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Last year, indie rock icons Le Tigre shocked fans with their first group performance in over a decade at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival. While singer Kathleen Hanna has lent her vocals to Marvel’s show WandaVision, fans of the band are still craving more. Now, the Le Tigre is obliging their supporters with an international tour kicking off this spring.

For the first time in nearly two decades, all members (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson) will embark on a 24-city tour. The tour will feature stops at music festivals Primavera Sound Barcelona, Primavera Sound Madrid, Nos Primavera Sound Porto, and Mosswood Meltdown Festival, as well as solo shows in several major cities.

The tour will begin in Philadelphia on Memorial Day weekend and end in Brooklyn in late July. View the full tour schedule below.

05/27 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
06/01 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023
06/03 — London, UK @ Troxy
06/05 — Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
06/06 — Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom
06/08 — Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Sound Madrid 2023
06/09 — Porto, Portugal @ Nos Primavera Sound Porto 2023
06/11 — Paris, France @ Le Trianon
06/14 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
06/16 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt
06/17 — Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle
07/01 — Oakland, CA @ Mosswood Meltdown Festival
07/03 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
07/06 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
07/07 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
07/09 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
07/15 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
07/17 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
07/18 — Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
07/19 — Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
07/21 — Toronto, ON @ History
07/22 — Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia
07/24 — Boston, MA @ Royale
07/28 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

Tickets go on sale Friday, January 27th. To grab your tickets for one of the tour stops listed above, click here.

Today (January 24), the nominees for the 95th Annual Academy Awards were unveiled live, and there were a ton of surprises. For the category of Best Original Song, there were five total nominations.

Most notably, Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned Rihanna her first ever nod for an Oscar. The music was done by her, Tems, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson.

“It’s her experience with loss in there, and her being a mother. She’s a new person now,” Coogler revealed to Collider about Rihanna’s impact on the song. “I hear it in her voice. It’s her, but it’s a new her.”

Lady Gaga also was a big-name nominee, as her “Hold My Hand” collaboration with Bloodpop from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack earned the Academy’s attention.

Rounding out the category, Diane Warren’s “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman; M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose’s “Naatu Naatu” from RRR; and Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski’s “This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All At Once were nominated, too.

Just a few weeks ago, “Naatu Naatu” won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, making it the possible frontrunner for the Oscars race as well. Fans in the Academy’s replies also seem intensely happy that the song got a nod.

The Oscars ceremony will be held on March 12 at 8 p.m. ET, where the winners — including for this category — are revealed live.

Continue scrolling for some fan reactions to the 2023 Best Original Song Oscar nominees.

Today (January 24), Panic! At The Disco vocalist Brendon Urie has announced that the once-band, now-solo pop-rock act will close the door on this chapter. But before then, he will embark on a European tour.

Urie revealed the news on Panic! At The Disco’s social media pages this morning.

“Growing up in Vegas I could’ve never imagined where this life would take me,” said Urie. “So many places all over the world, and all the friends we’ve made along the way.”

Now, Urie has other exciting milestones underway. In his post, he revealed that he and his wife, Sarah, are expecting a baby, and therefore, his family will now take priority over music.

“The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure,” he said. “That said, I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family, and with that Panic! At The Disco will be no more.”

Urie thanked fans for their boundless support over the course of nearly two decades, as well as those who only recently became fans.

“I love you. I appreciate you. Thank you for existing,” he said.

Find the full post below.

“Well, it’s been a hell of a journey…

Growing up in Vegas I could’ve never imagined where this life would take me. So many places all over the world, and all the friends we’ve made along the way.

But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin. We’ve been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard.. Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon! The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure.

That said, I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family, and with that Panic! At The Disco will be no more.

Thank you all for your immense support over the years. I’ve sat here trying to come up with the perfect way to say this and I truly can’t put into words how much it has meant to us. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning or are just finding us, it has been a pleasure to not only share the stage with so many talented people but also share our time with you. I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Europe and the UK for one last run together.

I love you. I appreciate you. Thank you for existing.

Brendon.”

Panic! At The Disco is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Jordan Peele‘s first movie, Get Out, was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, which he won. Since then, however, Peele has been shut out of the Oscar race entirely: Us failed to receive a single nomination, despite an outstanding lead performance from Lupita Nyong’o, and history repeated itself this morning with Nope. Did one of the most acclaimed movies of 2022 get a well-deserved sound or cinematography nomination? Nope.

And people are not happy:

The Academy really has it out for horror, huh? Anyway: Justice for Chris Kattan.

