This year’s Oscars were largely swept by Sean Baker’s Anora, although the full winners list reflected an abundance of nominations for Conclave with one win for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Ralph Fiennes-starring film revolves around a dramatized version of the infighting between the Catholic Church’s leaders as they lock themselves in the Vatican to select a new pope. And as you are no doubt aware, the highly secretive selection procedure (known as a papal conclave) is now currently underway following the death of Pope Francis, and this has people now wondering where the Best Picture nominee can be viewed at home.
Ahead of awards season last year, Director Edward Berger explained to Gold Derby decisions on the film’s design, which included how “You want to represent the the sterility of this conclave, to represent that you’re being locked away from the world.” He then added, “We wanted to design sterile worlds where they’re sequestered, that feels almost like a jail.”
Now, the world awaits the papal conclaves decision, but for now, you can stream that movie to get a feel for the debate within.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week we’ve got an even mix of collabs — Nigo with Nike, Action Bronson with New Balance, Brain Dead with Adidas — and coveted signature basketball sneakers, including the latest from Kawhi Leonard, LeBron James, and a BRED Jordan 11. So if you’re one of the rare few who likes big brand collaborations and the dopest signature basketball sneakers, we feel sorry for your wallet!
With the way online raffles and limited supply work, you’d never be so lucky (or unlucky?) to be able to cop all of these in a single week. On the bright side, you’re bound to catch a “W” on at least one of these releases this week. Even if you end up landing on something that isn’t your top pick, there isn’t a single dud in this week’s lineup, so take the win!
Japanese streetwear legend Nigo has teamed up with Nike for a nostalgia-mining take on the Air Force 3. The sneaker looks to the lost art of crate-digging (when hip-hop producers and DJs would deep dive into discount record bins for hidden gems) and features a design that combines metallic accents with embossed leather, printed insoles and some bling for good measure.
Elements of this sneaker resemble the look of vinyl records, complete with a vinyl graphic on the tongue and a specifically designed box. It’s a tribute to a bygone era of hip-hop and a nostalgic treat for anyone who came up listening to ‘90s and early ‘00s rap music.
The NIGO x Nike Air Force 3 Low Black and White is set to drop on April 24th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $150. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Action Bronson x New Balance Made in USA 990v6 Amazonia
Last week, Action Bronson’s latest hit a limited release run that sold out instantly. If you caught the “L,” you have another chance come Friday. The Amazonia sports a lightweight mesh upper with synthetic details and nubuck overlays, with a Baklava branded tongue, and reflective accents for enhanced visibility.
It’s one of the best sneakers to drop all year, so this will be a definite pick-up for us!
The Action Bronson x New Balance Made in USA 990v6 Amazonia is set to drop on April 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $219.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
Just in time for spring, New Balance is dropping a new colorway for the Kawhi IV that is to date, the brightest this silhouette has ever looked. The sneaker features a streamlined mesh upper with synthetic overlays, and cable loop speed lacing.
For those into nerdy stats, the Kawhi IV is outfitted with an Energy Arc sole that maximizes energy return via a carbon fiber plate and midsole voids.
The New Balance Kawhi IV Team Sky Blue is set to drop on April 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $159.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
The LeBron XXI Prime 96 White and Fire Red is a case of game recognizing game. Inspired by legendary football coach Deion Sanders (who was in his own right a very talented hoops player that almost went pro), the XXI Prime 96 sports a leather upper with an iconic Fire Red colorway, gold embroidered swoosh branding and accents, and a midfoot strap for a locked-in feel.
It’s one of LeBron’s finest designs in one of Nike’s best color combos.
The Nike LeBron XXI Prime 96 White and Fire Red is set to drop on April 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
Adidas Forest Hills Brain Dead Core Black/Cream White
The Los Angeles streetwear brand Brain Dead is linking up with Adidas for a new take on the hugely underappreciated Forest Hills silhouette. This tennis shoe was originally released in the late ‘70s and featured a lightweight design, enhanced ventilation, and an overall dope shape.
The Brain Dead take sports a premium hairy suede upper with leather stripes, fuzzy laces, co-branded accents, and two two-tone colorways. The sneaker will be dropping alongside a matching apparel collection.
