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J. Cole wasn’t on the marquee for the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2023 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas over the weekend, but he surprised fans during Lil Durk’s set for a performance of “All My Life.” He also made Danielle Fishel’s day backstage.

Fishel is best known for her iconic role of Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000, and she attended the festival with Rider Strong and Will Friedle, her former Boy Meets World castmates and current Pod Meets World co-hosts.

A video circulated by a J. Cole fan account on an X (formerly known as Twitter) shows Fishel beside herself as she approaches Cole in a hallway in the bowels of T-Mobile Arena. “I have to say hi to you,” she says. “I went and saw your show in LA. […] Unbelievable! I’m such a big fan.” Cole kindly responds, “Me, too. Likewise.”

Separately, Fishel posted an Instagram reel recapping her whole weekend — set to Harry Styles’ “Golden” instead of a Cole song, but whatever — that involved posing on the red carpet with Friedle and Strong, dancing with Lance Bass, hugging J. Cole, and snapping photos with Miguel and Kane Brown.

“Vegas for the #iheartmusicfestival2023 was AMAZING,” Fishel captioned an Instagram reel. “I spent time with a few #bffs forever (@rider_strong, #willfriedle, @lancebass and @michaelturchinart), met a few ICONS (@realcoleworld, @thegr8khalid, @kanebrown), and danced to the one and only @officialtlc. Meeting @liltunechi is still on my bucket list but I had the best time. Thank you to @alzonamediagroup and @_tonyshane for filming these special moments for us.”

Washington D.C.’s All Things Go Festival started in 2014 and is back in 2023 for another (…ahem) go this Saturday and Sunday, September 30-October 1. That’s quite an impressive run. After calling the fest an opportunity to improve the gender imbalance in the music festival industry in 2018, the show’s organizers have since doubled down, fielding all women headliners the next year and dedicating a full day to women performers.

This year, they’re going even further; nearly the entire lineup is made up of women or acts fronted by women, including headliners Maggie Rogers and Lana Del Rey, and an undercard featuring Carly Rae Jepsen, Boygenius, Muna, Beabadoobee, Arlo Parks, Raye, Tegan and Sara, Sudan Archives, Alvvays, Ethel Cain, Samia, and more. The festival takes place at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland this year, and you can find more information at the official website.

The set times for the 2023 All Things Go Festival can be found below.

Saturday, September 30

Pavilion Stage

Jensen Mcrae (12:00 – 12:30), Last Dinosaurs (12:50 – 1:20), Raye (1:40 – 2:10), Suki Waterhouse (2:30 – 3:15), Tegan And Sara (3:35 – 4:25), Fletcher (4:45 – 5:45), Carly Rae Jepsen (6:45 – 8:00), Maggie Rogers (9:30 – 11:00)

Chrysalis Stage

Hemlocke Springs (12:00 – 12:20), Vacations (12:30 – 1:00), Sudan Archives (1:20 – 1:50), The Wombats (2:10 – 2:55), Peach Pit (3:15 – 4:00), Dayglow (4:20 – 5:05), Lizzy McAlpine (5:45 – 6:45), Mt. Joy (8:00 – 9:15)

Sunday, October 1

Pavilion Stage

Free Range (12:00 – 12:30), Tommy Lefroy (12:50 – 1:20), Ella Jane (1:40 – 2:10), Leith Ross (2:30 – 3:15), Ethel Cain (3:35 – 4:25), Arlo Parks (5:00 – 6:00), Boygenius (6:30 – 8:00), Lana Del Rey (9:30 – 11:00)

Chrysalis Stage

Juliana Madrid (12:00 – 12:20), Vundabar (12:30 – 1:00), Meet Me @ The Altar (1:20 – 1:50), No Vacation (2:10 – 2:55), Samia (3:15 – 4:00), Alvvays (4:20 – 5:05), Alex G (5:45 – 6:45), Muna (8:00 – 9:15)

Bruce Willis‘ aphasia diagnosis is “the blessing and the curse,” according to his wife, Emma Heming Willis.

“To finally understand what was happening so that I could be into the acceptance of what is — it doesn’t make it any less painful, but… just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce makes it a little easier,” she said on Monday’s episode of the Today show. When asked if her husband, who retired from acting, is aware of what’s happening, she replied, “It’s hard to know.”

