She’s in two of the most acclaimed movies of the year. He’s starring in a much-anticipated West End production of Romeo & Juliet. How will Zendaya and Tom Holland celebrate their big 2024? By getting married, possibly.
“There has been talk of marriage, and that is a reality,” a source told People. “They are not the kind of stars who put their lives together out there on social media for the most part.” Both Zendaya and Holland, who met while making 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, prefer to keep their private life, well, private, and “work is important to both and that keeps them busy now.”
Zendaya — who gives a career-best performance in Luca Guadagnino’s sexy tennis movie Challengers — talked to Vogue about her and Holland’s lives changed once they joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “We were both very, very young, but my career was already kind of going, and his changed overnight. One day you’re a kid and you’re at the pub with your friends, and then the next day you’re Spider-Man,” she said. “I definitely watched his life kind of change in front of him. But he handled it really beautifully.”
Maybe if / when they get married, people will stop referring to Zendaya as “Spider-Man’s girlfriend.” Actually, let’s cut that out now.
After his solid collaborative release with fellow Compton rapper Tyga, YG returns to his solo grind with a raucous new single, “Knocka.” Tapping into a similar turnt-up vein as prior releases like “Left, Right,” and “BPT,” “Knocka” opens with one of YG’s signature banda samples but quickly turns into a hard-hitting street banger.
The track constitutes YG’s first solo output since 2022’s I Got Issues, which featured the fan-favorite single “Scared Money” with J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo.
Speaking of Saweetie, the Bay Area rapper figured heavily into YG’s ubiquity in 2023 when they seemingly confirmed their relationship last spring. However, their low-key stance made them the subject of fan speculation, with some wondering whether they’d broken up as recently as this January — rumors they seemingly refuted at Rolling Loud California this year when Saweetie joined YG and Tyga onstage for some PDA.
The possibility that YG might have a new solo album on the way has already excited his fans on Twitter, who seem very ready for him to make his comeback — even though he never really left.
Killer Mike pays homage to his late friend and fellow Dungeon Family member Rico Wade with a remix of his Michael standout “Exit 9,” now featuring Offset in addition to Blxst.
While much of the song remains unchanged, Mike reworks a line in his first verse to salute the fallen producer, rapping, “It hurts like hell to say but rest in peace to Rico Wade / He soundtracked the day when me and Slee were serving J.”
Offset also taps into his own recent loss, channeling grief for late Migos bandmate Takeoff along with other family members gone too soon: “Oh, my brother, look in the air, I see an angel done fly,” he intones. “15 years, brother gone, every day momma cry / Grandma died, I wish I could go back and get time.”
Wade was reported dead at the age of 52 earlier this month, with the New York Times printing a statement from the producer’s family. “We are deeply saddened by the sudden and unexpected passing of our son, father, husband, and brother Rico Wade. Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of a talented individual who touched the lives of so many.”
He touched those lives in large part due to his role as the focal point of the Dungeon Family, the Atlanta-based collective that included such pioneering acts as Mike, Future, Goodie Mob, and Outkast. The group’s name was taken from its recording headquarters in Wade’s mother’s basement, where the crew coalesced around a love of hip-hop and soulful, out-of-this-world beats created by Wade’s production trio, Organized Noize.
Three-day general admission tickets go on sale today, April 26, at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET, 8 a.m. PT) through the Summer Smash website. Aside from GA tickets, VIP, Diamond VIP, and Parking passes will also be available.
Per a press release, “Thanks to a new ticketing partnership with Dice, ticket-buying has been made faster and clearer because the price fans see is the price they pay with no bunk surprise fees. To learn more, download the Dice mobile app today and search ‘The Summer Smash’ where fans can access the event page before tickets get released. Interested ticket-buyers can quickly check out in just three clicks while avoiding a waiting room.”
CHICAGO! The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash (presented by SPKRBX) is back for year 6! pic.twitter.com/tfIjsd9Xj1
The festival is set to take place from June 14 to 16 at Bridgeview, Illinois’ SeatGeek Stadium, which is a few miles outside of downtown Chicago, roughly 30 minutes away. The fest will feature three stages: As a press release notes, “one of them outdoors within a world-class sports stadium, while the other is custom-built and constructed on outdoor turf nearby including a smaller third performance stage placed underneath a massive open-air tent.”
Hitmaking producer Metro Boomin’s recent successes with Future aren’t distracting him from his future plans. As the hip-hop world continues to reel in the wake of the chaos caused by We Don’t Trust and We Still Don’t Trust You, and prepares for Future and Metro’s We Trust You tour, the producer is maintaining his full docket of previously promised projects, including one that fans have been eagerly anticipation since its was first teased early last year.
