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Sufjan Stevens is set to release his new album, Javelin, in just a few days. Before the record drops on Friday, he has shared another preview with “A Running Start.” Opening with a calming acoustic guitar line, Stevens spins a sweet and emotional tale about love.

“I see the light upon the lake / The silver moon, the water snake / A pair of eyes, a gentle breeze,” he paints the picture. “I know, I know the time has come / To ask you for a kiss / Don’t go, my lovely pantomime / Receive of me my only wish.”

It follows past Javelin releases, including “So You Are Tired” and “Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” — tapping into different aspects of feelings.

The indie musician also was in the news, as he is currently in treatment for Guilliain-Barre Syndrome. “It’s a slow process, but they say I will ‘recover,’ it just takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work,” he previously shared on Instagram. “Most people who have GBS learn to walk again on their own within a year, so I am hopeful. I’m only in my second week of rehab but it is going really well and I am working really hard to get back on my feet.”

Check out Sufjan Stevens’ “A Running Start” above.

Javelin is out 10/6 via Asthmatic Kitty. Find more information here.

Damian Lillard is now a Milwaukee Buck after a months long saga this summer that saw him request a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers, try to force his way to Miami, and ultimately let other contenders like the Bucks know he would be open to joining them.

While things were very quiet for most of August and September, things started to heat up again over the last two weeks prior to Lillard being traded, with lots of rumblings about other teams getting in the mix outside of Miami, headlined by the Toronto Raptors. There was a very serious push, by all accounts, from Toronto to land the star guard despite the Raptors not being on his list of preferred destinations. That had Lillard a bit on edge as he waited to find out where he’d be moving, and that stress was not helped by a prank from Raptors forward OG Anunoby.

At Bucks media day, Lillard sat down with Chris Haynes and told the story of getting a “Welcome to Toronto” text from Anunoby that had him panicking trying to figure out what was going on, only to find out OG was just messing with him.

Anunoby is known for being extremely stoic, but has a very dry sense of humor and this is an unbelievably funny prank (that I’m sure Dame did not find funny at the time). Not picking up when Dame called and letting that stress drag out a bit longer before calling back and laughing at him is truly incredible, and while Dame was surely sweating, it’s extremely funny in hindsight.

The Minnesota Timberwolves took a big swing last summer when they traded a bunch of picks and some important role players to Utah for Rudy Gobert. His fit with Karl-Anthony Towns in the frontcourt was a bit questionable, but the hope was the 3-time DPOY and the best shooting big man in the league could figure it out on both ends of the floor.

Unfortunately, they never got a chance to spend as much time on court together as hoped, and the results were uneven in the limited action they did get together. As a result, even with a sensational year from Anthony Edwards, the Wolves floundered a bit, ultimately nabbing the 8-seed in the West Play-In before losing to the Nuggets in the first round. This summer has been much quieter in Minnesota, as they’re hoping to benefit from some more continuity and remaining patient until they can see a (hopeful) full season of this group before making any more significant changes. Still, there are some new pieces and additions and we’ll grade out the team’s summer of work as they get set for an important season.

Draft: B

The Timberwolves will need to be creative to add players through the Draft in the coming years given the amount of capital they gave up for Gobert, but they did an excellent job of bringing in some talent despite the lack of a first this year. Leonard Miller from the G League Ignite headlines their second round haul, alongside Jaylen Clark from UCLA who is signed to a two-way. The 6’10 forward popped last year for the Ignite alongside Scoot Henderson and there were plenty of evaluators that put a first round grade on Miller, who averaged a double-double in the G League last season. Getting him at No. 33 in a trade with the Spurs given his upside and potential versatility on the wing certainly seems like a success for the Wolves given what they had to work with coming into the Draft.

Free Agency/Contract Extensions: B-

The Timberwolves didn’t make any groundbreaking moves, but they did solidify their depth this offseason. Their best move was re-signing Naz Reid to an extension prior to free agency opening, locking in one of the best backup bigs in the NBA long-term and providing themselves with a terrific insurance policy for their two star big men should either miss time. Beyond bringing Reid back, they also re-signed Nickeil Alexander-Walker and added Shake Milton and Troy Brown to bolster their guard and wing depth behind Anthony Edwards and Mike Conley Jr. after seeing Taurean Prince and Austin Rivers leave. Overall this will be mostly the team it was a year ago. I do like all four of their main signings from this summer, but they figure to be floor raisers rather than ceiling raisers and this team still hinges on what their stars will do which keeps this grade from being particularly high.