“Look, all of my movies, I’m trying to give you something for whatever mood you’re in,” Peele told Uproxx when Nope came out. “So I think that there is a way to watch this movie in a way that you’re going to come armed for that conversation afterward. There’s also a way to watch this movie where you say, ‘Look, I’ve been working all day, all week. I want to shut off and see some wild stuff.’ Then I want that to be there for you as well, and if you want it all, I want to give the audience that, too.”

For the complete list of 2023 Oscar nominations, head here.

Now that the 95th Academy Awards nominations have been revealed, it’s time to catch up on everything you’ve missed. OK, maybe not everything (there is no need to watch Bardo… believe me), but at least the 10 films nominated for Best Picture.

You’ve probably seen at least two of them, considering Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office (or in the case of the Avatar sequel, $2 billion), and maybe the indie hit of the year, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once. But for everything else, and/or if you want to re-watch the beach football scene, here’s where you can find all the Best Picture nominees.

All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)

Our review:

If 1917 (and to some extent, War Horse) were stories of survival, gussied up with big technical gimmicks, All Quiet on the Western Front is an even more visually beautiful film that never lets you forget the main point about The Great War: it was A Bad Idea That Ended Badly. Edward Berger drives this point home studiously, meticulously, poetically, and by the end, a little repetitively.

Avatar: The Way of Water (it’s still in theaters)

Our review:

Going into Avatar: The Way of Water, I’d say I was Avatar-neutral. I was looking somewhat forward to this new movie because I love James Cameron movies and they are so far and few between, but on the other hand I don’t have strong feelings about Avatar one way or another and probably would have been even more excited if this were True Lies 2 instead. But, like the first movie, the technical wizardry won me over and the story is deeper and richer.

The Banshees of Inisherin (HBO Max)

Our review:

Like In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin is a dark movie that is often downright hilarious… It’s quite remarkable that a movie that plays as a giant metaphor also works so well as its own story. And that has a lot to do with Farrell and Gleeson settling back into their comedy routine they perfected 14 years ago in In Bruges.

Elvis (HBO Max)

Our review:

Baz Luhrmann is a lot like any other director, only more so. Likewise, Elvis has a lot of the scenes and conflicts we’ve come to expect after 20 years with the musical biopic format, only in this case with the volume cranked to 11 and the saturation pinned at 100; sameness to the point that it starts to become hallucinatory and inspired.

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Showtime)

Our review:

What makes Everything Everywhere work is not that it’s zany, it’s that it actually finds a purpose for its zaniness, or least tries to. The Daniels are provocateurs, brilliant technical filmmakers. More importantly, they strive not to be full of sh*t. God bless them.

The Fabelmans (Amazon Prime Video)

Our review:

While only a man as hopelessly corny as Steven Spielberg would dare to name his own origin story “The Fabelmans,” only as competent a filmmaker as Spielberg could actually make it work. And The Fabelmans is miles better than Spielberg’s last few (West Side Story, Ready Player One, The Post…). It’s at its best when it dares to be what Spielberg movies so rarely are: weird.

Tár (Peacock)

Our review:

Todd Field’s Tár is fantastic. It’s one of those movies that’s so good, it makes you a little angry that it’s been 16 years since Field’s last movie, Little Children. Then it might even make you more angry that this is only Field’s third movie since his debut with 2001’s In the Bedroom. With Tár, he’s three for three.

Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount+)

Our review:

It’s been 36 years since Top Gun. Top Gun: Maverick feels like a movie that is looking back on its younger self, noticing how brash and cocky it is. There’s some regret in those eyes about some of the choices made. But, also, yeah, that movie was also pretty cool. What if we take what we know now, and use that reflection on the past to make something even better? But, also, keep a good helping of all that cool? That’s Top Gun: Maverick. A movie that totally didn’t need to exist, but my goodness I’m glad it does. This is how “blockbuster” movies should be done.

Triangle of Sadness (Amazon Prime Video)

Our review:

At its best, Triangle of Sadness looks something like Below Decks meets Parasite, where the social mores of the yachting class are more deeply delved into than on Bravo, combining highbrow class comedy with universal puke and poop jokes (yes, there is sea sickness). Östlund’s scenes are always memorably shot and staged (which is probably what helped win him his second straight Palme D’or at Cannes — Force Majeure won a jury prize) but it’s also hard not to notice that his skewering stick often doesn’t seem all that sharp, especially compared to the aforementioned Bong Joon-ho.

Women Talking (it’s still in theaters)

Our review:

Sarah Polley has done justice to the book alongside a powerhouse cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, and more. The film has earned a spot in the early Oscar conversation, and it’s very, very easy to see why.

