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Perhaps Weezer were too ambitious? The storied alt-rock band, who commanded a massive crowd at Outside Lands Festival this past weekend on the main stage ahead of Post Malone, were set to begin a literal Broadway residency next month at the famed Broadway Theatre. Over the course of five nights between September 13- 18, each evening would have been dedicated to a different installment in their new four-part SZNZ series. But alas, the dream has come to an end according to singer Rivers Cuomo on Weezer’s Discord as reported by Stereogum:

“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses.) I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared your schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”

Credit to Cuomo who seems to be taking the news in stride. But it is a bit surprising to hear that these five shows have been cancelled. The Broadway Theater has a seated capacity of 1,761, a venue size that Weezer typically has no problem filling up. Perhaps fans thought the band would only be playing these new EPs (two of which haven’t been released yet) instead of the classics? Granted a note in fine print at the bottom of the residency poster says “Each evening will also feature a unique set of Weezer classics.” A residency themed after each of the band’s ubiquitous albums instead might have fared better? Maybe one day we’ll find out.

It is an exciting time for Blackpink, as on Wednesday they shared the release date for their forthcoming album Born Pink, mere days after announcing their tour dates and the new single “Pink Venom.” But there’s another reason for celebrating: One of their members, Rosé, was named one of Variety’s 2022 “Power Of Young Hollywood” honorees.

The list highlights artists aged 25-and-under for their impact in the entertainment industry. “There are times when it feels like a lot of pressure,” the 25-year-old told Variety, “but it’s what drives us to create new sounds and push ourselves.” Along with her success within the K-Pop group, the New Zealand-born artist also launched her solo career back in 2021 with the records “Gone” and “On The Ground.”

Rosé spoke about the difference between Blackpink’s catalog and her own, saying, “It differs from BLACKPINK’s [music] in the sense that it is still in the process of defining itself,” and “There are so many genres that I’ve always wanted to explore.” Her explorations haven’t stayed within music either, as she appeared as a contestant on King Of Mask Singer and Fantastic Duo 2 back in 2017.

With Blackpink gearing up for Born Pink, arriving on September 16 via YG Entertainment and Interscope, it seems Rosé is just scratching the surface of what is yet to come, both on her own and with the group.

Check out the full “Power Of Young Hollywood” list here.

Details are slowly emerging about why the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, which has sent Donald Trump and much of MAGA land into a frothing frenzy. But one detail must particularly irk the big guy: The feds were reportedly tipped off by an informant. Who was it? What did they tell them? Will it mean the slammer for the may have flushed official documents down the toilet? Thing is, even before learning he may have been sold out by a mole, he was already a paranoid wreck.

Sources tell Rolling Stone that this summer, as he’s investigated by the New York State attorney general’s office and by the Jan. 6 committee (and possibly the Justice Department, too), he’s been particularly prickly. Specifically he’s been worried about a “rat” or “rats,” and even worried friends had turned stool pigeon.

“He has asked me and others, ‘Do you think our phones are tapped?’,” one source said. “Given the sheer volume of investigations going on into the [former] president, I do not think he’s assuming anything is outside the realm of possibility.” They added, “He’s talked about this seriously [in the past few months], but I know of one time when he made a joke that was something like, ‘Be careful what you say on the phone!’”

He’s even been suspicious of the many visiting Republicans who come down south to kiss the ring, wondering aloud if they’re “wearing a wire.”

Those suspicions have only ballooned since FBI recent visit:

One Trump adviser tells Rolling Stone that since Tuesday, MAGA loyalists have been asking to pass their suspicions to Trump, telling him not to trust certain individuals and to investigate them for possible contacts with federal authorities. “I’m getting a lot of messages saying [things like], ‘This guy must be the informant,’ and others…calling for the [former] president to start doing phone-checks of his staff,” says the adviser. “To be honest, a lot of it feels like people trying to screw over the ones they don’t like [in Trumpworld.]”

Trump has always been paranoid, but as Rolling Stone points out, “in this case, he has reason to worry,” given the “various criminal, civil, and federal investigations into Trump, his sprawling family business, and his political allies in his attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential election.”

In other words, Trump, a man who demands absolute loyalty (which he rarely reciprocates) may not be in jail — yet — but he may already be in his special version of hell.

