Last week, Doechii teased the Family Matters-inspired video for “Denial Is A River,” a standout track from her Alligator Bites Never Heal mixtape. The video is now here, and it’s not only picked with cameos, including Abbott Elementary favorite Zack Fox, ScHoolboy Q, Rickey Thompson, Teezo Touchdown, Earl Sweatshirt, SiR, Baby Tate and DJ Miss Milan, it’s also a pitch-perfect homage to classic 1990s sitcoms. Bonus points for the ragdoll toss that’s straight out of an episode of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
You can watch the “Denial Is A River” video above.
“This song is really just like people hearing how I am, the inner dialogue that I’m having with myself,” Doechii told Rolling Stone about “Denial Is A River,” which was inspired by “A Children’s Story” by Slick Rick. “Like, OK, maybe you should really unpack that. This is an inner dialogue that I’m having with the voices in my head. It just seems like I’m less crazy because I do it with a funny voice.”
The “Magic I Want U” singer has announced a new album, Revengeseekerz, on deadAir Records. There’s no tracklist or release date for the follow-up to 2023’s Census Designated yet, but you can listen to the part hip hop, part hyperpop first single, “JRJRJR,” in the video directed by Parker Corey above.
“When I listen to my music, I can tell that I made it,” Jane Remover told Alternative Press when asked about the throughline across her music. “Being an artist is distinguishing that sound and making it your own, even if it’s, for lack of better words, a cookie-cutter type of song or album or project. There could be a hundred musicians who all make an album with just their voice and the guitar, Pink Moon-type shit. But it’s going to sound different because everybody sings differently and writes differently.
4/23/2025 — Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry*
4/25/2025 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall*
4/26/2025 — Detroit, MI @ El Club*
4/27/2025 — Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups*
4/30/2025 — Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground*
5/02/2025 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair*
5/03/2025 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg*
5/04/2025 — Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church*
5/05/2025 — Washington, DC @ Atlantis*
5/07/2025 — Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Hell*
5/09/2025 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall – Upstairs*
5/10/2025 — Austin, TX @ Parish*
5/12/2025 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater*
5/13/2025 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court*
5/16/2025 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos^
5/17/2025 — Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl^
5/18/2025 — Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre^
5/20/2025 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent^
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For the most part, year-end music lists don’t really wait until the end of the year, instead dropping at some point usually around early December. Tyler The Creator, though, decided to wait until the last minute, December 31st, to share his top songs of the year.
He did so on X (formerly Twitter), listing tracks by artists including Kendrick Lamar, GloRilla, Tommy Richman, Mk.gee, Luj Tyler, and himself. The tweet reads:
“2024 FAVORITE SONGS:
knowledge- uaintfrmhere
david miller- just in the way
kendrick – gnx
tanya blount -through the rain
lupe fiasco -dominican barber
az chike – 1up
sahbabii – viking
tyler -judge judy
glorilla -hollon
mkgee -alesis
tommy richman -green therapy
ill town family – real christmas
800 cherries – honey dew blue
luh tyler -change my ways
schoolboy q -cooties
thank you all for these songs im so grateful i get to hear them i love you i want to eat them broooooo.”
Somebody tried calling Tyler out for putting himself on his list, but Tyler confidently responded, “yeah i like the music i make im confused on the question.”
Meanwhile, in a tweet from a few days before, he marked the anniversary of his debut album, Bastard, by writing, “BASTARD released 15 years ago. thank you to everyone who listened to anything over the years. was in such a different zone musically and as a person, but was determined to be who i am today. full of gratitude cause it all came true. earl and i got to do ASSMILK; i did ODD TODDLERS at coachella main stage how wild?!? this album was made at ages 16-18. what a time. thank you!”
Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in January. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Sunday, January 5
Bad Bunny — Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment)
Wednesday, January 8
Ethel Cain — Perverts (Daughters of Cain)
Friday, January 10
Ellis King — Better Luck EP (Nettwerk)
Franz Ferdinand — The Human Fear (Domino)
Lambrini Girls — Who Let The Dogs Out (City Slang)
Mon Rovîa — Act 4: Atonement EP (Nettwerk)
Moonchild Sanelly — Full Moon (Transgressive)
Ringo Starr — Look Up (UMG)
Tremonti — The End Will Show Us How (Napalm)
Wyatt E. — zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
zzzahara — Spiral Your Way Out (Lex Records)
Friday, January 17
Blood Lemon — Petite Deaths EP (Moon Ruins)
David Gray — Dear Life (Laugh A Minute Records)
chlothegod — I Feel Different Every Day EP (EQT Recordings)
Delights — If Heaven Looks A Little Like This (Modern Sky UK)
For years now, people have been pestering Rihanna to release a new album. It’s largely been in good fun, but recently, one fan crossed a line and Rihanna didn’t hold back with her response.
