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The Sound Check challenge has stressed out a lot of artists, but not Zedd. The DJ-producer declared he had so much fun choosing between songs that it’s now the only kind of press he wants to do. That’s high praise coming from a 23-year industry vet, and a testament to host Jeremy Hecht’s skill at picking songs that really make stars think about their choices.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

This time around, Zedd has to choose between tracks from Muse and Queen, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Paramore and Feeder, and Kid Cudi and ASAP Rocky. The range of songs from which he has to choose is a nod to just how broad his taste has to be as a DJ, and he gives plenty of insight about his production style along the way.

Watch Zedd take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.

Sabrina Carpenter’s No. 1 single “Please Please Please” isn’t a scary song. It is now, though, at least as it’s heard in the new trailer for Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried’s movie The Housemaid. Instead of the original, sleek throwback pop production, the instrumentation behind Carpenter’s voice is replaced by creepy strings and other sounds that really heighten the tension.

An official description of the movie reads:

“THE HOUSEMAID is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters’ closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end.”

The movie is set to hit theaters on December 19.

Meanwhile, it was just announced that Carpenter will be one of the headliners of Coachella next year. Lola Young also just turned in a cool cover of Carpenter’s “Manchild.”

Check out the The Housemaid trailer above.

One of hip-hop’s most prolific hitmakers has passed; Omen, who produced for Beyoncé, Drake, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, and many more, has died at age 49. According to NBC News, Omen — whose real name was Sidney Brown, was found dead in his New York City apartment by his family after missing a DJ gig on Saturday night (September 13).

His sister, Nicole Iris Brown, told NBC News, “He was holistic and healthy. So we don’t know of him being sick, so this is all pretty sudden.” She also commented on his legacy, saying, “I hope people will remember that he was willing to help the younger generation. He was always big on helping younger people start their careers and get themselves into the game. It was about just the music, no matter who the artist was.”

This was certainly true of Drake, whose debut album Thank Me Later featured Omen’s production on the song “Shut It Down” featuring The-Dream. Omen had also produced Beyoncé’s 2013 song “Mine,” which appeared on her self-titled album and incidentally also featured Drake. Omen even helped Ludacris win a Grammy; he produced the song “Tell It Like It Is” from Luda’s 2006 album, Release Therapy. Throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, he also made beats for Fabolous, Keith Murray, Redman, and Usher, as well as a number of up-and-coming acts in the blog era.

Cardi B promised an eventful week full of surprise announcements ahead of her album release, and no matter what, you can’t say she didn’t deliver. After revealing the features that would appear on Am I The Drama? and announcing the dates of her Little Miss Drama tour, Cardi immediately cast doubt on those tour plans by revealing that she is once again pregnant, with her fourth child.

In an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings, Cardi broke the news that she’s expecting a child with her new boyfriend, New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs. The baby will be Diggs’ first. The couple was first rumored to be dating in October 2024, but did not confirm a relationship until this past July. Fans had been speculating on the possibility that Cardi might be pregnant in the lead-up to the announcement, but as always, the rapper remained firmly in control of her own narrative.

Since 2018, Cardi B has been co-parenting multiple children with her ex-husband Offset, so she’s used to having a big brood running around. In 2018, their first child, Kulture, was born; they followed up with Wave in 2022; their third child, Blossom Belle, was born last September, after Cardi filed for divorce from Offset.

Meanwhile, the new arrival Cardi fans have been waiting for since 2019 will be arriving this Friday; Am I The Drama? is due for release on 9/19 via Atlantic Records.

Ed Sheeran just released his album Play a few days ago. That might seem like a happy occasion, but Sheeran actually doesn’t enjoy the week after releasing a new album, he has revealed.

Speaking with hosts Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on Heart Breakfast today (September 17), Sheeran explained:

“If I’m being honest, I don’t enjoy release week. I think I love making music and I love touring music, and I think that the bridge between the two is releasing albums. Obviously, you have to put albums out there for people to digest and then come to the shows. But yeah, it’s never fun putting it out and getting, like, ragged on for a week. But this week will end, and next week will begin, and the album will settle in. It’s happened every single record that I’ve put out. You put it out, people have an opinion, then they move on, and then your fans find it and then you tour it.”

He added, “I feel like the positive comes after release week. Release week is a time where artists put themselves out there and everyone has the opportunity to rag on them for the week. So it does actually feel like quite a negative week.”

Watch the full interview here.

A couple months ago, we got “Today’s Song,” the first new Foo Fighters single in two years. Now, it looks like a more robust comeback is on the way, as a new jokey AI teaser video from the band indicates.

The fake Dave Grohl starts, “Hey, everyone. It’s been a while, but I’m happy to announce that Foo Fighters are coming back to bring you that 100-percent real, raw, human element of rock and roll. I mean, with a setlist like this, you can’t go wrong.” Then, he holds up a sheet of paper filled with nonsense letters.

Nate Mendel, sporting some bizarre-looking fingers, then adds, “After 30 years of being a band, we’ve realized that the most important thing to us is that what you see and hear coming from our speakers is the genuine passion of the six living, breathing human beings on stage.”

The bit goes on from there, and eventually, Grohl introduces Ilan Rubin, the band’s newest drummer and replacement for Josh Freese. It then cuts to a shot of Rubin playing on a wraparound drum kit, beating away with all ten of his arms. The video ends with an on-screen message: “Stay tuned… there’s more to come!!!”

