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What an up-and-down series of events for Lana Del Rey over the past few weeks: She was rumored to be dating Louisiana alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene, then she seemingly denied it, and then it was reported yesterday (September 26) the two had picked up a marriage license. It sure looks like that latter report was true, as the two apparently just tied the knot.

No marriage certificate has surfaced yet, but the Daily Mail has photos and videos from the wedding, which took place on Dufrene’s turf in Des Allemandes, Louisiana. Del Rey was seen holding a bouquet as her father (and fellow musician) Rob Grant walked her down the aisle.

Del Rey wore a dress featuring “an elegant ruffled neckline, a billowing skirt and a modest train that dragged on the gravel aisle,” while Dufrene wore a “black suit, white dress shirt and brown leather shoes.” Following the ceremony was an outdoor reception in a public harbor.

The public connection between Del Rey and Dufrene goes back to 2019, when Del Rey went on one of Dufrene’s tours and shared photos on Facebook. She then went on another tour this year and posted about it on Instagram, tagging Dufrene in the post and calling him “my guy.”

Steven and Ian begin this week’s episode with the first ever “Furnace-cast” about the current state of Steven’s heating and cooling units at his house. Both were being installed during this episode, which might have resulted in some post-punk-style background noise. What’s more indie rock than that? After a quick Sportscast about the latest from Steven’s Green Bay Packers and Ian’s Philadelphia Eagles, they hold their Fantasy Albums Draft for Q4. Will Steven finally win one of these? Probably not! But who knows?

Then the guys delve into the mailbag to answer some quality emails. Topics include the sad state of music festivals in 2024, the relative quality of music put out in 2014, and whether it’s possible to have a good song with good music and bad lyrics (yes!) or bad music and good lyrics (maybe?).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian stumps for a divorce record by Adeline Hotel and Steven goes for the latest from bluegrass phenom Billy Strings.

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Say what you want to about Saweetie’s stop-and-start album rollout, but the Bay Area bombshell has been on a roll lately. After the UGK-inspired “Richtivities” rebooted the rollout, “Nani” has become a sleeper hit, landing placement in a number of high-profile syncs, while her feature on LL Cool J’s “Proclivities” gave her the co-sign from a hip-hop legend. She returns to her 808s-and-soul-samples bag — her most effective mode, in this writer’s opinion — for “Is It The Way.” Pairing a trunk-rattling Texas beat with a loop from Jill Scott’s 2001 hit “The Way,” Saweetie contemplates all the attention she gets while combining the best parts of her last two singles.

In the video accompanying the song, Saweetie struts the streets of London, causing all the British boys’ heads to turn in her haute couture looks, which include a truly stupendous pair of heels and Union Jack-bearing short shorts that just scream “Spice Girls.” The whole video is a throwback to the British R&B invasion of the early 2000s (think Craig David’s “Fill Me In”), which could provide a fruitful new avenue for the particular form of millennial nostalgia that Saweetie has embraced throughout her career. The trendsetter has been making a solid push for a comeback, and with a few more tracks like this, the turnaround could truly be just around the corner.

Watch Saweetie’s “Is It The Way” video above.

BIA and Lil Yachty vow dire consequences for anyone who irks them in the video for their new collaboration, “Pissed Off.” “Somebody just pissed me off, where’s the switch?” she intones on the chorus, making it sound very much like hot lead will be flying at any moment. And just in case there was any doubt of her intentions, this is how she opens her verse: “Somebody gon’ die today / This sound like Jeff in the ride today / I make it slip if she slide today / It’s on the seat of my right-side / Kissing you bitches goodbye today.”

The tag-team is BIA’s third high-profile collab with an Atlanta rapper in 2024; in June, she teamed up with JID for “Lights Off,” while in July, she and Flau’jae appeared on Culture Jam’s latest compilation with Lakeyah on “Can’t Get Enough.” Like plenty of her rapper peers, the Beantown native has plenty to be pissed off about this year, too.

