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In the heat of summer, Troye Sivan has dropped a dancefloor-ready banger, “Rush.” The track is the lead single from his just-announced new album, Something To Give Each Other. The LP is set for release on October 13, but Sivan shared the cover art today, in which he gives a wide smile while a naked person sits on his shoulders.

A press release describes the project as “a celebration of sex, dance, sweat, community, queerness, love, and friendship.” It also notes, “Emerging from the tribulations of the last few years, Sivan found himself rewiring with the joy of human connection and dance music.”

Sivan says of the new song, “‘Rush’ is the feeling of kissing a sweaty stranger on a dancefloor, a 2-hour date that turned into a weekend, a crush, a winter, a summer. Party after party after party after after party. All of my experiences from a chapter where I feel confident, free and liberated. Independent, yet somehow the most connected to the music and community around me.”

Watch the “Rush” video above. There’s no revealed tracklist for Something To Give Each Other yet (pre-order pages currently indicate it’s “coming soon…”), but find the cover art below.

Something To Give Each Other is out 10/13 via Capitol Records. Find more information here.

The nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards were announced yesterday (July 12), and the music world was well-represented. Kid Cudi’s Netflix series Entergalactic is nominated for Best Animated Program, while Rihanna’s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show picked up five nods. Since then, both artists have shared their reactions to the news.

Rihanna shared a gallery of photos from the performance on Instagram and wrote, “pull up breed up 2 d bashment… 5 EMMY NOMZ is craaaaazzzyyy!!! Im so grateful for every single person involved in creating these memories!” The official account of the NFL commented, “deserve em all [trophy emojis].”

Meanwhile, Cudi justifiably spent pretty much the whole day being excited about the news. His initial reaction was the tweet, “ENTERGALATIC IS EMMY NOMINATED!!!! YES YES YESSSSSSSSS!!! OMG WTF THIS IS INSANE!!!!! [crying emojis] THANK U GOD [folded hand emojis].” He followed that with, “Love to all the homies that hit me and showed love about the emmy nom. Trav [Travis Scott] hit me first before anyone sayin congrats. It feels good to know I got real homies, real family out here that support me always.”

He later tweeted, “THIS IS HUGE!!! CONGRATS TO THE WHOLE TEAM WHO BUSTED THEIR ASSES FOR 3 YEARS AND BROUGHT THIS BAD BOY TO LIFE!! @netflix #entergalactic Now, the big question: What to wear??” He then thanked folks involved with the show: “Kenya Barris, Elizabeth Porter, Mike Moon, Mike Penketh, Fletch Moules, Maurice Williams, Ian Edelman, Karina Manashil, Dennis Cummings. This is the Entergalactic team behind the scenes that made my dream come to life and I am so thankful for each and everyone of these amazing people.”

He concluded, “Thank u for all the love for the emmy nom yall. Really means so much to me [folded hands emoji] #Emmys2023 #entergalactic.”

The Beths are proving that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a cliche for a reason. The New Zealand-bred band released Expert In A Dying Field last September to widespread acclaim, including from Uproxx who called it “one of the best indie-rock records of 2022,” so it makes sense that they aren’t in a rush to move on from it.

On Wednesday, July 12, The Beths announced they will release Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) on September 15 and offered an acoustic version of “I Told You That I Was Afraid,” which The Beths teased on Instagram as arriving “in all its wobbly glory.”

“On Sep 15 we are releasing a Deluxe Version of Expert In A Dying Field,” The Beths also wrote within the same Instagram caption. “It’s a double LP! It includes ‘A Real Thing’ and ‘Watching The Credits,’ as well as demos and a solo acoustic recordings.”

Listen to “I Told You That I Was Afraid (Acoustic)” above, and check out the Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) tracklist as well as The Beths’ upcoming tour dates below.

