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Will Radiohead be the next group to break their lengthy hiatus? Thanks to a string of interviews featuring different members, fans are wondering that they might. At the top of the year, drummer Philip Selway shut down rumors that the group disbanded.

So, what is the verdict? Simply put, Radiohead does hope to release a new album with original music, but not as soon as supporters would like. During an interview with Uproxx’s Steven Hyden, Selway shed light on the band’s future plans. When asked about the timeline, Selway confessed that a Radiohead album won’t happen before the end of the year.

“We get together quite regularly, and we talk about what we might be able to do. But we also talk a lot about our own projects that we’re working on at the moment. Right now, it feels like all of those different projects are where our attention needs to be placed. Ed is making a solo album at the moment, and it’s going to be great. And Thom and Jonny are doing more work on The Smile, and it’s been brilliant watching that this past year. And then Colin kind of beats us all hands down, working with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis,” said Selway.

In the meantime, Radiohead has decades worth of music to hold listeners over until the faithful day comes.

The Cleveland Browns saw their worst case scenario come to life on Monday night in Pittsburgh when star running back Nick Chubb had to be carted off of the field after a severe knee injury on a run near the goal line. Chubb got hit on his knee by Minkah Fitzpatrick and immediately was writhing in pain, with the replay apparently so gruesome that ESPN opted against showing it.

Naturally, there is concern of serious damage to Chubb’s knee, and in the aftermath fans and players took to social media to offer their best to Chubb as he almost certainly gets set for a lengthy rehab process. There was also, as always, an eye on the various top NFL newsbreaker accounts, as fans were wondering just how severe Chubb’s injury is and what the feared damage may be. While we likely won’t actually learn that until Tuesday when there’s an MRI done, sometimes reports will trickle out about the initial diagnosis.

As such, when Adam Schefter opened a tweet with “Nick Chubb dislocated his left knee and tore his MCL, PCL, and LCL with cartilage damage,” many assumed he was reporting about the injury Chubb had just suffered. Instead, Schefter was clumsily recalling the injury the star back suffered in college when he had his same knee torn up against the Tennessee Volunteers back in 2015, which is information he should have led with.

The replies and quote tweets are almost all people yelling at Schefter for scaring them into believing Chubb had completely shredded his knee, when in fact we do not know the specifics. There are a lot of people who could tweet something like that — albeit, almost certainly with better phrasing — but one of the league’s top newsbreakers who regularly has injury info first is not among them.

Fans could be rocking out to a live performance from Trolls actor Justin Timberlake before they know it. Since NSYNC’s onstage reunion at the 2023 VMAs, an abundance of questions have been posed across social media. The most prominent is if Timberlake has plans to release new music. Also, is he going on tour soon?

According to a report from Billboard, the answer is leaning towards yes. As journalist Dave Brooks outlined the viability of a future NSYNC tour, they found that Timberlake has placed several dates on hold at arenas across North America. This seems to point towards a possible limited solo tour run.

So NSYNC fans might need to say bye, bye, bye to the possibility of the band getting back together next year. Multiple sources went on to tell the outlet that in addition to the supposed tour, Timberlake may drop a brand new album as well. If that does happen, the album will mark Timberlake’s first full-length album, since 2018’s Man of the Woods, outside of his soundtrack work for the Trolls film series.

Not to get die-hard supporters’ hopes up, but neither Justin Timberlake nor his team has confirmed this news to be true or not.

“Repeat It” rapper Lil Tecca is finally prepared to give fans what they want: a new full-length project.

On social media, Lil Tecca has posted a handful of clips featuring song snippets for the unreleased tracks “Rock The Boat” (where he samples the late Aaliyah’s 2001 song by the same name), “Montana,” “Road Rage,” and more. In May, he took to his official X (formerly Twitter) account to share the news that his first album since 2021’s We Love You Tecca 2 would drop in the summer months. However, plans to release Tec in June were suddenly changed without explanation. Instead of a hot summer release date, Lil Tecca’s new album Tec will drop on the eve of the fall equinox.

Here is everything you need to know about Lil Tecca’s forthcoming album, Tec, including the release date, confirmed tracklisting, and more.

