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There’s an architectural adage that explains how the sign of a healthy city is an ever-evolving skyline. In San Francisco, the colorfully reflective Salesforce Tower replacing the iconic Transamerica Pyramid as the most prominent pillar in Downtown’s lineup of buildings is a prime example of this concept. A permanent fixture signifying a period of growth.

Lasting music festivals are similar in their nature. The sign of a healthy festival is one that also flashes an ever-evolving landscape and more importantly, one that continues to reflect the city where it takes place in new and exciting ways. Outside Lands, San Francisco’s most significant pop music festival, operates like a city within a city, one that welcomed 225,000 people to an unusually sunny Golden Gate Park this past weekend for its 14th edition. But unlike a skyline, a lot of those changes — besides the new light-up windmill which replaced the double wooden mills of old — can’t be seen from a distance and are only fully appreciated when traversing the festival’s bountiful paths and walkways to “Lands” within Golden Gate Park, one of America’s quintessential music festival venues.

It’s nothing short of a privilege to be coursing through Golden Gate Park’s meadows and fields for the weekend. It’s an easy walk to the end of the Polo Field to catch Green Day, Post Malone, or SZA’s headlining sets, but walk beneath the cypress tree-coverings of McLaren Pass, and you might just stumble into DJ’s Q-Bert and Shortkut of the famed Invisbl Skratch Piklz turntablist crew throwing down a world-class display at a pop-up stage in a cocktail-themed corner of the fest. Stroll through the festival’s outer edge along the North entrance and you can cross the street into Marx Meadow for the electronic music-focused SOMA Tent. While last year’s 1,000 capacity area was an overpopulated mess, this year’s tent had double the capacity for DJs ranging up to Tokimonsta and Claude VonStroke. Pull open the door to Outside Lands’ only indoor stage and you’re transported into a strikingly large space akin to one of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood underground clubs, complete with LED cubes encrusting the stage. Fine-tuning an indoor electronic music component to the festival was long overdue for Outside Lands and for the club kids and ravers who want to dance in a warehouse-like setting all weekend, it’s a swell function that also funnels away traffic from the rest of the fest.

You see, every corner of the footprint is built to showcase the beauty of the grounds. At the sweeping, sunken meadow of the Sutro Stage — where Faye Webster dazzled, Wet Leg roused, and Robert Glasper proved once again that he’s one of this summer’s must-see festival acts — unsightly porta potties that lined the outer edge were removed this year in favor of a more concealed and functional facility on the opposite side of the field. To say it improved aesthetics is an understatement and it was one of many functional improvements that Outside Lands is beginning to deploy as it becomes increasingly well-oiled.

Walk through a tunnel beneath the Polo Field bleachers and you slide into the flowering Grasslands, a legal cannabis wonderland with dispensary booths selling every variant of cannabis product imaginable. Over the last handful of years as cannabis laws have become relaxed, Outside Lands has worked to perfect this unique music festival experience. There are newly expanded “consumption areas” where folks can lounge and puff. A stoner jam band played on Sunday while carving up tiki idols as dispensary hacks hucked “buy one get one” deals like your typical pot shop experience. One dispensary even offered a “FREE GUNNA” t-shirt with the purchase of an eighth (I support this, #FreeYSL).

And for as much of a marketing-palooza as any music festival experience can be, Outside Lands’ corporate interests blended seamlessly into the background, with the exception of the new Music Den by Toyota stage. But to be fair, this was hands down the best addition to the festival’s overall music offerings. Acts who played earlier in the festival got an opportunity to appear again in a natural amphitheater-like setting. If you didn’t get in between noon and 2pm, you could still catch indie acts like The Beths, L’Rain, and Cassandra Jenkins later in the day. It proved a welcome respite to lay on the grassy slope looking at the obscure reflections of ourselves on oversized ornaments perched above on the cypress branches, while the artists played intentionally lowered volume sets.

