Sometimes you win a million bucks, sometimes you lose a million bucks. Or at least you do if you’re Drake.
The “Nokia” rapper placed $1.25 million on the Toronto Maple Leafs to win game 7 of the Eastern Conference Second Round against the Florida Panthers on Sunday (May 18). But unfortunately for Drake, his hometown hockey team lost 6 to 1. “Bieber curse…” he joked in an Instagram Story following the game, a reference to both fellow Canadian Justin Bieber and the so-called “Drake curse.”
According to the shockingly thorough The Drake Curse website, this is the 10th time Drake has bet at least $1 million on a single game/match — he’s won 7 out of 10 times. I also learned that he’s placed bets on 10 different sports, including tennis, F1, and cricket. No Jai alai yet, though.
As for Bieber, a self-declared “slut” for the Maple Leafs, he shared his thoughts on the team’s season coming to an early end on Instagram. “I don’t remember a time in my life when I haven’t been obsessed with the leafsssss,” he wrote. “This year we made it farther than we have in so long and im happy about that. I can be patient cuz I know this is the team to do it.”
The upcoming Peaky Blinders movie is on the way to a streaming device (via Netflix and BBC) near you. This will happen without Arthur Shelby and a few other familiar faces as the gang heads maneuvers against the WWII backdrop, but series creator Steven Knight is already looking ahead to what comes after Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby comes together with a new generation.
Does this involve the persistent whispers of a spin off? Well, the Immortal Man movie has finished production, as acknowledged by Netflix, which hasn’t revealed recent updates on more, although BBC did (much earlier this year) cover Knight’s remarks about how the saga would have life after the film. Yet the chatter has started again with Knight seemingly unable to resist continued teasing, so let’s update the situation as it currently stands.
Will There Be A Peaky Blinders Spin Off Series?
Yes, according to Knight, who confirmed to Birmingham Live that a new (sequel) series will happen and will (like the movie) shoot in Birmingham, England. The story will pick in a post-WWII setting (the 1950s). Knight wasn’t subtle in providing this information while flat-out declaring, “There is a new series.”
The series will revolve around the “next generation” of the Peaky Blinders gang because historical accuracy simply does not matter here (the Blinders actually lost power to a rival gang by the 1920s), and you know what? That’s alright. We should see some sort of baton passing happen during the movie (possibly to Barry Keoghan’s character, which is rumored to be Tommy’s illegitimate son, Duke Shelby), and then it might be off to the races.
While speaking with Birmingham Live, Knight left open the possibility that Cillian could surface in the spin off, but don’t believe it until you see it. Tommy Shelby might have been awful at taking a vacation, but he can’t live forever, especially with that risky lifestyle. At any rate, we’ll learn more about the Shelby fam’s future when the Peaky movie (co-starring new faces Tim Roth and Rebecca Ferguson) touches down on Netflix and BBC later this year.
A few months ago, Billie Eilishteased that she planned to announce more tour dates this year. Now, it’s happened: Today (May 19), Eilish has added a new North American leg to Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour, as well as a pair of Japanese shows. This brings the total number of gigs on the tour to 106 dates.
Tickets for the new shows will be available beginning with an American Express pre-sale starting Mat 20 at noon local time. Remaining tickets will be sold during the general on-sale, starting May 22 at noon local time. More info is available on Eilish’s website.
Check out the new tour dates below.
Billie Eilish’s 2025 Tour Dates: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour
08/16 — Tokyo, Japan @ Saitama Super Arena
08/17 — Tokyo, Japan @ Saitama Super Arena
10/09 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
10/11 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
10/12 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
10/14 — Orlando, FL @ Kia Center
10/16 — Raleigh, NC @ Lenovo Center
10/17 — Raleigh, NC @ Lenovo Center
10/19 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
10/20 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
10/23 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
10/25 — Long Island, NY @ UBS Arena
10/26 — Long Island, NY @ UBS Arena
11/07 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
11/08 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
11/10 — Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
11/11 — Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
11/13 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center ATX
11/14 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center ATX
11/18 — Phoenix, AZ @ PHX Arena
11/19 — Phoenix, AZ @ PHX Arena
11/22 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
11/23 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
AMC’s Dark Windsgrew its viewership (gaining more exposure on Netflix didn’t hurt) for the third season of the stellar crime drama. As inspired by Tony Hillerman’s Sinister Pig and Dance Hall of the Dead novels, the series leaned hard into horror as Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) grappled with a mythological monster while tackling a case of two missing Navajo boys. Meanwhile, he was still feeling domino effects from his son’s death and his subsequent handling of the B.J. Vines situation, which was causing untenable friction at home with wife Emma (Deanna Allison).
After an eventful season finale, at least Leaphorn can consider himself freed of the B.J. Vines investigation, although his marriage appears to be a permanent casualty. Meanwhile, that Border Patrol gig for Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) did not go as planned, and she resurfaced at the Navajo reservation, a development that sets up more questions regarding herself and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Plenty more Hillerman stories about these characters are also waiting to be told, so of course that opens up a pressing question.
