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Friday, June 7

• Actress — Statik (Smalltown Supersound)
• Alfie Templeman — Radiosoul (Chess Club Records)
• Alisa Amador — Multitudes (Honest Magic Records)
• All Under Heaven — What Lies Ahead of Me (Sunday Drive Records)
• Amanda Bergman — Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever (CowCow)
• Angélica Garcia — Gemelo (Partisan Records)
• Ann Annie — The Wind (Nettwerk)
• Aurora — What Happened to the Heart? (Universal)
• Bathe Alone — I Don’t Do Humidity (Nettwerk)
• Beings — There Is a Garden (No Quarter)
• Bloomsday — Heart of the Artichoke (Bayonet Records)
• Bon Jovi — Forever (Captain Kidd Corp.)
• Bonny Light Horseman — Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
• Bored At My Grandmas House — Show & Tell (Clue Records)
• Carly Pearce — Hummingbird (Big Machine)
• Cactus — Temple Of Blues — Influences And Friends (Cleopatra Records)
• Casey MQ — Later that day, the day before, or the day before that (Ghostly International)
• Charli XCX — Brat (Atlantic)
• Clara La San — Made Mistakes (AWAL)
• Eels — Eels Time! (E Works/Play It Again Sam)
• Elkka — Prism of Pleasure (Ninja Tune)
• Enter Shikari — Dancing on the Frontline (So Recordings/Silva Screen Records Limited)
• FREQz — Grizzly Peak (FREQz)
• Fine — Rocky Top Ballads (Escho)
• Flesh Car — Flesh Car (Tough Lover)
• French Cassettes — Benzene (Tender Loving Empire)
• Goat Girl — Below the Waste (Rough Trade)
• The Hu — Live at Glastonbury (BBC/Glastonbury Festivals)
• JD Pinkus — Grow a Pear (JD Pinkus & Shimmy-Disc)
• Kaytranada — Timeless (RCA)
• Kelley Stoltz — La Fleur (Agitated Records)
• L’Impératric — Pulsar (microqlima)
• Laura Misch — Sample the Earth (One Little Independent Records)
• Liz Lawrence — Peanuts (Chrysalis Records Limited)
• Logan Lynn — SOFTCORE (Kill Rock Stars)
• LØLØ — falling for robots and wishing i was one (Hopeless Records)
• Man Man — Carrot On Strings (Sub Pop)
• Marina Allen — Eight Pointed Star (Fire Records)
• Meghan Trainor — Timeless (Epic Records)
• Men Seni Suyemin — BELIEVE (2MR)
• The Mysterines — Afraid of Tomorrows (Universal)
• Nat Harvie — New Virginity (Boiled Records)
• Nduduzo Makhathini — uNomkhubulwane (UMG)
• Nikka Costa — Dirty Disco (Go Funk Yourself, Inc.)
• NxWorries — Why Lawd? (Stones Throw Records)
• Pedro the Lion — Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
• Peggy Gou — I Hear You (XL)
• Perennial — Art History (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Rose Hotel — A Pawn Surrender (Strolling Bones Records)
• SHAED — Spinning Out (BMG)
• Shygirl — CLUB SHY RMX EP (Because Music Ltd.)
• Strand of Oaks — Miracle Focus (Western Vinyl)
• Swim Deep — There’s A Big Star Outside (Submarine Cat Records)
• Tems — Born in the Wild (RCA Records/Since 93′)

