Chappell Roan hasn’t gone on Amy Poehler’s podcast yet, but she did just swing by Call Her Daddy. Aside from revealing that she has been dating somebody for half a year and is “very in love,” she also answered some questions in a rapid-fire round.
When asked for her dream collaborator, her answer was SZA. (“F*ck, that would be good,” host Alex Cooper rightly responded.) SZA, it turns out, is very much on board: Sharing the clip on her Instagram Story yesterday (March 26), SZA wrote, “actually didn’t believe this quote when I saw it written til I saw it come out her mouth jus now CAUSE DEAD ASS SAME [crying emoji] pls we must.”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to SZA fans, as she has frequently expressed her admiration for Roan since her rise to fame. (As one fan put it, SZA is “the #1 Chappell stan.”) In June 2024, SZA commented on one of Roan’s videos, “Ugh your incredible.” That August, SZA shared a video of Roan performing and wrote, “She makes me wanna keep making new music n art forever.” When Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” reached 1 billion streams on Spotify, SZA commented on Roan’s post noting the achievement, “Yeeaaaa!!!! Never been more proud to contribute 500 streams.”
It was five years ago today (March 27) that Dua Lipa released delirious dance-floor epic Future Nostalgia, the Grammy-winning album with four top-10 hits. To mark the occasion, Lipa shared a loving Instagram post about one of the best pop albums of the 2020s.
“5 YEARS OF FUTURE NOSTALGIA ~ doesn’t even feel real!!!!” she wrote. “Thank you for the memories that I have to last me a lifetime ~ keeping me dancing all around the world. grateful beyond words and thanking my lucky stars every day for music and the power that it has over me and the ability it has had time and time again to connect us all no matter where we are on this floating rock!!!!”
Lipa, who shared a bunch of photos from the Future Nostalgia era (including one that’s simply of her yoga-toned backside), also revealed that to “celebrate this massive milestone,” she’s releasing a new version of “Physical” with Troye Sivan at midnight tonight. It’s the same remix that was intentionally leaked by a fan following a show in Melbourne, Australia. “It always felt like it needed an occasion and this feels like it’s the perfect time,” Lipa added.
You can read the Instagram post here. Also, listen to Future Nostalgia! It’s really good.
For over a year now, Ed Sheeran has been teasing that his next album will be titled Play. Now, he’s come right out and confirmed it.
Sheeran was on The Tonight Show yesterday (March 26), and he confirmed Play as the title and explained to Jimmy Fallon:
“When I was like 18, I had an idea for ten albums, and it was Plus, Multiply, Divide, Subtract, Equals, and then Play, Pause, Rewind, Fast-Forward, Stop. So I’ve always had — I wanted to do ten. I’m kind of a bit obsessed with Tarantino, and I heard he was doing ten films, and he’s got his side projects like Grindhouse and sh*t. So I’m like, I want to do my 10 and, every now and then, do a side project here and then.”
Fallon then asked if Sheeran will actually stop making albums after Stop, and Sheeran joked, “I kind of want to make an album for the whole of my life where you put, like, different songs on, and then it’s in your will that comes out the day you die, and it’s called Eject.”
After a laugh from Fallon and the audience, Sheeran continued, “I’m not joking. Imagine when [Paul] McCartney passes away, and there’s a record that he’s made that there’s a song from when he’s 16, there’s a song from when he’s 20, there’s a song from when he’s 30. It’d be fascinating.”
Elsewhere on the show, Sheeran performed some of a new song called “Old Phone” and busted out the loop pedal to demonstrate how he constructs a one-man “Shape Of You” arrangement live.
Check out clips from Sheeran’s Fallon appearance above.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. After stumble after stumble, the month of March is ending strong with a pretty solid drop list this week. Some notable highlights include a new silhouette from New Balance, a few high-profile collaborations via Adidas and Bad Bunny, and Italian luxury brand Stone Island and New Balance, with a second chance for Jordan heads to catch the AJ-1 Obsidian.
If we had to name any brand the winner of the week, it’s New Balance, which takes up nearly half of this list. If you follow SNX every week, you’re well aware that we’ve spent the whole year asking where the hell the brand is as — aside from a couple of noteworthy collaborations — the brand has been uncharacteristically quiet. Looks like they were just waiting for spring to roll in.
But enough previewing, let’s dive into this week’s best sneaker drops and where to find them.
Air Max Day has and to celebrate the annual sneaker holiday, Nike is giving us a… Donkey Kong-themed Air Max 1? Nobody asked for this, and yet, we kind of love it! It’s not just the nostalgia for Donkey Kong Country either, this is simply a great design that doesn’t require any prior knowledge of Nintendo history to enjoy.