The Adidas Forest Hill Brain Dead in Core Black and Cream White is set to drop on April 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $150. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
Even if you’re not a hardcore Jordan head, this is likely the drop you’re eyeing the most this week, and we don’t blame you! Simply put, the Jordan 11 BRED is straight up legendary sh*t. One of the greatest colorways of one of the greatest sneakers of all time.
The sneaker sports a premium patent leather upper in a classic black, red, and white colorway. If you need a brief history lesson as to why this sneaker is so coveted — it’s the pair Jordan wore during his championship ’96 run. It’s like wearing a piece of history on your feet!
The Air Jordan 11 BRED is set to drop on April 26th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.
If you stare long enough at Alex Garland’s filmography, you might convince yourself you’re glimpsing the future. His art has a pesky habit of precognizing life. Soul-destroying fascinations with A.I., plagues thrusting first-world countries into societal collapse, resource-mining in space, civil war erupting in not-so-distant dystopias – some of Garland’s best work paints him as a thinking man’s fortune teller stationed behind a monitor instead of a crystal ball, divining beautifully wrought, frustratingly vague cinematic harbingers of our collective doom. That they’re often right is what makes them all the more interesting. And, sometimes, polarizing. In a way, that is by his own design.
“I think it’s important to be challenging sometimes,” Garland tells UPROXX after his latest effort, Warfare, outperformed expectations (with critics and at the box office).
The film is an exercise in reminiscence therapy, an attempt to build a memory from scratch from the movie’s co-director, Ray Mendoza, for his friend and platoon member, Elliot Miller, whose recollection of an early aughts mission-gone-wrong in Ramadi, Iraq, was blown to bits by an IED. Both Garland and Mendoza have been refreshingly frank in their approach to the heavily-trodden territory of Middle Eastern conflict – and our country’s role in it. The two met while working on Garland’s Civil War, the experience of filming the movie’s climactic final act inspiring both to launch an experiment in hyperrealism that, hopefully, would more accurately reflect the brutal reality Mendoza and his fellow soldiers were living during the U.S.’ War on Terror.
“Why not tell our story?” Mendoza says of his desire to replay a trauma that still haunts him on the big screen. “We have short memories. People are already forgetting, and it’s only been 20 years.” Even though the film is rooted in past events, it feels undeniably current, a reflection of our growing global turmoil and knee-jerk resolutions of violence that prove we haven’t learned much in the past two decades. In that way, it’s a quintessential Garland film, one that asks more questions than it provides answers.
With the release of Warfare, we took a look at some of Garland’s most thought-provoking films to see how the director has continued to challenge audiences across genres, forcing us to reckon with the future before it arrives.
DNA Films
28 Days Later
The streets of London are deserted. A man crosses the normally bustling Westminster bridge alone. Headlines warn of a new virus strain spreading rampantly amongst civilians. This is the beginning of Garland’s screenplay for a Danny Boyle-directed horror movie that would revive the zombie genre. It’s also a snapshot of the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the global lockdowns that reshaped our way of life, if only for a little while.
Of course, Hollywood has churned out plenty of outbreak movies that imagine the end-times by way of cell-destroying pathogens, but Garland’s version felt particularly disturbing. Not only did he correctly predict the resurgence of the undead – on-screen at least – but he also anticipated how quickly humanity could turn on itself when systemic routines were disrupted and we were left to self-govern our worst impulses. A rage virus turning healthy individuals into mindless cannibals is terrifying, sure, but even more frightening? The uninfected monsters who survive.
Fox Searchlight
Sunshine
Another Danny Boyle – Alex Garland production with Cillian Murphy centered amongst the chaos, this sci-fi thriller sent Garland’s premonitive powers to space, imagining a future gone cold thanks to a dying sun. A plausible threat, one ironically at odds with our current climate reality, the movie still makes an interesting case about the roles science and faith play in the preservation of life. Does fundamentalism or free thought win the day? Do we determine our own fate or does hubris condemn us to only believing we do? If both religion and theory are unproven, which should govern us?
