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Last month, Blink-182 surprised fans by announcing they’d be returning with a new album, One More Time… — and it’s dropping quite soon. With just a few more days to go until the rock group returns, some might be wondering what to expect with the record. Here’s everything to know.

Release Date

Blink-182’s new album is set to drop via Columbia this Friday, October 20. Find more information here. It’s been nearly a year since they teased it with their single, “Edging,” but the band dropped the official album reveal during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

Tracklist

1. “Anthem Part 3”
2. “Dance With Me”
3. “Fell In Love”
4. “Terrified”
5. “One More Time”
6. “More Than You Know”
7. “Turn This Off!”
8. “When We Were Young”
9. “Edging”
10. “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got”
11. “Blink Wave”
12. “Bad News”
13. “Hurt (Interlude)”
14. “Turpentine”
15. “F*ck Face”
16. “Other Side”
17. “Childhood”

Singles

Given that Blink-182 has been leading up to the album’s rollout for a while, there have been a few early singles. Last October, “Edging” was the first preview of the record. Since then, they’ve also shared the title track (and a music video for it), “Dance With Me,” “More Than You Know,” and “Fell In Love.”

Artwork

One More Time…‘s cover artwork is still TBA.

Tour

Blink-182 spent most of this year playing across the globe on a massive tour, given the significance of Tom DeLonge rejoining. They still have a few more dates left over the next few months for fans who might be looking to catch them live.

10/21/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young Festival
02/09/2024 — Perth, Western Australia @ RAC Arena!
02/11/2024 — Adelaide, South Australia @ Entertainment Centre!
02/13/2024 — Melbourne, Victoria @ Rod Laver Arena!
02/16/2024 — Sydney, New South Wales @ Qudos Bank Arena!
02/19/2024 — Brisbane, Queensland @ Entertainment Centre!
02/23/2024 — Auckland, NZ @ Spark Arena!
02/26/2024 — Christchurch, NZ @ Christchurch Arena!

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During a wide-ranging panel at New York Comic-Con, director Matthew Vaughn opened up about the reason he walked away from X-Men: The Last Stand after initially being tapped to replace Bryan Singer for the third film.

At the time, the X-Men movies were a blockbuster franchise that foreshadowed Marvel’s ability to dominate the box office. However, the series wasn’t immune to Hollywood politics, and that’s a game Vaughn was not interested in playing. Particularly when it involves trying to pull a fast one on Halle Berry.

According to Vaughn, the situation went south when he discovered a fake script that was designed to trick Berry into signing on to the third X-Men film. She had expressed concerns about Storm’s portrayal in the previous installments, so apparently, the plan was to pretend those concerns were addressed — until they weren’t.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

“I went into one of the executive’s office and I saw an X3 script, and I immediately knew it was a lot fatter. I was like what the hell is this draft. He went, ‘Don’t worry about it,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no. I’m the director. I’m worrying about this draft,’” he recalled. “He wouldn’t tell me, so I grabbed it literally — it was like a crazy moment — opened the first page, and it said, ‘Africa. Storm. Kids dying of no water. She creates a thunderstorm and saves all these children.’”

Vaughn actually liked what he read and thought it was a “pretty cool idea.” Then the bottom fell out.

“[I went,] ‘What is this?’ [They said,] ‘Oh, it’s Halle Berry’s script. I went, ‘OK, because she hasn’t signed up yet.’ ‘But this is what she wants it to be, and once she signs up, we’ll throw it in the bin,’” Vaughn recalled. “I was like, ‘Wow, you’re gonna do that to an Oscar-winning actress who plays Storm? I’m outta here.’ So I quit at that point.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Pete Davidson’s SNL hosting gig happened nearly six months after it was originally scheduled. This also happened at a time when great global strife has reared its head, and he addressed the Israel-Hamas conflict with perspective that few people could manage. Pete concluded his cold-open address after revealing how his mother had “tried pretty much everything she can do to cheer me up” following his father’s death while battling the 9/11 Twin Towers fires. He relayed how she had accidentally shown him Eddie Murphy’s Delirious, and “the first time in a long time, I was laughing again.” He admitted, “I don’t understand that. I really don’t and I never will. But sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy.”

Pete then promised, “I’m gonna do what I’ve always done in the face of tragedy, and that’s try to be funny,” and he did not let the audience down.

