Six months after sharing his Nasarati 2 mixtape on SoundCloud, Lil Nas X appears ready to begin his next era of new music. While he’s made appearances on other artists’ songs throughout the year, such as Camila Cabello’s “He Knows” and Kevin Abstract’s “Tennessee,” his only new solo music has come in the form of his Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F soundtrack contribution, “Here We Go!”
But, thanks to an exuberant, topless dance video Nas posted on Twitter, we now know when he’s dropping some new music: sometime in November. In the video, Nas employs what sounds very much like a beat from Pharrell Williams (and what sounds like a Pharrell hook too!) to rap coquettishly about — what else? — stealing your man. The caption reads: “GUESS WHOS FINALLY DROPPING NEW MUSIC NEXT MONTH ?!!”
The throwback vibe of the instrumental is matched by what little wardrobe he rocks in the video — extremely baggy jean shorts and a fitted cap cocked to the side, very 106 & Park, very Rap City, very 2006 — while even the dances he does give hilariously tongue-in-cheek millennial vibes (the Harlem Shake?!? the REAL Harlem Shake?? Yaaasss). Judging from the snippet, it seems as though Lil Nas X might just be leaning more hip-hop than pop for his next project, despite the success of songs like “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and “Old Town Road.” However, he appears to have sharpened those rap skills, so that could be a very good thing. You can check out the video here.
The 2024 WNBA Finals will feature the two best teams in the league during the regular season, as the 1-seed New York Liberty will face the 2-seed Minnesota Lynx in what figures to be a fantastic series. The Liberty are in the Finals for the second straight season, and avenged last year’s Finals loss to the Aces in the semis to get here. The Lynx, meanwhile, took down the Sun in the semis behind a phenomenal series from Napheesa Collier, as the MVP runner-up and DPOY continues her career-year with designs on winning a championship.
Both teams excel on both ends of the floor, led by their star bigs in Collier and Breanna Stewart, and mirror each other in some fascinating ways. They are first and second in opposing field goal percentage allowed this season, indicating their tremendous ability to force opponents into tough shots and their ability to contest all over the floor. On offense, the Lynx were the best three-point shooting team in the league, while the Liberty took the most threes in the W this season. This series will come down to which team can most consistently create good offense against the best defenses in the league, and watching the cat and mouse game on both sides will be exceptionally fun to watch.
The best-of-5 Finals will begin on Thursday night (10/10) in New York, and run through October 20 if it goes the distance, with all five games being played on ESPN or ABC.
2024 WNBA Finals TV Schedule
Game 1: Thursday, 10/10 (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Game 2: Sunday, 10/13 (3:00 p.m. ET, ABC)
Game 3: Wednesday, 10/16 (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Game 4: Friday, 10/18 (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Game 5: Sunday, 10/20 (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Earlier this year, Deadline reported that the untitled Top Gun 3 is “in development,” and that it will reunite Cruise with producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison and Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski. The script is being written by Ehren Kruger, who was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay for Maverick with Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.
Here’s everything we know about Top Gun 3, including plot details, the returning cast, and whether there’s a release date.
Plot
One of the best things about Top Gun: Maverick is that it had a definitive ending. There’s a cool mission, Maverick rides off into the sunset with the girl of his dreams, and Lady Gaga sings an Oscar-nominated power ballad over the credits. A plus! So, where does Top Gun go from here?
No plot details have been revealed about the third film, but mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer did tell Screen Rant that “we have a story. [Director] Joe Kosinski had a wonderful story idea for it, and he [Tom Cruise] said I really like that, so we’re developing it. But you never know when it’s going to get made because Tom is so busy. He’s doing Mission: Impossible right now, he’s got a picture after it. Hopefully, we’ll get a screenplay that he loves, and we’ll be back in the air again.” (Mission: Impossible 8 is scheduled for May 23, 2025.)
Glen Powell was equally cryptic about Top Gun 3. “There is going to be some fun stuff being announced soon… but it was confidential to me,” he told Variety while promoting Twisters. “I talk to Kosinski, Cruise, and Jerry all the time. There is stuff happening and it sounds very exciting. I don’t know when I’ll be going back… I’m sure there is a jet waiting for me sometime in the future.”
Well, Tom Cruise will be back, that’s for sure. Other Top Gun stars who are expected to return include Glen Powell as “Hangman,” Miles Teller as “Rooster,” Jennifer Connelly as Penny, Jon Hamm as “Cyclone,” Charles Parnell as “Warlock,” and Lewis Pullman as my favorite callsign, “Bob.”
“I wish I knew more. I’m not blowing smoke. I wish I knew more. All I know is the Glen Powell narrative,” the Thunderbolts* star (he’s playing another Bob in the MCU) told the Just for Variety podcast. “He’s claiming there is a script. And this has been said since day one, is as long as it’s earned and as long as Tom feels like it continues the story of Maverick in a way that part of the story that needs to be told, then I think it could happen.”
Val Kilmer’s Iceman had the perfect send-off in Top Gun: Maverick, so his arc is complete.
