As if the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer wasn’t enough evidence that Marvel is starting to lean heavily into its stable of mutant characters, the first trailer for X-Men ’97 seemingly dropped out of nowhere and pushed the iconic team back into the spotlight.
The new series is an ambitious project that will take viewers back to the ’90s when X-Men fever was at its highest thanks to the Saturday morning cartoon that cultivated an entire new generation of fans.
Here’s everything we know about Season 1:
Plot
X-Men ’97 is a direct follow-up to the classic X-Men: The Animated Series where the show’s visual style and voice cast will strive to take fans back to the glory days of the Marvel mutants. However, the trailer already showed that the first season will immediately take a turn by dropping the bombshell that Magneto is now in charge of Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
“It’s always interesting to take Xavier’s dream and turn it on its head,” showrunner Beau DeMayo told Entertainment Weekly. “When I first came to this, I was thinking about what the world of the ’90s was like, even issues of social acceptance and what does it mean to be different? It was so much more simplistic than it is today. [The X-Men] spent years telling humanity to embrace the future, walk into the future together. What happens when they get hit with a future they didn’t see coming? What does it feel like to be on the other end when you feel like that future is leaving you behind?”
As for what classic X-Men tales might be adapted, DeMayo said the trailer offered very specific teases of what’s to come. “Every design choice is actually a clue to the storylines we’re doing,” DeMayo said. “Nothing is arbitrary.”
Here’s the official synopsis:
Marvel Animation’s “X-Men’97” revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
Cast
X-Men ’97 will bring back a sizable chunk of the voice cast from X-Men: The Animated series. That includes Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Lenore Zann as Rogue, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, George Buza as Beast, Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler, and Chris Britton as Mr. Sinister.
New additions to the sprawling cast include Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, AJ LoCascio as Gambit, Holly Chou as Jubilee, JP Karliak as Morph, Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop, Matthew Waterson as Magneto, and Ross Marquand as Professor X.
The White Lotus star Theo James has also joined the cast in a secret role. “It is a fan-favorite character, I think, and it will surprise people,” DeMayo confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
Release Date
X-Men ’97 Season 1 premieres March 20 on Disney+ and will run for 10 episodes. As of this writing, it’s unclear whether the show will have a weekly release schedule or make the entire season available at once. A second season has already been confirmed and will also contain 10 episodes.
After five years, Vampire Weekend has returned with two new singles. But “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops” aren’t the only things that have fans shouting for joy. On April 5, the band’s forthcoming album, Only God Was Above Us, is set to hit streaming platforms. After its release, Vampire Weekend is set to hit the road for its supporting tour.
So, when does the ticket sale start for the tour? Continue below for more details, including presale information, the confirmed tour schedule, and the tour poster.
When Do Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour Tickets Go On Sale?
There are several on-sale dates for Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us tour. Through the Citi Entertainment program, Citibank members will have first dibs on Tuesday, February 20, at 10 a.m. local time. Next, those signed up for Vampire Weekend’s fan newsletter and SMS club will receive a password to join the artist presale on Wednesday, February 21, at 10 a.m. local time. For all others, the general sale is scheduled for Friday, February 23, at 10 a.m. local time. Find more information here.
Vampire Weekend 2024 Tour Dates: Only God Was Above Us Tour
04/08 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
04/27 — New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05/10 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
06/06 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall =
06/07 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory =
06/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre =
06/10 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre =
06/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl %&
06/15 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/16 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/18 — Burnaby, British Columbia @ Deer Lake Park >
06/19 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater >
06/20 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena >
06/22 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
06/23 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
07/19 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/22 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre +
07/23 — Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater +
07/25 — Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park +
07/26 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/27 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/30 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory +
08/01 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion +
08/03 — St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland Music Festival
09/19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center !
09/20 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Icon Festival Stage at Smale Park !
09/21 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park !
09/23 — Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre !
09/24 — Toronto, Ontario @ Budweiser Stage !
09/25 — Laval, Quebec @ Place Bell !
09/27 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden !
09/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann !
