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The 2017 death of Chester Bennington essentially spelled the end of Linkin Park. Lately, though, there have been some murmurs about the band potentially making a comeback.

Is Linkin Park Reuniting?

On August 24, the band launched a 100-hour countdown, although it wasn’t clear what the countdown was for. Then, on August 28, the countdown reached 0, at which point is just reset and starting counting up from 0 instead of down to it. Shortly after, the band posted on social media, “It’s only a matter of time…”

Now, we’ve reached a new step. Today (August 29), the band shared a cropped image of an “LP” logo and wrote, “Be part of something. September 5th. LinkinPark.com.” Currently, the band’s website does not offer any clarity.

While this has all been happening, it was rumored that Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley would be joining Linkin Park, as he had an announcement of his own set for the same day as the end of Linkin Park’s countdown.

It turned out to just be a coincidence, though, as he explained, “I feel the need to dispel some current rumours. It’s been brought to my attention that many people think I could be joining a reuniting band. But I just want to say, despite popular belief, I am not joining Oasis… or Linkin Park. Or any other band for that matter. I have my own ‘tour and book’ announcement that I will now move to the end of the week, ahead of our US tour. I do look forward to seeing whatever both these amazing bands do in the future.”

So, ultimately, it remains to be seen what will come of Linkin Park, but we’ll presumably know more on September 5.

The college football season has finally, fully, arrived. A week after a four-course Week 0 appetizer helped us warm up our college football watching muscles, Week 1 brings five straight days of action, starting on Thursday night and running through Monday night. We here at Uproxx love college football season dearly, and while the return of EA College Football helped scratch that itch over the last month and a half, we are extremely excited to have the real thing back in our lives.

Each week, we’ll bring you a look at the games we are most excited for, from marquee matchups to under the radar fun and even a best bet (or two).

The Game Of The Year (Of The Week): No. 23 USC vs. No. 13 LSU

The thing about the first week of the college football season is that we don’t actually know that much about the teams that are going out there, especially when they’re two teams like the Trojans and the Tigers, which have to replace the last two Heisman Trophy winners at QB and plenty of other talented players from two of the most dynamic offenses in America last season.

So, why is this here? Easy: Both of these teams are still, probably, going to put up a ton of points and yards, especially against a pair of defenses that have left something to be desired in recent years. Neither QB (Miller Moss for USC, Garrett Nussmeier for LSU) has an easy job in replacing Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels, but they ended last season with a bang in their respective bowl games and are entering this season with some excitement. And if the Trojan defense hasn’t taken a far enough step forward after an abysmal showing last year, we’re going to see a good, old-fashioned shootout from the rip this season. It does suck that this is happening in Las Vegas on a neutral site and not in the Coliseum or Death Valley, but it still ought to be an awful lot of fun to watch.

Lock Into This One: No. 7 Notre Dame vs. No. 20 Texas A&M

This should be a legitimately fun game, as Notre Dame will bring one of the best defenses in the nation and an offense led by high-profile Duke transfer QB Riley Leonard into Kyle Field, where there is optimism following the firing of Jimbo Fisher (for A LOT of money) and hiring of Mike Elko, who coached Leonard at Duke and spent a year in 2017 as the defensive coordinator of the Fighting Irish. The question at A+M under Fisher was never, ever talent, but getting all the pieces into place, as nine starters return on both sides of the ball. Elko has only spent two years as a head coach, and it’s fair to wonder how he’ll handle the pressure cooker that is College Station, but he went 16-9 at Duke and can coach up a defense with the best of them. This game is going to be tense, and it should be a blast.

Under-The-Radar Banger: North Dakota State vs. Colorado

Listen, absolutely nothing about the Colorado football program under Deion Sanders can be classified as under-the-radar, I get that. At the same time: For some reason, someone thought it was a good idea for the Buffs to start their season by hosting North Dakota State, which went 11-4 and lost in the FCS semis in what can be classified as a down year for them. Colorado should win — for all their question marks on defense and in the trenches, Shedeur Sanders is quite good, while their skill position guys led by Travis Hunter are explosive — but if first-year head coach Tim Polasek has the Bison hit the ground running, this is going to be a legitimately fun football game.