The sneaker features a mesh upper with hairy brown suede overlays, a bright banana-colored midsole, and a polygonal Swoosh to really drive home the nostalgia.
The Nike Air Max 1 Big Head Origins is out now for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
New Balance has a new silhouette! The 471 takes vintage ‘70s design cues and modernizes them for a low-profile runner that looks vintage, but feels modern, and a comfortable modern feel is what you want out of a runner.
The 471 sports a lightweight mesh upper with premium hairy suede overlays, a large leather N logo, leather accents, and a herringbone tread pattern. As much as we are hyped for this release, we’re waiting for the day this new silhouette gets the premium MADE in USA or MADE in UK treatment.
The New Balance 471 Timberwolf is out now for a retail price of $99.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
New Balance has just dropped its latest seasonal collection and the piece that deserves all of your attention is this 992. This sneaker features premium construction with a multi-fabric upper consisting of mesh underlays, hairy suede overlays, and leather accents in a moonrock colorway with tonal accents.
It’s simply one of New Balance’s very best silhouettes in classic NB colors — a no-brainer pick if you’re a fan of the brand.
The New Balance Made in USA 992 Moonrock is set to drop on March 27th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $199.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
Stone Island x New Balance 998
Stone Island
Price:$285
If you’re more of a fan of New Balance’s collaborations than the brand’s core line, this collaboration with Italian streetwear luxury brand Stone Island is for you. But this collab isn’t just notable for linking up with Stone Island, it also features NB’s Made in USA construction, offering the ultimate luxury take on the brand.
The Stone Island 998 features design details inspired by the brand’s Raso Gommato fabric and sports a cotton canvas upper dipped in a rubberized polyurethane coating with satin-weave detailing. Rounding out the design is the Italian brand’s logo at the tongue, and classic NB branding at the heel.
The Stone Island x New Balance 998 is set to drop on March 27th for a retail price of $285. Pick up a pair at the Stone Island webstore.
If you missed out on the initial re-release of the legendary AJ-1 Obsidian, you’ve got a second chance this week! There isn’t much to say here, this is a classic Jordan 1 with a full-grain leather build and a colorway that nods to MJ’s alma mater. It’s not the most exciting release of the week, but owning a pair would seriously level-up your wardrobe and street fashion cred.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 Low Obsidian is set to drop on March 29th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Nike has teamed up with LA-based streetwear brand UNDEFEATED for an upgraded take on the Spiridon. The Phantom sports a lightweight mesh upper, full length Air Zoom cushioning, reflective piping for enhanced visibility, and subtle UNDEFEATED branding.
This runner is ideal for people looking for a pair of shoes that looks even better than it feels. Which is a rarity when it comes to running shoes.
The UNDEFEATED x Air Zoom Spiridon Phantom is set to drop on March 29th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Bad Bunny x Adidas Ballerina
GOAT
Price: $120
Bad Bunny’s Adidas collaborations have reflected his career perfectly. His initial releases were flashy and experimental, featuring designs out of left-field that helped to show just how different a voice and personality he was. Now, at the height of his career, there is an understated confidence to his work and that shows in this latest Adidas collaboration.
The Ballerina perfectly echoes Benito’s latest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, and features a sleek design made from premium suede with bungee chord laces and a form-fitting shape. Benito’s latest album serves as a tribute to dance culture, and this silhouette was originally designed for Taekwondo martial artists, which is its own sort of dance!
We love this one, easily our favorite Bad Bunny Adidas collab of the year.
The Bad Bunny x Adidas Ballerina is set to drop on March 29th for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app, and select Adidas stockists.
Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.
PinkPantheress laid relatively low in 2024 and so far in 2025, too (aside from popping up on a Shygirl song and a Jack Harlow/Doja Cat video). At the start of the year, though, she teased a comeback by sharing some studio photos and writing, “oh we are soooo back #2025 i missed y’all [heart emojis] thanks for waiting on me [single tear emoji].”
Now, it’s official: Today (March 26), PinkPantheress announced a new mixtape, her first release since her 2023 album Heaven Knows, with a trailer.
The video, uploaded to YouTube with the title “Official Mixtape Trailer,” starts with an establishing shot of PinkPantheress sitting on a red, worn leather couch, on the front lawn of a stately building, as she cuts things out of a magazine. Then, somebody who looks just like her interrupts, asking, “Can we get a picture?” PinkPantheress then notices three additional doppelgangers. Pinkpantheress, confused, goes to take the photo before one of the lookalikes’ old-school ringtone goes off. They scramble to figure out whose it is before PinkPantheress clears her throat and they take the picture, thus ending the video.