Will There Be A Dark Winds Season 4?
For sure.Variety first broke the news of AMC running with a renewal back in March ahead of the third season premiere. Zahn McClarnon will debut as director for the forth season premiere, and George R.R. Martin will surely remain thrilled about his most satisfying TV producing gig in several years.
The next season will be based upon Tony Hillerman’s The Ghostway novel, and showrunner John Wirth revealed to Collider that another Navajo cultural tradition will come to the forefront:
It deals with the Navajo experience of ghost sickness, which has to do with what happens to a person, in their tradition, if they are exposed to a dead body or if they’re with a person when the person dies. I’m not a Navajo, and I’m not an expert in all things Navajo, but my understanding is, if you are with a person when they breathe their last breath, that breath goes into you, and you become ghost sick, which requires a ceremony to cure you of ghost sickness.”
The fourth season is currently in the thick of filming with McClarnon telling Variety that he has “already done my director’s cut for the [premiere] episode.” Fingers crossed for a 2026 return of Dark Winds.
Produced by Kenny Beats, “Ironic” finds TiaCorine flexing in her trademark, laid-back-but-aggressive flow. “Let’s get fly and smoke some chronic / That sh*t be so ironic, everything I do iconic / I don’t need it, I just want it / Everything I do one-hunnid / You see us money thumbin’ / Everytime I come through stuntin’,” she brags on the hook.
In the Lyrical Lemonade-produced video, Freaky T employs a trippy Rube-Goldberg machine to make a cup of tea, hangs out in the bathroom with her friends, and balances atop a building emblazoned with the song title while showing off her grills. T’s makeup is the star of the show with its nods to the Japanese art of kintsugi, which repairs broken pottery with gold and silver lacquer to preserve and highlight where the original piece was broken and repaired. The idea is to highlight the object’s history; likewise, the Japanese-American TiaCorine often highlights her own history and heritage in her music.
Tia hasn’t announced a new album just yet, but you have to think one is on the way if she’s releasing all these singles. Stay tuned.
Green Day’s origins stretch farther back than Blink-182’s, but ultimately, both groups would be defining pop-punk bands of the early 2000s. There was a stretch during that time, though, where there was a friendly(ish) rivalry between the groups.
In an interview with NME, Blink’s Mark Hoppus spoke about the experience of Green Day opening for Blink on the Pop Disaster Tour, saying, “That was very strange because I grew up listening to Green Day. I literally waited for the day that Dookie came out, and I was in line waiting to buy it. I was a huge fan, then we’re touring with them, but it was a weird thing where Green Day were dipping at the time and Blink were ascendent. We were billed as co-headliners, but Blink were closing every night, and that was a strange sensation for us. Headlining over your idols is a little strange.”
He went on to speak about the sort-of-friendly competition between the two groups:
“We showed up, we thought we were cool, we had a No. 1 record [Take Off Your Pants And Jacket], we were the first punk band to ever have a No. 1 record, Green Day were on their way down for a little bit. We walked in thinking we were hot sh*t and Green Day walked in ready to fight — musically of course, they were super cool to us the whole time.
My wife and Billie [Joe Armstrong]’s wife were great friends. Billie was super nice to us. Then, when it came time to get on stage… It’s like athletes: We could be on different teams, but when we get on the field, we’re going to try and kick your ass.
We didn’t come with that attitude, but they did. They blew us off the stage the first few nights and we were like, ‘Oh sh*t, we have to up our game.’ Then it was this battle back-and-forth about who could put on the better show and who could win people over. It definitely made us a better band. I think I inspired them so much they were like, ‘We have to kill Blink-182 with an awesome album called American Idiot.’”
Over the weekend, Post Malone and Jelly Roll’s Big Ass Stadium Tour rolled into Detroit, Michigan, where they were joined by a local legend. No, not Tim Robinson, although with Friendship out in theaters, you never know. No, it was Eminem, who joined Jelly Roll for a performance of “Lose Yourself.”
“If you can’t tell, that was a childhood dream come f*cking true, Detroit,” Jelly Roll told the sold-out Ford Field crowd, according to Billboard. “This is the greatest show I’ve ever had in my f*king life.” He added that Eminem’s music “helped me through the darkest moments of my life.”
This isn’t the first time Jelly Roll has talked about how much Slim means to him. “It’s by far the most unreal thing that’s happened in my career yet,” he said on the Spout Podcast about collaborating with the rapper on his 2024 album The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce). “There are probably five people on Earth I’d meet that I would be jittery around. It’d be [Garth] Brooks, James Taylor, Bob Seger, and Eminem. People I grew up knowing every word of every song they’ve ever released.”
You can watch Eminem and Jelly Roll perform “Lose Yourself” here.
