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Leon Thomas’ New Album ‘Electric Dusk’: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Tracklist, And More

Leon Thomas was first introduced to people as the actor who played Andre in the Nickelodeon hit TV shows Victorious and Sam & Cat. Even through those series, it was clear that Thomas was immensely talented. Over the years, he’s gone on to write and produce songs for some of the industry’s biggest names like Ariana Grande, Drake, Rick Ross, Kehlani, and more. Now, the spotlight is on him as he prepares to release his debut album Electric Dusk. The project is one that Thomas has been working on for some time. Uproxx was even able to catch up with him in 2022 in an interview to talk about the project. Now, Electric Dusk is just hours from coming out so here’s everything you need to know about it.

Release Date

Electric Dusk is be released on August 18 via EZMNY Records and Motown Records. It will be Thomas’ official debut album and follow-up to his 2018 project Genesis. You can pre-save it here.

Tracklist

You can view the tracklist for Electric Dusk below.

1. “Slow Down”
2. “X-Rated” Feat. Benny The Butcher
3. “Blue Hundreds”
4. “Love Jones” Feat. Ty Dolla Sign
5. “Sneak”
6. “My Will”
7. “Breaking Point”
8. “Crash & Burn
9. “Fade To Black”
10. “Socialite”
11. “Treasure In The Hills”
12.”Breaking Point (Remix)” Feat. Victoria Monét

Features

Through the 12 songs on Electric Dusk, Leon Thomas recruits features from Benny Butcher, Ty Dolla Sign, and Victoria Monét. Benny The Butcher appears on the album’s lead single, “X-Rated” while Ty Dolla Sign, who created the EZMNY Records imprint that Thomas is signed to, is featured on “Love Jones.” Lastly, Victoria Monét contributed to a remix of “Breaking Point,” a stand-out single from the album.

Singles

The singles from Electric Dusk are “X-Rated” with Benny The Butcher, “Love Jones” with Ty Dolla Sign, “Breaking Point,” “Crash & Burn“, and “Breaking Point (Remix)” with Victoria Monét.

Artwork

The artwork for Electric Dusk can be seen below.

Tour

Leon Thomas, as well as rapper Symba, will join Ty Dolla Sign as openers for his More Motion Less Emotion Tour which kicks off on September 15 and continues through October 27. You can view the full list of dates for the tour here.

Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Here Is Brandi Carlile’s ‘Summer Carnival Tour’ Setlist

Pink’s Summer Carnival Tour features iconic openers to supplement Pink’s own legendary status. Brandi Carlile, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Grouplove, and KidCutUp are alternating opening duties for the North American trek.

Grouplove and KidCutUp are opening on all of the dates, but Carlile was present for opening night on July 24 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. On July 26 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlile and Pink performed a cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U” as a tribute to Sinéad O’Connor, who died at 56 years old earlier that day.

Carlile opened at Citi Field in New York, New York on August 3, PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 5, and Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan on August 16. She will open for 10 more shows between August 19 and October 9. See all of the remaining dates here.

As chronicled by setlist.fm, there have been slight variations to Carlile’s setlist. The Toronto, Pittsburgh, and New York shows included a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock,” while fans in Cincinnati were treated to a different Mitchell cover, “A Case Of You.”

Below is Carlile’s setlist from her most recent set in Detroit last night (August 16).

1. “Broken Horses
2. “You And Me On The Rock
3. “The Story
4. “Right On Time
5. “Creep” (Radiohead cover)
6. “The Eye”
7. “Sinners, Saints And Fools”
8. “The Joke

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Sexyy Red And Sukihana Bring Some ‘Hood Rats’ To The Country Club In Their Wild New Video

Sexyy Red‘s 2023 takeover continues as she recruits a fellow unapologetic Southern belle in Sukihana for her “Hood Rats” video. Donning their “sophistiratchet” best, the two rappers turn a country club upside down, twerking through a tea party, hunting for sugar daddies on the links, and sipping champagne on the green. By the time they’re through, the stodgy locals have adopted their ways, trading in Earl Grey for Olde English and tea cakes for fried chicken sandwiches.

After exploding into fame with her viral single “Pound Town,” Sexyy Red has become one of the hottest commodities in hip-hop today. She dropped her second mixtape, Hood Hottest Princess, which was led by the remix of “Pound Town,” “Pound Town 2” featuring Nicki Minaj and “SkeeYee.” She also teamed up with some of her peers a pair of posse cuts letting her expand her oeuvre, “Sheisty” with Finesse2Tymes and Kali, and the remix of “One Margarita” with That Chick Angel, FendiDa Rappa, and Flo Milli.

