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The Hornets picked up their second win of the season on Wednesday night, beating the Raptors 138-133 in a shootout in Charlotte. That win to get the team back to .500 early in the year had vibes high on Thursday morning in the Hornets facility, where the win seemed to have made some forget what holiday it was.

On Halloween every year, teams in the NBA and NFL love to set up their players for a jump scare that they can capture on social media. At this point, a lot of players keep their guard up when they arrive at the facility on Halloween, but LaMelo Ball did the opposite and strolled through the Hornets facility singing and happy right until he walked through a door and was greeted by a creepy clown.

The transition from singing “waaayyyy up I feel blessed” to a blood-curdling shriek to slapping the head off of the clown while yelling “boy, what the F**K” is incredible. It’s a good thing this was just a doll and not a person in a costume, cause they would’ve had to go into concussion protocol after LaMelo got done with them. The Hornets staffer cackling only makes this video better as poor LaMelo lays down on the stairs to try to get his heart rate back down, and I bet he’ll never be trusting of that walk to the practice court again.

Today is not only Halloween. It’s also the last day for Spotify counting plays towards your year-end Wrapped… or is it?

When Does Spotify Wrapped Stop Tracking For 2024?

It’s been reported that Spotify stops tracking for Wrapped — which lists your most-played songs, artists, and podcasts — on the final day of October, leaving November and December as a free-for-all for you to listen to the most embarrassing songs imaginable (that’s a problem for next year’s results). The music streaming service said as much in 2019. “We’re afraid that listening to a bunch of stuff right now won’t make any difference to this year’s or next year’s Wrapped. This is because Wrapped only covers the 1st of January until the 31st of October for any given year,” the Spotify Cares account wrote on then-Twitter.

However, as of 2023, that may no longer be in the case. “The only thing that we end on Halloween is eating candy corn. Stream (and snack) all through the year and we will see you in Wrapped season,” @Spotify wrote in response to a Pop Crave tweet last year. In a separate reply to @PopBase, the account wrote, “Don’t worry, Wrapped is still counting past Oct. 31.”

So, when is the final day for Spotify Wrapped in 2024? Spotify hasn’t said, but it’s likely sometime in early November. There’s still time for you to be in the top 0.1 percent of Taylor Swift listeners.

A tragic reality of the entertainment industry is that sometimes, people are put in vulnerable and compromising positions. This has happened to Halsey, as they revealed that one time, “quite a long time ago,” a “really powerful executive” looked through Halsey’s nude photos on their phone.

On a new episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Halsey explained:

“I was out and I was with this executive, this really powerful executive who works in music in some capacity. […] We were out one night and he was like, ‘Oh, I want to send a photo to my niece, of us together,’ or something like that, and I was like, ‘OK.’ I took out my phone, I took a selfie of the two of us, and I handed him my phone, and I was like, ‘Text it to yourself, I have to pee.’ Then I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, he handed me my phone and I saw he was going through my nudes on my phone.

I sat down and I was like… I actually didn’t even know what to do, I was just, like, frozen. I was like, ‘Did I just imagine that? Was that an accident? […] What the heck just happened?’ And then I was like, ‘Did he text them to himself and then delete the messages?’ I don’t even know where these are now. I was just frozen. […]”

As for how that affected her, she continued:

“It made me feel… I felt like it regressed me so much. Like, it made me feel… I went from being like,’ Yeah, I’m *f*ckin’ hot sh*t and I’m one of the big players like,’ and I sat down and when that happened, in that moment, I was like, ‘You’re nothing. You’re nothing, you’ll always be nothing. You’re still just like that f*ckin’ girl who’s getting taken advantage of, or, like, men are talking about you behind your back, or you’re some sort of collateral. I was like, ‘You’re nothing.’ It was so demoralizing. So many worse things have happened to me than that, but that one stuck out for some reason, because it was so nonchalant.”

Listen to the full episode here and check out a different clip from it below.

In September, The Weeknd played a special one-off concert in São Paulo, Brazil. The city is apparently still on his mind, as today (October 31), he teamed up with Brazil’s own Anitta on a new single, “São Paulo.”

