Category: Viral

New Jersey native Fousheé named her latest album after her grandfather’s land in Jamaica, and this autumn, she’ll bring Pointy Heights to the rest of the world on her first-ever headlining tour.

The former Uproxx cover star will perform songs like “Still Around” and “Feels Like Home” on the tour (presumably along with her Childish Gambino collaboration, “Runnin’ Around,” which appeared on the multihyphenate’s new album Bando Stone And The New World), which begins at the House Of Blues in Dallas, Texas on November 19, and runs through December 2 at the Echo in Los Angeles.

Tickets for the tour go on pre-sale on Wednesday, October 9th at 10 AM local time, with the general sale starting Friday, October 11th at 10 AM local time. You can find more information here, and see below for the full run of tour dates.

Fousheé 2024 Tour Dates

11/19 — Dallas, TX @ House of Blues – Cambridge Room
11/20 — Houston, TX @ House of Blues – Bronze Peacock
11/22 — Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
11/25 — Philadelphia, PA @ Foundry
11/26 — New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/27 — Washington, DC @ Union Stage
11/30 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
12/02 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

Pointy Heights is out now via Trackmasters and RCA. You can find more information about the album here.

Charli XCX followed through with her plan to make a mysterious movie in Poland.

Variety reports that the “Von Dutch” singer will star in ERUPCJA, the Polish word for “eruption.” Directed by Pete Ohs, the film follows “two women with a combustible relationship,” played by Charli XCX and Lena Góra.

“The way he talked about making his films felt akin to making an album and the chance meeting also felt equivalent to the conversational and spontaneous nature of his film making,” Charli XCX wrote in an email to Variety about working with Ohs. “Our processes felt linked in some kind of way and it felt right and exciting to pursue some kind of collaboration.”

ERUPCJA also stars Jeremy O. Harris, who wasn’t surprised that the secret movie didn’t stay secret for long (thanks, Film Updates). “I had a gut feeling that our plan to keep it low key was going to be difficult,” he said. “And that was affirmed the first night I went out in Poland. We were staying at the Nobu Hotel, and that’s close to the queer section, so I walked over to a gay bar, and there was a sign advertising a Brat party.” They were filming the same week that Barack Obama revealed “365” was on his summer playlist.

ERUPCJA does not currently have a release date.

On SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live recently, country star Luke Bryan spoke about Beyoncé, specifically about how she didn’t get any 2024 CMA Awards nominations for her album Cowboy Carter. Some people didn’t care for what he said, to the point that Bryan has come out with a follow-up statement.

In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) last night (October 6), Bryan wrote:

“Hey yall, I’m wrapping up the last night of my tour tonight and it’s been an amazing time. For that I am thankful.

I am posting tonight based on the ridiculous nature of the headlines I have read the last couple days from an interview on the Andy Cohen show I did this week when I was promoting my album. I feel in my heart I could not let media create a false narrative. As I read thru the comments of some of you I just want to say that I encourage all of you to listen to the interview instead of reading click bait headlines. You will hear my tone and intentions which were not negative. I respect Beyonce and I love how loyal her fans are. I spend a lot of time supporting other artists. I want everyone to win. Love yall.”

As for what Bryan actually said, he said in part, “Everybody loved that Beyoncé made a country album. Nobody’s mad about it, but where things get a little tricky — you know, if you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit. Like, Beyoncé can do exactly what she wants to. She’s probably the biggest star in music. But come to an awards show and high-five us and have fun and get in the family, too. And I’m not saying she didn’t do that. I didn’t know. I had never seen [her]. But country music is a lot about family.”

With the NBA season just two weeks away from beginning, the league’s biggest network partner still has some major uncertainty in its NBA coverage team.

ESPN has still not announced their broadcast team plans for the 2024-25 season, as JJ Redick’s departure left a void on the top team alongside Mike Breen and Doris Burke. There are a handful of names on the potential replacement list for Redick, but going with a two-person team of Burke and Breen is also an option if they’d rather wait until TNT’s crews become free agents.

