Ahead of Vampire Weekend’s back-to-back performances at Madison Square Garden, they literally took to the streets of New York City with a set worthy of sitting in traffic for. Outside of NYC’s latest hotspot — Time Again Bar, which is owned by fellow musician Despot — delivered a melody of their songs.
Although Canal Street has none of the theatrics of New York’s grandest stage, at least onlookers could actually could afford this set. Despite not have anything additional support, including their backing band spotted throughout their tour, that didn’t stop Vampire Weekend from giving their all. View snippets of Vampire Weekend’s set here.
Continue below for Vampire Weekend’s remaining tour stops.
Vampire Weekend 2024 Tour Dates: Only God Was Above Us Tour
10/05 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^~
10/06 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #~
10/08 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion !
10/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater !
10/11 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater !
10/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park !
10/13 — Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit !
10/15 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre !
10/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center !
! with Cults
^ with Mark Ronson
~ with Turnstiles
# with The Brothers Macklovitch
Future puts on one hell of a performance on Ferg’s new single “Allure,” but some fans think that his verse has a particular target in mind with one line in particular: Gunna, who some rap fans still see as a supposed snitch after the Alford plea that helped him avoid the seemingly interminable trial against his YSL Records boss, Young Thug.
“I’m just a street n****, just rappin’, my day ones went fed / You done took a plea on my slime, won’t be surprise if you ended up dead,” Future raps. Some fans have interpreted this as a shot at Gunna, who has faced criticism from several former collaborators like Future, including Lil Baby and Lil Durk.
Fans who think Gunna and Future have beef — you know, the ones who learn about hip-hop culture on the internet instead of from real life — are overlooking a great many details, though, including that many, many, many rappers make the same generic threat in their music, and most of them don’t even know Gunna (and, if we’re being completely honest, aren’t even from the lifestyle they portray on their songs).
Gunna himself isn’t really sweating the speculation; after supposedly being removed from Future’s new album, Mixtape Pluto, Gunna denied any personal friction between the two. “It’s not personal,” he wrote on social media. “It’s just business.” Does that mean we’ll never see a sequel to “Pushin’ P” featuring the two? Listen, if Gucci Mane and Jeezy can put their differences aside — even if only temporarily — then their spiritual successors ought to be able to, as well.
We are rapidly approaching the meat of the college football season, and while Week 6 doesn’t feature a ton of marquee matchups in the same way Week 7 and 8 do, the conference slate always delivers some surprising results. Top teams can’t get caught looking ahead to bigger and badder opponents, or else they’ll find themselves in some deep trouble against a team that’s all the way up to face a ranked opponent.
Week 6 features some interesting opportunities for that kind of scenario, and also some games in the middle of the pack that could be very fun, even if they don’t have playoff implications. Here, we’ll take a spin around the slate to highlight games we’re watching, the top player performance from a week ago, and our best bet for Saturday.
The Game Of The Year (Of The Week): No. 9 Missouri vs. No. 24 Texas A+M (12:00 p.m. ET, ABC)
Mizzou has been a bit shaky to start the year, but still arrives at this game undefeated all the same. This will be the Tigers first road test and that might help wake them out of an early season slumber, as under Eli Drinkwitz they’ve been really good on the road. That said, College Station is as unique an atmosphere as there is in college football, and while it hasn’t always been pretty, the Aggies are 4-1 coming into this game, looking to get their first real statement win of the season. Both of these offenses have struggled to fully open it up, and whichever unit can figure out how to stretch their legs and create explosive plays will likely be the one to come out on top here.
Lock Into This One: SMU vs. Louisville (12:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
A classic ACC rivalry game between SMU and Louisville should be a lot of fun. The Cardinals were competitive in South Bend but made some back-breaking mistakes to lose to Notre Dame, but still have their sights set on a big year in the ACC. On the other side, SMU has shaken off its early season issues to become the high-powered offense everyone expected, putting up 108 points in their last two games against TCU and Florida State. This has a chance to be quite the shootout, where the last team with the ball might just be the one to win.