Meanwhile, Sukihana continues to be an underground icon, with AR The Mermaid dedicating a song to her on her debut EP, Watt We Doingg, and a growing fanbase among both her peers and mainstream listeners.

Watch the video for “Hood rats” above.

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Joe Rogan Floated A Wild Theory About Democrats Are Plotting To ‘Get Rid Of’ Biden By ‘Slowly’ Releasing ‘Stuff’

After experiencing a brief moment of reason on account of the Barbie movie, Joe Rogan is back to openly peddling conspiracy theories. This time around, Rogan is accusing Democrats of concocting a secret plot to get Joe Biden off the 2024 ticket by slowly releasing evidence of his “corruption.” The “corruption” that Rogan is talking about is, of course, the ongoing Republican investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

“I’m an armchair conspiracy theorist, but if I had to guess, I would say that all this stuff that’s coming out slowly but surely about Biden is on purpose. They want to get rid of him,” Rogan said via Mediaite. “I think he wants to run again. And I don’t think the Democrats think that he can win. I think they’re right. And I think they’re going to slowly but surely expose more of these like very clear pieces of evidence of corruption.”

Where Rogan’s theory falls apart is the fact that President Biden has yet to be implicated in Hunter’s foreign deals. In fact, the Republican’s latest witness, Devon Archer, testified that Biden never talked business with his son. So much for “very clear pieces of evidence.”

If that wasn’t enough to deflate Rogan’s theory, the podcaster later admitted that Biden can beat Trump again, which eliminates the need for the Democrats to “get rid of him.”

“The only way Biden’s going to win again is ‘Never Trump,’” Rogan said. “These ‘Never Trump’ people. There are people that will vote for a f*cking box of hammers before they would vote for Trump. And that’s a real segment of our population. I don’t know what percentages, but it’s probably fairly high.”

(Via Mediaite)

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Jean Dawson Shares ‘DESTRUCTION FOR DUMMIES,’ PT. 2 JEAN DAWSON AS ‘NIGHTMARE’ From His Trilogy

In May, Jean Dawson followed up Chaos Now* with the first installment of a trilogy called XCAPE, which included songs “youth+” and “delusional world champion.” The second part is of the trilogy is out now, titled “DESTRUCTION FOR DUMMIES,” PT. 2 JEAN DAWSON AS “NIGHTMARE,” containing dynamic tracks “NO SCOPE,” “X-RAY,” and “VEXED.”

The music is atmospheric, with “VEXED” finding the eclectic musician in an introspective flow: “I only sleep when I’m stressed / Smoking cigarettes throwing up / Putting off sh*t for fun / I don’t own nobody none,” he raps. Instead of going with his typically noisy sound, he finds power in a brooding, low-key ambiance that sheds more light on his dreamlike vocals.

“Phoenix is a boy on the fringe,” he explained previously about the trilogy. “He is described to write with the tenacity of Kurt Cobain and the subversive subjectivity of a David Bowie. Using himself as a mirror for whoever decides to look at him because he is a product of the world rather than a product of perceived individuality. He is a manifestation of misunderstanding unawareness. His ideas are flirtatious, asymmetric and brash outwardly contradicted by his own lack of personal identity. Phoenix is only as real as the listener listening.”

Listen to the new songs below.

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Selena Gomez Is ‘Single Soon’ On Her Upcoming Song, Which Will Be Her First Solo Record Of 2023

Selena Gomez’s 2022 was punctuated by her AppleTV+ documentary, My Mind & Me, and the promotional press cycle around it. Gomez told Rolling Stone that she’d written 24 songs for her next album and touched on the “My Mind & Me” single she released around the documentary.

“‘My Mind & Me’ is a little sad, but it’s also a really nice way of putting a button on the documentary part of life, and then it’ll just be fun stories of me living my life and going on dates and having conversations with myself,” Gomez told the publication. “I feel like it’s going be an album that’s like, ‘Oh, she’s not in that place anymore; she’s actually just living life.’”

Gomez similarly told Jimmy Fallon that she was “ready to have some fun” with her next batch of music. Well, we’ll soon get a sense of what she’s been talking about.

