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It has been almost a year since Lil Nas X released his debut album Montero, which means it’s about time for some new music from the big MTV VMAs winner. Fortunately for fans at the first show on his Long Live Montero Tour in Detroit last night, it looks like he’s been in the studio. In addition to hits like “Call Me By Your Name” and “Industry Baby,” Lil Nas X also performed a new, unreleased song, reportedly titled “StarWalking” during his headlining set.

As you can see in the videos above, he also jumped off the stage to mingle with the audience, much to his crowd’s delight.

“StarWalking” probably won’t be the only new song he shares in the coming months. During a recent interview with Complex, he teased that he has “something very special coming really soon around the time of my tour starting” that he’s “super excited about music-wise.” He also promised “some unexpected things, collaborations coming up. I wouldn’t want to ruin those, though.”

No doubt, he’s keeping the well of inspiration flowing these days so he won’t have to “milk” a song like “Old Town Road” again, according to a response he gave to a fan about doing a bunch of “Call Me By Your Name” remixes. You can catch the tour as it continues through October 23 in San Francisco.

ESPN has put its Monday Night Football crew through one heck of an overhaul this offseason. The most prominent change came in the broadcast booth, as the Worldwide Leader was able to get Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to become the official voices of their weekly NFL game after years as Fox’s No. 1 pairing.

ESPN’s pregame show is going to get changed up, too. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that Monday Night Countdown will replace its Hall of Fame pass catcher with another receiver who will join him in Canton sooner rather than later, as Larry Fitzgerald will fill Randy Moss’ shoes on the program on select broadcasts as Moss is seeing his role with the network change — Moss signed a new contract recently that will have him appear only on ESPN’s Sunday pregame program.

Per Marchand, Fitzgerald will not be a weekly contributor to the program. While he will appear on the season debut of the show in the lead-up to this Monday’s game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, Fitzgerald will appear on “about five-to-seven shows this season.”

Fitzgerald spent the entirety of his NFL career as a member of the Arizona Cardinals. An 11-time Pro Bowl selection, Fitzgerald last suited up for the team in 2020.

Burning Man’s Black Rock City is truly a place like no other. Aside from the wild outfits, mutant vehicles, and surrealist art exhibits, one of the coolest things about the playa is that it’s a place where everyone is on an equal level. Whether you’re a hardcore lifelong burner, or a celebrity checking out the scene, when you’re in Black Rock City, it doesn’t really matter who you are, it’s just all about your personal journey. (Theoretically, at least — the stratification of “the burn” is much debated.)

“Jet and RV privilege” aside, Burning Man is one of the unique experiential festivals where you can rub shoulders with your favorite celebrities and influencers without anyone really making a big deal of it. There’s no VIP. Moreover, celebrities love Burning Man — they can’t get enough of it. Some of the celebs in attendance in 2022 included Karlie Kloss, Kaia Gerber, Heidi Klum, Adrian Grenier, Australia Next Top Model winner Tahnee Atkinson, Paris Hilton, Diplo, and more!

Here are some of our favorite celeb-shots from Burning Man 2022.

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Howard Stern returned to his radio show this week where the shock jock absolutely unloaded on Donald Trump supporters. While discussing the passing of his father, who died over the summer, Stern blasted the current brand of conservatives who routinely cry about their freedoms being “threatened.” As Stern put it, his ancestors fled to America to escape true oppression, and this “nation of nincompoops” has never experienced anything even remotely close to that.

“Their freedoms have never really been threatened and they have no idea what it would be like to live under a different type of system other than democracy. And they don’t get it. They are morons. They think somehow that the world would be better under a guy like Trump.” Stern said via Mediaite before encouraging Trump supporters to try living under Vladimir Putin‘s rule for a year. “You should go live in Russia, all you f*ckers out there.”

As the radio host got fired up, he surprisingly revealed that he’s a “normal conservative,” but unlike the MAGA hordes, he says he has “half a brain” and isn’t “blindly” following Trump.

“We have education. We have public schools. We have teachers, but you know, the public is stupid. People are just dumb,” Stern said. “A lot of people are like Cro-Magnon man. They’ve crawled. You ever see that chart where man is crawling out of the sea. There’s a lot of people still in the sea. You’re just dumb. They’re just dumb motherf*ckers.”

(Via Mediaite)

After losing his voice in the middle of his Los Angeles show at SoFi Stadium this past Saturday, it looks like The Weeknd is ready to resume his “After Hours Til Dawn” tour. Yesterday, the “Out Of Time” singer took to Instagram to share an update with fans.

