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This past weekend, Pearl Jam headlined the two-day extravaganza known as British Summer Time at London’s Hyde Park. Eddie Vedder and company closed out both Friday and Saturday night concerts and were supported by acts like The Pixies, Stereophonics, Cat Power, and Johnny Marr. Pearl Jam pulled out a lot of stops throughout the weekend, but none were as momentous as during their Saturday night closing set, when Marr joined them on stage for two classic covers.

Marr, who made a name for himself as the lead guitarist of The Smiths, was welcomed onto the stage by Vedder and they played Neil Young’s “Throw Your Hatred Down” together. Then as the 22-song set was coming to a close, Marr came back on stage to join Pearl Jam (and a lot of Londoners singing along) in an explosive rendition of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” It was all captured on a surreal video board setup.

At Pearl Jam’s performance the night before, famed tennis bad boy John McEnroe them on guitar. Given that Wimbledon was currently happening in London, this was a masterstroke in Pearl jam’s thematic guest bag of tricks. Simon Townshend (the brother of The Who’s Pete Townshend, who tours with the band) also came up on stage to duet his song “I Am The Answer” with Vedder.

Watch Johnny Marr join Pearl Jam to perform The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” above and check out them performing Neil Young’s “Throw Your Hatred Down” below.

Back to work? This product will make you feel like you *almost* never left your living room. Ok, it will at least let you bring some of your family and friends with you… without having to organize guest parking for the entire crew. Because what looks like a classic picture frame is actually so much more. Here’s how it works:

This Skylight Frame is a digital picture frame! If you’re not sure what that means, think photo screensaver that’s constantly being updated. And it’s beyond easy to send pictures too, so there’s never a hassle of having to update it or plug it in to download new photos.

The frame is a touch screen so you can easily connect to WiFi just like you would with any other device. Then, you can create your own unique Skylight email address for the frame. After that you can forward your favorite pics and the frame will almost instantly add those photos into the queue. It can surprise you with its own slide show settings (think shuffle) or you can select an order (think newest to oldest) for your slideshow. This feature is really the best part about this digital frame, because it’s always showing something new.

And because you can give out the email address to your friends and family and they can also send you pictures on their own! That way the photo album will continue to update with all of the best adventures and you can be treated to a surprise while you’re at your desk… just as long as the surprises are all work appropriate.

That being said, this frame really is better when shared. It has tons of cool features, like a small heart that you can click to “like” a photo and let whoever sent it to you know that it made your day a little brighter. You can also pause the slide show at any time and hold on one picture for a few minutes or the whole day. This feature is especially handy if you’re going to a meeting or heading away from your desk.

There are other settings that allow you to control the flow and display of the slideshow. It’s complete customizable and there are tons of new features to explore. It’s almost like being on social media, but instead of being flooded with photos of people you went to high school with, you only get the best, silliest, happiest photos from people you love.

But, if you’re going for a more posh aesthetic or if you want the frame to showcase your vision board, that’s also totally doable. You can self-curate slide shows or limit the amount of photos displayed. Because of the simple features and easy to use touchscreen, this frame is an easy addition for your desk. And it just might soften the blow of being back in the office… even if it’s just a little bit.

Check it out now, and see what all the hype’s about.

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Despite being one of the world’s most sought after drinks, coffee is still a source of enviromental degradation, child labor, animal abuse and even slavery in many parts of the world. So, how do we enjoy a cup of coffee knowing that it could further contribute to these issues? By buying from a coffee roaster that actively works towards reducing their carbon footprint, sources sustainable beans from local coffee farms and cooperatives, and gives back to a non-profit that works on projects in developing countries. Just like the Volcanica Coffee Company.

The Volcanica Coffee Company is a family owned business based in Atlanta, Georgia. They specialize in roasting specialty and exotic coffees and donate one percent of sales from their website to charity: water, a non-profit organization that raises funds for a variety of water related projects in developing countries.

Did you know that moderate coffee consumption may actually be good for you? Even though early studies indicated that coffee might be bad for your health, recent research has concluded that moderate coffee consumption has many health benefits that are more beneficial than detrimental. In addition, a wide array of studies indicate that coffee consumption can lead to less burn out, better mental performance, and help with focus and attention.

Volcanica Coffee Roasters provide a unique variety of coffees, including naturally low acid coffee which is grown in areas where the soil and altitude conditions affect the pH of the coffee. When selecting a low acid coffee, Volcanica Coffee Company recommends listening to your body and seeing how your stomach reacts. If you’re looking for a low acid coffee, try the Brazil Estate Coffee, which is a single origin coffee that has a pH of 5.3 and is Rainforest Alliance Certified.

