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Monday Night Football has returned, bringing with it one of the most interesting musical collaborations we’ve seen in a long time. Perhaps learning its lesson from the disastrous reception to the NFL’s undercooked Carrie Underwood and Ludacris song from a few years back, ESPN’s latest attempt to merge football’s disparate fanbases (“two Americas,” after all) finds a better balance between rap and country, meshing them through an ’80s rock power ballad, and tapping two undeniable personalities in Snoop Dogg and Chris Stapleton. The result is a remake of Phil Collins’ smash “In The Air Tonight” that actually captures the energy you want before a big game.

The new theme song premiered ahead of last night’s broadcast of the New Orleans Saints vs. the Carolina Panthers on ESPN, and played before the Cleveland Browns/Pittsburgh Steelers game on ABC. The hype video features the anticipatory buildup before a rivalry game game, as felt through the slow build of Collins’ original. In this version, though, that iconic drum breakdown kicks in early courtesy of drummer Cindy Blackman Santana, right before Snoop delivers a thematically resonant verse that captures the glory and passion of leaving it all on the field for your team and your city. Check it out below:

Incidentally, both Snoop and Stapleton performed at the last two Super Bowls; Staple sang the National Anthem at this year’s game, while Snoop performed the halftime show alongside Dr. Dre last year.

As Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican primary by a considerable margin, his online army has noticeably pulled back on attacking Ron DeSantis. After initially entering the race as the most likely candidate to take out Trump, the Florida governor is no longer viewed as a threat thanks to his weird and awkward performance on the campaign trail.

However, that doesn’t mean Team Trump is entirely done with DeSantis. The former president’s online army isn’t satisfied with just squashing ol’ Meatball Ron, they want to salt the earth for his 2028 run as well.

Via The Daily Beast:

“There’s obviously a purposeful pivot to the general happening in Trumpworld, which is why you see an increased focus on Biden,” the second Trump adviser told The Daily Beast.

Still, the adviser and occasional anti-DeSantis poster continued that “things got so personal in the primary that I don’t think Team Trump will ever fully take their boot off of Ron’s tiny neck until they feel like he’s not just dead on arrival in 2024, but also dead on arrival in 2028.”

Despite taking pride in “nuking” DeSantis, Team Trump surprisingly feels bad about how hard they went on the Florida governor even as they continue to burn his chances of a 2028 run to the ground.

“The memes,” the adviser told The Daily Beast, “got out of control, though.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert is attempting to recover from her groping scandal after she and Democrat Bar Guy went their separate ways. She also managed to leave Howard Stern feeling conflicted, which doesn’t happen every day. There’s no telling whether she will be able to “recover” from this mess in the next year before reelection time. It would be a miraculous feat if she overcame both this surveillance footage mess and also being filmed frantically running up the Capitol stairs after missing an important vote.

Boebert has attempted to put on a “joy”-ful face on to distract people from her current fiasco, but that didn’t work, so she turned to an old favorite subject: bashing anything woke. And since the missing F-35 military jet was making headlines (debris has since been recovered), that must have seemed like a handy target. She duly fired up the Twitter.

“The military is asking for the public’s help in finding an F-35 jet that went missing,” the disgraced congresswoman tweeted. “We’re talking about an $80,000,000 jet. This is what happens when military leaders are more focused on woke ideology than actually running a competent military.”

As you can imagine, this attempt at distraction is going over even worse than when Marco Rubio expressed disgust for members of the military holding an LGBTQ poetry night on their time off. As a result, there were so many jokes about missing bras, “grope ideology,” feeling around to find things and, yes, “a happy ending.”

Say it again, with feeling.

There’s no shortage of rock releases for fans to sneak their teeth into. Artists such as Mitski and Vagabon were just a few to make their much-awaited return. On the other hand, alternative’s rising act Bar Italia, never left. In May, the band released their album, Tracey Denim, which featured singles “Punkt,” “Changer,” and “Nurse!.” But they still have some music in their tank.

Today (September 19), the trio (consisting of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton) just announced their next album, The Twits, with a ferocious new single, “My Little Tony.”

In a press release, a representative for the group shared behind-the-scenes details about the forthcoming project due out on November 3. “‘The Twits’ was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca (in Spain’s Balearic Islands), and was mixed by Marta Salogni,” read the note.