Over the course of the program, Pete fueled audience laughter with Barbie parody skit. Before that happened, his monologue shifted immediately into stand-up comedy mode. He, too, is thinking about a certain dragon-filled HBO franchise, and so he let the world know how he first watched Game of Thrones in the worst way — while sitting next to his sister:

“I had no idea how sick everyone was. I thought it was like dragons and stuff and magic. Hardly any dragons. Lots of incest. Tons of incest. So much incest. You can leave the house come back incest’s still happening.”

His sister, however, was apparently thrilled with what she was seeing. You can see the reenactment of his response in the above video.

Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine returned to the stage for the first time in over a year last week, joining Run The Jewels to perform their 2014 collaboration “Close Your Eyes And Count To F*ck” during RTJ’s show at the Palladium in Hollywood on Thursday. You can check out the video below:

De La Rocha hadn’t performed since July of 2022 when he injured his leg on the first night of Rage Against The Machine‘s first tour in eleven years. The band was forced to cancel the European leg of the tour then the North American dates as well as it was revealed that Zack had torn his Achilles.

Although he finished the first handful of shows seated, it was clear that he needed to rest and rehabilitate his leg, which would be extremely difficult with the grueling schedule of a summer tour. From the video above, it does look like he’s recovered enough to stand alongside El-P and Killer Mike, and could likely perform a few full shows provided he doesn’t move around too much, but Rage fans would certainly be expecting a different level of activity. Even Tom Morello admitted he didn’t know if Rage would ever be able to tour again; even with De La Rocha fully recovered, the band’s health concerns include bassist Tim Commerford’s recent cancer diagnosis.

Fingers crossed, though. If ever there was a time we all needed some Rage Against The Machine, it’s certainly now.

Jung Kook from BTS is officially making his solo debut, as he released the tracklist for his new album, Golden. Spanning 11 songs, his record will include some previously-released tracks, including his chart-topping “Seven” collaboration with Latto (both the explicit and clean versions).

Fans can also expect to hear his other collaborations, like “3D” with Jack Harlow, “Closer To You” with Major Lazer, and “Please Don’t Change” with DJ Snake. Golden‘s main track, according to an early promo poster, is Jung Kook’s “Standing Next To You.”

According to Rolling Stone, Ed Sheeran also has a songwriting credit on “Yes Or No.”

“Golden takes its motif from the golden moments of Jung Kook as a solo artist,” Big Hit Music, the label, shared. “Known as the ‘Golden Maknae’ (‘golden youngest’ in Korean) of BTS, Jung Kook is set to unveil a new release with his unique timbre that will captivate listeners worldwide.”

Continue scrolling for Jung Kook’s full tracklist for Golden.

1. “3D” (ft. Jack Harlow)
2. “Closer To You” (ft. Major Lazer)
3. “Seven” (ft. Latto) Explicit Ver.
4. “Standing Next To You”
5. “Yes Or No”
6. “Please Don’t Change” (ft. DJ Snake)
7. “Hate You”
8. “Somebody”
9. “Too Sad To Dance”
10. “Shot Glass Of Tears”
11. “Seven” (ft. Latto) – Clean Ver.

Golden is out 11/3 via Big Hit.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Back in 2021, the Milwaukee Bucks finally ascended to the NBA’s mountaintop. It came on the heels of a Giannis Antetokounmpo openly floating his desire to look around due to his desire to win a championship and a major swing by the front office to bring a big-time guard — in this case, Jrue Holiday — to Milwaukee.

If that playbook sounds familiar, well, that’s because the team did that exact same thing this offseason. Antetokounmpo said on multiple occasions that he won’t remain a Buck if the team doesn’t match his desire to compete. Not long after, the front office swung for the fences, pulling off a monster deal to bring Damian Lillard to the Eastern Conference for the first time in his career. There’s a lot of basketball that needs to be played, but if all goes right, this season will end the same way as their 2021 campaign, and Milwaukee will get to call themselves champions once again.

Biggest Question: Is Upgrading Their Offense With Damian Lillard Worth Downgrading Their Defense?

Milwaukee having to part ways with Holiday was not easy. As a player and as a person, Holiday was a beloved member of the organization, the sort of guy that you root for even if you have no stake in the Bucks. Watching him go to the team’s biggest rival in the Eastern Conference following a pit stop in Portland had to have been a gut punch.