NBA All-World is out as of today, and for everyone who was curious what the NBA and Niantic’s answer to Pokemon Go was going to be they can download it on pretty much any phone with an app store and give it a try. How much you will enjoy the game however will likely depend on how deep you ask a basketball game to be.

I downloaded NBA All-World and gave it a go, because as someone who played and thoroughly enjoyed Pokemon Go for years, I thought there could be some potential in NBA All-World. Maybe if Pokémon GO was able to capture my childhood dream of exploring the world and catching Pokémon, this could fulfill another dream of being one of those dudes who just shows up at random courts, wins a bunch of games, and then disappears to wherever the next run is. Of course, I could attempt to do that in real life too but who has the time for such things?

So how did NBA All-World fare? Well, if you have played Pokémon GO before then you have played a lot of what it offers. Players go around in real life, going to actual locations, and collecting resources from those locations. Along the way, you can take on virtual versions of actual NBA players and add them to your team. The tutorial started me off with Darius Bazley and Jordan Poole, but you can add ne wplayers to your roster by defeating them in 1-on-1 challenges, like taking them on in a shooting contest or beating them in an actual game of 1-on-1.

The gameplay of these challenges is very simple. Swipe one way, press the button on screen to shoot, block, or steal, and do it with the correct timing and you’ll win. The shot timer itself is rather simple and most players will likely have it mastered no time, although it wouldn’t be surprising if better players had more difficult timing to make adding them harder.

The simplicity of NBA All-World and the familiarity with Pokémon GO is going to be what makes or breaks the experience for most players. If you can get past the simplicity and enjoy it for what it is, an NBA clone of Pokémon GO, then you can have a fun time with it. Just don’t expect an in-depth basketball experience. That’s not what it’s trying to be and that’s okay.

In the summer of 2021, Rita Ora, now-husband Taika Waititi, and Tessa Thompson were seen getting cozy together, so much so that rumors the three were a “throuple” quickly proliferated. In the months after that happened, Waititi and Thompson shared their perspectives, and now so too has Ora.

In a new GQ interview, Ora explained:

“I just chose to not acknowledge that because it’s ridiculous. I think when some things are so absurd, and it’s hard to fathom any sense of it, you just have to ignore it. I’ve taken that approach for a lot of things, because you don’t want to put energy towards something that’s nonexistent. It’s like trying to explain something that didn’t happen means you’re feeding into nothing.

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve had a lot of drinks and everyone’s your best friend? And then the next day you’re like, ‘I was talking to this person in the smoking area for four hours and I’ve got no idea who they are?’ Literally — that [photo] was just a bunch of friends having a good time. They [Waititi and Thompson] had a crazy schedule and everyone was letting loose. I love that. Each to their own.

The good news though, is that when I was on Twitter talking to my fans, all of my incredible LGBTQIA+ fan bases were like, actually — whether this is true or not — I’m so inspired that this is being normalized publicly. That made me really happy. You don’t know who it’s touching.”

Meanwhile, back in 2021, Waititi responded when asked if the hubbub bothered him, “Not really. I think in the world of the internet, everything goes away pretty quick. And also, ‘Is it that big a deal?’ No, not really. I was doing nothing wrong. It’s fine.” Months later, Thompson said, “This idea that we were caught in some private salacious moment is frankly just untrue. If you look at those images, nowhere are our lips touching. Those are just my friends. They remain my friends, they were just my friends that day, and they continue to be.”

Find the full interview here.

The 95th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 12th, and we’ve actually got a host. Jimmy Kimmel will return to do those (dubious) honors on ABC, and movies continue to be a strange realm these days. Tom Cruise and James Cameron very well may have saved the box office with Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water, and the latter looks to win some technical awards with big questions remaining for the former film. Maverick looks to be a lock for a Best Picture nomination, but will Tom score a Best Actor nomination? He’s been nominated thrice before and never taken home that gold, and given his dedication to resurrecting trips to the theater, one would think that this could be his year. We’ll find out soon if that’s the case.

Elsewhere, the Banshees of Inisherin could bring us more charming Colin Ferrell to the awards stage, and Cate Blanchett will likely be recognized for her Tár performance. More Austin Butler accolades for his Elvis voice could be on the way, and of course, people will be attempting not to mention The Slap.

