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In the three weeks since the release of his fifth studio album, Austin, Post Malone has had some pretty memorable moments, including buying a one-of-one Magic: The Gathering card for a reported $2 million, giving a fan in Tampa his shirt, socks, and a guitar, and meeting Allen Iverson in real life after starting his career with the viral hit “White Iverson.” His latest memory-making moment, though, might be the one that impresses fans the most: He stopped by NPR world headquarters in Washington, DC for a Tiny Desk Concert, making him one of the biggest stars to perform one yet.

Opening up with an acoustic version of “Sunflower” with Americana flourishes, Post strummed his guitar alongside a grand piano a string quartet and a blended bunch of backup singers who really complemented the stripped-down versions of Post’s hits. He followed up his intro with a stirring rendition of “I Fall Apart” and a “go Cowboys,” which he joked might have been out of place in Commanders territory. Then, it was time for “Circles,” his 2019 megahit, again with the assistance of strings. Finally, after joking around about getting lost on the chords of that song, he played “Enough Is Enough” from the new album (“or attempt to,” as he put it). The concert is a perfect display of all the elements that make Post Malone such a star, including his humble charm and willingness to poke fun at himself.

Watch Post Malone’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert above.

Joint practices are a great opportunity for NFL teams to get some practice reps at something much closer to game speed, which is why teams do them. They are also a great opportunity for players to get into fights, as the juices get flowing in the hot summer sun and chippiness is almost a guarantee when two teams face each other over and over on the practice field.

On Tuesday, the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Commanders met for joint practice and it didn’t take long for some frustrations to boil over, with the unsurprising combatants being on the outside between receivers and defensive backs, where trash talk is most prevalent. The first dustup of the day saw Commanders DB Emmanuel Forbes and Ravens WR Tylan Wallace exchange punches after a completion on the outside to Wallace, with Forbes wrapping up and trying to strip the ball. From there, the two threw multiple punches at each other — which is always funny when guys are wearing helmets.

NBC4 Sports captured a different angle of that skirmish that saw the two teams come together after the punches were thrown, as well as one happening on another field between the Ravens defense and the Commanders offense, as Washington’s top receiver Terry McLaurin took umbrage to some shoving that was happening.

Later, Ravens star tight end Mark Andrews sparked another kerfuffle when he slammed Washington DB Danny Johnson to the ground after a fumble (and after the whistle).

Coaches love joint practices because it’s the closest thing you can get to game reps, because you aren’t going up against a teammate who you might more naturally pedal off against. However, because you don’t pedal off against another team, you end up with lots more dustups and sometimes full on fights, and occasionally practices have to end early because of it.

Sometimes a person opens their mouth to sing and their voice blows you away, partly because it sounds nothing like you’d expect and partly because it’s just that amazing.

Cue the vocal stylings of Lacey Schaffer-Thomas, a special ed paraprofessional in Fort Smith, Arkansas, whose back-to-school convocation performance with her fellow educators has gone viral.

In a Facebook and Instagram reel shared by motivational speaker Jon Gordon, we see a stage set up on a school gym floor with a group of teachers performing together as a band.

“So this happened before I spoke!” he wrote. “It was the coolest convocation I’ve ever seen.”

A rock band made of teachers is interesting enough, but when the band plays Stevie Wonder‘s hit “Superstition” and the lead vocalist sound like Janis Joplin reincarnated—”like a legend,” as Gordon wrote—you have an incredibly impressive combo.

Check out how the students were welcomed back:

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People have been blown away by this woman’s voice, as evidenced by the comments on Facebook:

“I wasn’t expecting that voice to come out of that tiny, beautiful lady!” wrote one commenter. “Loved every minute of this! Ah-mazing, powerful performance! Why is this woman not a well-known, famous name by now?”

“She’s not singing, She’s SANG’IN! My Lord Ms. Thomas! You were feeling it and you made us feel it too!” shared another.

“She betta SANG!!!!!! I love this idea!!! The kids get to see talent and feel welcomed,” wrote another.

“Wow! That poor guy trying to sing with her,” sympathized one commenter. “There’s no place in there for ya bud! She can handle that on her own! All these little jewels around the world that nobody knows about until somebody puts em on social media.”

Schaffer-Thomas’ family and friends showed up in the comments, too, with understandable pride:

“My beautiful talented Wife. Lacey is a paraprofessional working with special needs kids. She sings to her students every day and is the most amazing, positive human I know. I am so blessed,” wrote her husband.

“That’s my momma Lacey Schaffer-Thomas ,” wrote her daughter. “She’s actually a paraprofessional for an elementary special education class. She’s incredible and I’m so proud of her! She’s been singing her whole life! The entire band did a phenomenal job!!! “

The singer herself even chimed in when Gordon asked if he could tag her in the video. “Yes please! I don’t know if my heart can take it though. ,” she responded. “I’m just overwhelmed with gratitude at all the kind responses this has generated. Thank you so much.”