Friday, June 14

• Annabel — Worldviews (Tiny Engines)
• Been Stellar — Scream From New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
• Black Country Communion — V (J&R Adventures)
• Blvck Hippie — Basketball Camp (The Record Machine)
• Channel Tres — Head Rush (RCA)
• Cola — The Gloss (Fire Talk)
• The Decemberists — As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Thirty Tigers)
• David Bowie — Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC)
• The Dead Tongues — Body of Light / I Am a Cloud (Psychic Hotline)
• The Early November — The Early November (Pure Noise Records)
• Ebbb — All At Once EP (Ninja Tune)
• Fana Hues — MOTH (Sweet Virtue/Westminster Recordings)
• Hermanos Gutiérrez — Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
• Hockey Dad — Rebuild Repeat (BMG)
• James Vincent McMorrow — Wide Open, Horses (Nettwerk)
• John Cale — POPtical Illusion (Domino)
• John Grant — The Art of the Lie (PIAS)
• Jordy — Sex With Myself (JORDY)
• Julie Christmas — Ridiculous and Full of Blood (Siviana, Red Crk AB)
• Julius Rodriguez — Evergreen (Verve Label Group)
• Kneecap — Fine Art ([PIAS])
• Liily — Liily EP (Flush Records)
• Lindsey Stirling — Duality (Concord)
• LULLANAS — Pretty Lies & Time Machines (Nettwerk)
• Martha Skye Murphy — Um (AD 93)
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes — Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceañera! (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs — Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits (BMG)
• Moby — always centered at night (Always Centered At Night)
• MONO — OATH (Temporary Residence)
• Normani — Dopamine (Easy Life Records)
• nusar3000 — 3000 (RUSIA-IDK)
• Oliver Wood — Fat Cat Silhouette (Honey Jar / Indirecto Records)
• Paul McCartney & Wings — One Hand Clapping (MPL Communications Inc/Ltd)
• PJ Morton — Cape Town to Cairo (Morton Records / EMPIRE)
• Pocketboy Solid — Pocketboy Solid (AESTHETYK)
• Pride Month Barbie — All The Girls in the Room Say ‘Sorry,’ (Get Better Records)
• Raveena — Where Butterflies Go in the Rain (Moonstone Recordings, LLC / EMPIRE)
• RJD2 — Visions Out Of Limelight (R J Electrical Connections)
• Sam Morton — Daffodils & Dirt (XL)
• Squid Pisser — Dreams of Puke (SKiN GRAFT Records)
• Staples Jr. Singers — Searching (Luaka Bop)
• Stumbleine — Deleted Scene (Monotreme Records)
• $uicideboy$ — New World Depression (G59 Records)
• This Is Lorelei — Box For Buddy, Box For Star (Double Double Whammy)
• Walt Disco — The Warping (Lucky Number)
• Will Gregory Moog Ensemble — Heat Ray (Mute Artists Ltd.)
• Zsela — Big For You (Mexican Summer)
• ZU — The Lost Demo (Subsound)

Friday, June 21

• Avril Lavigne — Greatest Hits (Sony Music Entertainment)
• Ben Hauke — Club Cute (Touching Bass)
• Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, and William Parker — WEBO (Black Editions)
• Club Kuru — Before the World (Dog Holiday Records)
• Cody Dickinson — Homemade (Petaluma Records)
• d’Eon — Leviathan (Hausu Mountain)
• Daniel Davies — Ghost of the Heart (Sacred Bones)
• Daryl Hall — D (Untied Artists Productions, Inc.)
• Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore — TexiCali (Yep Roc Records)
• DJ Lag — The Rebellion (Black Major x Ice Drop)
• earthtone9 — In Resonance Nexus (Candlelight Records)
• Emilíana Torrini — Miss Flower (Groenland Records)
• Gracie Abrams — The Secret of Us (Interscope Records)
• The Greeting Committee — Everyone’s Gone and I Know I’m The Cause (The Greeting Committee)
• Islands — What Occurs (ELF)
• Jahnah Camille — i tried to freeze light, but only remember a girl EP (Winspear)
• Jim Lauderdale — My Favorite Place (Sky Crunch Records)
• Joe Gittleman — Hold Up (Bad Time Records)
• Joni Mitchell — The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) (Elektra/Asylum Records)
• The Joy — The Joy (Transgressive Records)
• Kate Nash — 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars)
• Kehlani — Crash (Atlantic)
• Lake Street Dive — Good Together (Fantasy Records)
• Lauren Watkins — The Heartbroken Record (Mercury Records/Republic Records)
• Lava La Rue — STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
• Linda Thompson — Proxy Music (StorySound Records)
• Little Stranger — Sat Around Trippin (Ineffable Records)
• Lola Young — That Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway (Universal)
• Luna Shadows — Bathwater (Luna Shadows)
• Moon Diagram — Cemetery Classics (Sonic Cathedral)
• Nightjar — Mala Leche (Lewis Recordings)
• Pepe Deluxé — Comix Sonix (Catskills Records Ltd.)
• POND — Stung! (Spinning Top Records)
• Rich Ruth — Water Still Flows (Michael Ruth)
• Rob Baird — Burning in the Stars (Hard Luck Recording Company)
• The Story So Far — I Want to Disappear (Pure Noise Records)
• Swerve — The Darkroom EP (The Darkroom Records)
• The Used — MEDZ (Big Noise)
• Various Artists — Noise For Now Vol. 2 (Noise For Now)
• Wage War — Stigma (Fearless Records)
• Wild Up — Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence (New Amsterdam)
• Wild Yaks — Monumental Deeds (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Your Old Droog — Movie (REM-U-LAK RECORDS)

