The Lollapalooza 2024 gears are starting to turn: On March 18, organizers shared a video teasing a big announcement. With that, the big question on everybody’s mind is:
Who Is Headlining Lollapalooza 2024?
We don’t know yet, but we will when the festival lineup is revealed on March 19, as was confirmed on the 18th. We’ll update this post when the headliners are revealed.
What we do know is that going by historical precedent, we can expect some big-time names: The 2023 festival featured by Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, Karol G, The 1975, and Tomorrow X Together. The 2022 lineup had Metallica, Dua Lipa, J. Cole, Green Day, Doja Cat, Machine Gun Kelly, and Lil Baby. Basically, Lollapalooza routinely brings it, so expect an exciting roster of performers when it’s announced on the 19th.
This year’s event runs from August 1 to 4 at Chicago’s Grant Park. Tickets are not yet available, but more information about that will presumably be revealed when the lineup is. You can also sign up for updates on the Lolla website. The festival website also has information about things like accessibility and lodging, so it’s worth poking around.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Festival Ceremonia comes to Mexico City’s Centro Dinamico Pegaso this weekend with lineup including Kendrick Lamar, LCD Soundsystem, Fuezra Regida, and Peggy Gou. The set schedules have been announced, and you can check them out below.
The alternative dance-pop festival, which has been running since 2013, is also bringing back FKA Twigs and Yves Tumor, who were originally booked for the canceled 2020 iteration. The two-day festival is sponsored by Axe and has for the past few years made an effort to feature more women on its lineups, according to Remezcla, aiming for an even distribution of men and women. Last year’s edition was headlined by Travis Scott, M.I.A., Jamie XX, and Fred Again.. For tickets and more info, you can check out Ceremonia’s official website.
A year ago, Stan Van Gundy got quite the introduction to March Madness as the first NCAA Tournament game he ever called was the wild finish between Furman and Virginia that saw the Paladins stun the Cavaliers in the first round.
The announcer cam footage of a stunned Van Gundy and Dan Bonner, mouths ajar, watching as Virginia melted down against the Furman press was an unbelievable juxtaposition to the eruption from Kevin Harlan, who delivered one of the signature calls of his Tournament career. That game gave Van Gundy a quick introduction to what a wild ride the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament can be, and as he gets set for Year 2 in the booth for TNT Sports alongside Harlan and Bonner (with Andy Katz roaming sidelines), he cannot wait to get back.
We got a chance to speak with Van Gundy last week prior to the bracket being revealed, because as he explained, he needs every possible moment early this week to study film and get up to speed on the eight teams he’ll be calling games for starting on Friday. We talked about how much fun he had calling games last year, his preparation plan for the marathon that is the first day of games, what he looks for in each matchup, and how honored he is to get to call games with Harlan and Bonner.
What was your experience like calling your first NCAA Tournament last year? And what are your takeaways and lessons coming into this year for year number two?
Yeah, look, it was so much fun, I can’t even tell ya. I mean, it was just so much fun. First of all, the tournament, every game is Game 7. It’s win or go home, the single elimination part of it. And, let’s face it, the basketball in the NBA is at a higher level, no question about it, but a lot of series we go into in the playoffs are pretty much foregone conclusions because the team’s got to beat a better team four times and it’s pretty rare to happen when there’s a discrepancy. Whereas, in the tournament it’s one night and anything can happen. So the tension, and I mean that in a positive way, the tension, the excitement, is just incredible. The very first game I ever did was Furman and Virginia. That was our first game. It’s phenomenal.
And then working with guys like Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner, who are pros period at broadcasting but also at doing college games and the tournament, and Ken Mack, our producer, those guys because of their knowledge, made it really, really easy for me and fun. One of the big differences for me is just the rules and the way the game is called. They play by different rules. And I was really lucky because I had a bunch of people Kevin, Brian Anderson, told me straight out, ‘Hey, there’s no one that knows the rules better than Dan Bonner.’ Referees come to him with questions, which I saw firsthand that they do, like before games, and that really took a load off my shoulders because I didn’t have to be the guy commenting on the rules things. I learned the best I could going in, and I learned from Dan as we went on, but I didn’t have to comment on a lot of that stuff. Dan could handle that better than anyone. And so, those guys made it easy on me where I could just sit back, enjoy the game, comment on strategy and things like that and not have to do the parts that would have been really, really difficult for me.
