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Santigold will return this fall with her new album, Spirituals. The project will arrive via her label, Little Jerk, and feature collaborators like Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner, SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson.

“Recording this album was a way back to myself after being stuck in survival mode. It wasn’t until I made the space to create that I realized I wasn’t only creating music but a lifeline,” said Santigold in a statement. “California was on fire, we were hiding from a plague, the social justice protests were unfolding. I’d never written lyrics faster in my life. After having total writer’s block, they started pouring out. I decided to create the future, to look towards where we are going, to create beauty and pull towards that beauty. I need that for myself, but it’s also there for whoever else needs it.”

Her latest single, “Ain’t Ready” is a collaboration with producers Illangelo, Dre Skull, and SBTRKT. The song’s music video, directed by Frank Ockenfels, sees Santi in an interrogation room, interrogating herself.

Speaking on the song’s creation, Santigold said, “It was one of those songs where as soon as I opened my mouth the whole melody just poured out. There were no words but all the emotion was there. To me, the song sounded full of struggle and perseverance. It sounded like a battle, and I wanted the production to sound tough, to mirror that grit. I struggled to find the right lyrics at first, but when I got them right, and I started singing them one night in my studio alone, I cried. This song was my own battle song. It’s about taking the hits that life brings and getting back up. It’s about change and moving forward. It’s about faith and vision. And it’s about stepping into your own power.”

Check out “Ain’t Ready” above and the Spirituals album art and tracklist below.

1. “My Horror”
2. “Nothing”
3. “High Priestess”
4. “Ushers Of The New World”
5. “Witness”
6. “Shake”
7. “The Lasty”
8. “No Paradise”
9. “Ain’t Ready”
10. “Fall First”

Spirituals is out 9/9 via Little Jerk.

Earlier this year, a group of anti-MAGA conservatives set out on a single-minded mission: discredit and humiliate Madison Cawthorn so much that he loses his first primary. Suffice it to say, the North Carolina representative won’t see be seeing a second. Now the same PAC has set their sights on another Trumpist lawmaker: Lauren Boebert. But so far their follow-up isn’t going as smoothly.

On Tuesday, the group, now named the American Muckrakers PAC, made some wild allegations about the controversial Colorado representative. One — that she fled the scene of an automobile accident involving her sister-in-law, then tried to cover it up — was confirmed by The Daily Mail. Two more seem more dodgy: that she’s a former escort who’s had multiple abortions. (Ted Cruz was also involved.) Boebert has denied those two claims. But she’s going further than that.

As per Raw Story, Fox News reported that Boebert’s attorney sent a letter to the PAC, vowing to bring “civil defamations” against them over those two claims. Boebert herself tweeted about it, calling the group “left wing political operatives” — which itself is not true given that they’re a conservative group that simply does not like MAGA politicians.

Mind you, American Muckrakers PAC has already made other allegations against Boebert, which she can’t so easily swat away. She’s the subject of a fraud investigation over allegations that she made up an impossibly large amount of car mileage in an attempt to get deductions from her campaign expenses. Surely the PAC has a bit more where that came from.

(Via Raw Story)

In case you hadn’t heard, Jerry Seinfeld is making a movie about Pop-Tarts. Specifically, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, which has been described as a 1963-set battle between Kellogg’s and Post breakfast brands as they set their sights on a toaster pastry that will change the game. Spoiler alert: Pop-Tarts are made by Kellogg’s.

But as it turns out, Post was the first to announce a foil-packaged toaster pastry, and Kellogg’s hustled to develop their own version and get it to market first. This is the exact kind of drama needed for an all out chemical-laden breakfast war.

Seinfeld, who is set to direct for the Netflix project, has a killer comedic cast lined up, including Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan (Hot Pockets sequel?), James Marsden, Christian Slater, Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield, Sarah Cooper, and Adrian Martinez. There’s no word yet on which characters these comedians will be playing, or which rival team they’ll be playing for.

Seinfeld has been enigmatic about his movie-making choices ever since coming out his post-Seinfeld retirement to make Bee Movie, with its “uncomfortable sexual aspects,” but this story feels a bit like hearing for the first time that David Fincher was making a “Facebook movie.” Absurd, but with a lot more juicy filling than we initially realized.

(via Variety)

Aladdin and Jasmine kiss after their globe-trotting magic carpet date. Rapunzel and Flynn kiss after triumphing over Mother Gothel. Ariel and Prince Eric, Carl and Ellie in Up, Tiana and Prince Naveen. All of these famous Disney/Pixar couples smooched, and should act as reminders that any kind of “controversy” about a lesbian married couple kissing in Lightyear is invented out of unbreathable thin air. Some of that air, at least, stems from Disney’s inexplicable nervousness at keeping the kiss in the picture. It became public last March that a kiss between Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her Black wife was cut from the film, but then reinstated after an anonymous open letter signed by staff convinced the higher ups not to diminish the lesbian couple’s affection. The kiss is back in the news after several countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, banned the Buzz Lightyear origin story from their theaters because of the kiss. No big surprise there.