Message Board Meltdown Game Of The Week: No. 19 Miami at Florida

One of the great things about college football is that a lot of fan bases are just one win away from proclaiming themselves title contenders and, at the exact same time, just one loss away from trying to fire their coach. Team message boards are always ready to smash that overreact button after each game, but especially when taking on a hated rival. Week 1 features an absolute banger in the 3:30 slate when Miami goes up the road to The Swamp to take on Florida, where a loss for either coach will put them on an extremely hot seat.

Mario Cristobal was supposed to resurrect the Canes, but they’ve gone 12-13 under the Miami alum and there is a ton of pressure to finally get into contention in the ACC (and for the Playoff) this season. The excuse has been that Cristobal’s best attribute is as a recruiter, but in Year 3 the talent upgrades from recruiting are supposed to show up. He also brought in Cam Ward to finally fill the quarterback hole that’s existed for, uh, 20 years now in Coral Gables, so a loss as a road favorite to Florida would be extremely damning for Mario.

On the other side is Billy Napier, who most Florida fans have already mentally fired. The Gators are still waiting for someone that can get them back to being a legit contender, but Napier hasn’t been able to get recruiting back to where it once was and his strength as a tactician has not shown up on the field as he’s gone 11-14 in his first two years at the helm. The Gators have, by just about any metric, the hardest schedule in college football this season and are projected to win 4 games. That would assuredly get Napier the boot, and if he’s going to save his job, a win at home over Miami is an absolute must. In either case, someone’s message boards are gonna be heating up around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, and I personally cannot wait for this game that figures to be funny no matter the outcome as a neutral observer.

Who Won The Heisman Last Week?: Jamal Haynes, RB, Georgia Tech

Week 0 didn’t feature any of the Heisman frontrunners and none of the quarterbacks really popped, but Georgia Tech running back Jamal Haynes was the standout of the week. He only toted the rock 11 times but piled up 75 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Yellow Jackets to the stunning upset of Florida State. In the words of Tech coach Brent Key, run the baaawwwwlllll.

Best Bet: Georgia State +21.5

Georgia Tech was great last week against Florida State, putting their full game-planning might into Week 0 to get a huge win in Ireland against a top 10 team in what was one of their biggest games of the year. A week later, they have to fly back across the pond after a huge emotional win and face a Georgia State team that will be putting everything they can into playing their crosstown foes. I think this is a letdown spot for the Yellow Jackets against a Panthers squad that will be treating this like their Super Bowl. Three touchdowns is a lot for a Tech team that wants to run the dang ball, and I think the Panthers can keep this thing inside that number as they throw everything at the wall trying to pull off the program’s second major upset (remember, they went into Knoxville and took down Tennessee a few years ago).

Chris Pratt might have moved on from his dinosaur days for a quiet life of plumbing-related adventures, but that doesn’t mean the dinosaurs have moved on from the humans. The new Jurassic World movie is currently shaping up to bring the franchise back to the screen with a whole new set of unsuspecting humans who have no idea how to deal with dinosaurs.

Jurassic World: Rebirth is the upcoming continuation of the franchise. The film will pick up five years following the events of Jurassic World Dominion when “the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs.” This makes cohabitating with the creatures pretty tough. But, like the rest of the movies in the franchise, we know that life always finds a way!

The synopsis continues: “Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.” The official Jurassic World social media accounts shared some images of the upcoming film.

Universal has also given some backstory to the new group of dino hunters. Jurassic superfan Scarlett Johansson plays a covert operation expert, Zora Bennett, who has been hired to lead the team extracting DNA from a group of dangerous dinos. Mahershala Ali plays Zora’s partner Duncan, while Jonathan Bailey plays a paleontologist named Henry. The group encounter a crew of civilians who are stranded after their boat was capsized due to dinosaur activity and they are forced to come “face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.”