This morning, August 17, Gomez announced that she will release “Single Soon” on August 25. It will be released alongside a 7″ vinyl with “Single Soon” on the A-side and an instrumental version on the B-Side. Pre-order the vinyl here.

“Y’all have been asking for new music for a while. Since I’m not quite done with SG3, I wanted to put out a fun little song I wrote a while back that’s perfect for the end of summer. SINGLE SOON. August 25th. Presave it now,” Gomez captioned an Instagram carousel featuring the single artwork (shot by Hunter Moreno) and behind-the-scenes photos.

Per the press release, “Single Soon” was produced by Benny Blanco and Cashmere Cat.

Gomez’s last LP was Rare in 2020. The Grammy-nominated Revelación EP, her first Spanish project, arrived in 2021. Despite the gap in solo releases, Gomez has maintained a strong presence with “Calm Down,” a platinum-certified Afrobeats anthem with Rema, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Radio Songs chart.

Gomez is also currently starring in the third season of Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building, which has surprisingly sprung a potential hit from Meryl Streep.

See the “Single Soon” cover art below.

Selena Gomez cover art
Hunter Moreno

“Single Soon” is out 8/25 via Interscope Records. Find more information here.

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When Does Usher’s Las Vegas Residency End?

Usher’s Las Vegas residency has turned out to be quite eventful, but all good things must come to an end eventually. Today it was announced that Usher’s residency only has 12 more shows left. The newly announced final dates are:

November 2023: 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 22, 24, 25, 29
December 2023: 1, 2

My Way The Vegas Residency generated a flurry of headlines earlier this year when the star serenaded actress/singer Keke Palmer during a show in July. Internet personality Darius Jackson, aka Darius Daulton, the father of Palmer’s son, responded poorly, tweeting, “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom.” Elaborating on his thoughts, he argued, “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is. This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”

Unfortunately for him, though, very few folks agreed with him, and Palmer — after apparently breaking up with him for the public embarrassment — poked fun at the incident multiple times. After creating merch addressing it, she teamed up with Usher in the video for “Boyfriend,” in which Usher sings, “Somеbody said that your boyfriend’s lookin’ for me / Oh, that’s cool, that’s cool / Well he should know I’m pretty easy to find / Just look for me wherever he sees you.”

Funnily enough, the whole situation seemed to put a stop to Usher’s serenades — at least, of his most famous guests. While Saweetie kept her cool during their session, Winnie Harlow straight up avoided him by hopping into her boyfriend’s lap. We’ll see if Usher’s show sparks anymore controversy before December 2.

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Do You Have To Watch ‘Power’ Before ‘Power Book IV: Force?’

On September 1, Power Book IV: Force will return to STARZ for its second season. The series is the third spin-off in the Power Universe following Power Book II: Ghost and Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and it presents Tommy Egan at the center of it. The events in Power Book IV: Force take place in Chicago after Tommy stops there temporarily en route to his original destination of California. Soon enough, Tommy finds himself in the middle of the city’s drug game with new partners and a goal of taking over the throne — regardless of who is in his way.

Do You Have To Watch Power Before Power Book IV: Force?

With the Power Universe set to begin a new season with the return of Power Book IV: Force next month, you may decide to pick this as a starting point if you have yet to indulge in the Power Universe. This wouldn’t be a bad decision as the spin-offs — Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force — are not connected to each. With that, you don’t have to watch one to understand the others. However, this isn’t the case with the original series Power.

Power is where we originally meet Tommy Egan who was a longtime business partner and friend of that show’s main character, James “Ghost” St. Patrick. It’s through this show’s six seasons that fans of the Power Universe understood the overall character that is Tommy. So without watching Power before Power Book IV: Force, there will be some context missing about Tommy Egan. You won’t fully understand why he moved from New York to Chicago, the origins of his relationship with Liliana and his mother, his up-and-down relationship with Ghost, the significance of his car, and so much more. Power Book IV: Force is watchable without this context, but it makes it so much more enjoyable with it.

‘Power Book IV: Force’ returns on September 1 on STARZ.

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Green Day Unveiled A Jam-Packed ‘Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition,’ Including Dog Poop Bags

Green Day dropped Dookie in 1994, a decade before the Billie Joe Armstrong-led band unleashed the chart-topping American Idiot, which housed “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” All of which is to say, wake us up when September begins because Green Day is releasing Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on September 29. The album is available to pre-order here, and the accompanying capsule collection is available here.

Green Day had been teasing this announcement with nostalgic Instagram posts.

