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What would happen if you mixed The Strokes’ early music with alt radio and a love of skateboarding and cigarettes? Well, AlexSucks is here to answer that question. The LA-based four-piece just arrived on the scene with their debut album The Gutter, on a mission to make garage rock cool again.

Songs like their title track, “Can We Forget,” and the electrifying “6 Pack And Cigarettes” show off the band’s knack for making music that’s gritty, tongue-in-cheek, and really damn fun. To celebrate the release of their debut album The Gutter and their US tour, AlexSucks sits down with Uproxx to talk flat earthers, LCD Soundsystem, and always wearing a helmet in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Indie, grunge, Alternative, Indie.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

Tight. Ex: “Their music was tight.”

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?

Denver CO.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Evel Knievel, because he’s tight.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life?

In n Out, Double-Double animal style.

What album do you know every word to?

Benches’ Wishful Thinking.

What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?

LCD Soundsystem, hella sounds. Every synth was played live.

What is the best outfit for performing and why?

Levis, Converse, and a vintage tee. Because it’s tight.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?

@memesforskumbags on Instagram.

What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?

“Do You” by Spoon.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

Flat Earthers.

What album makes for the perfect gift?

Ok Computer by Radiohead.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

The bush of a car dealership. Just slept right on it.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

First tattoo is a dude skating because I like to skateboard.

What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?

Blur.

What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

Bought me a 6 pack and cigarettes.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Wear a helmet….

What’s the last show you went to?

The Cure, Hollywood Bowl.

What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?

Starwars.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

Finger boarding.

The Gutter is out now via Stairs Music/Hallwood Recordings. Find more information here.

Math is weird.

On the one hand, it’s consistent—the solutions to basic math problems are the same in every country in the world. On the other hand, there are multiple strategies to get to those solutions, and it seems like people are still coming up with new ones (much to the chagrin of parents whose kids need help with homework using methods they’ve never learned).

Math professor Howie Hua shares math strategies that make math easier on social media, and his videos are fascinating. Hua, who teaches math to future elementary school teachers at Fresno State, demonstrates all kinds of mental math tricks that feel like magic when you try them.

For instance, Hua has two videos showing how easy and quick it is to add multidigit numbers left to right instead of right to left, and it’s genuinely mind-blowing.

Check out how he explains why adding left to right is “underrated.”

u201cNew TikTok video: Adding left to right is underratedu201d

— Howie Hua (@Howie Hua)
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OK, seriously. That is way easier to do in your head. It’s basically putting the numbers into expanded form and adding them, which makes it easier to visualize.

Adding this way makes sense, but subtracting is a bit more complicated, right?

Wrong, apparently. Watch Hua work his math sorcery subtracting two and three-digit numbers.

@howie_hua

Did you know you can subtract left to right? #math #mathematics #mathtok #maths #teachersoftiktok #teacher #mathtricks #mathtrick

Holy moly. That’s faster than the right-to-left, borrow-from-the-next-column method, isn’t it? And again, so much easier to visualize what’s actually happening, though I don’t know if I could fully do this in my head like I could with the left-to-right addition.

Hua recently shared another cool subtraction trick for problems with minuends that have a lot of zeroes. (The minuend is the first number in a subtraction problem. Don’t be too impressed. I had to look it up.)

Check this out:

@howie_hua

An underrated subtraction strategy #math #mathematics #mathtok #maths #teachersoftiktok #teacher #mathtricks #mathtrick

So simple, so time-saving and so something I would never have figured out on my own.

These tips and tricks might come in handy for anyone, but they’re especially useful for kids who are having to do these kinds of math problems at school all the time. Even if they’re supposed to solve the problem with a different strategy, these methods can be a quick way to check their answers.

Anything that makes math easier, I say. You can watch Hua’s videos on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter.

This article originally appeared on 10.12.22

We’ve all seen our fair share of older-sibling-meets-new-baby videos, which are generally pretty darn adorable. But once in a while, one comes along that socks us square in the heart and has us desperately reaching for a tissue.