And while the transformation of Golden Gate Park into this colorful community is always the star of the show, the music was better than I anticipated compared to last year’s sublime lineup over Halloween Weekend. Green Day broke through across the Bay as an Oakland punk trio in the ’90s and here they were, closing down Saturday night’s slate with the #hits that got them here. “I remember one time we tried to play in Dolores Park. There were a lot of punk bands and then the cops came and shut it down,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong said to the crowd. “Well, they didn’t shut this one down!” The set was also a reminder of how under-appreciated Mike Dirnt is as a bassist. His grooves on “Longview” and “Welcome To Paradise” belong in whatever the equivalent of the punk rock Louvre is.

Green Day as a local headliner was part of a bigger theme for Outside Lands 2022, one that saw a bigger commitment to Bay Area artists than ever. San Francisco rapper Larry June put down the best party set of the weekend with a prime 5:30 pm slot on the Twin Peaks Stage — the festival’s second largest. The chill, weird, lit Bay Area ethos was blowing through the diverse crowd in clouds of smoke all the way to June rapping “Bitch I feel like I’m dreaminnng…” on set closer “Smoothies In 1991.”

EDM producer Illenium, who went to St. Ignatius High School in the nearby Sunset district, closed down Twin Peaks Stage on Sunday. But the weekend felt like a true showcase for emerging Bay Area talent too; a “risk” that Outside Lands wasn’t always willing to take. In building this true ecosystem that reflects its locale, sets from Bay Area-bred acts like rising pop singer Thuy, Atlantic Records rapper Symba, flamboyant empowerment pop group Planet Booty, indie stalwart Spellling, and the biggest surprise of the weekend, Odie, bridge the great divide of the stratification of festival crowds. In effect, it hits different when we can all score more than one for the home team.

And then there’s the big ticket stars. the artists most people end up remembering the most. And it’s hard to begin this conversation without bringing up Pusha T first. King Push is bar none of the best lyricists in the game and he proves it every time on stage. Incredible energy, no bells and whistles, just a non-stop flow and series of poised death stares delivered while standing in the cleanest pair of coke white Yeezy Boost 350s you’ve ever seen. He’s the type of dude who can shout sweeping statements to the crowd like, “It’s Almost Dry! Rap album of the muthaf*ckin year. Easy!” And then perform with such conviction that you can’t help but think how right he is when it’s over.

SZA’s Friday night headlining set was evidence of Outside Lands’ growing continuity in booking. The singer, who came out standing on an elaborate lighthouse erected on stage, first graced the noon slot at Twin Peaks stage in 2015. And even without that long-awaited new album in tow, the crowd was still wrapped around her finger on all of the Ctrl jams, a Doja Cat-less rendition of “Kiss Me More,” and an explosive set-opening “All The Stars.”

The largest crowds of the weekend felt like they were (weirdly) for Weezer and Jack Harlow, but largely a function of people preparing for headliners Post Malone and Green Day, who played right after them, respectively. On Saturday, Harlow made a rare performance backed by a live band, commanding the youngest crowd of the weekend that gradually became older as folks started positioning themselves for Green Day. Weezer playing a sing-along set on the main stage’s penultimate slot of the entire festival Sunday night was a masterstroke of understanding what works and what doesn’t at a music festival in 2022. Organizers Another Planet Entertainment learned from 2016’s debacle of a Lionel Richie closing set that was very sparsely attended. Sure, it’s the legacy act, but look, you can’t please everyone and acting as such is important. So send the aging hipsters home early along with Rivers Cuomo and the Microsoft ball cap he took off (facts only, you can’t make this stuff up) so they can make it to work on time on Monday, and let the rest of the crowd vibe out to Post Malone.

For those who stayed, they’d have seen an artist on top of the music world showing the crowd exactly why he belongs there. You might’ve not known it right off the bat though. “I’m here to play some shitty music and get f*cked up!” Malone told the crowd at the beginning of his set; red cup in hand. Make no mistake about it, this was a galvanizing performance for easily the most diverse crowd of the weekend and Posty kept us guessing the entire time.

