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Canada’s Hannah Judge turned in a terrific little Fanclubwallet EP last year with Hurt Is Boring, and now she’s gearing up for a full-blown album: Today brings the news that You Have Got To Be Kidding Me is set to drop on May 20, as well as a new single, “Gr8 Timing!.” The song aligns with her groovy bedroom pop aesthetic and it even comes with a delightful video shot at a trampoline park and in a foam cube pit.

Judge says of the song, “Even people that everyone thinks are really nice can be mean too. Everyone has a mean streak!” Of the album more broadly, she notes, “I think I spend a lot of time trying to be like the cool, chill, calm girl. This album’s kind of me being like, maybe I’m not cool, calm, and collected.”

Watch the “Gr8 Timing!” video above and find the You Have Got To Be Kidding Me tracklist and Fanclubwallet’s upcoming tour dates below.

1. “Solid Ground”
2. “Gr8 Timing!”
3. “Fell Through”
4. “Toast”
5. “Trying To Be Nice”
6. “55”
7. “Go Out”
8. “That I Won’t Do”
9. “National TV”
10. “Coming Over”
11. “Jar”
12. “You Have Got To Be Kidding Me”

03/16 — Austin, TX @ Swan Dive — POP Montreal (SXSW)
03/18 — Austin, TX @ Austin, TX @ Swan Dive Patio – The Line Of Best Fit (SXSW)
03/24 — New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge *
03/25 — Washington, DC @ DC9 *
03/26 — Boston, MA @ Café 939 *
03/30 — Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen *
06/17 — Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co ^
06/18 — Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage ^
06/19 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall – Upstairs ^
06/21 — Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Purgatory ^
06/22 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East ^
06/24 — Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups ^
06/25 — Detroit, MI @ El Club ^
06/27 — Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground ^

* with Thomas Headon
^ with Penelope Scott & Yot Club

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me is out 5/20 via AWAL. Pre-order it here.

Fresh off the Euphoria Season 2 finale — which apparently put up some serious Game of Thrones numbers — actress Sydney Sweeney is reportedly engaged. On Monday morning, she was spotted wearing (via TMZ) what appears to be a very huge diamond engagement ring. As for who it’s from, well, Sweeney has been highly secretive about her relationship to Jonathan Davino, but that hasn’t stopped the two from being photographed several times together. From TMZ:

It’s the first time Sydney’s been seen with the diamond ring, she’s continuously remained mum on her relationship with her likely new fiancé — Jonathan Davino. Davino’s family owns 14th Round and Finalbell … a device technology and packaging company. The couple reportedly started dating back in 2018 — though Sydney’s never confirmed their relationship — but they’ve been linked and were even photographed together last summer smooching on a yacht.

The potential engagement kicks off a big year for Sweeney, who’s been earning praise for not just her work on Euphoria but also on The White Lotus. In a recent interview, Sweeney revealed that a casting director once told her she’d never make it television followed by a friend’s mother saying no boy would ever love her. (Yikes.) Clearly, Sweeney proved both of them wrong.

“I’m a very active person,” Sweeney told British GQ. “I get hurt. I get bruises. I get cuts. I think I came back from laser tag, and I had rug burns all over my legs because I got really into it. And she sat me up on the counter and told me that no boy will ever love me if I have marks on my body. I told her, well, I guess I’m just gonna have to love myself.”

(Via TMZ)

Kim Kardashian wants to divorce Kanye West, but Kanye West doesn’t want to divorce Kim Kardashian. That’s the power struggle at the center of their current frustrations in the ongoing case. With a hearing scheduled tomorrow, Kanye is making one last bid to preserve at least their married status, if not their relationship, by trying to exploit a loophole in California law regarding the couple’s prenuptial agreement. TMZ reports that Kanye’s lawyers have filed documents claiming that such agreements signed after 2002 are invalid.

However, according to TMZ, the loophole Kanye’s lawyers want to use only applies if one of the signed parties challenges it, which Kanye has never done. To do so, he would need to prove that it was either “unconscionable” or that he agreed to it involuntarily — and neither course would seem to be viable, as Kanye and Kim’s assets have remained separate throughout their marriage and both would retain their own fortunes if they returned to single status. Of course, Kanye and his lawyers may not be seeing eye-to-eye, since Kim revealed in the course of their back-and-forth that the rapper has changed lawyers three times, while refusing to come to the table to negotiate.

Kanye apparently still believes that there’s a chance to make it work, despite Kim’s multiple statements to the contrary and his own actions, which have seemed to push her away more than anything else. After Wednesday, though, it could very well be over, although the two will still co-parent their four children, with the couple living in the same neighborhood.

