Month: September 2024

For years, Warped Tour was an iconic event in punk and alternative rock music. It first launched in 1995, but the touring event ended its run in 2018, hosting a three-date stint in 2019 before going dormant. Fans still yearning for that era, though, finally have some good news: Warped Tour is coming back.

According to Pollstar, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman confirmed reports of the event returning in 2025 for its 30th anniversary. He said, “We have something cooking for 2025. Details should be ready in a few weeks.”

In 2018, Lyman told Billboard, “I’ve done everything I can in the format that this is in. It wasn’t supposed to be around 24 years. It wasn’t supposed to be around more than one year. But enough people saw what I was trying to do. […] I know Warped Tour isn’t perfect, but the world’s not perfect, and I think that the kids that came here from a society where we always look for perfect weren’t perfect, but they realized they were all right.”

The lineup for the 2019 edition of Warped Tour featured Blink-182, Bad Religion, The Offspring, Anti-Flag, Andrew WK, Atmosphere, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Jawbreaker, NOFX, Sum 41, Hawthorne Heights, Simple Plan, The Used, and more.

Joel Embiid isn’t going anywhere. Embiid, the star center for the Philadelphia 76ers who has made his aspirations of competing for a championship clear regardless of which team he suits up for, agreed to a contract extension with the team on Friday morning. In a bit of news reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic, Embiid signed a 3-year max extension that will pay him $193 million.

The extension means that Embiid is signed with the Sixers for the next five seasons — although the deal does have a player option for 2028-29 — and will make $301 million over the life of this deal. And not long after the news dropped, Embiid posted confirmation that he’s staying in Philly on his Instagram account.

“Philadelphia is home,” Embiid wrote. “I want to be here for the rest of my career.I love this community and everything you’ve given me and my family. There is a lot more work to do. You guys deserve a championship and I think we’re just getting started! #Trust the process”

The 2022-23 NBA MVP, Embiid has spent the entirety of his NBA career in Philadelphia, as the team selected him with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. To say his tenure with the franchise has been tumultuous is an understatement, and while he has flirted with the idea of leaving the team in the past, the Sixers have invested heavily in trying to put the right team around him in recent years. Now, with Tyrese Maxey continuing to flourish and Paul George on a big money contract, the Sixers believe they have all the pieces in place around Embiid to finally get him to at least the Eastern Conference Finals.

As Chappell Roan has become a leading pop star in 2024, she has been candid about the negative parts of being famous. The whole situation is getting to her so much, in fact, that she was recently diagnosed with “severe depression,” she revealed in a new interview with The Guardian.

Discussing coping with the struggles of her newfound fame, Roan said she’s coping “how anyone would,” explaining, “I’m in therapy twice a week. I went to a psychiatrist last week because I was like, I don’t know what’s going on. She diagnosed me with severe depression — which I didn’t think I had because I’m not actually sad. But I have every symptom of someone who’s severely depressed.” Those symptoms include brain fog, forgetfulness, poor focus, and “a very lacklustre viewpoint.”

She went on, “I think it’s because my whole life has changed. Everything that I really love to do now comes with baggage. If I want to go thrifting, I have to book security and prepare myself that this is not going to be normal. Going to the park, pilates, yoga — how do I do this in a safe way where I’m not going to be stalked or harassed?”

Check out the full interview here.

Steven and Ian begin today’s episode by reacting to the recent Sean “Diddy” Combs news, and speculate on whether Get Him To The Greek is the most cancelable movie of all time. From there, they talk about the Father John Misty album announcement, and muse about the Pure Comedy album cycle. Steven then brings up Ian’s great recent profile of Japandroids, which digs deep into the personal backstory of the band ahead of their farewell album.

They also talk about Bright Eyes upon the release of their album, Five Dice, All Threes, and some troubling viral concert moments. Speaking of viral concert moments, the guys also dig into the recent reunion craziness involving Jane’s Addiction and The Smiths.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the New Zealand emo band Yon Loader and Steven stumps for the latest from Nilüfer Yanya.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 207 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 X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Millennials are having it rough lately; in addition to dismal employment, housing, and romantic prospects all around, our nostalgic memories of our childhoods — all we have to hold onto, really — have been upended a whole bunch in recent months.