Plus, producer Galyn Susman just spoke out in an interview to clarify that Disney executives were always supportive of Hawthorne and her wife as characters, “but there was definite pushback on having that kiss.” After the internal backlash and the course correction from executives, Susman applauded the move to reinstate the kiss. “We got the opportunity to put it back in and that was really exciting,” she said.

This kind of clarification is valuable because there’s simply no reason Disney should even worry about whether to show a kiss like that on screen. It represents Pixar’s first same-sex kiss, so here’s hoping their next same-sex kisses garner far less attention and consternation.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart’s friendship isn’t one that many people originally expected, but it’s one that has lasted quite a while. The two have paired up for television appearances on several occasions including their 2016 VH1 series Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party which featured games, recipes, and musical guests. Three years later it spawned a spinoff, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Party Challenge. Snoop and Martha have also starred in a T-Mobile commercial for Super Bowl LI and they co-hosted The Puppy Bowl XVII earlier this year. Now, the duo will bring their talents to the podcast world.

Martha Stewart will launch her new podcast, appropriately titled The Martha Stewart Podcast, later this month. She recently released a brief introduction clip of the iHeartRadio Original Podcast where she revealed that Snoop will be her first guest for the show. “Every time I go anywhere all they want to know is ‘How’s Snoop?’” Stewart says in the clip. Snoop replies, “You don’t think I get approached all the time by people that say ‘Do you think you can get me a picture of Martha; do you think you can get an autograph?’”

According to Billboard, future guests on The Martha Stewart Podcast include Kris Jenner, Alex Rodriguez, “plant explorer” Dan Hinkley, and Stewart’s friends and creative collaborators Kevin Sharkey and Douglas Friedman.

You can listen to the introduction clip of The Martha Stewart Podcast here.

Among the fascinating insights of The Hollywood Reporter‘s cover profile of Maya Rudolph was the delightful nugget that high school classmate Jack Black took the comedy legend to her first Groundlings show, fanning the flames of her interest in improv that would later lead her to join the troupe in Los Angeles.

“I was really enjoying being king of the hill of the theater department,” Black said. “And then here comes Maya, and she was just so funny and gifted and relaxed, and it really made me question whether I should even continue, like, that’s how strong she was. It’s like I was Salieri and she was Mozart, and I was so jealous that it kind of paralyzed me.”

Oddly enough, Rudolph also claims that introducing herself to people she doesn’t know is one of her biggest fears. Maybe things were slightly different when she was 14, or maybe she’s always been incredibly good at hiding that fear. If you’re jotting down things for your Maya Rudolph Bar Trivia (which should be a thing if it isn’t already), add that, when asked by Lorne Michaels why she should join SNL, Rudolph answered, “Because I love wearing wigs.” Apparently, that answer embarrasses her despite being objectively perfect.

Rudolph’s latest project is Loot, where she stars as a billionaire whose life has imploded alongside Joel Kim Booster.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

If you tense up into a tiny ball or want to hide under the carpet when comedy gets awkward, a single moment from Succession‘s last season would have made your head explode Scanners style. After being on the cusp of becoming the Chosen One for his family, incorrigible scamp Roman (Kieran Culkin) accidentally sends his billionaire business tycoon father a genital selfie during an emergency board meeting. Not great, Bob!

Brian Cox listed it as one of his favorite scenes to film of the season. “I loved the dick pic scene,” Cox said, laughing, in an interview with The Wrap. “I think [Logan] has much more regard for Roman’s potential, but at the same time, Roman is so potty-mouthed. It’s a drawback. He’s not being mature. And you know, the dick pic was the sort of straw that broke the camel’s back. And at one point, when we sat there [filming], I just said, ‘Why, why, why, why, why, why, why?’ (Laughs) But I was giving too much away, so they cut it.”

Cox also mentioned the pivotal dinner scene with Kendall (Jeremy Strong) as a favorite. “That was a very powerful scene and Jeremy did a great job on it,” Cox said. It is indeed an amazing scene, complete with a bumbling Kendall head-faking that he’s trying to poison his dad, but it still doesn’t have that jaw-dropping dick pic energy. Next time you see Cox on the street, instead of asking him to tell you to f*ck off, maybe compliment that scene of face-searing awkward disappointment instead.

Yet the most surprising thing from the interview? That Logan Roy loves his children. Showrunner Jesse Armstrong confirmed it for Cox, who needed to know so he could get the character right. “Of course, the whole quality of love has been lacking,” Cox said. “Logan’s aware of that more than anybody else. It’s something that’s been lacking in his life and something that’s clearly — even though he would never admit to it — the one thing he possibly hoped for with his children was love.” Nothing like a game of Boar on the Floor to bring out the love, right?

(via The Wrap)

Dating is really hard. Especially for people over the age of 30. As someone who has been through it, I can attest to it honestly feeling like a full-time job. Dating apps are time consuming—you have to create an enticing profile, choose the best pictures to represent you and make sure your intentions are clear. Usually, you’re doing this for more than one dating app at a time. Forget the emotional and time investment it takes to go on the apps and find an actual date. Your thumb will get tired from all the swiping right and left. It’s no wonder some people just give up.

