According to a report from Billboard, the answer is leaning towards yes. As journalist Dave Brooks outlined the viability of a future NSYNC tour, they found that Timberlake has placed several dates on hold at arenas across North America. This seems to point towards a possible limited solo tour run.
So NSYNC fans might need to say bye, bye, bye to the possibility of the band getting back together next year. Multiple sources went on to tell the outlet that in addition to the supposed tour, Timberlake may drop a brand new album as well. If that does happen, the album will mark Timberlake’s first full-length album, since 2018’s Man of the Woods, outside of his soundtrack work for the Trolls film series.
Not to get die-hard supporters’ hopes up, but neither Justin Timberlake nor his team has confirmed this news to be true or not.
“Repeat It” rapper Lil Tecca is finally prepared to give fans what they want: a new full-length project.
On social media, Lil Tecca has posted a handful of clips featuring song snippets for the unreleased tracks “Rock The Boat” (where he samples the late Aaliyah’s 2001 song by the same name), “Montana,” “Road Rage,” and more. In May, he took to his official X (formerly Twitter) account to share the news that his first album since 2021’s We Love You Tecca 2 would drop in the summer months. However, plans to release Tec in June were suddenly changed without explanation. Instead of a hot summer release date, Lil Tecca’s new album Tec will drop on the eve of the fall equinox.
Here is everything you need to know about Lil Tecca’s forthcoming album, Tec, including the release date, confirmed tracklisting, and more.
Release Date
Tec is out on 9/22 via Republic Records. Find more information here.
Tracklist
1. “Yves”
2. “Hvn On Earth” Feat. Kodak Black
3. “Gist”
4. “500lbs”
5. “Fell In Love” Feat. Kenny Mason
6. “Tec”
7. “Salty”
8. “Real Discussions”
9. “Dead Or Alive”
10. “Want It Bad”
11. “U Don’t Know Tec”
12. “Used2this”
13. “Trippin On U”
14. “Either Way”
15. “Need Me”
16. “Monday To Sunday”
Singles
Ahead of the Tec’s release, Lil Tecca shared a total of three singles, namely “Need Me,” “500lbs,” and “Hvn On Earth.” According to the supplied tracklist, his previous singles “Blessing,” “Treesha,” and “Faster” will not appear on the album.
Artwork
View the official artwork for the album below.
Republic Records
Tour
As of Monday, September 18, Lil Tecca has not yet announced a tour to support the release of his album. However, fans are hoping that he will roll out a few pop-up performances in the coming weeks for them to experience Tec live with him.
Last Sunday, Lauren Boebert just wanted to go see the Beetlejuice musical with a date, where should would vape, loudly sing along, get aggressively handsy, etc. How was she to know it would lead to over a week of news coverage? But all good things must come to an end, and it appears the MAGA lawmaker and her companion — who happened to be a Democrat who owns a drag queen-friendly bar — are already Splitsville.
TMZcaught up with Boebert, who cheerfully offered up an update about her new beau. Alas it was not to be.
“Ultimately all future date nights have been cancelled, and I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” Boebert said, suggesting that a far right figure who heckles Democratic president while they’re talking about his dead son can’t last very long with someone from the other side of the aisle.
Not that Boebert has anything bad to say about her date. Acknowledging that he’s a “private citizen,” she said that he’s “a wonderful man” and that they had “mostly a lovely time.” She joked that she “would love to know how the musical ended and I encourage people to go and see it.”
As for the two of them, they, she said, “peacefully parted” ways, though she claimed that it had “nothing to do with anything anybody reported,” such as that he may have voted for the guy she’s trying to impeach. Boebert added that he’s a “great man, great friend, and I wish him all the best.”
The growing excitement around reuniting groups continues to set social media ablaze, whether it’s No Doubt, Destiny’s Child, or NSYNC, all of whom are back together. However, Blink-182’s reunion isn’t just online chatter but a soon-to-be reality.
Earlier Monday, September 18, the trio announced their upcoming album, One More Time…, with a touching trailer video. In the clip, the band explained the meaning behind the project and discussed their career.
“What you need to understand about Blink-182 is we didn’t come out of joyous homes. So, Blink was a way for us to force the happiness in the room,” said Tom DeLonge.
“‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes [me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick] for our band to get back together,” added Travis Barker.
