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The performers for the 2025 CMA Awards were announced earlier this month and one of the most exciting inclusions was BigXthaPlug and Luke Combs, performing their collaboration “Pray Hard.”

Well, the show went down last night (November 19) at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena (it’s streaming on Hulu now), and so did their big performance (here’s a clip). The two rapped and sang in front of a fiery backdrop, with BigXthaPlug’s bars having the country stars in the audience bobbing their heads.

In a recent interview with will.i.am for Uproxx’s Visionaries series, BigXthaPlug spoke about getting into country music, saying:

“When I first started [I Hope You’re Happy], I wanted to call it ‘Not Just Country.’ Because I didn’t want everybody to think that, oh, I’m just switching to a country artist — with guitars and banjos. No. I’m putting my own sound in their world.

But then, I actually started going through a heartbreak. And before I even started, I had asked some country people, ‘What is country music?’ And they all basically said the same thing: ‘It’s whiskey and heartbreak.’ So, it took for to actually go through a heartbreak to see, okay, this is what they talking ’bout. And the whole trajectory of the project changed at that moment. I went and made the single, ‘I Hope You’re Happy,’ and it just changed the whole trajectory of how I wanted to go.”

Check out BigXthaPlug’s VISIONARIES performance below:

No Oasis tour dates have been announced for 2026, but Liam Gallagher has indicated on multiple occasions that this will happen. Now, though, he’s less committal about that.

Amid fan discussions on X of Oasis’ tour nearing its end, one fan asked, “liam just reply with one word is there gonna be a 2026 tour.” Gallagher responded simply, “NO.” Somebody else wrote, “ARE YOU F*CKING SERIOUS” and Gallagher replied, “YES IM F*CKING SERIOUS.”

A different user brought up Gallagher saying “see you next year” and he tweeted in response:

“You will see me next year and the year after and so on just not sure yet if it’ll be with oasis we need to sit down and discuss these things if it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die as it’s the best thing in the world but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not.”

Another user followed up with, “has anyone already scolded you for saying the ‘see u next year’ ? is that why you tell us this?” Gallagher responded, “There was a few tuts and raised eyebrows.”

Find the band’s remaining tour dates below.

Oasis’ 2025 Tour Dates: Oasis Live ’25

11/19 — Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Nacional
11/22 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Estadio MorumBIS
11/23 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Estadio MorumBIS

It was announced last week that Sabrina Carpenter is producing and starring in a movie musical based on Alice In Wonderland. Marc Platt, a producer of the recent Wicked movies, is on board here, while Lorene Scafaria is writing and directing. Now, thanks to Platt, we know a little more about the project.

In an interview with Variety’s Marc Malkin, Platt said:

“It’s an idea that Sabrina’s had, and so we’re just in the beginning stages. But it’s a contemporary story with an allegory to and based loosely on Alice In Wonderland. […] We sat down and we talked about it, and I thought she’s such a talented and young person, and a voice. I love her music and she was just smart and articulate and liked the journey that Alice goes on in the Lewis Carroll book, and so I said, ‘Let’s take a shot at it.’ So, we’re early days.”

This isn’t the first time Carpenter has been attached to a Wonderland-related project, as in 2020, well before her ascent to pop stardom, it was announced she would star in a “musical reimagining” of the classic story, and the “modern-day musical” was said to “be set against the backdrop of a music festival called ‘Wonderland.’” That project never materialized and it’s unclear if there’s any connection between it and the new endeavor.

Lil Baby has been releasing new tracks every week recently under the auspices of his “WHAM Wednesdays” campaign (named after his January album). Beginning with “All On Me” featuring G Herbo three weeks ago, and continuing with “Plenty” featuring YTB Fatt and YFN Lucci, “Try To Love,” and “Otha Boy,” the releases have fulfilled the Atlanta rapper’s promise to drop a “Song & Video Every Wednesday For The Rest Of The Year,” the tradition continues with “Real Sh*t.”