09/30 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem !
10/02 — Charlottesville, VA @ Ting Pavilion !
10/05 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^~
10/06 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #~
10/08 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion !
10/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater !
10/11 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater !
10/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park !
10/13 — Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit !
10/15 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre !
10/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center !
= with LA LOM
% with The English Beat
& with Voodoo Glow Skull
> with Mike Gordon
< with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
+ with Ra Ra Riot
* with Princess
! with Cults
^ with Mark Ronson
~ with Turnstiles
# with The Brothers Macklovitch
Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour Poster
Columbia
Only God Was Above Us is out 4/5 via Columbia. Find more information here.
Bringing the two streaming apps under one roof could produce significant cost savings — from spending on programming to marketing — and create a more in-depth offering for consumers, especially with regard to live sports. A commercial partnership or joint venture are among the arrangements the companies could pursue. Entertainment companies across the industry are exploring new streaming bundles and ventures to gain scale, attract more customers and help to alleviate the costs of running their direct-to-consumer services amid declines in pay TV subscribers.
As of last year, Paramount+ has 63 million subscribers, while Peacock is around 30 million. That’s well behind Netflix and Disney+; a merger would close the gap slightly, especially if the NFL rights remained (Paramount+ streamed Super Bowl LVIII, while Peacock has Sunday Night Football and exclusive playoff games, as well as historic women’s college basketball feats).
A big question remains, other than can we go back to the days of broadcast and cable when everything was simpler: what would the new streaming service be called? Peamount? Paracock? Mountcock? Hm. Probably not that last one.
Vampire Weekend’s hiatus is over. Today (February 16), the band released two new singles, “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops,” after seemingly fading into obscurity for five years. But that wasn’t the only thing the group announced. Vampire Weekend’s new songs are the precursor for their forthcoming album, due out on April 5.
Fans are going to want to lock these records into memory because Vampire Weekend is also slated to hit the road for their first tour in a while. On April 8, The Only God Was Above Us Tour will kick off in Austin, Texas, at the Moody Amphitheater. So, how can supporters get their hands on tickets when Vampire Weekend stops in a city near them?
Continue below for ticketing information, the full tour schedule, and their official tour poster.
How To Buy Tickets For Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour?
To buy Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour tickets, fans will have to head over to Live Nation. Those who are a Citibank member, beginning on Tuesday, February 20 at 10 a.m. local time, can snag their seats through the Citi Entertainment program. The Vampire Weekend’s password-protected presale won’t start until Wednesday, February 21, at 10 a.m. local time. In order to retrieve the code, you must sign up for the band’s no-cost newsletter or SMS club. Lastly, the general sale is scheduled for Friday, February 23, at 10 a.m. local time. Find more information here.
Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour dates
04/08 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
04/27 — New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05/10 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
06/06 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall =
06/07 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory =
06/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre =
06/10 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre =
06/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl %&
06/15 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/16 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/18 — Burnaby, British Columbia @ Deer Lake Park >
06/19 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater >
06/20 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena >
06/22 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
06/23 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
07/19 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/22 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre +
07/23 — Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater +
07/25 — Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park +
07/26 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/27 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/30 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory +
08/01 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion +
08/03 — St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland Music Festival
09/19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center !
09/20 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Icon Festival Stage at Smale Park !
09/21 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park !
09/23 — Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre !
09/24 — Toronto, Ontario @ Budweiser Stage !
09/25 — Laval, Quebec @ Place Bell !
09/27 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden !
09/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann !
09/30 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem !
10/02 — Charlottesville, VA @ Ting Pavilion !
10/05 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^~
10/06 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #~
10/08 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion !
10/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater !
10/11 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater !
10/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park !
10/13 — Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit !
10/15 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre !
10/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center !
= with LA LOM
% with The English Beat
& with Voodoo Glow Skull
> with Mike Gordon
< with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
+ with Ra Ra Riot
* with Princess
! with Cults
^ with Mark Ronson
~ with Turnstiles
# with The Brothers Macklovitch
Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us Tour poster
Columbia
Only God Was Above Us is out April 5 via Columbia. Find more information here.
