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Elon Musk continued his trolling of Silicon Valley by blasting Netflix after the streaming giant reported it lost over 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year, causing stock prices to fall. To the surprise of no one, Musk’s rhetoric skewed heavily towards the right as the Tesla CEO accused Netflix of being too “woke.” Musk has been making similar complaints about Twitter after snatching up shares of the social media company and attempting a hostile takeover that many believe is yet another troll.

“The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable,” Musk tweeted late Monday night in response to an article on the streaming company’s stock price dropping over 20%.

Considering Musk has a sizable social media following, it didn’t take long for his legion of online fans to chime in. The Space X founder even took the time to agree with claims that wokeness is “the biggest threat to the civilization” that’s already affected the entire entertainment industry and not just Netflix.

However, like most critics who see wokeness behind every corner, Musk’s attacks don’t grasp the situation. Late last year, Netflix was embroiled in a scandal over Dave Chappelle‘s comedy special, The Closer, which prompted an employee walkout over his trans jokes. While Netflix CEO ultimately apologized for not listening to employee’s concerns at the outset of the controversy, the streaming giant did not sever ties with the comedian and have already lined up a new comedy series from Chappelle. Right-leaning comedian Jeff Foxworthy also recently released a Netflix special where he gripes about participation trophies to a predominantly white audience. If that’s “woke,” then the word has lost all meaning.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Bartees Strange has been working towards something this year: He signed with 4AD and dropped his debut single for the label, “Heavy Heart,” in March. Now, the inevitable album news has been revealed: Farm To Table is set for release on June 17. That news arrived alongside a new single, “Cosigns,” on which he shows love to some of his peers in music, like Bon Iver, Phoebe Bridgers, Courtney Barnett, and Lucy Dacus.

Most notably, the track is a stylistic departure for Bartees, starting as Auto-Tuned trap before working its way back to more familiar indie-rock territory.

Press materials note of the new album’s relationship to its predecessor, “Where his 2020 debut record Live Forever introduced the experiences and places that shaped Bartees (Flagey Brussels, Mustang Oklahoma), Farm To Table zeros in on the people — specifically his family — and those closest to him on his journey so far. With his career firmly on the ascent, Farm To Table examines Bartees’ constantly shapeshifting relationship with life post-Live Forever. It also speaks to a deeper lore that says, don’t forget where you came from, and this album is why.”

Watch the “Cosigns” video above. Below, find the Farm To Table art and tracklist, as well as Strange’s upcoming tour dates.

1. “Heavy Heart”
2. “Mullholland Dr”
3. “Wretched”
4. “Cosigns”
5. “Tours”
6. “Hold The Line”
7. “We Were Only Close For Like Two Weeks”
8. “Escape This Circus”
9. “Black Gold”
10. “Hennessy”

04/22 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre *
04/23 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *
04/24 — Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre *
04/26 — Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades *
04/29 — San Diego, CA @ House of Blues *
04/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern *
05/01 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren *
05/04 — Austin, TX @ Stubbs BBQ *
05/05 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
05/06 — Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater *
05/07 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre *
05/08 — Kansas City, MO @ Grinders KC *
05/10 — Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre *
05/11 — Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre *
05/13 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party *
07/01 — Six Fours Les Plages, FR @ Pointu Festival
07/03 — Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter 2022
07/04 — Cologne, DE @ Helios37
07/05 — Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
07/07 — Berlin, DE @ Badehaus
07/09 — Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival 2022
07/11 — Munich, DE @ Milla
07/12 — Fribourg, CH @ Festival Les Georges
07/13 — Rees-Haldern, DE @ Haldern Pop Bar
07/14 — Amsterdam, NL @ Upstairs @ Paradiso
07/16 — Leeds, GB @ Community Room @ Brudenell Social Club
07/17 — Manchester, GB @ Night & Day Café
07/19 — Cardiff, GB @ Clwb Ifor Bach
07/20 — Brighton, GB @ Patterns
07/21 — London, GB @ Powerhaus
07/22 — Suffolk, GB @ Latitude Festival
08/07 — Calgary, AB @ Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium %
08/08 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater %
08/09 — Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater %
08/10 — Dillon, CO @ Dillon Amphitheater %
08/13 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA ~
08/26 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage ^

* with Car Seat Headrest
% with The National
~ Here And There festival with Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus, Men I Trust, Faye Webster, The Beths, and Hana Vu
^ with Metric

Farm To Table is out 6/17 via 4AD. Pre-order it here.

In her latest video, “PBC,” rapper Flo Milli channels her inner supermodel, rocking various fashions and delivering confident walks on floating runways. Directed by Amber Park, “PBC,” which stands for “pretty, Black, cute,” is a next-level visual, showcasing Milli’s ability to deliver fire bars while looking spectacular in a variety of clothes.

Some of her looks include a black and white one-piece garment with long leather gloves and matching pumps, a red pearl snap shirt with matching pants and a long wig, and a cut green leather suit with a tight hood encasing her head.

In a recent interview with NME, Milli admitted that her 2020 debut mixtape, Ho, Why Is You Here? didn’t showcase the best of her ability. She revealed that her upcoming debut album will give listeners “100 percent.”