And yet, it’s not hard to see why Milwaukee’s front office made the decision to turn Holiday (along with Grayson Allen and Draft capital) into Lillard. An issue for the Bucks is that their offense is prone to getting stuck in the mud, particularly when the game slows down and they have to play in the halfcourt. This comes with the caveat that Antetokounmpo was clearly not right as he played through injuries and essentially missed the first three games, but the Bucks’ offense in their first-round loss to the Miami Heat in the playoffs was brutal. Small sample sizes and what not, but in four losses, Milwaukee had an offensive rating of 109.4 with an effective field goal percentage of 53.2 percent. Their true shooting percentage came in at 55.9 percent. While a wonderful player, Holiday’s had some postseason warts over the last few years, namely when it comes to efficiency from the field (38.4 percent on field goals, 30.6 percent from three over 17 playoff games in the last two years).

Offenses do not stall out when Lillard is running the show, and the thought of a two-man game with himself and Antetokounmpo is legitimately one of the most exciting things in the league. The bet that the Bucks made was that all of this is that the gains they’ll make on that end of the floor will offset what losing Holiday — perhaps the most versatile defensive guard in the league — means on the other. While we don’t know what new head coach Adrian Griffin will want his defense to look like, it’s worth mentioning that Milwaukee’s defense in recent years has featured elite rim protection, and with Antetokounmpo and Brook Lopez returning, that should remain.

X-Factor: Khris Middleton

Is it just me, or has everyone kind of just forgotten how good Middleton is at his best this offseason? There were glimpses where he looked like the multi-time All-Star last season, you just needed to squint sometimes as he was working his way back from surgery to repair a torn ligament in his wrist. He was hot and cold against Miami in the playoffs, but his good games looked great. His efficiency as a shooter took a step down, but his per-36 numbers looked an awful lot like what you generally expect out of him — from 2019-22, Middleton had per-36 averages of 23 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.7 assists, and 1.2 steals. Last season, he was at 22.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and one steal.

Between him being in a good place physically and his long-term future being settled, it’s not hard to foresee Middleton having a big bounceback season. His ability as a secondary playmaker should fit great next to Lillard, and after an awful season on catch-and-shoot threes (he only connected on a legitimately jarring 29.5 percent), don’t be surprised if he’s immediately the best third option in the league. How he holds up defensively — he might have to take on the opposing team’s best perimeter player with some frequency — is a real question.

Yoko Ono will forever be a significant part of the history of The Beatles, with some having blamed her and her relationship with John Lennon for the band’s demise. Now, Paul McCartney has spoken about how Ono’s presence during recording sessions wasn’t something the rest of the band necessarily liked.

In an episode of his McCartney: A Life In Lyrics podcast (as People notes), McCartney spoke about a time when the band was “heading toward” a breakup, during the recording of 1968’s The White Album.

McCartney said, “John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group. […] Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with. The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not.”

He later added, “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing. We would allow this and not make a fuss, and yet at the same time, I don’t think any of us particularly liked it. It was an interference in the workplace. We had a way we worked. The four of us worked with George Martin. And that was basically it. And we’d always done it like that. So not being very confrontational, I think we just bottled it up and just got on with it. […] It was the idea of The Beatles, it was also just this straight, practical thing of, ‘This was our job.’ This is what we did in life. We were the Beatles. That meant if we didn’t tour, we recorded. And that meant if we recorded, we wrote.”

Meanwhile, in 2021, Peter Jackson, who directed the Get Back documentary series about the band, said of Ono, “I have no issues with Yoko in the sense… I can understand from George and Paul and Ringo’s point of view it’s, like, a little strange. But the thing with Yoko, though, that they have to say, is that she doesn’t impose herself. She’s writing letters, she’s reading letters, she’s doing sewing, she’s doing painting, sometimes some artwork off to the side. She never has opinions about the stuff they’re doing. She never says, ‘Oh, I think the previous take was better than that one.’ She’s a very benign presence and she doesn’t interfere in the slightest.”

Drake’s weird gambling luck struck again this weekend. The Stake ambassador dropped $850,000 banking on Logan Paul to defeat Dillon Danis in the latter fighter’s debut match. While he was right in picking the winner, however, he banked it all on Paul to defeat Danis by knockout. Instead, Danis, who had never boxed but did compete in a pair of MMA matches — both pre-pandemic, by the way — tried to choke out Paul, resulting in a disqualification — and losing Drake nearly $1 million in the process.

Drake previously lost money picking the winner in March this year, after selecting the University of Connecticut to take home the NCAA National Championship. Unfortunately for him, he placed $250,000 on a spread of 6-10 points on the final score and “only” $100,000 on more than 10 with the final score at 76-59, resulting in a net loss of around $20,000 (the payout for the winning bet was only $230,000).