On Thursday morning, August 17, the band broke the news with another Instagram post. The lengthy caption can be read below:

“Sometimes you take a gamble and luck’s on your side. Back in the summer of ’93 Green Day went into the studio to record Dookie and had no idea what their destiny would be. They were young, rebellious, and absolutely scared sh*tless. There was no telling if they were about to prove everyone wrong or make the biggest mistake of their lives.

This year Dookie turns 30 and they’ve cracked open the vaults putting together an epic 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe version of the album that will be available as a 6-LP vinyl, 4-CD box set and up everywhere digitally.

The release features:

– the original album
– seventeen unreleased demos
– six studio outtakes (3 unreleased)
– Woodstock 1994
– Live in Barcelona 1994 (unreleased)

A limited version is available for pre-order now in the webstore along with the Dookie merch capsule collection. So go go go pre-order yours now – link in bio.

As a little treat for you, 10 4-track demos are also out everywhere TODAY, so go give ‘em a listen.”

Per press release, the Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition vinyl box set comes with a roll of Dookie dog poop bags, five-button set, air freshener, postcard, bumper sticker, kiss-cut large magnet sheet, paper airplane, a poster of the altnerative Dookie album art, and more.

Dookie
Courtesy Of Green Day

See the full Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition below.

Vinyl Box (6 LPs)
LP 1: Dookie
LP 2: Dookie Demos
LP 3: Dookie Outtakes
LP 4: Live At Woodstock (1994)
LP 5 & 6: Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)

CD Box (4 CDs)
CD 1: Dookie
CD 2: Dookie Demos & Outtakes
CD 3: Live At Woodstock (1994)
CD 4: Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)

Dookie
1. “Burnout”
2. “Having A Blast”
3. “Chump”
4. “Longview”
5. “Welcome To Paradise”
6. “Pulling Teeth”
7. “Basket Case”
8. “She”
9. “Sassafras Roots”
10. “When I Come Around”
11. “Coming Clean”
12. “Emenius Sleepus”
13. “In The End”
14. “F.O.D.”
15. “All By Myself”

Dookie 4-Track Demos
1. “Burnout”
2. “Chump”
3. “Pulling Teeth”
4. “Basket Case”
5. “She”
6. “Sassafras Roots”
7. “When I Come Around”
8. “In The End”
9. “F.O.D.”
10. “When It’s Time”

Dookie Cassette Demos
1. “When I Come Around”
2. “Basket Case”
3. “Longview”
4. “Burn Out”
5. “Haushinka”
6. “J.A.R.”
7. “Having A Blast”

Dookie Outtakes
1. “Christie Rd.”
2. “409 In Your Coffeemaker”
3. “J.A.R.”
4. “On The Wagon”
5. “Tired Of Waiting For You”
6. “Walking The Dog (Demo)”

Live At Woodstock (1994)
1. “Welcome To Paradise (Live)”
2. “One Of My Lies (Live)”
3. “Chump (Live)”
4. “Longview (Live)”
5. “Basket Case (Live)”
6. “When I Come Around (Live)”
7. “Burnout (Live)”
8. “F.O.D. (Live)”
9. “Paper Lanterns (Live)”
10. “Sh*t Show (Live)”

Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)
1. “Welcome To Paradise (Live)”
2. “One Of My Lies (Live)”
3. “Chump (Live)”
4. “Longview (Live)”
5. “Burnout (Live)”
6. “Only Of You (Live)”
7. “When I Come Around (Live)”
8. “2000 Light Years Away (Live)”
9. “Going To Pasalacqua (Live)”
10. “Knowledge (Live)”
11. “Basket Case (Live)”
12. “Paper Lanterns (Live)”
13. “Road To Acceptance”
14. “Dominated Love Slave (Live)”
15. “F.O.D. (Live)”
16. “Christie Rd. (Live)”
17. “Disappearing Boy (Live)”

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Tony Khan Is Ready For AEW’s ‘Single Biggest Opportunity’ At All In

When the Jacksonville Jaguars played host to the Denver Broncos at London’s Wembley Stadium in October last year, fans caught a clip that featured star quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Blackpool Combat Club member Claudio Castagnoli as part of a promotional shoot for AEW’s English TV partner, ITV.

That brief crossover was Tony Khan’s early work in planting the seeds for the wrestling promotion’s eventual European debut. Khan, AEW’s founder and the Jags’ chief football strategy officer, has known for a long time that he wanted to run his first London show at Wembley, but admits the outpouring of interest has exceeded even their very optimistic early projections.