If we can keep this up, maybe Godzilla, Kong and a T-Rex will all meet up to take on a Xenomorph or something. Just to see what happens!

Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to premiere on July 2, 2025.

With the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers both spending the past few seasons outside of title contention and instead battling for Play-In spots in the West, there has been some chatter about whether either of their veteran stars would look for a change of scenery. LeBron James and Stephen Curry are still playing at an extremely high level deep into their 30s, but each of their windows to win another title is shrinking.

Those rumblings hit a fever pitch this summer after the two clearly had a blast playing together on Team USA on their way to a gold medal in Paris, leading to plenty of fans wondering if it was possible to get the two teamed up in either L.A. or San Francisco. The Warriors tried to approach that conversation at the deadline this past season, but talks got shut down quickly (reportedly at the urging of Rich Paul) and there’s no real indication either star would be gettable or willing to leave beyond fans (and media) trying to wish it into existence.

There was a chance that, if LeBron played long enough, the two could hit free agency together in 2026 and join forces, but that’s no longer the case after Stephen Curry agreed to a 1-year contract extension worth an incredible $62.6 million that will keep him in the Bay through the 26-27 season. Curry has noted that he expects to contend and wants the Warriors to do what’s necessary to build a team around him that can do that, but he’s also extremely loyal to the only team he’s ever played for and seems content to stay with Golden State and give the front office time to find the right moves to make.

The Acolyte gained a hefty amount of buzz before it even landed on Disney+ earlier this year. The show had the most diverse cast of any Star Wars story and also aimed to bring younger viewers to a new part of the galaxy. But the series was seriously review-bombed by audiences who were less open to the newbies, and now that the series is cancelled, the stars are speaking out.

Amandla Stenberg, who plays Jedi twins Osha and Mae in the series, took to Instagram to address the cancellation, which didn’t surprise her. “I’m gonna be transparent and say it’s not a huge shock for me. For those who aren’t aware, there has been a rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was announced,” the actress said in a series of candid Instagram stories.

Stenberg started out by thanking the fans for their support, “I don’t use social media very much anymore. But there are many folks out there that I want to acknowledge and I want to show appreciation and love and support for. So that’s why I’m hopping on here.” Despite the support from fans of the show, backlash from online trolls and haters was hard to ignore.

“We started experiencing a rampage of, I would say hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudiced hatred, and hateful language towards us,” Stenberg explained. “This really affected me when I first got the job, because even though I anticipated it happening, it’s not something you can fully understand what it feels like until it happens to you.” Stenberg, who is no stranger to fandoms after their breakout role in The Hunger Games, decided to keep going despite the negativity.

“I had this very unique experience of experiencing the world at large, which is super divisive right now, through the lens of this unique opportunity of being in Star Wars,” she said of her decision to continue the show despite the initial casting backlash. “It has been an incredible honor and dream for me to be in this universe. Of course I’m sad about the show being cancelled, I still feel a lot of joy that I got to experience it and that people loved it and people were so responsive.”

Even though the series was cancelled (despite an open-ended finale and a planned season two arc) Stenberg doesn’t see the experience as a failure. “I just want to let people know who supported us in that way, despite all the vitriol we received and the targeted attacks…just that you are deeply loved and appreciated, it made this job all the worthwhile for me.”

Maybe, if we’re lucky, in 10 years the show will land on Netflix and get a whole new generation hooked enough to warrant a reboot. It has happened before!

(Via Deadline)

The 2024-25 NFL season is due to start next Thursday, September 5, when the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens. The game will be broadcast on NBC. ESPN will handle the final Week 1 game between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers — the season’s first Monday Night Football matchup.

It will double as J Balvin’s first of seven curated Monday Night Football broadcasts.

On Thursday, August 29, ESPN announced that J Balvin “will work with ESPN throughout the 2024-25 NFL season to curate music for select ESPN Monday Night Football games,” as per a press release.

The release continues, “The curated music from J Balvin will run in Monday Night Football promotional spots, live telecasts, and Monday Night Countdown for seven weeks this season, inclusive of two NFL Playoffs weeks.”