The praise is well-earned, ma’am. Keep on wowing everyone with that gorgeous, edgy voice.

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.

Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days. This week we got new music from Slowdive, Ian Sweet, Sufjan Stevens, Turnstile, and more.

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Fiddlehead — “Fifteen To Infinity”

Death Is Nothing To Us, the third studio album by Fiddlehead, is only days away. Singles “Sullenboy” and “Sleepyhead” have teased an explosive, mosh-ready record, but this new track “Fifteen To Infinity” is more downtrodden and dynamic. With noisy guitars and a catchy melody, the song is Smiths-like in its fatalistic proclamation of love: “Well if I’m gonna die then I wanna die / With you right by my side,” Patrick Flynn sings.

Blonde Redhead — “Before”

Blonde Redhead is sharing their new album Sit Down for Dinner next month, and “Before” encapsulates their mesmeric brand of dream pop. Warm instrumentals create a sense of comfort that blend well with the lyrics laden with déjà vu: “Were you here before / I can say I have / Will I take someone like you?”

Petey — “Did I Mention I’m Sorry”

“Did I Mention I’m Sorry” by Petey is a volcanic explosion of indie rock that unexpectedly goes from lo-fi to anthemic while a stream-of-consciousness is expressed in earnest: “I missed your party must have / Forgot to tell you I was / Looking for parking I’ve been / All In my head about it,” he sings.

Turnstile — New Heart Designs

One cannot overstate the impact on Turnstile’s 2021 masterwork Glow On, a hardcore album with collaboration from Blood Orange and three Grammy nominations. New Heart Designs takes their experimentation to the next level by reimagining three tracks from that record — “Mystery,” “Underwater Boi,” and “Alien Love Call” — with Mall Grab.

Ian Sweet — “Your Spit”

The stakes are high as soon as Ian Sweet’s new song “Your Spit” kicks off: a car is hitting 105 mph and there’s a confession of love. “I know I stop mid-sentence / And pretend I forget / What I’m gonna say / It’s ’cause I’m afraid,” Jilian Medford admits in a vulnerable drawl. In typical Ian Sweet fashion, the track is a danceable and playful dose of indie rock, taken from her just-announced album Sucker arriving in November.

Slowdive — “The Slab”

Everything Is Alive, Slowdive’s first album since their 2017 self-titled classic, is out next month, and the singles have been transcendent. The newest, “The Slab,” is no exception, reverberating with vibrating synthesizers that build a soaring, hypnotic wall of sound. The vocals blend into the floating atmosphere and it makes for a sprawling shoegaze experience.

Sufjan Stevens — “So You Are Tired”

No big deal: Indie rock royalty Sufjan Stevens is back with the announcement of a new album called Javelin out in October. The lead single “So You Are Tired” captures the endearing nature of his beloved album Carrie & Lowell, twinkling as he lulls heart-wrenching lines: “So you are breathing disaster / I did what I was told / But I was a man born invisible.”

Land Of Talk — “Your Beautiful Self”

“It’s the weirdest, mightiest little record I’ve made since I used to write music on my four-track when I was 14,” Lizzie Powell said about Performances, the new Land Of Talk album arriving in October. “Your Beautiful Self” showcases the idiosyncrasy that they leaned into, the ballad unpredictable and haunting, previewing a bewitching sound.

Ratboys — “Morning Zoo”

Every single for The Window, the new album by Ratboys, has been unforgettably evocative. The latest single “Morning Zoo” exhibits their subtle intensity; “I look myself in the eye / I wake up every morning / I kill my thoughts with a knife / Then blow a kiss to the silence,” Julia Steiner sings against cosmic instrumentals.

Thanks For Coming — “Loop”

Thanks For Coming make casually agonizing songs, which can be predicted by the title of their forthcoming album: What is My Capacity to Love? “Loop” captures the dizzying whirlwind of romance and intimacy, building into a visceral nursery rhyme: “Stuck in a loop with you / It’s all I want to do / I’m stuck on you like glue.”

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Adele has had a lot of memorable times during her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, from joking around with a t-shirt cannon to working through a lyric mishap. The latest moment happened during one of her recent concerts, after a couple, Chris Dare and Shantelle Lord, asked the pop star to help them with a special occasion.

They brought a sign that read, “Adele, will you do our gender reveal?” — which surprised Adele as she spotted it.

“No one’s really allowed signs in here. I’m just obsessed that you got one in,” she responded to them in the crowd. Lord had been saving the baby’s sex reveal in an envelope for weeks and got it to Adele.

“Shantelle and Chris are having a baby… boy!” she surprised to the couple and the rest of the audience. The moment moved Adele so much that she started crying and hugged the two fans.

“That was amazing,” she said. “I’m so happy for you! I’m so happy for you! That’s so emotional, oh my God.”

“If and when I get pregnant will you do my gender reveal?” Adele also asked Lord.

