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Last year, The Smile unveiled their debut album A Light For Attracting Attention. Featuring Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, the band did an NPR Tiny Desk, late-night television performances, and released a new live LP from their Montreux Jazz Festival performance.

They’re back today with a KEXP performance (that was shared today but recorded on December 15, 2022). Playing “A Hairdryer,” “Thin Thing,” “The Opposite,” “You Will Never Work In Television Again,” and “Open The Floodgates,” The Smile’s reverberating, hallucinogenic sound fills up the studio and becomes a living thing. It’s more powerful than the recordings, especially getting to watch each member fall into the music.

Earlier this month, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway sat down for an interview and the question of whether or not Radiohead is still a band came up — one many fans have been wondering since their last LP, 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool.

“As far as I know, we’re still a band,” he stated. “If anybody knows any different, I’d be very interested.” He added, “For me, whatever we do, it all falls under that umbrella of the five of us. Ultimately, it all feeds into it.”

Luckily, in the meantime, The Smile have a lot to give.

Check out The Smile’s KEXP performance above.

If you’re still in “The Feels,” then this is a fair warning you have a week left to prep yourself before you get deeper into your bag.

Following a week of solo image teasers from members Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu, TWICE ended the week off by releasing a 12-second audio snippet of their upcoming English single “Moonlight Sunrise” on TikTok today (January 13).

Compared to their first English single, “The Feels,” released back in 2021, TWICE seems to gear away a bit from their signature bubblegum pop sounds and experiment with contemporary R&B and Atlanta bass for their new dance track.(If you take a closer listen, the beat may remind you of Ghost Town DJ’s hit “My Boo.”) The teaser kicks off with Nayeon in the beginning, followed by Mina singing “Moonlight, sunrise / Baby, let’s do it all night” in between and Chaeyoung cheekily ending it with, “I guarantee, I got you!”

“Moonlight Sunrise” is set to release next Friday, January 20, at midnight across all global streaming platforms. The single is one of the two releases set for TWICE in the first quarter of the year, according to their announcement poster shared on socials last month. Following the release, the nine-member ensemble are scheduled to drop their twelfth EP under JYP Entertainment in March.

To celebrate his birthday this week, Yandel released his album Resistencia as a surprise today (January 13). Across the 17-track LP, the Puerto Rican icon teams up with artists like Wisin, Maluma, and rising star Young Miko.

Yandel rose to prominence in the 2000s as one half of the duo Wisin y Yandel. In 2003, he made his mark as a solo artist with the album Quien Contra Mí. Nearly two decades later, Yandel is still going strong with his latest LP Resistencia, which translates to “Resistance” in English.

“Resistencia is a project that defines what I am living at this very moment, because no matter the hustle, the pressure, the time, years, or transitions; I’m still here… stronger than ever, flowing with the movement without altering my essence, and revealing all the elements that are in every single part of me,” Yandel said in a statement.

With the album, Yandel also dropped the video for “Te Gusta” featuring Wisin. The duo reunites for the reggaeton banger that is reminiscent of their first hits together. As a pioneering reggaeton artist, Yandel joined forces with the genre’s current stars as well like Maluma and Eladio Carrión in the alluring “Nunca Y Pico.” He also shares his spotlight with Puerto Rico’s up-and-coming female artists in reggaeton like Young Miko in the hypnotic “Cuando Te Toca” and Catalyna in “Palabras.”

Baby Rasta y Gringo, who helped lay the foundation for reggaeton music, return as a duo on Yandel’s track “Anda Decidida.” Another genre pioneer that appears on his LP is Franco El Gorila in “Cowboys” alongside Gadiel and ERY. Yandel also re-recorded the song “Te Suelto El Pelo” from his debut album in a new 2023 version.

Resistencia is out now via Y Entertainment LLC/Sony Music Latin. Listen to it here.

The Boys is currently hard at work on Season 4, but you know how people are while working, and that includes Supe-loathing vigilantes: there’s always time to tweet, if one is so inclined. If it’s any consolation at all during these months of waiting, however, we will see the Gen V college-aged spinoff much sooner, and that show has freaked out Arnold Schwarzenegger and will feature multiple cast members from the series proper.

Back to the tweeting, though. The Boys social media team (Billy Butcher, we see you) has recently had a grand time while trolling HBO Max for deleting shows and movies (and this was before the immediate $1 price hike). And it’s all fun and games until the Compound V-infused series took things way too far.

As one can see below, The Boys is now claiming to have done the unthinkable and gone PG for Season 4

Stephan Fleet, the show’s VFX supervisor a producer, is appalled. Maybe: “I think I just saw the most disgusting thing I have seen working in this business thus far.”

Yes, that’s infinitely more revolting than the entire Herogasm adventure (RIP to Mother’s Milk‘s grip on sanity that day). Still, we have a lot to look forward to when the definitely TV-MA series returns. That includes new Supes because Maeve and Starlight are off the team. Hopefully, Maeve will have a nice quiet life on the farm, but don’t count on Starlight going quietly. Thank god.