I want to go back to that Furman-Virginia game because the announcer cam of you guys went viral. It was a lot of fun to watch you guys taking that in and I mean, for you, it’s your first game. You’re getting your first taste of all this and you get arguably the craziest finish of the tournament last year. What was going through your mind as you’re watching all this and also understanding when to kind of lay out and let Kevin Harlan paint the picture for the audience?
Well, I think that’s something I’ve learned over my time here with Turner. I mean, you saw Kevin on the camera spread his arms out, that’s basically what he’s telling us right there just to lay out. So first of all, he’s telling us, but that’s something I had to learn how to do from Ian Eagle first and then Brian Anderson and Kevin and Spero Dedes. I mean, I’ve worked with great people and the producers that I’ve worked with, that when you get down to those situations, you leave it to the play-by-play guy to call. It’s not easy on a play like that, Robby, because your natural reaction is to say “Holy sh*t!” So to be quiet, just the fan in you at that point wants to just blurt something out.
My feeling in that point is probably different than a lot of people. I empathize in that situation with the coach who’s on the wrong end of it. First of all, I have unbelievable respect for Tony Bennett. And his dad who’s the best college coach I’ve ever seen, Dick Bennett, was somebody who’s always been very good to me. So I have this unbelievable respect for their family to begin with, but even just naturally in that situation I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I identify with that guy there.’ It’s a senior point guard, who’s been a big part of a national championship team. It’s not like there’s some freshmen down there in his first tournament game. Like, if you’re Tony Bennett, if you’re any coach, who do you want with the ball clock running down in that situation? Pick anybody. I’m taking Kihei Clark. And then he just puts the ball up in the air! He just throws it up for grabs.
So even before the rest of the play was going on, I was sitting there going, like, ‘What the hell?!’ in my mind. And so to sit there and just let it play out and let Kevin make the play call, I know that’s what needs to happen. I know that Kevin’s unbelievable in that situation, and all I could do is screw it up. But it wasn’t easy. It really wasn’t easy to be quiet in that situation. And I was stunned. Absolutely stunned. As we all were, and I don’t think anybody could have played that situation any better than Kevin did. You know, that’s why it went viral. He was just incredible. And it was such an honor to be beside the guy that good in that situation.
His energy, like, what does that do for you on a broadcast call? Because it’s something that’s really incredible to me. He brings it early and he’s able to sustain it through a call. And it’s hard to do that for two and a half hours on the call and keep that energy level up, and he always seems to have that way of meeting the moment, which is something that I think is so important for a good broadcaster. What’s that do for you on the call to feel that energy next to you with someone like Kevin or Ian or any of the other guys that you’ve been able to work with?
Yeah, I remember my brother saying to me early on in his broadcasting career that it’s the play-by-play guys that make the broadcast. Those are the pros. They know what to do. All I’ve got to do is just follow them. I’ve worked with some of the best in the business with Kevin and Brian and Ian obviously now has the Final Four and Spero. It’s really an honor to sit next to those guys and I can, as I’m doing now with you, I tend to be very verbose and talk too much, and I’ve had to learn — and I think I’m getting better — to shut the hell up for and let the pros call the game. And what they do is amazing to me. Like you said, to bring that every single game, you know, look, it’s easy to get excited at the end of the Furman-Virginia game, but to bring that every game and go back and forth through as many sports as these guys do, and as many different levels. It’s phenomenal.
And then working beside an experienced guy like Dan too, who’s been doing the tournament for years and brings that historical perspective to it. Like, I’m sort of superfluous on that crew, to be honest. And I know that, right? So I tried to figure out like, what is it I can add to that group? Because they don’t need me. Like Kevin and Dan and the producer Ken Mack, they’ll be doing the A-10 Championship on Sunday. Last year I know they did the Mountain West championship because I remember watching. I mean, they’ve done it for years. They don’t need me. So like my main job, and I mean, this my main job is try to stay the hell out of their way and not screw it up.
As a coach is it fun getting to go and call the college game? You watch the NBA every every week and your calling games and, you know, there’s differences in how NBA offenses work, but a lot of it is kind of homogenous, and it is kind of that copycat league thing. But I feel like in college you get so much diversity in scheme on offense and defense. Is that fun for you to kind of dig into all that when you get to come into the Tournament and break down some things that you’re just not going to see in the NBA with some of the way they press and some of the way they run different zones and then offensively the different styles that you see?