June 28

• Aaron Frazer — Into the Blue (Dead Oceans)
• Anvil — One and Only (AFM Records)
• Asher White — Home Constellation Study (Ba Da Bing!)
• Bodysync — Nutty (Buddies Inc)
• Camila Cabello — C, XOXO (Geffen/Interscope)
• Dirty Three — Love Changes Everything (Bella Union)
• Double Wish — Universe Sometimes EP (Hit the North Records)
• Eiko Ishibashi — Evil Does Not Exist (Drag City)
• The Folk Implosion — Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Frances Forever — Lockjaw (Mom+Pop)
• Gabriel Birnbaum — Patron Saint of Tireless Losers (Western Vinyl)
• Guided By Voices — Strut of Kings (GBV Inc)
• Hiatus Kaiyote — Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
• Imagine Dragons — LOOM (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records)
• John Gallagher Jr. — Goodbye or Something (Grand Phony Music)
• JXDN — When the Music Stops (Elektra)
• Laughing — Because It’s True (Meritorio Records)
• Liana Flores — Flower of the Soul (Verve)
• Little Stranger — Sat Around Trippin (Ineffable Records)
• Loma — How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop Records)
• Lupe Fiasco — Samurai (1st & 15th Too)
• Mabe Fratti — Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard of Hope)
• MILLY — Your Own Becoming (Dangerbird)
• Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — South of Here (Stax Records)
• Nebula and Black Rainbows — In Search of the Cosmic Tale: Crossing the Galactic Portal (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Neil Young + Crazy Horse — Early Daze (Warner)
• Omar Apollo — God Said No (Warner)
• Robert Jon & The Wreck — Red Moon Rising (Journeyman Records)
• Prefuse 73 — New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 2 (Lex Records)
• Previous Industries — Service Merchandise (Merge Records)
• Queen of Jeans — All Again (Memory Music)
• Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance — Jinxed by Being (Drag City)
• SML — Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
• Sour Widows — Revival of a Friend (Exploding In Sound Records)
• Still Woozy — Loveseat (Interscope Records)
• Superfan — Tow Truck Jesus (Superfan)
• SUSS — Birds & Beasts (Northern Spy)
• Virginity — Bad Jazz (Smartpunk Records)
• The Warning — Keep Me Fed (Republic Records)
• Washed Out — Notes From a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
• Wilco — Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP (dBpm Records)
• Yellow House — Psalms of Yellow House (Foreign Family Collective)

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Cardi B stoke the fires of a feud and Fred Again.. make some new friends. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

GloRilla — “Wanna Be (Remix) Feat. Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B

Now that Drake v. Kendrick Lamar appears to be just about done, a new hip-hop beef is stepping up to take its place: Last week, Cardi B hopped on a much-anticipated remix of GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Wanna Be” and clearly had a bone to pick with BIA.

