Alex Warren and Sabrina Carpenter are both on fire, and at the moment, their paths are colliding. Warren’s single “Ordinary” is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Meanwhile, Carpenter’s new song “Manchild” is proving to be a hit, too.
It looks like it’s going to be an extremely close race for the top spot on the next chart, but Warren doesn’t seem to be sweating it. In fact, on June 9, he actually shared “Manchild” on his Instagram Story, which sparked some social media backlash from his fans.
“Wait why is everyone so mean on here… music is music. I’m so blessed to be on the chart and I’m also so happy for all the wins in music. Manchild is such a great record and I’m so honored to be mentioned in the same sentence as Sabrina. Ordinary means so much to me and so many people and it’s totally ok if it doesn’t to you. I’m just happy to be here:)”
One user responded, “Can we normalize not harassing artists for no reason at all?! Everyone works hard for their records.” Another wrote, “Just cuz yall didn’t hear his song doesn’t mean others didn’t. Stop pretending like ur fave is gonna murder u for liking other songs. Enjoy life and the variations of music there is instead of being a hate filled loser fr damn. Some of yall r Embarassing.”
When you ask Detroit rapper Lelo for the meaning of his “New Detroit” movement/mantra/album title, his answer changes from discussion to discussion. In one interview, he declared that he didn’t want to try to define it, instead choosing to let the work speak for itself. When I spoke to him about the upcoming album, and more generally, what he felt set his “new Detroit” apart from the old one, his answer — like the city at the center of all this conversation — had evolved.
“When I first started seeing New Detroit, I was a way younger person,” he admits. “I had some real serious life events that happened. And it’s just like, new Detroit ends up becoming whatever Detroit is that year for me.”
He recounts his recent meeting and collaboration with fellow Motown native Babyface Ray, marking how even that interaction sparked a shift in how he sees the onetime manufacturing metropolis.
“I feel like, with that situation, it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, we just linked up at some random parking lot,’” he says. “That’s the neighborhood I grew up in. That’s my grandfather’s restaurant. He going in there touching the community. He talking to my grandfather who stayed on this block to help everybody. He talking to all the kids. And what that showed me is that New Detroit got to be more community than what I initially thought it was.”
That sense of community and fellowship has always been at the center of the city’s musical legacy. Motown, the label that gave Detroit its nickname, Hitsville, USA, was a family-owned operation; one of its biggest acts with a band of brothers from nearby Gary, Indiana. This stuff is baked in. And while Lelo certainly incorporates some of that awareness and mindset into his work, he also uses his own output to highlight another of the city’s homegrown sounds, ghettotech, which hasn’t been quite as celebrated as the soulful pop sounds of Jackson 5.
Searching to define ghettotech, a style of electronic dance music spun-off from the city’s unique forms of house and techno, Lelo lands on, “It’s unchained. That’s the fly part about it. Everything is so defined by rules, but I think ghettotech is one of them things where there are no rules. The only rule is to dance. So it’s almost, it’s one of them connective factors. It’s weird, because right now, you got all these young folks discovering it, and they like, ‘Oh, this the flyest coolest thing.’ But at the same point, that’s the music my mama was listening to. When my mama had her wedding, all my aunties, all my older cousins, they was dancing to ghettotech music.”
That connection between the old and new, between the roots and the leaves, has been a hot topic of discussion in recent years. From Beyoncé’s efforts to reclaim country for its Black originators with Cowboy Carter to Ryan Coogler’s musical history lesson in the middle of his Southern gothic horror film Sinners, Black artists have felt a renewed compulsion to rediscover the origins that were erased after this pop culture’s popularity was taken for granted.
In his way, Lelo is pushing a similar campaign in his Midwestern corner of the world with “New Detroit.” While harkening back to the city’s soulful roots, he’s also striving to create something original.
“I feel like part it’s a duty to diversify the sound, but that’s not necessarily what it’s about,” he muses. “That ends up happening. The sound changes, but I think it’s more so diversifying what people see my city as. A lot of people, they get a statistic, or they get one thing that becomes popular, and that’s what defines this place. But it’s much more to it.”
He continues, “We could have the craziest jazz musicians, jazz singers. We had the craziest R&B. Motown was here for a large part. But for a long time, all you heard about Detroit was the murder rate. So, hopefully, if everything goes right, five years from now, when the new generation of kids talk about what they know about Detroit, they can say ‘Lelo.’ They can say ‘New Detroit.’ They can say whatever kind of impact that ends up being.”
