While Chloe X Halle fans clamor for a comeback from their favorite duo, the Bailey sisters themselves have been advancing their individual careers. While 2023 appeared to be Chlöe’s chance to shine as a solo artist while Halle enjoyed the Hollywood spotlight, it looks like the younger sister is ready to start rolling out her own solo album. Now that the release of The Color Purple is over and her new baby Halo is a few months old, Halle has begun to tease her next move: a solo single called “In Your Hands.”
She revealed the release date for the single on Twitter in a post suggesting what fans might be able to expect. In apparent cover photo for the single, Halle kneels in the desert, playing a guitar and whipping her hair across her face. The image, paired with a reply from her sister that reads, “My rockstar,” has fans expecting some Lenny Kravitz-esque rock’n’roll on Halle’s single, which would certainly help set her music apart from Chlöe’s hip-hop-flavored R&B approach.
Chlöe, meanwhile, has also continued her solo career, dropping the single “FYS” to start the year. So, while we might not be getting a new Chloe X Halle project right away, we could be getting projects from both Chlöe AND Halle, which is almost just as good.
Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival unveiled the 2024 lineup, with a ton of acts not to miss this summer. Alanis Morissette, Black Pumas, and Jamie xx will be headlining this year.
Carly Rae Jepsen, Uproxx cover stars Muna, Jessie Ware, 100 Gecs, Grandmaster Flash, Jeff Rosenstock, Brittany Howard, Yaeji, Mannequin Pussy, Jai Paul, and more are also set to be performing on the weekend of July 19 through July 21 at Union Park.
For those who are hoping to catch their favorite acts, a 3-day General Admission ticket is $219 to start and the single-day passes are $109. As the next tier up, the Pitchfork PLUS upgrade is $399 for a 3-day pass or $199 for single-day tickets. This includes access to the PLUS lounge, air-conditioned bathrooms, charging stations, and an elevated viewing platform at the Blue stage.
Finally, for the VIP tier, a 3-day pass is $699 and a single-day pass is $379. This includes front-of-stage viewing at the two main stages (Green and Red), access to the VIP viewing deck, unlimited access to backstage lounges, complimentary beer, wine, snacks, and water, a daily catered meal, and more exclusive perks to ease the festival experience. All prices for GA, Plus, and VIP will increase depending on when you purchase the tickets, as the festival is using a tiered block system.
For more information about Pitchfork Festival 2024, visit their official website.
To some, TikTok is the place to go to find fashion trends, look at cute cat videos, and dance like nobody is watching (even when millions are). For others, it’s where art goes to die. No matter what you seek out on TikTok, the future of the app is increasingly uncertain. Again!
This week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that requires ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell the app or face a ban in the U.S. The bill, which is called “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” prevents any app store in the U.S. from hosting ByteDance’s apps, including TikTok, unless the app severs ties to ByteDance within six months. The app is currently used by roughly 170 million Americans, many of whom were upset after UMG yanked their catalog from the app last month.
Reuters reports that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will head to Capitol Hill this week to talk to senators. The company believes that the government is “attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.” Meanwhile, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claims that the goal is not to ban the app, but to change ownership. “Do we want TikTok, as a platform, to be owned by an American company or owned by China? Do we want the data from TikTok – children’s data, adults’ data – to be going, to be staying here in America or going to China?” Sullivan said. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin called the ordeal “bullying behavior.”
On the other hand, Gen Z Democratic Rep Maxwell Frost believes that the attempt to ban the app violates the First Amendment. “I think that it is a violation of people’s First Amendment rights,” he said. “TikTok is a place for people to express ideas. I have many small businesses in my district and content creators in my district, and I think it’s going to drastically impact them too.” TikTok has been sending in-app alerts urging its users to call their reps, which only made them more upset..
So what does this mean for TikTok scrollers? The legislation will now head to the Senate, then the President. President Biden, who uses TikTok himself, says that if the bill reaches his desk he will sign it. For now, TikTok is still around, but it could be the end.
Olivia Munn revealed on Instagram today that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “I hope by sharing this it will help others find comfort, inspiration, and support on their own journey,” she wrote.