Normani — “Candy Paint”

Fans have been waiting for Normani’s debut album so long that it’s become a bit of a joke. Well, Dopamine is finally coming and “Candy Paint” is an enticing taste, an endlessly rhythmic and catchy tune.

Fred Again.., Anderson .Paak, and Chika — “Places To Be”

Fred Again.. increasing his star power and gaining the clout to access more and more collaborators is a great thing. He proved that last week on “Places To Be,” which sees him teaming up with Anderson .Paak and Chika on a kinetic, summer-ready banger.

Roddy Ricch — “Survivors Remorse”

Former Uproxx cover star announced the launch of a new era last week, and he followed that dispatch up with “Survivors Remorse.” It’s a reflective song that seems him getting vulnerable about fame, loss, and more.

Polo G — “Angels In The Sky”

Hood Poet has been a long time coming: The Polo G project was initially set for 2023 but ended up getting delayed and has still yet to surface. Whatever the case, the rollout continued last week with “Angels In The Sky,” which comes with a reflective video (in a time when impatient fans would prefer he spend more time looking ahead).

Kehlani — “Next 2 U”

Later this month, we’ll have Crash, a new album from Kehlani. The artist offered a slice of it last week with “Next 2 U,” a dynamic tune on which Kehlani sings about an intense love.

Charli XCX, Robyn, and Yung Lean — “The 360 Remix With Robyn And Yung Lean”

Charli XCX went on a tour of Sweden’s diverse musical landscape for her new remix of “360”: The revamped track features pop icon Robyn and hip-hop favorite Yung Lean, with both artists representing the pop-leaning and alternative-focused dimensions Charli has oscillated between lately.

The Marías — “Echo”

The Marías leaned into an aquatic theme on their new album Submarine, and that can be heard on “Echo.” There’s definitely an underwater quality to it, but the lyrical vulnerability does anything but drown.

Channel Tres — “Cactus Water”

We’re still waiting on a release date for Channel Tres’ upcoming album Head Rush, and “Cactus Water” will only make fans less patient. Uproxx’s Aaron Williams says of the song, “Inspired by Berghain’s techno scene, the funky new track incorporates elements of nu-disco, with a hard-hitting groove, a hefty bass line, and a chattering rhythm guitar.”

Shaboozey — “Drink Don’t Need No Mix” Feat. BigXthaPlug

Shaboozey has been on an absolute tear since blowing up after his appearance on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. His new album — Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going — is out now and among the highlights is “Drink Don’t Need No Mix,” a BigXthaPlug collaboration that’s a seamless blend of hip-hop and country at a time where the latter genre has more mainstream relevance than it has in years.

The Minnesota Vikings’ roster saw some big changes this offseason, as they had two stars depart in free agency, with Kirk Cousins leaving for Atlanta and Danielle Hunter joining the Texans, and made some major signings themselves with a revamped defensive line led by Jonathan Greenard, and a new star running back in Aaron Jones joining from the rival Packers.

In the Draft, Minnesota moved up to take JJ McCarthy at No. 10 overall, as he’ll join a QB room with free agent signing Sam Darnold as they look to move on from the Cousins era. While the roster got shaken up considerably, the priority for the Vikings had to be locking down All-Pro wide receiver Justin Jefferson on a new contract extension to give their hopeful franchise QB in McCarthy a true top target.

Jefferson and the Vikings took their time in extension talks, with other star receivers getting paid around the league, resetting the market a few times. That deal finally got done on Monday, with Jefferson announcing the deal himself and Adam Schefter providing the details on a 4-year, $140 million deal with $110 million guaranteed that makes Jefferson the highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history.

Since arriving in Minnesota as a first round pick out of LSU, Jefferson has been one of the NFL’s top receivers. He has never finished a season with fewer than 1,000 yards, managing to pass that milestone last year even though he played just 10 games due to injury. Over his first four years in the NFL, Jefferson has amassed 5,899 receiving yards and 30 touchdowns, earning three All-Pro nods (one first team) and the AP Offensive Player of the Year in 2022. Now, he’s locked in long-term for the Vikings and will look to build chemistry with a new QB room to continue producing at an elite level.