The long-awaited Oasis reunion tour is nearly here, as the first shows kick off in the UK at the start of July. Ahead of that, Liam Gallagher has offered some updates and reflections.
Gallagher frequently responds to fans on X and today (June 11), one user asked, “How does it feel singing songs with ur brother again? Like old times?” Gallagher replied, “You know what it’s spiritual but I can’t help think about all those wasted years what a waste of PRECIOUS time.”
Another wrote, “All eyes on you and Oasis again — pressure or just another regular week?” Gallagher responded, “I wouldn’t do it if there was pressure I’m not that kind of soul.”
Check out Oasis’ tour dates below.
Oasis’ 2025 Tour Dates: Oasis Live ’25
07/04 — Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium
07/05 — Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium
07/11 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/12 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/16 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/19 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/20 — Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park
07/25 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
07/26 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
07/30 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/02 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/03 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
08/08 — Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/09 — Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/12 — Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
08/16 — Dublin, IE @ Croke Park
08/17 — Dublin, IE @ Croke Park
08/24 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium
08/25 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium
08/28 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
08/31 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
09/01 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
09/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ Rose Bowl Stadium
09/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ Rose Bowl Stadium
09/12 — Mexico City, MX @ Estadio GNP Seguros
09/13 — Mexico City, MX @ Estadio GNP Seguros
09/27 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
09/28 — London, UK @ Wembley Stadium
10/31 — Melbourne, Australia @ Marvel Stadium
11/01 — Melbourne, Australia @ Marvel Stadium
11/04 — Melbourne, Australia @ Marvel Stadium
11/07 — Sydney, Australia @ Accor Stadium
11/08 — Sydney, Australia @ Accor Stadium
11/15 — Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio River Plate
11/16 — Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio River Plate
11/19 — Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Nacional
11/22 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Estadio MorumBIS
11/23 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Estadio MorumBIS
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” is officially one of the biggest songs in Billboard Hot 100 history. For Swims, though, it started not with originals, but his YouTube covers that initially brought him attention. Now he admits it was a tough transition to get into writing his own songs.
In a new interview with CBC’s Q, Swims explained:
“I can see why so many people get stuck in a cover world, where they never break out, because it’s just the comparison to yourself to some of the greatest songs on Earth that you’ve sang, that you’ve maybe gotten some notoriety for. It tore me up to be like, ‘How the hell am I ever going to write a ‘[You’re] Still The One?’ […] I was terrified of people just being like, they don’t want to hear any of my stuff.”
He also spoke about learning how to write authentic songs, saying, “It turns out when you’re trying to write something to be relatable, that is so not the relatable thing. I find that if you write things so, so super-ly specific about you, that’s the most relatable thing, the thing that you think only you are going through, because it turns out everybody’s going through the same damn thing.”
“Have you gone to therapy today?” Latin Mafia asked in a recent Instagram story post with a link to their album. In addition to becoming the most exciting post-genre act out of Mexico City, the trio of brothers is removing the stigma against mental health in their songs. By being transparent about their own struggles in their debut LP Todos Los Días Todo El Día, Latin Mafia has forged a strong emotional bond with their fans.
“We’re not Latin Mafia without the people that listen to our music and connect with us,” Latin Mafia’s Emilio de la Rosa says. “I believe we’re openly explicit about what we feel in our music. We express ourselves in a very powerful way.”
Emilio is one of the singers in Latin Mafia alongside his twin brother Milton de la Rosa. Their older brother Mike de la Rosa, who serves as the band’s producer, rounds out the trio. Last October, Latin Mafia jolted new life into Latin music with their avant-garde album, seamlessly blending genres like R&B, trap, hyperpop, rock, flamenco, EDM, and more. The brothers also opened up about their anxieties with sudden fame in the frenetic “Siento Que Merezco Más.” Latin Mafia aren’t afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. The music video for “No Digas Nadas” shows them supporting each other through an emotional episode.
With machismo [toxic masculinity] rooted in Latinx culture, tears and talking about feelings can be seen as a weakness. For Latin Mafia, it’s a strength of theirs. This past year, the trio has performed sold-out concerts across the US and Mexico on their Te Odio y Te Extraño Mucho Tour. Uproxx caught their concert at the Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City on June 1, which included surprise guests like Omar Apollo. Latin Mafia brought the emotions behind their music to life and let the tears fall when they revealed that their grandmother had passed a few days prior. After the show, they caught up with Uproxx to talk about mental health, the importance of being vulnerable, and what’s next.