It’s weighty stuff to sit with in a zero-gravity pressurized tin can millions of miles from home, but even more fascinating is Garland’s take on the eco-consequences of the film. In talking with GQ last year, the director gave his read on the sticky moral dilemma of conservation, saying, “For me, Sunshine was a story about a world that’s dying and somebody saying, ‘By saving the world temporarily at this moment, all you’re doing is delaying the horror of extinction to your ancestors, and that’s not fair on them. We should take that horror ourselves, and not hand it on, as it were, to our great-great, great, great-grandchildren,’ because you are going to reach the same point.”
a24
Ex Machina
Garland’s directorial debut for A24 sparked cinema’s renewed interest in artificial intelligence, eschewing robocops and replicants for a tightly-shot Turing test with terrifying implications. The film sees Domhnall Gleeson’s promising young programmer Caleb accept an invitation from an ego-centric tech mogul, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to spend time at his villa observing his latest creation – an eerily-human bot named Ava (Alicia Vikander).
The experiment quickly derails as Isaac’s puppetmaster becomes more unhinged, Gleeson’s idealist naively infatuated, and Vikander’s intelligent humanoid even more adept at manipulating the fragility of human emotions. Plenty of sci-fi flicks have guessed that, given the chance, A.I. would turn on its human creators, but few have done it so masterfully as Garland’s. In Ava and to an extent, Nathan, we see human autonomy reduced to data points and search histories while online behaviors are wielded like weapons and the core elements that make us human are distilled into predictive algorithms.
Paramount
Annihilation
An adaptation that strays far enough from its source material (the book by Jeff VanderMeer) to give us new, confounding metaphysical mysteries to solve, Annihilation is some of Garland’s most fascinating work. It follows a group of scientists embarking on an exploratory mission into a quarantined area known only as The Shimmer, where alien life has metastasized the landscape in unrecognizable and nightmarish ways.
It’s a film with kaleidoscopic themes that change depending on which light you view it from. Is it a metaphor for cancer, suicide, or the human instinct for self-destruction? Is it a smoke signal, warning us of nature’s ability to reclaim control? Or is it something even more timely? An argument that civilizations decompose just as easily as human bodies, that immersing ourselves in hostile environments can warp our minds and birth unrecognizable versions of ourselves?
A24
Men
One of Garland’s more divisive films, Men sees Jessie Buckley play a woman named Harper who, still reeling from her husband’s death, removes herself to an idyllic country house – an Eden of sorts where she can grieve and contend with her guilt. Except her sabbatical of solitude is constantly interrupted by men – overly accommodating landlords, pervy vicars, and naked stalkers brutally birthing deformed doppelgangers. It’s a disturbing fever dream of a film, one that touches on everything from sexism in religion to toxic masculinity as it builds a nightmare in which women can’t seem to escape the abuse and malevolent influence of men, no matter how hard they try.
FX
Devs
Garland’s first foray into television aired out his anxieties over our collective deification of the Silicon Valley sect. It follows Nick Offerman’s Forest, a tech titan building a quantum computer that allows him to play out the past and the future. Themes of grief, memory, and the limitations of man run rampant in the eight-episode series, but Garland made it clear that Devs was primarily born from his concern that society was attaching too much importance to the tech sector and the figureheads in charge. “Increasingly I was feeling that they’re not geniuses— they’re entrepreneurs who coincidentally are working in tech rather than milk production,” Garland told GQ. “We are ascribing qualities to them—or they’re assuming those qualities and believing they contain them themselves—on the basis of not much evidence.”
A24
Civil War
Unfortunately, the premise of an American collapse via an incompetent commander-in-chief propped up by fanatical supporters and fascist-leaning “yes” men isn’t as forward-thinking as Garland might have intended. Perhaps that’s why Civil War, last year’s thrilling dystopian drama starring Kristen Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Cailee Spaeny as war journalists documenting the atrocities committed in the name of patriotism, seemed to trigger outrage amongst so many. Garland was intentional in predicting a violent future born of our inability to compromise and understand one another without offering any comforting prescription for such a fatal prognosis meaning audiences were left to sit with their uncertainty minus the kind of reassuring handholding a lesser film might have offered. The film also marks the first collaboration between Garland and Mendoza, who credits its final scene – a harrowing tactical takedown that plays as a one-take shot – as proof he could trust the director with telling a more personal war story: his own.