Dare has since posted a video of the moment to his Instagram. “@adele you are amazing and we will remember this night for the rest of our lives!” he captioned, complete with some heart emojis.

Check out Adele hosting a gender reveal for the couple above.

Technology is crazy. Not only does social media allow us to connect to folks we never would have had access to before, but now we also have simple AI to automate tasks that we never even thought we’d need help with. Both of these situations came together recently when a fan slid into Coi Leray’s Instagram DMs to ask for a date. However, when she actually responded, he used ChatGPT to try to construct the rest of the conversation — and it didn’t go too well after that.

After delivering a decent enough opener (“Give me one date and it will be the best night you’ve ever had”), Coi’s response (“what’s the date?”), the hopeful fan asked ChatGPT for some options, choosing “taking a boat ride and watching a sunset.” Unfortunately for him, Coi was unimpressed, inviting him to “take a boat ride out of my DMs.” Ouch. The user caught all of this on his screen record and shared it on TikTok. It seems that this is his whole bit there, so he probably didn’t take it too hard, but still.

Coi is fresh off the release of her self-titled second album, which features the singles “Bops” and “Get Loud.” Meanwhile, she’s not the only one cooking bold fans who slide in her DMs; Ice Spice utterly roasted a student who got at her with a weak “Hey mamas” earlier this year.

Millie Bobby Brown is forever grateful for Stranger Things. It’s the show that made her an international star, a mogul, and a beneficiary of the Bon Jovi fortune. She’s also “ready” for it to be over.

“I think I’m ready. It’s been such a huge factor in part of my life, but it’s like graduating high school, it’s like senior year,” Bobby Brown told Women’s Wear Daily. “You’re ready to go and blossom and flourish and you’re grateful for the time you’ve had, but it’s time to create your own message and live your own life.” She’s most excited about never having to float in a giant tub again.

Speaking of living her own life, Bobby Brown, who is engaged to Jon Bon Jovi’s son Jake Bongiovi, also discussed how wedding preparations are going. “There are only so many moments in life that you get only once. And to have everyone’s opinions and eyes looking at that just feels unnatural to me,” she said. “So I feel it’s important to keep those things, those small precious moments in life, really close to your chest. I can say that the planning is going — it’s so fun and it’s such an exciting time in my life.”

What’s going to happen first: the Stranger Things season five premiere or the MBB/Bongiovi wedding? At this point, who knows. Maybe the events can combine, and the wedding can be held during Halloween Horror Nights.

(Via Women’s Wear Daily)

With under a month until its September 8 release date, we are starting to get more information about NBA 2K24. While we have the covers and the first batch of player ratings for top stars, Tuesday brought a new gameplay trailer that shows off this year’s new feature — ProPlay — in which they pulled full move sets and mannerisms for players off of NBA game film.

The trailer highlights a lengthy dribble sequence from Kevin Durant in a side-by-side showing how the game mimics his dribble moves and body movements nearly identically to the clip from the game, allowing for what they believe will be the most realistic gameplay they’ve delivered yet in NBA 2K. The trailer also has some fun with this year’s offseason moves, as it features Jordan Poole calling for an iso against former teammate Draymond Green (who famously punched him in the face) and then burying a three on the wing over Green.

Fans of the game will undoubtedly be excited watching the trailer, but as is always the question for 2K, will the promises of the curated trailer gameplay matchup with the reality of hours of actual gameplay for those that buy the game. That’s not always the case and there will almost assuredly be something that has to get patched up once the game goes live for millions, but it does look very good and the ProPlay providing more unique player movements is certainly intriguing, with the jury still out on how exactly it works in practice.

Former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis found herself hit with RICO charges alongside the former president and 17 others including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney “The Kraken” Powell, and John Eastman.

As part of Trump’s legal “Strike Force” that attempted to overturn the 2020 election, Ellis has been roped into a slew of charges that involve violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, forgery, and various other crimes related to the well-documented efforts to pressure state officials into “finding votes” that would swing Georgia’s results away from Joe Biden.

In response to her indictment, Ellis posted the following on Twitter along with an inspirational quote from your mom’s kitchen: “The Democrats and the Fulton County DA are criminalizing the practice of law. I am resolved to trust the Lord and I will simply continue to honor, praise, and serve Him. I deeply appreciate all of my friends who have reached out offering encouragement and support.”

Ellis being indicted is an interesting wrinkle. Despite being a loyal Trump foot soldier during his election fraud schemes, she has since turned on the former president. Not only has Ellis admitted in a disciplinary hearing in Colorado that she “misrepresented” facts about the 2020 election, but the former Trump attorney is also a staunch supporter of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. RICO cases often involve flipping conspirators to rat out players higher on the food chain, and Ellis seems primed to fill that role.

In the meantime, people on Twitter are having a field day with her trying to inspirational quote her way through the very serious charges in Georgia.

You can see some of the reactions to Ellis below:

(Via Jenna Ellis on Twitter)