Why is it important for you guys to talk about mental health with your music and platform?
Milton de la Rosa: There are a lot of people who don’t talk about it. There are a lot of people who don’t talk about how they’re feeling. There are a lot of people who don’t ask for help, and that never ends well. If we can do something in one way or another, it’s to simply show what we’re going through. You can’t ask people to talk about what they’re going through, but we want to let them know they can do that if they want to and that it’s okay. Mexico is a country with a very high suicide rate among adolescents and adults. It would be illogical for us to not talk about that or to not give visibility to that issue. We want to try to do something or make a difference in whatever way we can. We’re showing that we’re human and that we feel things and that it’s okay to feel those things. You don’t have to hold that in or keep it to yourself. Vulnerability is a part of the human experience, and it’s okay to be vulnerable.
What would you recommend to anyone who is experiencing issues with mental health?
Emilio de la Rosa: The first step to getting help is talking about it. That really helps.
Milton: I’ve definitely felt that I couldn’t cry enough about my grandmother because I felt a lot of pressure from these Palacio De Los Deportes shows. I didn’t have time to allow myself to feel or to give myself a pause from everything. That led to the ocean of tears at last night’s show. Yesterday, I was like, ‘Okay, I have to let this all out.’ Honestly, I believe yesterday’s show was like therapy for me.
Emilio: The difference between the shows yesterday and today is that yesterday’s show was very sad, knowing that my grandmother wasn’t here to see that show. Today, the show was a lot happier because I knew that she was watching us and that she was happy to see our show.
Milton: Today’s show was f*cking awesome! I’m sure that she would be upset that I took off my shirt and that I was jumping from many high places. [Laughs.] I’m sure she loved it.
How therapeutic of an experience was it for you guys to create your album Todos Los Días Todo El Día?
Mike de la Rosa: That album came from a very cathartic place, just like these shows. The album includes a lot of the emotions that we felt at the time, a lot of things that we wanted to talk about, and a lot of things that we wanted today. Today’s show was the perfect example of what we want to give and what we want to show with our music.
What do guys like to do to take care of yourselves and your mental health?
Milton: We go to the gym every day and I’m eating a balanced diet. We eat a lot of vegetables and protein and that’s it. I’ve gone a month without eating anything with sugar, so that’s why I’m eating these cookies in front of me right now. I’m a person who’s very vulnerable on a mental level. Since I was a child, I’ve had to get used to keeping my mind busy. I’m a person who loves to have a routine. In a way, having a routine gives me peace of mind. I feel like being disciplined with doing exercise and eating healthy every day is not only helping me with my body, but also with my mind. I believe that’s why I like to take care of my body and mind. To be disciplined is never a bad habit. I want to be disciplined with my work, my mental health, my body, and my mind. That’s why I say, ‘Long live having a routine!’ [Laughs.]
Emilio: The crazy thing is that I’m doing the same routine as him and my body hasn’t changed.
At these Palacio De Los Deportes shows, you guys debuted an upcoming cumbia song with Omar Apollo. What was the experience like to work with him on music and now perform live with him?
Emilio: It’s an honor for us. We said during the show that we admire him so much. Mike and I saw him a few years ago at the House of Vans concert here. To share the stage with people at the level of talent that he has is incredible. That goes for all the artists we shared the stage with today [Akriila, Jesse Baez, and Rusowsky]. Up until the day I die, I’ll always carry with me those experiences of sharing the stage and music with my favorite artists.
Mike: There was a moment that I told my brothers, ‘Take this moment in and take a mental snapshot of it.’ It’s very impressive everything that we’re going through together at this moment. It’s been very cathartic. It’s been two days that we’ll never forget. We know that our grandmother Guadalupe is very proud of us and that makes us very happy.
This month is also Pride Month. I was wondering if you guys had a message for your fans that belong to the LGBTQ+ community.
Emilio: As Latin Mafia, we’ve always said to feel what you want to feel and experience what you want to experience. Live your life and do what your heart desires. Be happy and don’t care about what other people think. We know that this month is very important for our fans who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Embrace who you are and love everything that you do because that’s what makes you incredible and real. We admire all the people who belong to that community so much. They’re very strong people.