If you were asked to state the first adjective that comes to mind when picturing Alex Jones, there are plenty you might think of: Sweaty. Gross. Loud. Obnoxious. Hairy. Unhinged. Frequently shirtless. Bankrupt.

“Beloved” wouldn’t likely enter the equation, but you’d be wrong not to go there. So says Jones himself, who spent a few minutes mock-complaining about how difficult it is for him to do a simple thing like go out to eat and not be swarmed by a group of admirers, who want to do everything from feed to f**k him.

Former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski shared a 45-second clip from a recent episode of InfoWars, in which Jones barked about how much people just love him. Comparing his life of a decade or so ago with what it’s like today, Jones explained:

Now I go to a restaurant and I say, ‘Listen, can I be put in a private room?’ Not ‘cause I don’t care about the public, but it’s gonna make a major scene. If they don’t have a private room, you know what happens? My food gets bought almost every time. And I get mobbed all around the table. And I’m signing autographs for the waiters. And the owner comes out. And I get followed into the parking lot. And women are throwing themselves at me. And I’m not bragging about it, I’m just telling you.

According to Jones, being “demonized” by “the establishment” had made life very difficult for him and his family at times. “We do get haters, we do get stalkers,” he said. But they’ve also provided him and InfoWars with a much bigger platform, and have made him much more “iconic” than he would have been otherwise.

Sure, he may spread lies about school shootings — but who wouldn’t throw themself at this guy?

Look, nobody really looks forward to jury duty. Even the most civic-minded among us might find it an inconvenience, considering that legal proceedings can be tedious and inscrutable and trials can drag on for months at a time. However, one juror in Young Thug’s upcoming RICO trial is learning just how seriously they should take that responsibility — or at least, that’s the idea behind the judge ordering the woman to write a 30-page essay on the importance of jury service.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Juror No. 64 recently traveled to the Dominican Republic on business after trying to notify the court of her travel plans ahead of time. However, when she didn’t show up to court on Monday, Chief Judge Ural Glanville sent sheriff’s deputies to her grandmother’s home to collect her.

The juror said she travels frequently for work and didn’t get her summons until late December. “I didn’t really know I was in violation until the sheriff showed up,” she said. “I thought I was following directions.” However, that wasn’t enough to save her from being found in contempt of court for failure to appear. However, in lieu of sentencing her to jail (up to 20 days) or fining her (up to $1,000), Judge Glanville came up with a creative consequence.

The essay, which must be written in APA style with 10 primary sources and 10 secondary sources, will be due in three weeks and will be run through a plagiarism check. The juror must also appear again on February 13. If she doesn’t, harsher penalties may be applied. She’s otherwise excused from this round of service — but she’ll probably be a lot more eager to show up the next time she’s summoned. Judge Glanville offered his reasoning, reminding the juror that not very long ago, “people who looked like us couldn’t serve on juries. It was prohibited.”

Young Thug is accused of eight charges including gang activity, racketeering, and illegal weapon and drug possession. He’s one of over two dozen members of the alleged street gang “Young Slime Life” or “YSL” who was charged in a 56-count indictment in July of 2022. Thug maintains that YSL is really a record label standing for Young Stoner Life, and the case has drawn scrutiny for its use of Thug’s lyrics mentioning YSL to connect him to the alleged gang.

Several artists on the label have pled guilty to lesser charges of racketeering in exchange for their freedom; this could negatively influence the outcome of Thug’s defense, drawing criticism of those artists. Meanwhile, the terms of their plea deals mean that YSL Records, in its current form, will essentially be out of business, even if Thug is acquitted.

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

A year ago, it would be hard to imagine that Washington, D.C. might ever see — let alone welcome — as prolific a liar as Donald Trump. But as Jimmy Kimmel noted on Thursday, the former president is “getting a run for his money from another New Yorker of ill repute: newly elected misrepresentative George Santos.”

The laundry list of things Santos has lied about just keeps growing, and includes his educational and professional background, an animal charity that reportedly never existed, his religion, his mother dying on 9/11, and now — maybe most bizarrely — him being some sort of volleyball champion. “If you’ve ever seen this guy, he looks more like a volleyball than a volleyball star,” joked Kimmel.

While he’s being chased through the halls of the Capitol by reporters wanting him to tell his side of the story, Santos has mostly remained mum on his series of falsehoods… until now. As Kimmel explained, the freshly sworn in congressman “did agree to sit down for an interview with one of the hardest hitting journalists” working today: Matt Gaetz?!

The Forehead from Florida buddied up to Santos by reassuring him that “embellishing one’s resume isn’t a crime. It’s, frankly, how a lot of people get to Congress.” That was how the Florida Man segued into the bigger question of where Santos got the more than $700,000 he donated to his own campaign.

