Following their Super Bowl LIX performance, Kendrick Lamar and SZA have announced the European tour dates for the Grand National Tour. The “Luther” duo will play 13 stadiums across Europe and the United Kingdom this summer, including stops in Germany, France, and Italy.
Pre-sale tickets for the European shows go on Wednesday, February 12, followed by a general on sale on Friday, February 14, at 9 a.m. local time. You can find more information here.
Check out the full dates for the Grand National Tour below.
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04/19 — Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium
04/23 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
04/26 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
04/29 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes Benz Stadium
05/03 — Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium
05/05 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field
05/08 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
05/09 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
05/12 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
05/17 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
05/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/23 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/27 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
05/29 — San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park
05/31 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
06/04 — St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
06/06 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
06/10 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
06/12 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
06/16 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
06/18 — Washington, DC @ Northwest Stadium
07/02 — Cologne, Germany @ RheinEnergieSTADION
07/04 — Frankfurt, Germany @ Deutsche Bank Park
07/08 — Glasgow, UK @ Hampden Park
07/10 — Birmingham, UK @ Villa Park
07/13 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Johan Cruijff ArenA
07/15 — Paris, France @ Paris La Défense Arena
07/19 — Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium
07/22 — London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/27 — Lisbon, Portugal @ Estadio do Restelo
07/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
08/02 — Rome, Italy @ Stadio Olimpico
08/06 — Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy
08/09 — Stockholm, Sweden @ 3Arena
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Doechii commemorate her big 2025 Grammys and Lisa lock down some big collabs for her solo discography. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Doechii had a massive 2025 Grammys, both performing and becoming just the third woman to ever win Best Rap Album thanks to Alligator Bites Never Heal. To celebrate, she shared “Nosebleeds,” a new song that, based on the celebratory lyrics, seems like it may have never been released had Doechii gotten her big win.
Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Doechii and Gaga had similar ideas: Aside from performing during the Grammys, Gaga also seized the opportunity to drop some new music. Shortly after debuting the dance-ready “Abracadabra” video during a commercial break, she properly released the track.
Larry June, 2 Chainz, and The Alchemist — “Munyon Canyon”
June, Chainz, and Alchemist’s new project came together quickly, at least in terms of its album cycle: They announced Life Is Beautiful at the end of January, and the next week, it was out. The project includes highlights like the infinitely lush and chilled-out “Munyon Canyon.”
Lisa — “Born Again” Feat. Doja Cat and Raye
Blackpink’s Lisa has spent some time lately working on The White Lotus, but she’s also been devoting attention to her solo music career. She came through in a big way last week, too, teaming with Doja Cat and Raye on “Born Again.”
d4vd — “One More Dance”
After a string of singles, d4vd has officially announced a new album, Withered. The latest taste is the yearning “One More Dance,” which arrived last week alongside a dark-but-funny video.
Ava Max — “Lost Your Faith”
former Uproxx cover star Ava Max started 2025 with a bang via “Lost Your Faith,” an 80’s-inspired single that’s indebted to both the decade’s rock and pop. She hasn’t formally announced a new album yet, but her recent string of standalone singles certainly suggests a follow-up to 2023’s Diamonds & Dancefloors is forthcoming.
Waxahatchee — “Mud”
Waxahatchee could have just announced more tour dates last week. She did that, but the Uproxx Music Critics Poll darling also went ahead and dropped “Mud,” a short and sweet Tigers Blood outtake.
Big Thief — “Imagination”
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Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts are bringing out the best in a lot of musicians, and that includes Big Thief: Last week, the group released a surprise, download-only, five-track EP called Passional Relations, featuring previously unreleased recordings from the Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, UFOF, and Two Hands eras.
Rema — “Baby (Is It A Crime)”
Rema makes strong use of a classic Sade sample on his latest, “Baby (Is It A Crime).” Naturally, the African star infuses the track with Afrobeats energy, successfully building upon the original track to deliver something compelling and new.
