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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week we’re hitting you with a tight but strong five sneaker hot list, which is what we fully expected after last week’s big Holiday-themed releases. The week following a holiday is always a quiet one, and while none of these sneakers have the sort of hype behind them that’ll break the internet, there are some serious gems here.

Nike once again wins the week, grabbing four out of our five picks. New sneakers from the Swoosh include a Stranger Things collaboration, the latest Rare Air, and a signature Eric Koston Air Max. The only other brand bringing anything noteworthy to the table is Adidas, with their chunky Grisedale. But enough talk! Let’s get a look at these shoes.

Here are this week’s best sneaker drops and where to buy them.

Nike Air Jordan 11 Rare Air

Price: $235

Only Nike could make a sneaker built out of mistakes look dope. That’s just the power of the Air Jordan — a sneaker lineage so powerful that we’ll take intentionally flawed pairs just because their small little differences are exciting enough to justify buying yet another pair. That’s the Rare Air series’ whole concept — a compilation of production errors.

Inspired by various imperfections from Jordan samples, the AJ-11 Rare Air sports a tumbled leather upper fused with synthetic detailing, a tinted outsole, and a blocky white, off-white, and royal blue colorway.

The Nike Air Jordan 11 Rare Air is out now for a retail price of $235. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Adidas Grisedale SPZL

Price: $180

Chunky, highly utilitarian, and layered, those are three words that rarely describe Adidas sneakers, and yet the Grisedale gives us all three! This chunky little guy sports a leather and textile upper in chocolate tones with teal contrast points and a classic Trefoil logo.

In a weird way, this sneaker feels like Adidas answer to Timberlands, and we’re digging it! It stands as proof that Adidas has some tricks up its sleeve.

The Adidas Grisedale SPZL is out now for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.

Nike Air Max Waffle Sail and Neutral Grey

Price: $145

It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a dope Waffle but that all changes this week with the release of the Sail and Neutral Grey Air Max Waffle. This sneaker features a lightweight and breathable textile upper with leather and shaggy suede detailing. For the initiated, this sneaker is a combination of the Tuned Air’s midsole and the Air Max Plus. Get it? The designs are waffled together into one!

The Nike Air Max Waffle Sail and Neutral Grey is out now for a retail price of $145. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Stranger Things x Nike Dunk Low Phantom and Midnight Navy

Price: $155

The return of Stranger Things is upon us, so get prepared for all the brand tie-ins we’re about to be inundated with. Stranger Things-branded ice cream, Stranger Things-branded fast food, Stranger Things branded watches with upside down numbers — there is going to be a lot of merch, and while most of that stuff is straight up junk (no shade Stranger Things fans) there are some cool collaborations out there, like these Stranger Things themed Dunks.

The sneakers feature a distressed upper, vintage 80s design details, stained laces and backwards branding. If you’re into that distressed vibe, these sneakers deliver!

The Stranger Things x Nike Dunk Low Phantom and Midnight Navy is out now for a retail price $155. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Eric Koston x Nike SB Air Max 95 Obsidian and Speed Yellow

Price: $190

In celebration of the Air Max 95’s 30-year anniversary, Nike is linking up with SB signee and pro skater Eric Koston for a customized take of the SB AM 95. This iteration of the sneaker has been optimized for skating with a durable leather and suede upper, double stitch reinforcement, and a herringbone tread for better grip.

Rounding out the design is a beautiful mix of blue and gray tones with bright yellow accents.

The Eric Koston x Nike SB Air Max 96 Obsidian and Speed Yellow is set to drop on November 7th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

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.

With the 68th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony set to take place on February 1, 2026, the Recording Academy announced its nominees for awards today. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. emphasized that “The Academy’s top priority is to represent the music people that we serve each year.”

This year, as with so many others past, a sizable portion of the nominees represent the influence and impact of Warner Music Group and its subsidiaries.

Among them are Atlantic’s Bruno Mars, who is nominated for Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year alongside Rosé for their hit collaboration “APT.“; Alex Warren, also from Atlantic, is up for Best New Artist alongside Warner Records’ Sombr; and Warner’s Teddy Swims, nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for his debut album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2).

Meanwhile, PinkPantheress’ “Illegal,” released through Warner, is up for Best Dance Pop Recording, while her album, Fancy That, will compete for Best Dance/Electronic Album with FKA Twigs’ Eusexua, released by Atlantic.