Brace yourselves, friends, because this is one video that truly requires a tissue warning.

Shared by @brianaarielle89 on TikTok, the video shows a preschooler dressed up in a dinosaur costume entering a hospital room to meet his newborn sibling for the first time. He asks, “Mommy, where is Hudson?” and is guided over to the cot where his baby brother is bundled.

At first, he walks right past him. But then he turns, sees him and simply stares for a few seconds.

A man’s voice asks, “What do you think?” and oh, the emotion in his little voice as he breaks into tears.

“Hudsooooon!” he wails. “Hiiii!” And then he cries out the sweetest BFF declaration you’ll ever hear.

@brianaarielle89

#fyp #viral #heartwarming #siblings #brothers #babiesoftiktok

Oof, right? This is the purest love there is. What a little sweetheart and what a lucky little brother Hudson is.

I regret to inform you that there is a part two, which is also adorable.

@brianaarielle89

#fyp #babiesoftiktok #brothers #feelings #happycry

“I’m happy crying, okay?” Okay, kiddo. So is everyone else now.

Of course, not all young children are overcome with happiness when they get to meet their younger siblings. In fact, some kids can be downright hostile about it, asking the parents if they can send the baby back or acting out in anger and jealousy. Depending on their age, older siblings might demand more attention than usual or regress in certain developmental milestones, such as potty training.

For parents whose young children didn’t gush with love when they met a new sibling, don’t worry. Jealousy of babies is totally normal and doesn’t mean your kids won’t get along eventually. It just takes time to adjust to a new reality and a new dynamic in the household. Dr. Hindie M. Klein recommends tips like referring to the new baby as “our baby,” letting the older sibling help in caring for the baby (in ways that are age-appropriate, of course) and providing some special parental one-on-one time with the older child to help kids more easily adjust to a new baby in the house.

Even baby Hudson and his big-hearted bro here will surely have sibling spats of their own over the years. Sibling love is complicated, but it’s great to see it start off on such a beautiful note.

This article originally appeared on 9.21.22

We’ve all seen our fair share of older-sibling-meets-new-baby videos, which are generally pretty darn adorable. But once in a while, one comes along that socks us square in the heart and has us desperately reaching for a tissue.

Brace yourselves, friends, because this is one video that truly requires a tissue warning.

Shared by @brianaarielle89 on TikTok, the video shows a preschooler dressed up in a dinosaur costume entering a hospital room to meet his newborn sibling for the first time. He asks, “Mommy, where is Hudson?” and is guided over to the cot where his baby brother is bundled.

At first, he walks right past him. But then he turns, sees him and simply stares for a few seconds.

A man’s voice asks, “What do you think?” and oh, the emotion in his little voice as he breaks into tears.

“Hudsooooon!” he wails. “Hiiii!” And then he cries out the sweetest BFF declaration you’ll ever hear.

@brianaarielle89

#fyp #viral #heartwarming #siblings #brothers #babiesoftiktok

Oof, right? This is the purest love there is. What a little sweetheart and what a lucky little brother Hudson is.

I regret to inform you that there is a part two, which is also adorable.

@brianaarielle89

#fyp #babiesoftiktok #brothers #feelings #happycry

“I’m happy crying, okay?” Okay, kiddo. So is everyone else now.

Of course, not all young children are overcome with happiness when they get to meet their younger siblings. In fact, some kids can be downright hostile about it, asking the parents if they can send the baby back or acting out in anger and jealousy. Depending on their age, older siblings might demand more attention than usual or regress in certain developmental milestones, such as potty training.

For parents whose young children didn’t gush with love when they met a new sibling, don’t worry. Jealousy of babies is totally normal and doesn’t mean your kids won’t get along eventually. It just takes time to adjust to a new reality and a new dynamic in the household. Dr. Hindie M. Klein recommends tips like referring to the new baby as “our baby,” letting the older sibling help in caring for the baby (in ways that are age-appropriate, of course) and providing some special parental one-on-one time with the older child to help kids more easily adjust to a new baby in the house.