Set in Ramadi, Iraq circa 2006, Warfare boasts a cast of next-wave stars fully committed to the tight, story-telling restraints Mendoza and Garland choose to operate under. Woven from individual threads of memory, dictated meticulously by Mendoza and his platoon members, the film drops audiences into the kind of every day, life-and-death monotony that can so easily twist and distort a soldier’s reality once they return home. Mendoza told us that he’d rather “die with it” than hand off something so personal to a director using the genre as a stepping stone for greater ambitions, which is why Garland felt like the perfect fit. In tossing out the Hollywood rulebook, trashing overdone tropes, and sapping any sentimentality from the action, the central mission of the film is unremarkable — and all the more devastating because of it. By refusing to tack on a message to the violence, Garland and Mendoza have created something timeless, a capsule to be buried and unearthed whenever we need a reminder of the futility of war and how patriotic idolatry hurts those stationed on the front lines.
There’s a lot to unpack in Killer Mike’s freestyle over Travis Scott’s hit song “FE!N.” There’s the obvious, which is that Travis recently put in an appearance at WrestleMania, and as Mike put it on Twitter, “I woke up with ‘Mania on my Mind. This beat is so cold I had to kill it.” But, as happens so often with both rap and wrestling, there are a few layers to unpack.
Professional wrestling can often be a tangled web of lore, which could easily turn a neophyte’s brain inside out with its convoluted twists and turns. And, as has so often been said before, rap often follows similar contortions, which makes this post especially fun to write.
So, yeah, “FE!N” has been the official anthem of WrestleMania 41, appearing throughout its promotion for most of the past year (much to some fans’ chagrin). But it’s also the song that many of Scott’s fans believed should have put him in the running for a rap Grammy the year Killer Mike swept the rap categories, taking home Best Rap Album for Michael, and Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for “Scientists & Engineers.”
His wins incensed some Travis Scott fans, who protested that they didn’t even know who Killer Mike was (which only made them look bad). Most of them changed their minds after actually checking his stuff out, and Mike even admitted to admiring Travis later on.
Ironically, Travis now finds himself in a similar position, with many longtime wrestling fans expressing their resentment of the rapper’s intervention in the Sunday main event match between Cody Rhodes and John Cena, distracting Rhodes just long enough for Cena to gain the upper hand and steal his history-making 17th championship. So, yeah, the marks are out on Travis for both kayfabe reasons and real-life fatigue, as his constant appearances in the ring have felt much less organic than, say, Bad Bunny’s run in 2023.
Still, it doesn’t seem we’ll be free of Scott’s reign of terror anytime soon. At least we get this great Killer Mike freestyle out of it. Hopefully, the WWE will notice and give us Scott vs. Mike in the ring and not just on the mic — now that, I’ll pay to see, twice.
If you’re not familiar with Jollibee’s game, you’re seriously missing out. The restaurant is the largest fast food chain in the Philippines and is making a pretty active play for the US market, with 80 stores nationwide across 14 different states, most of which are currently in California. The restaurant is mostly known for its fried chicken and spaghetti (a perfect combination of foods, don’t knock it until you try it), but has been branching out with chicken sandwiches, and this year, cheeseburgers.
Even though we’re big Jollibee fans, when the cheeseburgers were first announced, our interest was admittedly pretty low. It’s not that we didn’t have faith in Jollibee, but generally when fast food brands do both chicken sandwiches and cheeseburgers, they rarely knock it out of the park with both dishes (Wendy’s and Shake Shack being the rare exceptions).
But — spoilers for the full review — these cheeseburgers are f*cking delicious. They’re so damn good that we feel like we need to re-do our cheeseburger ranking to properly place these. We’ll get to that eventually, but first let’s talk about what makes these burgers a must-eat.
Jollibee Angus Cheeseburger Review
Dane Rivera
Currently, Jollibee has three different burger builds — the Angus Cheeseburger, Angus Deluxe Burger, and Angus Aloha Burger. The base cheeseburger features a certified Angus beef patty smash seared on the grill and topped with American cheese, thick-cut pickles, thinly sliced red onions, ketchup, and signature sauce. The Deluxe features the same build plus tomato and lettuce, and the Aloha Burger ditches the pickles and onions and adds grilled pineapple, bacon, and Jollibee’s Aloha dressing.
Since the Cheeseburger and Deluxe are essentially the same build, I skipped the former and ordered the Deluxe, as well as the Aloha Burger.
When I bit into the Deluxe I was surprised to find a thick patty of sumptuous beef that practically melted in my mouth. This burger is juicy and perfectly salted, with nice ripe produce and a soft buttery bun. This burger is a leap above the top of the line burgers at places like Jack in the Box, McDonald’s, and Burger King, easily.
