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The UK’s Latitude Festival wrapped up its 2022 edition yesterday, with Snow Patrol closing out the main stage. (Snow Patrol remain a major draw in the UK, by the way, as their previous five albums — including their latest, 2018’s Wildness — have peaked at at least No. 3 on the charts over there.) Their set actually turned out to have some unexpected additional star power, as Ed Sheeran popped up on multiple occasions.

Towards the end of the main set, Sheeran took the stage to help Snow Patrol perform “Bad Habits,” which Gary Lightbody started singing before Sheeran emerged to take over lead vocal duties. Later, during the encore, Sheeran showed up again to help the band close their set with “Just Say Yes.”

Sheeran’s appearance here isn’t completely out of the blue, as he and the band’s Johnny McDaid are frequent songwriting collaborators; McDaid co-wrote most of the songs on Sheeran’s x, ÷, and = albums.

Sheeran has been in a collaborative mood lately: He and Russ just dropped “Are You Entertained” last week while he and Burna Boy dropped a “For My Hand” video earlier this month.

Watch Snow Patrol and Sheeran perform “Bad Habits” above.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

When Kendrick Lamar put Kodak Black on his new album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, fans were split about the decision. This is mainly due to the stark disparity between the two rappers’ reputations, which are about as far apart as their respective hometowns are on the US map. While Kendrick is largely perceived as an intellectual fount of wisdom, Kodak’s drawn as much attention for his criminal rap sheet and social miscues as he is for his actual rhymes.

That said, the two men probably share more in common than conflict, and Kendrick likely included Kodak on “Silent Hill” to blur the lines between them and show fans that their perceived differences are mostly a matter of circumstance. Unfortunately for him, that doesn’t mean people were willing just to accept Kodak’s inclusion. This weekend at Rolling Loud in Miami, though, Kendrick doubled down, bringing out the Pompano Beach native to perform their collaboration for his hometown.

Kodak, who was arrested for a potential probation violation last week when police allegedly found unprescribed oxycontin in his car during a traffic stop, performed wearing an ankle monitor. Kendrick was also joined on stage by his younger cousin Baby Keem, who performed their song “Family Ties.”

When Nike took over the NBA’s uniforms, they made it clear their goal was to keep uniforms fresh and allow teams to be more creative with what they wore, providing the opportunity to add new alternate uniforms just about every season.

That creativity can be something of a blessing and a curse for teams, as teams far too often move on from a hit uniform design — like the Heat’s Vice look that they, for some reason, have gotten rid of — while forcing teams to feel like they have to crank out a new uniform every year (in part to sell more merch). That means we probably get more duds than we do winners across the league as a whole, and this summer hasn’t exactly been a resounding success on the new uniform market. Utah’s complete rebrand has been dreadful, as they now look like a made up team in a movie that couldn’t get official licensing, while the Cavs new uniform set is hit and miss.

On Monday, the Spurs joined the new uniform party with a single alternate, their Statement Edition uniform, that somehow manages to hit and miss all in one.

The shorts are good and the Mexican serape print on the side is a nice touch, but it’s all ruined by the font disaster on the front of the jersey. The mismatched font between the letters and numbers is bad on its own. It is generally too blocky, but made worse by the fact that SATX might be one of the most aesthetically displeasing combinations of letters you could throw on the front of the jersey. I get what they’re going for here, but it simply doesn’t work. This has the potential to be a good uniform (and the shorts are already there, I like the Texas logo and the print on the striping) but the jersey just drags it all down with the font and the choice to go with SATX.

Things got rowdy at Rage Against The Machine’s concert at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena over the weekend (on Saturday, July 23): A fan ran on stage and while security subdued them, Tom Morello accidentally got tackled. The good news is that Morello was alright and the show went on, but an unfortunate side-effect is that the stage-crashing antics overshadowed a cool moment from earlier in the show.

On Rage’s ongoing tour, Run The Jewels are opening, which provided the perfect opportunity for El-P and Killer Mike to join Zack De La Rocha and company on stage for a performance of “Close Your Eyes (And Count To F*ck),” the 2014 Run The Jewels 2 single that features De La Rocha. Indeed, that’s just what they did in Toronto, marking the first time RATM has performed the song live. De La Rocha has actually joined Run The Jewels to perform the song live on multiple occasions, like at Pitchfork Music Festival in 2015.

