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Queens Of The Stone Age dropped their long-awaited new album In Times New Roman… this June, and a little before that, they announced the The End Is Nero Tour. They’re in the middle of the tour now, the initially announced dates of which started in August and wrapped up in October.

Now, though, the band has expanded the tour’s scope: Josh Homme and company announced today (September 19) that they’ve added a handful of new dates to the tour. The new dates hit venues in Arizona, Texas, California, and New Mexico, between December 5 to 16. They’ll be joined by Spiritualized for those shows.

Tickets for the news shows are set to go on sale on September 22 (this Friday) at 10 a.m. local time.

At the shows, by the way, expect the band to bring out the hits, because Homme thinks it’d be “c*nty” not to.

Check out the new dates below. Find information on tickets and other QOTSA tour dates on the band’s website.

12/05/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
12/06/2023 — El Paso, TX @ Abraham Chavez Theatre
12/08/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
12/09/2023 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
12/10/2023 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
12/12/2023 — Albuquerque, NM @ Revel
12/15/2023 — San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
12/16/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum

Any text conversation that begins with “WYA” never leads anywhere good, and Brent Faiyaz knows that better than anyone. The chronically toxic singer gets stuck in a bad relationship — again — on his new single “WYA” (stylized at “WY@”), an acronym for “where you at?” “I can feel them walls closing in,” he croons. “I can feel it all / I’m stuck in your claws / Try to run but I don’t get far.” 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.

Faiyaz is a little over a year removed from his latest full-length release, 2022’s Wasteland and just wrapped up the US leg of his F*ck The World, It’s A Wasteland Tour before jumping the pond to pick back up in Leeds, England. Although his last album resulted in a successful tour and brought him plenty of acclaim, the Maryland-born singer said that “it’s hard to listen to” because of how personal it is, so it’s good that he’s working on a follow-up as the release of “WYA” seems to indicate.

Check out “WYA” above and stay tuned for more from Brent Faiyaz.

Album release rollouts continue to expand further into film. Visual albums are no longer the big hooray they were just five years ago. Artists such as Travis Scott and Mitski are curating theatrical experiences for their supporters to enjoy. “Put You On Game” rapper Russ is the latest to craft a cinematic picture around his latest work.

On September 45 and 25, Russ’ short film, Santiago, will show at select movie theaters across the US and UK. Here’s how to watch the picture. In a post on Russ’ official Instagram page, he shared the work’s poster listing over 80 theater locations. The 18-minute short will be shown at AMC, Regal, and Odeon facilities.

Santiago’s trailer beautifully depicts the entertainer fighting through different stages of his superstar life. “When you’re chasing the wrong thing, your whole world collapses,” narrates Russ as his song “The Wind” from the album softly plays between his speech. “There comes a time when you have to confront the source of all your darkness… Taking you on a journey to hopefully find the truth.”

The film’s description reads, “This is a snapshot of what was going on internally that inspired this album. I aimed to take viewers into the depths of my soul and mind to help better understand what this album is truly about.”

In the caption of Russ’ social media upload, he revealed his plans to expand its run. “We tried to get other territories of the world, but full transparency, they didn’t believe in the vision and said we have to prove ourselves, so here we go,” wrote Russ.

For those skeptical about the short run time, Russ took to X (formerly Twitter) to let potential viewers know that it’s still a rich story being told.

Watch the full trailer for Santiago, the short film above. For tickets and location information, you can find more information here.

Vanna White isn’t going anywhere.

The long-time Wheel of Fortune co-host has extended her contract through the 2025-26 season to continue to appear on the syndicated game show. White will bridge the gap between Pat Sajak, who is retiring from Wheel of Fortune after this season, and Ryan Seacrest, the show’s shoulders-shrugging new host.

A different Sajak will be a major fixture on Wheel next season, too.