1. “Expert In A Dying Field”
2. “Knees Deep”
3. “Silence Is Golden”
4. “Your Side”
5. “I Want To Listen”
6. “Head In The Clouds”
7. “Best Left”
8. “Change In The Weather”
9. “When You Know You Know”
10. “A Passing Rain”
11. “I Told You That I Was Afraid”
12. “2am”
13. “I Told You That I Was Afraid (Acoustic)”
14. “When You Know You Know (Acoustic)”
15. “A Real Thing”
16. “Watching The Credits”
17. “Keep The Distance (Demo)”
18. “Expert In A Dying Field (Demo)”
19. “I Want To Listen (Demo)”
20. “2am (Demo)”

07/14 — Utrecht, NL @ Ekko
07/15 — Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
07/16 — Nijmegen, NL @ Valkhof Festival
07/18 — Liverpool, UK @ Hangar 34
07/19 — Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK @ Boiler Shop
07/21 — Southwold, UK @ Latitude Festival
07/22 — Steventon, UK @ Truck Festival
07/23 — Sheffield, UK @ Tramlines Festival
07/28 — Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival
07/29 — Omaha, NE @ Maha Festival
08/01 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia *
08/02 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia *
08/03 — New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl *
08/04 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre
08/05 — Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
08/07 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
08/08 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *
08/09 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *
08/11 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom *
08/12 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom *
08/15 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater *
08/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park *
08/17 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
08/18 — Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
08/19 — Quincy, MA @ In Between Days Festival
08/21 — Cincinnati, OH @ Woodward Theater
08/22 — Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
08/24 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed #
08/25 — Abiquiu, NM @ Ghost Ranch Festival ^
08/27 — Seattle, WA @ THING
09/30 — Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater ^
10/01 — Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre ^
10/03 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre ^
10/04 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas ^
10/06 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena ^
10/07 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena ^
10/09 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre ^
10/10 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre ^
10/11 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre ^
10/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
10/13 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl ^
10/14 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
10/15 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
10/17 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/18 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/19 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

* w/ The National
^ w/ Death Cab For Cutie & The Postal Service
# w/ Beach Bunny

Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) is out 9/15 via Carpark Records. Find more information here.

We’re just weeks removed from Jon Batiste announcing World Music Radio, his forthcoming album with a world-beating tracklist featuring the likes of Fireboy DML, Kenny G, Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, Jon Bellion, JID, and NewJeans. Batiste punctuated the news by releasing “Calling Your Name.” On Wednesday, July 12, the five-time Grammy winner waded further into his World Music Radio world, with “Drink Water” featuring Bellion and Fireboy DML.

“Traveling with my wife, leaning into the culturally diverse group of friends and family that make up my inner circle birthed the foundations for what is now World Music Radio – much of which was recorded in transit, hotel rooms, basements and on smartphones either abroad or near big bodies of water,” Batiste said in a statement.

The track delivers concise, valuable life advice atop an infectiously buoyant soundscape: “So take a deep breath, drink water / You know that these streets just now calm down / So take a deep breath, drink water / You know that these streets just now / Calm down or calm down or calm down / Whenever you feel like you might drown or calm down or calm down / You know that these streets just loud.”

Upon announcing World Music Radio in June, Batiste posted a lengthy Instagram caption explaining its origins and intended purpose:

“World Music Radio is a concept album that takes place in the interstellar regions of the universe. The listener is led through the album by an interstellar traveling griot named Billy Bob Bo Bob, who takes you sonically all around the world at the speed of light.

I created this album with a feeling of liberation in my life and a renewed sense of exploration of my personhood, my craft and of the world around me unlike anything I ever felt before.

This new album will fill your soul, open your heart and stretch your mind while expanding your vision of popular art. We really wanted to re-examine and redefine terms like world music as they exist in the culture…(more on the later)

A range of collaborations in locations all across the globe made this vision a reality.

There was a lot of joy in making this and it definitely translates to the listening experience, and now to you.

Exec produced this with my friends Jon Bellion and Ryan Lynn. More surprises to come so stay tuned. Welcome to World Music Radio.”

Listen to “Drink Water” above.

World Music Radio is out 8/18 via Verve/Interscope. Find more information here.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been trying to be a chaos agent for the Democratic Party, attempting to peel away potential Biden voters with conspiracy theory nonsense that makes him sound more Republican. But on Tuesday, the chaos came to him by way of some “loud, prolonged” farting.

As per Page Six, a press dinner held on New York’s Upper East Side that was meant to boost RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign went sideways when two attendees got into a nasty screaming match over climate change (curiously one of the subjects about which Kennedy doesn’t hold a wacko opinion). After someone asked Kennedy a question about the issue, the night’s host, gossip-columnist-turned-flak Doug Dechert, who was “apparently drunk,” screamed at the top of his lungs, “The climate hoax!”

Dechert’s outburst enraged octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who Page Six claims “appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner.” Evidently awoken by the shouting, Haden-Guest “suddenly opened his eyes” and called Dechert, apparently a longtime pal, a “miserable slob.” He also told him to shut up.