Release Date
It took 36 years for Top Gun to get a sequel. The wait between Top Gun: Maverick and Top Gun 3 (probably?) won’t be that long, but it’s still many years away. Good thing Tom Cruise is ageless.
Trailer
It should be obvious by now that there’s no trailer for Top Gun 3. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: a three-hour loop of the very shirtless beach football scene from Top Gun: Maverick exists. Enjoy!
Green Day‘s Dookie, the highest-selling album named after another word for “poop,” turned 30 years old this year. To celebrate the milestone, the punk band is re-releasing the album on… Big Mouth Billy Bass.
Green Day collaborated with art studio Brain on Dookie Demastered, which puts the songs from the original album on “15 obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient limited-edition formats,” according to a press release. Finally, you can listen to Dookie on a floppy disk, an answering machine, annoying talking bear Teddy Ruxpin, and the equally irritating singing fish. But that’s the point: “It’s Dookie, the way it was never meant to be heard.”
All 15 formats can be played at Dookie Demastered, where you can also enter a drawing for a chance to buy the album.
Green Day recently wrapped up the North American dates for The Saviors Tour, where they played American Idiot and Dookie front to back, but they’ll return to the road for the international leg soon.
Below, you can find the tracklist and the format each song is available on.
Green Day’s Dookie Demastered Tracklist
1. “Burnout” (Player Piano Roll)
2. “Having A Blast” (Floppy Disk)
3. “Chump” (Teddy Ruxpin)
4. “Longview” (Doorbell)
5. “Welcome To Paradise” (Game Boy Cartridge)
6. “Pulling Teeth” (Toothbrush)
7. “Basket Case” (Big Mouth Billy Bass)
8. “She” (HitClip)
9. “Sassafras Roots” (8-Track)
10. “When I Come Around” (Wax Cylinder)
11. “Coming Clean” (X-Ray Record)
12. “Emenius Sleepus” (Answering Machine)
13. “In The End” (MiniDisc)
14. “F.O.D.” (Fisher Price Record)
15. “All By Myself” (Music Box)
As unprecedented flooding sweeps through the Southeastern United States, a slew of music’s biggest artists have come together to contribute their talents to aid those folks affected by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Three NC natives have organized 135-track album, Cardinals At The Window, featuring Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes, Jason Isbell, Little Brother, MJ Lenderman, R.E.M., The War On Drugs, and more, with proceeds from the download-only project going directly to three organizations benefitting the impacted communities. They are BeLoved Asheville, Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, and Rural Organizing and Resilience.
The project’s organizers are musician and community organizer Libby Rodenbough, New Commute founder David Walker, and music journalist Grayson Haver Currin, while Shirlette Ammons, Martin Anderson, Anna Morris, Cory Rayborn, and Rusty Sutton provided “critical support,” according to a press release. Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and Clay Blair engineered the project for free, while Hunter Savoy and Ryan Gustafson launched the Cardinals at the Window direct funding campaign. Rodenbough who was on tour in Massachusetts with The Dead Tongues when the hurricane hit, said, “There were just so many folks who, like us, had witnessed the destruction of these holy places from the outside and felt their hearts trying to break out of their chests. It was instant, the way people signed on. They also feel what I feel, that these mountains are the cradle of some deep and ineffable magic.”
You can find more info about Cardinals At The Window on the campaign website, and download the album on BandCamp.
In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe shared yesterday (October 8), Charli said:
“I really wanted him to do the song. He’s like my brother now, you know? And I hope he wouldn’t mind me saying this, but I have an endless amount of respect for him as a songwriter and him as a person, but I sometimes want to strangle him. Even before being with George, years and years ago, I’ve always been such a fan of their work. His thinking of the way everything is digested in terms of their work, their artwork, their font, their videos, their everything, it’s very, very holistic.”
She added, “All I’ll say from my perspective in terms of [The 1975’s] show is like, I just really enjoy people who take a risk in terms of what they’re putting out there artistically. And I think that show is a little divisive, but I think great art is divisive.”
Fantasy Of A Broken Heart sounds purely fantastical. On their debut album, Feats Of Engineering, members Bailey Wollowitz and Al Nardo riff on well-worn genres with novel twists. Psych-rock bleeds into synth-pop; spoken-word segments shift into hooky choruses; odd-time-signature jam sessions blend into soft, singer-songwriter finger-picking. It’s all over the place, yet it never loses focus.
Across its 11 songs, the two Brooklyn musicians adopt a collagist approach that flaunts their masterful grip on a wide array of genres. Disparate and cohesive all at once, Feats Of Engineering is a feat of ingenuity. It marks the arrival of one of the most captivating new experimental pop bands.
Following the record’s release last month, Nardo and Wollowitz sat down with Uproxx to talk about Stevie Wonder, stained glass art, Lost, and more in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Wollowitz: Optimistic, thick, laptop, prog.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Nardo: I have no idea. I hope I still remember it…
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Wollowitz: Stevie Wonder. No one comes close to the level of output as Stevie during his classic period. He was simultaneously making really engaged music that spoke to the politics and cultural ethos of the time while also just making songs about songs about songs. He just loved music and saw it as the direct point of connection between himself and God and you can feel that listening to it
Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?
