Porches is back. Today (May 14), Porches — the music project of NYC’s Aaron Maine announced his sixth studio album, Shirt. The album is set to arrive this fall, and ahead of its release, Porches shared Shirt‘s lead single, “Joker.”
Teased as Porches‘ “heaviest” album to date, the Shirts lead single features porches singing over a thumping drum loop, examining the idea of “God’s grace” via autotuned vocals.
In the song’s accompanying video, Porches is seen chasing his adorable golden retriever through the woods and into a barn.
You can see the video for “Joker” above and see the “Shirt” tracklist and artwork below.
Domino
1. “Return Of The Goat”
2. “Sally”
3. “Bread Believer”
4. “Precious”
5. “Rag”
6. “School”
7. “Itch”
8. “Joker”
9. “Crying At The End”
10. “Voices In My Head”
11. “USA”
12. “Music”
UK/EU
09/18 — Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
09/19 — Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
09/20-21 — Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
09/22 — Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
09/23 — Bruxelles, BE @ Botanique
09/24 — Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère
09/26 — Brighton, UK @ Chalk
09/27 — Bristol, UK @ Thekla
09/28 — Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
09/30 — Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
10/01 — Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux’s
10/02 — London, UK @ Heaven
NORTH AMERICA
10/15 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
10/16 — Washington, DC @ Atlantis
10/17 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
10/18 — Durham, NC @ Motorco
10/19 — Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Hell)
10/21 — Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
10/22 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10/24 — St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam
10/25 — Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
10/26 — Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
10/28 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/29 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/31 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/01 — Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
11/02 — Seattle, WA @ Barboza
11/06 — San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365
11/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
11/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
11/12 — Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
11/13 — Austin, TX @ Antone’s
11/15 — Birmingham, AL @ Workplay Theatre
11/16 — Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
11/20 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Shirt is out 9/13 via Domino. Find more information here.
While there’s still time for Warner Bros. Discovery to make a final push to nab the third piece of the NBA’s broadcast rights, much of the reporting indicates the longtime league partner will be boxed out of the latest rights deal in favor of NBC, Amazon, and ESPN.
If the league does in fact end up with two new national broadcast partners, there will be a fascinating bidding war for personalities, analysts, and broadcasters. There are no personalities bigger than the four members of Inside the NBA, and it doesn’t sound like that show will uproot en masse to a new network. Charles Barkley built an out into his new deal with TNT, but Ernie Johnson is expected to remain at the network, doing March Madness and MLB. Johnson is a devoted family man and being at home in Atlanta is particularly important to him, and no other network has its home base in the city. It’s unknown what the contractual situations are for Kenny “The Jet” Smith and Shaquille O’Neal, and even if they have a similar out to Barkley, it’s unclear if they’d want to move to another network (and potentially another city) to continue covering the league.
The only real hope of the show ending up on a new network is if it basically gets leased from Turner to another network, still shooting in the Atlanta studio with the same crew. While that makes a ton of sense to me, I have a hard time seeing another network setting aside its ego to understand the TNT crew does this better than anyone and working out a deal to keep a good thing going. As for why TNT Sports might be amenable to this kind of agreement, another network basically paying them for Inside would presumably help lessen the blow of losing the NBA.
That feels like a pipe dream, so we instead have to look at the options NBC and Amazon will have to try and replicate what TNT’s built. The first option is to try and bring Chuck, Shaq, and Kenny in with a new host. That would certainly work to a degree, as those three’s chemistry is unmatched, but that would also underestimate the importance Ernie plays in making Inside work. I’m also not sure that trio would even want to try doing it all together without him and the behind the scenes crew, the latter of which is an underappreciated piece of the puzzle.
NBC
Given the way NBC has gone about filling out its studio shows in other sports, I’d be fairly surprised if they were seriously in the mix for Barkley or Shaq given their cost. NBC’s biggest property is Sunday Night Football, and they have mostly opted not to bid for the biggest stars that enter media free agency for their studio shows — the one time they did ended up being a disaster with Drew Brees.