Munn, who appeared at the Oscars with her husband John Mulaney, shared more about the diagnosis in a follow-up statement. “I wouldn’t have found my cancer for another year – at my next scheduled mammogram – except that my OBGYN, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, decided to calculate my Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score. The fact that she did saved my life,” she wrote. “Dr. Aliabadi looked at factors like my age, familial breast cancer history, and the fact that I had my first child after the age of 30. She discovered my lifetime risk was at 37%. Because of that score I was sent to get an MRI, which led to an ultrasound, which then led to a biopsy. The biopsy showed I had Luminal B cancer in both breasts. Luminal B is an aggressive, fast moving cancer.”
A month after the biopsy, Munn had a double mastectomy. “I went from feeling completely fine one day, to waking up in a hospital bed after a 10-hour surgery the next,” she wrote. “I’m lucky. We caught it with enough time that I had options. I want the same for any woman who might have to face this one day. Ask your doctor to calculate your Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score.”
Munn thanked Mulaney “for the nights he spent researching what every operation and medication meant and what side effects and recovery I could expect” and “being there before I went into each surgery and being there when I woke up, always placing framed photos of our little boy Malcolm so it would be the first thing I saw when I opened.” She also showed her appreciation for the nurses, patient coordinators, and staff at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Saint John’s in Santa Monica.
Nicolas Cage did not seem to enjoy a question about his comic book collection. While promoting his new movie Arcadian at SXSW, Cage participated in a Q&A where he got a little testy when asked if he’d ever return to the realm of comic book films after previously starring in Ghost Rider and Kick-Ass.
“Would I return to the comic book genre? I guess never say never, right?” Cage said before venting his frustration with the topic. “But, you know, much has been made about that. My comic book collection just goes viral so quickly and exponentially and I feel like it’s in some ways eclipsed by what I’m really reading. You know, like The Overcoat or Herman Hesse. It’s like I’m still stuck in 12 years old with the NyQuil and the lemon cookies reading The Incredible Hulk #72. I mean, c’mon, I’ve grown up.”
However, despite his seeming annoyance at the question, Cage switched to a more diplomatic gear and admitted he could still pop up in a comic book movie down the road.
“That’s not who I am anymore, which isn’t to say I don’t appreciate it. I do,” Cage said in conclusion. “And I’ll probably still be open to playing something, but it’s not really on my mind.”
More recently, the actor had a very brief cameo in The Flash where his version of Superman was finally brought to life, but he has openly spoken out about the overly-CGI’d final product.
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider. I did not do that. That was not what I did,” Cage told Yahoo! back in November. “I literally went to shoot a scene for maybe an hour in the suit, looking at the destruction of a universe and trying to convey the feelings of loss and sadness and terror in my eyes. That’s all I did.”
The weather is getting warmer and warmer and we’re just days away from the official start of spring, which means that music festival season is about to be in full swing. Rolling Loud isn’t waiting for any of that though, as its first festival of the year is set to kick off in just a few days. Rolling Loud California will take over Inglewood from March 14-17 and bring big names to its stage like Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Ty Dolla Sign, Post Malone, Future, Metro Boomin, and many more.
There’s a long list of artists who will perform during Rolling Loud California’s festival which will make it a bit of a task for attendees who have multiple artists they want to see. Fear not though, as we have the official set times for all artists who are currently set to perform at Rolling Loud California. Scroll down to check out that list.
Set times for Rolling Loud California 2024 are tentative and subject to possible change.
Yung Lean has teamed up with his longtime friend and frequent collaborator Bladee for Psykos — their first-ever full-length collaborative album.
On Psykos, the Swedish stars combine the elements of Lean‘s post-punk side project from his alter ego JonatanLeandoer12, with the emotional rawness of songs like “Agony” from Lean’s 2017 album, Stranger.
“Across the album, the two visionaries showcase their own masterful way of blending timeless melodies and poppy hooks with sound beds of ethereal physical instrumentation that feel like a disassociated symphony,” reads a statement accompanying the album release. “An honest and clear-headed album of longing and love lost, Psykos is two artists at the peak of their powers, full of self-assurance.”
