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To say that people are excited about the South Park creators resurrecting Casa Bonita would be a profane understatement. The “eatertainment” venue expects millions of visitors annually, and that does sound realistic. Heck, there’s already a planned camp-out event in the works for fans who are ready for the eventual opening date. And when will that be? Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with famed chef Dana “Loco” Rodriguez) previously announced that May is the magic month, and yet, no specific date has been offered. And people are getting a little antsy, it seems.

The Denver Post recently relayed that all necessary permits are in place, and there are less than three weeks left in May, so when will the sopapillas flow? The Denver Gazette reports that, in response to a rumor that appears to have begun on social media, eager fans did gather in hopes that the doors would fly open on Cinco de Mayo. Alas, this did not happen, and a worker in a nearby establishment had an apt comparison:

Casa Bonita faithful chased a red herring Friday, and some even turned out to be first-in-line for a rumored opening, but new owners and “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were Cinco de Mayo no-shows.

“It’s all so secretive. It’s like working next door to the CIA,” Terry King said.

King also revealed that he heard about a cell-phone ban among workers ahead of the opening, and even “that security guards had to turn off their body-worn cameras.” And it’s no wonder because, surely, the new owners don’t want secrets posted on Instagram before those cliff divers are fully ready to roll. One of the establishment’s fans, Stefanni Bonicelli, was present at the Cinco de Mayo false start and is quoted as wistfully wishing, “I just hope the food is better this time around.” Well, Parker and Stone did promise to introduce the novelty of “good” food to the Casa Bonita world, so the wait should be worth it.

Still, tick tock, guys.

(Via Denver Gazette & Denver Post)

Jonas Brothers have a new album, The Album, on the way in a matter of hours now. The fraternal trio isn’t in a particularly unique position of being in a band with family members, but there’s still parts of the experience that are weird. For example: singing songs about sex with your brothers by your side.

A new feature from Bustle notes of a track from the new album, “The low-slung bedroom jam ‘Summer In The Hamptons’ might offer a little bit of insight into how all those next-gen Jonas babies got here, judging by the spelled-out metaphor in the chorus (as in ‘sex with you is like…’) and undulating refrain of ‘champagne ocean, sky wide open, raw emotion.’”

Kevin said of the song, “It’s just natural to speak about your life and where you’re at. Like, that’s my wife and partner in crime of 13 years, you know?” Nick then offered, “We’re always conscious that we’re three brothers singing on stage together. So when we speak about sex specifically, it’s gotta be kind of a nuanced thing, otherwise it can be a little strange.”

Joe added, “Obviously we’re not duetting those songs. Very individual singing in that.”

Read the full feature here.

Elliot Page is feeling good. Looking good, too. The Oscar nominee and The Umbrella Academy star shared a shirtless selfie on his Instagram account, along with a caption about the gratitude he feels for his body.

“Dysphoria used to be especially rife in the summer. No layers, just a T-shirt – or layers and oh so sweaty – constantly looking down, readjusting my oversized T. It feels so f’ing good soaking in the sun now, I never thought I could experience this, the joy I feel in my body,” Page wrote. “I am so grateful for what gender affirming care has allowed me and I look forward to sharing more of my journey soon. #transjoy.”

Page is also preparing for the release of his memoir, Pageboy. “Trans people are facing increasing attacks, from physical violence to the banning of healthcare, and our humanity is regularly ‘debated’ in the media,” he wrote. “The act of writing, reading, and sharing the multitude of our experiences is an important step in standing up to those who wish to silence and harm us. Books have helped me, saved me even, so I hope this can help someone feel less alone, feel seen, no matter who they are or what path they are on.”

Pageboy is available on June 6th.

At last, Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour kicked off in Sweden yesterday (May 10), and the show has her father, Mathew Knowles, in a reflective mood.

Yesterday, he tweeted, “I’m just looking at a video from Beyoncé’s first show in Stockholm. Amazing! Just amazing! I remember when Beyoncé was a little girl and all she wanted to be was an entertainer. She has worked so very hard to be the best entertainer in the world, and I am so immensely proud.”

This comes after a series of tweets shared on May 9, in which Knowles wrote more about his daughter’s childhood and how driven she was:

“Beyoncé kicks off The Renaissance World Tour this week. Believe it or not, I’m often still in awe as I watch her continue to soar to heights that few in history have ever been able to. […] If it’s a passion, you won’t need to tell them to go to practice, pick up the instrument, or show up to class. They’ll want to show up naturally and immerse themselves in it. […] We never once during her childhood had to tell her to show up when it came to music. She was never distracted from her inner drive. She knew what she wanted and she went after it. As parents, we didn’t need for her to be an expert or passionate about everything. She faced challenges in math, for example, but as long as she did her best and focused on her musical passion–we were happy.

For me, the start of Beyoncé’s tour this week isn’t just an addition to an already historic year where she now holds the most Grammy award wins ever. It’s a symbol of human achievement and possibility. It’s a mark of what’s possible when a child is encouraged to chase after their dream. And above all else, it hopefully serves as a beacon of light for young people and dreamers of all shapes and sizes to believe in themselves.

Find Knowles’ tweets above and below.

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