The same can be said about their Big Ten and Notre Dame coverage, and I think the way they’ve approached those can give us an idea of what they’ll do with the NBA. Maria Taylor hosts both shows, with Sunday nights featuring longtime analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison on site, while Chris Simms, Devin McCourty, and Jason Garrett are in studio. Saturday’s studio team is Taylor, Matt Cassel, Michael Robinson, and Joshua Perry. While both crews are good at what they do, the overall tone of those shows is far different from Inside, as they’re much more rigid about providing analysis over letting big, dynamic personalities drive the show.
On the studio side, I’d expect them to look for mostly younger ex-players on their studio desk, with perhaps one experienced TV analyst on their radar (say, Kenny Smith), and hope to catch a little lightning in a bottle. If not, they won’t have broken the bank further after spending fairly extravagantly to get rights. Given network constraints, I doubt they’ll look to pay top dollar for what will amount to a pregame/halftime show on the main network and possibly a postgame show on Peacock, as NBC proper will move onto other network programming, much like ABC games do — after NFL games, they do a very quick postgame show before moving on to the local news. While they do have a 30-minute postgame show for their Premier League broadcasts, it’s much easier to have one of those when you’re looking to put something on the air on an afternoon where you need to fill the time and far more difficult to do when you have to worry about, say, letting the local news get on the air before Saturday Night Live.
That said, I would expect them to be in the hunt for a top broadcast booth like Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller, as they’ve traditionally been more willing to spend in that area over studio analysts. They’ve paid big money to bring in top voices for the Premier League, while they made sure they had Mike Tirico in waiting for when Al Michaels left (ultimately jumping to Amazon) and paired him with Cris Collinsworth for Sunday Night Football. Their top Big Ten booth features a lesser-heralded but well-regarded play-by-play man in Noah Eagle, while Todd Blackledge is a veteran broadcaster who was at ESPN for years.
Amazon
Amazon is the network that has the money and space to try and replicate Inside in some form or fashion. I would presume Amazon is the heavy favorite to land Barkley (and Shaq, if he’s interested) in the expected new broadcast landscape for a couple of reasons. For one, the schedule would be essentially the same as what they already have if they end up with the expected Thursday night NBA package, and my guess is Barkley will not be looking to add more nights to his schedule. On top of that, they have more reason to want to build a strong studio show than NBC. Unlike a network, which flips to new programming, Amazon looks at sports as a way to bring people to the app and try to keep them there with continued coverage in studio/on-site, similar to TNT. ESPN certainly could make that decision, but has chosen instead to send it to Scott Van Pelt’s SportsCenter after the game, while a network like NBC has local news and other programming constraints.
So much of the magic of TNT’s studio coverage is giving their personalities time to be themselves and go on tangents beyond the rigidity of a rundown. Whether pregame, halftime, or postgame, the reason ESPN has never been able to touch TNT’s studio show is in part because they don’t give their people time because they’re all just trying to hit their marks before the next commercial break. The other part is they don’t have Charles Barkley, but even he couldn’t be the Chuckster if he was given just 60 seconds to talk. He already regularly eats into his colleague’s time with as much space TNT provides — usually to the chagrin of Shaq — and I can’t imagine him being nearly as successful with even tighter time constraints.
While NBC likely can’t offer that kind of space due to the other things it has to put on the air, Amazon has shown it can and will get out of the way and embrace the personalities on the desk. The entire thought behind their Thursday Night Football postgame, TNF Nightcap, was to create football’s version of a late night show. That is a vibe Inside has perfected, and the way they’ve handled Nightcap gives me at least a little hope that they can create a space that is similar, even if with a different cast.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect any new show to fully live up to that standard (or longevity), but there are lessons to take away from their success beyond simply the personalities on the desk. Inside became the show it is because of an incredible collection of talent, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes — if I were Amazon or NBC, I’d be looking to bring as many of the behind the scenes people from TNT’s NBA crew over as possible, whether they’re part of their studio show or their broadcasts of games. The continuity and camaraderie between the on-air cast and the production team is exceedingly rare, they are in lockstep with what they want the show to be, and are given free rein to make the show they want by the network bosses.
