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The Los Angeles Lakers entered Wednesday night with an opportunity to punch their ticket to the Western Conference Finals. All they had to do was knock off the defending champion Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center, something that has been difficult this season but L.A. was able to accomplish in Game 1.

The Warriors managed to keep them at arm’s length for much of the second half, and midway through the fourth quarter, an incident between Anthony Davis and Kevon Looney meant that any efforts at a late-game push to take the lead away would have to come without the services of perhaps the Lakers’ best players. Following a made layup by D’Angelo Russell, Looney swung his left arm around and accidentally connected with Davis’ face.

Davis went to the bench in some serious discomfort, with his head in his hands as he was tended to by the medical staff. After making his way into the back for further evaluation, it was announced that Davis would not be able to return to the game with what the Lakers described as a head injury.

Haynes went on to report that Davis made his way to the back in a wheelchair. It’s unclear how this could end up impacting Davis beyond this game, but we’ll let you know if this will end up holding him out of anything more than just the remainder of Game 5.

Jenny Lewis fans, rejoice: The singer-songwriter is fully locked into album mode. In Early March, she released the Harry Styles-assisted “Puppy And A Truck” video and revealed her Joy’All Tour slated for July. Weeks later, Lewis announced Joy’All, her first album since 2019, and coupled the news with a new single, “Psychos.”

On Wednesday, May 10, Lewis sweetened the pot with “Giddy Up,” an endearing single in which she makes a strong case for someone to “take a chance on a little romance” because “we’re both adults.”

In a mesmerizingly melodic, soft delivery, Lewis sings, “I’ve been waiting around patiently / I’m not paranoid / But I’m not / Not / Give it up, start living my best life / Giddy up / Get on my pony and ride.”

With the Joy’All announcement in late March, Lewis said in a statement, “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic, and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck.”

She continued, “The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck. The guidelines would be prompts like, ‘Write a song with 1-4-5 chord progression,’ ‘write a song with only cliches,’ or ‘write in free form style.’ The first song I submitted to the group was ‘Puppy And A Truck.’”

Listen to “Giddy Up” above.

Joy’All is out 6/9 via Blue Note/Capitol Records. Find more information here.

The ladies of the 2003 film version of Freaky Friday are doing pretty well these days. Lindsay Lohan is enjoying a career resurgence, complete with a deal with Netflix. And Jamie Lee Curtis? She recently nabbed herself an Academy Award. So it’s only natural that the two reunite for a film that turns 20 this year. And should it go through, then it’s all Halloween Ends’ fault.

On Wednesday, The New York Times published an interview with the two stars, where they look back on their take on the beloved 1972 body-swap novel. By the end of the chat, though, they were looking forward.

“As I went around the world with ‘Halloween Ends,’ people wanted to know if there was going to be another ‘Freaky Friday,’” Curtis said. “Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.’”

Lohan chimed in, saying, “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”

The Hollywood Reporter later confirmed that Disney, who produced the 2003 film, is indeed working on a sequel. Whether it would be a theatrical release or get dropped on their eventually-to-be-merged streamer is up in the air.

A Freaky Friday 2 has been in the offing for a while. Last fall, Curtis talked up the idea, saying she’d “already written to Disney, my friends at Disney” about the matter. Not long after Lohan said she was game. And here we are.

(Via NYT and THR)

Ab-Soul has plenty of wisdom to pass forward to aspiring musicians. The Top Dawg Entertainment artist delivered one of Uproxx‘s Best Hip-Hop Songs Of 2022 in “Do Better” featuring Zacari, a track housed on Herbert, his December 2022 album. LeBron James is already on the hook to A&R the next album.

Before setting out on his The Intelligent Movement Tour this summer, Ab-Soul is going to spread intelligence by giving a lecture at Mickey Factz’s Pendulum Ink Academy on May 24.

“Pendulum Ink would like to present @souloho3 as our Legendary Guest for Metaphor May,” Mickey Factz posted on Instagram earlier this week. “He will be lecturing and answering questions for those who attend outside of the school.”

The flyer teases that Ab-Soul will be “lecturing on his writing, flow & emotional process.” Enrollment is available here.

Previous “Legendary Guests” to speak at Pendulum Ink include Method Man, Twista, Che Noir, Lady London, and more.

Ab-Soul probably won’t struggle to come up with source material for the lecture, especially when it comes to his emotions. Around the release of Herbert, he shared with Rolling Stone that he attempted suicide in the not-so-distant past.

“Most of what you’ve heard, I wrote before … it,” he told the publication. “I just wanna make it clear: You see me smiling, but it’s not funny. I think that’s just my way of healing from it.”