“doctor says my voice is safe and with rest i’ll be solid and able to bring the show my TORONTO fans are waiting for,” he said in the post’s caption. “LA date is being worked out soon. thank you SO much for all the love and understanding that’s come my way. i love you all so much… XO.”

During many of his tour stops, The Weeknd has been playing previews for his upcoming HBO series, The Idol, which was created by Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson. In the series, The Weeknd will play a character who appears to be named Tedros. The character’s relationship with Lily-Rose Depp’s character, a pop star named Jocelyn, is currently unknown.

Music producer Mike Dean, who is one of the opening acts on the “After Hours Til Dawn’ tour will also have a role on The Idol.

The “After Hours til Dawn’ tour will resume Thursday, September 22 at the Rogers Center in Toronto.

Add Starbucks to the growing list of eateries Ted Cruz might want to steer clear of in the future. Last week, the Texas senator voiced his disapproval of Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program by a**holishly suggesting on his podcast that it was just a way to buy votes from “that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans and can’t get a job.” He added further insult when he snarkily continued that if said slackers “can get off the bong for a minute and go down to the voting station — or just send in your mail-in ballot that Democrats have helpfully sent you — it could drive up turnout.”

The backlash to Cruz — a man who many believe once swallowed a booger on national TV in the middle of a debate — and his comments was immediate, and maybe the backwash, too.

Now, Cruz is desperately attempting to walk back his snobbish insults, and again using his podcast to do that. (That a senator has time to create a podcast should tell you something about both their priorities and workload.) Yet, once again, he came off as an insensitive, out-of-touch dick.

With his trademark smirk firmly in place, Cruz attempted to paint the negative response to his previous comments as ridiculous. First, by repeating them almost word for word. Then explaining that:

When I said that some slackers are baristas, they translated that into all baristas are slackers. Which is… maybe you could help me out with deductive logic, but I’m pretty sure that second statement doesn’t flow from the first.

Are there people who wasted years studying utterly useless things who couldn’t get a job afterwards and who are now working as baristas and are slackers? Yes! Those people do exist! Is every barista a slacker? Of course not! There are wonderful, great people who are baristas… Many of whom don’t have student loans and are getting screwed by the Democrats because they’re saying the guy that studied Queer Pet Literature and has $100,000 in debt because, oddly enough — to reference another podcast, Mickey and Pluto going at it — other than getting a job at Disney, there’s not a lot of job market for Queer Pet Literature.

Note to Ted: Homophobia probably wasn’t your best defense!

Cruz, not content to just keep his foot in his mouth and move on to another topic, pressed even further forward and had the temerity to proclaim that the Republicans are the ones looking out for those slacker baristas’ interests — along with “the steelworkers, the truck drivers, the cops, the firefighters, the waiters and waitresses.” And, of course, the baristas. Meanwhile, Cruz claimed that “the Democrats crap in the coffee cup of baristas,” which very well might be that piquant flavor Ted is tasting in his next latte.

The Wikipedia page for Don’t Worry Darling has an “On-Set Conflicts” section (always a good sign) that’s nearly 300 words long. And it doesn’t even include The Spit incident. Things have gotten so messy for director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to Booksmart that even NBC — NBC! — is taking shots at the various fiascos surrounding the film.

“don’t worry darling 2022 press tour,” @NBC tweeted, along with a clip of a classic scene from Parks and Recreation. The video is taken from the season four episode, “The Comeback Kid,” where Leslie Knope thinks she’s giving a speech as part of her city council campaign on a basketball court — but it’s actually a hockey rink.

What follows is some ol’ fashioned slapstick (and a payday for Gloria Estefan) as the parks department and a three-legged dog slowly inch and stumble their way across the ice. Do you miss when Chris Pratt was a bumbling, lovable goof? Because I do.

If NBC is dunking on you, something has gone wrong.

It’s especially funny to use a clip from Parks and Recreation. The show’s star, Amy Poehler, dated Nick Kroll, who appears in — you guessed it — Don’t Worry Darling. (He was also The Douche on Parks and Rec, which gives me an excuse to watch a 10-minute video of The Douche’s best moments, not that I needed one.) The tweet is also reminding people of the “single greatest scene in television history.”

You can watch it for yourself below.

While the internet is still reeling from the realization that Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine at the Venice Film Festival, Amazon Prime has quietly decided to drop the trailer for Styles’ upcoming drama, My Policeman.