On the written and podcast side, ESPN stunned basketball fans when they laid off Zach Lowe, who is widely regarded as the best NBA writer and podcaster anywhere, which seemed to indicate their priorities will be on the TV side. They also are currently without a top newsbreaker after Adrian Wojnarowski’s sudden retirement to go work for his alma mater, St. Bonaventure. There were a handful of names floated to replace Woj, from internal candidates like Brian Windhorst to external options like Shams Charania or Chris Haynes.

Ultimately, ESPN opted to bring in the biggest name besides Woj in the world of NBA newsbreaking, hiring Charania to a new deal that will bring him on board, as his deal with The Athletic and Stadium were set to run up. Naturally, it was Shams who broke the news of his own signing.

Charania was once Woj’s understudy at Yahoo before becoming his primary newsbreaking rival in recent years. Now, he takes over for Woj at ESPN and figures to be a regular on the network’s various NBA programming. There were a number of options ESPN was reportedly considering, including having some of their newsbreakers from other sports, like Jeff Passan and Adam Schefter, take on the NBA. That may have been some negotiating on their part to try and take some of Shams’ leverage away though, as he was always the clear top choice, and ultimately they brought him on board.

It was Barbie mania all over again. There was pink for as far as I could see. Pink shirts, pink skirts, pink bandanas, pink crop tops, pink flags, and pink cowboy hats. Chappell Roan wasn’t technically one of the headliners for ACL Fest 2024, but you wouldn’t know it from all the pink in the crowd.

Roan had the unenviable task of playing on a Sunday evening in the dusty Texas fall, when it’s still in the upper 90s and she’s staring straight at the sun from the American Express stage in Zilker Park. But over the course of her hour-long set, she proved why she’s the most exciting pop star of 2024.

After kicking things off with The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess tone-setter “Femininomenon,” Roan strutted the stage with conviction for “Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl,” got vulnerable with the tender “Casual,” and sang the hell out of a cover of Heart’s “Barracuda,” which she called her “favorite song.” She also implored the crowd to do the “Hot To Go!” dance, but it wasn’t necessary; people were doing the choreography well before her set started, like marathoners warming up with sprints before the race.

About the crowd: by now, you’ve heard about the record-breaking seas of pink and seen the photos (the drone shots are something else). I was roughly 50 yards from the stage, and although it was congested, it never felt dangerously packed. Maybe that’s Tall Guy privilege talking, but it was a supportive group — mostly young, occasionally dressed in a pink Hannah Montana shirt (the guy in front of me at least), and entirely excited to be there.

(Meanwhile, across the festival grounds, rapper mike. was the poor soul who had the same timeslot as Roan. There were reportedly only 200 people there to see his set, but he was a good sport about the conflict. “It’s David vs. Goliath out there,” mike. wrote in an Instagram Story.)

So much of the recent (world’s longest sigh) “discourse” around Roan has been out of concern for her mental health and/or anger over comments she made about the election. But what’s been left out of the conversation is how playful she is as a performer. Roan, dressed not in pink but red and white chaps with a “trans rights” hand fan and backed by a charged-up three-piece band, once again mocked the VIPs who didn’t dance at the last festival she played (no one was scolded for acting “too cool” to have fun this time). She demanded that “if you have something pink, put it in the air, bitch.” She also had amusing visuals on the massive screen behind her, including a rabbit holding a wand for “Red Wine Supernova” and corny karaoke-style graphics during “Good Luck, Babe!” My favorite was the clip art leprechauns for the chorus. Fame is “not fun,” but Roan is making the most of it.

Roan played one unreleased song. “The Subway” is about the interminable wait to get over an ex-, until they’re “just another girl on the subway.” It’s not an experience I currently relate to, but I found myself getting emotional nonetheless. It was the first time during the set where I thought about how Roan got here. It was only a few years ago that she was making silly TikToks with her guinea pigs in her bedroom; now she was playing in front of the biggest crowd I’ve seen in 10 years of attending the festival.