Produced by4 3Juice and SouliMadeIt, “Real Sh*t” is a cascading stream of consciousness freestyle from Baby, all in one verse, with no hooks. In it, he touches on all the usual topics, painting harrowing tableaus of poverty in Zone 6. “Had Fannie watchin’ my food savings while she was pregnant with dude baby,” he recalls. “But it wasn’t no food savin’, whole lotta green sh*t / Tryna shake my demons, keep callin’ the lean man / Keep rollin’ this weed up, I been through some real sh*t.”

The flurry of activity could either be a rollout for a new project, or it could be considered a mea culpa after he canceled the impending release of Dominique for unknown reasons. Either way, it’s a welcome consolation, even if it isn’t that heavily anticipated project. You can watch the video for “Real Sh*t” above.

Labrinth’s fourth studio album, Cosmic Opera: Act I, arrives January 30 via Columbia Records, and today, the production powerhouse shares the latest single, “Implosion.”

Like its predecessors, “S.W.M.F.” and “Orchestra,” “Implosion” finds Labrinth blending symphonic sensibilities with electronic impulses for a boisterous, bold blend of both spacey trap and dubstep with the operatic foundations implied by the album’s title.

It isn’t like he didn’t warn us this was coming; in September, he dropped an eight-song EP titled Prelude, and as we all know, the term refers to a short piece of music that often serves as an introduction to a longer, more complex composition. Labrith used his EP in much the same way, setting the stage for a display of the composer at his full powers.

In a message on social media introducing “Implosion” and announcing Cosmic Opera: Act I, the 36-year-old Brit wrote, “I’ve been wanting to create this for a long time… I hope that it will heal me in my pursuit of letting go of what no longer serves me. Some of the words sound like I’m ready to end it all… but in actual fact it’s a celebration of freeing my soul by confronting my grief.”

“I know many of you have been through your own version of this process and I thank you for participating in mine as my supporters. I love you and thank you for bearing witness.”

You can listen to “Implosion” above.

Cosmic Opera: Act I is out 1/30/2026 via Columbia Records. You can find more info here.

In 2018, The War On Drugs hosted the first edition of A Drugcember To Remember, a series of benefit shows to help The Fund For The School District Of Philadelphia, a nonprofit that boosts Philly public schools. The band hasn’t done it the past two years, though, but in 2025, they’re coming back: Today (November 19), they’ve announced the event’s return.

The shows are set for December 18, 19, and 20 at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Tickets will be available starting November 21 at 10 a.m ET, via the band’s website.

The band’s Adam Granduciel says in a statement:

“Another Drugcember to remember! This has been a year end highlight for me since we started doing it in 2018. Three rock shows at our old local hangout benefitting the Philadelphia school system. This band wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the vibrant Philadelphia community that has supported us since the beginning and we are very grateful for it.”

Per a press release, The Fund For The School District Of Philadelphia “is responsible for aligning philanthropic dollars with innovative, transformational, and equitable solutions that spur academic achievement for all children in Philadelphia’s public schools. The organization exists to harness community support for public education and eliminate the impact of underfunding as a barrier to student success.”

Find the band’s upcoming dates below.

The War On Drugs’ 2025 & 2026 Tour Dates

12/18/2025 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
12/19/2025 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
12/20/2025 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
07/08/2026 — Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
07/09-11/2026 — Oeiras, PT @ NOS Alive

You would think it would be much harder to agree on a “lifetime anthem” as a group, but nope — Earthgang, The LOX, and now, Atmosphere, our latest Sound Check guests, all claim it’s pretty easy. “Easier than I thought it’d be,” Slug tells our host, Jeremy Hecht.