It all begins with “Doblexxó” featuring Feid (a recent Uproxx “Best New Pop Music From This Week” selection) from Balvin’s freshly released RAYO.

Below, check out Balvin’s full ESPN curation schedule, with the note that it is subject to change.

Week 1: New York Jets at San Francisco 49ers on Monday, September 9
Week 5: New Orleans Saints @ Kansas City Chiefs on Monday, October 7
Week 6: Buffalo Bills at New York Jets on Monday, October 14
Week 11: Houston Texans at Dallas Cowboys on Monday, November 18
Week 18 Doubleheader: TBD
Monday Night Super Wild Card: TBD
Divisional: TBD

To be perfectly frank: the past few years have been chaotic for streaming services as they find their bearings, seek profitability, and even find themselves consolidating. At WBD especially, a 2022 merger led to some films becoming write offs, much to the dismay of both creatives and viewers. That finished-film collateral damage included Coyote Vs. Acme and Batgirl, and for awhile, it looked as though the feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (which follows a 1979 Tobe Hooper-directed CBS miniseries ^^^ and a 2004 TNT version starring the late Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hower, and Rob Lowe) could be on the chopping block, too.

Then, a twist. In February, the notoriously never-subtle King — who has also been busy using his powers to help rescue Evil on Paramount+ — let loose on X/Twitter, where he called the movie “quite good” and an example of “Old-school horror filmmaking: slow build, big payoff.” The prolific horror author then dropped the hammer: “Not sure why WB is holding it back; not like it’s embarrassing, or anything. Who knows. I just write the f*cking things.”

This storied project began filming amid whispers years ago. Gary Dauberman (the recent IT movies) climbed aboard as writer, director, and executive producer with James Wan‘s Atomic Monster (The Conjuring, Insidious) nabbing executive producing duties. The New Line Cinema film was apparently complete before falling off the Warner Bros. Pictures theatrical schedule. And following King’s nudge, wheels began turning again, and a release is finally happening. The updated aesthetics do look promising:

Max will officially stream the Salem’s lot movie for this Halloween season, and Dauberman recently revealed to Vanity Fair, “I’m excited it’s finally getting out there and people can see it.” I bet. With that said, let’s talk about what to expect from the long-overdue Salem’s Lot movie.

Plot

Although this story has been brought to the small screen twice already (to largely positive reception), King appears to be confident in what he’s seen for the updated version, so we must trust the process, and King has teased that a pivotal scene “could have been directed by John Carpenter in his prime.” To more of that teasing end, Max has previewed several images that we’ll scatter throughout this post, and that includes the above look at Marsten House, which appears to be the source of a vampire plague overtaking Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. The story will adapt King’s 1975 novel (only his second after Carrie), which follows fictional author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) as he returns to his hometown to find inspiration for his next book.

As the adage goes, perhaps he should have been more careful about what he wished for. The logline confirms that Mears “discover[s] his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.” Residents are disappearing on a regular basis, and a “deceased” person will apparently vamp out and escape the morgue (with Alfre Woodard’s Dr. Cody shown reacting here):

Dauberman told Vanity Fair that viewers should expect Mears to provide the audience POV of this film with a “groundedness” on display, and more of a wildcard will be found in the character of Richard Straker, an antique store purveyor who is also new to town and lives in that ominous mansion. His silent partner, Kurt Barlow, only surfaces at night, but Straker is the guy who is selling more wares than meet the eye. Pilou Asbæk will appear in this key role (once encapsulated by Donald Sutherland), and you might remember Pilou giving villainous face vibes from a little HBO show called Game of Thrones:

Expect Pilou to “run” with his Straker version while being “just f*cking crazy charismatic,” according to Dauberman. How close will Straker be to versions that King fans have previously seen? The director addressed that topic, too:

“I was kind of wrestling with what this Straker was going to be? Is he going to be more like the book? Is he going to be more James Mason from the [1979] series? He’s an outsider in this town. And I think outsiders can sometimes be looked at as something very interesting, where people start to lean in. ‘Oh, this guy, he’s opening this antique store and he’s got all this cool stuff…’ He’s weaving his web and drawing people in.”