It has been said that adventure in life is good, consistency in coffee is even better. Good coffee roasting can provide great consistency, since coffee roasting can considerably influence the taste and composition of your java. All of the coffees produced by The Volcanic Coffee Company are freshly roasted in Atlanta to ensure a consistent standard.

If you’re looking for a delicious daily sipper, try the organically grown Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, that’s grown in a region known for its flowery and sweet tasting notes. Or purchase a bag of the well-balanced El Salvador coffee, that’s Fair Trade Certified. If you’re looking for a high-end coffee, the Costa Rica Geisha is popular because of its sweet tasting notes. It also has thirty percent less caffeine than most other coffees.

Need the perfect gift for a coffee lover. Try the Four Pack Coffee Gift Boxes, which come in different variations like Exotic Peaberry, World Traveler and Classic Gourmet.

The Smile have already put out one of the year’s best albums in A Light For Attracting Attention. The trio consists of singer Thom Yorke, multi-instrumentalist Johnny Greenwood, and drummer Tom Skinner, and it’s not a far cry to consider them just “Radiohead in disguise.” Their music is definitely fodder for the insatiable appetite of Radiohead fans and according to Yorke, there is more of it on the horizon.

The band tweeted out a live performance video of a song called “Colours Fly” on Sunday, which they debuted at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival last month. Along with the preview clip in the tweet, was a link to a high quality youtube video of the performance. Yorke quoted retweeted the band’s tweet, saying, “new one … work in progress … there are a few ..”

A European tour is currently underway for The Smile, including stops at a slew of music festivals. Next week, they’ll be performing at both the Nimes Festival in France and at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. August’s All Points East is their final Europe stop before they head to the US and Canada for a run of tour dates in November and December culminating with a two-night stop at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Watch The Smile perform “Colours Fly” at Primavera Sound above. Check out full tour dates here.

Pending some dark horse candidate, the biggest money-gobbling movie of the summer looks like it’s going to be a belated sequel starring a guy who just turned 60 that execs toyed with dumping on some streamer. Top Gun: Maverick is in its seventh weekend of release and it’s still Hoovering up cash. The movie ends on an elegiac note, albeit one that leaves things open for a threequel. And lo and behold, that may wind up happening sooner rather than later.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, one of the film’s top supporting actors — Miles Teller, who plays the son of Anthony Edwards’ deceased Goose — reveals that he and “TC” are already in talks to get Pete “Maverick” Mitchell back up in the skies.

“That would be great, but that’s all up to TC,” Teller said. “It’s all up to Tom. I’ve been having some conversations with him about it. We’ll see.” He added, “For him to share Top Gun with me and a lot of these other young actors it’s just been such a wild ride, and it’s still going.”

If so, Teller might have go back to boot camp. Maverick was filmed four whole years ago, then sat on a shelf for two years, waiting out the worst of the pandemic. Prep already broke him the last time, but who knows? Maybe he’ll have another chance to get sick in front of one of the world’s biggest movie stars.

(Via Entertainment Tonight)

Danilo Gallinari is quite literally seeking out greener pastures. Gallinari, the sharpshooting veteran big man, was traded by the Atlanta Hawks to the San Antonio Spurs in the blockbuster pre-free agency deal that sent Dejounte Murray to the Eastern Conference. From the jump, rumors circulated that Gallinari was not going to spend all that much time in San Antonio, which looks like it is going to spend the next year with one eye on the 2023 NBA Draft.

As such, it was reported that the Spurs would waive Gallinari, after the trade became official. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that once that happened, the Italian forward’s preference was to end up in Boston as a member of the Celtics.

Sure enough, a week later, the deal officially got done, with Gallinari working out a two-year deal worth just under $14 million with a fully guaranteed player option in the second year.

Gallinari joined the Hawks as a big-name free agent back in 2020. Last season, he appeared in 68 games with 18 starts, and averaged 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 25.3 minutes per game while hitting 43.4 percent of his shot attempts from the field and 38.1 percent of his threes. The Celtics are now almost assuredly done making significant moves after signing Gallinari and trading for Malcolm Brogdon, but will feel like they improved on roster weaknesses by adding another ball-handler in Brogdon and an additional scoring option on the wing in Gallinari.

The past couple of weekends have been filled with incidents between artists and fans at music festivals. First, Lil Uzi Vert was accused of hitting a fan in the face with a cell phone at London’s Wireless Festival after he threw one into the crowd. After that, Cardi B seemingly got into a scuffle with someone at that same Wireless Festival after they grabbed her hair. Lastly, Roddy Ricch quite literally kicked a fan offstage after they rushed toward him at Switzerland’s Openair Frauenfeld Festival. Now, an incident involving Lil Baby at that same Swiss festival joins that list.