Mark Hoppus chimed in to say, “This is the best album we’ve ever written. It’s all through the healing of this band and this music and this record that I literally just cry on stage every night.”
“Coming out with One More Time is [us saying that] this is the last time we are going to f*ck this up,” said DeLonge.
You can watch the full album trailer below.
ONE MORE TIME… the new album from blink-182 is out October 20th. “ONE MORE TIME” the new song, is out this Thursday, September 21st at 7AM LA / 10 AM NY / 2PM LONDON. Watch the full trailer on YouTube: https://t.co/KEOVT2Vmwbpic.twitter.com/S4jb1di3HD
Blink-182 is back together, and they couldn’t be happier. After weeks of teasing their long-awaited reunion album, the band released its official release date. But that wasn’t the only thing the trio divulged. Their lead single, “One More Time,” will be released soon to give the world a taste of what’s to come.
“‘One More Time… the new album from Blink-182 is out October 20,” wrote the band in a post on their X (formerly known as Twitter) page. The note went on to specify that the title track for the project would be dropping soon. “‘One More Time,’ the new song, is out this Thursday, September 21, at 7 am Los Angeles time / 10 am New York time / 2 pm London time.”
The band strolls down memory lane in the album trailer as they open up about their personal life before coming together as a group. They also discussed the inspiration behind their forthcoming single. “‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes (me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick) for our band to get back together,” said member Travis Barker.
Watch the clip below.
ONE MORE TIME… the new album from blink-182 is out October 20th. “ONE MORE TIME” the new song, is out this Thursday, September 21st at 7AM LA / 10 AM NY / 2PM LONDON. Watch the full trailer on YouTube: https://t.co/KEOVT2Vmwbpic.twitter.com/S4jb1di3HD
The vault containing guest verses from “Snooze” singer SZA has gifted supporters with another gem. This time, one featuring her and multi-genre musician Jean Dawson, called “No SZNs,” will be going live on Friday, September 22.
“‘NO SZNS.’ (A duet by SZA & myself). 9/22/23. The official cover art by my favorite fine artist, Josh Brizuela,” wrote Dawson in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The cover art features a hand-drawn, faceless SZA silhouette sitting meditatively on top of a beast, seemingly symbolic of Dawson’s animalistic approach to his creative projects.
“NO SZNS” (a duet by @sza & myself) 9/22/23 official cover art by my favorite fine artist Josh Brizuela pic.twitter.com/8E6IrSV8pa
Fans chimed in, praising the artwork for its creativity. One even likened it to author Maurice Sendak’s characters in his children’s book Where The Wild Things Are.
Dawson initially teased the track in May on his official TikTok page. In the stanza shared online, you can hear him and SZA singing the lyrics, “In the spring, you can’t hear a thing / All the birds and bees (All the birds and bees) / Nobody think in the summertime (In the summertime) / People off the brink / In California, we ain’t got no seasons / All the same to me (All the same to me) / ‘Cause In the heat, like to press repeat / Every day is every day.”
Warning: This post contains spoilers about something that may or may not happen in John Wick: Chapter 4.
The fourth installment in the series that started with its hero avenging a slain puppy ended with him finally eating it. Or did it? John Wick: Chapter 4 concluded with a funeral, but it was no mistake that it was still ambiguous whether Keanu Reeves’ unretired assassin was really gone. Sure enough, after 4 gobbled up cash, star and filmmakers suddenly had to consider retconning said death for an unplanned Chapter 5. But it sure sounds like Reeves was ready to be done with his latest popular franchise character.
“After the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th movie, making these films is so exhausting and it destroys Keanu, physically and emotionally,” Iwanyk said. “By the end, he’s always like, ‘I can’t do this again,’ and we agree with him. The guy is just a shell of himself because he just goes off and goes for it. He was like, ‘I wanna be definitively killed at the end of this movie.’ We were like, ‘You know, we’ll leave a 10% little opening.’”
Alas for Reeves, that 10% won out. And so now he and series director Chad Stahleski are “getting together to figure out what that story is” for the fifth outing, which they hadn’t planned on making.
Iwanyk had sky-high praise for Reeves and Stahelski, who he compared to no less a songwriting duo than Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with him as their Ringo. (It’s not clear who’s George Harrison. Maybe Ian McShane?)
“They’ll call me and let me know, ‘All right, we’re showing up. Here’s where you show up, and here’s what our story is,’” he explained. Mind you, Iwanyk never confirmed that Chapter 5 is definitely in the offing, he did say, “We all want another John Wick. We don’t know what it looks like and when it will happen, but we love each other and we love this world.”