What do you do after you’ve created two of the most acclaimed television dramas of all-time? If you’re Vince Gilligan, you return to the setting of both shows and cast a star from one of them, but otherwise change everything else. Unlike Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, “Untitled Vince Gilligan Apple TV+ Series” (as it’s called on IMDb) or Wycaro 339 (that’s the rumored title, and how I’m going to refer to it from now on) will have “no crime, and no methamphetamine,” according to the Emmy winner. So, what’s it about?
Here’s everything we know about Gilligan’s much-anticipated new show for Apple TV+, including plot details and a release window.
Plot
Wycaro 339 doesn’t have an official plot synopsis, but it’s possible to piece together pieces of what the Albuquerque-set series is about from comments made by cast and crew and reports from the media.
The show will have a “sci-fi element to it,” Gilligan told Variety. “It’s going to be fun and different. I have no prediction as to how folks to react to it — whether they’ll love it or hate it, or somewhere in the vast in-between. But I know it’s a story that interests me… The weird thing is that it takes place in Albuquerque, except it’s a whole different world. There’s no overlap that I can see.” He added, “The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different. It’s the modern world — the world we live in — but it changes very abruptly. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.”
Compared to The Twilight Zone, the new series is said to be set in our world while putting a tweak on it, bending reality and focusing on people and exploring the human condition in an unexpected, surprising way. Thought-provoking but not a morality tale, the series also is expected to carry the signature Gilligan tone that infuses drama with humor.
Wycaro 339 stars Emmy-snubbed Better Call Saul legend Rhea Seehorn as “a very different character” than Kim Wexler. In a change of pace from the leads on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, she’s more hero than anti-hero.
“Vince is continuing to play, and he’s just pushing himself to a wild ride on this one in the best way. He’s vacillating between tones and between genres like he and Peter Gould did on Better Call Saul, but it’s even more pronounced now,” she told The Hollywood Reporter about the show. “I bring that up because he’s not as hemmed into how this is different from the mothership of Breaking Bad. It doesn’t need to be able to circle back to a predecessor.”
It appears season 1 will be nine episodes long, and bring back a lot of familiar names from the Gilligan-verse, including Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould as an executive producer.
Oh, and as for the title, it’s pronounced “why-care-o.”
Cast
So far, the only confirmed cast members are Rhea Seehorn, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Karolina Wydra. She’s playing Ana, who is described as “an optimistic young woman.” So, expect her soul to be crushed by the end of episode 3. More talent will be announced in the future, and overall, the show will employ “over 1,400 New Mexicans, including 500+ crew members, 100+ principal actors, and 800+ background talent.”
Release Date
It hasn’t been confirmed by Apple TV+, but in December 2024, Vince Gilligan reportedly claimed that he expects the show to premiere “in the summer of 2025 or a little later.” But, again, stay tuned for an official announcement.
Trailer
How about enjoying Kim Wexler’s best moments until there’s a trailer?
As is, unfortunately, typically the case the week before the NBA All-Star Game, Adam Silver had some decisions to make regarding injury replacements for this coming weekend’s festivities in San Francisco.
With Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo out through the All-Star break with a calf strain and Mavs star Anthony Davis out with an adductor injury, Silver would need to add a player to the All-Star roster from each conference — even with the new mini-tournament format that features three teams drafted by the Inside the NBA crew. On Monday, Silver made the selection in the East, putting Hawks guard Trae Young on Team Chuck in place of Antetokounmpo, rewarding the NBA’s assists leader with his fourth All-Star selection.
Young is averaging 23.5 points and 11.4 assists per game for the Atlanta Hawks, as he has been at the center of everything Atlanta is doing offensively this season with Dejounte Murray now in New Orleans. He — and Jalen Johnson, who had an All-Star case before he was lost for the season with a shoulder injury — has led the Hawks to a 25-28 record as the All-Star break nears despite a number of injuries and has Atlanta firmly in the Play-In race out East in ninth currently.