The For All The Dogs rapper is never down for long, though. He again picked the winner of a basketball championship in June, selecting the Denver Nuggets to beat the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. They did, and he took home $850,000 — the same amount he lost over this weekend. It just goes to show that the so-called “Drake Curse” may be a lot of hot air, but nobody is immune to taking an L, not even Drake. Considering how often his picks are good though, his luck should turn around soon enough.

Over the weekend, Madonna kicked off her Celebration Tour at London’s O2 Arena — much to the excitement of fans. However, the tour had originally been delayed, because the singer faced life-threatening health issues.

During the night, she addressed the crowd, as the news of her being in the hospital this summer made headlines.

“It’s been a crazy year for me,” Madonna said. “I didn’t think I was going to make it, neither did my doctors. That’s why I woke up with all of my children sitting around me.”

“I forgot five days of my life – or my death. I don’t really know where I was,” she added, according to Entertainment Tonight. “If you want to know my secret and how I pulled through and how I survived, I thought, ‘I’ve got to be there for my children. I have to survive for them.’”

At the time, Madonna had suffered a “serious bacterial infection” that led to her having to stay in an intensive care unit. Eventually, she used Instagram to update that she was recovering.

Given a few months have passed, she seems to be back in full swing, though. During the show, Madonna played a bunch of her biggest hits like “Hung Up” and “Like A Prayer” — with most of the setlist being songs she hadn’t performed in years.

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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 Bad Bunny add to his growing legacy and PinkPantheress continue the launch of hers. 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.

Bad Bunny — “Monaco”

It’s only been about a year and a half since Bad Bunny dropped Un Verano Sin Ti, but he’s already back with another new album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana. The album arrived alongside a video for “Monaco” and Benito even managed to snag an Al Pacino appearance for the visual.

Ice Spice and Rema — “Pretty Girl”

What a past few days for Ice Spice: She linked up with Afro-fusion star Rema on the delightful new “Pretty Girl,” which in itself is enough to celebrate. Then, though, the pair performed the track on Saturday Night Live, complete with an introduction from Taylor Swift.

Boygenius — “Black Hole”

Once upon a time, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker uniting as the Boygenius supergroup may have seemed like a one-off deal, but now they have multiple projects under their belt: A debut EP, a debut album, and now another EP, The Rest. Like the material that preceded it, the new EP is the sound of three friends enjoying each other’s company via vulnerable songwriting and performances.

Offset — “Say My Grace” Feat. Travis Scott

Offset’s second solo album, Set It Off, has arrived, and therefore so has “Say My Grace,” his new collaboration with Travis Scott. On the track, both reflect on their affluence while Offset gets some face-time with God and talks about the passings of his grandmother and Takeoff.

PinkPantheress — “Capable Of Love”

PinkPantheress is doing better than most 22-year-old musicians and she doesn’t even have a debut album yet. That’s changing soon, though, as she announced Heaven Knows last week and shared “Capable Of Love,” a fan-favorite song that has at last gotten an official release.

Troye Sivan — “One Of Your Girls”

Popper user and Reba McEntire confuser Troye Sivan just released his latest album, Something To Give Each Other. Among the highlights is “One Of Your Girls,” a groovy number that has a video featuring Sivan undergoing a drag transformation.

Jamila Woods — “Practice” Feat. Saba

Woods just released her third album, Water Made Us, last week, but before that, she unveiled an aesthetically clever and skin-bearing video for “Practice.” The Saba-featuring track has a subtle groove and is perhaps the smoothest rendition of the classic Allen Iverson “practice” rant.

Tomorrow x Together — “Chasing That Feeling”

The K-pop titans are only a few months removed from releasing their latest album, the Japanese-language Sweet, but they’re already back with more, The Name Chapter: Freefall. They also unveiled a video for “Chasing That Feeling,” which combines ’80s pop aesthetics with a more modern sound.

Holly Humberstone — “Paint My Bedroom Black”

Humberstone has been a rising star for the past few years now, and at last, her debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, is here. The title track is brighter than its dark bedroom setting might suggest and sees Humberstone feeling optimistic and wanting a fresh start.

Kaliii — “Say Too Much” Feat. Young Nudy

Recent Uproxx cover star Kaliii had a breakout single earlier this year with Area Codes, and now she’s followed that up with a fresh EP, FCK GIRL SZN. She linked up with Young Nudy on “Say Too Much,” a sultry song that’s clear about its subject matter from the opening line: “You ain’t gotta say too much / From the look in your eyes, I can tell you wanna f*ck.”

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.