57 players averaged at least 20.0 points per game during the 2022-23 NBA season. One such player was veteran wing Kelly Oubre Jr., who appeared in only 48 games for the Charlotte Hornets but produced at a high level when deployed. Oubre Jr. wrapped up a two-year deal for almost $25 million in Charlotte, and he averaged 20.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Hornets. However, the free agent market didn’t necessarily break in his favor, as it took until mid-September for a deal to materialize.
On Monday evening, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Oubre will sign a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, adding intriguing depth to a team with quite a bit of uncertainty.
Free agent G/F Kelly Oubre Jr., is expected to sign a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources tell ESPN. Oubre — who averaged 20 points for Charlotte last season — could get significant opportunity on the wing with the uncertainty around James Harden.
The 76ers are limited by being well over the luxury tax line, but Philadelphia could have used part (or all) of the taxpayer mid-level exception on Oubre Jr., and this is even more team-friendly. Regardless, Oubre Jr. is a talented player who comes at a bargain at this late stage, and he also provides some potential scoring punch that could be quite useful given the mystery of James Harden’s future in Philadelphia.
Oubre Jr. reached unrestricted free agency at the age of 27, and the former first-round pick remains a top-level athlete who can score in bunches. Oubre Jr. also brings a relatively lengthy track record, with five consecutive seasons averaging at least 15 points per game. He averaged 16.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in that sample size, peaking with 18.7 points per game on 56.0 percent true shooting for the Phoenix Suns in 2019-20.
It isn’t as if Oubre Jr. and Harden have similar games, but with real questions about the perimeter rotation if Harden is not available, the 76ers have to be thrilled with this kind of bargain acquisition. Philadelphia is now at the roster limit with a jam-packed roster, but this was an opportunistic move for a team trying to win now at the highest level.
For Oubre Jr., it will also be interesting to see if he can replicate his statistical success from Charlotte in what will almost certainly be a strongly diminished role in terms of usage and overall deployment.
“I always look at Circulate like a design firm,” says Corey Populus, the founder and main creative force behind the brand Circulate. “How do we use design to fix problems?”
Populus looks at fashion as a means of expression, a medium to tell stories, convey emotions, and create conversation, it’s part of the reason why his brand Circulate is one of our favorites and we consider him one of the most vital voices in modern streetwear. Born from the Fairfax Avenue scene in 2018, Circulate has been on a roll this decade — when lockdowns threatened the viability of small streetwear brands, Populous built an audience over social media, using direct-to-consumer sales methods to stay in conversation with the fans of the brand.
Now in 2023, the brand continues to grow and evolve. As the Uproxx Style Hotlist 2023 begins to roll out, we linked up with Populus to get an update on the brand as well as his take on what’s currently trending in streetwear, and which brands you need to be paying attention to right now.
Circulate
So it’s been a minute since I talked to you. I’m just curious, where is Circulate in 2023?
Our focus right now is scaling up the business, getting into more retail doors, and just getting on the calendar. When you’re doing retail, they buy on a calendar schedule. I’m still doing a lot of collaborations. Recently, we dropped a really big collaboration with Overtime, which was really cool. And the feedback so far has been really good, so super hyped on that. And just working towards next year, man.
Just getting ahead, scaling up the business, and trying to get this thing running as a well-oiled machine.
Has that been challenging? I know that the brand really took off when direct-to-consumer was working so well because of the pandemic. Has that been an easy transition or a hard transition?
It’s actually been really easy because we’re still getting supported by all of our DTC customers, but it’s more so just expanding the business. More hitting those places that you don’t have eyes in, or you don’t have customers in. And just having it in a local shop where someone could just walk in, and be like, “Oh, dope. What is this?” And now, you have a fan. You know what I mean?
One of the stores that I’m selling to is called Corporate in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I don’t know anyone there, and I don’t know if anyone on my site shops from there. But the owner’s really cool, and he believes in my brand.
If someone comes in, and obviously our brand is new to the store, he is like, “Yo, check this out. This is a new brand.” So that’s more so the reason that I’m opening up more retail is just to get more eyes on the brand, and it’s also just a perspective thing. When you go into cool stores, and you see newer brands, it just opens your mind to something new.