(Via Rolling Stone)

Wednesday brought two new trailers about cannibalism, both concerning the stars of Call Me By Your Name (and in one case, its director, too). One was for House of Hammer, Discovery+’s forthcoming documentary series about Armie Hammer, the subject of disturbing accusations of sexual misconduct, even cannibalism (though the latter may have just been talk). Around the time those allegations surfaced, his CMBYN costar Timothée Chalamet and director Luca Guadagnino announced they were reuniting for a movie about…cannibalism. And lo and behold, here’s the first teaser.

It’s called Bones and All, a pretty unnerving title for a movie about humans eating human flesh, but the 30-second teaser really is just that. It shows Chalamet, his floppy hair a touch shorter and dyed partially crimson, on the road with a woman (Taylor Russell), locked in embraces, swapping doe eyes, and alluding to something truly sinister. “Do you think I’m a bad person,” Chalamet asks his paramour, their heads touching. “All I think is that I love you,” she replies.

What isn’t revealed is that they’re both young cannibals and are cruising around America in the Reagan ‘80s, trying to stay off the grid. It’s based on a novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, and when it was announced, it couldn’t help but feel like accidental commentary on their former Call Me By Your Name coworker, whose own personal exposé no doubt put the kibosh on the once-planned sequel to their last collaboration.

You can watch the Bones and All teaser in the video above. It hits theaters on Nov. 23.

(Via Variety)

Broken Bells, the indie rock duo made up of Danger Mouse and James Mercer, shared two pieces of good news Wednesday. First, they dropped their new video for the track “Saturdays.” Then they announced that their forthcoming album, Into The Blue, will be available October 7 via AWAL after almost four years of teasing their comeback.

“Saturdays” is an ethereal visual experience backed by enchanting guitars, heart-pounding drum patterns, and zesty vocals. The video features an old filter reminiscent of televisions with antennas as a space shuttle takes off into space. “It’s a gift or maybe it’s a curse / Don’t know which is worse to define,” Mercer sings as the video transitions between footage of the shuttle’s liftoff, a person working in a control room, and an empty laboratory with a TV screen showing a cartoon-like version of Mercer’s face.

Into The Blue will mark Broken Bells’s first release since 2014’s After The Disco. In the interim, they shared loose singles “Shelter” in 2018 and “Good Luck” in 2019. Earlier this year, they kicked off the road to Into The Blue with the lead single “We’re Not In Orbit Yet…”, which lends some context to the space themes found in the “Saturdays” video.

Check out the “Saturdays” video above.

Into The Blue is out 10/7 via AWAL. Pre-order it here.

It is always fun to see one of your favorite bands perform live, and even better when they bring out a guest who breathes new life into certain records. This month, those who attended The National’s shows in Calgary and Alberta were treated to an appearance by Bartees Strange, who added his own flavor to “Mistaken For Strangers.”

Strange, who is booked for four of The National’s North American shows, tweeted his excitement about it Tuesday along with video of the performance. The 33-year old said “Last night in Missoula, So beautiful. So gorgeous to play on a mountain and to meet so many kindpeople. Will not forget! We hit again with @TheNational in Ogden Utah. My third time in Utah in the last year Here’s Us singing mistaken for strangers again!” with a variety of emojis scattered through the caption.

The National echoed the excitement in an Instagram post earlier this week, writing, “Our first time in Calgary, definitely not the last. Special thanks to @bartees_strange for playing a better version of Lemonworld than ours and joining us on Mistaken For Strangers.”

This is a special moment for Strange, as his 2020 EP Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy featured five covers of The National’s songs, including “Lemonworld,” “Mr. November,” and “All The Wine.”

Check out a clip of Bartees Strange and The National singing “Mistaken For Strangers” above.

Attempts by Friends alumni to find worthwhile TV follow-ups haven’t always gone smoothly. But while Matt LeBlanc will always have Episodes, Lisa Kudrow will always have The Comeback, her instant cringe classic about a washed-up sitcom star desperately, bleakly angling for another hit. There are only two seasons of the show, made nine years apart, the last in 2014. Alas, when asked if she’s ready to drop a third season when the next nine-year mark hits next year, she was the bearer of bad news.

“I don’t think we’re gonna make it! Not make it ever, but I don’t think we’re gonna make it in nine years,” Kudrow told The Daily Beast, referring to her and co-creator Michael Patrick King. “We also don’t know if HBO wants it, by the way. But we haven’t asked. We’re both sort of like, ‘I’m not gonna ask, are you?’ ‘No, I don’t want to hear ‘no.’ It’s something we love so much. That’s why it took nine years the first time!”

Kudrow does say she and King “always talk about what it would be,” adding, “I love being her. My God, that’s one of the easiest things to do.”