Frontotemporal dementia is different from Alzheimer’s in a few ways, [Susan Dickinson, head of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration] told Today. In particular, it affects a different part of the brain — language processing areas rather than areas involved in memory — so the symptoms present differently. “It can affect speech, behaviors, personality and what we call executive functioning,” Dickinson said, referring to skills that help to plan ahead and achieve goals.

Heming Willis referred to herself as Willis’ “care partner” rather than a “care taker” because “it’s important for care partners to look after themselves so that they can be the best care partner for the person they’re caring for.” She added, “The most important thing was to be able, for us, to say what the disease was, explain what it is, because when you know what the disease is from a medical standpoint it sort of all makes sense. It was important that we let [our daughters] know what it is because I don’t want there to be any stigma or shame attached to their dad’s diagnosis or any form of dementia.”

You can watch the interview below.

(Via Today)

Bill Belichick is not usually someone you go to for takes on things happening in the pop culture world, as he would typically prefer to give you a 10 minute long history lesson on the long snapper position and the efficacy of using a roster spot on one than talk about anything else.

However, there is one thing we know Bill Belichick loves beyond the world of football, and that is Taylor Swift, as he converted into Swift fandom when he saw her Eras Tour stop in New England earlier this year. Belichick isn’t quite sure he’s a Swiftie, but he is a fan and so there was naturally a curiosity for his take as the NFL and Taylor Swift worlds collide with her showing up to the Chiefs-Bears game on Sunday to watch Travis Kelce amid dating rumors.

On The Greg Hill Show on WEEI in Boston, Belichick made his weekly Monday morning appearance after the Pats beat the Jets and, after talking through the game, he was asked for his thoughts on the goings on in Kansas City and played along with it much better than anyone would anticipate he would, calling it “the biggest catch” of Kelce’s career.

As someone who has watched Belichick bristle at and refuse to answer questions he views as nonsensical for years, it’s pretty hysterical that he’s willing to have fun here with the Kelce-Swift stuff. That just shows his Swiftie bonafides and Travis better be careful, because if this thing ends poorly not only will he have millions of Swift’s fans on him, but one of the biggest names in the NFL seems like he’ll side with Taylor too.

Now that the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a tentative agreement after a lengthy, months-long strike, it would seem that the late night talk shows have a green light to return. Not quite yet.

While popular hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are itching to get their people back to work, there are still a few more hurdles before their shows can return to the air. Namely, that the deal has to be finalized, and there’s still the matter of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

Via Deadline:

Sources told Deadline that the shows will likely return a few days after the strike is officially over, once the WGA Board and Council votes to lift the restraining order. This would give the writers the chance to return and the crew to get the production process going again.

They do not need to wait until the SAG-AFTRA strike is over as they are not struck shows, although don’t expect a phalanx of actors to turn up as guests as they are still on strike and won’t be promoting struck work.

However, once the WGA and AMPTP agreement has been locked in, Deadline reports that Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon will most likely return on the same night.

The four network hosts (along with Oliver whose Last Week Tonight airs on Sundays) have been working closely together on the Strike Force Five podcast and will reportedly coordinate their returns as a show of solidarity.

(Via Deadline)

There’s a temptation to make the headline for this post something like “Martin Scorsese SLAMS Superhero Movies.” But that would be a discredit to his thoughtful words when the topic came up during an interview with GQ.

“The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture. Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those — that’s what movies are,” the Goodfellas director said, sending a chill down my spine. Scorsese believes the opposition to franchise saturation needs to “come from the grassroots level. It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true, because we’ve got to save cinema.”

“It’s manufactured content. It’s almost like AI making a film. And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork. But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of consummation of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what is it giving you?”

Remember how dead inside you (and Tim Burton) felt while watching Nicholas Cage as Superman fighting a giant spider? That’s what Scorsese is fighting against. His latest blow against AI-generated movies, Killers of the Flower Moon (starring one of the few A-listers who has resisted the siren song of superheroes), comes out on October 20th. Tickets are on sale now.

