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Harrison Patrick Smith has great experience under his belt, whether it’s touring with acts like Porches and Strange Ranger or putting out his own material as Turtlenecked. Now, though, he’s at the start of a new chapter with the project The Dare. He recently kicked things off with the new single “Girls,” a two-minute, in-your-face, electro-pop-rock romp cut from the same cloth as LCD Soundsystem and early Calvin Harris.

Smith says of the songs video, “Jake Lazovick (Powered by Wind) shot the video at Home Sweet Home, where I DJ weekly, in order to capture a real downtown NYC party. We invited all of our friends and told them to go crazy while I DJ’d and ran around. A lot of the people in it are fellow musicians or collaborators! And some of them are girls.”

Smith previously said of “Girls,” “Just wanted to make something like ‘F*ck The Pain Away’ by Peaches, ‘Daft Punk Is Playing At My House’, or something off Paul’s Boutique. Whipped it up in like 30 minutes at 3am in my bedroom.”

Smith also said of The Dare more broadly, “The Dare is my foray into the worlds of electroclash, techno, and house. For a long time I kept everything I made under the umbrella of Turtlenecked, but the name didn’t fit the aesthetic of the new material and I feel like a different person from the 18 year old who formed Turtlenecked. As far as separation between indie rock / club music, I love the early 2000s so much because there was so much fluidity — the Maison Kitsune remix EPs, the DFA remixes of Le Tigre or The Rakes, Diplo remixing Bloc Party etc. There’s a feeling of optimism and openness in underground music from that time that I feel faded into genre camps again in the mid 2010s. I wanna bring that feeling back.”

Watch the “Girls” video above.

Last night, fans of The Breakfast Club radio show were nearly sent into a panic after longtime co-host Angela Yee posted a tweet implying that the New York-based show would be coming to an end: “The breakfast club as you know it is officially over,” her tweet read.

Her post left listeners divided, with some sad about the show coming to a potential end, many sharing clips of the show’s most iconic moments, while others celebrated the implied end of the show, calling the collective comprised of Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, and DJ Envy “toxic.”

What happened to The Breakfast Club and what’s next?

Yee clarified this morning on today’s episode that The Breakfast Club is not actually coming to an end, but she will, in fact, be leaving the show. She will later launch her own nationally syndicated daily program for iHeartRadio. She also confirmed that she won’t officially exit The Breakfast Club for at least another month.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will be called Way Up With Angela Yee, and will broadcast on over 30 iHeartMedia stations across the country. On the show, Yee will interact with celebrities and conduct interviews, while also discussing contemporary topics.

As of now, it is not confirmed whether Yee will be replaced on The Breakfast Club, or if Envy and Charlamagne will host the show by themselves.

In a self-own for the ages, Donald Trump could be facing five years in prison for a bill he signed in an effort to stick it to Hillary Clinton over her email scandal, which turned out to be nothing. According to reports, Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified information is the focus of the recent FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, which prior to 2018, might not have been that big of a deal. However, thanks to Trump imposing harsher punishments through a national security bill that broadened the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, he potentially screwed himself.

Via Business Insider:

It upgraded the seriousness of wrongly moving classified material, turning it from a misdemeanor into a felony — and increasing the maximum punishment from one year to five.

[National Security attorney Bradley P.] Moss noted that it was passed in the wake of Trump’s relentless attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign on Hillary Clinton for allegedly mishandling classified information.

Hilarious. To add insult to self-injury, Newsweek recently reported that the Mar-a-Lago investigationwas sparked after a confidential source informed the FBI that Trump was still holding on to classified documents. Not only that, but the informant reportedly know the exact location of said documents, which prompted the Department of Justice to plan the Mar-a-Lago raid.

Unfortunately, the plan was to also avoid a “media circus” by conducting the search while Trump was away, but that blew up immediately when the former president took it upon himself to announce to the world that Mar-a-Lago has been raided. Like clockwork, Republican politicians and Fox News pundits lined up to defend Trump. Russia even got in on the act, which is exactly what the former president needs right now. Thanks, Putin!

(Via Business Insider)

The Brooklyn Nets have yet to figure out a Kevin Durant trade. Despite weeks of rumors and speculation ever since Durant requested that the team sends him elsewhere, Brooklyn has not found a team that’s been able to meet their considerable asking price for the two-time NBA Finals MVP.

