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All eyes are on Coachella this weekend. However, that didn’t stop the rock band Bleachers from giving their all during their set at High Water Festival. Pulling out all the stops for their setlist, which included songs “Let’s Get Married,” “Chinatown,” “Everybody Lost Somebody,” and more, they took it up a notch by bringing out singer Lana Del Rey.

Together the musicians performed their 2021 song “Secret Life” off their album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, and Del Rey, backed by the band, gave her live debut performance of her song “Margaret,” which features the group. The group ebbed and flowed graciously with the festivalgoers locked into her note played, and every note sang.

As rumor has it, Lana Del Rey is engaged to Evan Winiker, a managing partner at Range Media Partners and former Steel Train bandmate of Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff.

“While the couple has successfully kept their relationship under wraps, they’ve been spotted in public a few times together over the past several months, including a September outing at the Malibu Chili Cook-Off festival and, most recently, at Pappy and Harriet’s restaurant in Pioneertown, California, earlier this month, where they posed for pictures with fans,” reported the outlet.

Watch the full clip of Lana Del Rey performing ‘Margaret’ below.

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For the second game in a row, an All-Star player was taken out of the game after a hard fall after a player slid in front of them to try taking a charge. Ja Morant left the fourth quarter of Lakers-Grizzlies with a right hand injury after Anthony Davis stepped in front as he took off on a drive, resulting in Morant crashing hard to the floor and hurting his hand bracing the impact.

In Milwaukee in the next game of the afternoon, Giannis Antetokounmpo crashed to the floor as Kevin Love slid in front of a drive trying to take a charge, landing extremely hard on his back as he twisted through the air after contact. Love was given a blocking call for coming in late, but Giannis took the worst of it, going back to the locker room after shooting his free throws.

Giannis would try to give it a go after that, but only played another minute or so before exiting the game for good, with the team announcing he was out for the game with what is officially described as a “lower back contusion.”

Seeing a pair of star players leave Game 1 of the first round on the same type of play might just be the impetus the league needs to make some changes to rules on charges, particularly with players stepping in after the player has begun their upward motion for a layup or dunk. As some have posited, the league could look to deter such actions by using the same policy they use with jump shooters, protecting their landing space by issuing flagrant fouls for stepping under a shooter by doing the same for drivers that have people slide underneath them once in the air.

The Los Angeles Lakers took Game 1 on the road in Memphis on Sunday afternoon in come from behind fashion, as they got a second half takeover from two rather unlikely sources. While Anthony Davis dominated early (and survived a shoulder injury scare), it was Rui Hachimura and Austin Reaves who carried the Lakers to the win in the second half.

Hachimura was terrific all game, but particularly in the second half, when he took full advantage of Jaren Jackson Jr. helping off of him to try and send doubles at Davis and James. In his first postseason experience, Hachimura went 11-of-14 from the field and 5-of-6 from three-point range to drop 29 points off the bench for L.A., leading the Lakers in scoring in the win.

In the fourth quarter, Reaves and Hachimura each assisted each other on huge threes, with the highlight of the night coming on a Reaves behind-the-back feed to Rui for a three that put L.A. back up eight with three minutes to play.

In the final quarter, the duo scored 23 of the Lakers’ 32 points as they ran away from Memphis en route to a 128-112 win, including a 15-0 close to the game after Ja Morant went out with an injury.

Reaves accounted for 14 of those points, pouring in bucket after bucket down the stretch as he became the primary creator for the Lakers, with LeBron seemingly happy to take a backseat. After his pull-up jumper to put the Lakers up eight with 90 seconds to play, a mic’d up Reaves declared “I’M HIM!” to the delight of D’Angelo Russell and the Lakers bench.

Given how reliant the Lakers have so often been on James and Davis to carry the load, particularly down the stretch, it’s hard to overstate the importance of them being able to get a game in this series where those two almost get to rest a fourth quarter (even while playing) and let Reaves and Hachimura get it done. No one expects those two to combine for 52 points most nights, but it will certainly build their confidence they can knock down shots when they find themselves open in the postseason and even stealing one game on the backs of the “others” tilts the scales in the Lakers favor.

Ice Spice might not have been on this year’s Coachella lineup, but that didn’t stop her from making her way down the California desert. The “Munch (Feelin’ U)” rapper was selected as one of the featured guest musical acts of Revolve Festival. Although it has no official affiliation with Coachella, the exclusive invite-only influencer-centered multiday event is held annually on the first weekend of Coachella.

Going down in Thermal, California, a community inside the Coachella Valley, Ice Spice was spotted preparing for her set.