Yeah, Robby, you make a great point there. It’s one of the most fun things about doing the tournament. You see everything. Different teams play at different paces. Some teams will be multiple defense-type teams. You’ll see pressing. You’ll see more teams that just stick to their halfcourt. You see teams that are real physical. You see teams that want to play inside and pound it in. And then you see teams that are more on the perimeter. I mean, that is really fun. The other thing that as a former coach that I had a lot of fun with were going to the practices both weeks. Because college teams still sort of practice the way we always used to practice, even in the NBA and don’t as much anymore. So to see teams go out there and practice and how they approach their preparation for the game is fun. And then the third thing that’s really fun is just the excitement of everything. Watching each group’s fans come in and watching the kids being excited.
I remember the practice before the Virginia game, Furman’s coming out and Bob Richey, I loved his whole approach throughout the whole thing. But you know a lot of guys will tell their teams, especially you’ve got a 14-seeded team like, ‘Hey, we’re not just happy to be here’ and the whole thing. And Bob sort of walked the fine line. Like his kids came out on the floor to practice in Orlando and he gave them five minutes or so and they all came out there on the floor with their phones, took pictures and had a great time, and then they put the phones down and went to work. I said this long before the results of the game, we said it during the game, those kids thought they were going to win. They believed they could win. So it wasn’t any of the, ‘Oh, we’re just happy to be here.’ Now, they were happy, but you can be both right. And I love that approach that Bob had. You can be happy to be there and still be there to win. They weren’t happy just to be there, but they were happy to be there and he let him enjoy it. Look, you work all year, especially in those one-bid conferences. You’ve worked all year for that opportunity. Sometimes those kids wait four years to get that opportunity, like to me, to not enjoy it would be criminal. But that doesn’t mean you’re still not there to win and I thought they walked that line as well as you possibly could. And I’m not talking about the way they ended up winning, I’m talking about what we saw in their preparation and in their confidence and everything else.
When we get the bracket and you get the matchups that you’re going to be calling, what are the things that you’ll be looking for in terms of — we often talk about point guard play and three-point shooting always come up especially now with how important that three-point shot is. But what are the aspects that you look at in the matchups that, especially when you get those higher-seeded versus lower-seeded teams, you think can be the differentiator or be the thing that bridges the gap and provides an opportunity for the upset?
First of all, what I’ll do when I get my assignments on Sunday, I’ve got a few hours left in the day on Sunday, I’ve got all day Monday and I’ve got Tuesday until I fly if we have Thursday games to get through eight teams. Probably at least seven of them I haven’t seen during the year because I’m mainly focused on the NBA. So I’m digging into the film and I’m trying to get through a minimum of two films on every team. So it’s gonna take me every possible minute and the first thing I’m trying to get a handle on is just, style of play, schemes, how those teams want to play. What do those coaches do when they’re down? What are the adjustments that they’ll go to? And I’m trying to get as much as I can in two games, as good a sense of personnel as I possibly can — strengths and weaknesses on all of the players out there.
And then, like you say, then as you get to the matchup part of it, whether it’s a mismatch in terms of or say an 8-9 game, it’s still ‘Where does each team have an advantage?’ But in those games where there’s a disparity, like what gives that lower-seeded team a chance? And even if you don’t think they have a great chance, what would give them a chance? What is the thing that could put them over the top? One of the things I remember talking about with Furman is the great experience those guys had in a number of big games they’ve been in. They lost their conference tournament final the year before and then they won that last year. So they’ve been in those one-and-done games and Slawson, Bothwell, and even Pegues, even though he was only a sophomore, those guys have been in those games and so we didn’t feel like they be intimidated by the situation. I mean, Slawson’s in the NBA now. I mean, these are high-level guys. So yeah, just looking for what gives them the edge.
As you said, you look at the three-point shooting. That’ll sort of give — if a team can really knock down threes, they’ve always got a puncher’s chance. But Louisiana, they had the big kid inside who was a great low post presence, which is not normally what you see in the smaller conferences and the one-bid leagues, but he gave them a chance. So that’s sort of what you’re looking at. I know we identified in the Tennessee-Duke game that, you know, Tennessee’s physicality against Duke, which played out right from the beginning of that game when Filipowski got cut over the eye. Like, hey, this is one of the most physical teams in the country. It’s a young Duke team. We’re not sure they’ve been up against this level of physicality. So, trying to just create the scenario of where does each team have an advantage?
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen — a TV spin-off of his 2020 gangster comedy of the same name — has earned plenty of new fans since it dropped on Netflix earlier this month. Ranking as one of the streamer’s most-watched shows this March, the series builds on Ritchie’s patented formula of drug dealing, Cockney slang wheeling criminal fuckery, following Theo James as he inherits an aristocratic title and the underground cannabis empire that comes with it.