Basically, while a number of teams have made offers, the door is open for someone to come in and acquire Durant while Boston, or Miami, or Phoenix, or any of the reported main suitors are left at the alter. In a new piece by Ian Begley of SNY, it was reported that there are “high-ranking members of the Sixers who’ve felt strongly about engaging with Brooklyn on a Durant trade.”

Beyond that, Begley reports that Durant “sees Philadelphia as another desired landing spot.” It’s not hard to see why Durant would be interest in going to the Sixers, as he’s praised Joel Embiid in the past, nearly got to the conference finals in 2021 with James Harden as his primary running mate in Brooklyn, and shares a close friendship with offseason acquisition P.J. Tucker. Plus the two teams have worked on a high-profile move recently, as the Sixers got Harden from the Nets at the trade deadline for a package that included Ben Simmons.

As Begley laid out, Philly could build a package around young standout guard Tyrese Maxey and Tobias Harris. There might be an issue with draft capital that heads out — the Sixers’ 2023 first-round pick is already owned by the Nets and their 2027 pick is in Brooklyn’s hands with some protections on it, while their 2025 pick is owned by Oklahoma City — but if they can get that all sorted out, perhaps there is a way that the team can get in on the race to acquire Durant.

Missy Elliott is one of the most beloved and accomplished rappers of all time, and through it all, she has made her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia proud. So proud, in fact, that yesterday, the Portsmouth city council unanimously voted to rename a portion of the city’s McLean Street to Missy Elliott Boulevard.

Elliott is pretty pumped about the news, as she reacted on Twitter, “I am forever GRATEFUL P-TOWN VA #757 LOVE.”

In another celebratory tweet, she wrote, “I am so Humbly Grateful #757 VA 2 up 2 down. i been through many ups & downs & times I wanted to give up but Gods plan was different! & all I can do is say Thank you & Thank you to everyone on the City Counsel I am so GRATEFUL for EVERYTHING.”

It is currently unclear when or if any sort of ceremony to mark the name change will be held.

According to WTKR, the name change was set in motion by Erin Carter, a friend of the Elliott family. They also note that Elliott has done plenty of good for the community, like donating $25,000 to Manor High School (then named Woodrow Wilson High School). Some of her 2005 reality show The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliott was filmed in nearby Norfolk.

When Michael Jackson died 13 years ago, the pop music world lost a legend. However markedly mysterious and controversial his personal life was, his contributions to music will go down in history as some of the most influential of all time.

Part of what made him such a beloved singer was the uniqueness of his voice. From the time he was a young child singing lead for The Jackson 5, his high-pitched vocals stood out. Hearing him sing live was impressive, his pitch-perfect performances always entertaining.

No one could ever really be compared to MJ, or so we thought. Out of the blue, a guy showed up on TikTok recently with a casual performance that sounds so much like the King of Pop it’s blowing people away.

Brandon Conway posted his first TikTok video ever on July 24, and in less than three weeks it’s been viewed more than 27 million times. It’s just him standing in a parking lot snapping his fingers and singing “The Way You Make Me Feel,” but when he opens his mouth, whoa.

As he keeps going, it gets even more whoa. Then he hits Jackson’s signature “he he” and the whoa turns into what?!?

Take a listen:

@brandonconway11

First post on tiktok let me know what you guys think! More videos coming soon feom mj to country to rock so yall be sure to stay tuned!#fyp #singer #usherchallenge @usher @tpain #letsgo #firstvideo

Uncanny, right? If you need a reminder of how Jackson himself sounded when he sang it, here’s a live performance from Auckland during his 1996 world tour.

Very impressive. You can follow Brandon Conway on TikTok to hear more from him.

Details on the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago are starting to fall into place. According to a senior Justice Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, a confidential source not only told the Bureau which classified documents Donald Trump was allegedly still hiding, but exactly where the former president was keeping them. With that information in play, plans were made to search Mar-a-Lago while Trump was gone to avoid a political circus. Obviously, that did not work out.

Via Newsweek:

The effort to keep the raid low-key failed: instead, it prompted a furious response from GOP leaders and Trump supporters. “What a spectacular backfire,” says the Justice official.

“I know that there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it is really the best and the worst of the bureaucracy in action,” the official says. “They wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet [they] got exactly the opposite.”

According to additional sources, plans for the search were made weeks ago and had no political motive. The FBI’s goal was “recovering highly classified documents that were illegally removed from the White House.” However, this is Donald Trump we’re talking about it, so there’s no way any of this was going to happen quietly.