Also, a vampire tease is upon us:

Cast

Who will portray Barlow? Nobody has let that slip yet.

As noted above, Straker will be portrayed by Pilou Asbæk with Alfre Woodard (See) as Dr. Cody and Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Outer Range) as Ben Mears. The characters will be rounded out as follows: the conflicted and somewhat inept Father Callahan (John Benjamin Hickey), teacher Matt Burke (Bill Camp), Susan Norton (Makenzie Leigh), and Mike Ryerson (Spencer Treat Clark).

Release Date

The film will surface (for real this time) in October on Max.

Trailer

Max isn’t doing the trailer thing yet for Salem’s Lot, but if you need to swiftly enjoy a cross-medium remake of a classic vampire story, please meet the acquaintance of AMC’s version of Anne Rice’s Lestat of Interview With The Vampire, now streaming two seasons on AMC+:

To be perfectly frank: the past few years have been chaotic for streaming services as they find their bearings, seek profitability, and even find themselves consolidating. At WBD especially, a 2022 merger led to some films becoming write offs, much to the dismay of both creatives and viewers. That finished-film collateral damage included Coyote Vs. Acme and Batgirl, and for awhile, it looked as though the feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (which follows a 1979 Tobe Hooper-directed CBS miniseries ^^^ and a 2004 TNT version starring the late Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hower, and Rob Lowe) could be on the chopping block, too.

Then, a twist. In February, the notoriously never-subtle King — who has also been busy using his powers to help rescue Evil on Paramount+ — let loose on X/Twitter, where he called the movie “quite good” and an example of “Old-school horror filmmaking: slow build, big payoff.” The prolific horror author then dropped the hammer: “Not sure why WB is holding it back; not like it’s embarrassing, or anything. Who knows. I just write the f*cking things.”

This storied project began filming amid whispers years ago. Gary Dauberman (the recent IT movies) climbed aboard as writer, director, and executive producer with James Wan‘s Atomic Monster (The Conjuring, Insidious) nabbing executive producing duties. The New Line Cinema film was apparently complete before falling off the Warner Bros. Pictures theatrical schedule. And following King’s nudge, wheels apparently began turning again, and a release is finally happening. The updated aesthetics do look promising:

Max will officially stream the Salem’s lot movie for this Halloween season, and Dauberman recently revealed to Vanity Fair, “I’m excited it’s finally getting out there and people can see it.” I bet. With that said, let’s talk about what to expect from the long-overdue Salem’s Lot movie.

Plot

Although this story has been brought to the small screen twice already (to largely positive reception), King appears to be confident in what he’s seen for the updated version, so we must trust the process, and King has teased that a pivotal scene “could have been directed by John Carpenter in his prime.” To more of that teasing end, Max has previewed several images that we’ll scatter throughout this post, and that includes the above look at Marsten House, which appears to be the source of a vampire plague overtaking Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. The story will adapt King’s 1975 novel (only his second after Carrie), which follows fictional author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) as he returns to his hometown to find inspiration for his next book.

As the adage goes, perhaps he should have been more careful about what he wished for because, as the logline confirms, Mears “discover[s] his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.” Residents are disappearing on a regular basis, and a “deceased” person will apparently vamp out and escape the morgue (with Alfre Woodard’s Dr. Cody shown reacting here):

Dauberman told Vanity Fair that viewers should expect Mears to provide the audience POV of this film with a “groundedness” on display, and more of a wildcard will be found in the character of Richard Straker, an antique store purveyor who is also new to town and lives in that ominous mansion. His silent partner, Kurt Barlow, only surfaces at night, but Straker is the guy who is selling more wares than meet the eye. Pilou Asbæk will appear in this key role (once encapsulated by Donald Sutherland), and you might remember Pilou giving villainous face vibes from a little HBO show called Game of Thrones:

Expect Pilou to “run” with his Straker version while being “just f*cking crazy charismatic,” according to Dauberman. How close will Straker be to versions that King fans have previously seen? The director addressed that topic, too:

“I was kind of wrestling with what this Straker was going to be? Is he going to be more like the book? Is he going to be more James Mason from the [1979] series? He’s an outsider in this town. And I think outsiders can sometimes be looked at as something very interesting, where people start to lean in. ‘Oh, this guy, he’s opening this antique store and he’s got all this cool stuff…’ He’s weaving his web and drawing people in.”