If you gobbled up the show’s first season, you know that the finale left matters concerning James’ crowning as Britain’s biggest kingpin a bit open-ended. Naturally, that’s left fans wondering if a second season of the series might already be in the works. Here’s everything we know about The Gentlemen season two.
How Did The Gentlemen Season 1 End?
After Edward “Eddie” Halstead (James) inherited his father’s title and estate in the show’s opening episode, he realized aristocracy came with a heavy price tag — criminal complicity. While his older brother Freddy (Daniel Ings) was racking up debts with psychotic “priests,” donning chicken costumes, snorting mountains of cocaine, and being an all-around disappointment, Eddie was navigating his new role as steward of a secret weed farm run by Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone). His daughter, Susie (Kaya Scodelario) served as his emissary while he enjoyed a bit of Barbie behind bars, working with Eddie to expand the business on the condition that the Halsteads’ contract would be voided at the end of the year.
Instead, the more Eddie tried to divest from Glass’ enterprise, the more crime, murder, and mayhem he was forced to commit. The season finale ended with Glass admitting to orchestrating a hostile takeover led by billionaire Stanley Johnston (Giancarlo Esposito) that had Susie and Eddie scrambling to keep under wraps for eight episodes. With Eddie’s hands bloody, his partnership with Susie secured, and his future as the next boss all but certain, the show hinted at more to come. (Becoming Britain’s classiest cannabis czar is a dirty business, after all, so Eddie’s already racked up plenty of enemies that could prove problematic down the line.)
Will There Be A Season 2 Of The Gentlemen On Netflix?
A second season of The Gentlemen has yet to be greenlit by Netflix but the odds are good that a renewal is coming. It’s something Marc Helwig, head of TV for Miramax who helped Ritchie create the series, has already started planning for. In chatting with Deadline, Helwig confirmed conversations had taken place with Ritchie and the show’s writers as to the direction of season two.
“We have started that process,” Helwig said. “There are some writers we’ve talked to, certainly lots of discussion with Guy about what he might want to do in a second season, what things to focus on.”
Caveating that the show’s pick-up would depend on how well it performs for Netflix, Helwig teased that if fans seemed on board, The Gentlemen may just be the first installment in “some kind of a universe, a Guy Ritchie world.”
Michael Moore knows it sounds crazy to argue that Donald Trump is smart. But that’s exactly what the political pundit did anyway while warning Democrats that there’s a “legitimate fear” that Trump could beat Joe Biden in the 2024 election.
“We don’t want to say this out loud, but I’m going to say it, and the reason we need to be concerned is that Trump is smarter than us,” Moore argued during the latest episode of his Rumble podcast (yes, Michael Moore has a podcast on Rumble) via Mediaite. “I’ll just let that sink in for a second… I know, I know, you’re calling the people to come find me, the guys in the white uniforms with the big net, and take me away. Are you crazy? What do you mean he’s smarter than us?”
While Moore obviously agrees that Trump is also “dumber” in many, many ways, the documentarian is concerned that Democrats are pinning too many hopes on the former president being taken down by his numerous court cases.
“I’m talking about the way throughout his entire life he’s been able to pull shit off and get away with it,” Moore said. “It is an amazing record. You know the record.”
Moore is convinced that Trump will not be found guilty in court or at the very least cause a hung jury. While the pundit’s prediction may sound overly dramatic, Moore did accurately predict that Trump would win in 2016 and he also called the Blue Wave in the 2022 midterms, so he’s got a surprisingly solid track record when it comes to electoral politics.
By now, you’ve likely seen Poor Things, or at least you’ve witnessed Emma Stone’s shocked face when she won the Oscar for her role in it. The bizarre film was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who has directed other bizarre films like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The man has a type!
But unlike many of Lanthimos’ other works, Poor Things is based on a popular novel, with a screenplay adapted by Tony McNamara. This marks the third time McNamara has worked with Stone, as the screenwriter also penned Cruella.
Poor Things was written by Alasdair Gray, a Scottish writer and visual artist. Gray wrote the novel in 1992, and it was his most successful project. He received the Costa Book Award (formerly known as the Whitbread Award, which is just too close to White Bread to make any sense for a literary award). Here is the official synopsis of the book:
One of Alasdair Gray’s most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter – a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter’s scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless’s jealous love for Baxter’s creation. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland’s most accomplished authors.
The novel is fiction, but it features a series of “historical documents” and an introduction by Gray himself, who claims to have “discovered” the texts. He was Lemony Snicketting before it was even a thing.