Polo G has put some distance between himself and his last album, 2021’s Hall Of Fame, and as he prepares to release his first new album in three years with Hood Poet, the Chicago rapper takes one last look in the rearview with its first single, “Sorrys & Ferraris.” While he reflects on when he “used to chase a bag on that curb,” he celebrates the fact that his “life is like a party now.”
Naturally, the video sees Polo commandeer a fleet of the titular sports cars, which race down the roadway as scenes from Polo’s party life play out. In addition to burning rubber on the asphalt, he’s seen beaches, birthdays, private jets, and more. There’s also a good look at his unique iPhone chain. The Arrad-directed video is simple but effective, as befits the rapper’s low-key personality.
Although Hood Poet was initially scheduled for a September release last year, Polo held off on dropping the album. “I’mma be postponing my album drop ’til further notice,” he explained in a message to fans on social media. “Just getting back on track from a minor setback… it’ll be worth the wait. I promise.” And while he characterized the cause of the delay as a “minor setback,” if it was related at all to his arrest last year on kidnapping, robbery, and assault charges, it doesn’t sound like that setback was so minor. However, it looks like things are back on track, as he told TMZ he’s looking forward to an August release for Hood Poet.
Thanks to washing out of the Republican primary where he was once viewed as the biggest threat to Donald Trump before people realized he’s a weird little robot boy that doesn’t know how to interact with humans, Ron DeSantis has returned to Florida where things aren’t going much better for him.
During a press conference on Thursday morning, DeSantis got brutally zinged by journalist Corey Hill, who cleverly leveraged the governor’s rumored use of boot lifts to challenge his attacks on the transgender community.
“Governor DeSantis, you have spoken out against the ‘woke’ agenda of gender fluidity and also come out against gender-affirming care,” Hill said via The Advocate. “So I was hoping you could square your opposition to [gender affirming care] and people choosing their own gender identity with your frequent wearing of lifts and you hoping to choose your own height identity.”
Adding insult to injury, the crowd audibly laughed at DeSantis, who proceeded to do his awkward head-bob maneuver and attempted to move things along by responding, “Nice try, next!”
You can watch DeSantis get punked in real-time below:
My friend @NewsCHill just asked DeSantis how he can square his opposition to gender affirming care and people identifying with the gender of their choosing with his choice to wear heels to identify with the height of his choosing and the whole room laughed at DeSantis pic.twitter.com/pqovbUDOw4
Interestingly, DeSantis actually did soften some of his culture war rhetoric at the Thursday morning press conference. Now that’s he back in Florida and forced to deal with the book-banning storm he kicked up on the campaign trail, the governor has realized that the situation has gotten out of control. DeSantis announced plans to limit the process because people are objecting to “every single book under the sun.”
“We just want to make sure we’re not trying to incentivize frivolous objections or any type of games being played,” DeSantis said while addressing a concern that was evident from the start, but only just now coming home for the governor.
The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.
ITEM NUMBER ONE – We have a brawl on our hands
There’s a remake of Road House coming out soon. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an absolutely shredded UFC-adjacent guy who takes a security gig at a rough bar in the Florida Keys that is owned by Jessica Williams, which is as good a place to start as any, remake-wise. Connor McGregor is in there. Lots of people punch each other in the head and/or torso. There’s an aquatic explosion or two in the trailer. It looks like a fun time. Watch for yourself.
Unfortunately, everyone involved in the making of this movie now hates each other very much. Maybe not the cast, but definitely the director and the studio executives at Amazon who are responsible for distributing it and plan to drop it as a streaming exclusive in March. That’s actually what the issue is, whether it gets a theatrical release or not. It’s been an issue for a while. A producer got fired over it. Gyllenhaal and the director, Doug Liman, who also made the Bourne movies, flew out and screened the movie for Jeff Bezos on his yacht to try to convince him, and yes, please stop here and picture Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeff Bezos sitting on a mega-yacht watching Road House together. Just a big fiasco everywhere.