The other candidates for the replacement spot in the East were Tyrese Maxey, Franz Wagner, and Jarrett Allen, but Young, as the NBA’s assists leader, had the most compelling case and earns a trip to San Francisco. As for the replacement pick out West, that will have to wait until Davis is officially ruled out, as his injury timeline has not been announced by the Mavericks yet as he continues to go through tests.
Yesterday (February 9) was Kendrick Lamar’s moment as he performed the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It was a big one for SZA, too, as she joined Lamar for a couple songs. While later reflecting on her new career highlight, SZA said she actually wasn’t nervous about it.
Following the performance, SZA took to Instagram to share a gallery of photos and videos from her big day, writing:
“THANK YOU @kendricklamar for consistently putting the world on your back . At all times . Thank you for lifting me up . Thank you for encouraging me and being so willing to bend to whatever I may need . Thank you to your incredible team and mine ! You’re a prophet . But you knew that . I wasn’t nervous today . I was ready to rep for u. For US . Thank you God ,Dot, and the NFL for this opportunity #SUPERBOWL2025 wrapped.”
In an interview ahead of the show, SZA revealed she was surprised when Lamar asked her to join him, saying, “I didn’t expect that at all. I was on the internet like everyone else being like ‘Oh, he’s about to eat that sh*t.’ […] I just knew that he wasn’t going to ask me, ’cause that would be crazy. And he did! And I laughed. And I was like, ‘OK.’ It just was a matter of me being about to commit to that moment, because I just feel like he’s so flawless. I’ve never seen a flaw in any performance or any offering that he’s ever given, and I just wanna be, you know, on par with that energy and just give as much as I can.”
It’s true that romcoms have been on the back burner for, oh, at least a decade. Perhaps audiences got burned out by too many shirtless McConaugheys, but more than likely, people simply decided that it’s so much easier to simply stream these stories (versus tentpole movies) rather than head to the multiplex. That is, unless the romcom in question happens to star Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell because c’mon, audiences are only human.
In the streaming realm, Netflix has dominated the romcom game with titles like The Kissing Booth and other teen-geared movies, but a more adult romcom series (starring Kristen Bell as sex-friendly podcaster Joanne and Adam Brody as rabbi Noah) went stratospheric last year for Netflix when Nobody Wants This took off to a degree that surprised the stars.
Well, there will be more of this show after Nobody Wants This scored a speedy renewal, so let’s gather up what has been disclosed thus far.
Release Date
Late last year, Brody revealed that filming would start in February, and the second season would be on Netflix “by September next year.” Whereas Jackie Tohn (who portrays Noah’s sister, Esther), recently updated Deadline on filming moving to March 3, but that still makes it possible to return within a year after the first season streamed in Sept. 2024. (And Netflix’s new sizzle reel does confirm the 2025 window.)
Adding to that momentum, creator Erin Foster, Bell, and Brody suggested to Deadline that four or five seasons would be an ideal duration for this series.
Plot
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As viewers are surely aware, Nobody Wants This is a semi-autobiographical series from creator Erin Foster and inspired by the formerly agnostic Foster’s own experience of falling in love with her Jewish husband, Simon Tikhman. The series spices things up considerably with Kristen Bell’s agnostic character, Joanne, also being frozen out by Noah’s Jewish family. That friction contributed to a season finale in which Joanne cut the relationship short after realizing that she’s not prepared to convert to Judaism. Of course, the cliffhanger ending revealed that Noah attempted to convince Joanne to give coupledom another shot, and they kissed, presumably ready to try again.
Why did this show carry so much appeal? As Adam Brody told Variety, this success can be partially explained by audiences wanting to leave their stress behind, “and there doesn’t seem to be many romantic comedies, period.” Kristen Bell echoed that sentiment: “There was a ton of really great, intense, hardcore television that ‘Breaking Bad’ inspired… and something lovely in the rom-com space hadn’t been felt by the masses in a while.”