Trades: INC

The Wolves didn’t make any trades this summer beyond the Draft night move to acquire Miller, which isn’t surprising given how active they were last summer and at the deadline. A full season of Conley and Towns should be the biggest additions this team gets compared to last year, when they got 24 and 29 games from each, respectively. Edwards continues his rise to superstardom after a big summer with Team USA, and Towns appears to be healthy and in good spirits coming into the season for the first time in a few years, which I think could be very big for this team. How he fits with Gobert is still a question mark and I’m not totally sold it can work to the level they seemingly believed it could when they gave up so much for Rudy, but this should be a better team than last year, even if they weren’t particularly active this offseason.

Foo Fighters recently announced that they will be hitting the road with their Everything Or Nothing At All Tour in 2024. Tied to the band’s recent album, But Here We Are, the shows start at New York’s Citi Field on July 17, and will end on August 18 in Seattle.

For those who are looking to attend one of their US shows next year, here’s what to know about getting tickets. There are quite a few presales taking place, including a Citi Cardmembers option, a Foo Fighters fan club one, and an official Platinum presale that opened at 10 a.m. local time today. On Thursday, there will be a Spotify presale, along with an AEG/Radio/Venue one, according to Ticketmaster.

For those just looking to obtain general tickets, they are set to open to the public this Friday, October 6 at 10 a.m. local time. Throughout the tour, Foo Fighters will also be joined by some rocking opening acts, including The Breeders, Courtney Barnett, Pretenders, The Hives, Amyl And The Sniffers, and many more.

It will also mark their first full run with Josh Freese replacing the late Taylor Hawkins on drums.

A complete list of dates for Foo Fighters’ Everything Or Nothing At All Tour, along with more information, can be found here.

When it smashed reality back in the summer of 2021, the first season of Loki was an instant hit with fans and is still regarded as the best Marvel series on Disney+ to date. Obviously, that puts a lot of pressure on Season 2, which arrives later this week.

Judging by the first batch of reviews, Loki Season 2 may not hit the highs of the first season, but the new crop of episodes appear to be a (mostly) good time that once again relies on its ace in the hole: Tom Hiddleston. However, the reviews this time around are a little more divided as critics aren’t entirely enthralled Season 2’s story, and then there’s the Jonathan Majors of it all.

Currently facing trial on assault charges, Majors’ presence is a sticky issue that pops up in more than one review. The actor is featured more prominently in the show than trailers and promotional material have revealed, which led to some awkward viewing for some critics. (Loki Season 2 wrapped production prior to Majors’ arrest, leaving reshoots off the table.) However, Hiddleston’s charm and seeing him paired with Owen Wilson once again goes a long way in smoothing over Loki Season 2’s bumps.

You can see what the reviews are saying below:

Mike Ryan, Uproxx:

The thing is, Loki is a pretty fun show. Everything is getting quite absurd in the superhero movie world with multiple universes and variants and all that. I think I’d be happier just going back to, “guy in a metal suit fights bad guys.” But at least Loki knows how absurd all this is and ramps everything up to such a high degree, with every ridiculous thing being met by Wilson’s deadpan, “Whelp, another day at the office,” it can’t help itself from being a good time.

Therese Lacson, Collider:

Much of the strength of Loki hinges on the performance of the cast. Tom Hiddleston easily slides back into his persona as Loki — perhaps a bit more harried this season and a bit wiser, but still the trickster god. For those who worried before Season 1 that an Avengers-era Loki might lose his complexity, it was clear that the show was able to give him back that depth, and Season 2 develops it even more. It’s hard to imagine that this Loki is the same one who once dramatically said he was burdened with glorious purpose. In lesser hands, the character might feel like too sharp of a shift, but Hiddleston has always imparted a fragility to his character that has made him easy to love even when he’s doing particularly terrible things. A heroic Loki doesn’t feel that far removed from the villainous one — perhaps just a bit less deranged and a bit more humble.

