckle bruisers of the ’80s is to hear an artist successfully navigating the business side of Hollywood. She’s no-nonsense about the stories she wants to see made – ones that are more diverse and grounded in authenticity – and the morale she wants to cultivate on set. The testosterone can go, and so can the unwillingness to collaborate and compromise – two abilities she honed while running her company for 12 years.
UPROXX chatted with Alba about her new approach to moviemaking, how her Netflix film helped her heal from a devastating loss, and the one request she had for the John Wick stunt guys.
It’s been five years since you’ve starred in a film. Why did you want to jump back into things now, and with this movie?
I just thought this would be really fun to do, to be honest. I love doing action. I think it’s so fun to watch a gritty action movie, and this is kind of a throwback. The producers, they did John Wick and they also did Sicario, so I knew they knew how to do these elevated action movies, and I was like, ‘What is one that we could create that feels really authentic?’ We’re paving our own way and owning our own lane and being able to do it through this feminine lens. We brought in a woman writer, the director’s a woman, and a lot of the department heads were women. The DP was a woman, the onset producers are women, so the set felt really different from the normal kind of machismo type set. There really wasn’t any of that. That nonsense would not fly on this set. It felt, not easy, but manageable in a different way.
Is it like riding a bike? Do the moves just come back to you once you start doing the choreography?
It was humbling in the beginning just because my body wasn’t physically there, so that took a bit, it was like two months of training. Learning the knife skills was a new challenge for me and that was fun. I’ve never really fought with knives like that. I’ll add that to the list of the things that I can do now.
Your character really loves her knives.
I think the hand-to-hand combat, with her taking down these bigger guys, it made it more realistic. It would’ve been a little harder without the knife, frankly.
How has the industry, and your approach to movie-making, changed since the beginning of your career?
Yeah, I mean a lot is different, which is great. There are so many more opportunities with all the streamers for diversity and for different representation to come forward, which is so nice. I feel also more comfortable in standing in my truth and saying what I won’t do. If this doesn’t feel right, I have no problem with saying no because ultimately, I know it’s going to be me up there or it’s going to be me on location having to do the thing, day in and day out, and I have to really feel connected to it.
Speaking of, what about this movie convinced you it was worth dedicating that kind of time to?
I think that strong connection to family is something I could relate to very much. I just happened to be, around this time, grieving my grandfather who was a father figure of mine. So it was kind of cathartic going through that. I’d never really experienced a loss that close to me before. So that storyline really made sense.
Were there any stunts that made you nervous on the day?
I had so much trust and faith in the stunt team. They worked out all of the choreography before I even got there and they made sure that I was going to look cool. I was like, ‘I just want to look badass. I don’t want to look like weak sauce over here or else it’s not believable. The audience will sniff it out.’
Is there a parallel between running your own business and being a producer on the set of a film? Does one help you understand the other?
The thing is about business is, even if it is your company and your vision, ultimately you have to have a great team in order for anything to get done. And I think very much in Hollywood, you need a great team in order for anything to get done. It’s about building bridges, it’s about relationships and making connections, people just wanting to be seen and feel respected and also, they don’t want to be micromanaged. That was something early in my business life that did a lot of: micromanaging. I had to learn how to pull back and trust people. That’s hard to do because I felt like my business was my baby. And in a lot of ways on the set, you have to allow people to kind of take the reins and be the experts in what they’re hired there to do and trust ’em. It’s not always going to be perfect, people are going to make mistakes but you got to keep it moving.
“Writing this entire song from 2am to 6am was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. @taylorswift13 now we know how to use a fire extinguisher. I love you,” Abrams, who released her second album The Secret Of Us on Friday, wrote on X about the Swift collab “Us.” She also shared a video of The Incident. The pair are trying — and mostly failing — to put out a fire after a candle fell over in Swift’s New York City apartment. “I think we’re going to die,” Swift says while holding the fire extinguisher. Spoiler: they didn’t die.
Be sure to stick around for Mr. Benjamin Button’s last-second cameo.
Writing this entire song from 2am to 6am was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. @taylorswift13 now we know how to use a fire extinguisher. I love you. pic.twitter.com/aJtqSgmUdR
Abrams talked about the fire in an interview with People. “She was such a legend – I don’t know how at this hour or in our state she knew what to do. We both had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks,” she said. Abrams also praised working with Swift and The National’s Aaron Dessner, who produced The Secret Of Us. “Something caught our ear at the same time very hard and fast. So we ran to the piano and started writing this song. I used to fantasize about that kind of a thing as a kid,” she raved.
The Secret Of Us is out now via Interscope. Find more information here.