Taking the stage at the Revolve Festival, the spice cabinet (a nickname of Ice Spice’s fan base) quickly embraced the Bronx, New York native. Fresh off the release of her song and visual for “Princess Diana (Remix)” featuring Nicki Minaj, the rapper was sure to include it in her set.

While Minaj did not come out for Ice Spice’s performance, that didn’t stop the rapper from showing love to her collaborator on Instagram. In a video uploaded to Ice Spice’s page, captioned, “Like grah,” the musician is seen having a lighthearted twerk-off with Minaj inside the studio.

With Ice Spice scheduled to perform at this year’s Summer Jam festival in New York, maybe Nicki Minaj will pop out for a guest appearance.

Republicans love to claim Joe Biden is “senile” or cognitively impaired. But — and hear us out on this one — what if it’s all projection? What if one of the biggest people calling out the current president’s alleged mental decline is himself suffering from something similar? We’re of course talking about Donald Trump.

At Friday’s annual National Rifle Association convention — held amidst a massive uptick in mass shootings, including at schools — Trump delivered one of his rambling, self-absorbed whine-fests. He blamed the gun epidemic on transgender people, of course. He made fun of Mike Pence, who got booed earlier. He again talked about the “n-word” (no, not that one).

He also at one point made a bizarre detour into something about “hundreds” of people stealing refrigerators from “apartment stores.”

“When you see these gangs of hundreds of young, usually young people go and attack an apartment store, a department store in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago,” a former U.S. president told the crowd. “And they run in by the hundreds and they’re running out carrying refrigerators, and carrying air conditioners, big stuff, big, little everything. Fur coats, non-fur coats, everything they’re carrying. They empty out the stores.”

As is often the case with Trump’s addresses, it’s not clear what he’s talking about. He has a habit of parroting half-remembered information someone may have told him a few days prior. Did someone tell him people are running around with giant refrigerators on their backs? Who knows!

Whatever the case, a lot of people called bull.

Then again, maybe all the people mocking Trump’s weird broken brain are simply forgetting about that “difficult” cognitive test he took a few years ago, which he couldn’t stop bragging about passing.

(Via HuffPost)

Ja Morant has been a dominant postseason player when healthy over the last two years, but a year ago his playoffs got cut short due to an injury in Game 3 of the second round against the Warriors. This year, he got off to a solid, even if not spectacular, beginning to his 2023 postseason campaign, scoring 18 points in 30 minutes of action, but in the mid-fourth quarter, he once again had to exit a playoff game with a scary looking injury.

Morant skied to the rim over Anthony Davis who had slid in front to try and take a charge (which he successfully drew, per the officials), but as he came crashing to the floor, he landed awkwardly on his right hand and wrist and was in serious pain, having to leave the court immediately.

You could see on the final replay how his right hand actually gets turned over as he braces himself, leading to the injury that caused him to exit the game.

He would eventually return to the bench with his hand and wrist wrapped, but would not re-enter the game creating plenty of concern moving forward for the Grizzlies in the series. While Memphis hung around briefly, the Lakers would go on a 15-0 run to end the game, closing out what became a 128-112 road win for L.A. It was not a particularly good showing from Memphis, but they were in the game until Morant left with just under six minutes to play and things started to fall apart after that. Without him, they face a seriously uphill battle and we’ll await word on just how severe the injury is and whether he’ll miss time going forward in the series.

UPDATE: The good news on the initial update is there was nothing broken in Morant’s hand or wrist after X-rays were taken, but Taylor Jenkins did say he’s still dealing with considerable pain.

The closing day of Coachella’s first weekend is getting ready to begin. With Frank Ocean making his epic return as the evening’s headliner, tens of thousands of avid music lovers have made the Empire Polo Ground their temporary home. Many opening acts and first-time performers are taking advantage of all the eyes on them both in-person and via the festival’s YouTube stream. Indie pop band Muna debuted a new song during their set, and so did the Swamp Princess herself, Doechii.

Always listening intently to what fans want, the rapper gave fans a taste of what new music she has slated to come down the pipeline. In video footage captured by our very own Cherise Johnson, Doechii teases pieces of a new song. The high-energy track blends together punk and rap elements, making it the perfect rager ready to dominate the mosh pit track.

“That’s it! Just a little taste,” as she cues her DJ to end the track. “And that song is called ‘Pacer,’” declares the musician.

Doechii also carved out a moment during her Coachella set to pay homage to Beyoncé rapping her song, “Heated,” which was featured on her record-breaking album Renaissance.

View Doechii’s entire Coachella set list on Friday (April 14), according to Setlist.fm below.