And it appears it has reached a resolution, with a big insider-y report in Variety confirming that it will not get that theatrical release. From that report:
Just as the maelstrom was dying down, Liman went nuclear with an open letter on Jan. 24, writing that he would boycott the film and claiming that “Amazon has no interest in supporting cinemas.”
The missive appears to be the final shot on a project fraught with discord. Ultimately, it’s left some with a bad taste. “It’s so disrespectful to everyone who worked hard on it,” says one person involved. “It’s a great big fun streaming movie.”
Two things worth noting here:
The italics in the last sentence there are theirs, not mine
Given everything that has taken place here, it might be the meanest use of italics I have ever seen
Oh hey. That thing in the blockquote about Liman boycotting his own film over this? That’s a thing that’s happening, too. He wrote a whole open letter about it in Deadline. You can hear how angry he is just reading the words to yourself in your own head. Look at this.
“The facts: I signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM. Amazon bought MGM. Amazon said make a great film and we will see what happens. I made a great film.
We made Road House a “smash hit” – Amazon’s words not mine, btw. Road House tested higher than my biggest box office hit, Mr. and Mrs Smith. It tested higher than Bourne Identity, which spawned four sequels. I’m told the press response has been Amazon’s best since they bought MGM.”
It gets better.
“Because contrary to their public statements, Amazon has no interest in supporting cinemas. Amazon will exclusively stream Road House on Amazon’s Prime. Amazon asked me and the film community to trust them and their public statements about supporting cinemas, and then they turned around and are using Road House to sell plumbing fixtures.”
Three notes in conclusion:
God, that’s a good line at the end, and one that maybe explains the devastating italics the Amazon executive used this week in retaliation
This isn’t quite the mess Coyote Vs. Acme is because at least this one is getting released somewhere, but it is another shot in the war between studios and creatives that seems to be waging in 2024
All due respect to everyone involved but it is a little funny that a bunch of very wealthy people are going to the mattresses in the press like this over a movie where Conor McGregor headbutts people in the trailer
So that’s what’s up with Road House.
ITEM NUMBER TWO – Put Dakota Johnson on every press tour
SONY
The reviews for Madame Web came in earlier this week and… look. They’re not good. They’re actually very bad. I haven’t seen a collective critical pile-on like this since… I don’t know, Morbius? Go read a bunch of them this weekend. They are so mean. One review I saw compared the movie to the Chernobyl disaster, which, okay, the context was about horrible incidents involving radiation and how a radioactive spider bit the main character in this movie, but still. People died in Chernobyl! A lot of them! Think about how bad a movie has to be for someone to say that. It almost makes me want to see it more. This is probably a character flaw on my part.
There is a silver lining in it all, though, even with the disastrous reviews and projections: It gave us a full-on Dakota Johnson press tour. That’s not nothing. Dakota Johnson press tours are a chaotic little treasure and, yes, we can link to the Ellen thing again here, as we are obligated to do in these situations. But she’s still out here spinning gold. She was asked in one interview to name the movies in the MCU Spider-Man trilogy and the titles she guessed were “Spider-Man: Here He Comes, Spider-Man: And He’s Back, and The Goblet of Spider-Man.” That’s just beautiful.
It gets better. Please go read this interview she did with L’Officiel. I’m going to blockquote some highlights but I need you to read the whole thing. I mean, this is the very first question and answer.
MARISA MELTZER: I’ve heard you like to eat a popsicle while taking a bath.
DAKOTA JOHNSON: Have you done that? It’s a fabulous activity. A popsicle and a hot bath is a sensational experience.
“A popsicle and a hot bath is a sensational experience.” I suspect that sentence is going to stay with me for a while.
It gets better. Here she is discussing the process of making movies.
I am discovering that it’s really f-cking bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening. The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode. It’s really heartbreaking. It’s just f-cking so hard. It’s so hard to get anything made.