Dechert did not, continuing to rail loudly against the climate change “scam.” All the while, Haden-Guest called him things like “f*cking insane” and “insignificant.”

Eventually Dechert happened upon a new tack: He let a big one rip, all while yelling “I’m farting!”

All the while Kennedy watched on with a “steady composure.”

Another attendee, which included tried to steer the conversation elsewhere, bringing up his assassinated father. But the subject then improbably returned to climate change, prompting still more yelling.

Reached for comment the next day, Dechert told Page Six, “I apologize for using my flatulence as a medium of public commentary in your presence.” He also asked them to refer to him as a “gallivanting boulevardier” or a “beer-fueled sex rocket.”

Perhaps this could be a scene in a future season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose creator and star, Larry David, is none-too-happy that his onscreen ex-wife’s real-life husband is running for president.

(Via Page Six)

When the Los Angeles Lakers season ended after being swept in the Western Conference Finals by the eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets, LeBron James teased out that he might be considering retirement after his 20th season in the league.

James said he had a lot to think about regarding his future, later confirming he was in fact talking about calling it a career. However, despite what should’ve been world-shattering news that James was considering retirement, very few people actually believed him. For one, he’s stated numerous times he wants to play with his son Bronny, who is potentially a 2024 Draft candidate after he spends a year at USC. Beyond that, James has carefully curated just about every big moment of his career, and retiring without any sort of grand goodbye — particularly given how much his partners like Nike would want to milk that — would be truly shocking.

Still, he got a couple days of the news cycle after the Lakers loss dedicated to his future, but it died down pretty quickly. On Wednesday night, if there was anyone with lingering doubt about his status for next year in L.A., he confirmed on the ESPY’s stage that he will not be retiring, noting that day won’t come until “the day I can’t give the game everything on the floor,” and “that day is not today.”

The retirement quote always felt like a 38-year-old dealing with a foot injury coming off a grueling season that was understandably contemplating in the moment whether it was worth it, but that it was a fleeting thought. James is keenly aware of his legacy and while he has the scoring record in hand, it feels like he’ll stick around until he can check that last box of playing with Bronny — and, he hopes, continuing to compete for titles in the process.

Grandaddy is maximizing the 20th anniversary of their 2003 album Sumday. This May, the indie-rockers announced Sumday Twunny, a four-LP box set including the remastered original album and a four-track demo version, Sumday: The Cassette Demos, and Sumday: Excess Baggage. That collection is slated for a September 1 release, but more information about Sumday: Excess Baggage arrived on Wednesday, July 12.

Per press release, August 25 brings a “special digital release of the Sumday: Excess Baggage, a thirteen-track collection of rarities and B-sides from the Sumday-era that unfolds like a lost Grandaddy album.” The lead single, “The Town Where I’m Livin Now,” and its accompanying video accompanied the news.

“I like making songs like this. Lots of bleak but sweet visuals. Everyday stuff available for everyone to see…but some of us just end up with the twisted work of documenting it,” Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle said in a statement.

Watch the documentary-style “The Town Where I’m Livin Now” video above, and check out the Sumday: Excess Baggage artwork and tracklist below.

1. “My Little Skateboarding Problem”
2. “Derek Spears”
3. “Gettin’ Jipped”
4. “The Town Where I’m Livin Now”
5. “Dearest Descrambler”
6. “Build A Box”
7. “Trouble With A Capital T (Muzak Version)”
8. “Sure It Worked”
9. “Running Cable at Shiva’s”
10. “Emit Anymore”
11. “I No How You Feel”
12. “The Rugged and Splintered Entertainment Center (A Gospel Hymn)”

Sumday: Excess Baggage Rarities Collection is out 8/25 via Dangerbird Records. Find more information here.

In late May, Uproxx‘s David Brendan Hall identified Genesis Owusu as “the strongest standout” among diverse acts at the 2023 Boston Calling Music Festival. The musician’s latest single from his forthcoming Struggler album, “Tied Up!,” amplifies his striking artistry.

“The Roach continues to run through an absurd world, trivially trying to make sense of it,” Owusu said in a statement. “Maybe looking internally, focusing inward instead of outward, will provide some guidance? Who knows.”