Sha Tabb was one such woman. She decided enough was enough and deleted all of her dating apps. But then, her friends stepped in. They took matters into their own hands to find their friend, a former NFL cheerleader who now works as a traffic reporter, a date. And Tabb absolutely let them do it.

“My dating life feels non-existent,” Tabb told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. “For a while, it didn’t bother me that I wasn’t dating. I was on a couple of apps, I would go out on dates and then the guys would ghost me. I’m like, ‘Okay, this isn’t working for me. I know it’s worked for many other people, but it’s just not working for me.’ So I took myself off of the apps.”

Her friend Jacqui Duran, who had met Tabb about 11 years ago when they worked together, heard about an app called Wingman after reading a story about a woman whose mother used the app to create a profile for her. So, during her birthday dinner, Duran, along with another friend and former co-worker Sheri Ralliford, presented Tabb with the idea of allowing them to take over her dating life. Tabb agreed to let her friends do the heavy lifting of dating for a while.

In February, the friends created Tabb’s profile on Wingman, hoping to find their friend love. Some time later, Wingman CEO Tina Wilson found Tabb’s profile and had the team turn it into a 48-foot billboard in Times Square. The billboard was installed on May 3 and will run until June 19. Wilson explained to PEOPLE that Tabb’s story “goes to show you can be beautiful inside and out, and a professional cheerleader even, and still struggle to find the right partner.”

It is absolutely bonkers to imagine what it must be like to have your dating profile broadcast in Times Square of all places. Tabb is taking it all in stride so far.

“I’ve done modeling in the past, so I’ve had my face on things, but normally I’m promoting other things for people or other products. Now, I’m promoting myself,” she said.

This is all so amazing, but where did Wingman even come from? The dating app was created by Tina Wilson at a time when she was single and her friends were all pretty much married. A self-professed “cupid,” Wilson wanted to put her skills to good use. “The ability to help our friends find someone is a very deep-seated instinct for many, many people and I wanted to create a constructive outlet for that desire,” she says on her website.

And that’s what Wingman is—you put your friends in control of your love life (but only if you trust them of course!). They’re completely in control, they write your profile and tell people why they should date you. And then, they get to decide who you end up going out on dates with.

“Wingman lets those that know you best, choose who you should date,” according to the company’s website. Additionally, the app “aims to bring friends closer and redefine the online dating game” by allowing friends to create profiles rather than the single person themself.

Tabb has no doubts that her friends will choose someone great for her—their friendship is strong enough that she believes they know who she should date. “They’re completely being my wing women and my matchmakers,” she said.

Here’s hoping that her friends find her someone (or multiple someones) who’s a perfect match.

Showtime has revealed the trailer for the upcoming docuseries, Supreme Team. Supreme Team, directed by rapper Nas and Peter J. Scalettar for Mass Appeal tells the story of the namesake crime syndicate from Queens, New York.

The three-episode docuseries features interviews with the gang’s founding members Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and Gerald “Prince” Miller. LL Cool J, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, journalist Joy Reid, singer Ashanti, producer Irv Gotti, and others in the local community, politics, law enforcement, academia, and popular culture will also offer anecdotes and statements throughout the docuseries.

According to a release, viewers will see Prince and Supreme recall “youthful decisions they made in the 1970s that would so greatly impact each of them later in life. What followed was a tightrope walk as these two men navigated choices that could land them as leaders of their industry, or behind bars for life – all the while getting sucked into the chaos in their community which has an impact that is still felt to this day.”

Supreme Team will have its official premiere at Tribeca Festival in New York City this Sunday, June 19 before its official premiere on Showtime on Friday, July 8.

Check out the trailer above.

There are a ton of Spider-Mans (Spider-Men?) out there. There were three in the last live-action film alone. There were twice as many (albeit some with different names) in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. There was once, notoriously, a Broadway Spider-Man, with songs by Bono and The Edge. And there’s one at Disneyland — an animatronic iteration that every day performs incredible stunts. Except when he malfunction and eats s*it.

As per The A.V. Club, a Disneyland patron attended the California park’s Avengers Campus section, which since last year has featured a robotic replica of Peter Parker in web-slinging costume, performing an awe-inspiring soar across the sky.

But that day, something went wrong. After Parker could be heard “Here goes something!”, the robotic Spider-Man flung through the air. But halfway through, as the video shows, its limbs locked up, rendering him a mere projectile heading for an unplanned destination. He then crashes right into the wall and out of sight.

The crowd gasps while a robotic voice continues as normal, announcing that the facility Spider-Man just destroyed “is not equipped with airbags.” You can then hear Parker let out a defeated “Okay,” suggesting the landing wasn’t supposed to be perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be…that.

The video was made public by an Instagrammer listed as Darrenl L., who revealed “the show briefly stopped for a couple of hours but was back up and running later!”, proving you can’t keep Queen’s favorite son down long.

You can watch Spider-Man wipe out in the video above.

(Via The AV Club)