The YouTube description also reads, “how many pinkpantheress’ can you identify in this video. we are out with the old era and in with the new one. I’m so excited for all you to feel fanciful in a few months time, it’s only a stone throw away x.”
On March 25, 2015, Zayn Malik announced his departure from One Direction. “I’d like to apologise to the fans if I’ve let anyone down, but I have to do what feels right in my heart,” he wrote at the time. “I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight. I know I have four friends for life in Louis, Liam, Harry, and Niall.”
Exactly 10 years later (last night!), Zayn performed a One Direction song at a solo show for the first time ever.
During a show in Mexico City on Tuesday, the “What I Am” singer sang 1D highlight “Night Changes,” from 2014’s multi-platinum Four. “It’s the first time I’ve sung that song in 10 years. Thank you. That was f*cking amazing,” he said during the show. “I almost cried at one point.”
“Night Changes” saw a surge in popularity following the tragic death of One Direction member Liam Payne last year. Per Billboard: “In the week after his death, ‘Night Changes’ — which ran up to No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 — saw its US streams spike 416 percent to 4.9 million.”
There were months of uncertainty about what Julien Baker and Torres were up to, even before they performed together on The Tonight Show in December 2024. It was only in late January that they made their big reveal to the world: They’ve collaborated on Send A Prayer My Way, a new country album.
The project is set to land in April, but now they’ve shared another preview of it today (March 26) with “Dirt.” Like previous tracks, it’s a storytelling tune as the first verse starts, “You were shouting through the screen door / With my back turned towards you in the driveway / I said, ‘What the hell you gotta scream at me for’ / You said, ‘You aren’t gonna listen any other way’ / Now I’m laid out on the sidewalk / You’re my first dial after last call / Ringing you up just to sh*t-talk / ’til I pass out.”
Meanwhile, Lucy Dacus recently revealed she and Baker are in a relationship. In a New Yorker profile, the fellow Boygenius member discussed how her upcoming album Forever Is A Feeling is “about falling in love” and “how the tumult of that experience has forced her to reckon with the unknown.” She also discussed the balance between keeping her romantic life private and wanting to be vulnerable with her music, saying, “It’s been interesting, because I want to protect what is precious in my life, but also to be honest, and make art that’s true. I think maybe a part of it is just trusting that it’s not at risk.”
Listen to “Dirt” above.
Send A Prayer My Way is out 4/18 via Matador Records. Find more information here.
Now we’re cooking. Netflix is taking April seriously with a stream of hard-hitting movies and TV shows coming your way. So, once you finish laughing at John Mulaney’s latest variety talk show and/or need a cure from being devastated by Adolescence, there’s plenty waiting in the wings. The streaming service will be serving up Action Tom Hardy, a pair of shows that will appeal to Yellowstone and The Pitt lovers, the return of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian nightmares, and the end of Stalker Joe.
Here’s everything coming to Netflix in April:
Havoc (Netflix film 4/25)
This long-gestating action movie has finally arrived from The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans and, equally importantly, Tom Hardy in the driver’s seat. The Peaky Blinders actor and Venom symbiote will portray a jaded detective who is tangling with underworld baddies, including Timothy Olyphant, after a drug deal gone wrong. This version of Tom Hardy is the only figure capable of rescuing a city from an unfathomably tangled web of corruption, and he’ll use a flamethrower to do so. Obviously.
Ransom Canyon: Season 1 (Netflix series 4/17)
The Yellowstone crowd won’t be able to resist sampling this series in which the incredibly-named Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) is coping with heartbreak and the desire for vengeance. Things perk up with Quinn O’Grady (Minka Kelly) returns to (Ransom) Texas to help vanquish the demons that plague Staten’s soul. But wait, a mysterious cowboy will be afoot, so watch out, Ransom.
Pulse: Season 1 (Netflix series 4/10)
Max’s The Pitt audience will want to flock over to this medical drama, but don’t expect this show to be as high intensity as the Noah Wyle series. Willa Fitzgerald (Reacher) will portray a medical resident in a cast that also boasts Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), and their Miami ER schedule will somehow allow them to have private lives while also dealing with high-stress situations on the job. Will this season include a hurricane bearing down on the city while cases flood into the trauma center? You know it.
