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Justin Bieber has found a lot of success with his collaborations; The most recent ones of note include the No. 1 singles “Stuck With U” with Ariana Grande, “Peaches” with Daniel Caesar and Giveon, and “Stay” with The Kid Laroi. So, it’s not surprising that Bieber is interested in getting back in the studio with a creative partner, and he’s even soliciting interested parties on social media.

Yesterday, Bieber shared a set of photos on Instagram and wrote, “Dm me if u wanna make music together.”

Of course, despite how it may sound, this call isn’t open to anybody: For science, I attempted to send Bieber a DM, but Instagram said, “You can’t message this account unless they follow you.” But, some noteworthy folks have expressed interest in linking up with Bieber, like Drake, who commented on the post, “I DM’d but no reply.”

Drake wasn’t the only big-timer to chime in on the collaboration-seeking post: Uproxx cover star Big Sean commented, “Check Dm’s.” Kehlani wrote, “whewwhewwww.” Jaden Smith commented, “Check your DMs gang.” Bailey Zimmerman also commented, “WE NEED COUNTRY JB!!!!”

Bieber has already gotten started with the collaborations, it appears: Last month, he was seen with Fred Again.. and Sekou.

Dreamville Festival opened its doors for a fifth and final time this weekend, and though the music showcase as we know it will be missed, fans didn’t let the news stop them from showing up in their Sunday’s best for the exciting weekend. This year’s festival featured an exciting lineup led by J. Cole, Erykah Badu, Tems, and Lil Wayne with Hot Boyz and Big Tymers. Additionally, the 2025 Dreamville Festival had its largest food lineup ever, while also giving fans more free events than they knew what to do with in the days leading up to the festival’s start.

With all that on the table for everyone to enjoy, fans showed their excitement for this year’s Dreamville Festival in many ways, including with their outfits. Raleigh, North Carolina held it down on the weather front as temps were well into the 80s during peak hours of the festival. Locals may be used to the warm temps already, but a New Englander like myself was extremely happy to escape the spring days that sometimes felt a lot like winter days. In the days leading up to the festival, the threat of rain hung over day two of the festival, but by Friday night, that threat was nothing more than a false alarm. With that, the runway was set for fans to pop out and show out.

From fans who dressed to the nines to others who found great ways to rock their Dreamville merchandise, here are just some of the best-dressed people we saw at the 2025 Dreamville Festival.

Since the release of his most recent album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny has launched an all-out charm offensive on the press. He’s raised his profile in the States with a memorable Hot Ones appearance, a thirst-inducing ad for Calvin Klein, and a standout performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, but with all eyes on the Puerto Rican star, he hasn’t forgotten where the primary focus should be: on his music.

Naturally, that means the next stop on his media takeover tour just had to be NPR Music and the Tiny Desk Concert series. The new album lends itself well to the format, thanks to BB’s embrace of traditional Puerto Rican sounds on Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Of course, his band here incorporates congas and cuatros, upright bass, and good, old-fashioned piano as Bunny flows through laid-back but emotive performances of “PIToRRO DE COCO,” “VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR,” “KLOuFRENS,” and “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii.” And in typical Benito fashion, he speaks only his native Spanish throughout the performance until the very end, joking that he “forgot” to speak English for the English platform. It wasn’t a big deal, though; he previously admitted that he doesn’t mind if people miss the references in his music, because it’s for a specific audience. Everything else is just gravy.

You can watch Bad Bunny’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert above.

The Handmaid’s Tale will soon embark upon its sixth and final season to aim for revolution and, ideally, tear Gilead’s little world apart.

As Hulu subscribers darn well realize, the flagship series has masterfully kept people watching despite an onslaught of horrors (drained bank accounts, sewn mouths, and a drowned Sydney Sweeney character are only the beginning of that list), and some form of catharsis will likely come with the sixth season, but that won’t be the end of what Margaret Atwood wrote for TV. Her 2019 novel, The Testaments, will continue the story, and Praise Be. Let’s get down to business on what to expect.

Plot

The Testaments will be in good TV hands. The sequel series has been created by The Handmaid’s Tale creator Bruce Miller, who stepped down from the final season of the flagship series (turning over the sixth season to fellow executive producers and writers Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang) so that he could fully develop the sequel series. The new show’s story, which picks up 15 years after Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale novel ends, will follow the perspective of three protagonists, including two daughters in Gilead and the Aunt Lydia character already familiar to viewers.