If you’re a TikTok user, you’ve probably heard Connie Francis’ 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” recently, as it’s been going viral on the platform. Francis, now 87 years old, recently caught wind of her renewed success, and initially, she wasn’t quite sure what to make of it.
“My thanks to TikTok and its members for the wonderful, and oh so unexpected, reception given to my 1961 recording ‘Pretty Little Baby’. The first I learned of it was when [Concetta Records president Ron Roberts] called to advise me that I had ‘a viral hit’.
Clearly out of touch with present day music statistics terminology, my initial response was to ask: ‘What’s that?’
Thank you everyone!”
As Billboard notes, the song, a non-single from the 1962 album Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love, has been heard in many TikTok videos featuring users lip-syncing along to the lyrics, “You can ask the flowers / I sit for hours / Telling all the bluebirds / The bill and coo birds / Pretty little baby, I’m so in love with you.”
During the week ending April 10, the song had about 17,000 official on-demand US streams a week, but more recently, it rose to 2.4 million. The publication notes the streams continue to rise and the track could make its Hot 100 debut.
It wouldn’t be Francis’ first chart hit, as she has three No. 1 hits to her name: “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” “My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own” (both in 1960), and “Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You” (1962).
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw new Rihanna at last and Rico Nasty following the beat of her own drum. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Finally, new Rihanna music! It’s not a new album: “Friend Of Mine” is a straightforward (it’s mostly Rihanna repeating the phrase “Feel like a friend of mine”) Smurfs movie cut, but at the very least, it’s just nice to hear her voice again.
Latto — “Somebody”
After last summer’s Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Latto is back with her first new music of the year. Is a new album coming? TBD, but in the meantime, we’ll take the smooth “Somebody.”
Giveon — “Rather Be”
We got some new Giveon in February, and now he’s hopefully building up to an album with another single last week, the lush and romantic “Rather Be.”
The “Messy” singer is so far turning in a strong 2025 after her viral breakout last year. Her latest is last week’s “One Thing,” and as Uproxx’s Josh Kurp notes, “The chorus packs a punch, not unlike the swing Young takes while sparring in a boxing ring in the song’s music video.”
Jin — “Don’t Say You Love Me”
BTS’ reunion isn’t here yet, but it hasn’t felt like much of a break with group members releasing new music as often as they’ve been. The latest comes from Jin, who dropped the vulnerable “Don’t Say You Love Me” last week.
Ekkstacy — “If I Had A Gun”
Canadian favorite Ekkstacy was nominated for Breakthrough Artist Or Group Of The Year at this year’s Juno Awards, a sign that he’s been on an upward trajectory lately. That carried on last week with a new album, Forever, which quickly followed last year’s self-titled effort.
Rico Nasty — “Crash”
Rico Nasty is on famed pop-punk label Fueled By Ramen now, and the versatile rapper isn’t afraid to let that side of herself shine through, like on last week’s Lethal highlight “Crash.”
Petey USA — “As Two People Drift Apart”
Petey USA (formerly just Petey) shared “Model Train Town” and “The Milkman” earlier this year, and now the news fans of the indie/TikTok star have been waiting for his here: A new album, The Yips, is coming. “As Two People Drift Apart” is a dynamic and intense preview.
Little Simz — “Young”
Simz said that “Young,” her latest single, sees her tapping “into a character” and is a “moment of lightheartedness.” She’s spot-on there, as the track has a fun, loose energy to it and sees her doing more talking than rapping.
According to Megan Thee Stallion, she has the “best ass on Instagram.” However, the “Whenever” rapper’s juicy derrière is also a hit on TikTok. So much so, that it is now a part of a viral fundraising campaign on the platform.
Megan Thee Stallion is known for her magnificent twerk videos. She even created a few twerk challenges in the past. Hell, Meg even hosted a bootcamp inspired by twerking. But due to her hectic schedule, a new clip of Megan throwing it in a circle hasn’t been shared in age. For now supporters are reliving the old twerk glory days by recycling past uploads. One national park has jumped on the trend posting videos of Megan Thee Stallion twerking onstage during previous Hot Girl Summer Tour shows put for a good cause.
In an attempt to bring attention to its fundraising efforts following proposed budget cuts to the National Park Service, Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park has inserted these NSFW clips (viewable here and here) before their pleads on TikTok.
Read part of Petrified Forest National Park’s fundraising statement below. To learn more about the National Park Services here.
Do you wanna help the National Park Service? Well, good news. Petrified Forest is here to rock your world and yes, the wood is still hard after 200 million years. First, grab a National Parks pass for just $80. That pass gets you access to to over 2,000 parks including Petrified Forest, where the wood is so rock solid it’s basically nature’s Viagra. Next, head over to nps.gov and sign up to volunteer. Want to donate, nationalparks.org is your go to. Every day keeps the trails smooth, the signs fresh, and the wood, well firm.
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