At one point, he straddled a mic with his mouth on the ground to sing “I Fall Apart” (surely making Karen O proud) then got up to take a seat, grabbed an acoustic guitar to play “Stay” and “Go Flex” while never putting his cigarette down. “The world has been such a shitty place and it just feels so beautiful to be out here with you to have a good time,” Malone said, radiating a message of love that was a resounding theme for just about every artist on stage over the weekend. And you know what? This is music to get f*cked up to. And this day and age, when we have no clue what virus is floating in the air around us when we’re surrounded by tens of thousands of people, surrendering to the music is the only way to enjoy ourselves in this environment. And nobody did surrender better than the guy who set his guitar on fire and smashed it, after performing alone on stage for the last hour and a half of an unforgettable weekend.

Check out some photos from this year’s festival below.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Netflix’s very long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s hit comic series The Sandman hit the streaming site on Friday and already made its way to the number 1 spot on the Top 10 rankings from August 1-7th.

The 10-episode series already has a devoted Twitter fan base, which was following Netflix‘s every move during production, though some were upset with the show’s casting. Gaiman recently spoke out to against any “backlash” that was receiving, saying that the fans far outweigh the haters.

“It’s not a backlash.” The author tweeted. “When someone grumbles about Sandman being woke and they get 10 likes, and I point out they’re being idiots & get 60,000 likes there isn’t a backlash going on. There’s a few people grumbling performatively on Twitter, & thousands of people waiting for Friday,” He explained.

As it turns out, there probably were more than thousands of people waiting for the show to drop, since it racked up an impressive 69.5 million hours watched in just the first three days since it debuted. For some perspective, Stranger Things secured roughly 83 million hours in its first week. The fourth season of the show now sits comfortably at number 4 on the Top Ten list, with 44 million hours viewed last week.

Meanwhile, the critically-panned Purple Hearts was able to earn 102 million hours viewed, which is not scary at all!

(Via Variety)

Everyone in life makes mistakes. Some mistakes are bigger than others while some leave people wishing they could take it all back. But when mistakes are life-altering it can really take a toll on your mental health and your future.

Markelle Taylor made a fatal mistake that landed him in San Quentin State Prison for nearly two decades serving an 18 year sentence for second-degree murder. While he was serving his time, he joined the track team and excelled under the tutelage of the volunteer coaches. According to CBS News, Taylor became such an exceptional runner that he quickly earned the nickname, “The Gazelle of San Quentin.”

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Taylor joined the prison’s 1000 Mile Club and won nearly every race. Taylor was released in 2019. And it was that speed honed in San Quentin that was on full display during one of his races that qualified him for a race that runners dream of: the Boston Marathon.

As the world’s oldest marathon, dating back to 1897, the Boston race has a lot of history. It was also the location of the first time a woman completed a marathon—Kathrine Switzer in 1967. For someone who has just been given a second chance at life, qualifying was a big deal. Taylor was given special permission to attend the marathon while on parole in 2019, having qualified the month before. He recently ran the 26.1 mile course for a second time and finished with a time he was more excited about: 2 hours and 52 minutes flat, which placed him in the top 5% of all runners.

Taylor’s story is one of mistakes and heartbreak but it’s also one of triumph. The marathoner runs in memory of the son he lost and plans to continue doing his best to make the most out of the rest of his life.

On a recent episode of National Geographic’s “Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge,” actor Ashton Kutcher opened up about being diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called vasculitis.

According to WebMD, vasculitis is a general term for several conditions (which are currently unknown) that cause inflammation in the blood vessels. Different types of vasculitis affect different organs, and all at varying degrees.