The Jonas Brothers exceeded all expectations when they ended their roughly six-year hiatus in 2019. They then released the documentary Chasing Happiness and the album Happiness Begins. The latter boasted “Sucker,” their first career No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The JoBros’ comeback was not limited to 2019. The band, comprised of Joe, Kevin, and Nick, will drop The Album, their first since Happiness Begins, this Friday, May 12.

The anticipation for The Album has been amplified by singles “Wings,” boasting a video starring Haley Lu Richardson, and “Waffle House.” The Jonas Brothers performed “Waffle House” and “Walls,” featuring Jon Bellion, the album’s executive producer, on the April 8 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Molly Shannon. (They also joined Shannon for this sketch.)

Before returning to SNL, the Jonas Brothers sold out a five-night Broadway residency in March.

And days after their SNL stop, they put on a one-night-only concert at Royal Albert Hall in London on April 14. Later in April, they staged a surprise show at The Theater in Los Angeles, which Uproxx described as “designed for the biggest Jonas Brothers fans.”

Those die-hards will have more opportunities to experience the Jonas Brothers’ entire discography on Five Albums. One Night. The Tour. It was announced on May 2 and will start with back-to-back Yankee Stadium concerts on August 12 and 13. (A second date had to be added after the first sold out.)

The general public sale for The Tour is set to begin this Friday, May 12, at 10 a.m. local time. Ticket information can be found here. See all dates here.

The Album is out 5/12 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Yeule (real name Nat Ćmiel) had everyone beat in the announcements department on Wednesday, May 10. Not only did they release “Sulky Baby,” their first song of the year, but it came with a hyper-stimulating video. Ćmiel is also now signed to Ninja Tune, also home to the likes of Odesza, Sampa The Great, and Thundercat, according to the label’s website. Oh, and Ćmiel added four headlining shows to their 2023 slate.

But first, “Sulky Baby.”

“‘Sulky Baby’ was like a 2000s alt-rock shoegaze hybrid tinted in sad satire,” Ćmiel said in a statement. “I felt like I was talking to a younger version of me, stopping her from crying, looking back at the ways I betrayed and neglected that innocence from myself. I failed to protect her, and I felt like I needed to go back in time and fulfill what she was starved of, so that she could return to my side. So that I can smile like a little kid again.”

They continued: “The song gives quite vivid descriptions of a depression I felt with almost a burning passion, yet I tried to give it a light-hearted tone. I think romanticizing is not always that bad. It helps to do it sometimes when you’re dealing with a repressed memory. I think it is called an advantaged delusion? Sometimes, that’s the only way I can remember parts of me I don’t want to remember, so that I can lay her to rest and heal. My mother used to tell me as a child, not to sulk all the time. I guess that’s why sulking is so special to me.”

Ćmiel directed the accompanying video, which a presumably younger version of Ćmiel putting a gun to their present self before they go on a sometimes sweet, sometimes twisted adventure together.

Watch the “Sulky Baby” video above and see Ćmiel’s newly announced headlining dates below. All ticketing information can be found here.

10/10 — Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/15 — New York, New York @ Webster Hall
10/29 — Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
12/11 — London, UK @ HERE At Outernet

On Wednesday, CNN did the television version of the dead dove joke from Arrested Development: They gave Donald Trump a platform to spread nonsense, and the day after a jury found him guilty of sexual abuse, no less. Lo and behold, spread nonsense is what he did. The lies came early and often. Within the first minute the former president had told his first whopper. Moderator Kaitlan Collins tried — and always failed — to contain him, because he cannot be contained. It’s hard to highlight the nadir, but perhaps the low point for him, from a legal stand point, was when he once again did the one of the things a jury found him guilty of doing — yesterday.

About 20 minutes into the 70-minute town hall, the biggest of many elephants in the room was finally addressed: The fact that the day before a jury found him guilty of defamation and battery. Tuesday saw the conclusion of the trial involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in the mid-‘90s. What was Trump’s response? He smeared her and mocked her while the audience, mostly comprised of Republicans who frequently hooted and applauded, laughed.

Trump began by bragging about how his polls went up with GOP voters after he was found guilty. He then repeated claims that he doesn’t “know her” and “never met her” even that he has “no idea who she is.” He then admitted that he posed for a photo with her once. Then he accused her of racism. He also mocked her for naming her cat “Vagina.” Trump thought that should have been allowed in as evidence at the trial.

He proceeded to repeat Carroll’s version of events, with comic asides, all while the crowd laughed at a woman who alleges sexual assault. He concluded by swearing on his children — “which I never do” — that Carroll’s story was made up.

After that, he stood by his comments on the infamous Access Hollywood tape, claiming woman “let you” assault them if you’re famous.