In The Testaments novel, Gilead’s theocratic regime is still technically in charge of society, but the structural rotting has become apparent, and the protagnoists’ stories will come together with competing perspectives, ultimately converging. This will include revelations of Aunt Lydia’s past contributions to the oppressive regime, and The Handmaid’s Tale‘s final synopsis has revealed, “Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought,” and what happens there will surely provide an avenue to where Lydia’s mindset begins in The Testaments. Hulu has further disclosed that, with The Testaments, the fates of Lydia and the younger women will “become intertwined as they uncover the secrets of Gilead and the resistance against its regime.”

As The Testaments‘ book description further suggests (NO WORRIES, NO SPOILERS HERE), “Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.”

Will we see any characters beyond Lydia to bridge the gap between shows? Since fifteen years have passed, that doesn’t seem terribly likely, and ideally, June will be off living her best life outside of Gilead with the same for Moira and many other beloved characters. Hulu is, however, lining up the new cast for what could be the future generation of rebellion.

Cast

Ann Dowd will reprise her role as Aunt Lydia and likely the sole carryover cast member between shows. Lucy Halliday (Blue Jean) will portray Daisy, Chase Infiniti (Presumed Innocent) will portray Agnes, and Rowan Blanchard will appear as Shunammite, who hails from a powerful Gilead family.

Release Date

The Handmaid’s Tale will finish its sixth season at the end of May, and in all likelihood, The Testaments won’t take too long. Late 2026 or early 2027 seems feasible.

Trailer

No trailer yet, of course, but here’s a 2019 CBS This Morning interview of Atwood discussing The Testaments‘ release and why The Handmaid’s Tale has resonated most out of her 60 authored books.

It’s a big weekend for music festivals in California. There’s Coachella, of course, but April 12 is also Revolve Festival, an invite-only event held in Thermal, CA. The lineup includes Lil Wayne, Tyga, Uncle Waffles, and Gelo; DJ sets by Hunny Bee, DJ Lex, Quinn Blake; and special guest Cardi B.

The 2025 theme is “Desert Mirage,” inspired by the local landscape.

“Every year, we aim to deliver a lineup featuring the best of the best artists in the game, and this year is no exception,” Revolve Group Inc. chief brand officer Raissa Gerona said in a statement. “We’re excited to bring an incredible mix of performers, making this our best festival yet. Revolve Festival continues to raise the bar, and we can’t wait to bring unparalleled energy to the desert.”

Along with the music, Revolve Festival will feature the “season’s latest fashion trends and cutting-edge designs from Revolve’s unparalleled brand roster, which includes exclusive collections in collaboration with brands such as Leslie Amon, AKNVAS, Understated Leather, 8 Other Reasons and Revolve’s Owned Brands GRLFRND, Camila Coelho, and Superdown.”

Here’s more, per a press release:

Beverage offerings will include Sprinter Vodka Soda, 818 Tequila, a full portfolio of Heineken brews, and SipMARGS, a ready-to-drink sparkling margarita brand backed by social media star Alix Earle. Sinners Movie x Warner Bros. Pictures will feature a sleek bar activation with cocktails inspired by the upcoming film from Ryan Coogler starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld. BODYARMOR FLASH I.V. will be onsite offering rapid rehydration beverages and electrolyte slushies. Additionally, LaCroix will debut its newest sparkling water flavor, Sunshine.

You can check out the poster below.

Revolve Festival 2025 Poster

Sabrina Carpenter has multiple chart-topping hits, a sold-out tour, and a Dunkin’ drink — what’s next? Appearing in Fortnite, naturally.

On Monday (April 7), Epic Games announced that the “Espresso” singer will take part in “Fortnite Festival” season 8. Per the Fortnite website: “Unlock her ‘Juno’ and ‘Nonsense’ Jam Tracks in the Season 8 Music Pass and find more of her tracks in the Shop! That’s that Season 8 Icon, Sabrina: there’ll be a Sabrina Carpenter Outfit in both the Music Pass and Shop.”

One of the premium rewards for purchasing a Music Pass is unlocking the Sabrina Carpenter Outfit featuring “a yellow embellished babydoll inspired by the one she wore on her most recent tour — designed by Victoria’s Secret in collaboration with celebrity stylist Jared Ellner — as well as jewelry designed by Maison Raksha.” There’s also lipstick and sparkly guitars, while “Nonsense” and “Juno” are available as Jam Tracks.