You can check out Poor Things now streaming on Hulu.
We’ve had a bunch of great music festival lineup announcements over the past few months, but we’re still waiting on one of the big ones: Lollapalooza. The Lolla lineup actually might be coming pretty soon, though.
When Does The Lollapalooza 2024 Lineup Come Out?
On social media today (March 18), the festival shared a video that highlights various clocks from around the world. The post is captioned, “Almost time. See you tomorrow.” This presumably means fans can expect organizers to announce the 2024 lineup, or at least part of it, tomorrow, March 19. Furthermore, we can take “presumably,” “maybe,” and “perhaps” out of the equation: The festival website confirms the lineup is coming on the 19th.
This year’s fest goes down from August 1 to 4 at Chicago’s Grant Park. Tickets are not currently on sale and it’s not clear when they will be. One would imagine, though, that this info would become available when the lineup is revealed on the 19th. Either way, you can sign up for updates on the Lolla website.
While we don’t know who’s on the lineup yet, we can expect greatness, as Lollapalooza always delivers. The 2023 roster, for example, was led by Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, Karol G, The 1975, and Tomorrow X Together.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Britpop legends Pulp are crossing the pond for the first time in over a decade. The “Common People” band (who are so much better than being reductively referred to as “the ‘Common People’ band” — This Is Hardcore rocks!) announced North American dates for their This Is What We Do For An Encore Tour on Monday, including shows in Chicago, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, to go along with previously revealed European stops.
“So, the encore continues,” singer Jarvis Cocker said in a statement. “The songs came back to life and they want to be heard. They need to be heard. Come out and have some fun with us. You deserve it. Yes. You do.” The tour is dedicated to late Pulp bassist Steve Mackey, who died in March 2023.
Tickets for Pulp’s This Is What We Do For An Encore Tour go on sale on Friday, March 22, on Ticketmaster. Find out more information on the band’s website.
Pulp 2024 Tour Dates: This Is What We Do For An Encore Tour
05/24 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ AFAS Live
05/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
06/08 — Porto, Portugal @ Primavera Sound Portugal
06/20 — Kallithéa, Greece @ Release Athens Festival
08/07 — Oslo, Norway @ Øyafestivalen
08/09 — Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out West Fest
08/11 — Helsinki, Finland @ Flow Festival
09/08 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
09/10 — Toronto, Ontario @ History
09/13 — Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
09/16 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
09/18 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Adrianne Lenker is now just days away from releasing her latest solo album, Bright Future. Now, though, she has shared what will presumably be the final pre-album single with today’s (March 18) release of “Free Treasure.” Like much of the Big Thief leader’s best work, it’s a tender and intimate song that’s not much more than a gentle guitar and Lenker’s idiosyncratic vocals.
A press release describes the song, “With Mat Davidson on vocal and guitar harmonies, ‘Free Treasure’ takes us home, where we find the best cooking, a warm fire, understanding, and ‘love without measure.’ It is a road-worn traveler’s paradise, full of adventure and whimsy, free to whomever lays it all down. ‘Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more, I feel a little more.’”
The release also notes Lenker is set to perform the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on March 19.
This new song comes shortly after Lenker surprise-released a six-song collection, with proceeds benefiting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. She explained, “Everything I think to say feels like it is less than a micro-fraction of the power that is needed to convey the message. I can’t express how sad and angry I am about this ongoing violence towards Palestinians. The killing must stop. The need for a ceasefire is beyond urgent. Permanent Ceasefire Now!”
Listen to “Free Treasure” above.
Bright Future is out 3/22 via 4AD. Find more information here.
Taylor Swift once sang, “You know the greatest films of all time were never made.” But that was before Bill Hader was announced as the Cat in the Hat. Last week, we learned that the SNL legend and Barry co-creator was in talks to play the psychopathic feline in an animated movie based on the Dr. Seuss book. It’s now official: The Cat in the Hat will be released in theaters on March 6, 2026.
Outside of Hader, the rest of the cast includes Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, and Paula Pell, all in unannounced roles. Please please please let Matt Berry play Thing One and Thing Two.
“We are overjoyed to partner with our friends at Dr. Seuss to take audiences of all ages on an adventure into the beloved world of The Cat in the Hat. With this incredible voice cast led by Bill Hader as the fun-loving, agent of chaos himself and our filmmakers [writers and directors Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja] at the helm, we look forward to sharing this Seussian cinematic spectacle with audiences everywhere in 2026,” said Warner Bros. Animation president Bill Damaschke.
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