To complicate matters, Noah finished the season while poised to become a head rabbi, meaning that Joanne needs to get with the program if she wants this to work, so what has Erin Foster revealed about the next season? She confirmed to Deadline that Joanne and Noah’s love story is happening much slower than initially planned. Foster also hints that the story is “just more or less a continuation” because the first season worked well, so why mess with success? The audience clearly enjoyed the show’s drip-drip approach as a “real-time”-type story, so there will be more of the same:
“Netflix, I have to give a lot of credit, because they pushed us to go as slow as possible in Season 1. Like you said, originally they ended in getting engaged, they ended in getting married, maybe. It was way too fast. We slowed it all down. When you watch the season, it feels like you’re really with them in real time, dating. It spans the course of what, three months in Season 1 maybe? You really feel the weight of each moment because experiencing it in real time as opposed to lots of time passing, so we’re going to continue going on that slow trajectory … All the big, romantic moments that you want to feel in that first year of a relationship, we want the audience to be able to feel. I know now what hooked people and what sunk in and what stood out, so the goal is to give people that and not make some weird artistic choice and rob them of the joy they want to feel.
Cast
For sure, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody will be back as Joanne and Noah. Netflix hasn’t breathed a word about additional casting, but presumably, their borderline intrusive fams will be back, including Morgan (Justine Lupe), Sasha (Timothy Simons), Esther (Jackie Tohn), and Bina (Tovah Feldshuh).
Trailer
In lieu of a trailer, it’s worth watching Adam Brody blowing away expectations in FX/Hulu’s Fleishmann Is In Trouble. His character debuted as a straight-up finance bro but blossomed into so much more.
Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show was hotly anticipated, and the rapper definitely delivered. Towards the end of the set, Lamar busted out the track everybody was waiting for: “Not Like Us.”
It was reported ahead of the big game that Lamar would indeed perform the Drake diss track, but that there was some uncertainty about how the network would handle it, given that the song is currently at the center of defamation allegations.
Well, Lamar found a way to make it work, by cutting out the line where he alleges Drake is a “pedophile” (although everybody watching knows the lyric already). Perhaps the most viral moment of the performance, though, was when he called out Drake by name (as he does on the original song), saying, “Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young.” What made the moment pop off online, though, is that Lamar looked right down the barrel of the camera and smiled wide as he said it, which made for quite the screenshot that was shared heavily on social media.
Meanwhile, elsewhere during the set, Lamar also performed “Squabble Up,” “Humble,” “DNA,” “Euphoria,” “Man At The Garden,” “Peekaboo,” “Luther” (with SZA), “All The Stars” (also with SZA), and “TV Off.”
What a no good, very bad week for Drake. Last Sunday, Kendrick Lamar won Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year at the Grammys for “Not Like Us,” his generational diss track against the “First Person Shooter” rapper. This Sunday, he performed the song with a diabolical grin on his face in front of 70,000-plus people inside the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, and over 120 million more watching around the world.
The in-stadium reaction to “Not Like Us” — in particular the “Why you trollin’ like a b*tch? Ain’t you tired? / Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor” line — sounded loud on TV, but it was deafening for those in attendance. “can confirm: that a-minor was nasty in the stadium,” @bre_style wrote on X, along with video evidence shot from the stands.
Back in November 2024, Lamar explained to SZA (who joined him during the halftime show) what “Not Like Us” means to him. “Not like us? Not like us is the energy of who I am, the type of man I represent. Now, if you identify with the man that I represent…” he said. “This man has morals, he has values, he believes in something, he stands on something. He’s not pandering. He’s a man who can recognize his mistakes and not be afraid to share the mistakes and can dig deep down into fear-based ideologies or experiences to be able to express them without feeling like he’s less of a man.