Since this is Fortnite we’re talking about, of course there’s dancing:

“Switch it up with how you Emote! Sabrina’s bringing Dance Emotes with her — most Fortnite Emotes that include dancing will be called ‘Dance Emotes’ in the Locker. While using a Dance Emote, any player can do the same dance with you at the press of a button. (Even if they don’t own the Emote!) These multiplayer Emotes are currently called ‘Synced Emotes,’ but will be renamed ‘Group Emotes.’”

Carpenter missed her calling by not voicing Jessica Rabbit in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit video game (since she, y’know, wasn’t born for another 10 years), but this is the next best thing. You can find all the information here.

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Sexyy Red as confident as ever and PinkPantheress blend old and new. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

Sexyy Red — “Hoochie Coochie”

Is Sexyy Red the most-hated female rapper? She seems to think so, but there are also plenty of fans who look forward to her new releases, like last week’s “Hoochie Coochie,” on which Sexyy declares her supremacy.

BigXthaPlug — “All The Way” Feat. Bailey Zimmerman

Just about everybody is going country at the moment, and now that includes BigXthaPlug. Last week, he teamed with Bailey Zimmerman on “All The Way,” which doesn’t skimp on the twang.

Gelo – “Law N Order”

The NBA didn’t end up working out for LiAngelo Ball like it has for his brothers LaMelo and Lonzo, but he’s found his own path to stardom via music. He’s followed up the breakout hit “Tweaker” with new music, including last week’s “Law N Order.”

The Dare — “LCA”

The Dare, in case you haven’t picked up on it, enjoys partying, indulgence, and otherwise having a good time: On last week’s “LCA,” he starts, “I wanna make it with you / I wanna f*ck ’til we’re blue / I wanna live like, ‘What would Amy f*ckin’ Winehouse do?’”

Lil Yachty and Veeze – “Can’t Be Crete Boy”

Lil Yachty and Veeze have reunited after linking up for “Sorry Not Sorry” last summer: Last week brought another new collab, “Can’t Be Crete Boy,” which comes with a Lyrical Lemonade video.

PinkPantheress — “Tonight”

PinkPantheress unveiled a Bridgerton-inspired video for “Tonight” last week, but that’s the only thing that’s 19th century about the song, as it’s all contemporary house (with no harps and concertinas and whatnot).

2hollis — “Nice”

Since releasing his third album, 2024’s Boy, 2hollis signed with Interscope and has been releasing new music with the label. He just dropped a new album, Star, and songs like “Nice” showcase his ability to keep adventurous electroclash catchy.

Djo — “Charlie’s Garden”

Sometimes, you write a song about a woman you’re really into. And sometimes, if you’re Djo (Joe Keery), you write a song like “Charlie’s Garden,” a Beatles-inspired number he penned in honor of Stranger Things castmate Charlie Heaton.

Skrillex — “Voltage”

Out of nowhere, Skrillex graced April Fools’ Day with a new album, F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3. It’s definitely an album-y sort of album: Most of the tracks are under two minutes long and a voice on the opening track declares, “DJ Smokey recommends you listen to this album from start to finish.”

Laufey — “Silver Lining”

Now that we all know how to saw Laufey’s name, the Icelandic singer is launching a new era. Last week, she released “Silver Lining,” a delightfully retro slow-burner that sees her giving in to love.

Country music has been having a moment in recent years as artists like Tanner Adell have brought fresh influences to the space and have been successful with it. If you ask her, though, she thinks country has “had a hard time” with “evolving.”

In a new NME cover story, Adell explained:

“I feel like country music is the only genre that has had a hard time progressing and evolving. Although the banjo has its origins in Africa, Black people weren’t necessarily involved in conversations surrounding country music. […] But I do feel like if Black people had been more involved in the country scene, we might have a completely separate country genre by this point. I think it would have evolved into a sound very similar to what I’m making now.”

She also cited Charley Pride, who had many No. 1 hits on the country charts from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, as “one of the few Black people” acknowledged as a “traditional” country artist.