Even baby Hudson and his big-hearted bro here will surely have sibling spats of their own over the years. Sibling love is complicated, but it’s great to see it start off on such a beautiful note.

This article originally appeared on 9.21.22

Well, it looks like a new Snoh Aalegra album could be on the horizon. The singer’s last release came in 2021 with Temporary Highs In The Violet Skies which landed as a 14-track project with help from The Neptunes, Tyler The Creator, James Fauntleroy, and more. That album was followed by the Temporary Highs In The Violet Skies Tour which featured two months of performances across North America. Since then, Snoh has been fairly quiet on the music front, as she tends to be in between releases, but now it’s time for her to return to the spotlight.

On June 19, Snoh announced that her new single “Be My Summer” will be released on Friday, June 21. She shared the news with a preview of the track’s presumed music video that captured her amongst trees and under the sun in a delicate white dress. It seems likely that this song could be the lead single from her upcoming fourth album.

The upcoming single is Snoh’s first release since “Do 4 Love,” a record she released months after dropping Temporary Highs In The Violet Skies. The track was later remixed by South African DJ Black Coffee. The upcoming single is also Snoh’s first release since she was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.

You can view Snoh Aalegra’s post about “Be My Summer” in the post above. Pre-save “Be My Summer” here.

Father and daughter dances are a traditional staple of weddings. They tend to range somewhere between tearfully sweet and hilariously cringey. But sometimes, as was the case of Brittany Revell and her dad Kelly, they can be so freakin’ cool that millions of people become captivated.

Brittany and Kelly’s video, which amassed, I kid you not, more than 40 million views on TikTok, shows the pair grooving in sneakers (Brittany’s were white because, hello, wedding dress) to their “dance through the decades.”

It all began with Young MC’s “Bust a Move,” to give you a clear picture. And bust a move, they did.

Though the duo did a handful of iconic moves—the tootsie roll, the MC Hammer dance, the Carlton, just to name a few—“the dougie,” made famous by Cali Swag District, was the obvious fan favorite.

Brittany is clearly no stranger to busting a move and showed off her skills, but Kelly had the audience (and the internet) absolutely floored. He not only nailed every move, but kept a constant grin from ear to ear.

“Reason number 1838329194920 why I love my dad,” Brittany wrote in her caption.

@bnrevell Reason number 1838329194920 why I love my dad. 🫶🏼🥹 #thatdougietho #fatherdaughter #weddingtok ♬ original sound – Brittany Revell

People in the comments were quick to profess love for Kelly as well. Here are some gems:

“WHO IS THIS LEGEND!”

“I aspire to this level of smooth.”

“Pops got moves!!🔥”

“He really is the main character 🤩🤩”

Others shared praise to both dancers for delivering an unforgettable performance.

“I would absolutely lose my mind if I saw this at a wedding,” wrote one person.

“This is probably THE best TikTok I’ve ever seen. You and your dad are legit rockstars!! Congratulations!!” added another.

Brittany told The Morning Show on Channel 7 that she and Kelly have been learning dances together “for fun in the living room” since she was little. “He has always had some rhythm, but I did not know he could pick up the moves like that,” she quipped. Hey, there’s always something new to learn about dear old dad.

Brittany also shared in an interview with NBC News that people were responding to more than just impressive choreography—it touched them on a heartfelt level.

“I think it’s kind of unique to see a dad of Asian descent be able to open up, let loose and just embrace their American child’s music and culture,” she said, adding that several people who didn’t have relationships with their fathers commended how “inspiring” it was to see the fun Brittany and Kelly created, encouraging them to “be better with their future kids.”

Weddings are a celebration of love, and that can extend beyond the bride and groom. This father expressed his love on the dance floor, and it’s giving us all something to smile about.