Under-The-Radar Banger: Pitt vs. North Carolina (12:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
The Pitt offense is a monster (?!) this year, and they come into Chapel Hill where the Heels are on Quit Watch after blowing a 20-7 lead to Duke last week. UNC better be ready to score this week, because Pitt will be licking its chops after seeing this Carolina defense get lit up by James Madison to the tune of 70 a couple weeks ago. If the UNC offense shows up, this could be a barn burner. If the Heels have decided to shift attention to basketball season, it might just be their barn that gets burned.
Message Board Meltdown Game Of The Week: No. 10 Michigan vs. Washington (7:30 p.m. ET, NBC)
Michigan is a short dog on the road as a top-10 team. Washington is coming off a hideous loss to Rutgers. Michigan has won back-to-back games that ended up closer than they probably needed to be against USC and Minnesota, and their inability to pass the ball is genuinely fascinating to watch. Washington got pushed around by Rutgers in their welcome to the Big Ten, and now they’ve got to deal with a much bigger test in the trenches in the form of the Wolverines. Someone is going to be MAD after this one, and I’m not sure who that ends up being.
Who Won The Heisman Last Week?: Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State
I really wanted to say Ryan Williams so I could post the catch and run against Georgia (he’s 17!) but come on, it’s Jeanty, who is a monster. He should 100 percent be the Heisman winner if it was given out today, and his performance against Washington State was a good example of what makes him such a special player: 26 carries, 259 yards, four touchdowns. When he was handed the football, he ran for a first down. There is nothing else you can say other than is insane.
Best Bet (2-3): Indiana (-13.5) at Northwestern (3:30 p.m. ET, BTN)
I love Northwestern’s stadium on the lake, but even the power of the tiny stadium on the shores of Lake Michigan won’t be enough for the Wildcats to keep it close with Indiana. The Hoosiers are on a mission to beat down any team worse than they are this year and they do not let up. Last week, it took a half to figure it out against Maryland but once they did they never let off the gas. I expect something similar against Northwestern, where once they find the weak spot they will just pour it on because Curt Cignetti smokes it through the filter.
The University of California doesn’t have a football program many would consider a powerhouse, and there wasn’t much fanfare when they (and Stanford) joined the ACC this season.
However, after a 3-0 start that included a stunning win at Auburn, the college football world was introduced to Cal Twitter, a delightfully insane group that has been posting increasingly unhinged memes each week. The Calgorithm, as they call themselves, was not deterred by a narrow loss at Florida State, and continue to roll along in full force coming into their biggest game from a national perspective in some time, with No. 8 Miami coming to Berkeley this Saturday. Not only are the Canes coming to town, but so is ESPN’s College Gameday, with Cal legend Marshawn Lynch as the celebrity guest picker.
Much of the Calgorithm’s work this season has been AI-generated memes of things like bears in Cal shirts passing out books of Critical Race Theory at Auburn or dubbing FSU’s stadium “Woke-Campbell Stadium”. However, they’ve truly outdone themselves with a Chappell Roan “Hot To Go” parody song, “Ott To Go”, that a group of Cal fans wrote about star running back Jadyn Ott.
This has no business being as good and catchy as it is, but if we’ve learned anything this football season, it’s to never underestimate the abilities of Cal — both in football and in creating catchy parody songs.
Jack Harlow first started his partnership with New Balance back in 2021, with a joking anti-endorsement of the sneaker brand’s 11th version of the 1080 running shoe (“I hate running,” he says in response to the upbeat voiceover). The ongoing endorsement deal would find Harlow playing pickup with Clippers star Kawhi Leonard (not so unrealistic, it turns out) and throwing together special edition colorways of the brand’s staples, but today, his first-ever collaboration with New Balance hits the shelves.