Maggie Sajak, daughter of Pat Sajak, will expand her role as the show’s social media correspondent in the coming year. She will hit the road for a recurring “Fan Fridays” segment that will feature the younger Sajak touring such spots as Newport, Rhode Island, Portland, Maine, New York City, and numerous stops in Europe, in keeping with the show’s partnership with guided tour firm Collette.

It’s hard to imagine Wheel of Fortune without Sajak and White, but it almost happened. She reportedly went two decades without a raise, and wasn’t pleased with the initial salary offers. But according to Deadline, “Her contract extension for the flagship syndicated show also is believed to involve a pay raise.” It better. Otherwise, White will go rogue and all the puzzles will read F_CK YO_.

(Via Deadline and Variety)

Nearly a year ago, word surfaced that Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has caused such isolation (with companies pulling business out of Russia) that people were even struggling to find paper. Flash forward to this week, and Russian State TV has been advising people to start embracing a life of hardship like the people of Putin’s new BFF, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. (Never mind that Putin has plenty of Botox stashed away and zooms around on a cosmetology train.)

The “be like North Korea” type of sentiment won’t come as comfort for Russians who have been increasingly unable to find necessary medicines due to sanctions. Early on in the war, we heard about how the Viagra supply got cut off, but these days, Russia has come up with its own generic substitute. Yet that doesn’t help people who have a vital need for many hard-to-find prescription and over-the-counter drugs, which as Newsweek reports, approached the 100 mark and counting awhile back:

Over the past year, dozens of types of medicines have disappeared from pharmacies. Some in short supply include drugs to treat diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, blood pressure medication, antidepressants, antitumor drugs, antihistamines, antibiotics, antipyretics, and others, according to local media.

A commission created by Russia’s Ministry of Health also published a list in January of 97 drugs that are potentially in short supply. Meanwhile, doctors are voicing concerns over drug shortages and soaring prices in interviews with Russian news outlets.

The publication also spoke with surgeon Alexander Vanyukov, who revealed that even the most commonly taken medications that aren’t affected by sanctions are in short supply because their shipping time often exceeds their shelf life. That’s saying a lot.

(Via Newsweek)

For those who didn’t know, Taylor Swift is gearing up to drop 1989 (Taylor’s Version) as her next re-recording in October. Like her previous releases, she has included vault tracks to encourage fans to stream the ones she owns.

To tease the mystery tracklist reveal of the new songs that will be on 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Swift is using Google for a puzzle that pops up when you search her name. While fans are currently unscrambling the words that connect to Swift’s past, one caught people’s attention: “Sagittarius.”

While this is Swift’s star sign, it also might be a clue for a collaboration with Nicki Minaj being included on the album. The two performers have been friends for a while. However, recently, they’ve seemed to be dropping a lot of references to the fact that they’re both fire signs.

Back in August, Minaj reacted to her and Swift being the only female artists to have over 100 Billboard Hot 100 entries. “Fighting the urge to say Sagittarius ting right now so bad,” she tweeted.

At the 2023 MTV VMAs just a few days ago, Swift also referred to Minaj as her “favorite Sagittarius.” And she does love a good Easter egg.

Only time will tell if Nicki Minaj is on Taylor Swift’s 1989 re-recording, though. Hopefully the vault opens soon.

Here’s a fun trivia question to annoy your friends with: which actor is in the two highest-grossing biopics of all-time?

I’ll give you a minute.

Time’s up: it’s Rami Malek. He’s in both Bohemian Rhapsody, which held the biopic record, and the new #1, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which recently crossed over $900 million at the worldwide box office. Not bad for a three-hour drama with a cast of character actors.

“When a filmmaker as strong as Chris is pointing a finger at you and telling you where to go… you listen… and audiences have been rewarded for it,” Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson told the Associated Press about the success of Oppenheimer. “I know some film buffs who drove from El Paso to Dallas to see the film properly. That’s about 18 hours round trip.”