Lil Baby was performing his 2020 record “On Me” at the Openair Frauenfeld Festival when a fan rushed the stage. it seemed like they got onstage with the hope of interacting with Lil Baby, but that attempt was quickly put to an end after a security guard pushed the individual off the stage and into the front row barricade. The security guard’s reaction seemingly took Lil Baby by surprise as he paused the show to make sure the individual was okay.

You can watch the fan get tossed off the stage in the video above.

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Democrats rarely go on Fox News, even now that it appears they’re de-Trumping the joint. But when they do, they’re usually met with a lot of resistance. On Sunday, Pete Buttigieg showed how it’s done. When the presidential candidate-turned-secretary of transportation was asked about the people who recently protested outside a Morton’s steakhouse while Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was dining, he was no wet blanket.

Host Mike Emmanuel brought up a tweet from his husband, Chasten, who joked, “Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions.” That outraged the host, who asked Buttigieg if it was “appropriate” for protests to crop up while lawmakers seek some privacy. But Buttigieg didn’t hold back.

“Look, when public officials go into public life, we should expect two things. One, that you should always be free from violence, harassment, and intimidation. And two, you’re never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protests — people exercising their First Amendment rights. And that’s what happened in this case,” Buttigieg said. He also pointed out that Kavanaugh “never came into contact” with the protesters, and slipped out the back door.

Emmanuel repeatedly tried to interrupt him, but he soldiered on. “These protesters are upset because a right — a very important right, that the majority of Americans support — was taken away,” he continued:

“Not only the right to choose by the way, but this justice was part of the process of stripping away the right to privacy. Since I’ve been alive, settled case law in the United States has been that the Constitution protected the right to privacy and that has now been thrown out the window by justices, including Justice Kavanaugh, who as I recall, swore up and down in front of God and everyone including the United States Congress that they were going to leave settled case law alone. So yes, people are upset. They’re going to exercise their First Amendment rights.”

Buttigieg then moved on to an example of non-peaceful protest. “Compare that, for example, to the reality that as a country right now we are reckoning with the fact that a mob summoned by the former president to the United States Capitol for the purpose of overthrowing the election and very nearly succeeded in preventing the peaceful transfer of power,” he said. “I think common sense can tell the difference.”

Kavanaugh is one of four judges who, during their confirmation hearings and elsewhere, vowed to not touch “settled laws” such as Roe v. Wade. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the Democrats who have called on impeachment trials for perjury for doing the opposite. Conservatives have since been trying, badly, to soften the ruling, perhaps realizing how unpopular it is.

Meanwhile, kudos for Buttigieg for going on the network that has falsely smeared him and giving them what-fer.

(Via Raw Story)

Roddy Ricch has been a busy man over the last month. Over the last 30 days, he’s released a new EP, titled The Big 3, and shared a video for “Real Talk” with Mustard. He also delivered a strong performance at Something In The Water where he used his time on stage to salute Lil Keed, Nipsey Hussle, and more. Speaking of performances, Roddy Ricch recently brought his talents to Switzerland for the Openair Frauenfeld Festival. It was here that Roddy quite literally had to kick a fan off the stage during his set.

It went down as the Compton rapper was performing “The Box,” his Diamond-selling record from his debut album, Please Don’t Excuse Me For Being Antisocial. As he performed the song, a fan ran onto the stage, but they were quickly taken down by security. It was at that moment that Roddy approached the scuffle, but in an attempt to get into contact with him, the fan tried to grab the rapper’s leg. Roddy reacted by seemingly kicking the fan repeatedly before they were removed from the show. Roddy cooly returned to performing at the festival once the fan was offstage.

You can watch the incident with the fan in the video above.

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

The best of the WNBA took center stage on Sunday afternoon in Chicago for the annual All-Star Game, and while there were plenty of storylines coming in. None were bigger than it being the final time we’d see a pair of legends, Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird, in an All-Star Game.

Both Fowles and Bird have announced this will be their final season, and both earned starting nods and co-captain spots in Chicago. Fowles got to work early for Team Wilson, knocking down a three on the first possession of the game to set the tone, as she made clear she was ready to show out in Chicago.

The three was just an appetizer, though, as midway through the second quarter Fowles got a steal and had nothing but open court in front of her, throwing down a dunk that had the entire arena rocking and all of her teammates (and some of her opponents) bouncing up and down.

It’s pretty incredible for Fowles to be able to get up like that in Year 14, and she definitely gave the fans what they wanted in her final All-Star Game. Her fellow WNBA stars were also super hyped on the dunk, with Candace Parker demanding Fowled retract her plans to retire and stick around longer cause she’s clearly still got some juice in those legs.