Some forms of the disease might not even need treatment, while others could be severe and result in organ damage and even aneurysms. General symptoms include fever, weight loss, fatigue, rashes and pain. But because vasculitis affects different parts of the body, more specific symptoms include ulcers, ringing in the ears, itchy eyes, numbness in the hands or feet, shortness of breath and bleeding under the skin.

Kutcher, who dealt with a particularly rare form of vasculitis, told Grylls that it “knocked out my vision, it knocked out my hearing, it knocked out like all my equilibrium” in an exclusive clip from “Access Hollywood” leading up to the episode.

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Though the “That ’70s Show” star didn’t specify what type of vasculitis he was diagnosed with, it could have been Behcet’s disease or giant cell arteritis, both which include symptoms of blindness, or perhaps Cogan’s syndrome, which can cause dizziness and hearing loss.

Mayo Clinic lists out a total of nine different forms of the disease. However, the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center notes that there are “approximately 20” different disorders classified under the name.

During the year-long recovery period, Kutcher had time to reflect. “You don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone. Until you go, ‘I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to see again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to hear again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to walk again,'” he told Grylls.

As with most autoimmune diseases, the risk factors of vasculitis vary—including age, race or ethnicity, sex and other medical conditions. Some forms may be hereditary, however lifestyle factors, such as smoking, are known to raise risks, as well as certain medications like hydralazine, levamisole, propylthiouracil and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute states, “If you are diagnosed with vasculitis, medicine can help improve your symptoms and help you avoid flares and complications. If vasculitis responds to treatment, it can go into remission, a period of time when the disease is not active.”

Of course, a positive attitude can also go a long way, which Kutcher can attest to. He told Grylls at the end of their nature walk: “The minute you start seeing your obstacles as things that are made for you, to give you what you need, then life starts to get fun. You start surfing on top of your problems, instead of living underneath them.”

Luckily, Kutcher was able to fully recover and feels“lucky to be alive.” On Aug. 8 he even let fans know of his plans to run in the 2022 New York Marathon.

Before there are a bunch of rumors/ chatter/ whatever out there. Yes, I had a rare vasculitis episode 3yrs ago. (Autoimmune flair up) I had some impairments hear, vision, balance issues right after. I fully recovered. All good. Moving on. See you at the 2022 NY Marathon w/Thorn

— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) August 9, 2022

You can learn more by clicking here to visit the Vasculitis Foundation website.

This month, Oreo’s Pumpkin Spice flavor returns for the first time in five years. No need to check your calendar, yes, we’re still in the throes of summer, but clearly a lot of people are loving it because every year the pumpkin spice products hit store shelves earlier and earlier. It’s like Christmas for nutmeg enthusiasts. In a few years, don’t be surprised if you see people rolling up to the Fourth of July barbecue with a six-pack of pumpkin ale and a pack of Pumpkin Oreos.

For the record, we’re not in support of pumpkin spice flavors when it’s still over 80 (or 90, or 100) degrees outside, but new Oreo flavors are never a bad thing. While it’s rare that a new flavor can top the classic creme and chocolate combination, we’re more than happy to let Oreo try. Oreo’s endless quest to top itself has already given us gems like Mint, Golden, and the rare Peanut Butter and Chocolate Oreos. Those flavors are all great snacks and they come pretty close to that top spot. Which raises the obvious question, how will the Pumpkin Spice stack up?

With Pumpkin Spice Oreos set to hit store shelves nationwide on August 15th, we were able to acquire a pack early to see whether they’re worth hunting down. Read on for our verdict.

Pumpkin Spice Oreos

Suggested Retail Price: $4.79

These cookies taste way better than I expected them to. As someone who loves pumpkin pie but generally dislikes other pumpkin spice-flavored foods, I was expecting these to be overly perfumed and way too heavy on the spices. But this cookie is shockingly subtle and balanced. Built on a Golden Oreo, the creme is laid on thick — think Double-Stuffed amount — and features a nice balance of ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon that pairs really well with the vanilla-flavored cookie.