“I’m always shooting for bigger,” Milli said, “so if I had a goal then, it’s bigger now. I try not to focus on the stuff I have already done because I am always trying to reinvent myself, and once I’m done with something, I move on to the next because I can’t be married to something. I have to keep coming up with new stuff”.

Check out “PBC” above.

Flo Milli’s debut album is out later this spring via RCA.

Leikeli47’s upcoming album Shape Up is one of Uproxx’s most anticipated hip-hop albums of spring 2022, and the masked MC dropped by The Tonight Show studio to show why. Wearing a pink Celine sweatshirt with her customary Nike Air Maxes and bandana balaclava, she performed a fiery rendition of the album’s lead single “Chitty Bang” in a stripped-down set backed by her DJ/hype man, who you may know as former annual “Rap Up” rapper Skillz(!).

The Virginia rapper — Leikeli, not Skillz — took a long and well-deserved break after her last album, 2018’s Acrylic. She reappeared in the summer of 2020 with “Zoom,” ostensibly the first single from her comeback album. However, it seemed she wanted to perfect the album in question, heading back to the studio for another year and a half before returning with “Chitty Bang” in January this year. Shortly afterward, she announced the release date for Shape Up (May 13) with the single “BITM.” The most recently released single, “LL Cool J,” continued Leikeli’s tradition of mystery. Now, with the album right around the corner, it’s time to see whether Shape Up is worth the wait — and judging from the output so far, it should be.

Watch Leikeli47 perform “Chitty Bang” on The Tonight Show above.

Donald Trump didn’t dye any eggs this Easter, but he did take part of what seems to become his own holiday tradition: Wishing peace and prosperity to the world—including “the Radical Left Maniacs who are doing everything possible to destroy our Country” and “failed gubernatorial candidate and racist Attorney General Letitia James.” (These well-wishes came over the span of three separate press releases.)

The former president was spotted all around his Mar-a-Lago golf club over the weekend, hitting the links and waving to his guests at brunch like some sort of Buddha-sized deity. One place he most definitely wasn’t spotted, according to People, was at church. And no, it’s not because he might combust upon entering, but—according to a Trump insider—because “He is no longer president, so he doesn’t have to go to church.”

While Trump has made a habit of trying to paint himself as a loyal churchgoer, numerous missteps have indicated otherwise—most notably, the time he tear-gassed a bunch of peaceful protestors in order to take a picture outside the historic St. John’s Church, just steps from the White House, but didn’t even bother to step inside.

In 2015, while campaigning to become president, Trump was asked about whether he even attended church, to which he replied yes and even stated that “I am Presbyterian Protestant. I go to Marble Collegiate Church.” When asked to confirm this statement, however, the church only stated what most of us already suspected: that the wannabe president was not “an active member.”

If Trump plans to make good on his promises/threats to run for president yet again in 2024, one would think he’d want to keep up appearances. But one political insider is doubtful that Trump’s name will actually appear on the ticket. “Donald is making all of the moves as if he were going to run, but my bet is that he won’t,” the source said. “In the meantime, he loves the adulation and fundraising needed with a potential run. Donald is involved with everything the GOPs are doing—he is a non-royal king.”

The source then added what might be the most terrifying eight words ever uttered in the history of language: “Who knows—maybe Don Jr. will run instead.”

“He is itching for it,” the source noted, “and the name recognition is enough.”

Representatives for Trump did not respond to People’s request for comment.

(Via People)

I’m a simple man who enjoys simple things, like a warm stack of chocolate chip pancakes, a Sunday afternoon nap, and notoriously handsome actor Oscar Isaac playing with puppies. The Moon Knight star dropped by The Late Show on Tuesday, where host Stephen Colbert enlisted his help in trying to get some rescue dogs adopted on behalf of New York’s North Shore Animal League.

Isaac and Colbert made up “flattering lies” for each of the adoptable dogs “to make you want to adopt them even more.” Such as: Sterling, a basset hound mix, has “memorized the bathroom codes for every Starbucks in the country,” while Alma, a potcake (just in time for April 20) mix, is a “champion marathon runner, even better she’s agreed to attach your Fitbit to her collar, so now all those steps can be yours.” And let’s not forget labrador mix Goose, who was one of Isaac’s co-stars in Best Picture nominee Dune. “She played the most challenging role of all: Timmy Chalamet’s soft, fluffy hair,” he joked.

You can watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert clip above.

And to learn more about the North Shore Animal League, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, click here.

Soccer Mommy (aka Sophie Allison) is clearly looking to push herself on her new album Sometimes, Forever, evidenced by the fact she opted to enlist Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never as the LP’s producer. That shines through on her latest single, “Unholy Affliction,” which sees Allison incorporating experimental and alternative influences on the dark song.

Allison says of the track, “‘Unholy’ was really fun in the studio because the end result was totally different from what we expected. Dan made this really cool sequence with the demo vocals that wound up becoming most of the song. It was nice to have 2 different versions of the song that kind of mashed together.”