Santos, ever the contrarian, instead told Gaetz where it didn’t come from: “It didn’t come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. How about that?”

“You’re going to be shocked to hear this,” Kimmel said of Santos’ non-answer answer. “Matt Gaetz didn’t really press him on it.”

You can watch the full clip above, which includes video of Santos tripping over a newspaper as he tries to get away from reporters, beginning around the 3:00 mark.

If a new report from Us Weekly is accurate, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes could be done at Good Morning America following their very public affair scandal.

The couple were pulled off the air in early December after they were photographed having a romantic getaway over the Thanksgiving holiday. What made the situation more awkward is the two were married to other people. At first, ABC leaned into the heightened attention and executives reportedly called the drama “ratings gold.” However, things quickly went south when Holmes joked about the situation on the air, and allegations of him having a prior co-worker affair began to surface.

After a month of keeping both Holmes and Robach off the air, ABC has reportedly decided to part ways with the anchors, according to multiple sources for Us Weekly. “Amy and T.J are out, a decision has been made,” a source said. “The network is negotiating with them on their exit deals and an announcement.”

Negotiating Holmes and Robach’s exit deals will undoubtedly get messy. Prior to news of their alleged ouster, TMZ reported that the couple have already retained legal counsel and have been preparing to file suit if they’re fired:

We’re told the lawyers will pose this question to ABC … “Has ABC ever used the morals or conduct clause to fire or discipline 2 consenting adults at equal levels when both were white?” The sources go on to say it would be telling if this is the first time ABC invoked the morals clause under these circumstances … with a Black and a White anchor.

The sources go on to say the damages could be enormous if their reputations and careers are ruined as a result of discipline by the network.

Despite their careers potentially going down in flames, the couple have stayed romantically involved and sources recently told PEOPLE that Holmes and Robach are “stronger than ever.”

(Via Us Weekly, TMZ & PEOPLE)

Earlier this week, The National sent cryptic postcards to fans in the mail that seemed to tease a new album. Today, January 13, the band got even more mysterious by tweeting the link americanmary.com/lp9 — which we can probably assume means the next album is titled American Mary and is on its way.

The site is password-protected, but luckily, the password, “EVIL FOREBODINGS,” was shared by fans in the replies. It leads to a video of an open book that’s soundtracked by snippets of brief songs. The book reads “LETTER 1,” and it’s addressed to “Mrs. Bridgers, England.” There are also mentions of “Taylor” and “Uncle Sufjan.” It’s believed that Phoebe Bridgers, Sufjan Stevens, and Taylor Swift will be featured on the LP after a leaked tracklist with their names on it circulated. Bridgers will apparently appear on two tracks: “This Isn’t Helping” and “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend.”

Last year, The National debuted three songs live in Spain: “Tropic Morning News (Haversham),” “Grease In Your Hair (Birdie),” and “Bathwater (Mount Auburn).” The former two still remain unreleased, while “Bathwater (Mount Auburn)” ended up being unveiled as “Weird Goodbyes,” a collaboration with Bon Iver. It came out in August following promotional posters all over Brooklyn getting fans excited.

If you’re curious as to where Rudy Giuliani’s mind is at as we kick off 2023, and his unintelligible new year message didn’t give you a clue, try watching him interview a couple of camels:

If you’re still wondering whether the new year might bring a more stable mindset to the man once known as America’s Mayor, let us answer that for you in one word: no.

Rudy, who can regularly be heard complaining about how no networks want to have him on as a guest any more — and who has been known to show up for a deposition wearing two watches — actually got an invite to appear on Newsmax. And he made the most of the airtime while speaking with Jenn Pellegrino on Thursday’s “Prime News,” where he questioned the suspicious timing of the growing number of classified documents being found in all sorts of Joe Biden hidey-holes.

Whereas Trump is just outright ‘splaining that while he had the right to keep these documents (after he had declassified them using his mind, of course), Biden does not. Giuliani, meanwhile, seems to have another theory: that the documents were planted — by none other than Barack Obama.

“I think the Democrats are putting this out,” Giuliani said of his theory. “I think — and if I had to guess — Obama is calling the shots. They don’t want [Biden] on the ticket. I mean, first of all, this guy is in danger of falling apart at any minute, meaning the mouth could open and nothing will come out.”

This coming from a man who, just two weeks ago, opened his mouth and nothing actually came out. (And who also seemed confused by what year it was in the same video.)

While there would be far easier ways to convince Biden to not run again in 2024, Giuliani was on a tear; he even went so far as to compare Biden to a “mad dictator.” (This from a man, mind you, who has played sycophant to wannabe mad dictator Trump for decades):

The justification is the FBI is a law enforcement organization that is operated for the benefit of the Democrat Party and Joseph Biden. It’s state police. It’s, in the worst sense, no longer the FBI of old — not all the agents, but the ones at the top that have to do the bidding of a man who has become something closer to [a] mad dictator than president.”

You can watch the full clip here.

(Via Newsmax)