Because the cookie is a double-stuffed, I wouldn’t recommend splitting the cookie and eating half at a time — unless you want to throw off the balance and be left with one half of an almost flavorless cookie (and you wouldn’t want that, WOULD YOU?!).

All together, the Pumpkin Spice Oreo manages to provide a slice of pumpkin pie in cookie form. All the spices are there and the mouthfeel of the Golden Oreo actually approximates the texture of pie crust pretty well.

Still, I couldn’t help but feel like something was missing. Every good piece of pumpkin pie needs some whipped cream. Unfortunately, it’s f*cking August so I don’t have whipped cream on hand, because I am not living in the Varsity Blues Universe. But I do still have a few pints of E-40’s ice cream which I reviewed a few months back.

Once I put a spoonful of vanilla on this cookie I elevated it tenfold. Suddenly the cookie had the rich, sweet, and creamy quality that it was missing, elevating the vanilla notes and truly matching the magic of a slice of pumpkin pie. Vanilla was what I had on hand, but I can imagine a more exciting flavor of ice cream wouldn’t do a disservice to the experience, so if you manage to pick up a pack of these, we encourage you to go experiment! Go wild, man! They’re your Oreos now.

The Bottom Line:

On its own, it’s good. Not as tasty as an original Oreo but it’s definitely worth the pickup while supplies last. For a truly next-level experience though, eat it with a spoonful of ice cream.

If it feels like you’ve seen a dozen of Marvel’s Disney+ shows over the past few years, you’re not too far off base. WandaVision led the pack in wickedly retro way and built upon existing lore so well that fans couldn’t help but feel thrilled at new additions to existing canon. Falcon and Winter Soldier specialized in fan service, and Loki reshaped the MCU for better and worse, but on that final note, the scamp shall be forgiven.

From there, the MCU shows have felt hit and miss with Moon Knight making few weekly waves but still attracting a loyal audience. Are people going to be here for She-Hulk: Attorney At Law? The show stars Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) as Jennifer Walters, an attorney who goes green beyond any cause of her choosing. In the comics, Walters featured as the more mild-mannered cousin to Bruce Banner. In this show, Mark Ruffalo surfaces once more to shake up Walter’s superheroic origin story.

No longer will Walters gain her powers from Banner through a blood infusion meant to save her life when she unwittingly ended up in the crossfire of a crime lord. Rather, she actually ends up “infused” with Hulk-dom when Bruce’s blood splashes on her due to a car accident, as revealed in a fourth-wall-breaking featurette. As for the actual lawyering of this show, that should be a fun way for the show to wrap itself into the rest of the MCU. Walters specializes in the legal woes of superhumans and those affected by them. So expect some guest appearances and perhaps some cameos, including Tim Roth’s Abomination (as initially seen in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton). And will Walter’s rage come out in the courtroom? One can only hope.

In other words, we might not only see heavy Hulk hands but some hard-hitting justice, even though the show will lean towards the legal-sitcom side of things.

Speaking of lawyers in the MCU, Marvel Studios recently suggested (via Collider) at San Diego Comic-Con that Charlie Cox would appear as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. At least, that’s what Walt Disney Studios’ President of Marketing Asad Ayaz teased at the event. If true, this should be a special treat for fans, given that everyone was so excited (but still strangely quiet) to see him in Spider-Man: No Way Home. This could also pave the way for more post-Netflix Daredevil in the MCU.

Yet not everything is sitting well ahead of launch. In the face of criticism for the series’ apparent visuals (as revealed thus far), Maslany stepped up to defend the VFX team. “I feel incredibly deferential to how talented these artists are and how quickly they have to work, obviously, like much quicker than probably should be given to them, in terms of churning these things out,” Maslany declared while pointing towards a crunch-time work environment as the culprit. Fans will have the chance to give their real take soon.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law debuts on Disney+ on August 17.