What stood out to me was the signature sauce. The sauce is much less tangy than a typical burger sauce, with that tang replaced by sweet floral notes that are almost honey-like. It adds a savory umami quality to each bite that had me sufficiently addicted by the burger’s end.
Dane Rivera
With how much I enjoyed the Deluxe, I was pretty amped for the Aloha — but it missed the mark for me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, but I think the Deluxe dunks on it. My main issue with the Aloha was the grilled pineapple, which was a bit too thin (and not charred enough) to really stand out, so instead of adding a noticeable fruity tang note, it just sort of made my burger taste a bit off. The bacon was also undercooked to the point that it was chewy. These are easily tweakable ingredients though, so it could just be a case of quality control.
But despite being disappointed by the Aloha, I still have to hand it to Jollibee on the burger’s Aloha Dressing. I’m not sure what is in this stuff, but it tastes like a simplified version of banana ketchup. If you’ve never had banana ketchup, it’s not nearly as bad as it sounds. It tastes strikingly similar to ketchup, but with a sweeter, less umami-focused finish. It’s like ketchup, without the tang!
It adds an interesting fruity-meets-savory quality to the burger that makes it truly unique. It’s rare that we get a fast food cheeseburger that tastes miles apart from the competition, but Jollibee has done it. While the Aloha wasn’t our favorite, it was definitely the most unique and interesting burger we’ve had all year (take that Shake Shack).
The Bottom Line:
Last year Jollibee didn’t even make a cheeseburger, and this year they’re making one of the best in all of fast food. The Angus Cheeseburgers are worth an immediate trip to your nearest Jollibee. We place this one neck and neck with Wendy’s (maybe a touch higher) and leaps and bounds better than McDonalds, Jack in the Box, Burger King, and other drive-thru assisted big burger chains.
Fyre Festival did not go well. Fyre Festival 2 is having trouble getting out of the starting block. Ultimately, the Fyre brand has only ever been associated with failure (although not failure to generate attention, admittedly). Still, Billy McFarland is hoping somebody else wants the torch.
In a “special announcement” shared today (April 23), McFarland has declared his intention to sell the Fyre brand.
The letter explains in part, “When my team and I launched FYRE Festival 2, it was about two things: finishing what I started and making things right. Over the past two years, we’ve poured everything into bringing FYRE back with honesty, transparency, relentless effort, and creativity. […] This brand is bigger than any one person and bigger than what I’m able to lead on my own. It’s a movement. And it deserves a team with the scale, experience, and infrastructure to realize its potential. We have decided the best way to accomplish our goals is to sell the FYRE Festival brand, including its trademarks, IP, digital assets, media reach, and cultural capital — to an operator that can fully realize its vision.”
“When my team and I launched FYRE Festival 2, it was about two things: finishing what I started and making things right.
Over the past two years, we’ve poured everything into bringing FYRE back with honesty, transparency, relentless effort, and creativity. We’ve taken the long road to rebuilding trust. We rebuilt momentum. And we proved one thing without a doubt:
FYRE is one of the most powerful attention engines in the world.
Since 2017, FYRE has dominated headlines, documentaries, and conversations as one of the world’s most talked-about music festivals. We knew that FYRE was big, but we didn’t realize just how massive the wave would become. That wave has brought us here: to a point where we know it’s time to call for assistance.
This brand is bigger than any one person and bigger than what I’m able to lead on my own. It’s a movement.
And it deserves a team with the scale, experience, and infrastructure to realize its potential.
We have decided the best way to accomplish our goals is to sell the FYRE Festival brand, including its trademarks, IP, digital assets, media reach, and cultural capital — to an operator that can fully realize its vision.
There is a clear path for operators and entrepreneurs with strong domain expertise to build FYRE into a global force in entertainment, media, fashion, CPG, and more. For example, in the two years since we’ve relaunched FYRE Festival, Hollywood and entertainment executives have already licensed the brand to develop properties specifically in theatre, music streaming, and Free Ad-Supported TV.
In addition, following the challenges we faced in Mexico, we were approached by several Caribbean destinations eager to host FYRE Festival 2. We dove into the process -meeting with national officials, conducting site visits — and we’re confident we’ve found the ideal location for the festival. While I’m incredibly excited, I can’t risk a repeat of what happened in Playa Del Carmen, where support quickly turned into public distancing once media attention intensified. For FYRE Festival 2 to succeed, it’s clear that I need to step back and allow a new team to move forward independently, bringing the vision to life on this incredible island.