Odds are Brittany and her dad are gonna keep posting even more amazing dance videos. You can keep up to date by following Brittany on TikTok here.

This article originally appeared on 09.13.22

On Wednesday, July 19, Harry Styles dropped the video for his Harry’s House track “Daylight,” but his fans are likely still hung up on the night before. During his Love On Tour stop in Lisbon, Portugal, the musician was joined on stage by Wet Leg’s Hester Chambers and Rhian Teasdale to perform their 2021 sophomore single, “Wet Dream.” The band has been opening for Styles’ UK and European leg for the better part of this year.

“It has been the most wonderful, wonderful tour — getting to watch them play every night. They’re one of my favorite bands,” Styles told his crowd in a video posted by Wet Leg to Instagram, appropriately captioned, “a wet dream come true.”

According to fan videos and NME, Styles and Wet Leg also performed “Daylight” together.

Styles has already proved that his love for Wet Leg exists well beyond Love On Tour, however, as he covered “Wet Dream” for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in May 2022. At the time, Wet Leg reacted to the cover with a TikTok showing Teasdale jokingly fainting.

Styles’ Love On Tour has felt unending, but the final show is scheduled for Saturday, July 22, at RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia, Italy, with Wet Leg again as the opener.

Remember when Matt Gaetz was investigated by the feds over his alleged ties to a sex trafficking ring? Earlier this year, after over two years of probing, the Justice Department declared he wouldn’t be charged for any potential wrongdoing. But not everyone has forgotten about the ordeal, as one of his usual sparring partners revealed.

On Wednesday, the GOP’s House Oversight Committee held a beyond chaotic hearing about alleged obstruction in the IRS’ investigation of Hunter Biden. By far the craziest thing that happened involved Marjorie Taylor Greene, who straight-up held up dick pics of the president’s son. On a far more tasteful note, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brought up the aforementioned Gaetz investigation.

At one point during the hearing, Greene asked IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler if Hunter had broken the law by paying for a ticket for an alleged prostitute he asked to visit him. Ziegler said yes, because it’s technically prostitution.

Later came Ocasio-Cortez’s turn to question Ziegler and the other whistleblower. She decided to make it about alleged GOP hypocrisy.

“If the gentle lady from Georgia wanted to follow evidence, we should also take a look at hypothetically, a case where sex trafficking charges against a 17-year-old girl potentially…” she asked before being cut off, her time having expired.

Though Ocasio-Cortez didn’t name who she was referencing, it was pretty clear who she meant.

The Department of Justice began their investigation into Gaetz in late 2020 after he was accused of paying for sex, including with a minor he had allegedly paid to travel with him. Through it all he maintained his innocence. He even got married to someone who wound up hating the Barbie movie. Ultimately no charges were filed.

(Via Mediaite)

Since entering the league as the first pick in the 2018 Draft, Deandre Ayton has been a walking double-double for the Phoenix Suns, averaging 16.7 points and 10.4 rebounds per game in his first five seasons in the league.

However, he has also been endlessly frustrating for Suns fans, who see his effort level fluctuate wildly from game-to-game (or even quarter-to-quarter), particularly on the defensive end. Ayton has a propensity to get frustrated when he doesn’t feel involved enough offensively, which is easy to happen on a team like the Suns with so many strong, on-ball offensive playmakers. This year, they’ll have even more with Bradley Beal joining Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, and it will be the challenge for Frank Vogel to get Ayton to buy-in to his role and also to figure out how to keep him involved enough to keep him engaged in the game.

It’s also on Ayton to find that internal drive to make an impact on the game even with limited touches, particularly on the defensive end where he holds the key for how good the Suns can be on that end. He has the tools to be an excellent defender and has showed glimpses of that potential, but can’t be prone to the same kinds of lapses on that end. It appears the backlash he’s felt since the 2021 Finals run, when he was terrific, has worn on Ayton — including a spat with former coach Monty Williams at the end of the 2022 Playoffs — but he’s now trying to use it as motivation this summer.

