Jayson Tatum has been blunt about the way COVID-19 impacted his body. The Boston Celtics star missed five games back in January after contracting the novel coronavirus, and while he’s made his way back onto the floor and certainly isn’t playing poorly, he’s had his ups and downs over the last few months.
Still, Tatum is optimistic that getting back to full health is just around the corner, although he’s being helped by an injaler. Tatum met with the media on Tuesday night after Boston’s 116-115 win over the Portland Trail Blazers and walked through how he feels three months after contracting COVID.
“Close,” Tatum said, per Tim Bontemps of ESPN. “Very close. It’s a process. It takes a long time. I take an inhaler before the game since I’ve tested positive. This has kind of helped with that and opened up my lungs, and, you know, I never took an inhaler before. So that’s something different. I for sure feel better now than I did a month ago.”
Tatum has been playing some of his best basketball of the year for the suddenly scorching Celtics, averaging 29.4 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 3.4 assists while shooting 51.1 percent from the field and 41.3 percent from three over the last seven games. Boston has won four in a row and six of its last seven, and in Tuesday night’s win, Tatum hit a triple in the game’s waning moments to seal things.
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jeff Garlin seems pretty confident that the show’s eleventh season will be returning in the Fall. While talking to The Ringer‘s “10 Questions with Kyle Brandt” podcast, Garlin revealed that the HBO series only has a few weeks of filming left, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, all ten episodes will start showing up later in the year. However, while Garlin wouldn’t get into any plot details out of respect to creator Larry David, he did make it clear that the new season will be COVID-free with one exception.
“I want to say that except for the first episode, we don’t do any COVID stuff. The first episode it touches on, there’s a couple of things. But it’s a post-COVID world in Curb,” Garlin told Brandt. He also laid out why he was happy with that decision after watching South Park, in his opinion, stumble with its take on the pandemic. “South Park had the first COVID issue they did — so well written, so well done. I didn’t laugh once. People don’t want to watch COVID stories. We’ve got our own COVID stories. Get them away from me.”
Of course, Garlin made it clear that David is the creative force behind Curb, and ultimately, the show’s direction lies with him. “Everything is based on what Larry wants to write, and then he writes it,” Garlin explained. “I would’ve, yes, probably disagreed with him if he had a lot of COVID stuff. And we have so much respect… I’m not gonna say listened, but he would’ve taken that seriously.”
Fortunately, it sounds like Garlin and David were of the same mind with on the “COVID stuff” for when Curb (hopefully) comes back in the Fall.
When Waxahatchee released her stunning album Saint Cloud in late March of 2020, there was no way of knowing she would have to put her tour on hold indefinitely. But now, shortly after the one-year anniversary of the album, Waxahatchee has officially rescheduled her North American tour and unveiled its dates.
Bringing Saint Cloud on the road, Waxahatchee’s tour kicks off in September in Louisville and concludes a month later in Boston. Much of the album puts her sobriety at the forefront of the music, a decision which Waxahatchee discussed with Uproxx ahead of the LP’s release:
“I just was getting so tired and jaded about music in general. Not only the creative aspect of it, but the career of it and the scene and all of it. Every aspect of it was feeling tiring and dumb to me for a minute there. So I had to totally hang up the identity as a musician. There were things that I was thinking about and considering, like why do I do this? Why have I always been playing music? Why have I always been writing songs? Should I write a book? I was really back at the drawing board and needed to do a long, hard reflection on why I make music. After I did that for a while and really let myself forget what it felt like to even be a musician, I started writing this record. It’s given me faith in it again. I’m being reborn as this whole new thing.”
Check out Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud 2021 tour dates below.