Listen to Bar Italia’s single “My Little Tony” above. To view the artwork and tracklist, continue below.

1. “My Little Tony”
2. “Real House Wibes (Desperate House Vibes)”
3. “Twist”
4. “World’s Greatest Emoter”
5. “Calm Down With Me”
6. “Shoo”
7. “Que Suprise”
8. “Hi Fiver”
9. “Brush w Faith”
10. “Glory Hunter”
11. “Sounds Like You Had To Be There”
12. “Jelsy”
13. “Bibs”

The Twits is out 11/3 via Matador Records. Find more information here.

Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers apparently had trouble trying to attend a recent Los Angeles Rams game at SoFi Stadium — and took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his advice for the venue. Particularly, when it comes to helping people like himself that don’t have smartphones to get inside.

“Dear @RamsNFL I love you, but it is very hard to attend your games for someone like me that does not own a smart phone,” Flea wrote. “Cant print out tickets or parking pass. cant get wristband, cant get back to seat after bathroom visit. Smart phone ownership should dictate experience. I hate smartphones.”

Some users in Flea’s replies felt a similar way. A commenter agreed, pointing out that food places aren’t letting people pay with cash anymore.

Others had jokes about what it must’ve been like for Flea without a phone. One user commented, “Security guard at Rams game: ‘some old man with no phone tryin to get into the good seats, keeps saying he is going to flee or something. Crazy old white people.’”

Another turned Flea’s post into pointing out that it’s also hard to get into a RHCP show without a smartphone.

Continue scrolling for reactions to Flea’s no-smartphone post.

Red Hot Chili Peppers is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Everyone is dreaming of Nicolas Cage.

A24‘s Dream Scenario stars Cage as a hapless family man who “finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom,” according to the plot synopsis. The film also stars Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula, and Dylan Baker.

You can watch the Charlie Kaufman-esque trailer above.

The Hollywood Reporter praised Cage for giving “his Cage-iest performance to date” in Dream Scenario: “Dream Scenario, as off the wall as it is, could, with a concerted A24 push, absolutely land Cage his third Oscar nomination,” following a Best Actor win for Leaving Las Vegas and a nomination for Adaptation. “It’s an instant classic.” This wouldn’t make up for Pig (or Face/Off, for that matter) not getting recognized by the Academy, but it would help the healing process.

Dream Scenario, which was written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli and produced by Hereditary and Midsommar‘s Ari Aster, opens in select theaters on November 10th before a wild release on November 22nd. Take your folks on Thanksgiving. I’m sure they’ll “get it.”

Busta Rhymes has been serving as an opening act on 50 Cent’s ongoing Final Lap Tour, and the trek hit St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday, September 15. During Busta’s set, he drew some attention over some NSFW shenanigans on stage. At one point, he propped his microphone up against his crotch and acted like it was… well, not a microphone. He then smacked it down before lifting it back up and giving it a suggestive stroke.

50 couldn’t let this slide without commenting: On Instagram today (September 19), 50 shared a fan-shot clip of the moment and wrote, “[laughing emoji] BUSTA stole this move from me, I use to do this to magic stick 10 years ago. LOL [shrugging emoji] Now it just feels dirty, inappropriate unnecessary LMAO this is giving, your old uncle at the barbecue that won’t go sit down vibes right !”

This isn’t the only recent performance 50 has poked fun at: Earlier this month, he set his sights on Ja Rule. Ja performed at the 2023 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards and had a biblical visual theme. To that, 50 Cent hopped on Instagram and wrote in response, “Look at this sh*t head, is he supposed to be Jesus. WTF you can’t make this sh*t up. LOL so stupid!”

In a recent New York Times interview promoting his book The Masters, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner said some problematic things about Black and female artists. One pull-quote, for example, reads, “Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” having said that in relation to the white, male artists he included in his book.