I’ve stood by my team, our partners, and our fans since Day 1 of FYRE Festival 2. Giving control of the brand to a new group is the most responsible way to follow through on what we set out to do: build a global entertainment brand, host a safe and legendary event, and continue to pay restitution to those who are owed from the first festival.
To the supporters, believers, and builders who’ve stuck with my team and me: thank you. We will pick the new group based on their ability to execute the vision of FYRE in a transparent, grand, and expeditious manner. The next chapter of FYRE will be bigger, better, and built to last without me at the helm.
If you look at HBO’s Sunday night combo of The Last of Us and The Righteous Gemstones and wish there was an acclaimed TV series based on a popular video game that also stars Walton Goggins, boy do I have good news for you!
One of the best shows of 2024, Fallout premiered on Prime Video a year ago this month. It was an instant record-breaking hit and ended up getting nominated for 17 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series. But is there a chance we’ll be seeing Ella Purnell‘s Lucy, Aaron Moten’s Maximus, and Walton Goggins’ “Ghoul Daddy” again any time soon?
Does Fallout Season 2 Have A Release Date?
There’s good news and bad news here.
Bad news: there’s no season 2 premiere date yet…
Good news: …but don’t worry, more Fallout is coming. Prime Video officially renewed the show less than a month after it premiered, and filming for the new episodes has already started (although it was paused in January due to the California wildfires).
“Holy sh*t,” creators and co-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner said in a statement when Fallout was renewed. “Thank you to [Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films], Bethesda and Amazon for having the courage to make a show that gravely tackles all of society’s most serious problems these days — cannibalism, incest, jello cake. More to come!”
Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they love in its true form, we’ll be offering a digest of the best new R&B songs that fans of the genre should hear every Friday.
Since the last update of this weekly R&B column, we’ve received plenty of music and news from the genre’s artists.
The Weeknd released a video for “Drive” alongside Jenna Oretga and Leon Thomas and Halle Bailey collabed on the emotional and jaded “Rather Be Alone.” SZA launched her cruelty-free lip gloss line “Not Beauty” while Coco Jones revealed the tracklist for her debut album Why Not More? Elsewhere, Solange announced a week of Eldorado ballroom events in her hometown of Houston, and Emotional Oranges, Jessie Reyez, and Becky G released their video for “Candy Gum.”
Here are the new music releases you need to listen to:
Leon Thomas & Halle — “Rather Be Alone”
Leon Thomas and Halle Bailey’s hypnotic single “Rather Be Alone” is the perfect appetizer ahead of Thomas’ Mutt deluxe album. Here, Thomas and Bailey sing about walking away from a love that no longer serves them.
Alex Isley — When
Alex Isley opens the door to a deeper sonic world where vulnerability takes the lead on her new EP When. The seven-track project explores love, identity, intimacy, and emotional growth with production help from Kaytranada and Camper.
Naomi Sharon — “The Only Love We Know”
Naomi Sharon delivers another sample of her upcoming The Only Love We Know EP with its title track. About the EP, Sharon says it’s about “finding happiness within yourself and embracing the positive things in life.”
Destin Conrad — “Kissing In Public”
Destin Conrad’s “Kissing In Public” single is proof of the high-quality music you can expect on his upcoming debut album Love Digital. This record is a bold and joyful anthem about embracing public affection without shame as a gay man in love.
Pink Sweat$ — “Scared In Love”
Philly singer Pink Sweat$ kicks off a new era with “Scared To Love.” He released the song with a question to his followers on Instagram, asking, “Ever been in love and terrified at the same time?” The vulnerable and honest single addresses just that.
Sault — 10
Sault’s 12th album 10 got the full Easter Weekend experience as it was released on Friday, before mysteriously disappearing, all to return — or resurrect on Sunday. The 10-track effort is laced with gospel influences to strengthen the Easter theme.
Chikoruss — “Vogue On Vogue”
Montreal singer Chikoruss keeps his foot on the pedal with his new single “Vogue On Vogue.” The track supplies a nostalgic R&B feel that’s reminiscent of his past records like “Bestfriend,” “No Makeup,” and “All On Me.”