09/02 — Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall
09/03 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
09/04 — Columbus, OH @ Skully’s Music-Diner
09/05 — Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
09/07 — Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre
09/09 — Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barn
09/10 — Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
09/12 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
09/16 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
09/17 — Tacoma, WA @ Spanish Ballroom
09/18 — Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
09/19 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
09/21 — Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery
09/22 — San Francisco, CA @ The Castro Theatre
09/24 — Los Angeles, CA @ First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
09/25 — Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s
09/27 — Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress (Outside)
09/29 — Austin, TX @ Scholz Garten
09/30 — Austin, TX @ Scholz Garten
10/01 — Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
10/05 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
10/07 — Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
10/08 — Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
10/09 — Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
10/11 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
10/12 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
10/13 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
10/15 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
10/16 — Boston, MA @ Royale
Netflix Lady Whistledown recently announced that Bridgerton would bring at least four full seasons of Regency corset-drama to life. That’s happening even without resident smolderer Regé-Jean Page returning as the Duke of Hastings, and yep, it sure looks like fans will have to find a new obsession. There are plenty of eligible bachelors on the show, after all, and that might be one reason why the uproar to his departure may have been unanticipated.
Officially, though, executive producer Shonda Rhimes told Vanity Fair that, yes, she was very “shocked” by the fan response to the show, but for a different reason: because the Duke had only been around for one season, and it wasn’t like he had fallen down an elevator shaft or something (could you imagine that happening, though? it’d be so out-of-place in the era and, imo, great). Here’s how Rhimes explained her reaction:
“I was really shocked, because usually that happens when I’ve killed off somebody that’s been around for a while. Like, we didn’t kill him, he’s still alive! [Regé-Jean] is a powerful, amazing actor and that meant we did our job — every season, our job is finding the right people and putting together this incredible, world-shifting romance. I don’t know that I expected this much of an explosion, given that every book [in the Bridgerton series] is a different romance. What would be the ever-after of this combo? I mean, really: What would Regé-Jean do, you know what I mean? We gave them their happily ever after! And now we have this next couple coming. And so yeah, I was like, whoa!
Rhimes also confirmed Page’s publicly issued stance that he’d only signed on for a one-and-done season, and the creator clarified that he was invited for some Season 2 cameos, but no dice. She added, “[H]he’s a busy man!” Previously, Page confirmed his departure on Instagram while describing his time on the show as “he ride of a life time.” He added, “It’s been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to be your Duke… it’s all been beyond anything I could have imagined.” In the next few years, expect to see him onscreen in The Gray Man and Dungeons & Dragons.
Meanwhile, the upcoming season of Bridgertonwill focus on the love life of Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), which goes along with the plan of Julia Quinn’s second series book, The Viscount Who Loved Me. John Oliver will undoubtedly be waiting to see if the next leading man does the “jizzing in blankets” thing, too.
Freddie Gibbs has been around the block in the music industry before blowing up on a greater level last year but that doesn’t mean he’s gotten used to the trappings of fame. While hanging out with Diddy at his home, Gibbs was amused at some of the house’s amenities. Posting a video to Twitter, Gibbs expressed his amazement that, among other things, the man formerly known as Puff Daddy has a full-fledged restaurant in his house.
While recording a selfie video, Gibbs gains Diddy’s attention, calling him a “fly-ass young n****” and prompting Diddy to show off a bottle of his Ciroc vodka and begin singing along to the Marvin Gaye song playing over the P.A. (It’s “I Want You,” by the way).
Freddie, who’s become one of hip-hop’s most celebrated artists over the past year thanks to his joint album with Alchemist, Alfredo, and its Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album, may be experiencing a new level of success, but clearly, he’s still humble enough to crack jokes at his own expense and use fake Instagrams to mock his rivals. His humility is one of the things that makes him so easy to root for — and his amazement at Diddy’s extravagance might just be the most relatable things he’s shared yet.
Freddie Gibbs is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Australian songwriter Tori Zietsch is gearing up to release her debut album under the Maple Glider moniker in a few short months. To Enjoy Is The Only Thing finds Zietsch armed with little more than an intimate, ethereal voice and understated instrumentation, but the low-key vibe of the music gives the raw power of her songwriting full space to shine. We’ve only heard a handful of tracks from the LP so far, but it’s already shaping up to be one of the most exciting debuts of 2021.