Metro himself confirmed that his joint project with Atlanta rapper JID, which they originally announced last March, is “still a thing” in response to a concerned fan’s tweet. After @raptalksk wondered, “is that metro boomin & JID album still a thing?” Metro allayed their worries with a concise response: “very much so.”
The first word of the project came last year, when Metro tweeted, “Got a lot of new music but when me and @JIDsv drop .” Fans were hyped for a new JID song produced by Metro until JID himself corrected the speculation, revealing that they were actually working on a full album.
Since then, both artists have periodically updated the status of their plans but don’t expect this thing to drop tomorrow; JID teased a 10-song project titled Forever And A Day dropping before the joint project with Metro, while Metro said he plans to release at least three albums in 2024. While one of those could be his project with JID, Metro is also said to be heavily involved in ASAP Rocky’s upcoming album Don’t Be Dumb.
Still, that gives us even more great music to look forward to this year. Stay tuned.
Every month, Uproxx cultural critic Steven Hyden makes an unranked list of his favorite music-related items released during this period — songs, albums, books, films, you name it.
1. Cindy Lee, Diamond Jubilee
In just a few short weeks, Diamond Jubilee became one of the most critically acclaimed and — among a small-ish but quickly growing cult following — intensely adored indie albums of recent years. I heard about it in early April, after my podcast partner Ian Cohen recommended it on our show. Over the following weekend, I quickly became obsessed. Here was an immersive LP that tried to encapsulate a pocket history of modern popular music — ’60s Motown, ’70s bubblegum pop, ’80s C86 jangle, ’90s lo-fi indie — in a way that felt warmly familiar and fascinatingly alien. It was like a record you knew you already loved but couldn’t remember ever hearing before. The lyrics were lovelorn and miserably romantic, endlessly dwelling on doomed affairs in the manner of all classic pop tunes. And the music evoked the underground rock of the 1980s (particularly the “Velvet Underground meets Phil Spector” girl-group goth-isms of The Jesus And Mary Chain), the ’90s (think Broadcast meets Belle And Sebastian) and the aughts era acts that were similarly drawn to collisions of pure throwback pop and droning noise (The Concretes, Camera Obscura, Saturday Looks Good To Me). The pileup of references and allusions were irresistible for a critic inclined to dissect pop songs, but Diamond Jubilee ultimately exists outside of time or carefully curated genres. That’s what so cool about it. It’s like listening to the best of the past harmonize with an exciting future, right here in our boring present.
2. Pearl Jam, Dark Matter
A truism of late-period PJ records is that the songs that attempt to rock the hardest are usually the least compelling, and that’s true of “Dark Matter” and the album’s other consciously “heavy” tracks. (I refer to the second single, “Running,” as well as the nondescript album openers “Scared Of Fear” and “React, Respond.”) The difference with Dark Matter is that even the weakest material still sounds pretty great. And that’s due entirely to Pearl Jam working with relative quickness and leaning on their chemistry as a live band. (It was recorded in just three weeks at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio, where Martin Scorsese filmed interviews with The Band for The Last Waltz, a bit of trivia that naturally appealed to Vedder’s “classic-rock nerd” sensibilities.) The secret sauce of Pearl Jam’s classic albums in the ’90s was the presentation of their raw live sound with only a bare minimum of studio refinement. While Dark Matter never affects the raggedness of Vitalogy and No Code, it does approximate the flinty energy of those records in ways that their 21st-century output typically does not.
3. Vampire Weekend, Only God Was Above Us
The application of distortion immediately sets Only God Was Above Us apart from the other VW albums. In 10 years, there will be no question from which record “Hope” or “Capricorn” or “Mary Boone” derives. (Whereas the tracks from Vampire Weekend and Contra, in Strokes-like fashion, kind of blend together.) OGWAU is definitely different. At the same time, the lyrics immediately ground the LP in an East Coast milieu that was seemingly abandoned after the beloved third-album masterpiece. It sounds like the disaffected narrator of Modern Vampires Of The City with 11 more years of wisdom. OGWAU is definitely similar. HIPPIE/GOTH-ness has been achieved. The album-catalog-as-book, once again, evolves.
4. Cloud Nothings, Final Summer
How is it possible that one of the most reliable brands in indie-punk has been around for nearly 15 years? Cloud Nothings don’t feel like a band with that long of a resumé. And yet here we are, with their eighth (!) album and (in my mind) one of their very best. Attack On Memory will likely always be Cloud Nothings’ landmark, but Final Summer feels like a summation of their strengths that also manages to push their signature sound forward. Which means that Dylan Baldi’s angsty howl and serrated melodies and drummer Jayson Gerycz’s hellacious drumming are laser-focused like never before, giving the music an extra zip that makes Final Summer positively fly by. I’m going to assume the “final” part of that title is not a warning sign — Cloud Nothings sound like a band with plenty of highlights on the horizon.