While both Bladee and Lean have become household names — especially in Sweden — Lean takes inspiration from various parts of the world. He spoke more about his love of music worldwide back in a 2022 interview with Office.
Hip-hop is very regional, and it’s the same in Sweden. There are rappers from the south that have a special accent. There are rappers from the north, and the same in the States. For me, it was just music, it was way wider than that. Since I traveled around with my mom and dad when I was a kid before my sister was born, and then when I’m 16 — I’m everywhere, so I think I just had to figure out what’s coming from in here, instead of repping your own town, or trying to get the sound from your city, or whatever.
You can see the Psykos cover art and tracklist below.
Late yesterday afternoon, Kanye West publicly cut ties with party promoter and influencer Julieanna Marie Goddard, better known as YesJulz, saying she owes over $7 million to the Yeezy group for violating a non-disclosure agreement. On his Instagram Story, Kanye reportedly wrote, “We have decided to no longer have YesJulz involved in the roll out of Vultures. All the activity on her page and with our fans in the past few days has been unauthorized.”
Several Yeezy fan accounts also posted screenshots of an email purported to be from Yeezy “chief of staff” Milo Yiannopolous to Goddard. “Dear Ms. Goddard, enclosed please find a letter and statement of account from your time with Yeezy,” it reads. “Fines incurred to date as a result of your NDA violations come to $7.7m. While you were a contractor, I suspended enforcement of this debt. It now falls due. Hassan from the compliance team will reach out with information about payment. Please not that any further violations will accrue more fine. Because you are being terminated for cause but also because you forgot to sign your contract your termination is effective immediately.”
Ye has removed YesJulz from the Vultures team and she owes $7.7M for NDA violations
Uproxx generally doesn’t engage in schadenfreude as a rule, and we won’t do so now. But this is so messy. None of this is how a professional organization should behave and even writing this give me, as the kids would say, “the ick.” One of my very first pieces for this site was a critique of Julz for her weird cultural voyeurism and not only was she never held to account for it, the grasping, clout chasing, social climbing she did paid off in a job working for one of the biggest artists in hip-hop, who should have known better, but has been printing t-shirts that read “White Lives Matter” and putting white supremacists in charge of his hiring.
Oh, did I forget to mention Yiannopolous is a virulent, right-wing troll who has been ripped by multiple outlets for pushing hate speech? Yeah. Kanye hired him last year to replace another racist outrage peddler, Nick Fuentes, as his “campaign manager” — after previously firing him in 2022. You gotta give the sourpuss credit, though; usually, when white folks do the “my best friend is Black” thing, their Black best friend isn’t the guy who made “Jesus Walks.”
There is no real “win” here for anyone. It’s sad that Kanye has become this, it’s sad that people are still dealing with Kanye after everything he’s done to destroy his reputation, it’s sad people in hip-hop are still working with YesJulz in 2024, it’s sad that nobody at Yeezy has any concept of professionalism (and that they think this supposed “NDA” is remotely enforceable), and it’s sad that we haven’t agreed as a society to completely ostracize creeps like Yiannopoulos and Fuentes because they only pick on people who’ve historically been oppressed all along. I’m hitting “publish” and taking a very long, very hot shower. Yuck.
The Dune: Part 2 tour has finished, and now, it’s time to think about another Rebecca Ferguson project, and I’m not talking about her revelation of a mystery film in which a co-star screamed at her. Surely, she’s not having to deal with that nonsense in our current topic of discussion, Apple TV+’sSilo.
As viewers likely know, the TV show adapts Hugh Howey’s most popular book series — Wool, Shift, and Dust — and the first season fairly closely adhered to the original book’s subject matter. Sure, we received more of a love life for Juliette, and for some reason, Common’s character, Sims, managed to find a godforsaken (and pristine) leather jacket after humanity has presumably been living underground for centuries. Still, the show has been overall faithful to the architecture and spirit of Howey’s trilogy thus far, and Ferguson’s Juliette might be the only member of Silo 18 who heads into the outside world and survives, which was more than suggested in the first season finale.