To celebrate the forthcoming album, Zietsch sat down to talk getting tattoos with friends, hating Bacardi, and more in the latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
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It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
In a thick country twang.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Home in Naarm/Melbourne because I get to smoosh my friends faces after.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
If I didn’t have such a beautiful community of people around me it would be much harder to pursue a music career. I’d still be writing sappy songs, you’d probably just never have heard them.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
I love food sooo much. I’ve had so many best meals. Sometimes the best meals are just snacks you eat in a bubble bath. It feels kind of cheeky but so great. In Portugal I’d eat a juicy peach for breakfast each morning and I was so damn happy. And campfire meals! Don’t get me started. I remember one time camping in France and we ate chestnuts and camembert and fish that had been smoked on the fire. Just wow. The other week my partner and I went for a walk and we ended up spending most of the time picking blackberries and then made blackberry and apple pie and it was so good. Also when you’re with a friend and you decide to be fancy and eat oysters and drink sparkling wine and you feel like the moment will never end and maybe you’re just fancy forever now and then the bubbles start to wear off and you’re like “where are the hot chips at?”
What album do you know every word to?
Haha. No album. I’m the worst. I might think I know all the lyrics to some of my favourite albums but even then most of the time I’m probably just making weird sounds that feel like words but aren’t.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
I’ll tell you the best concert I never attended was Julia Holter in Brighton. I went for a nap a couple of hours before the show’s start and didn’t wake until 11pm. I’m still upset about it.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
The more fabulous the better. I can be pretty tacky. My favourite are my purple glitter platform boots with stars on them. I bought them at a vintage shop when I lived in the UK and they are completely ridiculous but also amazing.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
Living room floor of an after-party I really didn’t want to be at haha.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
I have 3 different matching BFF tattoos. One is a lil love heart on my ankle and is my first ever tattoo that I got with one of my best friends in her ex’s tattoo shop during a night out. My most recent matching tattoo is a ‘Fang it’ tattoo on my arm that Madison Griffiths (Naarm-based writer/artist) stick and poked for my good friend and I on her bedroom floor and it was the best.
What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?
Diana Ross, Adrianne Lenker, Cher.
What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Mum went through childbirth for me so that probably tops it
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Bacardi is disgusting, put that down.
What’s the last show you went to?
My friend Amarina Waters played at a bar near my house called Some Velvet Morning and she made me cry twice and it was very beautiful.
What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?
Look I don’t have free to air TV and this isn’t a movie but how good is PEN15?
To Enjoy Is The Only Thing is out June 25 via Partisan Records. Pre-order here.
Following the breakout success of her 2018 sophomore album Historian, along with her subsequent Boygenius project with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, fans have been waiting for a new album from Lucy Dacus. Thankfully, Dacus announced her third studio album Home Video this week, and she celebrated with a performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
Backed by a full band for the performance, Dacus brought her reflective ballad “Hot & Heavy” to a grand, empty theater. In a statement alongside the single, Dacus said that it was inspired by the realization that she’s grown into a different person:
“I thought I was writing ‘Hot & Heavy’ about an old friend, but I realized along the way that it was just about me outgrowing past versions of myself. So much of life is submitting to change and saying goodbye even if you don’t want to. Now whenever I go to places that used to be significant to me, it feels like trespassing the past. I know that the teen version of me wouldn’t approve of me now, and that’s embarrassing and a little bit heartbreaking, even if I know intellectually that I like my life and who I am.”
Watch Dacus perform “Hot & Heavy” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert above.
Home Video is out 6/25 via Matador. Pre-order it here.
Last week, Paramount announced that it was once again pushing back the release of its two major Tom Cruise blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7. Considering how the theatrical release model, both domestically and internationally, is still in flux due to the pandemic, the delay isn’t a total surprise even if Paramount had previously said they were “in good shape” as the incoming Biden administration rolled out its aggressive vaccine distribution plan. In short, juggling release dates is going to be a common occurrence for a while.