In March, BIA got into it with Cardi B over the shared Missy Elliott sample that appeared in both rappers’ new singles. Supposedly, Cardi took shots at BIA on her “Wanna Be Remix” verse, while BIA clapped back with “Sue Meee.” In June, Cardi made mentions of “opps,” and fans were sure it was a reference to BIA, so her latest will almost certainly be interpreted as a Cardi diss, as well. 2025 can’t get here soon enough.

You can watch BIA and Lil Yachty’s “Pissed Off” video above.

Fans of the first Todd Phillips Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix were apprehensive to learn that its sequel, Joker Folie À Deux, would be a musical co-starring Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. Phillips himself tried to mitigate the worries by downplaying the importance of music to the plot, but now that Lady Gaga has shared Harlequin, the film’s companion soundtrack, it’s clear: Her Harley Quinn goes full-on Broadway on “Get Happy” and “Good Morning,” embracing all the camp inherent to the concept with some good, old-fashioned show tunes.

“Get Happy” opens with a suitably dramatic overture before kicking into the same jaunty, jazzy mode as the 1950 Judy Garland version from Summer Stock. You can check it out above.

Meanwhile, her take on the 1939 standard “Good Morning” similarly starts off cool and heats up quickly, just like a summer day. In terms of the composition, it’s closer to the version from Babes In Arms than the one from Singin’ In The Rain, and how you feel about that just might depend on your preference between Garland and Debbie Reynolds. You can check it out below.

So, there you have it: Joker Folie À Deux is 100 percent a musical, borrowing from classics of the past rather than composing original material to suit the dark and zany mood of the first Joker. We’ll find out how audiences feel about that on October 4 — although the early returns don’t look too promising.

When in doubt, get back to basics. After suffering an embarrassing miscue earlier this year, J. Cole appears to have taken this advice to heart, setting aside attempts to compete with top-grossing peers like Drake and Kendrick Lamar in favor of issuing eyebrow-raising guest verses alongside collaborators such as Daylyt, ASAP Rocky, Tems, and Cash Cobain. You can now add Tee Grizzley to that list. J. Cole goes back in his feature verse bag, tag-teaming a frenetic Pi’erre Bourne production with the Detroit native on “Blow For Blow.” In the accompanying video, two rappers perform on a rooftop while Grizzley gives out game (and hundred-dollar bills) in the hood.

It’s good to hear Cole having fun on records again after his miscalculation in stepping into the match between Drake and Kendrick this spring. Issuing “7 Minute Drill” and retracting it within the span of a weekend turned out to be the rap equivalent of a wrestler running down to the ring with a steel chair in one hand and the Money In The Bank briefcase in the other, only to face plant directly into the case, and sheepishly head back to the locker room without so much as flashing the contract for the championship match. Fortunately, he’s got a tried-and-true recovery plan, and if this current run he’s on turns out to be as impactful as the one from 2022, the hype for The Fall Off won’t suffer too much from his earlier faux pas.

You can watch the video for “Blow For Blow” above.

Playboi Carti has become one of the most in-demand featured artists in music this year, signing on for collaborations with Camila Cabello and Travis Scott, popping out for Lana Del Rey’s Coachella-headlining set, and now, teaming up with The Weeknd for the second single from Abel’s upcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. The new song is the two artists’ first collaboration since 2023’s “Popular” with Madonna.

The Weeknd first revealed the cover art for Hurry Up Tomorrow on September 7 after teasing the new album for months before. In July, he posted a video to social media that declared “there are three chapters to this tale,” leading to speculation that his then-rumored album would constitute the capstone to a trilogy made up of his last two releases, After Hours and Dawn FM. Then, he shared a second screenshot from another eerie video, furthering the mystery and the anticipation for the announcement. Finally, he dropped the video for the lead single, “Dancing In The Flames,” seemingly building on the overarching narrative from the past four years. We’re looking forward to seeing what it all means when Hurry Up Tomorrow is finally out.

You can watch the video for The Weeknd’s “Timeless” featuring Playboi Carti above.

The Chicago Sky were, for the first half of the WNBA season, one of the best stories in the league. Led by rookie sensation Angel Reese, they were firmly in the playoff picture going into the All-Star and Olympic break. Unfortunately, they could not maintain that pace after returning from a month off, trading veteran sharpshooter Marina Mabrey to the Connecticut Sun and going 3-13 from that point — with Reese eventually getting shut down for the season with a wrist injury.