PTA continued, “I don’t think there’s anyone who could disagree – seeing Oppenheimer on film is superior in every single way. Not to mention, people are tired of asking, ‘Why would I go to a movie theater to watch TV?’ Good question… you don’t have to anymore.” He added, “I would call this is nature’s way of healing.” Nature won’t fully be healed, however, until a certain Halloween movie starring Anderson’s buddy Adam Sandler gets the theatrical release it deserves.

(Via the Associated Press)

Latin music titans are preparing to battle it out at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards. Ahead of the pack is Mexican music extraordinaire Edgar Barrera, with a whopping total of 13 nominations. Barrera is up for several of the evening’s biggest awards, including Songwriter Of The Year, Producer Of The Year, and Song Of The Year. Camilo, Karol G, Shakira, and Kevyn Mauricio Cruz (better known as Keityn) tie for second place with seven nominations amongst each Colombian act. Argentine producer and DJ Bizarrap holds down the third slot with six nominations.

Despite the massive success of his album Génesis, Peso Pluma was notably missing from each category. However, the organization was sure to point out that the eligibility period for the 2023 Latin Grammys was between June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023. So due to its June 22, 2023 release date, Génesis would not have been eligible.

The ceremony is set to take place on Thursday, November 16, at the Conference and Exhibition Centre in Sevilla, Spain. This will mark the first international show in Latin Grammy’s history.

Continue below to see the nominees list for the main categories at the 24th annual Latin Grammy Awards. To view the full list, click here.

Record Of The Year

Christina Aguilera – “No Es Que Te Extrañe”
Pablo Alborán – “Carretera y Manta”
Paula Arenas Featuring Jesús Navarro – “Déjame Llorarte”
Bizarrap Featuring Shakira – “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”
Fonseca & Juan Luis Guerra – “Si Tú Me Quieres”
Karol G – “Mientras Me Curo Del Cora”
Natalia Lafourcade – “De Todas Las Flores”
Lasso – “Ojos Marrones”
Maluma and Marc Anthony – “La Fórmula”
Rosalía – “Despechá”
Alejandro Sanz feat. Danny Ocean – “Correcaminos”

Album Of The Year

Pablo Alborán — La Cu4rta Hoja
Paula Arenas — A Ciegas
Camilo — De Adentro Pa Afuera
Andrés Cepeda — Décimo Cuarto
Juanes — Vida Cotidiana
Karol G — Mañana Será Bonito
Natalia Lafourcade — De Todas Las Flores
Ricky Martín — Play
Fito Páez — Eadda9223
Carlos Vives — Escalona Nunca Se Había Grabado Así

Song Of The Year

“Acróstico” – Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, L.E.X.U.Z, Luis Fernando Ochoa & Shakira, songwriters (Shakira)
“Amigos” – Pablo Alborán and María Becerra, songwriters (Pablo Alborán Featuring María Becerra)
“De Todas Las Flores” – Natalia Lafourcade, songwriter (Natalia Lafourcade)
“Ella Baila Sola” – Pedro Julian Tovar Oceguera, songwriter (Eslabon Armado, Peso Pluma)
“NASA” – Édgar Barrera, Camilo and Alejandro Sanz, songwriters (Camilo and Alejandro Sanz)
“Ojos Marrones” – Luis Jiménez, Lasso and Agustín Zubillaga, songwriters (Lasso)
“Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” – Santiago Alvarado, Bizarrap, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz and Shakira, songwriters (Bizarrap Featuring Shakira)
“Si Tú Me Quieres” – Fonseca, Yadam González and Yoel Henríquez, songwriters (Fonseca and Juan Luis Guerra)
“TQG” – Kevyn Mauricio Cruz, Karol G, Ovy On The Drums and Shakira, songwriters (Karol G and Shakira)
“Un X100to” – Bad Bunny, Édgar Barrera, Marco Daniel Borrero and Andrés Jael Correa Ríos, songwriters (Grupo Frontera Featuring Bad Bunny)

Best New Artist

Borja
Conexión Divina
Ana Del Castillo
Natascha Falcão
Gale
Paola Guanche
Joaquina
León Leiden
Maréh
Timø

Ed Sheeran is teaming up with iHeartMedia for a special performance titled “A Special Ed Sheeran Immersive Experience.” The event will be held in Fortnite at iHeartLand’s State Farm Park. Fans will have the chance to hear Sheeran perform on October 5 at 3 p.m. ET and can play through October 9.