Amaria BB — “All Of You”
Amaria BB keeps it sizzling with her new single “All Of You.” The record is a perfect one for the impending summer months as sings about not being able to turn around from the magnetic feeling present between her and a new love interest.
Dee Gatti — “Back Of Your Mind”
Dee Gatti’s “Back Of Your Mind” is another strong follow up to last year’s Look What You’ve Done project. The new record starts with an acoustic feeling as soft guitar strums get you settled in. Next, a steady drum beat appears as Gatti sings about keeping a love alive despite the signs saying it’s over.
N3WYRKLA — “Plastic Cup”
Genre-bending singer N3WYRKLA’s “Plastic Cup” is a sharp example of her ability to excel in multiple genres. The new record marks her first release of the year as she continues a tour with Ferg.
Black Party — “Distant Lover”
Black Party’s “Distant Lover” marks the joyful return for the Little Rock singer who’s gone a little over a year without new music. Thankfully, with the new single out now and a tour set to kick off next month, it seems like things will get more active for Black Party.
Asiahn — “Wassup Wit It”
Asiahn’s “Wassup Wit It” brings us one step closer to her upcoming album Free. The track is perfect for summertime, pre-gaming, seduction, and letting loose. “I’m tapping into a side of me that the public rarely sees,” she says about the song. “It’s sexy. It’s confident. It’s a summer bop.”
Jae Stephens — “SMH”
Dallas bred singer Jae Stephens gets back to work with “SMH” following her Sellout EP. The song is confident, playful, and most importantly, one you’ll love. It also arrives with a video with cameos from Maeta, TA Thomas, and Brandon Banks.
This Is Lorelei (real name Nate Amos) is currently days out from dropping Box For Buddy, Box For Star Deluxe, an expanded version of his 2024 album. Included in the revamped project are new collaborations, like a new MJ Lenderman-featuring version of “Dancing In The Club.” Now he has added another one, this time recruiting Snail Mail to rework “Two Legs.”
Amos says of the track in a statement, “When the idea of a deluxe edition with covers/collabs first came up the literal first thought I had was ‘I gotta get Lindsey to sing Two Legs’. I’ve loved Snail Mail ever since Water From Your Eyes had a chance to tour with them so it was a joy to hear Lindsey bless the song like this.”
Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan adds, “Within the last few years, following Nate’s projects, I have come to the conclusion he is the best songwriter of our generation as well as a great guy. Getting to do vocals on this was such a treat because I got to listen to it over and over again.”
Listen to “Two Legs (Snail Mail Version)” above.
Box For Buddy, Box For Star Deluxe is out 4/25 via Double Double Whammy. Find more information here.
Netflix has brought their own version of May flowers to the table with a bouquet full of new movies and TV shows. That is to say, if you have already finished enjoying the Tom Hardy-starring Havoc and Neo-Western series Ransom Canyon from last month, do not fear because this platform is always adding more fuel to the streaming fire. That includes an instant classic of the zombie sub-genre that can be revisited in between The Last Of Us episodes.
Here’s everything coming to Netflix in May:
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Sirens (Netflix series 5/22)
Another darkly comedic mystery series is upon us, this time starring Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Meghann Fahy, and Milly Alcock, who portray characters entrenched in murkier waters than expected at a luxury beach-type retreat. Does somebody smell a cult? Yes, probably. This project will explore class, power, and an attempted intervention when one character cannot seem to get enough of either of those concepts, and if you didn’t already guess from the title, there shall be cues from Greek mythology.
Love, Death & Robots (Netflix series 5/15)
Deadpool director Tim Miller and Mindhunter executive producer David Fincher, and supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson are back with another editing of bleeding-edge animation shorts, this time with stories about “dinosaur gladiators, messianic cats,” and “string-puppet rock stars.” No matter what, you’re sure to find experiences here that will both please and offend, so dive into the abyss, y’all.
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Dept. Q (Netflix series 5/29)
The Queen’s Gambit won’t receive a second season, but writer and director Scott Frank is here with a followup show about a brilliant, sarcastic cop, Carl, who simply cannot get along with his colleagues. After he is exiled to a different unit, Carl builds his own support gang and takes on cold cases with much more success than expected. And as The Night Agent viewers can attest, basement banishments can really backfire on authority.