In a recent interview with Eyewitness News Bahamas, Ayton opened up about feeling like he has “no fans” and how he’s trying to find motivation in changing the narrative about himself.

“I can feel the whole world hating me, in a way,” Ayton says. “Where I think I’m the guy a lot of people point that. And I see that, feel that. Mainly what I’ve been working on five, six days a week since we lost, is motivating myself to change the narrative of what people think about me. Because, no matter how you put it, I feel like I have no fans out here. And I can feel it because the whole world is saying it. And my goal this whole summer is to change the narrative. Unlock whatever it is, and just completely focus on me and change the whole thing.”

Ayton has not been particularly beloved in Phoenix — spending this summer very publicly on the trade blocks — in large part due to the fluctuations in effort and the appearance he’s pouted when things don’t go his way. It seems he’s trying to change that and focus on what he needs to do in order to find that inner drive to embrace the role he’s got on the Suns, we’ll just see if that sticks through the whole season.

While understandable why Ayton, who has a ton of offensive skill, would want more touches, he’s also now on a team with three excellent on-ball perimeter options — and won’t have a true point guard to feed him anymore. Those touches likely aren’t going to increase, so the question is can he find the motivation in bringing the defense and rebounding this team needs to be great, while letting scoring the ball be a secondary concern. That’s easier said than done, but it does seem Ayton is trying to take this all to heart and turn some of the hurt from feeling unwanted in Phoenix into a motivator to flip fans back in his favor. Time will tell if he is successful at that, and it will all be dependent on this Suns superteam reaching its full potential.

In the fall of 2021, Swagger debuted on Apple TV+. The show is loosely based on NBA player Kevin Durant’s life as it follows a teenager, Jace Carson, with dreams of making it to the NBA. The show also highlights the pressures found in the youth basketball world (starting as eighth graders), their friends, family, and competitors, as well as the discriminatory world that surrounds these young Black athletes. Kevin Durant is an executive producer beside Brian Grazer and showrunner Reggie Rock Bythewood while Isaiah Hill plays Jace Carson and O’Shea Jackson Jr. plays his passionate coach Ike “Icon” Edwards.

Swagger is currently in its second season, which kicked off last month, so let’s see how many more episodes are left in this current season.

How Many Episodes Are In Swagger Season 2?

Season two of Swagger will have eight episodes in total, which is two fewer than the series had for its first season. The new season began on June 23 and its been releasing new episodes on a weekly basis since then. Season two, which will release its fifth episode this week, will conclude with the finale on August 11. Until then, new episodes of Swagger can be seen every Friday when they are released at 3 am EST / 12 am PST.

Here is the official logline for Swagger season two:

In season two, we meet the man-children Jace, Phil, Nick, Musa, Drew and Royale as they are entering their senior year of high school. All but Phil will be attending Cedar Cove Prep; a predominantly white institution where wealthy board members control the entire operation from the hiring of faculty to the enrollment of students. It is a school of power and influence.

For all of their academic success, their basketball program has not been competitive until Emory Lawson, the athletic director, managed to acquire the Swagger players. Almost overnight, Cedar Cove’s basketball program becomes elite, attracting the attention of Alonzo Powers from Gladiator Sneakers. Games are attended by top college scouts from the nation and are live-streamed for thousands of fans.

With winning comes scrutiny and the players find themselves under a microscope as they vie for a national high school championship. Everything is going right in the life of Jace Carson and his family. Jenna is renting a house in a residential neighborhood and her cosmetic sales business is booming. Then, a video surfaces that threatens to destroy it all. It is surveillance footage of Coach Warwick, Crystal’s former coach, being beat down in an alley. The attackers are masked but Coach Warwick believes he has found evidence proving the Swagger players were involved. As this speculation reaches the public eye and social media, the bond of brotherhood the players have built is tested. Their once promising futures are in jeopardy.

New episodes of ‘Swagger’ are available on Apple TV+ on Fridays at 3 am EST / 12 am PST.