The latest upheaval: Nelly is being sued by members of his former group, St. Lunatics, over songwriting credits and royalties from his hit debut album, Country Grammar. Released in 2000 to widespread acclaim and truly breathtaking commercial success — it spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — Country Grammar spawned three top-40 hits: “E.I.,” “Ride Wit Me,” and the title track. It also launched the St. Lunatics’ empire, which consisted of sneakers, energy drinks, clothing lines, and even an appearance in NBA Street Vol. 2 as playable characters.

Unfortunately, according to Ali, City Spud, Kyjuan, and Murphy Lee, Nelly did not give them fair credit on the album, keeping them from being properly paid for a number of its tracks which they say they helped co-write (the group’s sixth member, Slo Down, is not included as a plaintiff). Although various members are listed as co-writers throughout the album, they say they weren’t credited on “Country Grammar,” “Steal the Show,” “Thicky Thick Girl,” and “Wrap Sumden.”

Nelly has previously acknowledged that his friends wrote on those songs (it’s no secret that he was never the strongest lyricist in the group, and that they rallied behind him specifically to get their foot in the door as a collective). However, the lawsuit says, “Despite repeatedly promising plaintiffs that they would receive full recognition and credit… it eventually became clear that defendant Haynes had no intention of providing the plaintiffs with any such credit or recognition.”

According to Billboard, though, the case could be complicated by the St. Lunatics claiming ownership rather than infringement, as “copyright infringement lawsuits can be filed decades after an infringing song is released, disputes over copyright ownership face a stricter three-year statute of limitations.”

As for why it took the group so long to pursue legal action,they explain, “Unfortunately, plaintiffs, reasonably believing that their friend and former band member would never steal credit for writing the original compositions, did not initially pursue any legal remedies.” After retaining legal counsel and reaching out to Universal Music Publishing Group, they were referred to Nelly’s attorneys, who they say “expressly repudiated” their claims in 2021.

Nelly, of course, sold half of his catalog in 2023 for $50 million. He’s not just facing civil issues at the moment, either; he was arrested in August for possession of ecstasy.

One thing GloRilla is good at: giving fans rambunctious singalong anthems with crowd-pleasing chants set to soul-shaking beats. Her latest is “Hollon” — as in “hold on” with that inscrutable Memphis accent of hers — and it’s a stern warning to not start with Glo, because she’ll certainly end it. As she puts it in the first verse: “you must not know what you just started / Me and my bitches go gnarly / Give a f*ck about this party / We gon’ step on sh*t regardless.”

The single is the first from GloRilla’s heavily anticipated debut album Glorious, which she announced today after a busy year that included joining Megan Thee Stallion on tour, releasing a hit mixtape, Ehhthang Ehhthang (told y’all about that accent), getting arrested for a DUI, performing at the BET Awards and the MTV VMAs, and receiving the key to the city of Memphis.

Glorious, which takes inspiration from GloRilla’s real name, Gloria, is due for release on October 11. It also might not be the last project she releases in the near future, as she and Megan Thee Stallion both expressed interest in recording a joint album. Stay tuned.

You can watch the video for “Hollon” above.

Glorious will be out on 10/11 via CMG/Interscope. Find more information here.

Although it has been over six months since Schoolboy Q released his new album, Blue Lips, the California rapper supports the album today with two new music videos. The first, for “Lost Times,” sees Q reimagine classic cartoon characters with darker skin to draw attention to the way popular media — even children’s cartoons — erased Black contributions to culture. Among the references are Snow White, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, and Tweety Bird of Looney Tunes, and Mickey Mouse. You can watch the video above.

In the second video, “Thank God 4 Me,” more abstract but traditional imagery permeates an antsy, paranoid visual companion of one of the more bipolar tracks from the album. While the majority of the song revolves around a soothing sample of Julius Brockington’s “Forty-Nine Reasons,” the beat switches to a jumpy, horn-driven fight anthem that evokes the reckless, forceful energy of Waka Flocka Flame’s “O Let’s Do It.” You can check it out below.