Release Date

Tec is out on 9/22 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Yves”
2. “Hvn On Earth” Feat. Kodak Black
3. “Gist”
4. “500lbs”
5. “Fell In Love” Feat. Kenny Mason
6. “Tec”
7. “Salty”
8. “Real Discussions”
9. “Dead Or Alive”
10. “Want It Bad”
11. “U Don’t Know Tec”
12. “Used2this”
13. “Trippin On U”
14. “Either Way”
15. “Need Me”
16. “Monday To Sunday”

Singles

Ahead of the Tec’s release, Lil Tecca shared a total of three singles, namely “Need Me,” “500lbs,” and “Hvn On Earth.” According to the supplied tracklist, his previous singles “Blessing,” “Treesha,” and “Faster” will not appear on the album.

Artwork

View the official artwork for the album below.

Tour

As of Monday, September 18, Lil Tecca has not yet announced a tour to support the release of his album. However, fans are hoping that he will roll out a few pop-up performances in the coming weeks for them to experience Tec live with him.

Last Sunday, Lauren Boebert just wanted to go see the Beetlejuice musical with a date, where should would vape, loudly sing along, get aggressively handsy, etc. How was she to know it would lead to over a week of news coverage? But all good things must come to an end, and it appears the MAGA lawmaker and her companion — who happened to be a Democrat who owns a drag queen-friendly bar — are already Splitsville.

TMZ caught up with Boebert, who cheerfully offered up an update about her new beau. Alas it was not to be.

“Ultimately all future date nights have been cancelled, and I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” Boebert said, suggesting that a far right figure who heckles Democratic president while they’re talking about his dead son can’t last very long with someone from the other side of the aisle.

Not that Boebert has anything bad to say about her date. Acknowledging that he’s a “private citizen,” she said that he’s “a wonderful man” and that they had “mostly a lovely time.” She joked that she “would love to know how the musical ended and I encourage people to go and see it.”

As for the two of them, they, she said, “peacefully parted” ways, though she claimed that it had “nothing to do with anything anybody reported,” such as that he may have voted for the guy she’s trying to impeach. Boebert added that he’s a “great man, great friend, and I wish him all the best.”

Perhaps it’s true what they say: Love is dead.

(Via TMZ)

The growing excitement around reuniting groups continues to set social media ablaze, whether it’s No Doubt, Destiny’s Child, or NSYNC, all of whom are back together. However, Blink-182’s reunion isn’t just online chatter but a soon-to-be reality.

Earlier Monday, September 18, the trio announced their upcoming album, One More Time…, with a touching trailer video. In the clip, the band explained the meaning behind the project and discussed their career.

“What you need to understand about Blink-182 is we didn’t come out of joyous homes. So, Blink was a way for us to force the happiness in the room,” said Tom DeLonge.

“‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes [me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick] for our band to get back together,” added Travis Barker.

Mark Hoppus chimed in to say, “This is the best album we’ve ever written. It’s all through the healing of this band and this music and this record that I literally just cry on stage every night.”

“Coming out with One More Time is [us saying that] this is the last time we are going to f*ck this up,” said DeLonge.

You can watch the full album trailer below.

One More Time… is out 10/20 via Columbia. Find more information here.

Blink-182 is back together, and they couldn’t be happier. After weeks of teasing their long-awaited reunion album, the band released its official release date. But that wasn’t the only thing the trio divulged. Their lead single, “One More Time,” will be released soon to give the world a taste of what’s to come.

“‘One More Time… the new album from Blink-182 is out October 20,” wrote the band in a post on their X (formerly known as Twitter) page. The note went on to specify that the title track for the project would be dropping soon. “‘One More Time,’ the new song, is out this Thursday, September 21, at 7 am Los Angeles time / 10 am New York time / 2 pm London time.”

The band strolls down memory lane in the album trailer as they open up about their personal life before coming together as a group. They also discussed the inspiration behind their forthcoming single. “‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes (me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick) for our band to get back together,” said member Travis Barker.

Watch the clip below.

One More Time… is out 10/20 via Columbia. Find more information here.

The vault containing guest verses from “Snooze” singer SZA has gifted supporters with another gem. This time, one featuring her and multi-genre musician Jean Dawson, called “No SZNs,” will be going live on Friday, September 22.

“‘NO SZNS.’ (A duet by SZA & myself). 9/22/23. The official cover art by my favorite fine artist, Josh Brizuela,” wrote Dawson in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The cover art features a hand-drawn, faceless SZA silhouette sitting meditatively on top of a beast, seemingly symbolic of Dawson’s animalistic approach to his creative projects.