In the film, Styles plays Tom, a 1950s policeman who embarks on a love triangle that spans nearly half a century. Styles stars alongside The Crown’s Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, with their older selves being portrayed by Linus Roache, Gina McKee, and Rupert Everett. The trio is shown in an intense love affair that clearly takes a toll on them all. Here is the official description:

A beautifully crafted story of forbidden love and changing social conventions, My Policeman follows three young people – policeman Tom (Harry Styles), teacher Marion (Emma Corrin) and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson) as they embark on an emotional journey in 1950s Britain. Flashing forward to the 1990s, Tom (Linus Roache), Marion (Gina McKee) and Patrick (Rupert Everett) are still reeling with longing and regret, but now they have one last chance to repair the damage of the past. Based on the book by Bethan Roberts, director Michael Grandage carves a visually transporting, heart-stopping portrait of three people caught up in the shifting tides of history, liberty, and forgiveness.

This is the second movie Styles will lead this fall, the first being the highly-publicized Don’t Worry Darling which will be released in September. The singer recently opened up to Rolling Stone about the role and his portrayal of a gay man in the 1950s. “It’s obviously pretty unfathomable now to think, ‘Oh, you couldn’t be gay. That was illegal,’” Styles explained. “I think everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it. It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay.’ It’s about love and about wasted time to me.”

The film opens in theaters on October 21st, then on Amazon Prime on November 4th. Check out the trailer above.

When the history books are finally written on the 21st century, Donald Trump will undoubtedly go down as one of the most problematic presidents to ever occupy the White House. But at least he will have taught us a few things — like why attempting to overthrow democracy as we know it is a bad thing, and that our government allows for a role known as a “special master.” Which Trevor Noah thinks sounds pretty cool.

On Tuesday, Noah returned from vacation with a whole lot to say about Trump and the recent FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. But mostly he wanted to talk about the special master who will be assigned to review the materials seized from the former president’s home and determine which documents cannot be included in the investigation into Trump. And, really, just how cool that title sounds.

“It was like, ‘Donald Trump is getting a special master,’ [and] I was like, ‘He’s about to learn kung fu?,’” Noah explained. But what The Daily Show host is particularly interested in witnessing is how the special master is actually chosen. As he explained:

What’s going to be really interesting is who they pick for this job. Because the judge gave each side until Friday to submit a list of suggestions together. So basically the judge is going: ‘Trump, you send us a list of who you think should review the documents and then, like, the Justice Department, you do the same thing.’ And then, I guess the judge is hoping they’ll overlap?

I don’t know. I feel like the Department of Justice is going to submit the names of, like, former attorney generals and FBI directors, and then the list from Trump’s side is going to be like: Jared, the Hamburglar, a paper shredder on top of a toilet.

But Noah does need to give Trump credit for one thing:

Once again, [he] has exposed a part of America that I’m willing to bet nobody knew existed. Nobody. Did you know about a special master? Any of you? Huh? I didn’t even know it was an option. I’ve watched 10 million hours of Law & Order. I know about subpoenas; I know about breaking the chain of custody, objection, sustained, overruled, sidebar, and my chambers. But not once have I heard the term ‘special master.’

But once again, thanks to Trump—because of his hard work and dedication to doing crimes—we’ve all learned something new today.

You can watch the full segment above (the Trump segment begins around the 1:15 mark).

Freddie Gibbs has had up to here with all the music documentaries that have come out lately — including one in particular that seemingly prompted him to tweet his thoughts on the matter earlier this week. Certainly, there has been a proliferation of self-produced documentaries by entertainers aiming to do some mythmaking, from big names like Kanye West and his Netflix-based Jeen-Yuhs to Hulu’s Look At Me: XXXTentacion, which was produced by the controversial rapper’s family, to Lil Baby telling his own life story with Untrapped on Amazon Prime.

As Gibbs put it, “Everything don’t need to be a documentary.”

However, given recent history, it would seem his comments were directed more at one specific rapper than any of those named above. Especially since, the night before he tweeted, Buffalo rapper Benny The Butcher shared a trailer for Long Live DJ Shay, a documentary he made about a local Buffalo DJ and his personal mentor who passed in August of 2020. Shay was instrumental in building out Buffalo’s burgeoning underground music scene, giving local rappers both beats to rap on and venues to perform in, and was particularly invested in the rise of Griselda Records, Benny’s crew, and arguably the biggest names to rise from the upstate New York scene to date.

Of course, little of that would matter to Gibbs, with whom the Butcher has been fighting a bitter feud involving restaurant fisticuffs, stolen chains, and black eyes on stage. (Side note: “Freddie” and “Benny” don’t sound like the names of two dudes who should be rap beefing. These are Sandlot character names.) Their conflict has since cooled to a passive-aggressive war of extremely petty words, and Fred’s most recent tweet would certainly fall in line with that. Benny hasn’t responded — yet — but maybe he’s finally going to take the hostilities to the studio and rap about it on his new compilation tape dropping this week.