In addition to a five-minute version of the song, there’s also a shorter three-minute version that’s heard in the song’s video. The video is a trip, by the way, as it features Anitta, who is pregnant but in a sort of grotesque way.

In an eerie teaser video shared in September, The Weeknd wrote, “Yesterday was fourteen years ago… We held our breath, falling into a shimmering sea in the after hours of the night… Attempted to cleanse the wounds with melodies and lights, a bulletproof bandage to shield what lies beneath. In a place where the seasons never changed, where time ceased to exist. But therein lays the problem. Today has felt like an endless spin. I keep distorting the truth, immune to the dizziness, numb to the nausea. What lies beneath — screams in silence. I look in the mirror and feel both old and new, stuck in limbo and unable to move. I still haven’t faced myself. More songs could help, but what do I have left to say? Woe is me in my gilded cage, right? The very thing that once made me invincible failed me on the world stage. A new trauma surfaced, opening floodgates. A new path awaits. When today ends, I’ll discover who I am. Hurry Up Tomorrow.”

Listen to “Sáo Paulo” and watch the video above.

Chicago producer 2hollis has seen his fortunes rising in recent months with the release of his June album, Boy, receiving praise from critics and fellow artists like Skrillex and Ken Carson. He joined the latter on his Chaos Tour earlier this year, and just completed his first run of tour dates throughout Europe. Today, he announced the Leg Two tour for winter 2025, kicking off in Houston, Texas on January 16th and running through February 1st in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In July, 2hollis shared his thoughts on performing live with Interview Magazine, saying, “It’s always interesting and really amazing to be in person with these people, because so much of this stuff lives on the internet and so much of my time is spent in the studio, and the only fan interactions I’m getting is internet shit. But when you perform and talk to them and look them in the eye, there’s something to that that’s just so beautiful. I might not know them personally, but I just know them all as just this one big beautiful connection. It’s really awesome.”

Tickets for his tour are now on sale; you can find more information here. See the tour dates below.

01/16 — White Oak Music Hall @ Houston, TX
01/17 — Studio at The Factory @ Dallas, TX
01/18 — The Mohawk @ Austin, TX
01/20 — The Masquerade @ Atlanta, GA
01/21 — Cats Cradle @ Carrboro
01/22 — The Atlantis @ Washington, D.C.
01/24 — The Paradise Rock Club @ Boston, MA
01/25 — Club Soda @ Montreal, QC
01/26 — The Concert Hall @ Toronto, ON
01/28 — El Club @ Detroit, MI
01/31 — Metro @ Chicago, IL
02/01 — Amsterdam Bar & Hall @ St. Paul, MO

Three new teams are slated to come to the WNBA over the next two years. The Golden State Valkyries will kick off their inaugural season in 2025, while teams in Toronto and Portland are coming to the league in 2026. While this would bring the league up to 15 teams, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has expressed that she wants the WNBA to have 16 teams by 2028, and there are plenty of cities that make a ton of sense as this round of expansion gets wrapped up.

Apparently, Kansas City is one such place, and a group spearheaded by Patrick and Brittany Mahomes is working to get the WNBA to come to their city. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the pair met with the league along with the rest of the ownership group of the KC Current, the city’s NWSL team.

“As WNBA expansion continues, ownership of the NWSL’s KC Current — which includes Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany — has met with the WNBA and is in contention to bring the league’s next franchise to Kansas City,” Schefter said. “Mahomes also co-owns the KC Royals and Sporting KC.”

There’s no word on a potential timetable for when the league will announce its 16th team. As for what’s next on the expansion horizon, the Valkyries will build out their roster via an expansion draft in December.

There are few things more important to getting a good workout in than having the right playlist. Having the right soundtrack is vital for most people to getting maximum output, and sometimes what you need in the gym varies by what you’re doing — for example, cardio and weights might need different genres.

Everyone’s taste is a bit different, which is why there’s few things worse than forgetting headphones when going to the gym and having to listen to whatever they’ve got playing over the speakers. That is, unless you have your own fully built out home gym and can pick the music blasting through the speakers, as is the case for WWE superstar Randy Orton. The 44-year-old has been in WWE for more than two decades, and he looks like the kind of guy that is likely playing something pretty heavy in the gym.