The 1906R “Rose Runner” is a modern update of a classic silhouette, with Harlow taking control first the first time of aspects like materials and construction, rather than just colors. The color and floral print gives the “Rose Runner” its name, while the Kentucky native adds some dashes of playful luxury with velvet on the tongue and laces. They also come with custom packaging and will retail for $180 on NewBalance.com and at select New Balance stores. You can find more information here. The shoes go live at 9 am PT/ 12 pm ET. Jack also shared an energetic preview video on Instagram.
Harlow hasn’t put out much new music lately, but he has had a busy year, as his long-awaited film with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, The Instigators, made its premiere on Apple TV, Jack joined the ownership group of Racing Louisville FC, his local NWSL team, and his late 2023 hit, “Lovin On Me,” reached No. 1 to start the year.
But his exploration into animated worlds is far from over. Today (October 4), Pharrell teamed up with Lil Yachty, and Swae Lee for the futuristic new single, “Doodleverse.” On the track, each entertainer lets their imagination run wild while bringing in listeners to an already established animated universe.
“On the other side when you realize that nothin’ is unobtainable / On the other side when you realize that nothin’ is unachievable / On the other side when you realize that dreams are reality / And all the Doodles live happily / And colors blend together magically,” sings the trio.
Pharrell and Lil Yachty expand on that positive momentum on the song’s bridge, singing: “So many things get lost in grey / Like details and things that we’re tryin’ to say / All colors come from black and space / And then make white when they pixelate.”
Listen to Pharrell’s new song “Doodleverse” featuring Lil Yachty and Swae Lee above.
A new Glamour feature shared yesterday (October 3) put the spotlight on mothers of some of today’s biggest stars: Tina Knowles (mother of Beyoncé and Solange), Donna Kelce (Jason and Travis Kelce), Maggie Baird (Billie Eilish and Finneas), and Mandy Teefey (Selena Gomez). During the conversation, Baird went ahead and addressed something she hears sometimes: Due to her history with acting, Eilish and Finneas are apparently nepo babies.
Baird’s filmography features some big-name shows, like Walker, Texas Ranger, The X-Files, and Friends. But, she describes herself as a “working class actor,” not the kind of celebrity who would have the sort of pull to launch her children to stardom. She says:
“I think it’s hilarious. Because that came out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo baby.’ And I’m like, ‘Did you know that I got that episode of Friends because I was about to lose my health insurance?’
My husband and I are working class actors. We eked out a meager living, and it afforded us a lot of time with our kids, which was awesome. But the industry is primarily people like us or even people not even like us who couldn’t even do that. So when all of this happened to our kids, we’d never been on that side of it. I think that people don’t really understand there’s a whole industry of people who are creative and they’re working and they’re struggling, and they make perfectly happy lives, and they feel creative, and they feel fulfilled. But that’s a very different life than on this side of the door where you’re suddenly playing in this different arena.”
So much for the speculation that Sabrina Carpenter doesn’t sing live.
Earlier this week, the “Taste” singer responded to a TikTok video that accused her of lip-syncing during the Short N’ Sweet tour. “i sing live every show 100% would you like to speak to my audio engineers,” she commented. But just in case anyone still doubted her, Carpenter performed “Espresso” on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show with a new, lounge-club arrangement that proved, without a doubt, she’s working late ’cause she’s a real-deal singer.
You can watch the video — which includes Carpenter climbing on Fallon’s desk (thankfully, he was off screen) – above.
In a recent interview with Time, Carpenter discussed why she’s honest in her songwriting but also doesn’t take herself too seriously. “I like the fact that I just put out a song that starts with ‘I can’t relate to desperation,’ and then I’m putting out the most desperate possible sounding chorus I could in my life,” she said. “The idea is like: if everything is super calculated, then the second you make a statement, that’s who you are for the rest of your life — as opposed to it being like: or you can be super confident one day and then the most emotional wreck the next day.”
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