Spock would never. Zachary Quinto (Heroes, NOS4A2, Star Trek franchise) has been told not to return to a trendy eatery after allegedly pulling a James Corden. Manita, a self-described “mediterranean-ish bistro” in Toronto, straight-up tagged Quinto following a Sunday encounter that apparently turned brunch into a tear-fest.

“Zachary Quinto — an amazing Spock, but a terrible customer,” the restaurant posted in an Instagram story. “Yelled at our staff like an entitled child after he didn’t reply to two texts to inform him that his table was ready and refused to believe the empty tables in the dining room weren’t available for him despite being politely informed they were spoken for.”

The incident reportedly grew tense and emotional: “Made our host cry and the rest of our brunch diners uncomfortable. Mr. Quinto, take your bad vibes somewhere else, we have many lovely celebrities join us at Manita but you are NOT one of them.”

On Monday morning, Manita’s social media team decided to immortalize the fleeting “story” moment in a full-on Instagram post, too.

Quinto hasn’t yet publicly commented on the accusations. He did, however, celebrate his 47th birthday on Sunday while allegedly being a total grump. And there’s no way that he did so while eating the below shakshuka. That’s the face of a god in a skillet right there. Grumping is simply not possible while enjoying this, but reportedly (and on a more serious note), Quinto will not be indulging in this heavenly Manita dish in the future.

(Via Manita on Instagram)

Gracie Abrams just announced her The Secret Of Us Tour, and god, I’m actually invested. The 2024 North American tour will be in support of Abrams’ The Secret Of Us album, due out on June 21, and Role Model will serve as Abrams’ opener.

“THE SECRET OF US TOUR (pt. 1…) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Abrams wrote on Instagram on Monday morning, June 3, and the parenthetical “Pt. 1” should absolutely be noted. “I wish I could properly express how excited I am for these shows. The whole time we were writing the album, all I could think about was being in the same room as you — playing these songs, collectively screaming and dancing and also maybe crying for fun.”

The 24-year-old Grammy nominee continued, “I’ve missed it all beyond words and I’ve missed your faces like crazy, and every day I don’t spend with the band and the crew feels like being far away from home, so THANK YOU for being the reason I get to reunite with them. Truly, thank you. And then the luckiest of all is that @rolemodel will be on the road with us. We’re playing venues I’ve only ever dreamed of playing, and it’s entirely because of you. I love you, and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to tour this album.”

According to Abrams, tickets will be available through a general onsale beginning on Friday, June 7, but pre-sale tickets will begin going on sale on Tuesday, June 4, at 10 a.m. local time.

Find all ticketing information here, and check out all of Abrams’ upcoming tour dates, including resuming her duties as an opener for Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour.

Gracie Abrams’ Headlining The Secret Of Us Tour Dates

09/05 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds*
09/06 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater*
09/08 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre*
09/11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre*
09/15 — Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium*
09/19 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory*
09/20 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall*
09/22 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park*
09/24 — Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater*
09/25 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory*
09/27 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom*
09/29 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium*
09/30 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy*
10/02 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem*
10/04 — New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall*
10/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met*
10/09 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway*
10/10 — Portland, ME @ State Theatre*

Gracie Abrams’ The Eras Tour Dates

10/18 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium^
10/19 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium^
10/20 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium^
10/25 — New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome^
10/26 — New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome^
10/27 — New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome^
11/01 — Indianapolis, IN @ Lucas Oil Stadium^
11/02 — Indianapolis, IN @ Lucas Oil Stadium^
11/03 — Indianapolis, IN @ Lucas Oil Stadium^
11/14 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
11/15 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
11/16 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
11/21 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
11/22 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
11/23 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre^
12/06 — Vancouver, BC @ BC Place^
12/07 — Vancouver, BC @ BC Place^
12/08 — Vancouver, BC @ BC Place^

* with ROLE MODEL
^ supporting Taylor Swift

The Secret Of Us is out 6/21 via Interscope. Find more information here.

