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In 2020, Phil Elverum released the first Microphones album in 17 years. Known for that project, the enigmatic musician is beloved for the more active project Mount Eerie. Well, Mount Eerie is back today with a new song called “Huge Fire.”

The song is for the Colors compilation album, released by Tokyo’s 7e.p. Records for its 20th anniversary. Other artists on the album include Lou Barlow, Tori Kudo, Mirah, Jason Lytle, Spencer Krug, Julie Doiron, Hisako Tabuchi, Quasi, Little Wings, Karl Blau, and Tim Kinsella, to name a few.

“Huge Fire” is an off-kilter, distorted track encapsulating Elverum’s haunting energy. He mumbles, “I carry it into the night / I walk, and there’s a fire, but it’s at my back,” before static takes over.

No matter the project, Elverum often reckons with grief in his music. In 2018, he made a statement about Lil Peep’s death after tweeting that he was thinking about the emo-rapper.

“Death was on my mind,” he explained. “More people dying, young people dying, people dying before their time, Geneviève dying, and people grieving in this sloppy, chaotic, public way, which I was also doing. It just poked at all these issues in a fresh way, surprisingly.”

Listen to “Huge Fire” below.

Pop singer Miley Cyrus wasn’t the only musician hosting a huge New Year’s Eve concert party. Indie rock legend Brandi Carlile hosted a musical event of her own at the MODA Center in Portland, Oregon, to bring the bring with a bang. With a bevy of talented friends, including folk music icon Joni Mitchell and R&B superstar Alicia Keys, there’s no surprise the show had a guest appearance by rock duo Sleater-Kinney.

While thousands of Americans were tuned into the broadcast of the ball drop in Times Square or Dick Clark’s annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve concert, nearly 20,000 unplugged from their television sets to tune into Carlile live.

Carlile performed a few of her popular tracks at the concert, including “The Story,” as she put it, “It’s not New Year’s Eve without ‘The Story,’ right?”

The bulk of the night was filled with covers to pay homage to several artists Carlile has been inspired by, including Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” Radiohead’s “Creep,” David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse Of The Heart.” Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein joined her onstage to sing Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

As they counted down the new year, Carlile joked with the crowd, drink in hand, saying, “I’ve never seen so many sparkly lesbians in my life!”

The night, presented by Live Nation, opened with a performance by musician KT Tunstall.

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

Around two years ago, Justin Bieber reflected on his DUI that occurred in 2014. “7 years ago today, I was arrested, not my finest hour,” he wrote.

“Not proud of where I was at in my life. I was hurting, unhappy, confused, angry, misled, misunderstood, and angry at God. I also wore too much leather for someone in Miami. All this to say God has brought me a long way.”

The pop star has come such a long way that now Judge Judy, who he was once “scared to death” of because of his bad behavior, is happy for him and thinks he, “looks wonderful.”

TMZ shared a video today (January 2) in which a paparazzi asked the famous judge: “I cannot believe that Justin Bieber was scared of you. Do you believe you played a role in putting him on the straight and narrow?”

She answered, “No, no. He did that all by himself.” When asked if she’s spoken to Bieber since then, she said, “I have not. But I’ve seen him since, and he looks wonderful, and he seems happy.”

The paparazzi asked if she was proud of him, and she answered, “I’m happy for him.”

Watch the full clip here.

He may jokingly have ‘better lungs’ than Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, but rapper Wiz Khalifa will need pockets deeper than a bank if he keeps burning through money like he did this weekend. In many cultures, the way you start the new year foreshadows how your year will pan out. Based on what the “Black and Yellow” rapper shared on Twitter, he might want to look into starting a monthly budget.

Yesterday (January 1), Khalifa hinted at the wild night he had while bringing in the new year, writing, “I tripped and fell in the pool in my 10 thousand dollar suit last night.” Not happy with the hefty financial blow, the songwriter continued, “y’all can take me back to last year ’cause this ain’t it.”

Even with the minor financial setback, Khalifa has no regrets as he followed up his story with, “New year. Same me.”

As a master manifester and budding businessman (owning upcoming mushroom and psilocybin wellness brand Mistercap as well as delivery-only restaurant Hotbox by Wiz), it is only a matter of time moments until he makes the money he lost back.

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

Fuerza Regida teamed up with more of the young heavy-hitters in regional Mexican music on the album Pa Que Hablan that dropped last Friday (December 30). Eslabon Armado, Natanael Cano, and Junior H feature on the Mexican-American band’s star-studded LP.