“They were seeking to avoid any media circus,” a senior intelligence official told Newsweek. “So even though everything made sense bureaucratically and the FBI feared that the documents might be destroyed, they also created the very firestorm they sought to avoid, in ignoring the fallout.”

(Via Newsweek)

For much of her life, singer and actress Halle Bailey has worked creatively alongside her older sister Chlöe. From making YouTube videos, to getting signed to Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment label as Chloe x Halle, to acting on Freeform’s hit TV series, Grown-ish, the two have been a dynamic duo.

Over the past two years, the two have embarked on separate endeavors. They are both working on solo music and movies of their own. In 2019, Halle was announced to play Ariel in the live adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Production was often delayed, but took place during late 2020 and early into 2021. When the film wrapped last summer, Halle immediately went to film her parts for a remake of The Color Purple, in which she will play Nettie.

The Color Purple contains darker themes than The Little Mermaid, however, Halle revealed to Variety that while filming The Color Purple, she drew from the pain of being in London filming The Little Mermaid, and not being able to see Chlöe, who was in the US for much of that time.

“She couldn’t visit me; everything was on lockdown,” Halle said, “and it was that agony, that pain of being pulled away from something that’s like your arm, so I was pulling from that.”

The Little Mermaid will arrive to theaters on May 23, 2023 and The Color Purple will premiere on December 20, 2023.

After Republicans in the Senate tanked the Honor Our PACT Act, which would provide necessary and long overdue healthcare to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, Jon Stewart immediately went to work relentlessly hounding them for nuking the bill. Reportedly, Senator Pat Toomey convinced his GOP colleagues to vote against the bill in retaliation for Democrats moving ahead with President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation, and Stewart was not having it. He took the fight to the Capitol steps before going on a whirlwind and righteously profane media tour across CNN, Newsmax, and even Jack Posobiec’s Twitter account.

Here’s the thing: Stewart’s relentless crusade worked. Less than a week later, Republicans in the Senate backtracked and the bill passed through with an 86-11 vote. During a signing for the bill on Wednesday, Biden took a moment to praise Stewart for his efforts. Via Deadline:

“What you have done Jon matters, and you know it does. You should know it really, really matters. You refused to let anybody forget, you refused to let them forget, and we owe you big man, we owe you big,” Biden said.

Stewart, who was present for the East Room ceremony, was given a standing ovation.

During the emotional ceremony, Biden brought up his personal connection to the burn pit issue: The loss of his son, Beau, who died of brain cancer from his time in service. Biden sat his grandson next to the daughter of an Ohio veteran who died of lung cancer from being exposed to the toxic pits.

“His daddy lost to the same burn pits, and he knows what you are going through,” Biden said. “But guess what? You are going to do this, and you are going to be really, really strong.”

(Via Deadline)

Earlier this month, it was revealed that HBO would be shelving the long-awaited Batgirl movie, which left many DC fans scrambling to understand where exactly the superhero giant is headed. After a series of misses (sorry, Morbius) it’s unclear what the future of DC will be, which includes the upcoming Ezra Miller-led movie The Flash. Shockingly, that movie seems to be going on as planned!

Miller has been in various amounts of legal trouble this year, which began with them being arrested in Hawaii, getting accused of holding a family captive on a remote farm in Vermont, allegedly grooming multiple minors, and most recently being charged with burglary. And yet somehow, against all odds, Miller has been reportedly filming scenes for The Flash all summer.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miller has been working on reshoots of The Flash over the last few months before being arrested last week. DC has not given any indication that the movie will not be moving forward, and has not reported any incidents on the set by Miller. In fact, advanced screenings of the superhero movie have been “testing well.” The movie is slated for a June 2023 release.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav seems to be optimistic about the upcoming roster of movies, which includes The Rock’s Black Adam, the upcoming Aquaman sequel, and The Flash. Zaslav says “We’ve seen [the movies]. We think they are terrific, and we think we can make them even better.” Zaslav says that the company has “done a reset” and now has a 10-year plan for DC. “We are going to focus on quality. We are not going to release any film before it’s ready,” he added. “DC is something we can make better.”

It seems like their way of “making something better” is to cancel one highly-anticipated movie in favor of another movie led by a very controversial public figure. Whatever works!

Miller was last reported to be MIA when they missed a court date in July, though it seems like they’ve just been hiding in plain sight the whole time, probably dressed as The Flash.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)