Is the brand still putting a major focus on social justice and storytelling?
Yeah. We’ll always do that, but I don’t want to get boxed into one thing. I don’t want people to just look at my brand, and be like, “Oh, it’s only about that.” You know what I mean? Because we’re capable of so much more. I always look at Circulate as a design firm. How do we use design to fix problems?
And that’s kind of the way we move when it comes to design. The ethos of our brand will always be Black culture, community, social justice, and things like that, but I also don’t want to get trapped into that. I don’t want people to just see my brand, look at it, and be like, “Oh, that’s the black brand.” You know what I mean? Because there’s so much more than that.
I wanted to talk a little bit with you about trends in streetwear right now. I feel like the last three years or so were a transitionary period. This decade trying to figure it out its footing. Now that the look of the early 2020s is a bit more solidified, what trends are you noticing that are popping off? What can we expect to see in the future?
Obviously, baggy is coming back, man. It’s crazy. We went through skinny jeans, and all of that stuff for so long. And now, you look at everyone’s pants, and they’re baggy.
What that leads to is also bigger shoes. People are wearing crazy runners and trainers. For example, someone just sent me a pair of HOKAs this morning, and they’re like huge shoes, but they match the trend of everyone’s pants that they’re wearing now.
You see shoes like Solomon, New Balance, and other runners. Even with Nike, they’ve got their version of a runner, in the Vomero. Everyone’s wearing Vomeros now, and that’s because it fits with the aesthetic of baggy pants.
I also think that big logo stuff is going to come back. I know we went a super crazy minimalistic approach for the last 10 years, but I think big logos are going to come back as people turn to maximalism.
Honestly, I’m always stuck in my own world, and when I do take the time to leave my world and go scroll the internet, those are some things that I notice. I think those ones are going to be really big trends moving forward.
Have you noticed any changes in trends regarding what the modern staple silhouettes are for sneakers?
When it comes to that it’s all about accessibility. Not everyone’s going to be able to get the newest Jordans because you have to battle it out with the SNKRS app, or you got to go to your local shop, and there’s a raffle system in place. At the end of the day, not everyone’s going to win.
So I think that’s where a lot of these brands, the Solomons and the New Balances, and all the other brands that were in the backseat to Nike or Adidas. They’re starting to thrive because their shoes are a little bit more accessible.
There’s not crazy raffle systems to get them. That’s the reason why they’re winning right now.
Independent collaborators like myself, that have brands, they’re giving us a chance to collaborate on products. And that’s also adding to the success of sales, and things like that.
What I see a lot of right now are fakes. Not everyone, but there’s a huge part of the sneaker community now that is supporting fake sneakers because they’re just fed up with not being able to access the limited hype ones. It’s a super prevalent thing right now.
But I think it comes back to my original point. It’s all related to the silhouettes of clothing that people are wearing. They want bigger sneakers. You can’t wear a pair of Vans Eras with some big baggy pants. It’s just going to eat the shoe. So you need a bigger shoe to match the silhouette of the clothes you’re wearing.
What’s the best way to style baggy? Are we doing a baggy on baggy? Are we going baggy for the top half?
It just all depends on the person. I see a lot of people go baggy on the bottom with a small T on top that hugs their body, or sometimes you’ll see the guy with the baggy pants and the big T on top.
It’s all personal preference, but I do see a lot of baggy on top.
Right. Let’s talk a little bit about designers, or brands that you think are going to really pop up, get bigger in the next few years. Let’s just start with whoever comes off the top of your head first.
I love Bricks & Wood just because of how good they are at honing in on the community beyond the product. Obviously, they make really good product, but, for instance, they’ve been celebrating their five-year anniversary this past week and the events that I’ve been going to, and how they’re able to pack it out with different people I haven’t seen in a really long time is something special.
The celebration has just shown me that they’re really good at getting the community to come together for things. Whether it be a party, or some type of in-store event.
I love Wckdthghts because of Khaleel Knight — his point of view on streetwear comes from a different perspective. He’s not the Fairfax kid that grew up in that environment and was able to take those lessons and apply it to his brand.
He’s coming straight out of the hood and I love that about him. The way that he was able to build his own community based off of that, and how big it is, and how much support that he gets.
I think that’s really dope, and it just says a lot about how many different types of people are involved in streetwear. And we don’t all have to come from this Fairfax incubator to make something shake.