1. “Ignant”
2. “Swamp Bitches”
3. “B*tch I’m Nice”
4. “Crazy”
5. “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake”
6. “Pms”
7. “Stressed”
8. “What It Is”
9. “Persuasive”

During their set at Coachella on Saturday, April 15, Blackpink made history as the first Girl Group (if you don’t include Destiny Child’s surprise performance in 2018) and K-pop act to ever headline the epic music festival. Although this wasn’t the first time the group took the stage at the multiday event, when discussing their headlining set, group member Rosé said, “This is a dream come true.” She then thanked the group’s devoted fans.

With one appearance at Coachella scheduled for next week, fans won’t have to wait too long until they can catch the quartet performing live in the US. Taking to Twitter, the group announced that their record-grossing Born Pink World Tour would be returning for a limited run. Now named the Born Pink Encore World Tour, it will kick off this August at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. View the full tour schedule below.

The Born Pink Encore World Tour Blink member pre-sale begins on Sunday, April 23 at 10 pm eastern time. General pre-sale begins Tuesday, April 25 at 10 pm eastern time. Amex® Early Access begins on Wednesday, April 26th at 12pm local time through Thursday, April 27th at 10 pm local time. For more information, click here.

08/12 — East Rutherford, NJ @ Metlife Stadium
08/18 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
08/22 — San Francisco, CA @ Oracle
08/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium

As Game 1 of their first round matchup began in Memphis on Sunday afternoon, the Lakers leaned heavily on Anthony Davis in the early going. Davis had 10 points, six rebounds, five blocks, and two assists in his first 18 minutes of action, dominating the paint on both ends in the first half.

Unfortunately, late in the second quarter Davis suffered a right shoulder injury in a battle for a rebound with Jaren Jackson Jr.. After Jackson knocked the ball away from Davis and out of bounds, the All-Star center came up holding his arm and appeared to tell the Lakers bench “I can’t move my arm.”

Davis would get worked on briefly on the bench before being taken back to the locker room for further work and evaluation from the Lakers trainers, with reporters in the arena noting he didn’t move his arm at all while he was on the court and walking back into the tunnel.

Given Davis’ injury history and importance to the Lakers having any chance at a deep playoff run, there is considerable concern for the Lakers and their fans seeing him go down this early in the series. He has had right shoulder issues in the past, and the hope will be this was just a stinger and is something he can return from fairly quickly and without causing him any extended discomfort as this series moves forward.

UPDATE: The initial diagnosis is a stinger, per Adrian Wojnarowski, but they’re going to continue testing him during halftime.

Davis was available to return to the game, per the team, and was on the court for warmups with the team after the half, which is very good news for L.A..

It’ll be worth monitoring if the same level of aggression is there for Davis after such a dominant first half, but given he was the lone Lakers starter with a positive +/- in the first half, having him back certainly raises their chances to come back from six down at the half.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was in New York City the other week and she did not have a good time. She came to the Big Apple to protest Donald Trump’s arraignment, expecting to whip up a large crowd. She even tried to beef with Mayor Eric Adams. Instead she was effectively chased away from the site. Later she told Tucker Carlson that she found the city “disgusting.” Nearly two weeks later she’s still trashing the nation’s greatest city.

On Sunday, the MAGA lawmaker retweeted an op-ed published by The New York Post which claimed that weed, which was legalized in the city in 2021, is “turning New York workers into zombies.” Greene coudn’t agree more.

“I saw them when I went there to protest against the weaponization of government against President Trump by a George Soros funded DA,” Greene tweeted.

Marijuana “zombies” (there’s a band name for whoever wants it) was another surreal exaggeration from Greene, who had previously claimed that she saw “people basically dying on drugs” who “can’t even stand up.” There was also the now de rigueur GOP claim about rampant crime when it’s actually down, both from last year and historically.

(Also Alvin Bragg did not get money directly from George Soros, as many Republicans have dog-whistled.)

The NY Post op-ed complained not about the marijuana stench that’s taken over the city (which, to be fair, is only a slight exaggeration) but about the service workers. Specifically the writer claimed are now high on the job and getting his orders wrong. He had to ask a Starbucks barista three times for a “tall” coffee!

“They’re stoned up the wazoo, hollow-eyed, disengaged from their tasks, their breath reeking of weed,” he complained about the city’s working class, who he accused of hanging outside of smoke shops, getting high and starting knife fights.

It’s yet another example of conservatives fear-mongering about a city that’s about as safe as it’s ever been, especially compared to the days when their favorite president ruled the town (in between bankruptices). Hey, whatever keeps Greene from coming back.

(Via Raw Story)