Sheeran is expected to play songs like “Eyes Closed,” “Shape Of You,” “Boat,” and “Life Goes On,” as players can view “exclusive scenes” themed to each track. According to a press release, the immersive experience has Sheeran performing “throughout the different worlds as video screens flood every scene.”

Given his next album, Autumn Variations, drops on September 29, this event will celebrate the release.

“Ed Sheeran is one of today’s biggest superstars and is known for creating unique music experiences that captivate his audiences,” Tom Poleman, Chief Programming Officer for iHeartMedia, shared in a release on the company’s site. “We knew he was the perfect artist to feature for our first immersive experience, built in partnership with Epic Games.”

“It’s great to see iHeartMedia continuing to bring world-class artists like Ed Sheeran into Fortnite through their iHeartLand experience,” Nate Nanzer, VP of Global Partnerships at Epic Games, added about the collaboration.

For more information and to view the performance, fans can access the iHeartLand on Fortnite here.

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

I couldn’t get into The Morning Show. I did try. I spent two seasons listening to people tell me it was messy and silly and sometimes fun, which, to me, a person who gleefully recapped a show about crazed animals waging a war against humans and got really into a melodramatic show about fleece-wearing finance bros doing battle with Paul Giamatti and sometimes doing synthetic speed in the office, is basically a love song. But I just couldn’t do it. Even with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell and a collection of the most bonkers storylines you’ve ever seen committed to the small screen. Oh well, I thought. Worth a try. Plenty of other shows out there.

But then I saw reviews trickle in for the third season. And I clicked on all of them, in part because I’m curious and in part because I’m unwell and in part because some of them, like this one by Alison Herman at Variety, contained paragraphs like this, which tickled all the little goofball receptors in my brain.

We open in the spring of 2022, two years since the onset of the pandemic and the end of Season 2. The TMS crew have been offered up as guinea pigs for Paul Marks (Jon Hamm), a billionaire and aerospace pioneer who’s basically a more telegenic Elon Musk (or a younger Richard Branson, or a Jeff Bezos with hair). For some inexplicable reason, this creature of Silicon Valley has taken an interest in legacy media, so to lay the path for a potential acquisition, network CEO Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) wants to give Marks’ latest rocket launch a friendly face and send an anchor into orbit. So does Season 3 start on a quite literal high note, though “The Morning Show” must soon turn to the mess back on Earth.

Here we are, a little over a week after I first read that paragraph, and two important things have happened:

• I still do not actually “watch” The Morning Show
• I started doing this thing where I open an episode and skip through to the scenes with Jon Hamm and then I watch those few minutes, make a bunch of screencaps, and then launch forward until he shows up again

It’s a fascinating and probably unprofessional way to consume a television show. I can’t stop doing it. Jon Hamm is just so good, all the time, even when he’s playing a real-life cartoon character masquerading as a tech bro. Here he is in a sauna with Billy Crudup doing business deals.

Here he is showing Jennifer Aniston his many acres of pristine real estate in the west, right after, no joke, hauling ass with her around it all in a dune buggy.

And here he is inside his own rocketship getting ready to blast off into space with Reese Witherspoon on live television, which happened in the same episode he whipped around the desert in a dune buggy with Jennifer Aniston. This would be a really fun thing to explain to someone at the peak of Mad Men’s fame when Hamm was playing the most serious man on television in one of the best shows ever made. It’s also fun to explain to people today. You should see the smile on my face as I’m typing this. Look at this guy.