Fans chimed in, praising the artwork for its creativity. One even likened it to author Maurice Sendak’s characters in his children’s book Where The Wild Things Are.

Dawson initially teased the track in May on his official TikTok page. In the stanza shared online, you can hear him and SZA singing the lyrics, “In the spring, you can’t hear a thing / All the birds and bees (All the birds and bees) / Nobody think in the summertime (In the summertime) / People off the brink / In California, we ain’t got no seasons / All the same to me (All the same to me) / ‘Cause In the heat, like to press repeat / Every day is every day.”

Not much else is known about the record at this time. Fans will have to hold out until its official release to experience the song for themselves.

Warning: This post contains spoilers about something that may or may not happen in John Wick: Chapter 4.

The fourth installment in the series that started with its hero avenging a slain puppy ended with him finally eating it. Or did it? John Wick: Chapter 4 concluded with a funeral, but it was no mistake that it was still ambiguous whether Keanu Reeves’ unretired assassin was really gone. Sure enough, after 4 gobbled up cash, star and filmmakers suddenly had to consider retconning said death for an unplanned Chapter 5. But it sure sounds like Reeves was ready to be done with his latest popular franchise character.

In a new interview with Collider (as caught by Deadline), franchise producer Basil Iwanyk reflected on how ready Reeves was ready to move onto something less tiring.

“After the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th movie, making these films is so exhausting and it destroys Keanu, physically and emotionally,” Iwanyk said. “By the end, he’s always like, ‘I can’t do this again,’ and we agree with him. The guy is just a shell of himself because he just goes off and goes for it. He was like, ‘I wanna be definitively killed at the end of this movie.’ We were like, ‘You know, we’ll leave a 10% little opening.’”

Alas for Reeves, that 10% won out. And so now he and series director Chad Stahleski are “getting together to figure out what that story is” for the fifth outing, which they hadn’t planned on making.

Iwanyk had sky-high praise for Reeves and Stahelski, who he compared to no less a songwriting duo than Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with him as their Ringo. (It’s not clear who’s George Harrison. Maybe Ian McShane?)

“They’ll call me and let me know, ‘All right, we’re showing up. Here’s where you show up, and here’s what our story is,’” he explained. Mind you, Iwanyk never confirmed that Chapter 5 is definitely in the offing, he did say, “We all want another John Wick. We don’t know what it looks like and when it will happen, but we love each other and we love this world.”

In the meantime, Wick heads will have to suffice with the TV spinoff The Continental and that Ana de Armas spinoff movie Ballerina.

(Via Collider and Deadline)

57 players averaged at least 20.0 points per game during the 2022-23 NBA season. One such player was veteran wing Kelly Oubre Jr., who appeared in only 48 games for the Charlotte Hornets but produced at a high level when deployed. Oubre Jr. wrapped up a two-year deal for almost $25 million in Charlotte, and he averaged 20.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Hornets. However, the free agent market didn’t necessarily break in his favor, as it took until mid-September for a deal to materialize.

On Monday evening, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Oubre will sign a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, adding intriguing depth to a team with quite a bit of uncertainty.

As far as the financials are concerned, Derek Bodner of PHLY reports that Oubre Jr.’s deal will be for the veteran’s minimum.

The 76ers are limited by being well over the luxury tax line, but Philadelphia could have used part (or all) of the taxpayer mid-level exception on Oubre Jr., and this is even more team-friendly. Regardless, Oubre Jr. is a talented player who comes at a bargain at this late stage, and he also provides some potential scoring punch that could be quite useful given the mystery of James Harden’s future in Philadelphia.

Oubre Jr. reached unrestricted free agency at the age of 27, and the former first-round pick remains a top-level athlete who can score in bunches. Oubre Jr. also brings a relatively lengthy track record, with five consecutive seasons averaging at least 15 points per game. He averaged 16.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in that sample size, peaking with 18.7 points per game on 56.0 percent true shooting for the Phoenix Suns in 2019-20.

It isn’t as if Oubre Jr. and Harden have similar games, but with real questions about the perimeter rotation if Harden is not available, the 76ers have to be thrilled with this kind of bargain acquisition. Philadelphia is now at the roster limit with a jam-packed roster, but this was an opportunistic move for a team trying to win now at the highest level.

For Oubre Jr., it will also be interesting to see if he can replicate his statistical success from Charlotte in what will almost certainly be a strongly diminished role in terms of usage and overall deployment.