When Twitter is inevitably reduced to ashes, only three accounts will be missed: @dril, @Snoopy, and @darkuniverse. Universal Pictures had big plans for a monster-based cinematic universe, which is a fun idea. But following the negative reaction to the Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy, the studio pulled the plug on future films. All that remains is a cast photo at @darkuniverse.
But like Frankenstein (or, sigh, Frankenstein’s monster) rising from a mad man’s table, the Dark Universe is alive.
Universal Orlando revealed the first details about Dark Universe, one of five new worlds coming to Epic Universe. The land will feature Universal monsters like the Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man (presumably throwing some sort of graveyard smash), as well as new characters, including Dr. Victoria Frankenstein. “As guests venture through Darkmoor – the ravaged village within Dark Universe – they’ll encounter the characters and subjects of those experiments within a first-of-its-kind theme park environment that offers family-friendly fun while also pushing the boundaries on intensity in a way that only Universal could achieve,” according to Universal.
Attractions include dark ride Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment, which is described as “Universal Orlando’s most terrifying attraction yet,” and family-friendly coaster Curse of the Werewolf. There will also be a monster meet and greet, the Das Stakehaus restaurant, and The Burning Blade Tavern for food and drinks. It’s like a year-round Halloween (to go along with Universal’s Universal Horror Unleashed).
The Dark Universe movies didn’t work, but Universal’s Dark Universe looks awesome. You can see photos below.
It feels like yesterday The Dare burst onto the scene with “Girls.” That was actually almost two years ago now, though, which would put his upcoming debut album into “long-awaited” territory. Well, await no more (well, for not much longer): Today (June 21), The Dare announced What’s Wrong With New York, a new album that’s set for September 6.
He also shared a new song, “Perfume.” The tune is characteristically punchy, propelled by in-your-face drums and bass, with guitars and synths working their way into the mix that’s as straightforward as it is dynamic.
Furthermore, The Dare is going on his first headline tour of North America this fall, throughout September. Tickets are on sale now, so find more information here.
Watch the “Perfume” video above and find the What’s Wrong With New York cover art and tracklist below, as well as The Dare’s upcoming tour dates.
The Dare’s What’s Wrong With New York Album Cover Artwork
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The Dare’s What’s Wrong With New York Tracklist
1. “Open Up”
2. “Good Time”
3. “Perfume”
4. “Girls”
5. “I Destroyed Disco”
6. “You’re Invited”
7. “All Night”
8. “Elevation”
9. “Movement”
10. “You Can Never Go Home”
The Dare 2024 Tour Dates
09/05 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
09/06 — Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
09/07 — Montreal, QC @ Palomosa Festival (Parc Jean Drapeau)
09/10 — Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
09/11 — Washington, DC @ Atlantis
09/12 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
09/14 — Detroit, MI @ El Club
09/15 — Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
09/17 — Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
09/18 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
09/20 — Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
09/21 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/22 — Portland, OR @ Holocene
09/26 — San Francisco, CA @ New Parish
09/27 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
What’s Wrong With New York is out 9/6 via Republic Records. Find more information here.
Of course many actors promote their projects by claiming that “the best ever” season or movie sequel is in the cards. Yet when Norman Reedus utters that sentiment? Believable. The dude simply has a passion for the projects that he chooses, and that authenticity shows. Currently, Keanu Reeves’ best bike buddy and the man who has embodied Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead shows for over a decade is promoting The Bikeriders, in which he looks very different than his usual grunge-out-of-necessity appearance on TV.
Naturally, the subject of the Daryl Dixon spin off arose because fans are enthralled with the prospect of Carol and Daryl reuniting and enjoying some time in France while fighting glam walkers. During an interview with Radio Times, Reedus was happy to indulge his bread and butter with a bold claim:
“Season 2 is phenomenal. Season 1 was fun, but Season 2 is, like, mind-blowing. The finale of Season 2, the last episode, is the best one-hour of ‘Walking Dead’ television ever, like ever, in everything.”
Also, would you like a tiny tease of Season 3 and maybe even Season 4? Of course: “And we’re about to start Seasons 3 and possible 4, possibly 4 in Spain.” In the below clip, he then wondered if he should have shared that before deciding what’s done is done.
It’s not much info, but it’s something, and thankfully, there’s a whole lot of Norman Reedus in our futures. Not only is The Walking Dead still undead, but The Bikeriders is now out in theaters, and for some reason, those Boondocks Saints are still gearing up for a third round. What I’d really like to know, however, is whether Carol finds the Nest on her own, or if Daryl leads her there, and they share potato duties. These are the important details, man.
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