Here are your 2023 Oscar nominations:

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Tar
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor

Austin Butler
Colin Farrell
Brendan Fraser
Paul Mescal
Bill Nighy

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Costume Design

Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness

Best Animated Feature

An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

Best Animated Short

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

Best International Feature Film

Argentina, Argentina, 1985
Belgium, Close
Germany, All Quiet on the Western Front
Ireland, The Quiet Girl
Poland, EO

Production Design

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

Best Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Foreve
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director

Best Documentary

Best Live Action Short

Best Film Editing

Live Action Short Film

Documentary Short Subject

Best Original Song

Beyoncé hasn’t been much of a live performer in recent years, but she recently took the stage for the first time in a few years for a private performance in Dubai (for which she was reportedly paid $24 million). Naturally, this has fans in other parts of the world wondering if and when they’ll get to see Beyoncé perform in their neighborhood. Well, it looks like a tour in support of Beyoncé’s 2022 album Renaissance is indeed happening.

According to a report from TMZ, Beyoncé’s father Mathew Knowles said his daughter is currently planning a Renaissance tour and it will be announced when the time is right.

He also addressed the backlash Beyoncé has received for the performance, due to United Arab Emirates’ anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Knowles spoke about his daughter’s power to bring people together and that the show had a diverse crowd. He added she wouldn’t do anything to intentionally hurt anybody, and that there was a mutual respect between her and the country.

Lizzo didn’t make it to the Dubai performance, but the noted Beyhive member did catch a livestream of the performance, which was her 11th time seeing Beyoncé live.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

There is no shortage of dire news about the state of modern recycling. Most recently, this NPR article shared the jaw-dropping statistic that about 5% of all plastics produced get recycled, meaning the rest of it ends up in landfills. While the underlying concerns here are sound, I worry that the public narrative around recycling has gotten so pessimistic that it will make people give up on it entirely instead of seeing the opportunities to improve it. What if instead of focusing on what isn’t working, we looked at these news stories as an invitation to do better?

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This question isn’t rhetorical for me; it’s been the motivation behind how I’ve spent the past five years of my life. It started when my son Owen asked me how we could recycle our dead batteries where we live in Seattle. After making a few phone calls and realizing how complicated it was, we made it a weekend project to pick up our neighbor’s batteries along with other hard-to-recycle items.This novel approach of having your hard-to-recycle stuff “carpool” with your neighbors quickly caught on in Seattle. Our rapidly growing community was looking at their junk drawers with new eyes, felt inspired to be part of something bigger, and kept asking what else we could pick up.

This enthusiasm turned my family’s passion project into Ridwell, a company whose mission it is to make it easy to deal with hard-to-recycle materials like plastics, light bulbs, batteries, & more. We pick up where curbside recyclers leave off, providing our members in six states with a way to recycle and reuse materials right from their doorsteps. In 2022 alone, our community kept more than one million pounds of hard-to-recycle plastic film out of landfills. To date, we’ve kept more than ten million pounds of hard-to-recycle materials from going to waste. All of this impact started with a simple, optimistic reframe. Instead of dwelling on what our curbside service couldn’t take, we instead asked ourselves how we could help.

It’s been a lot of work to be sure, but what’s kept me motivated on this journey has been learning about all of the exceptional efforts happening elsewhere to make recycling work better for everyone. Our elected officials are creating new policies that powerfully shift market incentives, like Maine’s law that makes companies pay for their own recycling or California’s law that creates more demand for recycled plastic. Engineers are developing new ways to recycle tricky plastics, while citizens across the country are raising awareness about the need for government and corporations to do more.

The longer I’ve worked in the recycling space, the more I’ve found allies and collaborators who are finding surprising uses for materials that used to be dismissed as trash. Trex has pioneered a method of turning soft plastics like grocery bags into high-performance decking for homes. Companies like ByFusion and Arqlite are turning multilayer plastic packaging once considered unrecyclable into building materials and hydroponics gravel. The types of innovations we’ll need to solve our recycling crisis are all around us; we just need to keep connecting these pockets of innovation into a more holistic system of reuse and recycling.

So while the news cycle around recycling can often feel overwhelming, I always encourage people to use these grim statistics as motivation to lean into the challenge and look for solutions. For some people, that’s calling their legislators, and for others, it’s coming up with new packaging that has a smaller environmental footprint. For those of us at Ridwell, it’s about how we can help make it easy for households to keep hard-to-recycle materials out of the landfill. As the past decade has shown us, the overwhelming “Pacman-shaped” chunk of the pie chart often shows us where the most impactful innovations must come from and where the next wave of businesses must focus. Yes, we are at an inflection point when it comes to addressing the problems posed by excessive waste in this country. To be honest, I’ve never felt more optimistic that we have what it takes to address this problem, together.

Ryan Metzger is a guest contributor to Upworthy and founder and CEO of Ridwell