Nardo: Every meal I’ve ever eaten at Mehlman’s Cafeteria, off the I-70 in Ohio. Roast beef, broccoli casserole, chocolate pie.
Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.
Wollowitz: I saw the Dillinger Escape Plan on their last tour, highly emotional crowd; Greg Puciato kicked me in the head while crowd-surfing.
What song never fails to make you emotional?
Nardo: “This Guy’s In Love With You” by Herb Alpert.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
Wollowitz: “This Guy’s In Love With You” – Burt Bacharach
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
Wollowitz: Too many to recall honestly but last night I slept on the floor in an upstairs hallway at a spot called “asbestos house.” Really awesome show.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?
Nardo: I love New York City. I get so nervous performing for our friends, but it’s nice playing the home field. Playing in Tokyo is at the top of my bucket list.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Wollowitz: You will eventually get disillusioned with and stop watching Lost so stop now. You don’t need to watch it a sixth time.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
Nardo: I make stained glass art when we have extended time off from touring. I love it.
If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?
Wollowitz: I would give it to people who ask for money on the streets honestly. It’s the only direct way to redistribute wealth without fear of mishandling of funds.
What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?
Nardo: My name is Al and I think I will make music in the future.
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.
Wollowitz: Woods. Upstate NY maybe. Close enough for city folk to get to. Meshuggah. Deerhoof. Palm reunion. Mastodon playing their first four records only. Dirt Buyer.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?
Nardo: @healthfreak1001
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
Wollowitz: First tattoo is a Beatles tattoo that my friend from Tumblr designed for me. Got it the week I turned 18.
What is your pre-show ritual?
Nardo: I like to hide in the green room.
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Wollowitz: Anthony Bourdain
You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?
Nardo: I’d go to the Mediterranean and fry out on a boat. Sail around a bit. Everyone’s invited.
What is your biggest fear?
Wollowitz: Going on vacation.
Feats Of Engineering is available now via Dots Per Inch Music. Find more information here.
When the Los Angeles Lakers opened the 2023-24 season in Denver, they tried out keeping LeBron James on a minutes restriction as he began his 21st NBA season at 38 years old. The idea was to limit some of the wear and tear he’d deal with over the course of the season, as Darvin Ham and Rob Pelinka highlighted the depth they’d created on the roster that they felt would allow them to buy more time for James to rest.
In that opener, the Nuggets beat the Lakers 119-107, with James playing just 29 minutes and the Lakers being a +7 with him on the court and a -19 in the 11 minutes without him. By Game 2, James played 35 minutes in a win over the Suns and then 39 minutes in an OT loss to the Kings in their third game of the season, indicating the minutes restriction experiment had died after one game. The reason why? Well, for one it was clear the Lakers weren’t going to perform very well with James limited. Then there was the issue of LeBron absolutely hating it, making his frustrations known on the bench during that loss to Denver. On Netflix’s new “Starting 5” series, they show James telling the Lakers staff, “I hate this sh*t already. This sh*t’s garbage.”
James would elaborate further in a confessional, explaining that while he understands why the team thinks that might be the right decision, he knows his body better than anyone and what he can handle.
“The minutes restriction, it’s something I don’t agree with. I’ve never agreed with it,” LeBron says. “I prepare my body physically and mentally prepare my mind for battle. I’ve had conversations and talks and battles with my coaches, and I get it. But I also understand me, and I get me. And there’s nobody that gets me more than me.”
It’s pretty clear James was right, as he played 71 games a year ago, averaging 35.3 minutes per while posting All-NBA caliber numbers to lead the Lakers to the postseason. As he gets set to begin his 22nd NBA season with a new head coach in L.A., it seems safe to assume JJ Redick will not be trying out any minutes restrictions on LeBron.
Gordon Ramsay has built himself quite a social media presence: The chef has over 40 million followers on TikTok, and it’s thanks in part to his videos critiquing the culinary creations of other TikTok users. So, naturally, he had to weigh in on the Dua Lipa situation.
In case you missed it, Lipa went viral earlier this week. While at an Austin, Texas restaurant, Lipa poured herself a Diet Coke… and then added pickle juice and jalapeño juice. She posted a video of her and her unfortunate dining partners trying the drink on TikTok, and it understandably generated so many reactions. So, Ramsay had to get in on the action.
In a video shared on TikTok yesterday (October 8), Ramsay combines the ingredients in a red plastic cup, with plenty of skeptical head shakes along the way. “Seriously,” he says before taking a sip. A fraction of a second after the concoction passes his lips, Ramsay spits it out as he laughs. After some coughing, he exclaims, “Dua Lipa, for god’s sake, girl! You’ll ruin your vocal cords! Sh*t!”
Meanwhile, Lipa recently proclaimed she’ll be “hauling ass for the foreseeable” when she announced a run of 2025 dates on the Radical Optimism Tour (if her questionable drink doesn’t leave her bedridden, that is).
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