Roan turned ACL into her own pink pony club. If she’s gonna keep dancing, we will, too.

The annual Austin City Limits festival draws a yearly crowd of somewhere around 450,000 people over both weekends. Well, speaking of crowd sizes, the first weekend of the 2024 edition just wrapped up, and Chappell Roan was part of the festivities. She made headlines in August when photos of her massive audience at Lollapalooza made the rounds, and she drew quite the crowd at ACL yesterday (October 6), too.

Festival organizers shared this video late last night, taken as Roan performed “Pink Pony Club.” Many, many people watched Roan perform, as the video illustrates.

Worth noting is that looking at the ACL set times for Sunday, there wasn’t much else to do during Roan’s set. While a lot of artists faced significant audience conflicts with acts performing on other stages, Roan had little competition (with all due respect to MIKE. and the tail end of San Holo’s set). It likely also didn’t hurt that Tyler The Creator was performing on Roan’s stage after her, so some portion of her audience was likely waiting for that, too.

Regardless, despite the favorable circumstances, Roan has proven herself to be one of the year’s breakout stars, and it’s not a fluke that she’s drawing crowds like this.

Meanwhile, Roan recently spoke about that Lollapalooza set, saying, “Kesha was so lovely to me after my Lollapalooza set, because with that huge of a crowd, maybe only five other people there understood what that’s like. Kesha came to talk to me after, and it felt like a big sister was helping me through it. Me and Reneé [Rapp] were crying because we felt like we were seen in a way we never had been before.”

Taylor Sheridan indisputably stands as one of the most prolific and successful TV creators and producers of our current century. Sure, he hasn’t caught up with Ryan Murphy in terms of sheer volume, but he’s working on it, and at the moment, Tulsa King is churning through a second season with a spin off in the works. Next up, Landman will bring us an oil-soaked Texas story starring Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, and then Yellowstone will air those final episodes, which might not be a series finale after all.

Oh, and Special Ops: Lioness will return this month with Zoe Saldaña as a military and CIA operative named Joe, who molds recruits to infiltrate terrorist cells. No cowboys or mobsters here, in other words, and Saldaña seems to be relishing ass-kicking again even if her character isn’t exactly having a grand time. Let’s discuss what to expect from the next season.

Plot

The first season acquainted viewers with Joe (Zoe Saldaña) as she juggled her role in the CIA’s war on terror with her role as wife and mother. Joe trained Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira), a Marine recruit, as they executed directives within the Lioness Program, which is fictionally named but loosely inspired by a real-life, all-woman military unit. They did so while supervised by Kaitlyn Meade (Nicole Kidman) and Donald Westfield (Michael Kelly), but by the end of the first season finale, Cruz made it clear that she wanted nothing more to do with Joe or the Lioness program.

It’s hard to blame Cruz for feeling that way after the horrors that she endured despite Joe insisting that they were on the right side of history, but does that mean that we won’t be seeing Cruz in the second season, and the show will now follow other Lioness recruits?

Well according to Deadline, Laysla De Oliveira will reportedly return in some way, but the second season will introduce a new Lioness operative who is central to the story. That would be Captain Josephina “Josie” Carrillo, portrayed by Genesis Rodriguez.

From the show’s second season description.

In Season 2, as the CIA’s fight against terror moves closer to home, Joe (Saldaña), Kaitlyn (Kidman), and Byron (Kelly) enlist a new Lioness operative to infiltrate a previously unknown threat. With pressure mounting from all sides, Joe is forced to confront the profound personal sacrifices she has made as the leader of the Lioness program.

Cast

Obviously, the Sheridan top-tier powers are here with Zoe Saldaña, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, and Michael Kelly.

Genesis Rodriguez is new to the cast, which also includes Thad Luckinbill, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, Jonah Wharton, Monica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, and Hannah Love Lanier.

Release Date

Special Ops: Lioness returns to Paramount+ on October 27.