Now, Wenner, who hasn’t been directly involved with Rolling Stone for a few years now, offered an apology, saying in a statement (as The Hollywood Reporter notes):

“In my interview with The New York Times, I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks. The Masters is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ‘n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and it’s diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career. They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”

Rolling Stone recently distanced itself from Wenner’s comments, saying in a statement, “Jann Wenner’s recent statements to The New York Times do not represent the values and practices of today’s Rolling Stone. Jann Wenner has not been directly involved in our operations since 2019. Our purpose, especially since his departure, has been to tell stories that reflect the diversity of voices and experiences that shape our world. At Rolling Stone‘s core is the understanding that music above all can bring us together, not divide us.”

Who knew that a surprise performance, after a 10-year hiatus, on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in April would turn into a full-fledged The Walkmen tour? Well, the rockers indeed did. The Walkmen’s 2023 Revenge Tour kicked off Wednesday, September 13, at Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.

Unlike their past festival appearances, the 2023 Revenge Tour gives The Walkmen free creative reign to play their massive discography, almost unrestricted by time. So, what did the band settle on? View the setlist, according to Setlist.Fm, as well as the remaining tour dates, are posted below.

After The Walkmen played a few shows before their tour, Peter Matthew Bauer released a statement outlining his joy to reunite with his bandmates. “The last few weeks have been an absolute blast. Honestly, when we decided to get back together to play these shows, we had no idea if anyone would even show up. It’s been an incredible joy seeing all these people out there, playing these shows, getting to run into old friends from all over the world,” said Bauer.

2023 Revenge Tour setlist

1. “What’s In It For Me”
2. “On The Water””
3. “In The New Year”
4. “The Rat”
5. “Wake Up”
6. “Little House Of Savages”
7. “Blizzard Of ’96”
8. “New Years Eve”
9. “Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone”
10. “Four Provinces”
11. “Dónde Está La Playa”
12. “Angela Surf City”
13. “Red Moon”
14. “Canadian Girl”
15. “I Lost You”
16. “Juveniles”
17. “All Hands And The Cook”
18. “Heaven”

Encore

19. “Thinking Of A Dream I Had”
20. “We’ve Been Had”

2023 Revenge Tour schedule

09/21 — Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
09/24 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox
09/26 — Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
09/29 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
10/02 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
10/03 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
10/11 — Toronto, ON @ History

Last week, Hispanic Heritage Month kicked out, and for pre-game celebrations, Becky G’s launched her Mi Casa, Tu Casa Tour. Over the next few weeks, fans from around the country will have a chance to experience the chart-topping singer’s music live in a performance as part of her first top-billed tour. The Mi Casa, Tu Casa Tour setlist is expansive, including many of Becky G’s biggest hits.

View the setlist according to Setlist.Fm, as well as the remaining tour schedule, can be found below.

In an interview with Variety’s Thania Garcia, the singer opened up about what the Mi Casa, Tu Casa Tour, her first headlining venture, meant to her and the inspiration behind the show.

“[The] ‘Mi Casa Tu Casa Tour’ is about inviting people into an intimate experience with me. My intention is for it to be a place where we can sing, dance, laugh, and cry, all in the comfort of our shared space. I’ve never headlined my own tour before, so I really want it to feel personal and connect with my fans in that way because we’ll build nuestra casa [our home] in every city, together,” said the entertainer.

Mi Casa, Tu Casa Tour setlist

1. “Intro”
2. “Mayores”
3. “Fulanito”
4. “Buen Día”
5. “Bailé Con Mi Ex”
6. “Cuando Te Besé”
7. “Ya Acabó”
8. “Chanel”
9. “La Nena”
10. “Querido Abuelo”
11. “Cries In Spanish”
12. Selena Medley (“Como La Flor,” “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” “La Carcacha,” and “Baila Esta Cumbia”)
13. “Dolores”
14. “Mala Santa”
15. “Dollar”
16. “Arranca”
17. “Sin Pijama”
18. “Mamiii”
19. “Outro”

Encore

20. “Shower”

Mi Casa, Tu Casa Tour schedule

9/19 — Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium
9/21 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
9/22 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando
9/23 — Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live Hollywood
9/27 — Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre
9/28 — Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre
9/29 — San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre
10/1 — McAllen, TX @ McAllen Performing Arts Center
10/3 — El Paso, TX @ Abraham Chavez Theatre
10/6 — San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre
10/7 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
10/8 — San Jose, CA @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
10/14 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona State Fair