Also, a vampire tease is upon us:

Cast

Who will portray Barlow? Nobody has let that slip yet.

As noted above, Straker will be portrayed by Pilou Asbæk with Alfre Woodard (See) as Dr. Cody and Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Outer Range) as Ben Mears. The characters will be rounded out as follows: the conflicted and somewhat inept Father Callahan (John Benjamin Hickey), teacher Matt Burke (Bill Camp), Susan Norton (Makenzie Leigh), and Mike Ryerson (Spencer Treat Clark).

Release Date

The film will surface (for real this time) in October on Max.

Trailer

Max isn’t doing the trailer thing yet for Salem’s Lot, but if you need to swiftly enjoy a cross-medium remake of a classic vampire story, please meet the acquaintance of AMC’s version of Anne Rice’s Lestat of Interview With The Vampire, now streaming two seasons on AMC+:

The news that Oasis fans thought would never come arrived earlier this week, when the band announced they would be reuniting for a 2025 tour, Oasis Live ’25.

Naturally, this has some folks wondering if this reunion could extend to a new Oasis album, which would be the band’s first since 2008’s Dig Out Your Soul. Well, Liam Gallagher seems to have already answered that question.

As NME notes, fans have recently taken notice of an April 2024 tweet from Gallagher. A fan wrote, “So when does the recording of the next Oasis album start? I’m assuming that’s why Noel scrapped his acoustic album for a Rock n Roll album,” and Gallagher responded, “November.”

Before the reunion news, most people who saw that probably assumed Gallagher was being sarcastic, but his response takes on a different tone now that the band is officially getting back together.

Beyond that, a few hours ago, the band announced that “due to unprecedented demand,” they added three new UK tour dates: Manchester on July 16, London on July 30, and Edinburgh on August 12. Find the updated list of upcoming dates below.

Oasis 2025 Tour Dates: Oasis Live ’25

07/04/2025 — Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium
07/05/2025 — Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium
07/11/2025 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/12/2025 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/16/2025 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/19/2025 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/20/2025 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/25/2025 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
07/26/2025 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
07/30/2025 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/02/2025 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/03/2025 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/08/2025 — Edinburgh, SCO @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/09/2025 — Edinburgh, SCO @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/12/2025 — Edinburgh, SCO @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/16/2025 — Dublin, IRE @ Croke Park
08/17/2025 — Dublin, IRE @ Croke Park

SZA performed her “last show for a while” earlier this month, which frees her up to spend her time like non-chart-topping citizens: Perusing the internet.

On Wednesday, August 28, SZA posted a screenshot of an interaction she had with someone in her Instagram DMs. The person’s username isn’t visible, but God bless them, whoever they are.

“SZA I’m failing geometry can you give me math tips,” they wrote. SZA replied in four messages, “Lmaooo ma’am I’m a math dummy. I’m not sure what u expected [laugh-crying emoji]. Tell me about the shapes chile. How can I help[?]”

The person replied with a photo of their (alleged) geometry homework along with, “I just can’t do this [three crying emojis, three heartbroken emojis].” SZA wrote, “Oh b*tch ur cooked.” And a new meme was born.

Atop the screenshot in her Instagram Story, SZA wrote, I appreciate the faith in me.”

Luckily, math is not required to pump out bangers like “Kill Bill” and “Snooze.”

While SZA won’t be performing in the immediate future, she might be preparing to officially release Lana after the album was delayed due to leaks. SZA last dropped SOS in December 2022, and her sophomore LP spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.