Trailer

Saldaña is ready to “goooooooo!” And you had better be, too.

Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion over the future of Coachella festival, as the massive music fest tries to find its way in an increasingly fractured music landscape. While this year’s headliners — Doja Cat, Lana Del Rey, and Tyler The Creator — put on an impressive show, there were still reports that the fest sold way fewer tickets than normal. And now, in another blow, it turns out the fest was reportedly unable to secure a pair of A-list headliners to ensure a sellout in 2025: Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna. So why did they turn down Coachella?

According to Bloomberg, from which the report originates, both artists are way too busy to put in the sort of work it takes to put together a Coachella-headlining-worthy set.

Kendrick is, of course, using those resources to build his Super Bowl Halftime Show headlining set, and preparing to go on a major stadium tour afterward. Meanwhile, Rihanna, who is presumably still working on her ninth album as she raises two boys with ASAP Rocky, doesn’t “need the money or the exposure.”

So what does that mean for Coachella?

Paul Tollett, president and CEO of Goldenvoice, Coachella’s organizer, is apparently searching high and low for headliners that can restore the festival to its former glory, but Bloomberg writes that Coachella may be “a victim of its own success.” The fest needs to book the biggest names to set itself apart and meet the expectations fans have set for it after 20 years, but those names don’t need Coachella anymore — they can make more from their tours or movies or multimedia empires (in one example, Bloomberg notes Coachella pays between $8 and $12 million for headliners, but Beyoncé and Taylor Swift can make $15 million).

That leaves Goldenvoice in a tough spot, for sure, but the good news is: Your favorite artists are thriving — and there’s plenty of room for new artists to move on up.

Slow Horses might have perfected the streaming equation. Sure, the Apple TV+ series only delivers six episodes per season but tends to arrive on an annual basis, which does seem preferable to waiting three years or more for some second seasons to arrive. Plus, the leading man, Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), is a freely farting spymaster, and the show manages to be both funny and thrilling while almost effortlessly doling out one-liners about The Terminator. In short, there can never be enough Slow Horses for current audiences, and hopefully, that sentiment continues long after our current question.

When Will The Slow Horses Season 4 Finale Stream?

The season finale will stream on Wednesday, October 9, on Apple TV+. This will conclude the show’s coverage of Mick Herron’s fourth Slough Horses book, Spook Street, and we already know that a fifth season is in the cards, although details haven’t slipped out on which book will inspire the next Jackson grumpfest. Gary Oldman also wants to keep portraying Jackson until the cows come home, or whatever the British equivalent of that saying turns out to be.

Before that happens, the show will deliver what will likely be another explosive finale (although perhaps not literally this time) before revealing the fate of River (Jack Lowden). Slow Horses also co-stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Saskia Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Ruth Bradley, Paul Higgins, Jonathan Pryce, Rosalind Eleazar, and Steven Waddington.

After Kendrick Lamar’s ultra successful early 2024 run with “Not Like Us” and The Pop Out, his fans might be wondering whether he’ll take his show on the road after headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show next year. According to a new report from Bloomberg, there might be some promising news on that front, although it does come with a disappointing caveat.

First, the bad news: Despite performing at Coachella festival multiple times in the past, Kendrick turned down the festival’s organizers when they pitched him on headlining in 2025. That’s understandable, as planning a Super Bowl show probably takes at least as much work as a Coachella one, and doing both would stretch anyone too thin. But, the silver lining is that he is also reportedly working on a “tour of major stadiums.” If this turns out to be true, it’d make Kendrick the first rapper ever to headline a solo stadium tour in history.

Past rap-centric stadium tours have paired some of the top names in hip-hop with pop counterparts on co-headlining tours — ex. Beyoncé with Jay-Z or Rihanna with Eminem — but according to Billboard, no rapper has embarked on a major stadium tour on their own, aside from one-off concerts. This means, if Kendrick really does do so in 2025, he’ll have made history yet again, after being the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize (he’s also the first to solo headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show).