The only way to replicate that is to provide them with space to be themselves, figure out how to play to each other’s strengths, and build that genuine chemistry. Anyone that remembers the early years of Shaq’s time at TNT knows it doesn’t happen immediately, as Shaq tried to one-up Chuck and force bits into the show. Eventually, he realized his place on that desk and is the best at winding Chuck up to deliver his most iconic rants. Whatever the new studio crews look like, whether they pair some of the Inside crew together or not, they’ll need some time to find that rhythm. If we’re lucky, that right group will eventually come together and give us another decade-long run.
Tighten your corsets because Bridgerton will soon be back with a new courtship story to make viewers swoon throughout an ultimately predictable set of events that still end up being charming as hell. Of course, this season will also bring furniture-destroying sex scenes because this show is obliged to get randy at every appropriate turn. Let’s talk about how much of this season you should soon expect to see.
How Many Episodes Are In ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3?
Netflix has deemed this series worthy of the split-season treatment. So even though a total of eight episodes will eventually materialize in this season, only four will release on May 16. The back half of the season will debut on June 13.
That might sound discouraging for those who want to binge an entire season with abandon, but there’s some good news, too: Netflix has already greenlit a fourth season. Sure, that might also be offered in halves as well, but that’s the way that the streaming tide is flowing these days. Also, it’s highly likely that the 2023 Hollywood strikes contributed to a backlog in production, and Netflix decided to release a half season rather than wait until June 13 to serve the whole package. (There’s a bright side to everything and also a salty side. Just ask Lady Whistledown.)
If you’re not following Jonathan Lower and his golden retriever Teddy on their @aguyandagolden TikTok channel, you’re missing out on some grade A wholesome entertainment.
According to an interview with Fox, Lower noticed that audiences were more interested in videos of Teddy than his regular videos home improvement projects. So Lower gave the people what they wanted—extremely well edited skits, all with Teddy as the star. And now, they are both full-time content creators.
To give you a taste of what they do, Lower recently posted a video of Teddy revealing some pretty impressive piano playing skills.
In the clip, Lower drops Teddy off at grandma’s for the day, where Teddy is so moved by grandma’s piano rendition of “Beauty and The Beast” that he sheds a single tear.
As soon as grandma leaves, Teddy begins tinkering at the keys, and even pulls up a Youtube tutorial for piano playing. Teddy’s hard work pays off too, because by the time Lower gets back, he’s able to play “Colors of the Wind” like it’s nothing!
That wide shot at the end is particularly cool. It really does look like Teddy has turned into Beethoven. The composer, not the movie dog.
Needless to say, people were blown away by Teddy’s talent.
“Johan Sebastian Bark,” one person commented.
Another wrote, “Wow Teddy is a fast learner. When is he going on tour?”
Another just commended Teddy’s acting chops, saying he “should have his own movie.” We are past due for another movie series starring a gifted dog.
Of course, Teddy might be too busy to film, as he’s already taken on other jobs, including electrician,caped crime fighter and “dogtor.” On the bright side, Lower told Fox that they still have plenty of skit ideas to bring to life.
“I have a notebook at home with about 500 to 600 video ideas,” he said. “A lot of them are ambitious and they might take a little bit of time to come to fruition but we think of a lot of short hitting ones and easy ones that we can do now and we knock those out.”
To not miss any of those videos, be sure to follow Lower and Teddy on TikTok.
It’s not uncommon for actors to film two things at once, just like how Anya Taylor-Joy found the time to pop over to the Dune: Part Two set while filming Furiosa, but Aubrey Plaza likes to push the envelope a bit.
Plaza has two big projects on the horizon: one being Marvel’s ever-changingAgatha alongside Kathryn Hahn and the other being Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious passion project, Megalopolis.