Blue Lips was a triumphant comeback for Q after five years away from the limelight, earning a spot on the Best Hip-Hop Albums Of March 2024 from Uproxx. What kept him away all that time? Golf. Since releasing the album, he’s been on a North American promotional tour, interrupted by a cancelation in Toronto, which he jokingly blamed on Drake and his participation in Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out concert during the two rappers’ beef.

Although Future is calling his new album Mixtape Pluto, he’s not straying too far away from the heartbroken habits that got him where he is. In the video for “Too Fast,” the first(!) single from the album, Future laments moving too quickly in love and letting his guard down too easily — especially when it comes to his bank account. In the chorus, Future lists all the gifts he’s given to women who only broke his heart in the end, coming to the conclusion that he’s got to do better research if he’s going to be spending all this money.

“Bought a Patek, I was movin’ too fast,” he worries. “New G-Wagon, I was movin’ too fast / Got the condo, I was movin’ too fast / Only sorry ’cause I was movin’ too fast / So we said I knew it wasn’t gon’ last.”

Mixtape Pluto is Future’s first solo project since 2022’s I Never Liked You, which generated Future’s first No. 1 single, “Wait For U” with Drake and Tems. However, it’s his third project this year overall after he dropped two collaborative albums with Metro Boomin: We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You.

You can watch the video for “Too Fast” above.

Mixtape Pluto is out now via Freebandz/Epic. You can find more info here.

So far, the rollout for Tommy Richman’s debut album Coyote has consisted of contemplative mid-tempo cruisers like his breakout hit “Million Dollar Baby” and its follow-ups “Devil Is A Lie” and “Thought You Were The One.” Lest listeners get too sleepy slogging through a bunch of samey-sounding singles, Richman turns up the tempo on his latest, “Whitney.” A toe-tapping, groovy dance jam, “Whitney” sees Tommy applying his signature falsetto to much more pulse-moving percussion that takes cues from nu-disco and a bit of new wave kick drum.

In a press release about Coyote, Richman decries criticizes that he only has one a single mode of songwriting, saying, “I’ve been building up my discography for years. I’m not a one-hit-wonder.”

Hey look, even if he was, it’s still a pretty impressive feat to earn acknowledgement from former President Barack Obama, who put “Million Dollar Baby” on his annual summer playlist alongside standouts from the likes of Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Saweetie, and Shaboozey. Brent Faiyaz may have given him a leg up, but he’s definitely taken the torch and run with it.

You can listen to Tommy Richman’s “Whitney” above and see the full tracklist below.

Coyote is due on September 27 via ISO Supremacy/PULSE Records. Get more information here.

Tommy Richman Coyote Tracklist

1. “Elephant in The Room”
2. “Whitney”
3. “Temptations”
4. “Whisper In My Ear”
5. “Give It All”
6. “Tennessee” (with Trevor Spitta & Zachary Moon)
7. “Thought You Were the One”
8. “Letterman” (with Paco)
9. “Green Therapy”
10. “Vanity”
11. “Seems Like Time Moves Forever” (with mynameisntjmack)

Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, began teasing something new earlier this month, leading many of his fans to speculate he might have a new album on the way after five years, and just a couple of days ago, he announced a new single, “SPEYSIDE” (stylized as “S P E Y S I D E”). Featuring Vernon singing and playing guitar, regular collaborator Rob Moose playing viola, and production from Vernon and Jim-E Stack, “SPEYSIDE” arrived with a black-and-white music video, in which Vernon sits in a recording space barefoot strumming his guitar.

The new single was also accompanied by some news that should be exciting for fans: Vernon’s releasing a new collection of music, his first since 2019’s i,i. It’s called Sable, and it’ll consist of a three-song EP releasing via Jagjaguwar on October 18. According to a press release, it was recorded “at April Base in Wisconsin, but conceived in places like Key West and the Isles of Minneapolis.” The stripped-down arrangements will focus on Vernon’s vocal and guitar, with lyrics grappling with “projections of guilt, anguish and turmoil,” as well as what it means to be Bon Iver, which Vernon describes as “playing a part.” However, after getting himself together and thinking “thinking increasingly about the process of healing” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdowns, Vernon’s clearly ready to get back to business.

You can watch Bon Iver’s “SPEYSIDE” video above.

Sable is due on 10/18 via Jagjaguwar. You can find more information here.