(Via GQ)

About nine minutes into the fourth and final episode of the Disney+ documentary series Ed Sheeran: The Sum Of It All, Sheeran is in his New York City hotel room, away from his wife and two daughters for yet another promotional cycle as a multi-platinum-certified pop star. “It’s just about balance of, like, not overdoing it, but also, my personality is to overdo everything — all the time,” he says.

Sheeran just wrapped his Subtract Tour and has one rescheduled Mathematics Tour date left on October 28, and he’s only four months removed from dropping his – Subtract album, but it’s not in his personality to rest on laurels. And so, he will next release Autumn Variations — having already jumpstarted another album cycle with a cameo at a Starbucks and recording a live version by way of surprising fans in their living rooms.

Below is everything else you need to know about Autumn Variations.

Release Date

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 via Gingerbread Man Records. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Magical”
2. “England”
3. “Amazing”
4. “Plastic Bag”
5. “Blue”
6. “American Town”
7. “That’s On Me”
8. “Page”
9. “Midnight”
10. “Spring”
11. “Punchline”
12. “When Will I Be Alright”
13. “The Day I Was Born”
14. “Head > Heels”

Features

As you can see, there are no planned features on the Autumn Variations tracklist, though it should be noted that the lone credited producer on the album is Aaron Dessner. The credited writers are Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Foy Vance, and Sheeran, as listed on Genius.

Artwork

Singles

Sheeran has yet to release a single ahead of the album’s arrival this Friday, September 29.

Tour

As we’ve already covered, Sheeran is freshly on the other side of a rigorous tour run. He has not confirmed plans to tour in support of Autumn Variations as of this writing, but there’s always the possibility that he just can’t help himself and hits the road again.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

This Friday, September 29, the Ohana Festival comes to Dana Point, CA, headlined by The Killers, Eddie Vedder, and Foo Fighters. Other big-names acts set to take the stage include Haim, Father John Misty, Japanese Breakfast, The Chicks, The War On Drugs, Goose, Pretenders, The Backseat Lovers, and Suki Waterhouse.

In addition to music, the Ohana Festival also brings its storytellers series to Doheny State Beach, with movies and photography exhibits alongside panel discussions with conservationists, surf legends, and environmentalists about preserving the ocean and beaches. The festival is in its seventh iteration, according to the Orange County Register, and last year’s fest was headlined by Vedder, Stevie Nicks, and Pink.

You can see the schedule of set times below, and get more information about the festival here.

Friday, September 29

Ohana Stage

Linka Moja (12:30-1:00), Brooks Nielsen (1:35-2:15), Glen Hansard (3:05-3:50), Japanese Breakfast (5:05-5:50), Haim (7:10-8:10), The Killers (8:55)

Tiki Stage

Danielle Ponder (1:00-1:35), Hermanos Gutiérrez (2:20-3:00), Franc Moody (4:00-5:00), Father John Misty (6:05-6:55)

Saturday, September 30

Ohana Stage

Ayron Jones (1:00-1:30), Amos Lee (2:00-2:35), Charley Crockett (3:05-3:45), Goose (4:35-5:30), The Chicks (6:40-7:40), Eddie Vedder and Earthlings (8:25)

Tiki Stage

Big Joanie (12:30-1:00), Trousdale (1:30-2:00), Shame (2:35-3:05), Lucius (3:50-4:30), The War On Drugs (5:40-6:25)

Sunday, October 1

Ohana Stage

The Aquadolls (1:00-1:30), Suki Waterhouse (2:00-2:30), Dehd (3:00-3:30), The Backseat Lovers (4:15-5:10), Pretenders (6:10-7:10), Foo Fighters (7:55)

Tiki Stage

The Alive (12:30-1:00), Lindo Pimenta (1:30-2:00), Talk (2:30-3:00), Deaf Charlie (3:30-4:05), The Sacred Souls (5:20-6:00)

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 Doja Cat unveil 2023’s defining hip-hop album so far and The National double up with their second LP of the year. 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.

Doja Cat — “Agora Hills”

Doja is mostly in her rap bag on her new album Scarlet, but pop-Doja gets some shine, too, on songs like “Agora Hills.” The track goes back and forth between gentle singing vocals and Doja rapping favorably about a romantic presence in her life.