Fuerza Regida is a part of the wave of Gen-Z acts who are making age-old regional Mexican music appeal to a new generation of fans. The band broke out in 2018 with the corrido “Sigo Chambeando.” The song’s title translates to “Keep Working” in English and that’s what Fuerza Regida has done to stay atop the regional Mexican music charts.

Fuerza Regida have made its album Pa Que Hablan like a summit of regional Mexican music’s new stars. In the moody “Aretes,” the band teamed up with Eslabon Armado, a Mexican-American group that has put an emo twist on the genre. In the boozy “Whisky Con Agua,” Mexican singer and the genre’s local sad boy Junior H joins Fuerza Regida. The band enlisted corridos tumbado pioneer Cano for the feel-good “Ch y La Pizza.” Fuerza Regida also put a fresh spin on regional Mexican music with Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan who features on the fiery “Una Raya Más Al Tigre.”

Last week, Fuerza Regida also released a second album titled Sigan Hablando. The LP includes the hit “Bebe Dame” featuring Mexican-American band Grupo Frontera. Like Bad Bunny’s free rooftop concert in Puerto Rico last week, Fuerza Regida returned to the band’s hometown of San Bernardino for an impromptu show. Hundreds of people filled the streets to see the group perform songs from both albums on a convenience store rooftop.

“This is my home,” said Jesús Ortiz (JOP), Fuerza Regida’s lead singer, in a statement about the concert. “I remember when I came to this store without a five [dollar bill] and thank God with a lot of work and effort things are happening.”

Pa Que Hablan and Sigan Hablando are out now via Rancho Humilde. Listen to both albums here.

When Elon Musk surrendered the title of richest person on Earth late last year, he didn’t just lose a tiny bit of money. He lost a ton of it. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index (as caught by CNN) the Tesla, SpaceX, and now Twitter honcho has, in just over a year, lost over $200 billion of his once staggering wealth. That means he’s lost more than anyone in modern history.

At his peak, in November 2021, Musk was worth $340 billion. Nowadays his three main companies are worth a total of $137 billion. What happened? Well, for one thing, the majority of Musk’s fortune is tied up in Tesla, his once popular electric car company. The company’s stock has plummeted; December was its worst month, last quarter was its worst quarter, and 2022 was its worst year.

One reason for the sinking interest in Tesla is competition from other automakers, who’ve been turning to electric cars as well. Surely not helping is that Musk’s antics since buying Twitter, which have found him embracing the far right, who would never be caught dead buying one of his Tesla cars, while alienating progressives, i.e., his potential customers.

As Musk’s fortunes have sunk, he’s been tweeting through it, even dropping strange jokes about his various failures. Meanwhile, he’s fired janitors at Twitter HQ, forcing employees to supply their own toilet paper. If he can still afford a Netflix account, he can drown his sorrows by watching a very popular movie that semi-accidentally makes fun of him.

(Via CNN)

Tulane and USC met on Monday afternoon in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl and the two teams put together an instant classic, with the Wave pulling off the upset by way of a 15-point comeback in the final 4:30 of the game. USC seemingly took control after opening the fourth quarter with Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams’ fifth TD pass of the game to go up 12, tacking on a field goal with 4:30 left to take a two-touchdown advantage.

However, the defense, as it has on a few occasions this year, After a two-play, 63-yard touchdown drive pulled them within 8, USC fumbled the kickoff and took over on their own one, where Tulane’s defense made a rare stop by stuffing a run two yards deep in the end zone for a safety, breathing life into their comeback bid.

On the ensuing drive, Tulane went 66 yards in 12 plays, culminating in a walkoff touchdown with eight seconds to play as Michael Pratt found Alex Bauman for a six-yard strike that was initially ruled incomplete.

The side angle showed the ball clearly never touched the ground, as Bauman and the defender’s arms were both under it as he corralled it for the game-winning score, as the extra point after lifted Tulane to a 46-45 win.

It was an insane game, with both offenses putting on a show. Williams finished with 462 yards and five touchdowns, while Tulane’s star running back Tyjae Spears gashed the Trojans for 205 yards and four touchdowns on just 17 carries. It’s a massive win for Tulane, a program that coach Willie Fritz has steadily built into an AAC power, while USC will end a strong first year under Lincoln Riley with back-to-back losses that showed just how vulnerable their defensive weakness is right now.