John Nugent, Empire:

In fact, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves — most of all Hiddleston. Having donned the green horns for well over a decade by this point, his Loki remains endlessly charismatic. Hiddleston still imbues him with that delicious sense of playful moral ambiguity, but there’s a clarity to the character at this point that feels fresh: that somehow, by trying to save the universe, he finally found the glorious purpose he was looking for.

Yasmine Kandil, DiscussingFilm:

Even though the show does center around its titular trickster, this latest season thrives because it avoids neglecting its electric ensemble cast. With a wide mix of new and returning characters, it wouldn’t be a surprise if a couple of names got pushed to the side or worse, totally forgotten about. However, every player in Loki Season 2 is given rich material to play around with. Most of all, everyone is granted their moment to play an important role in this glorious jigsaw of a narrative.

Bob Strauss, The Wrap:

Characters with compelling issues, high existential drama, quirky comedy and world-threatening action are blended better than in any other Disney+ show to date. “Loki” Season 2 may be the most spectacularly cinematic of the streamer’s Marvel series too, awash with cool FX and reality-shaking mobile camerawork that blasts through awesome sci-fi tableaux. We also explore goofy/brutalist new corners of the TVA bureaucracy’s planet-sized HQ, and each episode so far incorporates beautifully detailed period locations, whether a 1980s McDonald’s seen through adoring alien eyes or a funhouse mirror re-creation of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

From here on out, the Loki Season 2 reviews get a little more pointed. Just a warning in case you don’t want to ruin the vibes going into the new episodes:

Jarrod Jones, IGN:

Those expecting a new multiversally manic season of Loki should temper their expectations; the absence of director Kate Herron has seemingly removed the series’ wily sense of anything-goes possibility, effectively turning Season 2 – and, shockingly, Loki himself – into an obedient, uninteresting cog in the MCU’s increasingly unwieldy mega-structure.

Louis Chilton, The Independent:

To Loki’s credit, there are some commendable elements here. The production design is impressive, with the retro-futuristic bureaucracy of the TVA an original, if just slightly drab, visual idea. The story is also genuinely unpredictable from one episode to the next, albeit fruitlessly so: unmoored from time and space, it’s hard to care about anything that’s happening. The stakes are often so incomprehensibly high – whole universes, realities, on the precipice of oblivion – that they’re functionally meaningless.

Ben Travers, IndieWire:

Then there’s Jonathan Majors. Designated a “special guest star” in the episodes in which he appears, the actor currently on trial for multiple assault charges reemerges as He Who Remains, the mysterious figure who Sylvie killed in the Season 1 finale. To say he’s a distraction would be an understatement, considering the role’s prominence in “Loki” and its impact on the MCU’s future. Majors’ talents are undeniable, and he’s mercifully disarmed here — more comic relief than terrorizing villain — but it’s hard to kick back and enjoy his frenzied energy or stilted intonations when you know the monstrous accusations levied against the man in real life.

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter:

The handiness of the phrase [“wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff’] came to mind more than a few times while I watched the second season of Disney+‘s Loki, on which the creative team has absolutely succeeded in using Marvel‘s money to make a wildly expensive season of Doctor Who featuring Tom Hiddleston as the Doctor. It’s such a perfectly worthy goal — one frequently hinted at in the six-episode first season — that it’s almost churlish to complain that, after however many hundred installments, Doctor Who has mostly dispensed with the need to wallow in the sort of nonstop exposition that too frequently bogs Loki down.

Loki Season 2 premieres October 5 at 9 ET/6 PT on Disney+.

Another day, another lawsuit for Elon Musk.

The guy who ruined Twitter is not only in legal trouble after he falsely accused a recent-college graduate of being a federal agent involved with a neo-Nazi group, Musk is also being sued by his ex-wife, Grimes, over the custody of their kids. According to Page Six, “Grimes filed a ‘petition to establish parental relationship’ on Sept. 29 in a California court… The request asks the court to identify the legal parents of a child when they are not married.”

Although the docket for the case is public, the filings have been sealed; however, it does not appear that the Tesla co-founder has responded to Grimes’ petition. She also has yet to request child support or custody rights.