And I realized as I was watching it that the reason I was so happy is, like, good for Jon Hamm, man. He seems like a guy who has it figured out. Again, he played Don Draper for like a decade. He’s in the television Hall of Fame forever just for that. He could probably have his pick of a zillion projects. He could line up pretentious prestige shows one after another and stroll into the Emmys every year if that’s what he really wanted to do.

But instead, he’s just doing… cool stuff. I can’t think of a better way to phrase it. Scroll through his filmography sometime. He’s popped up on 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as huge weirdos. He’s played heightened and comedic versions of himself in Barry and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He voiced a cartoon scallop in Big Mouth and narrated the insane tennis mockumentary 7 Days in Hell. He played Fletch in the criminally underrated and under-discussed Confess, Fletch that dropped last year. He showed up in Top Gun: Maverick as the hardass military guy who is fed up with Tom Cruise’s loose-cannon shenanigans. It’s like he looks at potential roles and says “Hmm, would this be kind of awesome?” and then bases his decision on that. I respect this so much.

I also respect that he pops up on SNL every now and then and does an incredibly stupid sketch that makes fun of his last name.

I shouldn’t like this. I should hate him a little bit. He’s too talented and too good-looking to also have things figured out this well. The degree of difficulty here is through the roof. And yet… here I am, zooming through a show I don’t even watch to make screencaps of him going to outer space with Elle Woods. I don’t know. Part of me feels like I’m writing this just to try to make sense of it all. Maybe that’s it. Maybe I’m just really happy for Jon Hamm.

And it gets better, too. He’s also going to appear in the new season of Fargo — one of our best shows — opposite the also-great Juno Temple. Look how excited the producers are about working with Jon Hamm.

“Jon Hamm is Jon Hamm. Every actor should have a resume like that. I mean, remarkable,” Littlefield says. “Dot needs a great adversary to tell this story and we felt that Jon could really sing from that hymnal, that he could be that North Dakota sheriff who really, really bought into an entire world philosophy, a rigidity, and he has an ax to grind and so he is such a critical pillar in Dot’s story, the reveal of who she is, what is her past.”

He calls Hamm’s portrayal “wonderfully menacing” throughout the season. “We feel his muscle, his dramatic muscle,” he says, “but he’s also Jon Hamm, so you’re like, ‘Oh my god, did he do that?’”

God, I’m excited for this already. And I’m excited for Jon Hamm to continue following his heart around Hollywood. And I’m excited because I have another ridiculous screencap to show you from The Morning Show. Remember how I said his character is a billionaire who is obsessed with blasting rockets into space? Well, guess if his rocket looks so much like a massive penis that I busted out laughing when I zipped past it on my speedwatch.

It’s so beautiful I could cry.

And, as if all that wasn’t enough, as if Jon Hamm hasn’t been just generally killing it in a way most actors can never wrap their arms around because they’re too needy or ambitious or both, there was also this report in Page Six last week.

“Jon Hamm, will you help us play a song? Jon Hamm, are you here?,” Beck called out from a makeshift area set up at the small basement bar following his show at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.

The “Mad Men” star then joined the “Loser” singer and went ham, belting out the entirety of the Cars 1978 hit, “Just What I Needed,” in front of music heavy hitters like the Strokes’ Julian Casablanca and their manager Ryan Gentles, the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, the Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green and Brit rockers, the Arctic Monkeys.

Don Draper is out here singing with Beck in real life and launching himself into space in phallic spaceships on soapy television shows all in the last week. It’s all so cool I could puke. He seems like he’s having exactly as much fun as Jon Hamm should be having. And he seems like a really solid dude, too, which is one of the highest compliments I have to give.

I’ll close with this from the Page Six report about him singing with Beck.

“He really added some Hamm-bience,” joked one guest, as many chattered about how well Don Draper can sing.

Two things are true here:

• I feel like Jon Hamm would appreciate this awful play on words
• I am so proud of whoever said that and got it into print

We’re all doing great here. You, me, the Hamm-bience guy, all of us. But Especially Jon Hamm, though. That dude is just crushing it.