Online, a user named Lorenzo wrote, “We want an album forehead.” Rihanna clapped back, “listen Lorenzo! You ain’t cute enough to be calling me by my black name you dizzy f*ck!”
For the record, forehead jokes apparently aren’t off-limits for Rihanna, but she’d seemingly prefer if they come from people close to her, or just herself. In a 2023 interview, she said of her family, “You don’t have an idea [when you picture your future family]. I hoped that I could have kids one day. And I hoped that I could have them in love. I hoped I could be a part of a family that breaks generational curses… it’s happening, and I can’t believe it. The only thing I imagined was probably the forehead on RZA. Riot doesn’t have it. I’m like, wait, are you sure? You can’t lose this thing.”
Then, in 2024, she made her pick for who she’d like to portray her in a biopic, saying, “Taylor Russell. You know why? Because she’s got, like, a nice forehead. She’s, like, fly. And I feel like I want to be her, so I want her to pretend to be me. I want people to see me in that light.”
Ice Spice was booked as one of the headliners of Australia’s Wildlands Festival on New Year’s Eve. It did not go well.
The “Princess Diana” rapper reportedly showed up 25 minutes late for her 30-minute set, and left after only two songs. Videos from the festival show the moment Ice Spice’s mic was cut, eliciting boos from the restless crowd.
“At 11.01 p.m. – they gave her an extra minute – they cut the mic and you heard the collective sigh from the crowd,” podcaster Brenton Larney told the Guardian. “They’d been waiting for a while and they get two songs? So that was a bit ridiculous and it was just really disrespectful how she walked off, she was laughing they tried to give her flowers for her birthday and she just shrugged them off.” He added that it appeared Ice Spice seemed like she “didn’t want to be there… It was just really disrespectful to see.”
Wildlands acknowledged the incident on social media. “We understand that Ice Spice’s delayed arrival caused some frustration,” the festival wrote. “Managing a stacked festival means that we have to be extremely firm with scheduled set times. We had a strict curfew of 12:30 and needed to ensure that Chase & Status went on stage on time so you could all enjoy the NYE Countdown!”
Coi Leray just started off the new year with a bang, by announcing she’s pregnant with her and Trippie Redd’s first baby.
Leray revealed the news last night (January 1), taking to Instagram to share a gallery of photos of her baby bump and of her sharing smiles with Trippie. She wrote in the post’s caption, “I’m a rock star mommy [lips emoji][face holding back tears emoji] we ready for 2025 [black heart emoji].”
In an Instagram Story, she added, “I’m over 4 months. I’m just small as hell of course.”
According to Vibe, Coi and Trippie briefly dated in 2019, but reunited around August 2024.
Trippie addressed the relationship on his 2019 song “Leray,” saying, “The best part of us was me / When you got with me, you were a genius / Now without me, you have to live life as an idiot.” In an interview following the song’s release, Leray responded, “At first, no, I didn’t like it. It was very like, ‘What the f*ck,’ because I always thought we really had something outside of the music. So I’m just like, ‘Damn. If you got something to say, let’s get together and you say that sh*t to my face.’ […] I felt like I’m being used for clickbait.”
But, that’s clearly all water under the bridge now as the pair awaits the arrival of their baby.
There’s no objectively correct answer for the best Danny McBride-created show. They’re all great in different ways: Eastbound & Down for its vulgar twist on the comeback story; Vice Principals for its depiction of white male privilege; and The Righteous Gemstones for its satire of money-hungry televangelists. But since only one of that HBO trilogy has Edi Patterson doing this, screw it, let’s call The Righteous Gemstones the best of the bunch.
Here’s everything we know about The Righteous Gemstones season 4.
Plot
The Righteous Gemstones season 3 ended with Aimee-Leigh’s Force ghost watching her family have the time of their freaking lives while driving a monster truck. This sweet moment of destruction could have been a series finale, but luckily, that is not the case. The Righteous Gemstones will be back for season 4, although plot details are hard to come by. The closest thing we’ve gotten to an update (other than the involvement of “males to portray Civil War Confederate and Union Soldiers”) is what Walton Goggins, who plays Baby Billy, wrote on Instagram once filming wrapped.