The accompanying video begins with Owusu in the corner of a boxing ring, but he quickly finds his way to the center. He grabs the microphone and sings, “I’m feeling tied up / Tied up / Tryna be a better man / Caught! / And I’m feeling fired up / Fired up / Hot than a ceiling fan.” Later in the song, Owusu nods toward the video’s imagery, “I’m fighting through life, I have no boxing gloves.”

The three-minute visual was made in collaboration with Lisa Reihana.

“Tied Up!” comes roughly two months after Owusu announced Struggler and released its lead single, “Leaving The Light.” A press release bills “Tied Up!” as Struggler‘s “magnum opus.”

Watch the “Tied Up!” video above, and check out the Ghanaian-Australian artist’s upcoming headlining tour dates below.

10/12 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
10/13 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
10/14 — Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
10/15 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird Music Hall
10/17 — Toronto, ON @ The Velvet Underground
10/18 — Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD
10/19 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
10/20 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
10/21 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
10/25 — Washington, DC @ Union Stage
10/27 — Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre
10/28 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
10/29 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
10/31 — Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage
11/01 — Dallas, TX @ The Studio at The Factory
11/03 — Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
11/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
11/07 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/09 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/10 — Portland, OR @ Star Theatre
11/11 — Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
11/15 — London, UK @ Heaven
11/16 — Paris, FR @ Café de la Danse
11/17 – Berlin, DE @ Hole44
12/01 — Perth, AUS @ Ice Cream Factory
12/08 — Melbourne, AUS @ Festival Hall
12/09 — Canberra, AUS @ UC Refectory
12/14 — Brisbane, AUS @ Fortitude Music Hall
12/15 — Sydney, AUS @ Hordern Pavilion
12/16 – Adelaide, AUS @ Hindley St Music Hall

Struggler is out 8/18 via Ourness/AWAL. Find more information here.

Earlier this month, there was a strange (but luckily untrue) rumor about two of the stars (one of them the creator) of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Perez Hilton claimed that Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, who married in 2008, were splitting up. It wasn’t true and Olson found a hilarious way to shoot the story dead. Not long came after an even more unexpected — but also true — story about McElhenney.

On Tuesday, the actor and show producer, also of Mythic Quest, took to Twitter to reveal something unusual he recently learned. “I was recently diagnosed with a host of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities,” he wrote. “At 46!”

He went on, saying, “It’s not something I would normally talk about publicly but I figured there are others who struggle with similar things and I wanted to remind you that you’re not alone. You’re not stupid. You’re not ‘bad’. It might feel that way sometimes. But it’s not true.”

According to Learning Disabilities Association of America, adults with LD can either be born with it acquire it “later in life.”

It’s not clear what kinds of disorders and learning disabilities McElhenney had, but he promised to go into the “full diagnosis/prognosis” on an episode of the It’s Always Sunny Podcast that will drop in two weeks. Stay tuned.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

In April, Kid Rock made his anti-trans and generally bigoted stance clear after Bud Light and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, aligned with Dylan Mulvaney. “Grandpa is feeling a little frisky today. Let me say something to all you and be as clear and concise as possible,” the musician said in a video posted on April 3, showing him wearing a MAGA hat and shooting his gun at Bud Light products. “F*ck Bud Light. F*ck Anheuser-Busch. Have a terrific day.”

This week, CNN published a video report on the ongoing controversy. CNN’s Ryan Young visited Nashville, where Garth Brooks and Kid Rock have neighboring bars.

“Despite the online bravado and talk of a boycott, Bud Light was available when CNN stopped in recently. It is not clear if the ban had been lifted or if there ever had been one to begin with,” Young said about Rock’s Big Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse.

“Billboard was unable to reach anyone at Rock’s restaurant by phone or email for comment at press time, but a quick check of its online menu revealed that Budweiser, Bud Light and Bud Light Lime were listed under the domestic beer section,” Billboard additionally reported on Wednesday, July 12.

In June, Garth Brooks explained to Billboard that his yet-to-open Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk would serve “every brand of beer” and emphasized that “inclusiveness is always going to be me.”

Jason Isbell directly responded to Kid Rock’s transphobia, tweeting, “Is this one of those three words you wish you could say to your teenage self things” and “This is finally how we get him. Leave no bigoted beers to drink.”

Mulvaney addressed the Bud Light backlash in a June TikTok. Watch it below.

@dylanmulvaney

Trans people like beer too. 🏳️‍⚧️🍻

♬ original sound – Dylan Mulvaney