5. Phosphorescent, Revelator
Matthew Houck makes music that is the opposite of Cloud Nothings in every possible way, but his work with Phosphorescent has been similarly consistent and enduring. Houck finally closed the too-long gap since 2018’s C’est La Vie this month with a new Phosphorescent LP, and it reestablished his easy way with gorgeous, contemplative folk rock. While Houck doesn’t drift much into the rockier side of Phosphorescent — there are no “Ride On/Right On”-style hitters on this record — he does show off his knack for mid-tempo stunners with sighing pedal steel and cinematic string sections.
6. Hovvdy, Hovvdy
This extremely likable Austin-based duo came on my radar with their fourth record, 2021’s True Love, an instant patio-music classic that reimagined the friendship anthems of Japandroids in the mode of Alex G’s URL-folk experiments. Hovvdy’s new self-titled record is their most ambitious to date, moving through 19 songs briskly in under an hour. Though the songs themselves often come across as modest and unassuming, moving along with just a jocular guitar strum, a drum-machine skitter, and two voices interacting sweetly. But the emotional impact is surprisingly strong. It’s the kind of record you wish you could hug.
7. Ben Seretan, “New Air”
One of my favorite songs of 2024 so far. The songwriting approach appears to be straightforward: Listen to “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” study “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” and write a song that evokes the best parts of “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” without directly ripping off “Spiders (Kidsmoke).” If that was the approach, it was genius and I fully endorse it. Either way, I am looking forward to the new album from Seretan — whose previous LP, 2020’s Youth Pastoral, was a pandemic era cult hit — due in July.
8. Lost Angel: The Genius Of Judee Sill
Judee Sill put out just two albums in the early ’70s, and then she died tragically at the end of the decade at the age of 35. Her passing was not deemed notable at the time — there wasn’t even an obituary printed. Forty-five years later, Sill is more famous than she ever was during her lifetime. Her baroque folk-rock songs are touchstones for the current generation of indie acts ranging from Fleet Foxes to Big Thief to Weyes Blood. But that’s only half the story, as this fascinating documentary (available now via VOD) explores. Most musician docs have low-stakes problems — artist gets popular, artist struggles with the pitfalls of popularity, artist learns how to navigate popularity. Sill, meanwhile, lived a genuinely extraordinary life. Before she recorded a note, she was a heroin addict who committed robbery and dabbled in sex work. Just a few years later, she was on the cover of Rolling Stone and palling around with L.A. music royalty like David Geffen and Graham Nash. It’s an incredible story. Lost Angel makes a convincing case that Sill is an all-time cult icon.
Lyrical Lemonade is an influential force in the hip-hop community and their Summer Smash festival has become a must-attend event in its own right. Organizers just unveiled the 2024 lineup last night (April 25) and it’s another winner. The festival goes down from June 14 to 16 at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, just outside of downtown Chicago.
The headliners set to lead the fest are Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, and Chief Keef. Re: Scott, though, it’s not actually just him, as the performance slot is credited to Cactus Jack and will also feature Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, Chase B, Luxury Tax, SoFaygo, and WondaGurl.
Beyond that, the lineup also includes Lil Yachty (as his performance at the 2021 edition of the festival is having a meme moment), Big Sean, JID, Denzel Curry, Kodak Black, Destroy Lonely, Flo Milli, Lil Tecca, Ski Mask The Slump God, Cash Cobain, TiaCorine, Ken Carson, Waka Flocka Flame, YG Marley, Lil B, and more.
CHICAGO! The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash (presented by SPKRBX) is back for year 6! pic.twitter.com/tfIjsd9Xj1
Three-day general admission tickets go on sale starting today, April 26, at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET, 8 a.m. PT) via the Summer Smash website. VIP, Diamond VIP, and Parking passes will also be available. Ticket prices will include “no bunk surprise fees,” per a press release.
The Oscar-winning actress and her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about, among other topics, her real name. “Before we continue, I’d like to say something. Her name’s Emily, but she goes by Emma professionally,” Fielder said. “So when there’s people that don’t know her, I end up saying Emma. But I’m going to just say Emily from here on.”
Her full, legal name is Emily Jean “Emma” Stone.
Stone said that it’s mostly “people that I work with” who call her Emily. The Poor Things star continued, “It’s just because my name was taken [by another actress in SAG]. Then I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily.’ Nathan calls me Em, which is easier.” How would Stone feel if a fan came up to her and asked “Emily” for a selfie? “That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily,” she replied.
As for Fielder, he prefers “Big Nate.” Big Nate For You has a nice ring to it.