Please imagine the marketing team for Madame Web reading this interview after presumably giving her weeks of talking points to hit and avoid. They have bigger problems on their hands now, but I suspect they sighed deeply enough to blow out a candle.
Finally, there was this, where she discussed the viral quote from earlier in this same press tour (lol) about sleeping 14 hours a day.
I said I could easily sleep 14 hours. I didn’t say that I sleep 14 hours every night. I have a job. There’s no way that I could do my job and do that. So clearly something is amiss with that. I do love sleeping, but I didn’t say that. I think I’m beginning to understand that sarcasm doesn’t translate to journalists these days, or embellishment. I just have to be more literal, I guess.
Bless her. Put her on every press tour. Even ones for movies she’s not in. Let her do the press tour for the next Mission: Impossible movie. Ask her about submarines. And Tom Cruise. I need you to know that I am very serious about this.
Anyway, if you were worried at all that this Madame Web business is getting to her too much, well…
Dakota Johnson says she hasn’t seen ‘MADAME WEB’ yet.
ITEM NUMBER THREE – Tell me more about The John Wick Experience
LIONSGATE
Welllllll guess what: Something called “The John Wick Experience” is coming to Vegas. Which is funny. Because the character arc of John Wick — his own actual experience, if you will — involves his beloved wife dying and the puppy dog she got him to remember her by getting murdered by a snotty little wannabe kingpin. I hope that’s not what happens at this thing. I hope they do not just like kill your spouse and dog and hand you a gun. That would be bad.
Guests will step through the doors of the Las Vegas Continental and into the fantastical world of the billion-plus grossing franchise movies, where they will navigate a high stakes adventure as well as visit a themed bar and retail shop open to the general public.
Okay, yeah. That sounds more reasonable.
Each group of guests will be tasked with specific missions, playing out in unique ways with characters, mythology and iconography from the Wick universe. The adventures entail rubbing elbows with Continental staff, assassins, crime bosses, or other curious guests like themselves within the relative safety of the Continental.
On one hand, yes, fine, sure. This seems like a thing we can do. People love these movies. I love these movies. Not enough to fly to Vegas specifically for this but, like, if I was already there, maybe.
But on the other hand, if you are someone who is thinking about going to this, please just know that there will absolutely, 100 percent, be a few very excited dudes in line outside dressed like John Wick and quoting the movie a lot. There’s nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I’m glad those dudes are having fun. But I just want you to be prepared for that before you show up.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Rebecca Ferguson seems like a fun lady
We can get out of this one in four bullet points:
This is a video from the Dune 2 press tour where a correspondent from Nerdist asks Rebecca Ferguson about the Dune popcorn bucket that went viral a few weeks ago for reasons the people who created it probably did not enjoy
Rebecca Ferguson seems like an extremely fun person
As my colleague Josh Kurp noted in our work chat, you need to hear the way the word “Googling” sounds in her British accent
I don’t know why she has a toothpick but I support her decision here regardless
Get her and Dakota Johnson on a podcast at once.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – DUDE, GO WATCH BOTTOMS
I have been yammering about how good Bottoms is for months now, ever since I rented it on a whim one weekend last fall and proceeded to laugh for 90 minutes straight. “It’s so good!” I shouted. “It’s got Ayo Edebiri from The Bear in it!” I yelled. “Marshawn Lynch plays the faculty advisor of an all-girl high school fight club that two teens start in the hopes of hooking up with their cheerleader crushes!” I screeched. I get excited sometimes.
A bunch of people listened to me and watched it, which was helpful for both my emotional well-being and my vocal cords, but some people were very adamant about holding out until they could watch it on one of the streaming services they already pay for. Well, guess what: It’s streaming now. It’s on Prime Video. You can watch it for free on the same website where you purchase the plumbing fixtures the Road House guys were yelling about.
Here, for the record, is the official description of the movie, which comes from the creative team of Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennot.
In this refreshingly unique comedy, two girls, PJ and Josie, start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. And their bizarre plan works! The fight club gains traction, and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.
And here’s a blockquote from, uh, me, where I tried to explain how weird and wonderful it is.