In the Best Rock Album category, Warner is especially well represented, as Deftones (Private Music via Reprise), Linkin Park (From Zero via Warner), and Turnstile (Never Enough via Roadrunner), all earned noms, while Linkin Park (“The Emptiness Machine”) and Turnstile (“NEVER ENOUGH”) are both in competition for Best Rock Performance.

For brands in search of alignment with these artists and their army of fans, Uproxx serves as the gateway to their highly popular YouTube channels. And based on the popularity boom of those channels based around the MTV VMAs, it’s more than fair to assume a similar Grammy bump is coming.

The set times for Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2025 have been announced, with one week to go before the festival itself. Tyler The Creator’s long-running festival has been curated to perfection in years past, and now would be the perfect time to plan your trip.

As usual, there are three stages — Camp, Flog, and Gnaw — with Camp acting as the “main” stage where the headliners Childish Gambino and ASAP Rocky will perform. You can see the set lists below, organized by day and stage in descending order of lateness.

Saturday, November 15

Camp Stage

12:30-01:00 – La Reezy
01:30-02:00 – Navy Blue
02:30-03:05 – Samara Cyn
03:35-04:15 – Somber
04:45-05:30 – Tems
06:15-07:15 – Don Toliver
08:05-09:05 – Tyler, The Creator
09:55-10:55 – Childish Gambino

Flog Stage

01:20-01:50 – Ray Vaughn
02:20-02:50 – Alemeda
03:25-03:55 – AG Club
04:30-05:15 – Men I Trust
05:50-06:35 – Paris Texas
07:10-07:55 – Malcolm Todd
09:15-10:05 – Clipse

Gnaw Stage

01:00-01:30 – Zelooperz
02:00-02:30 – Az Chike
03:05-03:35 – Mike G
04:15-04:45 – BB Trickz
05:30-06:15 – Chezile
07:15-08:00 – Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist
09:10-09:50 – GloRilla

Sunday, November 16

Camp Stage

03:05-04:35 – Zack Fox
05:05-05:35 – Geezer
06:20-07:20 – Clairo
08:15-09:05 – Doechii
09:55-10:55 – ASAP Rocky

Flog Stage

01:00-01:30 – PartyOf2
02:05-02:40 – Kilo Kish
03:10-03:45 – Deb Never
04:15-04:50 – Domo Genesis
05:20-05:55 – Luh Tyler
06:25-07:10 – Teezo Touchdown
07:50-08:35 – Earl Sweatshirt
09:15-10:15 – T-Pain

Gnaw Stage

12:30-01:00 – Gia FU
01:30-02:00 – Ecca Vandal
02:30-03:05 – Lef Brain
04:30-05:05 – Mike
05:35-06:20 – Fousheé
07:20-08:10 – Thundercat
09:10-09:55 – Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso

Coco Jones doesn’t need much to have a happy holiday as the year comes to a close. Her latest single, the semi-Christmas-themed “Skip My House,” finds the R&B star counting her blessings — and coming to the conclusion that she’s grateful for things as they are.

“You can skip my house this year,” she informs Santa on the chorus. “I already got everything I need right here / This year, I already counted, and my blessings came in pouring.” Instead, she says, all she needs is “a game night with my family,” as she’s already got “my mother, got my father, got my health right now,” and “a rock on my finger from my man who always holds me down.”

Funnily enough, these sorts of gratitude anthems are quickly becoming Jones’ own holiday tradition. Last year, she celebrated the season with her Coco By The Fireplace EP and its single “Santa Is Me.” While “Skip My House” isn’t currently connected to a larger project, Coco’s been busy enough in 2025 to warrant a little break.

After releasing her debut album Why Not More?, she followed up with a lengthy tour that took her around the world and back, and dropped a deluxe edition that included a collab with one of her musical heroes.

You can listen to Coco Jones’ “Skip My House” above.

Daft Punk called it quits a few years ago. That said, we’ve been seeing a lot of them lately. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is on the new Rosalía album, Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 anime had a one-night theatrical run last year, and the “Daft Punk Experience” recently hit Fortnite.

Speaking of the latter, Fortnite developer Epic Games just partnered with Daft Punk and Magnopus for a new video for “Contact,” the closing track from Random Access Memories. It stars the iconic robot duo drifting through space and navigating environments that look like an iTunes visualizer on steroids.

DJ Falcon, a co-producer on the song, said in an interview shared in 2023:

“Basically, we had the track ID, I’d say, 10 years before they went into the studio for Random Access Memories. I remember working at this studio with them, we spent a day working on something, doing some arpeggio to add on the track. I think they were forcing themselves to be in a situation where they had to learn. They keep moving forward all the time. I think it’s part also of the process, to keep experimenting. They’re always searching for some magic moment, and when it’s happening, it’s kind of a release.”