“We stand on the verge of breaking so many historical milestones,” Khan tells Uproxx Sports. “Certainly this will be the biggest wrestling event ever in Europe and one of the biggest events in history.”

As of this writing, AEW has sold more than 80,000 tickets and stands less than 800 tickets away from breaking the all-time paid ticket sales record — per WrestleTix, WWE set that record by selling 80,709 tickets for WrestleMania 32.

AEW has known of the significant interest in a large-scale show abroad, but Khan admits that Wembley wasn’t the only venue the promotion considered for its first All In show. Khan also considered Craven Cottage, the oldest football stadium in London and home to the Premier League’s Fulham FC, which boasts a record attendance of 49,335 from a soccer match in 1938. (Khan serves as the vice chairman and director of football operations for the club.)

“There’s two places I thought about,” Khan says. “One is also very dear to my heart, and that’s Craven Cottage. Wembley is, for a pro wrestling event, the more economical choice for many reasons. In that, you can have much more capacity for attendance since Wembley is a larger stadium by far, and also, the same wonderful charms of Craven Cottage and all the history of that magnificent venue. (Craven Cottage) poses so many challenges to loading in a pro wrestling event and it would cost millions more to produce the event at Craven Cottage than at Wembley.”

For Khan, the magnitude of this show hasn’t set in yet, although he calls it the “single biggest opportunity” the promotion has ever had. It follows the trend of taking a leap of faith like the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes did at the original All In back in 2018, which made history as a self-promoted independent show that sold 10,000 tickets.

The group that puts the Elite in All Elite Wrestling recently committed their collective futures to the promotion and are expected to be heavily involved in the show. The Young Bucks will feature prominently in another dream showdown with FTR over the AEW World Tag Team Championships, while Kenny Omega, Hangman Page, and Kota Ibushi will face off against Juice Robinson, Jay White, and Takeshita.

“Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks have been a huge part of what we do since the very beginning, both in the ring and backstage,” Khan says. “AEW started when I first spoke to The Young Bucks about this idea that I wanted to launch a pro wrestling promotion and I was trying to get people to support it. Hangman Page is one of our first champions, a great world champion and also a great world tag team champion and one of our top stars. And I think all four of them are a huge part of the the identity of the company.”

MJF versus Adam Cole for the AEW World Championship is the main event, featuring one of the best enemies-turned-friends storylines in some time. The Fatal 4-way match between Hikaru Shida, Toni Storm, Saraya, and Britt Baker is sure to be a barnburner for the AEW Women’s Championship. Chris Jericho against Will Ospreay is a match that’s been years in the making. The just-announced Stadium Stampede will be a brawl between the Blackpool Combat Club, Eddie Kingston, Best Friends, and Lucha Bros.

And then, there’s Sting.

Khan says the opportunity to spotlight the icon’s return to the ring is the one thing he never truly expected to happen in AEW.

“Sting stepped away from pro wrestling for several years and by all indications, he was going to retire. He felt he had a great run in him alongside his tag team partner, Darby Allin. He’s had some of the most exciting and memorable matches in AEW in the last several years and Sting has accumulated an undefeated record where Sting is, in many ways, the most successful wrestler in AEW,” Khan says.

“Every time he steps in the ring we try to pay tribute to his great career and how honored we are to have Sting with us. I think this will be one of the great memories we’ve been able to make for Sting in AEW. Sting and Darby Allin. Darby’s old friends, Swerve Strickland and A.R. Fox in a coffin match, in front of the biggest paid crowd ever to watch Sting wrestle in his entire amazing career.”

With a loaded roster and interest at its highest since launching the promotion, Khan has big aspirations and wants to continue hosting large-scale events in North America, Europe, and other continents as well. With matches still to be announced, All In’s card is living up to the billing as one of the biggest events in wrestling history.

But despite that, the future of the All In event is unclear. When asked if we can expect it as an annual event, Khan admitted there’s “a lot to consider.”

“In addition to the live event, also on the media rights landscape, there are a lot of interesting things happening,” Khan continues. “We’re very focused on these events. Doing this for the first time to have AEW All In on August 27th, followed by AEW All Out the next weekend.”

Fans can tune in live to watch All In on August 27 on traditional pay-per-view, through Bleacher Report, and internationally through FITE.