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Big Mouth: Season 8 (Netflix series 5/23)
The hormone monsters are on the way out the door with this description: “In the end, our kids step into the harrowing unknown of the future, made less afraid of what’s to come because they have each other.” This season, guest stars include Cynthia Erivo, Quinta Brunson, Billy Porter, Ali Wong, Keke Palmer, Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi, Nathan Fillion, Kristen Wiig, and Craig Robinson. They join regulars John Mulaney, Jordan Peele, Maya Rudolph, Andrew Rannells, Nick Kroll,Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, and (last but not least) Ayo Edebiri.
Train To Busan (Next Entertainment World film streaming on Netflix 5/2)
To celebrate the return of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s return as Joel and Ellie, we recently asked a pressing question about the scariest zombies in popular culture. This movie ranked among the top picks for obvious reasons, and now, you can stream it to your undead heart’s delight.
Avail. TBA Losmen Bu Broto: The Series
Lost in Starlight
Mad Unicorn
Rhythm + Flow: Poland
Avail. 5/1 Airport
Airport ’77
Airport 1975
Ali
American Gangster
American Graffiti
Burn After Reading
Constantine
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Dawn of the Dead
Eat Pray Love
The Equalizer 2
Hanna
Home
The Jerk
The Lego Movie
Mid90s
The Mule
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean’s Twelve
The Paper Tigers
Past Lives
Sisters
Starship Troopers
The Sugarland Express
Trainwreck
Trolls
Twilight
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Avail. 5/2 Peninsula
Train to Busan
Unseen: Season 2
Avail. 5/4 Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Avail. 5/5 Britain and The Blitz
Mighty Monsterwheelies: Season 2
Avail. 5/6 The Devil’s Plan: Season 2 Untold: Shooting Guards
Avail. 5/7 Full Speed: Season 2 Last Bullet
Avail. 5/8 Blood of Zeus: Season 3 FOREVER
Heart Eyes
Karol G: Tomorrow was Beautiful
Avail. 5/9 A Deadly American Marriage
Bad Influence
Nonnas
The Royals
Avail. 5/11 ABBA: Against the Odds
Avail. 5/12 Tastefully Yours
Avail. 5/13 All American: Season 7 Bad Thoughts
Untold: The Liver King
Avail. 5/14 American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story
Married at First Sight: Season 17 Smile
Snakes and Ladders
Avail. 5/15 Bet
Love, Death & Robots: Volume 4 Franklin
Pernille: Season 5 Secrets We Keep
Thank You, Next: Season 2 Vini Jr.
Avail. 5/16 Dear Hongrang
Football Parents
The Quilters
Rotten Legacy
Avail. 5/20 Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
Untold: The Fall of Favre
Avail. 5/21 Newly Rich, Newly Poor
Real Men
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark
The UnXplained with William Shatner: Season 6
Avail. 5/22 Sirens
Tyler Perry’s She The People
Avail. 5/23 Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds
Big Mouth: Season 8 Fear Street: Prom Queen
Forget You Not
Off Track 2
Avail. 5/24 Our Unwritten Seoul
The Wild Robot
Avail. 5/26 CoComelon: Season 13 Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life
Avail. 5/28 F1: The Academy
Avail. 5/29 Dept. Q
Avail. 5/30 A Widow’s Game
The Heart Knows
Avail. 5/31 Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event
And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:
Leaving 5/1 About Time
Annie
Apollo 13
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Dallas Buyers Club
Definitely, Maybe
Erin Brockovich
Europa Report
The Flintstones
Friday
The Frozen Ground
Fury
King Kong
Maid in Manhattan
Next Friday
Notting Hill
Out of Africa
Pompeii
Public Enemies
Queen & Slim
Schindler’s List
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
This Is 40
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself
Waterworld
Wedding Crashers
The Whale
Whiplash
The Wiz
You, Me and Dupree
Leaving 5/4 Insidious: The Red Door
Leaving 5/5 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Leaving 5/9 The Lost City
Resident Evil: Death Island
Leaving 5/10 Rambo
Rambo: Last Blood
Leaving 5/15 The Clovehitch Killer
Crossroads
Madam Secretary: Seasons 1-6
Leaving 5/16 The Sum of All Fears
Tully
Leaving 5/19 A Simple Favor
Leaving 5/28 Burnt
Leaving 5/29 The Silencing
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