“Jokers Wild. This fella… Well… I love him,” he raved about co-star Danny McBride. “And the ones after that, in front of and behind the camera, I love them too. Pros… friends… long time friends. Just wrapped season 4 of the TRG. DMB is a [crown emoji] The Rough House boys are [crown emoji]’s. I did most of em in B/W out of respect for our costume designer and HBO. Can’t wait for you to see what’s in the can. WG.”
Previously, McBride shared to Collider why he enjoys shows that tell a complete story every season.
“I feel like one of the major weaknesses about television, when it comes to comparing it to film, is that a lot of creators use soap opera plotting, where they’re constantly teasing what’s gonna happen and they just keep pushing the ball down the field, but never really give you the answers, never really give you the closure, and never really pay off the things they’re promising because they all just want you to come back for more. I think it’s definitely more interesting to watch something that feels like it could be complete, after you’ve invested six hours of your time watching something, and that feels like it was a complete ride. I get so annoyed, watching shows that end with cliffhangers and knowing that the next season won’t even come around for a year or so. I won’t even give a shit about what was happening, a year from now. That’s happened to me with a lot of shows that I’ve really liked. I watch it, and by the time it’s over, I just find myself feeling like I wasted my time because the concept or the premise or what I was watching was never paid off.
McBride added, “And so, for me, I want every season to feel like, if you’re investing that time, you’re gonna get a complete story, but that the world’s rich enough that it could keep going on.”
Cast
The whole Gemstone extended family is expected to be back, including John Goodman (Eli), Danny McBride (Jesse), Edi Patterson (Judy), Adam DeVine (Kelvin), Cassidy Freeman (Amber), Tony Cavalero (Keefe), Tim Baltz (BJ), Skyler Gisondo (Gideon), Gregalan Williams (Martin), Valyn Hall (Tiffany), and, of course, Walton Goggins (Baby Billy), who looks incredible.
Release Date
The Righteous Gemstones was part of HBO’s “Coming to Max in 2025” video, along with The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and Hacks, but no release date was given. We did, however, get the first footage from the new season.
Folks, we got mustache twins.
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Trailer
The closest thing to a trailer for season 4 we’ve seen so far is the “coming in 2025” sizzle reel above. So, instead, it’s time to misbehave.
For the first time in nearly two weeks, Jimmy Butler suited up for the Miami Heat on Wednesday against the New Orleans Pelicans. Of course, a lot has happened in that time, as a report came out that Butler would prefer the Heat move him before the trade deadline, while Pat Riley has made clear that he has no intention of trading his All-Star wing who can hit unrestricted free agency this summer.
Butler has never been shy about his willingness to force his way out of a place when he believes his time is up there, while the Heat are known as some of the toughest negotiators in the NBA. As such, it’s very easy to wonder if something was up with his return from an illness, as Butler was taken out of the game with 3:29 left in the third quarter and did not return. After the game, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra addressed this, and after expressing that it had nothing to do with Miami being on a back-to-back, said that it was exclusively because of his absence.
“Thirteen days is a long time away, and I just went with the group there in the fourth that was getting us the most, and to see if that group could close it out,” Spoelstra said.
Butler played 25 minutes on Wednesday night, going for nine points, four rebounds, and two assists on 3-for-5 shooting from the field. This was one of his two misses. Miami went on to win the game, 119-108, behind 32 points from Tyler Herro and 23 points, 10 assists, nine rebounds, and three steals by Bam Adebayo.
The Detroit Pistons have taken a step forward this year, going from one of the league’s worst teams to a Play-In contender in the Eastern Conference through the first third of the season. As the calendar turns to 2025, there is optimism in Detroit about the way the team is trending, as they seem to be building a solid core.
Cade Cunningham headlines that group, but Jaden Ivey has emerged as a quality backcourt mate for Cunningham, averaging 17.4 points per game this season on career-best efficiency (45.3 percent shooting overall and 39.2 percent from three). On Wednesday against the Magic, Ivey was having a sensational night, scoring 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting before disaster struck when Orlando guard Cole Anthony dove for a loose ball and crashed into Ivey, rolling up his left leg in a gruesome injury (video here, but warning it is graphic).
Ivey was on the floor for some time surrounded by players from both teams while being attended to by the medical staff and was eventually taken off the court on a stretcher, with towels over his injured leg. Anthony was extremely emotional on the court after what was a freak accident when he was just trying to go for the ball that led to what appeared to be a serious injury for the young Pistons guard. Hopefully Ivey will be able to make a full recovery and pick up where he left off this season whenever he is able to return to the court.
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