1883 star Sam Elliott paid a visit to the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, and let’s just say that he’s not rooting for Jane Campion’s Netflix Western psychological drama to win any Oscars. The film scored several nominations, but Elliott is most decidedly a fan and told Maron that the film is a “piece of sh*t” because characters wore “bow ties and not much else,” and “[t]here’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the f*cking movie.”

Elliott had other criticisms, too, about how Cumberbatch’s sinister (and repressed, and rather miserable) character, Phil, would “play his banjo” too much, and “what the f*ck”? Hmm well, Netflix has noticed what Elliott said, and the streaming service curiously tweeted a screencap from the movie that feels a lot like a response. Since the Netflix film account doesn’t mention Elliott, however, one can witness the shade.

“He’s just a man,” Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) can be seen saying to a shaken Rose (Kirsten Dunst). “Only another man.”

This line embodies much of the film’s critique against toxic masculinity, a point that Elliott doesn’t seem to appreciate. Phil terrorized the hell out of Rose, and Peter had vowed to protect his mother no matter what. This led to (despite Phil warming to Peter later in the movie) the young man’s decision to (apparently) give Phil rope tainted with the anthrax bacteria, so that he could never cruelly attack and endanger Rose again. It’s a bold move and an equally powerful message from the film, which reflects heavily upon sexuality and identity.

The Power of the Dog is currently streaming on Netflix, although you won’t see it in Sam Elliott’s queue.

In 2021, Feist debuted Multitudes, an intimate, immersive performance of new songs in Canada and in Hamburg, Germany. Now she’ll be bringing the series to the US for the first time with a recent announcement of shows beginning in the Western states.

Comprised entirely of new songs, here’s hoping it fits into an upcoming new album, as Feist’s last release was 2017’s Pleasure. For Multitudes, she has teamed up with David Byrne’s American Utopia designer Rob Sinclair for a full surround sound experience that promises to envelop the audience within the Canadian singer’s exquisite music. A press release for the performances describes it as such:

“Featuring all new music written and performed by Feist and accompanied by Todd Dahlhoff and Amir Yaghmai, the Canadian artist creates an intimate, radically communal, and topsy-turvy production that muddies the roles between audience and performer, observer and its subject. We are welcomed to sit back and watch, or raise our voices in collective anonymity. Anything goes.”

Tickets for Multitudes will go on sale Friday, March 4th at 10 a.m. local time here. Check out the full Multitudes tour dates below.

04/22 – Denver, CO @ The Buell Theatre
04/23 – Denver, CO @ The Buell Theatre
04/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium
04/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium
04/30 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
05/01 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
05/05 – Palo Alto, CA @ Stanford Memorial Auditorium
05/06 – Palo Alto, CA @ Stanford Memorial Auditorium
05/07 – Palo Alto, CA @ Stanford Memorial Auditorium

Ahead of the release of her upcoming fifth album, Crash, Charli XCX has released the video for “Baby.” “Baby” follows the release of her rock-influenced track “Good Ones” and the Rina Sawayama-assisted “Beg For You,” which features a prominent sample of September’s “Cry For You.”

The chorus of “Baby” features XCX’s signature yell-singing on the chorus, catchily proclaiming, “I’ma make you my, I’ma make you my, I’ma make you my, I’ma make you my baby.”

In the song’s video, directed by Imogene Strauss and Luke Orlando, XCX is seen in lingerie rising from a bed, before being joined by two dancers. The three then perform an energetic, elaborate dance routine in the room.

On the upcoming album, Charli XCX takes a slight departure from her hyperpop sounds in favor of ’80s-inspired pop and rock. She also incorporates darker themes, inspired by demons and witchcraft.

“I was able to possess and persuade an incredible group of producers and collaborators to contribute to Crash by using my femme fatale powers and a multitude of dark spells and curses,” XCX said in a statement. “Some of these include A. G. Cook, George Daniel, Deaton Chris Anthony, Lotus IV, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Oscar Holter, Digital Farm Animals, Rina Sawayama, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jason Evigan, Justin Raisen, Ariel Rechtshaid, Ilya, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jon Shave, and Mike Wise. They will all remain locked in my basement forever.”

Check out “Baby” above.

Crash is out 3/18 via Atlantic Records. Pre-save it here.

Charli XCX is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

To promote just-released new book, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk stopped by The View on Tuesday where he fielded questions about his decades-long comedy career, which included working with Chris Farley while the two were just starting out doing live sketches for Second City. The two eventually moved onto Saturday Night Live where Odenkirk helped create the classic sketch where Farley plays motivational speaker Matt Foley who “lives in a van down by the river.”