The Comeback is a satirical mockumentary purporting to be found footage of Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish, who achieved fame on a late ‘80s/early ‘90s sitcom called I’m It!, as she repeatedly attempts to return to the public eye. In real life, she happily refrains from returning to network television, and openly speculates that a version of Friends today would definitely not be all-white. In the meantime, perhaps someone at HBO should pay attention to what one of their stars is telling the press — even if they have their own problems right now.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Coheed and Cambria’s frontman, Claudio Sanchez, surprisingly is not the kind of person to embrace being personable with others. In an interview with the Washington Post, Sanchez dove deep into how he has been using Twitch as a way to embrace being a little more open with fans of his band. It is a really interesting example of a star in a completely different industry using something like Twitch as practice for their main career.

Amidst the interview though, Sanchez did drop one really interesting tidbit about his game of choice, Fortnite. Sanchez has seen other stars of music, such as Ariana Grande, get virtual Twitch concerts and while he’s not demanding that Epic Games put his band into Fortnite, he thinks Coheed and Cambria could put on a pretty unique show.

“I don’t know if we’re at that place where ‘Fortnite’ would be like, ‘Yeah, let’s throw a Coheed and Cambria concert,’” said Sanchez. “That being said, I think we do have all the assets to create something pretty interesting with ‘The Amory Wars,’ the ‘Vaxis’ story, characters, music. There’s something there I think we have that others might not.”

While Fortnite has never publicly considered Coheed and Cambria, that is something they may want to reconsider because they have a hardcore fanbase that would absolutely turn out for a virtual concert. It would also be an opportunity for Epic Games to break out into doing something a little different with their in-game concerts. So far they’ve mainly focused on showing huge megastars like Grande, but maybe with a little variety, we could have a chance at an entire music festival being hosted in-game.

As for Sanchez, anyone interested in catching him on Twitch needs to do it while he’s actually live. He doesn’t keep VODs or upload his streams to YouTube so it really is one of those “had to be there” moments whenever he does something.

Earlier this year, Bright Eyes shared reissues of their older albums, namely A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion, Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion, and Fevers And Mirrors: A Companion. However, they put a special twist on it: They loaded up each companion EP with five newly recorded versions of songs from the original albums, in addition to covers from artists of whom they are fond. Today, the band announced their second wave of companion EPs, which will release on November 11 via Dead Oceans.

Listeners will be treated to Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground: A Companion, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion, and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn: A Companion. These three projects will also feature contributions from Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Becky Stark and Maria Taylor, as wella s covers of “November” by Azure Ray, “Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel” by Townes Van Zandt, and “Agenda Suicide” by The Faint.

To jumpstart the lead-up to their November releases, Bright Eyes shared three new tracks Wednesday: “You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.,” “Old Soul Song (For The New World Order),” and “Gold Mine Gutted.” For a band that has been around as long as them, it’s clear that Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott are still very committed to connecting with their fans through old songs and a new approach, especially ahead of their upcoming tour.

Check out “You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.” above.

The three companion EPs will be out 11/11 via Dead Oceans. Pre-order them here.

Some good news and bad. The good: Disney+ is adding an ad-supported alternative for those who can’t afford to pay a steep monthly fee for regular access to Million Dollar Duck (and, for the records, lots of good movies). The bad: Those with regular subscriptions might have to think about downgrading. Oh, and there’s more bad news: The same goes for Hulu and ESPN+.

As per Variety, Disney, which owns all three aforementioned streamers, has unveiled that Disney+ Basic, the name for said ad-heavy version, will arrive on Dec. 8. This iteration will include a combined four minutes of ads spread throughout each hour. The price will be a low-low $7.99 — which happens to be the current price of the regular Disney+, which will soon be rechristened Disney+ Premium. That service will jump a whopping 38%, or $10.99 — a steep price so you can watch Mr. Boogedy in peace.

But there’s more! As of Oct. 10, the price of Hulu with ads will rise a relatively puny dollar, from $6.99 a month to $7.99. And then there’s ESPN+, which this month will leap from $6.99 a month to $9.99. Even one of the bundles is increasing. The Disney Bundle, aka Disney+ Premium, Hulu with ads, and ESPN+, will rise a buck, from $13.99 to $14.99. The version that features Hulu without ads will stay at $19.99.

Disney+ isn’t the only streamer making the leap to ad-supported versions to attract more customers. The foundering Netflix is doing the same, due in part to a combination of fleeing subscribers and movies they probably shouldn’t spent all the money in the world on.

(Via Variety)