Of course, that doesn’t make things any easier for Jeremy himself, who has to figure out what that song might be with our production team trying to trick him. To help him hash things out this time around, Jeremy comes armed with seven rounds of classic tracks to pair off, including Kool G Rap vs. MF DOOM, KRS ONE vs. Ice Cube, Clipse vs. JID, and Run-DMC vs. A Tribe Called Quest.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

Watch Atmosphere take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.

Summer Walker is going all-out with her new album. Just days after releasing Finally Over It, her third studio album and the completion of a trilogy she started with Over It and continued with Still Over It, she’s released not just one, but two deluxe editions of the new album — which was already a double album, to begin with.

Cocktail Hour includes “Session 32,” “Session 34,” and a slew of Apple Music-exclusive content, including a video of her recording fan favorite “Go Girl.” Meanwhile, The After Party makes a pair of songs available on streaming that were previously only available on vinyl releases, “Take Me Out This Club” and “Drown In My Love” featuring Foggie Raw. There’s also a solo version of “1-800 Heartbreak.”

Walker has had an outstanding 2025; in addition to releasing the long-awaited Finally Over It, she got some arena performance experience as the opening act on Chris Brown’s Breezy Bowl tour, working with the production studio See You Later to bring her intergalactic vision to life. She also lit up Essence Festival in New Orleans, and assisted Cardi B on her own long-awaited album release, for Am I The Drama?, appearing on the songs “Dead” and “Shower Tears.”

You can listen to Finally Over It (The After Party) here. You can check out Finally Over It (Cocktail Hour) exclusively on Apple Music here

Last weekend, Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival was postponed due to dangerous weather conditions in Los Angeles. This week, the sun is shining, and there’s nary a cloud in the sky; perfect conditions for the rescheduled festival to continue as planned.

The bad news is, Clairo, Don Toliver, Men I Trust, Sombr, Tems, and The Alchemist were forced to forego their scheduled sets. However, there’s some good news too: their replacements are Flog Gnaw favorites, including Blood Orange, Fakemink, Geese, Gia Fu, and Kali Uchis. Tickets are also back on sale for the rescheduled event after initially selling out.

The festival was postponed last week as an “atmospheric river” formed over LA, threatening to dump several inches of rain over much of the county. According to the Weather Channel “rainfall records were broken in locations across Southern California on Saturday” and per The Guardian, the resulting floods floods and mudslides — which were exacerbated by hillsides depleted of vegetation after January’s wildfires — caused at least seven deaths.

The new set times for the revamped lineup have not yet been announced, but you can probably expect most of the changes in the late afternoon/evening time slots, with DJ Gia Fu playing during the afternoon.

Earlier this month, sisters Allison and Katie Crutchfield (the latter better known as Waxahatchee) formed a new band, Snocaps, and released a surprise self-titled debut album. (MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook also perform on the album.) With the release, though, came the note that after some upcoming concerts, the siblings will “put the project on ice for the foreseeable future.” So, on The Tonight Show yesterday (November 18), the band gave their first late-night TV performance, which could very well also be their last.

For their time on the air, they went with “Coast.” This was their first time playing together live, but the group is full of seasoned pros, so it didn’t sound like there were any growing pains. Seeing Lenderman playing a drums is also a sight.

Watch the performance above and find the band’s upcoming tour dates below.

Snocaps’ Snocaps Album Cover Artwork

Snocaps’ Snocaps Tracklist

1. “Coast”
2. “Heathcliff”
3. “Wasteland”
4. “Brand New City”
5. “Hide”
6. “Cherry Hard Candy”
7. “Avalanche”
8. “Doom”
9. “Over Our Heads”
10. “Angel Wings”
11. “I Don’t Want To”
12. “You In Rehab”
13. “Coast II”

Snocaps’ 2025 Tour Dates

12/01 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall (with Cloakroom)
12/02 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall (with Graham Hunt)
12/04 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom (with Slippers)
12/05 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom (with Mike Krol)
12/07 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (with Brennan Wedl)
12/08 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (with Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band)

Snocaps is out now via ANTI- Records. Find more information here.