This week will be a big one for Tems in what’s already been an exciting 18 months for the Nigerian singer. On Friday, June 7, Tems will release her debut album Born In The Wild and ahead of its arrival, the singer stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk to preview a couple of songs from the project and revisit highlights from her discography. She began with “Me & U,” the lead single off Born In The Wild, which was received a slightly stripped-back but equally enjoyable treatment thanks to support from her band and vocalists. Next came “Ice T,” the highlight from her 2020 breakout project For Broken Ears.

Afterward, Tems unveiled previously unheard songs, “Unfortunate” and “Forever,” from Born In The Wild. The former leans more into R&B and afrobeats as a reminder of Tems’ versatile while “Forever” strikes as a truly soaring record that highlights her growth. To close her set, Tems performed “Love Me Jeje,” the third single from Born In The Wild which interpolates Seyi Sodimu’s 1997 hit of the same name.

Tems’ Tiny Desk set comes days after she revealed the official tracklist for Born In The Wild. The album features 18 songs and guest appearances from Asake and J. Cole. She’s also set to embark on the Born In The Wild Tour with Naomi Sharon and Lekan.

You can watch Tems’ NPR Tiny Desk in the video above.

Born In The Wild is out 6/7 via RCA Records/Since ’93. Find out more information here.

If Miley Cyrus never acts again, her big-screen filmography will be bookended by movies directed by Tim Burton (Big Fish) and one of the Coen brothers (Drive-Away Dolls). Not many people can say that! But the former Hannah Montana star, who was living the best of both worlds (acting and singing) until she decided to focus on the latter, is interested in returning to Hollywood.

“I would like to act again,” Miley told W Magazine. “But the role would really need to be right, since it’s kind of hard for people to see past me and buy into a character. The character would either need to be an extension of myself, or someone — or something — with a personality that can conquer my own. I would need a character that is bigger than me.”

So… probably not a sequel to LOL (IJBOL?)

Cyrus also discussed a fax she received from her godmother Dolly Parton. “I literally have to access my lawyer’s office, because the lawyer is the only person who can still receive a fax,” she said. “Dolly wrote to me to say: ‘How much do I love you? As much as my heart can hold and as far as my arms can reach.’ It gets me choked up. I just love her so much. Last Christmas, she gave me a whole mannequin, done in her proportions and wearing her outfit. It’s so major.” A 9 to 5 remake starring Miley Cyrus isn’t the worst idea, actually.

(Via W Magazine)

Though the official start of summer is still a few weeks away, Megan The Stallion got a jump start on it last month with the launch of her Hot Girl Summer Tour with GloRilla. Thankfully the tour, which wraps up at the end of July, is just the beginning of Megan’s summer plans as the Houston rapper officially announced her third album over the weekend. The project, titled Megan, will arrive on June 28. According to People, Megan announced the album during the Atlanta stop of her Hot Girl Summer Tour where she revealed a QR code for fans to pre-save the album.

Megan also unveiled what appeared to be the cover art for Megan. A large “M” is depicted on the cover as well as a large cocoon with Megan emerging from it upside-down. So far, Megan has been supported by three singles — “Cobra,” “Hiss,” and “Boa” — and a freestyle series that saw the rapper lay bars over Gucci Mane’s “I Think I Love Her” and Far East Movement’s “Like A G6.”

The Atlanta stop for Megan’s Hot Girl Summer Tour delivered more than just news about her album. After a massive water main break in Atlanta forced her to reschedule a tour stop, Megan kicked off her pair of shows in the city by bringing out Latto to perform. The two previewed a new remix of the latter’s “Sunday Service” remix and performed “Budget” from Megan’s Traumazine album.

Megan is out 6/28 via Hot Girl Productions LLC. Find out more information here.

Godzilla Minus One, one of the best movies of 2023 (and maybe the best Godzilla movie since the 1954 original), is now streaming on Netflix.