However, a new report says that part of the decision to knock Top Gun: Maverick from the summer to November was based on Cruise’s desire to “embark on a world tour,” which was not looking good as Europe and Japan started going into lockdown. By moving the film deep into the Fall, there’s a better chance of Cruise rolling out a full-on press tour, which carries a lot of weight.
“Tom Cruise is one of the few stars who can move the needle by doing late night shows and premieres across the world,” a studio exec told The Hollywood Reporter.
This reasoning also jibes with previous reports that Paramount wants to ensure that Top Gun: Maverick, and Mission: Impossible 7, have strong performances at the global box office. Despite other studios pivoting to streaming, Paramount has held fast on releasing the Cruise blockbusters theatrically, and if it has to wait a little while longer to give them a proper premiere, so be it.
There’s nothing like coming “home,” which could be said of Kate Winslet’s return to HBO in Mare of Easttown, one decade after her Emmy-winning turn in Mildred Pierce. This is also true, in a metaphorical sense, of Winslet’s title character in HBO’s new limited series, Mare of Easttown, although this character is living in a perpetual homecoming when she’s never left home in the first place. The show’s a lot of things: character study, world-building portrait of small-town life, and crime drama with (here’s the kicker) a sharp-witted dramedy embedded within the confines. It must also be noted that this show wasn’t exactly well-served by the show’s trailer. Sure, people expect a quality project when Kate Winslet is involved, but the trailer forecast yet another “gritty” cop drama focused upon a world-weary, probably hard-drinking, “complicated” protagonist. Yes, Winslet does embody that trope of a TV-cop, but this show ain’t overly gritty, even if the drab color palette would suggest otherwise.
Instead, Mare of Easttown, which is very serious in subject matter, is also quite charming at times. It will lure you in with a slow-burning first few episodes as we get to know our protagonist by how others perceive her, and then all (controlled) hell breaks loose. Kate Winslet doing a Philadelphia-adjacent accent then becomes only one of the main draws; she is thoroughly fascinating. Mare’s a hard-vaping cop with a mysterious tragedy scratching away at her underneath the surface, and she’s captivating to those who enter Easttown, although those who have known her forever tend to forget that she’s, well, human. Mare Sheehan never left her childhood stomping grounds; and although she doggedly serves the small town’s residents on a daily basis as a detective (who does it all, from chasing down apparent burglars to answering house calls for those who’d rather call her cell than the PD’s main line), she’s famed in the community for a high-school basketball shot. In this way, Mare’s a familiar face and comforting presence, but she’s still somehow an outsider within her own community.
The show spins an engrossing yarn while navigating an engaging mystery, as Winslet holds it together as a woman on the verge, who’s helping everyone but herself in a town that’s cannibalizing itself. I’d really like someone to let Mare have enough time to you, know, eat a damn sandwich in peace because that’s good for the soul, but that is not in the cards here. As if that wasn’t enough, Mare’s professional abilities are called into question, and her boss pulls in a young whippersnapper of a county detective to help clean up the mess. Evan Peters (who’s still pulling off the chameleon thing, as with AHS and WandaVision) turns out to be a friggin’ delight as Colin Zabel (yes, his name sure sounds like that of director Craig Zobel), whose audience-POV reactions to Mare and Easttown are one of the greatest pleasures of this series. He’s nearly aghast at how Mare is either related to or “friends” with everyone in this town, and how everyone casually treats each other terribly while also having each other’s backs.
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Like Mare, the show’s a scrappy one, at once showcasing exhaustion while also intriguing viewers. This dual-naturedness is captured by writer Brad Ingelsby (The Way Back), who hails from Pennsylvania, close to where the series is set, and who takes great pains to authentically nail the often-claustrophobic feel of small-town life. Seriously, imagine being a detective who starts to unfurl a murder, and every piece of the puzzle points to someone you’ve known for most of your life. That’s Mare’s exasperating dilemma, and Ingelsby also clearly enjoyed painting Easttown, too, as a character while burrowing into a gruesome crime that rocks the close-knit community.