Lamar added, “If I’m thinking of ‘Not Like Us,’ I’m thinking of me and whoever identifies with that.”
It’s impossible to know Netflix‘s most expensive movie, but don’t be surprised if it’s The Electric State. The film, which reunites the directors (Anthony and Joe Russo) and writers (Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, has a reported $300-ish million budget. That’s, uh, quite the chunk of change, but it’s money well spent if The Electric State ends up being the level of hit it almost assuredly will be.
Here’s everything to know The Electric State, including plot details, the cast, and release date.
Plot
Set in an retro-futuristic version of the 1990s, The Electric State follows Michelle (played by Millie Bobby Brown), a young woman who is traveling west across the United States in search of her brother who she thought was dead. She’s joined by a catchphrase-speaking robot and, along the way, a smuggler named Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robot sidekick. There’s lots of robots.
As per the Netflix synopsis:
“As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a colorful group of new animatronic allies — and begin to learn that there may be something even more sinister afoot.”
The Electric State is inspired by the acclaimed graphic novel of the same name from Simon Stålenhag, who said he was “blown away by the movie. It was an amazing experience watching things that I have drawn come to life this way. What resonated most with me was the emotional core of the movie, which is the need for family. Even though the movie has changed genre from the book a bit, that main core is still the same and has been expanded on beautifully.”
The robots (including Mr. Peanut!) will get the attention of sci-fi fans, but there’s a human element to the film, too, that moved Pratt to tears.
“It’s not the kind of thing that typically gets made to be a blockbuster style movie like this. It’s so original, it’s a huge swing,” the Parks and Recreation star said during New York Comic-Con. “I thought that these types of movies might be my last opportunity to be in a big movie like this. I have to look at every opportunity like that. And I did. It’s just such a great story. I was moved to tears reading.”
Pratt being in a Russos-directed movie makes sense — he’s Star-Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bobby Brown had a different connection to the filmmakers. “I had the privilege of going to set on Avengers to watch the Russos direct when I was 13,” she explained. “I was filming Stranger Things and they invited me. I remember watching them and thinking, ‘I want to be an actor, I want to work with them, that was so cool.’ I made that my goal.”
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Cast
The Electric State cast is led by frequent Netflix star Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, who play Michelle and Keats, respectively.
There’s also Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan as Dr. Amherst, Stanley Tucci as Ethan Skate, Woody Norman (the kid from C’Mon C’Mon) as Christopher, Martin Klebba as Herman, Jason Alexander as Ted Finnster, and Giancarlo Esposito as Colonel Marshall Bradbury. The various robots are voiced by Anthony Mackie as Herman, Alan Tudyk as Cosmo, Woody Harrelson as Mr. Peanut, Brian Cox as Pop Fly, Jenny Slate as Penny Pal, and Hank Azaria as Perplexo.
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Release Date
The Electric State premieres on Netflix on March 14.
Trailer
Check out the trailer for The Electric State below.
It was a tough night for the Kansas City Chiefs and their supporters yesterday (February 9): After a scoreless first half in the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles, the team ended up losing 40-22, unable to pull off a third consecutive Super Bowl victory. It was also a bit of a weird night for Taylor Swift, at least for a minute.
Swift was in attendance to support Travis Kelce, of course, and when she was shown on the big screen, Philly fans showered her with boos. Swift, somebody who’s not used to getting that kind of reaction from massive crowds, looked around with a confused look on her face before cracking a smile and seemingly asking somebody near her, “What’s going on?” (Here’s a video.)
Swift, of course, has some history with Philadelphia and the city’s Lincoln Financial Field, given that she was raised in Pennsylvania and her father is an Eagles fan. After performing at the venue on The Eras Tour in 2023, Swift wrote in a post on social media, “Philly was a dream, honestly. Playing three nights in the stadium I used to see on tv when my dad watched Eagles games every Sunday. The most magical 3 hometown shows a girl could hope for.”
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