Even so, it felt to many like the Sky were at least showing signs of moving in the right direction and would get another crack at a lottery pick in the 2025 Draft to try and create some better roster balance for next year. Apparently the Sky front office did not feel that was good enough, and on Thursday night word broke from Annie Constable of the Chicago Sun Times that they were firing head coach Teresa Weatherspoon after going 13-27 her first year on the job.

It was a fairly stunning decision, particularly given the relationship Weatherspoon had with Reese. That was evident in Reese’s response to the news, as she posted a lengthy statement to Twitter saying she was “heartbroken” and that Weatherspoon was the reason she came to Chicago and that she was an “unsung hero in my life.”

“I’m heartbroken. I’m literally lost for words knowing what this woman meant to me in such a pivotal point in my life. She was the only person that believed in me. The one that trusted me. Many don’t even know what it’s like to be a black women in sports when nobody believes in you. You had a tough job. All the crazy circumstances that we went through this year & when your back was against the wall, you always believed. I came to Chicago because of YOU. You were an unsung hero in my life. We built a relationship in a short amount of time that will last forever. I’ll never question God why he brings people in my life and takes them away from me in the capacity that I need them but i’ve always believed everyone is in your life for a reason and a season. You were the best reason & season. You didn’t deserve this but I can’t thank you enough. I love you Tspoon. @Finisher_11”

It certainly isn’t the response you typically want from your star player after firing a coach, as usually there’s at least some tension in that relationship that leads to a coach’s dismissal. Instead, it seems the Sky made this choice without consulting or even considering Reese’s opinion on the matter, which is certainly their prerogative, but puts some serious pressure on whoever they bring in as a replacement.

It’s the second surprising firing in the WNBA this week, as Curt Miller got let go in Los Angeles after the Sparks finished the season with the league’s worst record (while pretty obviously still early in a rebuild).

Ever since her debut, Billie Eilish has been something of a two-person operation, thanks to the production prowess of her older brother Finneas. However, that may soon change, as Finneas has begun teaching his sibling the basics of production, and says she’s getting “very good at it.” In a new interview with Guitar magazine, Finneas — who has been working on his own album, For Cryin’ Out Loud!, with a collection of collaborators and a more professional setup, explained the new use he’s found for his old equipment.

“I’ve been setting up Billie’s recording studio for her so she can do home production without me, because she’s very good at it!” he said. “And it’s funny, I’ve been giving her, like, the bare minimum of stuff, just so that she learns it all… I’m like ‘Listen, I could give you all the stuff that I use now, but it took me years to even have a use for it. And, if I give you this basic thing, it’ll make sense to you right away.”

While that news may worry fans who’ve become accustomed to the duo’s chemistry, in truth, it may help streamline their process, as Billie can use the basic equipment to sketch out her own ideas while Finneas is occupied with his solo work, then he can help polish it all later on. We may soon see the fruits of this labor as we look forward to the follow-up to her new album, Hit Me Hard And Soft.

Big-box warehouse chain Costco wants nothing to do with a report connecting it to beleaguered mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, releasing a statement denying that he made his bulk baby oil purchase at its stores. After Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo argued in a press conference that Diddy purchased the unseemly amount of lubricant at Costco for threesomes, rather than the infamous “freakoffs” that have been central to the government’s sex trafficking case against him.

However, according to TMZ, a spokesperson for the company issued a statement denying such a thing would even be possible, as none of its 614 warehouses even carries baby oil, let alone in such massive quantities. TMZ also investigated direct competitor Sam’s Club and even checked for similar products that might explain the mention of baby oil in the feds’ indictment, but there were no other products similar to what was described in the documents. With no stores selling baby oil in bulk, the mystery of the origin of Diddy’s impressive (and gross) collection remains unclear.

What is clear, however, is that corporate entities are understandably uneager to be associated with the producer after he spent the year being sued by 11 separate plaintiffs for sexual misconduct, then arrested and charged with racketeering and sex trafficking.