What more can we expect from you guys this year?
Milton: There’s a lot more music, collaborations, and music videos coming. This year, we want to start working on our second album. We want to get into that exploration mode again to be able to do even more things.
Mike: We haven’t started on our second album yet, but we have some ideas in mind.
What do you want to achieve next with Latin Mafia?
Milton: In a year or a year and a half, Latin Mafia will perform at the Estadio GNP Seguros.
Emilio: Latin Mafia mundial [worldwide]. Latin mundial. Mundial Mafia.
Milton: This year, we’ll win our first Latin Grammy and then our first Grammy. To win those awards would be a dream come true and if we get both of them, let’s go!
Earlier this year, Faye Webster YoYo Invitational host Faye Webster performed a Tiny Desk Concert. Later this year, she’ll be doing essentially the exact opposite of that: Instead of bringing her songs to a stripped-down office environment, on An Evening With Faye Webster, which will feature her performing with a symphony.
The run includes three shows: October 28 in Atlanta, November 1 in Los Angeles, and November 5 in Oakland. For tickets, there’s an artist pre-sale starting June 11 at 10 a.m. local time, then a general on-sale beginning June 13 at 10 a.m. local time. More info can be found on Webster’s website.
Check out the tour dates, along with previously announced shows, below.
Faye Webster’s 2025 Tour Dates: Underdressed At The Symphony Tour 2025 and An Evening With Faye Webster
06/26 — Paris, FR @ La Cigale
06/27 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
06/29 — Glastonbury, UK @ Glastonbury Festival
07/01 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
07/02 — Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
07/04 — London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
07/05 — Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
07/06 — Rotselaar, BE @ Rock Werchter
07/12 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
07/13 — Melbourne, AU @ Forum Theatre
07/15 — Melbourne, AU @ Forum Theatre
07/16 — Sydney, AU @ Enmore Theatre
07/21 — Sydney, AU @ Enmore Theatre
07/23 — Manila, PH @ The Filinvest Tent
07/26 — Seoul, KR @ Musinsa Garage
07/29 — Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
09/27 — Washington, DC @ All Things Go Festival
10/28 — Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall
11/01 — Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
11/05 — Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre
In the latest single from his upcoming film Red Clay, 2 Chainz recruits R&B star Ne-Yo to help him recount his journey from rags to riches. “Not The Same” builds on a soulful loop, pairing 2 Chainz’s signature wit and storytelling with Ne-Yo’s emotive chorus. Meanwhile, the video for the song features the two stars throwing a house party in the Georgia boondocks, intercut with scenes from Red Clay. Co-written by Omar Epps, the coming-of-age film follows two friends as they contemplate alternate routes to escape the hardships that surround them.
2 Chainz has released two other videos from the film’s soundtrack: “ATL Experience” featuring the Isley Brothers and “Sista Wives” featuring Lil Yachty. The soundtrack will constitute Chainz’s second project of 2025, following his joint project with Larry June and The Alchemist, Life Is Beautiful.
In an interview with Variety before the film’s premiere at the Atlanta Film Festival, 2 Chainz explained, “My inspiration to write this film came from the need to unpack brutal truths and showcase the complexities of why black and brown communities normalize trauma. It’s my hope to inspire conversations which motivate people to have more grace, and compassion towards one another.”
You can watch the video for 2 Chainz’s single “Not The Same” featuring Ne-Yo above.
La Dispute fans have endured a bit of a wait recently, as the band’s most recent album, Panorama, was released in 2019. Soon, the wait will be over, as La Dispute announced No One Was Driving The Car last month.
Now, they’re back with a new eight-minute song, “Environmental Catastrophe Film.” It’s characteristically verbose, and in a statement, the band’s Jordan Dreyer says:
“the second act–more or less the thematic center of the record–is a single song split into three parts. it begins with a boy beside a creek-bed in a wooded area near home, holding a snapping turtle above the flowing water, before tracing its winding path to the river around which the city was first built, and through a brief history of the city itself–its settlement, the creation of the christian reformed church, and the furniture industry that dominated its early economic growth.