Prey, a prequel set in the Predator cinematic universe, has been a bit of a surprise hit on Hulu after skipping a traditional theatrical release. The movie has quickly become one of the streaming service’s most-watched films after its debut last week, and fans and critics alike have raved about the showcase for actress Amber Midthunder.

But another star of the show certainly shines as well: the human inside the Predator costume wreaking havoc on the North American plains of the 18th century. That would be Dane DiLiegro, an actor who has a small collection of roles to his name prior to becoming an invisible killing machine in Prey.

And as the New York Times details, DiLiegro had an interesting road to Hollywood that includes an international basketball career and a lot of time in the makeup chair to become movie monsters. The Massachusetts native was actually a college hoops player before embarking on an overseas career until he returned stateside and got interested in Hollywood.

As the story goes, DiLiegro was on set talking to a stunt coordinator who saw his 6-foot-8 frame and told him where he could have a future in Hollywood.

But typecasting in Los Angeles is in the eye of the beholder. A few years prior, a film company had come to Boston and was looking for actors. On the advice of an admirer — OK, his mom — DiLiegro, home for a visit, had answered the ad. He didn’t get a role, but a year or two later, while he was visiting his parents again, the company called back, looking for a muscular stand-in.

“I ended up just standing around the set all day, talking to the stunt coordinator,” he remembered. But the stunt coordinator had a suggestion — what he would do, were he not a stunt coordinator but an affable, hardworking, 6 foot 8½ inch basketball player looking to make a career change.

“Dude, you need to be in monster movies,” he said.

The advice has paid off, with roles in American Horror Story, Netflix’s Sweet Home and, of course, as a Predator. And though he’s often appeared on screen under a lot of foam and latex, DiLiegro has worked with some heavy hitters in the monster game and hopes this is just the start of his career.

(“I was told to bring a balletic svelte-ness to this creature,” he said. “The No. 1 word the director used was ‘feral.’”)

Now he lives in West Hollywood when he’s not on location, and spends his spare time studying masters such as Doug Jones, who starred in “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Hellboy.”

“People don’t realize,” he said. “There’s a lot of nuance that goes into playing a monster. With each movement, your body is telling a story.”

His full story is fascinating, and perhaps it’s not surprising that monster movies was not his first instinct for a career in the industry. As DiLiegro pointed out, he’d love to play an actual human on screen someday, too.

[via NY Times]

Thanks to legal cases against Young Thug and YoungBoy Never Broke Again, rap lyrics have been under the microscope as fans and critics debate rappers’ responsibility for their rhymes’ relations to reality. From New York drill rappers battling back against Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to ban their genre in public spaces to 300 Entertainment’s Kevin Liles calling for the expansion of New York’s “Rap On Trial” bill — and a similar bill that was recently introduced in the US Senate — the debate, which has raged since hip-hop’s earliest days, has received renewed attention and scrutiny thanks to current events.

Fans and rappers are increasingly being drawn into the discourse on a personal level as well. After 21 Savage tweeted about a rise in gun violence in his hometown Atlanta, some fans called him out, saying that the violent content of his music undermines his calls for peace. “Atlanta We Have To Do Better,” he tweeted yesterday. “Put The F****** Guns Down !!!!!” When a fan quoted a line from his recent Drake collaboration “Jimmy Cooks” at him, though, Savage pointed out that there should be a line between art and life.

“A song is for entertainment it’s not an instruction manual on how to live life,” he shot back. “In real life I give away a lot of money and spread financial literacy to my community. Stop trying to make me 1 dimensional.” It’s likely he was referring to his annual Issa Back 2 School Drive in Decatur this weekend, where he gave 2000 students school supplies like backpacks, notebooks, and shoes and offered services such as haircuts and braiding ahead of the upcoming school term.