RATM’s tour has been eventful, even before this weekend: De La Rocha injured his leg a couple weeks ago and the band has used its time on stage to rage against the Supreme Court and injustices faced by Canadian Indigenous peoples.

Watch Rage Against The Machine and Run The Jewels perform “Close Your Eyes (And Count To F*ck)” above.

After a brief hiatus, John Oliver returned to Last Week Tonight on Sunday where he immediately got to work tearing into Mad Money host Jim Cramer for misleading his audience about the threat of inflation. In fairness, Cramer wasn’t the only economist who thought the Federal Reserve wouldn’t raise interest rates, but he was definitely one of the loudest, and Oliver roasted him for the supremely bad take.

“Here is Jim Cramer, the answer to the question, what if a garbage can full of cocaine and business school pamphlets,” Oliver said before playing a clip of the Mad Money host arguing that the inflation issue would go away on its own. Via Yahoo:

Oliver then played a clip of Cramer saying, “The bottom line, I don’t think Powell (Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell) needs to slam the brakes on the economy, despite what you hear from the inflationistas in the media, the weight of the evidence is finally going Powell’s way. Team transitory is going to win. I say stop freaking about inflation.”

“Okay, setting aside the fact that he’s speaking with an intensity level there, best described as Patti Lupone admonishing a rude audience member,” Oliver said in response, “it’s pretty clear that this clip, much like Jim Cramer himself, has not aged very well.”

Oliver then twisted the knife just a bit more by playing a clip of Cramer from six months later where he’s doing a “full 180 with a very different tone” by personally urging the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to “break this thing now.”

“That was a pretty dramatic turnaround,” Oliver quipped. “He went from loudly unconcerned about rising prices to full-blown inflationista in a matter of months.”

(Via Yahoo!)

Before she was a two-time Oscar nominee and face of the DC Extended Universe, for better and worse, Margot Robbie was on an Australian soap opera. Neighbours premiered in 1985 and it’s aired nearly 9,000 episodes since then. But it’s most notorious, at least among non-Aussies, for launching the careers of Kylie Minogue, Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth (brother Chris also appeared in an episode), Guy Pearce, and Robbie, who will reprise her role as Donna in the Neighbours series finale.

“Surprise! You didn’t think we were done did you?! We’re thrilled to share that Margot Robbie, Jesse Spencer, Delta Goodrem, Kym Valentine and Carla Bonner will all make an appearance in our finale!” the show’s official Twitter account tweeted over the weekend. Robbie filmed her cameo “from Los Angeles,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, and she’ll “join other famous alumni in returning for the series’ end, including Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Natalie Imbruglia, and more.”

The painstakingly-detailed Wikipedia page for Robbie’s character describes her as a “lovable girl,” who is “fiery, beautiful, kooky, and confident.” She was also nominated for Fave Aussie Hottie at the Nickelodeon Australian Kids’ Choice Awards, which stopped existing in 2011. Presumably because Robbie lost to this guy (no offense).

The Neighbours finale will air on July 28 in Australia and July 29 in the United Kingdom, but if you start from the first episode, you’ll be able to catch up by, like, 2047.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Back in late 2021, Adele announced Weekends With Adele, a Las Vegas residency that she shortly after ended up postponing. Now, the new dates are finally here, as Adele has at last unveiled when the rescheduled Weekends With Adele shows are happening.

The residency now runs from November to March 2023, on Fridays and Saturdays. Additionally, along with the original 24 dates, 8 new ones have been added, for a total of 32 shows. It all goes down at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. A Ticketmaster blog post has more information on getting tickets.

In a note on her website, Adele wrote, “Words can’t explain how ecstatic I am to finally be able to announce these rescheduled shows. I truly was heartbroken to have to cancel them. But after what feels like an eternity of figuring out logistics for the show that I really want to deliver, and knowing it can happen, I’m more excited than ever! Now I know for some of you it was a horrible decision on my part, and I will always be sorry for that, but I promise you it was the right one. To be with you in such an intimate space every week has been what I’ve most been looking forward to and I’m going to give you the absolute best of me. Thank you for your patience, I love you x Adele.”

Find the full list of Weekends With Adele dates below.