The streaming release came with no advance notice on Saturday which IndieWire notes is “very unusual” for Netflix: “That suggests the contractual agreement between Toho and Legendary Pictures (the producers of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire), which called for delayed availability for the Japanese title, specifically set June 1 as the earliest for home release.”

We’re living in a golden age of ‘Zilla.

Godzilla Minus One, which is directed Takashi Yamazaki and stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki, was a surprise box office sensation, earning over $115 million worldwide on a reported $15 million budget. It’s also the first Godzilla film to win an Oscar, taking home Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards. He even wore a little bowtie.

“We looked at a lot of different Godzillas throughout the years and as a team we wanted to get the essence of what we thought most actually represented what Godzilla is about,” Yamazaki said at the ceremony. “Godzilla, if you trace back to its origins, is a symbol of terror, war and nuclear power. I wanted to make sure that when audiences saw Godzilla, that fear would be instilled on them.”

Godzilla Minus One is streaming on Netflix now.

First responders often have a much different view of safety than people who don’t handle dangerous situations every day. Police officers, doctors, nurses, firefighters and military personnel see what happens when people put themselves in danger and are often a little more cautious than the average civilian.

Situations that seem safe to some can seem like the beginnings of a horror story to someone who works in the emergency room and regularly sees people being admitted for the same types of injuries.

That’s why a video by pediatric operating room nurse Josie Rose Mueller should be seen by parents everywhere. As a mother of 3 young boys, who has been working in the operating room since 2018, she shares the 5 things she’d never let her kids do because, as Mueller puts it bluntly: She’s “seen some sh*t.”

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Although the activities she mentions seem relatively harmless, she’s seen what can happen when things go wrong.

Warning: Video contains strong language.

@josierosemueller

1. Sit atop a ride-on lawnmower

“Without a doubt, I see one person on my Facebook feed doing this every single summer and yes, the photo is adorable, but it is less adorable when I see kids getting their legs cut off from it.”

2. Play with fireworks

“I will never ever ever let my kids play with explosive fireworks during the 4th of July. I have seen kids lose fingers, entire hands, teeth, portions of their jaw. I’ve seen them blow up basically just about anything,”

3. Go to a swim party alone

“Number 3, I will never let my younger children, who are not very, very confident in water, go to a swim party without me. It is actually true that the more people in a pool, even the more people surrounding a pool, the higher chance there is for your child to drown. There’s way too much room for error. There’s way too much room for someone to get lost.”

4. Ride in a car without a harness or seatbelt

“I have seen situations where one kid is buckled in and walks away with very minor injuries and the other kid either passes or walks away with very severe injuries because they were not buckled in from the same exact car crash.”

5. Attend a sleepover

“I will never let my kids be babysat by or go to somebody’s house or spend the night and do a sleepover at a house where I do not know every single person that’s going to be there, every single person in the house. I’ve known them a long time and I can verify that they’re good people. I can’t even get into the abuse situations that I’ve seen, but it was enough to really … and I still question whether I’ll ever let my kids have sleepovers at all.”

Mueller’s video has nearly 2 million views and she disagrees with those who think she’s being too cautious.

“It’s my job as my child’s parent to keep them safe,” she told Upworthy. “I want my children to take calculated risks, and I want them to fall, scrape their knees and make mistakes. I believe that builds character and helps them recognize and deal with adversity. However, when it comes to their life or their limbs being in danger, it’s a parent’s job to keep their child away from said dangers.”

She believes parents should be short and to the point when explaining potential dangers to their young children.

“Kids don’t process long, drawn-out explanations. For example, if my husband is mowing the lawn, the rule is the boys stay inside,” she told Upworthy. “If they request to go outside, I will say, ‘The rule is we stay inside until daddy is done mowing the lawn. This keeps your brothers and you safe. We can go play outside when the lawnmower stops.’ We can make a fun game out of it like counting how many times Daddy passes the window. And the reward would be if they stay inside like I’ve asked, we play outside with Dad when he’s all finished up.”