Musk and Grimes have three kids together: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus. The Tesla founder is now up to 10 kids overall in his one-man quest to populate the planet. He once claimed that “population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,” but as Joseph Chamie, a consulting demographer and a former director of the United Nations Population Division, told CNN, “He’s better off making cars and engineering than at predicting the trajectory of the population.”

(Via Page Six)

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumored relationship has sent fans into a spiral across social media. The “Sweet Nothing” singer only intensified the online hysteria by attending two recent Kansas City Chiefs games. On September 24, Swift’s surprise appearance at the team’s home game versus the Chicago Bears birthed one of the most offbeat viral pieces of content. As Swift enjoyed a quick meal offered in the VIP suite, an image of her sitting beside a plate of chicken, the new “seemingly ranch” meme, was born.

Donna Kelce, Travis’ mother, got wind of the condiment joke and decided to join the fun. In an image posted to her Instagram Story, she was attending her older son’s, Philadelphia Eagles’ center Jason Kelce, game at Lincoln Financial Field. Seen in the photo, Donna and Kevin Miles, best known as State Farm ad character Jake, recreated the moment. “No ‘seemingly ranch’ available at the Linc,” read the picture’s caption.

The ‘seemingly ranch’ meme has turned into a battle of sauces, with brands such as Heinz and Primal Kitchen announcing plans to release a special edition concoction inspired by the pop culture moment.

Whether or not Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce are dating is no longer relevant as Mama Kelce is the true star.

U2 recently kicked off their first performances to celebrate the opening of Las Vegas’ new venue, The Sphere. Their residency, titled U2: UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere, is built around their 1991 album and held in a $2.3 billion space with a wraparound LED screen. (Yes, even on the outside.)

For those who weren’t able to secure tickets for opening night, fans might be wondering how long U2 will play. They are currently doing 25 shows at the Sphere that will run through December 16. However, while most are currently sold-out, tickets might pop up on resale sites.

There are also other events being held inside the venue, including the premiere of director Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard From Earth film that is set to be an immersive experience of the planet. Right now, no other concerts have been announced besides U2.

U2 fans who are also looking to experience more themed events can check out Zoo Station: A U2: UV Experience, a special interactive pop-up that is currently open at The Venetian. There is a gallery inside the two-floored space, as well as a shop for attendees to buy merch themed to the band.

More information on U2: UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere can be found here.

It’s safe to say that the late night TV hosts were inspired by rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert’s Beetlejuice scandal. John Oliver could not wait to address the subject, and he did so repeatedly and joyously. Whereas Stephen Colbert had possibly been practicing at home and had an impression for the ages.

This happened near the end of Colbert’s lengthy monologue that danced viewers through the array of notable happenings since the 5-month writers strike began. At around the 8:30 mark above, the host put a different spin on Boebert having surveillance-video-captured fun with Democrat Bar Guy in a darkened and crowded theater. These are very athletic, lawn-care-inspired moves. Here’s a quick version of what goes down:

“Officials reported she was ‘causing a disturbance,’” Colbert noted. “Which turns out was code for ‘yanking her date’s crank at a family friendly show.’” That wasn’t all: “According to witnesses, she was apparently trying to start him like a lawnmower.”

As one can hear in the video, Colbert’s live-audience was not only thrilled to be back in the studio, too, but they were able to witness this fine dramatic performance by The Late Show host. He even did his own stuntwork. It’s good stuff, so watch the full video above.

You can think of A24‘s Priscilla as the second Elvis movie in two years. Or, more accurately, you can think of it as the first Priscilla Presley movie featuring Elvis Presley.

Directed by Sofia Coppola in her first film since 2020’s On the Rocks, Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, who met her future-husband — played here by Jacob Elordi — when she was 14 years old. They were married from 1967 to 1973, and Coppola’s biopic gets into their turbulent time together. You can watch the trailer above, which noticably features a lack of Elvis songs. That’s because Elvis Presley Enterprises doesn’t “like projects that they haven’t originated, and they’re protective of their brand,” Coppola explained to the Hollywood Reporter. “But that made us be more creative.”

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

Priscilla opens in theaters on November 3rd.