He added of the song causing studio equipment to malfunction, “I remember looking at Thomas [Bangalter], we looked at each other and we just said nothing. We just had a little smile on our face. We left the studio without saying anything like the whole thing was natural.”

Watch the new “Contact” video above.

The nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards were announced this morning (here’s the full list). Among the most recognized artists is Jack Antonoff, who finds himself all over the list.

Antonoff’s nominations this year are as follows: Album Of The Year for Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, Record Of The Year for Carpenter’s “Manchild” and Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Song Of The Year for “Manchild” and “Luther,” and Best Rap Song for Lamar’s “TV Off” featuring Lefty Gunplay. He contributed to Man’s Best Friend and GNX, but is not listed as a nominee with those projects in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Rap Album categories, per the Recording Academy’s official list of nominations. So, Antonoff’s count this year is seven nominations, which ties him for the second-highest total this year with Lady Gaga and Cirkut.

This consideration comes with some implications. Most notably, Antonoff is now the first-ever producer/songwriter to earn nominations in all three major categories — Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Record Of The Year — with two different artists in the same year. This is the fourth time Antonoff has been nominated in all three categories, and no other producer/songwriter has even done it more than twice.

The 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony is set to take place on February 1, 2026, live at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, airing on CBS and Paramount Plus.

Find the nominees for the categories in which Antonoff is nominated below, and check out the full list of 2026 Grammy nominations here.

Record Of The Year

Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
Doechii — “Anxiety”
Billie Eilish — “WILDFLOWER”
Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “luther”
Chappell Roan — “The Subway”
Rosé and Bruno Mars — “APT.”

Album Of The Year

Bad Bunny — DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Justin Bieber — SWAG
Sabrina Carpenter — Man’s Best Friend
Clipse, Pusha T and Malice — Let God Sort Em Out
Lady Gaga — MAYHEM
Kendrick Lamar — GNX
Leon Thomas — MUTT
Tyler, The Creator — CHROMAKOPIA

Song Of The Year

Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Doechii — “Anxiety”
Rosé and Bruno Mars — “APT.”
Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — “Golden [From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’]”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “luther”
Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
Billie Eilish — “WILDFLOWER”

Best Rap Song

Doechii — “Anxiety”
Clipse, Pusha T and Malice Featuring John Legend and Voices Of Fire — “The Birds Don’t Sing”
Tyler, The Creator Featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne — “Sticky”
GloRilla — “TGIF”
Kendrick Lamar Featuring Lefty Gunplay — “tv off”

Billboard‘s recent rule changes sparked a concerned discussion after they resulted in a two-week absence of rap music in the Hot 100 chart’s top 40 for the first time in almost three decades. “Is hip-hop dead?” became a familiar refrain among the culture’s commentators, as they wondered what a lack of top 40 hits meant for the genre in the mainstream.

But today, as the nominations for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, one thing became clear: You just can’t count rap out, even if it hasn’t had any new streaming hits for a while.

This isn’t the first time hip-hop was prematurely declared dead. You’d think all those Chicken Littles out there clutching their pearls and wringing their hands at the prospect of rap’s lost dominance would recall those times, or that many of the most culturally important rap hits weren’t in the top 40 at their time either. Arguably, many of those hits have outlasted whatever was deemed more popular at the time vis-à-vis cultural relevance, anyway.

But with three of the eight nominees for Album of the Year coming from rappers (Clipse’s Let God Sort ‘Em Out, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, and Tyler The Creator’s Chromakopia) and rap well-represented in the two of the remaining three Big Four categories, the proof of rap’s continued relevance is in the proverbial pudding.

While Kendrick Lamar is unsurprisingly nominated for both Record and Song of the Year for his SZA duet “Luther,” his former labelmate Doechii is also nominated for both awards (for “Anxiety“) after winning Best New Artist and Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammys in February. Meanwhile, the rap-specific categories feature more women than ever, with Cardi B joining Doechii in the Best Rap Performance field (for “Outside“) and GloRilla also up for Best Rap Song (for “TGIF“). Glo is also nominated alongside Sexyy Red for their features on Tyler The Creator’s “Sticky,” and for Best Rap Album for her debut Glorious.

All of which adds up to a picture of rap that not only looks healthy, but forecasts continued evolution, even if it’s not necessarily mainstream popular. For what it’s worth, each of this year’s nominees are notable for breaking away from mainstream rap trends — less melodic, more lyrically focused, and much more self-aware and narrative-based than some of what’s been popular in the recent past. The concerns of the nominees’ projects are more insular, mature, and reflective than the pop-friendly records that have dominated for the past few decades.