In the epic, she plays a journalist named Wow Platinum (even though it sounds like a new credit card startup brand). Plaza revealed to Deadline that she had to pull double duty in order to keep to her strict shooting schedule, though she had some fun with it.
“I would literally go from one to the other and would put my Wow wig on and my Wow costume on. And then the next day, I would go to the Agatha set and I’d be dressed as a warrior witch with a dagger and stuff,” Plaza told Deadline.
Plaza added that she would even bug her co-stars Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito, who are famously two nice guys that don’t deserve it. “At one point, when I was dressed in the Marvel character, I snuck onto the Megalopolis set and I started harassing Giancarlo Esposito and Adam and everyone. It was absolutely insane behavior.” Just imagine if Driver had pulled up to the set of Marriage Story while dressed Kylo Ren? That would be inexcusable behavior.
The only thing more wild than that is seeing Plaza without her signature dark hair. For the film, she had to go bleach blonde, “Which is very funny because I’m a dark brown-haired girl,” Plaza added. “But yes, I bleached my hair blonde for Francis and Milena. For anybody else, never again. But for them, I did it.” And yet, if John Waters asked her to dye her hair, she probably would.
In the video for his One Of Wun single “Whatsapp (Wassam),” Gunna makes international moves via video call as he jetsets all over, staying in contact with his friends, fans, and business partners all along. It seems that despite his misfortunes and setbacks in recent years, the message is that he’s still on top of his game and unstoppable as long as his contact list is full of people who pick up at a moment’s notice.
Ahead of the release of the album, fans speculated whether Gunna would take issue with Future, only to be stunned when he apparently shifted gears to take potshots at the reeling Drake. But Gunna’s probably too busy for beef; he’s currently seven shows into his Bittersweet Tour promoting his 2023 album A Gift & A Curse.
Watch the video for “Whatsapp (Wassam)” above and see the remaining Bittersweet Tour dates below.
05/16 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater
05/18 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
05/21 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
05/24 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
05/25 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
05/28 — Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
05/29 — Charlotte, NC @ Bojangles’ Coliseum
06/01 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
06/02 — Philadelphia, PA @ Roots Picnic Festival *
06/06 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
06/09 — Orlando, FL @ Kia Center
06/11 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
During the final night of her Netflix Is a Joke Fest residency in Los Angeles on Sunday, the comedian told a funny story about her post-divorce dating life. “I didn’t expect the news of my divorce to be so widespread and public,” she said. “I felt really embarrassed and ashamed, but I didn’t realize that all of these media outlets were acting like a bat signal letting all potentially interested men know. I’ve never been pursued this much in my life.”
A day after joining an unnamed dating app, like any person who wants to get “dicked down” following the end of a long relationship, Wong got a “phone call from this guy who I met at a dinner party in the past and he got my number from a mutual friend,” the Beef actress explained. “He was like, ‘Hey, I just happened to hear the news about your divorce and I’ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl and I know it sounds crazy but I want you to be my girlfriend.’”
If that sounds, well, aggressive (he also sent her flowers at every hotel she stayed at in Europe), her male friends agreed. But according to Rolling Stone, her girlfriends thought it was sweet. “That’s how cheap and lazy men have become,” Wong joked. “When a fellow man commits any act of kindness, any romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness.”
Who was this mystery man? Bill Hader.
“I got to go on the road [with her] and I watched her work as she goes up, she tries these things … she’s taking tons of notes,” the Barry creator said when he joined Wong on stage. “The amount of work that goes into making this look so effortless, and she just sold out 12 nights at The Wiltern.”
So that’s why Hader is playing the Cat in the Hat: he’s going broke paying for flowers.
Indonesian singer-songwriter NIKI announced her 41-stop world tour today after kicking off the rollout for her third studio album, Buzz, last week with the video for “Too Much Of A Good Thing.” Here’s when you can get tickets.
Tickets for shows in North America will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning today at 10am local time until Thursday, May 16 at 10pm local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week. General sale for tickets begins Friday, May 17 at 10am local time. You can find more information at nikizefanya.com.
See the tour dates below.