11/18/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
11/19/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
11/25/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
11/26/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/02/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/03/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/09/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/10/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/16/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/17/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/23/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
12/24/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
01/20/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
01/21/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
01/27/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
01/28/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/03/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/04/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/10/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/11/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/17/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/18/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/24/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
02/25/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/03/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/04/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/10/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/11/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/17/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/18/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/24/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
03/25/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace

It’s been nearly two decades since Joni Mitchell offered a full live performance to the world, but that drought came to an end on Sunday evening. She surprised attendees of the Newport Folk Festival with a full performance, her first since 2002, as she joined country singer and friend Brandi Carlile at the festival. It’s there that Mitchell performed classics like “A Case Of You,” “Both Sides Now,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” and even the guitar solo from “Just Like This Train.” In total, Mitchell’s set at the Newport Folk Festival featured 13 songs for the audience to enjoy.

Elsewhere, Mitchell and Carlile were accompanied by Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Blake Mills, Jess Wolfe, and Holly Laessig of the band Lucius, and Mitchell’s bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth and Celisse Henderson for a live edition of the private “Joni Jam” nights. Mitchell has held these nights in recent years at her Los Angeles home and they’ve featured appearances from Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, and more.

Mitchell’s performance was her first live show since performing Wiltern in Los Angeles back in November 2002. It was also her first time back at the Newport Folk Festival since 1969 when she appeared on the festival lineup alongside Arlo Guthrie, The Everly Brothers, and more.

You can view clips from Joni Mitchell’s performance in the posts above.

Keke Palmer stars in Jordan Peele’s Nope, which pulled in an estimated $44 million over the weekend. It’s a win for original IP and audiences, and it’s also produced an abundance of marvelous interviews from Keke, who has candidly admitted that, yep, she’s starring in an alien movie but has no idea about those Mulder and Scully people.

That might be for the better, considering that The X-Files can lead to inappropriate jokes about autoerotic asphyxiation (actually, that might simply be my immaturity coming through), but more to the point today, Keke doesn’t feel fantastic about people suggesting that this movie is her “breakout” role. Even more so, the former child star (of Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP and more) isn’t thrilled to see people compare her career trajectory to Zendaya, also a former child star (of Disney Channel’s Shake It Up) who’s gone on to major mainstream success. In response to a tweet that described such comparisons to “one of the clearest examples of how colorism plays out in Hollywood,” Keke expressed agreement, and she pointed out why in a thread.

“A great example of colorism is to believe I can be compared to anyone. I’m the youngest talk show host ever,” Keke tweeted. “The first Black woman to star in her own show on Nickelodeon, & the youngest & first Black Cinderella on broadway. I’m an incomparable talent. Baby, THIS, is Keke Palmer.”

In other words, don’t compare Keke to anyone, not even the great Zendaya, because her accomplishments stand on their own.

“I’ve been a leading lady since I was 11 years old,” Palmer continued. “I have over 100+ credits, and currently starring in an original screenplay that’s the number one film at the box office #NOPE. I’ve had a blessed career thus far, I couldn’t ask for more but God continues to surprise me.”

Nope is currently dominating theaters, proving that we’ll have many more Jordan Peele projects to come. Hopefully, some of those will include Keke Palmer.

Newport Folk Festival went down in Rhode Island this weekend and part of the stacked bill was The National. It turned out fans didn’t even have to go to their set to hear one of their songs, though, as an all-star indie lineup came together to cover one of the group’s classic.

Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers was also performing at the festival and during their performance, they brought out Lucy Dacus (who’s opening for The National on their recently started tour) and Clairo to join them for a cover of The National’s signature High Violet single “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” It was a subdued rendition of the song, with Antonoff singing and playing guitar as the rest of Bleachers provided light accompaniment and Clairo and Dacus harmonized with Antonoff on the hook.

The two guests were already on-hand as they were also part of the festival lineup. Aside from all the aforementioned, this year’s festival also features Courtney Barnett, Dinosaur Jr., Faye Webster, Beabadoobee, Sylvan Esso, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, The Linda Lindas, and Japanese Breakfast, among others.

Meanwhile, Antonoff is fresh off a reported recent engagement and he was also at the helm of the Minions: The Rise Of Gru soundtrack.

Watch Bleachers, Dacus, and Clairo perform “Bloodbuzz Ohio” above.