Likewise, underground stalwart JID, who has long been lauded for forging his own thorny path, returned to the Grammys radar with a nomination for Best Rap Album for God Does Like Ugly — his first since 2022’s The Forever Story. Fridayy also continues to be a Grammy favorite after being nominated for Best Rap Song and Performance for appearing on DJ Khaled’s “God Did.” And Rapsody, who won her first Grammy this year for “3:AM” with Erykah Badu in the Best Melodic Rap Performance category, is once again nominated in that category alongside Terrace Martinand Kenyon Dixon for “WeMaj.”

So, no, the sky is not falling for hip-hop. If anything, the disappearance of rap from the top 40 suggest that the genre is more likely entering a chrysalis phase, withdrawing from the pursuit of mainstream approval and going back to its roots, developing out of sight of commercial interests. If anything, when it reemerges as a chart force, it’ll be the best version of itself, unfiltered, unalloyed, and ready to once again revolutionize the music world.

The 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony is set to take place on February 1, 2026, live at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Recording Academy still has plenty to do before then, though. Most notably, there’s the announcement of the nominations, which just happened this morning (November 7).

Notably, there are two new award categories this year: Best Traditional Country Album and Best Album Cover. In a statement at the time of that announcement this summer, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said, “The Academy’s top priority is to represent the music people that we serve each year. That entails listening carefully to our members to make sure our rules and guidelines reflect today’s music and allow us to accurately recognize as many deserving creators as possible. As we kick off another exciting Grammy Season, we look forward to celebrating the amazing power of music and its ability to bring so many people together.”

Find the full list of 2026 Grammy nominees below.

This post is being updated.

After Kehlani’s last single, “Folded,” became her first-ever top ten hit on the Hot 100, the Bay Area native is doubling down on its late-90s R&B vibes with “Out The Window.” Like its predecessor, “Out The Window” finds Kehlani in the aftermath of a dissolved relationship, and contemplating a reunion. However, while in the previous single, Kehlani fought temptation while resolving to move on, in the newer single, she is the one actively pursuing reconciliation.

“Even my mama been asking me ’bout you / I know your mama been asking about me too,” she admits. “But I know I’m to blame / I played in your face, it’s too little, too late.” In the chorus, she begs, “The late nights, the half-truths / I was reckless, let me prove to you / I’ll throw ’em out the window.”

Listen, I told you before: Real R&B is BACK.

Kehlani teased that a new album — the follow-up to her 2024 album Crash — is coming next year in an interview with her daughter Adeya. Although Kehlani hasn’t revealed any further info about the full-length project, judging from her last two singles, it’ll see her return to the 106 & Park vibes of her youth — which could make it sound quite refreshing in the modern landscape.

You can listen to Kehlani’s “Out The Window” above.

Rosalía’s Lux, one of the most hyped albums of the year, is out today (November 7). She calls on a roster of guests to help her out with the project, and it turns out that among them is Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, most notably half of Daft Punk.

He doesn’t have a feature, but he has a songwriting credit on “Reliquia,” a dramatic, string-laden song that undergoes a frenetic transformation during its closing seconds. Credited on the same track is OneRepublic leader and modern pop songwriting great Ryan Tedder. Elsewhere, also featured on the project are Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza y su Esencia, and Yves Tumor.

This notably comes days after an associate said Guy-Manuel is currently working on a solo album.

A press release previously noted of Lux, “The album traces a widescreen emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and transcendence — moving between intimacy and operatic scale to create a radiant world where sound, language, and culture fuse as one.”

Listen to “Reliquia” above. Find the Lux cover art and tracklist below.

Rosalía’s Lux Album Cover Artwork

Rosalía’s Lux Tracklist

MOV I
1. “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas”
2. “Reliquia”
3. “Divinize”
4. “Porcelana”
5. “Mio Cristo”

MOV II
6. “Berghain”
7. “La Perla”
8. “Mundo Nuevo”
9. “De Madrugá”

MOV III
10. “Dios Es Un Stalker”
11. “La Yugular”
12. “Focu ‘ranni” *
13. “Sauvignon Blanc”
14. “Jeanne” *

MOV IV
15. “Novia Robot” *
16. “La Rumba Del Perdón”
17. “Memória”
18. “Magnolias

* exclusive to the CD and vinyl editions

Lux is out now via Columbia. Find more information here.