This is the hardest part to explain. The closest I’ve come to getting there is “it somehow is both an earnest movie about high school and also a satire of a movie about high school.” It’s weird. In a good way. So, like, yes, it is a little bit “every high school movie you’ve ever seen about horny teens trying to hook up” but also, like, the high school football hero gets served steak at lunch while everyone else eats slop. The teachers and students just casually swear at each other. There are, like, murders and property damage and it’s all just fine. You kind of have to accept the universe the movie exists inside and then proceed from there.
WATCH BOTTOMS
IT’S GOOD
IT’S STREAMING
YOU HAVE NO MORE EXCUSES
THANK YOU
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From Sara:
I’m sure a million people have sent this to you but I need to be sure you saw Walton Goggins’ Instagram post with Timothy Olyphant. Boyd and Raylan! I’m not sure how I would’ve reacted if I saw the two of them on the sidewalk together like this but I suspect there would be at least a little squealing.
Okay, first of all, this is the Instagram post Sara was talking about, which you have to scroll through a little to get to the squeal-worthy image.
Jordan Mackampa’s sophomore album Welcome Home, Kid! will be one to remember in 2024.
Through 14 songs, listeners will be whisked away on a soulful journey that is rejuvenating. Welcome Home, Kid! is the British-Congolese singer’s coming out party, and boy is it a good time. “Proud Of You” keeps you light on your feet with a giddy dance that’s a perfect match for the song’s fluttering piano keys and roaring trumpet. “Step By Step” and “Blaccjack The Mac” take you to church with glorious trumpets, lively drums, and the energy that only a family cookout can provide.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say Mackampa’s Welcome Home, Kid! will go down as one of 2024’s best R&B releases. Along with production that adds fuel to the spirit, Welcome Home, Kid! celebrates the moment that things start to make a little more sense. It captures the applause that comes when you’ve finally discovered your purpose after doing the nitty-gritty work to get there. In his second coming as an artist, Jordan is back home – at least in the figurative sense – where he belongs.
With Welcome Home, Kid! available in just a few hours, Uproxx caught up with Jordan Mackampa to talk about his early music memories, who he’d play on The Bear, and more for our Uproxx Music 20 Q&A.
What is your earliest memory of music?
My mum dancing in our kitchen and me clinging onto her legs as she moved.
Who inspired you to take music seriously?
My music and performing arts teachers.
Do you know how to play an instrument? If so, which one? If not, which instrument do you want to learn how to play?
I play few at the moment, I’d love to learn a horned instrument next like a trumpet, just need to find a quiet play to practice that doesn’t annoy my neighbours.
What was your first job?
I was the world’s worst door-to-door salesman, asking folks to give me their credit card details at the most inconvenient times of the day, in return for a £9.99 ‘Lovefilm’ subscription.
What is your most prized possession?
My hard drive.
What is your biggest fear?
Hahahaha, no way I’m sharing that on the internet.
Who is on your R&B afrobeats Mt. Rushmore?
Jazmine Sullivan, Miguel, Frank Ocean, Lianne La Havas.
You get 24 hours to yourself to do anything you want, with unlimited resources: What are you doing? And spare no details!
First things first, I’m clearing all student debts everywhere and repurposing that money into affordable housing, healthcare & education systems, with a mandatory course on a selection of Bell Hook’s work. Secondly, I’m giving Palestine back to the Palestinians as well as every other country fighting for their freedom. Not long after that, I’m decriminalising sex work & any incarceration charges for marijuana. Lastly, I’d put together my dream show so I can watch Childish Gambino & Kirk Franklin go back to back.
What are your three most used emojis?
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What’s a feature you need to secure before you die?
If you could appear in a future season of a current TV show, which one would it be and why?
The Bear, I could play Marcus’ brother or a new love interest for Sydney — I’m open to both.
Which celebrity do you admire or respect for their personality and why?
Damson Idris, I feel like in an alternative universe somewhere we’re good friends who have discourse all the time, over where the best Jamaican food in London is.