Thirty years later, the SNL sketch still left the ladies of The View dying with laughter, but when asked what was it like working with Farley, Odenkirk said nothing could beat their time together at Second City:

“There was nothing more fun than being on stage with him — or backstage. My daughter asked me the best time I had in show business, and I said doing that sketch with Chris every night on Second City. He wouldn’t stop until he made every performer laugh. He made the audience laugh right away. But he would grind you with his performance, and you couldn’t help it. It was pure joy.”

Of course, it shouldn’t a surprise that Odenkirk has fond memories of their pre-SNL days. In an excerpt from his book reported by the New York Post, Odenkirk revealed that he hated the now-classic sketch where Farley auditions to be a Chippendales dancer next to Patrick Swayze. The sketch would turn Farley into a comedy superstar, but Odenkirk never cared for the wrong lesson it taught his late friend.

“I know it confirmed Chris’s worst instincts about being funny, which was how he proved his worth — that getting laughed at was as good as getting a laugh,” Odenkirk wrote. “F*ck that sketch.”

(Via The View)

This month will mark the 30th anniversary of Tool’s first EP, Opiate. It was the first glimpse people got of the post-metal band that would come to expand the notions of sound in hard rock and metal. To celebrate 30 years of the release, Tool — who are currently on tour — are putting out a short film on Blu-Ray with an accompanying 46-page book. They’ve just shared an… uhhh… re-tooled version of “Opiate,” entitled “Opiate²,” and it might just be the best thing you’ll hear today.

For starters, “Opiate²” is an extended version that checks in at nearly ten minutes, but it’s the proggier elements of this new studio recording that really make it pop. The newly reimagined bridge at around the 7-minute mark is when things get really sick. All of the sounds go hushed, except for Adam Jones’ guitar, that peppers into the bars while a distorted Maynard Keenan hypnotically sings the classic lyrics:

“If you want to get your soul to heaven
Trust in me, now don’t you judge or question
You are broken now, but faith can heal you
Just do everything I tell you to do…

Jesus Christ, why don’t you come save my life now?
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now”

It’s chill-inducing stuff. And the accompanying video in the deluxe release is made by visual artist Dominic Hailstone and Jones. It’s Tool’s first new video in 15 years.

Listen to “Opiate²” above and pre-order the deluxe release here.

In Umma, Amanda (played by Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh) is raising her daughter on a farm in rural America when she receives an unexpected visitor. A man arrives with the remains of her deceased mother, and that “her anger will grow as long as she remains in this box.” After unceremoniously dropping her mom’s ashes in a grave, things start to get… let’s just say, it’s a horror movie produced by Sam Raimi. Things get weird.

“Umma is the Korean word for mother. It’s what I call my mom. There’s obviously a lot of movies about mothers and motherhood, [but] for me, I just never got the experience of watching a movie that explored that theme in the way that I have always experienced it and viewed it,” Umma writer and director Iris K. Shim told Cinema Blend.

The trailer, which you can watch below, is not for the faint of heart: an adorable baby chicken gets crushed by a foot (to say nothing of the corpse-like hands that grab Oh), and a nine-tailed fox demon, or Kumiho, appears to be munching on some organs at the 2:04 mark. It’s terrifying… but I want one?

Umma, which also stars Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, and Tom Yi, hits theaters on March 18.

You know what Ukraine doesn’t need right now? A former action star trying to stage a convincing “both-sides” argument to downplay the current Russian invasion killing its citizens.

Speaking to Fox News Digital on Monday, Steven Seagal shared his thoughts on pal Vladimir Putin’s attack on the democratic nation. Seagal, who has expressed his support for Putin and Russian policies in the past, lamented the fact that the two countries were at war, hoping for a peaceful resolution to the conflict before suggesting a wild conspiracy theory to absolve his dictator bestie from any blame.

“Most of us have friends and family in Russia & Ukraine,” Seagal said. “I look at both as one family and really believe it is an outside entity spending huge sums of money on propaganda to provoke the two countries to be at odds with each other.”

We’re not sure whether Seagal is suggesting the conflict is just fake news or he’s saying Putin is just idiotic enough to be duped into launching a full-scale invasion of another country. Either way, it’s a bizarre take on the situation, especially since, in the past, Seagal has been more than happy to support his martial arts buddy’s plans for world domination. Seagal was granted a Russian passport in 2017 and was appointed as a special envoy to the United States by the country a year later. His dual citizenship prompted Ukraine to ban him from the country for five years after Seagal publicly endorsed Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea. He would later appear at a Crimean concert put on by a pro-Putin biker club with ties to the separatist movement in Ukraine.

So, it seems pretty clear which side Seagal — who we’d like to remind everyone was born in Lansing, Michigan — falls on.