You: Season 5 (Netflix series 4/24)
The final Stalker Joe season takes him back to his old stomping grounds in more ways than one. At this point, Penn Badgley’s serial killer is a coddled trophy husband, but of course, he cannot settle for happiness. He must destroy everything that he touches, and this season is all about finding out if he finally gets what he deserves. In the process, he must be visited by plenty of ghosts and maybe get punched in the nuts a few times? Okay, I made that last part up, but admit it, you’d watch. #JusticeForBeckAndDrNicky
Black Mirror: Season 7 (Netflix series 4/10)
Charlie Brooker’s satirical anthology series, which frequently highlights a technological hellscape not too far off base from reality, will soon return with what Brooker promises is “back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way.” In doing so, you can expect a followup to the notorious “USS Callister” episode, but don’t expect to see Jesse Plemons because, well, you know.
Avail. TBA Jewel Thief – The Heist Begins
Weak Hero Class 2
Avail. 4/1 The Age of Innocence
Big Daddy
Bonnie & Clyde
The Breakfast Club
Conan the Destroyer
Couples Retreat
The Croods
Draft Day
Field of Dreams
For Love of the Game
Geostorm
Get Him to the Greek
Heat
Insidious: Chapter 2
K-9
Lucy
Matilda
The Mauritanian
The Place Beyond the Pines
Psycho
Rise of the Guardians
Rooster Cogburn (…and the Lady)
Rudy
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Uncle Buck
Avail. 4/2 Banger
Garnachas: Glorious Street Food!
Love on the Spectrum: Season 3
Avail. 4/3 Devil May Cry
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: Season 3 PULSE
Avail. 4/4 Karma
TEST
Avail. 4/7 Blippi’s Job Show
Kill Tony: Kill or Be Killed
Avail. 4/8 The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast): Season 4 Kian’s Bizarre B&B
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Season 5 Part 2
Avail. 4/9 The Addams Family
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
The Dad Quest
The Hating Game Unicorn Academy: Chapter 3
Avail. 4/10 Black Mirror: Season 7 Frozen Hot Boys
Moonrise
North of North
Avail. 4/11 The Gardener
Meet the Khumalos
Avail. 4/12 Resident Playbook
Avail. 4/13 Life or Something Like It
Avail. 4/15 The Glass Dome
Young Sheldon: Season 7
Avail. 4/16 Baby Mama
The Diamond Heist
I Am Not Mendoza
Project UFO
Avail. 4/17 Istanbul Encyclopedia
Ransom Canyon
Avail. 4/18 iHostage
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror
Avail. 4/19 Heavenly Ever After
Avail. 4/21 Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey
Avail. 4/23 A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054
Battle Camp
Bullet Train Explosion
Carlos Alcaraz: My Way
UnBroken
Avail. 4/24 A Dog’s Way Home
You: Season 5
Avail. 4/25 Havoc
Pokémon Horizons: Season 2
Avail. 4/28 Chef’s Table: Legends
Avail. 4/30 Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight
The Eternaut
Exterritorial
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:
Leaving 4/1 Baby Driver
Boyz n the Hood
Bruce Almighty
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Elysium
Happy Feet
Happy Feet Two
How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Interstellar
It
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid Part II
The Karate Kid Part III
Legion
Miss Congeniality
Molly’s Game
The Nice Guys
Richie Rich
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Rust and Bone
Space Jam
When in Rome
Leaving 4/4 Serena
Leaving 4/8 Megan Leavey
Leaving 4/11 Pixels
Scream
Leaving 4/12 A Quiet Place Part II
Leaving 4/15 Hereditary
Leaving 4/16 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Last month, McKinley Dixon announced a new album, Magic, Alive!, the follow-up to his well-received 2023 project Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?. He also shared “Sugar Water” featuring Quelle Chris and Anjimile, and today (March 26), he’s back with another album preview that also includes a pair of features: “Could’ve Been Different,” which has contributions from Blu and Shamir.
Dixon says of the song:
“‘Could’ve Been Different’ is another attempt to follow, what I view as ‘the perfect closing credits:’ A summary of the story before, a different outlook on where you’re at now, and a rough question of ‘what’s going to happen to us in the future?’ To me, those make for the perfect ending when writing tales. Well, those things and mimicking the music how you would live your life: going out with an ending they will never forget.”
He previously said of working on the album in his native Richmond, Virginia, “It’s like a celebration when I make a record back in Richmond. Everybody has grown, but now here we are together again.”
Beyond from Blu and Shamir, the album features appearances from Quelle Chris, Anjimile, Pink Siifu, Teller Bank$, and others.
Listen to “Could’ve Been Different” above.
Magic, Alive! is out 6/6 via City Slang. Find more information here.
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