Adell also said of her own journey, “Whenever you’re trying to do something different, there’s always going to be people telling you it won’t work. Paving my own path, especially sound-wise in my music, makes it harder, but I think it’s going to pay off in the long run.” Of being a woman in country music, she added, “We’re pitted against each other because it always seems like there are only so many slots for us, whereas if you’re a man doing country music, there’s a good chance you’ll be [played] on the radio and get asked to open for a bigger artist.”

Read the full feature here.

A Minecraft Movie obliterated all projections with a whopping $157 million opening at the domestic box office this weekend. That’s the best-ever debut for a video game movie, narrowly besting the former record set by 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146.4 million). According to The Hollywood Reporter, around 35 percent of the audience was between the ages of 13 and 17, and seemingly all of them shouted “chicken jockey” at the screen.

For everyone who was born before Obama was elected president, A Minecraft Movie has an Avengers: Endgame-style moment of spontaneous crowd participation in a scene where I… Am Steve and Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison, played by Jack Black and Jason Momoa, are confronted in a boxing ring by a zombie baby riding a chicken (sure!). When Steve says “chicken jockey,” a reference straight out of the top-selling video game ever, theatergoers yell it back and erupt into applause, as seen here (but seriously, keep your dang phone in your pocket).

“My theater clapped every time Jack Black name dropped a Minecraft item that was in the trailers, and when he said Chicken Jockey I sh*t you not the entire row in front of me gave a standing ovation,” one person wrote on X, while another added, “Just got back from watching the movie myself, can confirm everyone in the theater collectively yelled ‘CHICKEN JOCKEY’ during that moment and it was glorious ngl.”

There’s even been (unconfirmed) reports of the police being called due to the pandemonium.

Who knew A Minecraft Movie would be Gen Z’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

In case you’ve missed it: For the past nearly two years now, Billy McFarland has been working on a sequel to his historically ill-fated Fyre Festival. In recent months, though, some roadblocks have been reported, most notably the supposed Mexican host island saying the event doesn’t exist.

The event is currently set for May 30 to June 2, and it seems the status of the venue is still up in the air.

The city of Playa del Carmen (where the event is supposedly set to take place) issued a statement on April 3, saying there’s no record of Fyre 2 set to take place in the city. The statement reads (machine-translated from Spanish):

“In relation to the information that has begun to circulate about a supposed event called ‘Fyre 2,’ the municipal government of Playa del Carmen informs that no event with that name will take place in our city.

After a responsible review of the situation, it is confirmed that there is no record, planning, or conditions that indicate the holding of such an event in the municipality.

This municipal government is acting with responsibility and commitment, always with priority placed on public order, security, and social coexistence.

We reiterate that any official information will be communicated directly and promptly through the corresponding channels.”

In response, the next day, McFarland shared a post insisting that the festival has gone through all the proper channels in order to organize the event, writing:

“FYRE has been working directly with the government of Playa del Carmen (PDC) and their officials since March 5, 2025 to ensure a safe and successful event.

All media reports suggesting our team has not been working with the government of PDC are simply inaccurate and based on misinformation.

FYRE has operated as a good partner with PDC government and has followed the proper processes and procedures to lawfully host an event, as outlined below:

March 12: PDC government provided FYRE Festival 2 with an official invitation letter to share with potential performing artists.

March 18: PDC government issued the initial event authorization permit for FYRE Festival 2 at Martina Beach Club, officially signed by the Secretary General.

March 18: Secretary of Tourism issued a permit authorizing the use of Playa del Carmen and its municipality in FYRE Festival 2’s filming and marketing efforts.

March 19: PDC government issued a bill for a Special Event permit fee.

March 24: FYRE submitted payment to the PDC government for the Special Event permit fees.

March 25: FYRE submitted payment to the PDC government for additional permit fees.

March 26: PDC government issued the Environmental permit for FYRE Festival 2, signed by the Director of Regulation and Environmental Impact Assessment.

March 27: FYRE Festival 2 held a live press conference in collaboration with the PDC government.

March 28: PDC government shared their official support for the event on their Instagram account, @gobplayadelcarmen, while the Secretary of Citizen Security also posted on both Instagram and X @ssc_playadelcarmen, publicly welcoming FYRE Festival 2 to Playa del Carmen.

We will be sharing all relevant permits, payments, and communications.”

Subsequent slides show the mentioned evidence.

The Fyre website has more information about the event, which as of now is supposedly still happening.