from there we return to the boy beside the creek. he sees his own lack of control in the flailing creature he holds, then again at church, listening to a sermon delivered on the calvinist doctrines of predestination, man’s innate and total depravity, and the irresistible grace of his family’s god. at the end of it, he returns for the first time in adulthood to that same church, at the funeral of an old friend dead by suicide, from which the conversation shifts back to the creek as metaphor for life and time, and to what we ultimately maintain the least control over in life: that we can change neither the fact it moves nor the direction it ceaselessly does.
in the final section, the city’s history of the furniture manufacturing returns as additional metaphor, presenting us as un-hewn wood, locked within the lathe of time and against its blade turned, to carve away with each rotation fragments of self en route to new forms–perhaps useful, perhaps beautiful, perhaps not. and as the layers shaved away fall to ground, they are swept up at day’s end and thrown inside the furnace: to burn and be breathed in as smoke, felt as heat, and to return one day as rain from the atmosphere in which they’ve dissipated. what’s left on the lathe is given purpose–placed as slats in chair backs or as table legs–and from this image the focus narrows again: to life with another–where, ultimately, the narrator finds his own comfort against the tumult–via the furniture moved and used by them from one shared home to another, and the person with whom he’s shared them.”
Listen to “Environmental Catastrophe Film” above.
No One Was Driving The Car via 9/5 via Epitaph. Find more information here.
The party that had NYC buzzing this weekend? It happened before the Governors Ball festival gates even opened.
Sparkling Ice and Uproxx shut down the Lower East Side as part of the Sparkling Sessions 2.0 Tour, pregaming the East Coast’s biggest music event with an unforgettable rooftop rager that hosted the city’s R&B lovers and cultural curators. With lines around the block and bespoke Sparkling Ice-infused cocktails flowing, cultural collective 4LoversOnly kept the energy high, designing an electric on-the-decks lineup that included Moochie and Sounds Of Reality.
Members of the New York cool-crowd sipped Instagram-worthy creations and munched on light bites in between hitting the packed dancefloor, snapping pics at multiple photo activations, taking in views of the Manhattan skyline, and nabbing limited-edition merch. And this was all before Grammy-winning R&B icon and headliner Lucky Daye took to the stage to deliver a mindblowing parade of hits (along with some fresh drops from his latest album, Algorithm).
The sounds, the flavors, the vibes – it was all proof that Sparkling Ice and Uproxx have cracked the code for creating once-in-a-lifetime music experiences that put fans first. And we’re not stopping any time soon. Keep your eyes on this spot for where we’ll show up next, and relive the magic of our NYC stop via some candid shots below.
Turnstile just released their triumphant new album Never Enough a few days ago, and as fans dive into the project, the band is preparing to tour behind it: Today (June 10), the group announced The Never Enough Tour.
The fall trek of North American dates spans about a month in September and October, and will feature support from Amyl & The Sniffers, Speed, Jane Remover, Mannequin Pussy, and Blood Orange.
Ticket pre-sales start June 11 at 10 a.m. local time, followed by a general on-sale on June 13 at 10 a.m. local time. More information is available on the band’s website.
Check out the full list of tour dates below.
Turnstile’s 2025 Tour Dates: The Never Enough Tour
09/15 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle ~
09/17 — Asheville, NC @ Asheville Yards Amphitheater ^
09/19 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at Mann ^
09/20 — Boston, MA @ The Stage at Suffolk Downs ^
09/21 — Buffalo, NY @ The Outer Harbor at Terminal B ^
09/23 — Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! #
09/24 — Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island #
09/26 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island ^
09/27 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory ^
09/28 — Des Moines, IA @ Lauridsen Amphitheater at Waterworks Park ^
09/30 — Denver, CO @ Project 70 Under the Bridge ^
10/03 — Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock *
10/04 — Los Angeles, CA @ Exposition Park +
10/05 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium +
10/07 — Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater +
10/08 — Portland, OR @ Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn +
10/10 — San Diego, CA @ Gallagher Square at Petco Park +
10/11 — Phoenix, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheater +
10/14 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater +
10/15 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Lawn +
10/16 — Fort Worth, TX @ Panther Island Pavilion +
10/18 — Miami, FL @ III Points *
10/19 — Orlando, FL @ Orlando Amphitheatre +
+ with Amyl & The Sniffers, Speed, Jane Remover
^ with Mannequin Pussy, Speed, Jane Remover
# with Blood Orange, Speed, Jane Remover
~ with Speed, Jane Remover
* festival date
Never Enough is out now via Roadrunner. Find more information here.
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