For what it’s worth, some version of this debate has taken place in movies, television, and video games as well. And while rap has long espoused the “keep it real” attitude, the fact is that rappers have exaggerated their experiences since the very beginning. The moment was a great example of the issue at the core of the lyrics debate. While critics say that rappers’ lyrics encourage violence or depict it in detail, artists themselves insist that the lyrics aren’t to be taken literally or that they are simply recording their lived experiences.

Rapper and podcaster extraordinaire Open Mike Eagle’s last album, Anime, Trauma And Divorce peeled back the skin on some of the most painful experiences of his life. Now, on the newly announced Component System With The Auto Reverse, Mike Eagle is letting himself have some fun digging into his past; a past where he made cassette mixtapes from tracks he heard on his local hip-hop radio station.

“When I was in high school I used to stay up late to tape the hip-hop shows on college radio station WHPK on the south side of Chicago,” the rapper said in a statement. “It was the only way to hear the underground rap songs that changed my world. I still have many of the cassettes, with songs by giants like MF DOOM, DITC, Outsidaz, All Natural, Juggaknots, Organized Konfusion, and more. I named each tape. I named one Component System. This album was made in the spirit of that tape but with new music from me. Some of the people on the original tape appear on this album, I’m so proud of that that it brings me close to tears.”

The album has production from Madlib, Quelle Chris, Child Actor, and others. The new single, “I’ll Fight You,” was produced by DITC’s Diamond D, whose “…Beats and raps have inspired me my whole ass life,” Mike Eagle said.

Listen to “I’ll Fight For You” above and check out the album artwork and tracklist for Component System With The Auto Reverse below.

1. “The Song With The Secret Name” (produced by Child Actor)
2. “TDK Scribbled Intro” (produced by Kuest1)
3. “79th And Stony Island” (produced by Quelle Chris)
4. “I’ll Fight You” (produced by Diamond D)
5. “Circuit City” featuring Video Dave & Still Rift (produced by Madlib)
6. “I Retired Then I Changed My Mind” (produced by Child Actor)
7. “Burner Account featuring Armand Hammer” (produced by Quelle Chris)
8. “For DOOM” (produced by Illingsworth)
9. “Crenshaw And Homeland” (produced by Diamond D)
10. “Multi-game Arcade Cabinet” featuring R.A.P Ferreira, Still Rift & Video Dave (produced by illingsworth)
11. “Credits Interlude” featuring Serengeti) (produced by Illingsworth)
12. “Peak Lockdown Raps” (produced by Child Actor)
13. “Kites” featuring Video Dave and Still Rift (produced by Kuest1)
14. “Cd only” [bonus track] featuring Aesop Rock & Diamond D (produced by Diamond D)

Component System With The Auto Reverse is out on 10/07 via Auto Reverse records. Pre-order it here.

It feels like a lot of revenge movies lately are focused too much on chiseled action stars and not enough on the world’s scariest group of individuals: teenage girls. Yes, we want cunning schemes and minimal gore, but we also want color-coordinating outfits and backstabbing drama, a la Heathers and Jennifer’s Body! Enter: Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes.

The duo star in Do Revenge, an upcoming Netflix dark comedy from Someone Great director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who also co-wrote Thor: Love and Thunder.

Mendes portrays Drea, a queen bee who falls off her throne after nude photos of her are sent around the whole school by her crummy boyfriend. She gets help from Eleanor, played by Hawke, to get revenge on the school. The movie stars Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, Jonathan Daviss, Maia Reficco, Paris Berelc, Alisha Boe, and Sophie Turner. Check out the official synopsis:

After a clandestine run-in, Drea (Alpha, fallen it girl played by Camila Mendes) and Eleanor (beta, new alt girl played by Maya Hawke) team up to go after each other’s tormentors. Do Revenge is a subverted Hitchcock-ian dark comedy featuring the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls.

Perhaps “Hitchcock-ian” is not generally associated with teen comedy films, but it’s definitely an interesting concept! Do Revenge will hit Netflix on September 16h. Check out the trailer above.