Share your opinion on something no one could ever change your mind about.
Songs In The Key of Life isn’t Stevie Wonder’s best album.
What is the best song you’ve ever heard in your life and what do you love about it?
“Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza” by Mac Miller. I love how instantly I’m trapped in that nostalgic feeling so quickly.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s a city you’re excited to perform in for the first time?
London’s always gonna be a favourite because it’s home, New York is fun too. Europe is taking the top spot right now though, especially Germany & the Netherlands.
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location where it would be held.
Chance The Rapper only doing Acid Rap/Coloring Book songs, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The Creator, Kaytramine, and Dijon. Gimme a field with an open bar/taco stand & I’m comfy.
What would you be doing now if it weren’t for music?
I’d be a chef running my own 24hr diner.
If you could see five years into the future or go five years into the past, which one would you pick and why?
Past, so I could reassure myself that we’ll be ok.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Don’t break your back keeping bonds that don’t feed you.
It’s 2050. The world hasn’t ended, and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
As someone who poured all they had, into everything they did.
Welcome Home, Kid! is out 2/16 via AWAL Recordings Ltd. Find out more information here.
Last week, Vampire Weekend stirred from their slumber with some fantastic news: Only God Was Above Us, their first album since 2019’s Father Of The Bride, is on the way. The project is set for release on April 5, and now they’ve preceded that drop with even more welcomed dispatches: The band is going on tour, and they just released two new songs, “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops” (the latter of which shares its title with a 1999 Hong Kong action movie).
Each song, both of which represent the band’s first new music in five years, got a video today, too. The “Capricorn” visual offers a look at a seemingly post-apocalyptic city in a state of disrepair, before singer Ezra Koenig is revealed to be performing for a group in a concert hall. The “Gen-X Cops” visual has a similar aesthetic and setting.
Listen to the songs above and find Vampire Weekend’s upcoming tour dates below.
Vampire Weekend 2024 Tour Dates: Only God Was Above Us Tour
04/08 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
04/27 — New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05/10 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
06/06 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall =
06/07 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory =
06/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre =
06/10 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre =
06/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl %&
06/15 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/16 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre >
06/18 — Burnaby, British Columbia @ Deer Lake Park >
06/19 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater >
06/20 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena >
06/22 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
06/23 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
07/19 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/22 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre +
07/23 — Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater +
07/25 — Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park +
07/26 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/27 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island *+
07/30 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory +
08/01 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion +
08/03 — St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland Music Festival
09/19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center !
09/20 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Icon Festival Stage at Smale Park !
09/21 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park !
09/23 — Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre !
09/24 — Toronto, Ontario @ Budweiser Stage !
09/25 — Laval, Quebec @ Place Bell !
09/27 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden !
09/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann !
09/30 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem !
10/02 — Charlottesville, VA @ Ting Pavilion !
10/05 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^~
10/06 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #~
10/08 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion !
10/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater !
10/11 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater !
10/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park !
10/13 — Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit !
10/15 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre !
10/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center !
= with LA LOM
% with The English Beat
& with Voodoo Glow Skull
> with Mike Gordon
< with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
+ with Ra Ra Riot
* with Princess
! with Cults
^ with Mark Ronson
~ with Turnstiles
# with The Brothers Macklovitch
Only God Was Above Us is out April 5 via Columbia. Find more information here.
Gunna, who had an unexpectedly great 2023, is back with another new single, suggesting he has no plans of resting on his laurels this year. After promising new music would be coming “soon,” he has delivered with “Bittersweet,” an introspective hymn that expresses his paranoia and the stress that comes along with success. Over a slow-simmering guitar riff from producers Dystinkt Beats and 1SRAEL, Gunna laments the bumps in the road he’s experienced and warns listeners of the pitfalls that face anyone pursuing similar goals.
“Fans say when I rap, they hear the pain in my rhythm,” he intones. “Keeping them far back until I know they agenda / All these n****s capping like the man in the middle / They gon’ mеntion Wunna cause the views’ll bе bigger.”
Gunna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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