Stone’s next movie, Kinds of Kindness (which looks mysteriously weird, which is to say, it’s directed by Yorgos Lanthimos), opens on June 21.
Chris Pratt’s TV career took a serious turn, literally, in 2022. Yes, of course he became a household name as Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation, but these days, he cuts his comedy teeth by voicing beloved and lasagna-loving animated characters in movies and uses his dramatic side on The Terminal List. And yes, that includes fighting in his underwear, which is very serious business.
This series has all the important elements of a successful action project, along with intrigue for miles in this adaptation of ex-Navy SEAL Jack Carr’s conspiracy-fueled novel. As a result, Pratt joins the same club now occupied by Reacher (with Alan Ritchson) and Jack Ryan (with John Kraskinski soon passing the franchise throne), for which there is no shortage of demand. Let’s get down to business on what to expect from jacked Pratt’s return to TV.
Plot
Filming began in March, and we quickly learned that the show will not be moving away from its brutal intensity. As if to prove that point, Pratt showed off what happens on the stunt frontier when “I sometimes try to get in there and do some of my own stuff.” He then added, “[D]addy caught a metal post to the ankle.” And this happened on the fourth day of filming!
As viewers are aware, Pratt portrays former Navy Seal James Reece, who compiled a death list while seeking vengeance for the murders of his family. Some chatter about the second season has come from Pratt, but also, Mayans M.C.‘s J.D. Pardo recently fielded questions about the possibility of his FBI Task Officer, Tony Layun, returning to the series. He carefully answered, “We’ve got some future plans that I’m not gonna mention right now, but it’s all great.” We also know that Pardo will not appear in the in-the-works prequel, Dark Wolf, which will star Taylor Kitsch.
This new season, however, will follow Carr’s True Believer book that sees Reece hiding in South Africa’s nation of Mozambique. He’s on the run from the CIA after being declared a domestic terrorist, but eventually, the feds find him and make him an offer that he may or may not resist. Reece makes a deal to jump back into the agency to search for an Iraqi ex-commando coordinating terrorist attacks. Naturally, that mission is not what appears seems to be.
When announcing the second season, Pratt promised, “more military authenticity and heart-pounding action. You spoke. We listened.” As well, we can expect this vow to bleed into The Terminal List prequel, which follows Ben Edwards back in time, including his tenure as a Navy SEAL.
Cast
Along with the already-mentioned J.D. Pardo and Pratt, the cast includes Riley Keough (as Reece’s late wife), Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, Arlo Mertz, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Patrick Schwarzenegger and Jai Courtney, sadly, shall not return because they are far too good at dying onscreen (as they did here). Surely, we will meet more characters who get killed by Pratt’s Reece.
For sure, we will see Kitsch back as CIA operative Ben Edwards, an ex-SEAL Reece buddy who is also being spun off to his own series. Fingers are crossed for more of Wu as reporter Katie Buranek and Riley Keough in flashbacks. She’s everywhere these days but is still nonetheless welcome.
Release Date
Cameras began rolling in March, so it’s entirely possible that late 2024 could be release time.
Trailer
Bye bye, Andy Dwyer. Heck, this clip might even make you forget about Pratt’s Mario voice while Jai Courtney is no match for James Reece’s vengeance.
Ice Spice kicked off her 2024 by really going for it with the single “Think U The Sh*t (Fart).” It wasn’t that long ago that Ice Spice was an up-and-comer, and now she’s giving another one assist by hopping on Cash Cobain and Bay Swag’s remix of the viral hit “Fisherrr.”
On her verse, Ice calls back to her Nicki Minaj collaboration “Princess Diana,” rapping, “And my ass fat ’cause I eat my oats and my vegetables / And my p*ssy fat, and it’s creamy, ooh, tastes like Danimals.”
As HipHopDX notes, the song initially leaked last week when Akademiks posted it after supposedly receiving it anonymously via a DM.
Meanwhile, fans can expect more from Ice in the not-too-distant future: In March, she declared that she had finished recording her upcoming album Y2K. You’ll be able to check her out on the big screen, too, as it was announced earlier this month that she has been cast in Spike Lee’s upcoming movie High And Low, alongside Denzel Washington.
Uproxx’s Aaron Williams also deemed Ice to be a Coachella 2024 highlight, writing, “The people danced. They rapped. Every word. Her mic was ON. She had immaculate breath control. Her set design, consisting of inflatable subway trains and a giant Ice Spice head, built a world. She is what hip-hop has needed all this time. Stop hating.”
Listen to “Fisherrr (Remix)” above.
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.” Fans were hyped for a new JID song produced by Metro until JID himself corrected the speculation, revealing that they were actually working on a full album. 
(@JIDsv) 