This all aired on CNN, which under the management of Chris Licht has tried to move a bit more rightward. And so they gave a platform to a man with a profound problem with the truth to talk over a moderator who attempted to fact check his tidal wave of lies, with an audience who thought he was a comic genius, even when he was making fun of a woman a jury decided he’d assaulted. They wanted red meat and Trump gave it to them, eventually turning on Collins herself, who he called a “nasty person” after one too many fact checks.

So concluded arguably the worst hour-and-change of TV since at least Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. On the bright side, Carroll’s lawyers are probably cracking open the champagne.

The Jonas Brothers have made the most of the first half of 2023. The multiplatinum band released the singles “Wings” and “Waffle House,” performed on Saturday Night Live, and pulled off a Broadway residency.

Next on the docket is The Album‘s arrival this Friday, May 12. The JoBros are also selling appropriately packaged merchandised billed as “The Shirt,” “The Hoodie,” and “The Hat.” The Album will also be available for purchase on vinyl. It’s listed for $30 and available for pre-order here.

On May 2, the Jonas Brothers announced their supporting tour, which is named The Tour because that is the only thing it could have or should have been named. The North American run will kick off in impressive fashion with back-to-back shows at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York on August 12-13.

The general public sale begins Friday, May 12, at 10 a.m. local time. All ticketing information can be found here.

The Album comes almost exactly four years after 2019’s Happiness Begins, their first album since breaking up in 2013 that became the ultimate comeback statement for Joe, Kevin, and Nick. Their reestablishment was led by “Sucker,” their first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Album is out 5/12 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

IDK dropped F65, his first album since last spring’s Simple, and Uproxx dubbed it among the best music released during the week ending May 5, calling it “super stacked, with 20 tracks flitting from high-speed battle rap to soulfully meandering introspection.”

One of those tracks is “Pinot Noir” featuring Saucy Santana and Jucee Froot. The accompanying video arrived Tuesday, May 9, and it arrived with a pointed message from IDK.

“I don’t have to be a gay rapper to put an openly gay rapper on my song,” he tweeted. “I heard the beat, and I heard a very talented artist by the name of Saucy Santana on that beat. I love him forever for taking that risk with me. Now we have a banger for the summer [sun emoji].”

Santana reposted IDK’s tweet alongside a video message of his own.

“So I’m making this video to give a special shoutout to IDK. Me, IDK, and Jucee Froot have a song that just came out on his new album called ‘Pinot Noir.’ I just wanna show gratitude and recognize him for including me in his space — him being a straight, male rapper; me being an openly gay rapper,” Santana said to the camera.

“A lot of people be scared of the backlash or what people might think, but I just respect him for noticing me as talent,” he continued. “Talent is undeniable. He wasn’t worried about what I rap about, who I am, how he thought I would act, [or] what anyone would think. He just saw talent. He saw me for what I could bring to his record, and I just want to show him gratitude, appreciation, and I thank you for it.”

Watch the “Pinot Noir” video above.

IDK is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Will Poulter has been an always welcome presence in movies and TV since he was a kid. Well before fare like We’re the Millers, Midsommar, Bandersnatch, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, he gave one of the better kid performances in 2007’s Son of Rambow. He’s also an occasional fixture of internet discussion, with people discussing his looks. He knows all about that. And he knows that some have compared him to Sid, the aggro baddie from the first Toy Story. In fact, someone recently pointed out the faint resemblance to him, in person, in a bathroom.

“A guy at a urinal in LA last week turned to me and said, ‘You’re in Toy Story, right?’” Poulter told GQ (in a bit caught by Entertainment Weekly). “And I was like, “Well, that was animated.’” He pointed out that Toy Story came out in 1995. “I was two. And they weren’t doing it through live action.”

Poulter knows that one of the him-related memes involves him dressed up as the villainous kid. In fact, the meme comes from a picture he took of himself, back when he dressed up as the character for anti-bullying week back in 2017. Alas, that one wound up backfiring a bit, adding fuel to an already raging fire.

Even though Poulter jokes about it, he has mixed feelings about public discussion of his looks.

“It was weird when people started to debate my physical appearance online as to whether it was deemed attractive or unattractive I am very comfortable and secure in the knowledge that I’m not conventionally attractive as I’ve always had remarks about looking unusual—whether it’s my eyebrows or whatever else, people have made a thing of that. I think it just speaks to a wider issue, of: Why are we discussing or spending so much time discussing people’s physical appearance? Especially in the case of women. But whether you’re male or female, why is that the focus so much? Unfortunately, social media has created this problematic idea that everyone’s opinion on everything matters equally.”

(Via GQ and EW)