However, as he recently explained to Sheamus in his home gym, he goes to a different genre and is far more up to date on his playlist than you’d expect. The Viper is all about the ladies when it comes to the gym, explaining that he has “an extensive female rap artist playlist” rattling off everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to GloRilla and fellow St. Louis native (and WWE fan) Sexxy Red.

It’s clearly not the answer Sheamus was expecting, but as Orton explained, “they get my blood pumpin, what can I say.” I think my only follow-up questions would be what did Randy used to listen to in the gym back in the day and when was he introduced to some of these artists, because he’s been in the gym for decades and I’d be fascinated to know when he figured out that Cardi B and Nicki Minaj got the blood going and the muscles firing in just the right way.

The next few years of Uproxx’s How To Watch The Grammys posts are going to look a lot different, as The Recording Academy has inked a 10-year deal with Disney for the House of Mouse’s properties to become the new broadcast home for the Biggest Night in Music after 50 years with CBS. Beginning in 2027, the Grammys will simulcast on ABC, Hulu, and Disney+, which could simplify viewing for a massive number of households as more folks rely on streaming than broadcast TV (while Paramount+, the Grammys’ current streamer of choice, has 71 million subscribers, Disney+ has more than double that number at over 150 million).

The deal also includes multiple music specials and other programs associated with the Grammys, which could allow you non-industry types living outside Los Angeles the chance to take in some of the events that lead up to the big show as well.

Disney has made some pretty impressive strides in securing the rights to big television events over the past few months; in 2027, its properties will host not just the Grammys, but also the Academy Awards (the Oscars), and Super Bowl LXI.

Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of the Recording Academy, said in the press release, “We are completely thrilled to be bringing The Grammys and other new music programming to the Disney ecosystem. We are grateful to our long-standing partners at CBS and now honored to be joining with Disney, an iconic company where creators have always been at the forefront. This partnership represents another important milestone in the Academy’s transformation and growth, and strengthens our ability to fulfill our mission of uplifting and serving music people around the world.”

DMV rapper IDK has begun the rollout for his new album, Bravado + Intimo, which drops later this week via his independent imprint. Going in a slightly different direction than his last release, F65, the new album will only contain 12 tracks (as opposed to F65‘s 22 tracks), including the newly released single, “Check.”

IDK also takes a new tack in the video for “Check,” stripping things down, literally and figuratively. The Maryland MC performs the boastful new song in various locations around Los Angeles while accompanied by a young woman who twerks next to him in a skimpy one-piece swimsuit and high heels. The video is shot in provocative black-and-white that slowly becomes more saturated until IDK and his companion are captured in vivid color, doing their thing under a blue sky (it never rains in Southern California, they say).

Bravado + Intimo will also include the previously released tracks “Tiffany” with Gunna, “Denim” with Joey Badass, “Kickin,” and “Supernova,” which he’s released with a slew of varied “take” videos, including one-take performances and visualizers.

You can check out the video for “Check” — provided you don’t work in an office with an open floor plan — above.

BRAVADO + INTiMO is out on 11/1 via .idk. Find more information here.

Sydney Sweeney is in the Halloween mood.

The Euphoria actress visited Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights (like Sabrina Carpenter) and wore a Minions hat, and she recently shared a photo on Instagram where she’s making pumpkin cookies. Now that October 31 is almost here, Sweeney’s Halloween costume must be good then, right? Well, it probably will be, but she hasn’t revealed what it is yet. If she was considering Barbarella, ahead of her remake, Kylie Jenner beat her to it.

We’ll update if / when she makes her 2024 Halloween costume debut.

“My love for horror began at a very young age,” Sweeney told Letterboxd while promoting Immaculate earlier this year. “My dad is a huge horror fan, and that’s the genre of film that he would sit and watch with my little brother and me growing up. Halloween is his favorite holiday, and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios is our favorite thing to do together – I think I was 11 or 12 when I started going to Horror Nights, and I loved it. I go every year. So I’ve definitely grown up with a love of the genre and old horror films.”

Sweeney then listed her seven favorite horror films of all-time: The Silence of the Lambs, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hereditary, The Shining, Us, Halloween, and Rosemary’s Baby. Watch them all with her blood-covered face!