NIKI’s 2024 Tour Dates
NORTH AMERICA
09/05/2024 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
09/07/2024 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
09/08/2024 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
09/12/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
09/13/2024 — New York City, NY @ SummerStage in Central Park
09/16/2024 — Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
09/17/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
09/19/2024 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
09/20/2024 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheatre
09/21/2024 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
09/25/2024 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
09/27/2024 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
09/29/2024 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
10/01/2024 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
10/03/2024 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre *
10/08/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
10/10/2024 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan
10/11/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
10/14/2024 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
10/17/2024 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds
10/18/2024 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater at Lumen Field
10/19/2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
*Non-Live Nation Date
EUROPE
10/27/2024 — Brussels, BE @ La Madeleine
10/29/2024 — Cologne, DE @ Palladium
11/01/2024 — Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
11/02/2024 — Rotterdam, NL @ Poppodium 013
11/06/2024 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo Manchester
11/07/2024 — London, UK @ OVO Arena, Wembley
11/10/2024 — Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre
ASIA
02/09/2025 — Hong Kong
02/11/2025 — Manila
02/12/2025 — Manila
02/14/2025 — Jakarta
02/15/2025 — Jakarta
02/18/2025 — Singapore
02/20/2025 — Taipei
02/22/2025 — Bangkok
02/25/2025 — Kuala Lumpur
02/26/2025 — Kuala Lumpur
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
03/05/2025 — Perth, AU
03/07/2025 — Brisbane, AU
03/09/2025 — Sydney, AU
03/13/2025 — Melbourne, AU
03/15/2025 — Auckland, NZ
A combination of strength and grace, the Golden State Valkyries are writing the next chapter in the epic tale of the WNBA. pic.twitter.com/25NVgnBmU6
— Golden State Valkyries (@wnbagoldenstate) May 14, 2024
There is still plenty left to be announced for the Valkyries, from uniforms to how the team will be constructed. We know there will be an expansion draft, but won’t know exactly how many players each team will be able to protect. We also know the Valkyries will have a pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, but whether they’re given a spot in the lottery with a chance at the No. 1 pick or simply assigned a pick (like the Atlanta Dream at No. 4 in 2008) hasn’t been officially announced.
That final piece could be particularly important to their initial trajectory as a franchise. The 2025 WNBA Draft will be headlined by UConn star Paige Bueckers, as she is widely expected to go No. 1 next spring. The Minnesota native will have plenty of teams interested in landing her with the top pick, but it seems like she wouldn’t mind donning the new purple color scheme in San Francisco.
From a league perspective, having a new franchise be able to build around a star like Bueckers would be pretty incredible to helping the Valkyries gain traction immediately. That said, the teams at the bottom of the standings wouldn’t be thrilled if the new team swiped the top pick from them. We’ll have to wait to see if the Valkyries will be given a chance at taking Bueckers or if they’ll end up a bit further down the draft order, but if they did land the top spot, the Huskies star is a fan of their look.
Cheer up, Toronto. It’s not all bad news. While Drake licks his wounds, another of T. Dot’s favorite sons, Nav, has announced his new album, On My Way 2 Rexdale, is… well … on the way. The XO signee announced the impending release with a dramatic trailer, which promises a summer 2024 release date and features teases of the album’s featured guests through some suggestive imagery. It’s like a scavenger hunt for clues, from weathered skulls wearing bat-ear hats to looming cactuses and slithering snakes.
Nav has been off the radar for almost a year, ever since completing his Never Sleep Tour and livestreaming his hometown show in Toronto. While he joined Metro Boomin at the producer’s Red Bull Symphonic performance in Los Angeles, he has stayed out of the spotlight while working on On My Way 2 Rexdale, which follows his fourth album, Demons Protected By Angels, released a little under two years ago in September 2022.
That album had guest features from Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, and Gunna, and the imagery from the trailer suggests that they might all be back to help Nav kick off his next era. You can try and decipher the clues in the video above, or just wait ’til summer — which is only about a month away — to find out.
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