The National — “Laugh Track” Feat. Phoebe Bridgers

In his thought exercise combining The National’s two 2023 albums, Uproxx’s Steven Hyden wrote of the new project’s Phoebe Bridgers collaboration, “I am a Bridgers fan, but she is an ingredient that has been way overused in contemporary indie rock, like avocado or cilantro at your favorite ‘hip’ bistro. And The National in particular have really overextended their Phoebe Bridgers usage this year. But ‘Laugh Track’ is a very good song, and limiting Bridgers overall sweetens her particular flavoring on the track.”

Zach Bryan — “Boys Of Faith” Feat. Bon Iver

Zach Bryan is already one of the year’s biggest artists with his No. 1 self-titled album, but he had more to say, and he said it on his new surprise EP, Boys Of Faith. The title track is a Bon Iver collaboration, with Justin Vernon’s distinct falsetto backing Bryan on a lush and evocative number.

Brent Faiyaz — “WY@”

Faiyaz is a big over a year removed from his most recent full-length release, 2022’s Wasteland, so he returned last week with “WY@.” Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes of the song, “Although he tries to ‘take accountability,’ he finds himself caught up in a loop of addictive drama — and sending those three little letters that cause so much trouble.”

Bakar and Summer Walker — “Hell N Back”

Bakar’s “Hell N Back” dates back to its initial release in 2019, but he brought it back for his just-released sophomore album, but with a twist. He got Summer Walker to feature on the new version, and she brings some gentle soul to the breezy tune.

Jean Dawson and SZA — “No SZNs”

Dawson is an exciting multi-genre up-and-comer who’s managed to capture SZA’s attention, as the two collaborate on “No SZNs.” On the chilled-out but dynamic song, the two flex their vocal chops as they sing about the comfort they find in consistency.

Blink-182 — “One More Time”

Blink’s comeback album with Tom DeLonge is on the way later this fall and the latest look at it is “One More Time,” the new single they dropped last week. It’s a reflective and introspective number, on which the band looks back on their tumultuous journey and where things stand now.

Bleachers — “Modern Girl”

Do Bleachers have a new album on the way? Based on the release “Modern Girl” last week, it seems like it! The track has some heartland rock inspiration, and it’s an overall catchy number that’s perfectly fleshed out with some saxophone (and an increasingly rare sax break).

Troye Sivan — “Got Me Started”

Troye Sivan has helped make this season the summer of dance and now he’s back with more kinetic music via “Got Me Started.” An easy way to get the party going is with Bag Raiders’ “Shooting Stars,” which Sivan sampled and updated on the catchy tune that’s more of a slow burner than “Rush.”

Petey — “Family Of Six”

Uproxx favorite Petey signed his first major-label deal with Sony recently, and now he’s dropped his first album for the label. “Family Of Six,” for which Petey offered a video last week, has a lot of what Petey does best: lyrics that make you think twice and a satisfying contrast between its boisterous and intimate moments.

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

As Mike Lindell is neck deep and lawsuits (and an indictment) for his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election, Cassidy Hutchinson has revealed that the MyPillow CEO had an alarming amount of free rein during the final days of Trump’s presidency.

According to an excerpt from Hutchinson’s new book, Enough, she spotted Lindell roaming around the White House unescorted just a few days after the January 6 attack.

Via Insider:

On January 15, 2021, a week after the Capitol riot and just days before Trump was set to leave the White House, Hutchinson writes — according to excerpts of her book — that she found Lindell walking throughout the building without a staffer or a guide before he said: “We can still win.”

As Insider notes, January 15 is the same day Lindell was photographed by the Washington Post. Lindell was snapped clearly toting around notes that referenced the “Insurrection Act” and “martial law” on his way to a meeting with Trump.

Hutchinson’s book has provided a riveting look inside Trump’s White House in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The administration was rife with paranoia and shady characters like Lindell and Rudy Giuliani, who allegedly groped Hutchinson during Trump’s now infamous “Stop the Steal” rally.

According to the former Trump aide, Giuliani allegedly slipped his hand up her skirt in full view of Trump advisor John Eastman who allegedly just stood there and grinned. Giuliani has called the accusation “totally absurd.”

(Via Insider)