The mystery takes off. Mare of Easttown is at once a sprawling, take-your-time, seven-part series (for which critics screened five episodes) and an inferno. It’ll get suck you in and refuse to let you go, and even though the show dives into some bleak material, the series doesn’t emerge as anything resembling grief porn (and thank god for that). Winslet manages to both gamely and subtly portray the stereotypical cop who’s found in plentiful supply all over TV, and you know the type: too busy cleaning up the world, so their family life suffers, and their inner self crumbles. They inevitably f*ck up at home, over and over again; they can’t cope with the thought of maintaining a personal life after they lose what’s near and dear to them; and yes, this is not new. Winslet, however, fashions her character into a revelation. She’s got an arsenal of countless tiny gestures that, at once, tell us a lot about Mare but leave us wanting more. She’s much more than a f*cked-up TV cop who’s been on an unsolvable case for a year.
I’ve already mentioned Evan Peters as a wonderful side player, oh, and there are more. The show’s heavy on the HBO talent, given that it’s directed by Cobel (The Leftovers and Westworld), and the incredible cast includes Jean Smart (following up on Watchmen) and Julianne Nicholson (from The Outsider), whose characters both inform us of Mare’s personal life while observing how she responds to the show’s central mystery. Former Mildred Pierce co-star Guy Pearce surfaces as a love interest and an outsider and a one-time big-shot novelist. All are great here, but Smart, especially, is a natural treasure (although we already knew this from Fargo, Dirty John, and Watchmen). She brilliantly brings a necessary spark of comedy, and Jean Smart is the banisher of all things dreary. If she wasn’t about to star in her own HBO Max show (for Michael Schur), I’d already be calling for a “Mare’s Mom” spinoff.
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Mare of Easttown is a pleasure to watch, with everyone in Mare’s orbit, and vice versa, as she circles in on the show’s main mystery. The horrific details of that puzzle are best left to your discovery, so that you can watch things unfold while Mare tries to extricate every local pain in her butt from sniffing around if they’re not indirectly tied to what happened. And it’s so much fun to watch Mare frustratedly deal with obstacles, despite the dark subject matter, and to watch Winslet piece together clues with the simplest of actions while there’s clearly so many inner workings underneath that surface. While standing still and doing nothing at all, while limping through a sprained ankle, and even while vaping, Winslet somehow does a lot. She’s a force of nature while eating some unappetizing pizza or stuffing a fancy hors d’oeuvre into a couch (please, someone get her a solid sandwich, because she’s earned it). All the while, Mare’s deconstructing herself and Easttown and working to save the soul of her community. I’m not sure that the residents deserve her, but HBO viewers deserve to get hooked on this series.
HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown’ premieres on Sunday, April 18.
While the idea of Jenny Lewis reuniting with the Postal Service for new music is very unlikely, the singer has been working on a new, quarantine-born project. Lewis and Chicago musician Serengeti virtually collaborated on a handful of electric tracks including “Vroom Vroom,” “Unblu,” and the most recent “Idiot.” Sharing yet another iPhone-recorded visual, Lewis and Serengeti debut the lively collaboration “GLTR.”
Over shuffling synths and an urgent beat, the two musicians detail the myth of social media. “How’s your Instagram these days? / Did you get a lotta action when you had braids? / Looked good on that beach that time near the maze,” Serengeti sings before Lewis repeats the lyric, “What a lie.”
In a statement about the track, Serengeti said he hopes that it inspires listeners to leave their phone at home. “[It’s] a nice song about getting out of your head and having a time. Getting out a little bit. Getting out of bed and enjoying some things. Maybe putting down the phone for a sec.”
Lewis and Serengeti’s collaboration happened by chance. Ahead of the pandemic, Lewis was set to embark on a massive North American tour opening for Harry Styles in support of his Fine Line album. But after the shut down of the live music industry, Lewis hunkered down at home and decided to start a very DIY project with Serengeti. The five tracks they made for their project were all recorded on Jenny’s iPhone, along with each of their accompanying videos.
Watch Lewis and Serengeti’s “GLTR” video above.
Jenny Lewis is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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