How did you ring in the new year? Did you drink too much? Not enough? If you spent it delivering a depressing rant about how you think America is a “third world country,” then congrats: You might be Donald J. Trump.

The former president bid farewell to 2022 at the resort in which he now lives, addressing a crowd of hundreds with one of his doom-and-gloom rants about how awful the country is without him lording over it.

We’re watching a war waging, we’re watching nuclear weapons talked about all the time, we’re watching inflation going through the roof,” Trump bellowed. “All of these things that we’re watching and so unnecessary, and so sad to see. Now we have airports where people can’t fly,” referencing the holiday storms that he presumably blames on his successor.

“It’s sad when people can’t come from New York to Florida, we’re like a third world country,” he told the crowd.
Trump didn’t contain his bleak-o-rama rants to Mar-a-Lago. On Monday, he took to his rinky-dink Twitter clone to complain about the border and then NATO.

Our Southern Border is far beyond HORRIBLE. There is no Country in the World that has such atrocious, unsafe, and disgusting conditions at their Border. We are worse than any Third World Nation! Just think, two years ago we had the safest and most stable Border in U.S. history. Criminals and Drugs entering our once great Country were at a decades low… And now, our beautiful USA is being poisoned from within, a Nation in DECLINE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and Fast!

When I was President I made Member Nations pay up all of the money they weren’t paying to NATO. The U.S. was footing almost the entire NATO bill, and I quickly put a stop to that. Hundreds of billions of Dollars were then rapidly paid by those “delinquent” nations. The Secretary General of NATO said it was AMAZING what President Trump had done. Thank you, but here we go again! The good old USA “suckers” are paying a VAST majority of the NATO bill, & outside money, going to Ukraine. VERY UNFAIR!

Ever since leaving office in disgrace — and often when he was still in there — Trump has always been Captain Bringdown, doing little but painting a dire and largely fictitious portrait of the world, then offering himself as humankind’s only hope. Given that his own party seems to be abandoning him in droves, it might not work this time, just as it didn’t work in 2020.

(Via Newsweek and Mediaite)

There are few days college football fans look forward to more than New Year’s Day — or in a year like 2023 where that happens to be on a Sunday, January 2. There are bowl games from noon throughout the evening, with the Rose Bowl as the crown jewel, but college football bettors will spray the board across the slate on the last full day of games of the season.

This year, the opener was Mississippi State-Illinois in the Reliaquest Bowl in Tampa, as the Bulldogs played to honor their late coach Mike Leach. The spread for the game closed at MSU -3/-3.5, and the Illini were never outside the number…that is until the final play of the game.

Trailing by three, Illinois executed a pretty great start to an attempted miracle on laterals, but as any bettor knows, “pitchy pitchy woo woo” is the last thing you want to see. Sure enough, eventually things broke down and desperation arrived, with Tommy DeVito chucking a ball across the field, where it bounced into the arms of Mississippi State corner Marcus Banks, who bolted 60 yards to the house to put an exclamation point on a Bulldogs win and hand Illini backers the worst bad beat of the young year.

Usually, you feel alright if the laterals are happening on that side of the 50, but as soon as the ball bounced that high and Banks got clear of the last offensive player, everyone knew what was coming. Whether you lost a push on the 3 or an outright win on 3.5, it was a painful way for the Illini to fail to cover a game they led by 7 entering the fourth quarter.

Most people are hyper-focused on the calendar turning to 2023, but 21 Savage has never been like most people. He has already made music that will endure forever, including his and Drake’s November joint album, Her Loss, which debuted at No. 1 and surpassed one billion Spotify streams. Not to mention, December 21 is now recognized as “21 Savage Day” in Georgia.

The UK-born, Atlanta-raised rapper has gotten as close to immortality as any mortal being possibly can. He’s not satisfied. He has ambitions for cryonics.

“I Just Want To Be Alive For 2121 Somebody Freeze Me Right Quick,” 21 tweeted on Saturday, December 31.

If 21 Savage finds a way to exist in 2121, whatever equivalent of memes that exist 98 years from now will surely be even better than the “Rich Flex” memes.

In addition to Her Loss, 21 Savage closed out 2022 with a (fake?) Nas beef and collaborative single with Nas. Last week, he performed a wide-ranging set for Amazon Music Live on Thursday, December 29, to close out the season for the new concert series. The following day, he helped Future throw “The Ball Drops In Brooklyn” at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Lil’ Kim, Christian “King” Combs, and Chinese Kitty also performed. See scenes from the event below.