This comes after the band reportedly cancelled a planned 2025 tour.

Check out the video above.

Cardi B’s new album, Am I The Drama?, is finally arriving after years of delays this Friday, September 19. While she has yet to reveal the tracklist — which will include her previously released singles, “WAP” and “Up,” and newly released “Imaginary Playerz” — she has shared the featured artists that will appear on it.

In addition to expected names like frequent collaborators Lizzo and Megan Thee Stallion, there are up-and-coming talents like fellow New Yorker Cash Cobain and breakout R&B stars Summer Walker and Tyla. There are also some unexpected names, including Janet Jackson(!) and Selena Gomez(!!).

During a Spaces chat with fans, Cardi explained why other names fans might have expected didn’t appear on the album, saying, “We have asked and everything but one thing I don’t do: I don’t beg, baby… If y’all wanted these artists on the f*cking album, well, maybe y’all should have called them. ‘Cause I did… I can’t control people.”

Cardi said earlier this week that she’ll have an announcement every day until the release. She followed through earlier today with the reveal of her Little Miss Drama tour dates, and with two days left until the release, that tracklist has to be on Wednesday or Thursday.

In a few days, Lola Young’s new album I’m Only F**king Myself will be here. In the lead-up to the album, she has also been busting out some covers.

Back in February, she covered the Arctic Monkeys classic “I Wanna Be Yours,” and now, she has taken to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. There, she turned in a rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s latest hit, “Manchild.” Young’s performance puts her powerhouse vocals at the forefront as she’s backed by a groovy live band. Here’s a clip.

Carpenter, meanwhile, is fresh off performing at the VMAs, and over the past month, it was announced she’s headlining Lollapalooza’s South American festivals and Coachella in 2026.

Find Young’s upcoming tour dates below.

Lola Young’s 2025 Tour Dates

09/27 — All Things Go Festival @ Forest Hills, New York
09/28 — All Things Go Festival @ Columbia, MD
11/01 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
11/04 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
11/05 — New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
11/09 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
11/11 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle
11/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
11/19 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
11/21 — Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory
11/24 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
11/25 — St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
11/28 — Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
11/29 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
12/01 — Vancouver, BC @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
12/02 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater at Lumen Field
12/04 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
12/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

Mark Ronson has led quite the life in and adjacent to show business, and now he has chronicled it in a new book, Night People: How To Be A DJ In ’90s New York City, which was released today (September 16).

Ronson spoke with Today about his motivations behind writing the book, saying, “I love the music from that era, the ’90s and early 2000s — it was a time in my life where I was so excited. You know, you’re 18, 19, finding your passion and your craft. And then, to be honest, a lot of my friends in that era were passing, so I wanted to find a way to remember them and this amazing little scene that we made.”

Ronson also shared with the show an anecdote about how his mother once brought Robin Williams home when he was a kid to surprise him.

The publisher’s description of the book reads:

“Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack — behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past two decades is one man: Mark Ronson. Night People conjures the undeniable magic of the city’s bygone nightlife — a time when clubs were diverse, glamorous, and a little lawless, and each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibility. It’s about the beauty of what you can create with just two Technics and a mixer, in a golden era before Giuliani, camera phones, and bottle service upended everything. It’s also about a teenager finding his way — stalking DJ Stretch Armstrong and biting his mixes, crate-digging in every corner of New York, grinding gig after gig through a decade of incredible music — and finding a community of people who, in their own strange, cracked ways, lived for the night.

Organized around the venues that defined his experience of the downtown scene, Ronson evokes the specific rush of that decade and those spaces — where fashion folks and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5’ers — and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down. A heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Night People is the definitive account of ’90s New York nightlife and the making of a musical mastermind.”

Learn more about the book here and check out the cover below.

Mark Ronson’s Night People: How To Be A DJ In ’90s New York City Book Cover

Last year, Faye Webster put her interest in yoyo at the forefront and launched the Faye Webster YoYo Invitational. Webster apparently had a pretty good time with it, as today (September 16), she announced the return of the event.

This time will be different, though. The event is now called just the Faye Webster Invitational and that’s due to its expanded scope: Aside from yoyo, the event — now spanning two days, from October 25 to 26 — will highlight LiveBall tennis and chess. Of those, though, only the yoyo showcase and concert will be open to ticketed audiences. It’s all going down in Webster’s hometown of Atlanta.

The yoyo showcase and concert will be on October 26 at The Eastern. It is set to feature 12 yoyo masters unleashing “their most daring, intricate, and mesmerizing tricks in a no-rules, no-limitations showcase,” as well as a solo performance from Webster and special guest Erika De Casier. Tickets go on pre-sale starting September 17 at noon ET, followed by the general on-sale starting September 19 at 10 a.m. ET. More information can be found here.

October 25 will feature the tennis tournament at Sharon Lester Tennis Center at Piedmont Park. On the 26th will be the chess tournament, featuring 100 competitors. Details for interested participants will be available here on September 23

In a 2021 interview with Uproxx, Webster explained how she first got into yoyo, saying, “I just got one for Christmas, just as like a sh*tty stocking stuffer. It was right before we went on tour, so I just brought it not thinking that I’d actually use it every day. It wasn’t really until I found other players online and connected with them and actually saw what it could escalate to. That’s when I realized how fun it is.”