I really love MENACE because Steven Mena is putting on for the Latino culture of streetwear. The way that he showcases that in his designs and uses that as inspiration in the design represents a different perspective.
Recently, he did a collab with the LA Galaxy. From what I understand, Steven hasn’t done a lot of bigger corporate collabs. They’re a really big direct to consumer brand, and to see him starting to move in the space of big corporate is really cool. LA Galaxy is huge, and for it to be a soccer team, something that meant so much to him, is special. I know Chicharito (Javier Hernández) is a huge figure in soccer and Latino culture, to see how hype Steven was on that, and how it meant so much to his brand feels very authentic.
He’s built a whole brand off of being direct to the consumer, to see him doing collaborations with brands that resonate really well with what Menace does, is really dope to see. Recently he did a collaboration for the new DC superhero film. Blue Beetle.
Blue Beetle is a Latino superhero so it’s cool to see him building his brand that way, and I’m super proud of him.
I met George Jenkins working on Fairfax. He worked at The Hundreds, and I think he’s a bit younger than me. But lately, he’s building his brand, and I really love to see the grind of it. It kind of reminds me of myself when I was first starting out, and he’s doing it bigger than I ever did. He’s bought his own embroidery machine, which I’m sure is really hard to learn but every day, I see them on Instagram just churning out new designs. Not waiting for anybody to get stuff done, and I really admire that.
I hate waiting around for people to get stuff done, or to help grow my brand, or waiting around to do things that are going to help grow my brand. Lately, I’ve just been seeing him every single day just churning out new designs, new made-to-order stuff.
I think that’s a really cool way to grow your brand because you can make new stuff every day if you really want to, and get it into the hands of people, and that really helps grow your brand.
Seeing his dedication to it every day… he’s not asking for nothing, and that work ethic is really what I’m super excited about, and proud of. And I feel like that’s going to help him grow a lot.
I always love what Anwar is doing. He’s been around forever. He’s one of the first dudes that I always looked up to looking in at Fairfax because he’s always been so ahead of everybody.
I love Anwar for the way that he’s able to maneuver through the collaboration space. He can collaborate with Sketchers, and the next day, he could collaborate with some crazy Japanese brand. It’s always very true to his brand, and very true to him. The way that he’s able to maneuver through all of that, I really respect, and I admire.
I love Hypland. Jordan is another one of those guys with a big direct-to-consumer fan base, but he’s also carved out his own niche in streetwear.
Jordan was one of the first people to start collaborating and using anime licenses. The way that he’s been able to do that before anyone was even hip to that stuff, has been amazing to watch. He’s done Hello Kitty, and Dragon Ball Z, and I want to say he’s done Pokemon, and just a bunch of that type of stuff.
When he first started doing all of that stuff, no one was really using that lane. For him to carve out his own lane within streetwear by making all of those licenses cooler, is really cool.
It’s not like stuff you’d see at a merch store, or a Walmart or whatever. He’s just making that stuff cooler with his spin, and I think that’s really admirable, and he’s kind of set the trend now.
Everybody’s trying to do stuff like that, and I really respect that he did it before everyone. And his business is huge. He does really big activations with those licenses, I think that’s super cool.
This weekend, Format Festival 2023 is preparing to plant its roots in Bentonville, Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. Beginning Friday, September 22, through Sunday, September 24, three major recording artists are slated to headline, namely Leon Bridges (9/24), Alanis Morissette (9/23), and LCD Soundsystem (9/22).
Over the three days, dozens of entertainers will perform across the five performance spaces (North Of OZ, South Of Oz, Drag Me To The Disco, Next Door, and Rode House). Below, you will find the set times, which were announced by the organizer. Notable acts listed across the lineup include Modest Mouse, Poolside, Tash Sultana, Little Simz, Channel Tres, Kari Faux, Madeline Edwards, Serpentwithfeet, and Sudan Archives.
Similar to last year, in addition to the primary and secondary stages, there are also unconventional spaces on the grounds, such as forest enclaves, pavilions, barns, and speakeasies for more intimate performances. Outside of the musical performances inside the Fermentation Hall, geared toward video art programming. Featured visual artists include Jeremy Deller, Jon Rafman, and Ragnar Kjartansson x The National.
There are a limited amount tickets that are still available for Format Festival 2023. For more information, click here.
The schedule is subject to change. For an up-to-date timeline, visit the official Format Festival website.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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