A second season has been shooting in London. Let’s get serious about what could happen next on the Apple TV+ series.
Plot
As viewers recall, Juliette was exiled from Silo 18 in the final moments of the season finale. Her visor revealed to her that the projected image was fabricated, which suggests more revelations for the future. However, the real game changer with her exit was that she survived the hike up the hill and then disappeared from view. Nobody in Silo 18 is aware of whether she survives beyond this point, at least, not yet. Certainly, Bernard freaks out because she’s about to discover a bunch of silos over the hill. And she does.
Those who have read Hugh Howey’s Wool omnibus know what will likely happen next, although the TV show has made notable changes during adaptation, so nothing can be entirely predicted. Still, Ferguson dropped a hint while promotingMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One late last year on a break from shooting the Apple TV+ sci-fi series. As she revealed to Variety, “It gets incredibly intense… wet.” That’s a clue, alright.
Here’s where we’re dropping a mild SPOILER ALERT about the books….
In the source material, Juliette’s mechanical prowess leads her to explore how to solve flooding in another structure, Silo 17, that she discovers. The mammoth building is abandoned, mostly, although “Solo” surfaces and provides as much assistance to possible as she attempts to make this other silo semi-operational again. We’ve already seen Ferguson battling through an intense water scene in the engine compartments of Silo 18, and that episode turned out to be the best of the first season. So, that does bode well on the adrenaline factor for Season 2, despite, Juliette and Solo spending a hefty amount of time in solitude. As well, the Shift book introduces a whole other ensemble of off-site characters with flashbacks into the past, so there’s no shortage of material to draw from, including the third novel, Dust.
Cast
The only real certainty here is that Rebecca Ferguson will be on the scene as Juliette again. At some point, we’ll see Tim Robbins’ controlling, self-appointed mayor again as well as Common’s Leather Jacket again. However, much of the next season will focus on new characters in Silo 1 (including Donald and Anna) as well as Juliette meeting up with Solo (oh, and that will be a possible awards role) in Silo 17. Casting on those roles, in addition to the rest of the impending introductions, remains under wraps.
Release Date
As of now, Apple TV+ hasn’t revealed a window for the second season, but 2025 is a safe bet.
Trailer
C’mon, we want more, but no footage has surfaced yet. However, here is the gregarious Rebecca Ferguson gamely describing to Variety how damp things get for her in the next round of episodes.
Kevin Durant choosing to sign with the Golden State Warriors in free agency in the summer of 2016 was a moment that sparked endless arguments about ring chasing, Durant’s personal legacy, and the Warriors’ place among the all-time great teams in NBA history.
Few outside the Bay area think of that move fondly, as evidenced by the replies to pretty much any social media post by KD where someone inevitably responds that he ruined basketball by joining the Warriors. Isiah Thomas is not one of those people, however, as he has a different perspective from the outside looking in on what Durant did for the Warriors. The Hall of Famer joined The Draymond Green Show this week and offered up a “bold statement” in which he explained to Green why he felt Durant “saved the Warriors basketball legacy.”
“If Durant don’t come that summer and you guys are remembered as the 73-9 team, all of your legacies are different”
As Thomas explained, the Warriors had a chance to simply be known as the team that went 73-9 and blew a 3-1 lead in the Finals. That is now only considered their legacy by those in the greater Cleveland area thanks to Durant coming in and helping lift them to two more titles.
Had the Warriors never gotten back over the hump to win another ring that loss to the Cavs would undoubtedly be what they were remembered for. At the same time, they were still an extremely good team and did win one in 2022 without Durant, so it stands to reason that they could very well have righted that wrong of 2016 on their own (which, for many was the frustration with them signing KD in the first place).
They never gave themselves that chance though, and Thomas is right that Durant played a considerable role in salvaging a dynasty-type run for those two years (and then almost a third before injuries derailed them in the Finals). I’m sure the Warriors don’t particularly like this theory from Thomas that Durant “saved” them, but that’s the trade-off to signing another MVP caliber player coming off of the way they lost the 2016 Finals.
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