In a recent Pitchfork interview, Allison said she’s a “little bit territorial” about her music, noting, “I just want stuff to be uniquely mine.” Still, she was eager to work with Lopatin on the album and wanted him to “go crazy” with his production. Lopatin said of Allison, “Sophie finds magical ways to complicate her bubblegum melodies with a subtle weirdness: a twisted chord, a bent texture, some dark comedy. It’s addictive to listen to all that sweet and sour stuff she has going on, so I just tried to amplify that.”

Listen to “Unholy Affliction” above.

Sometimes, Forever is out 6/24 via Loma Vista Recordings. Pre-order it here.

During Arcade Fire’s joyous, surprise performance on Friday evening in the Mojave tent at Coachella, leader Win Butler took time to reflect (reflekt?). He recalled the band’s first performance at the event nearly 20 years prior in 2005, noting that they were just children back then. It’s the kind of realization that not many bands or artists are able to make at Coachella. Sure, someone like Richie Hawtin can trace his roots back to the first Coachella, but the vast majority of musicians don’t get to grow old with a music festival. If they aren’t sent out to pasture, there is certainly a nostalgia-based mico-genre fest waiting for them 20 years down the road.

Arcade Fire, of course, aren’t just any band. Their rise has always been inextricably linked to Coachella, this last weekend being their fifth total appearance, including headlining in 2011 and 2014. YouTube videos of those first couple performances in 2005 and 2007 are touchstones to how many people first experienced them, in a time when a conquering set at Coachella could help get you to a next level, whatever that is. Announced with just a day’s warning, the Canadian indie-rock icons played what is the equivalent of a Coachella underplay (they’ve recently been doing club shows in New York and their current home of New Orleans), filling up the modest Mojave instead of their usual Coachella Stage.

But despite their iconic status, there was still some concern about whether the young-leaning Coachella fans would even care. So, yes, it was heartening to see the Mojave overflowing, and even more so to find people singing along not just to the classics like “Rebellion (Lies)” and “Wake Up,” but also “Afterlife” and “The Suburbs.” It felt like exactly the moment the band needed after years of playing arenas, to see their music connecting in a space where the energy didn’t get lost in the rafters. The band looked Coachella straight in the eyes and found their commitment delivered back to them in spades.

But while the magic of their 65-minute performance can be attributed to many things — the surprise aspect, Arcade Fire’s live prowess, the glory of a sunset set in the desert — it also affirmed something a bit unexpected. Coachella, for the first time in more than a decade and in its 21st total installment, felt like a music festival for adults.

It doesn’t necessarily feel like the event was booked that way. Its headliners, particularly Harry Styles and Billie Eilish, are both closely tied to youth culture. Styles certainly tries to bridge the youth of today with those of decades past (he’s virtually always linking himself back to classic rock signifiers via style, album titles, even his collaborators and choices of cover songs), but as a live performer, he’s still used to playing for teens. Even at Coachella, there was a bit of overly-rehearsed canned banter that comes with the territory of playing for young people. In turn, it also felt like his headlining set was the least attended and talked about on the grounds. Eilish, in turn, only recently stopped being a teen herself. But she’s always been an outlier for her age group, which is probably why every aging male rocker under the sun wants to make it known in their interviews that they are a fan.

And maybe the headliners knew that this Coachella would be a different demographic than years past. Styles bringing out ’90s country-pop legend Shania Twain was certainly not a play for the zoomers hearts, nor was Billie’s decision to share the stage with Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn. Even the weekend’s sort-of-replacement headliners, Swedish House Mafia x The Weeknd, called back to Coachellas of a decade past as much as they served to highlight one of the biggest pop stars on the planet (SHM last played Coachella in 2012, the first year that The Weeknd performed at the festival). Meanwhile, teenagers’ favorite rapper-du-jour, Jack Harlow, was performing at a branded Coachella offshoot party a few miles down the road rather than on the grounds, in what can be seen as an oversight from bookers or a conscious decision based on perceived appeal.

It was almost like Coachella knew a vibe shift was coming. After three years away and two postponed editions — who knows if we’ll ever see Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott, or Frank Ocean top the bill — the world of Coachella 2022 is very different than the world of the last Coachella in 2019. And while I’m not going to overly analyze all the factors that led to a notably older crowd, it feels like price point, pandemic job opportunities, and public health all have an impact on how all people approach large-scale events. And the festival went ahead and used some of its most coveted real estate — the big stages at sunset — to highlight the world of international music with 88rising’s Head In The Clouds Forever, Brazil’s Anitta, and Colombia’s Karol G. All three sets felt like landmark moments for their own cultures, and for music’s globalization, where sounds from different part of the world can all fit nicely in front of the same audience. And all felt more like testing the water than knowing for sure what would work best. Sure, dance acts like Flume and Disclosure still had huge audiences looking to groove, but it hardly felt like the revelry of the past, with people seemingly better aware of personal space and using the massive polo field to stretch out. Seeing fans pulled out of the audience, despite the sweltering heat, was rare. Never was there any fear of an Astroworld-esque crowd surge.

As someone that’s been covering Coachella for more than 10 years now, the festival’s M.O. has long been its ability to evolve. Sometimes, it is so ahead of the curve, people question whether Coachella has a plan at all. But then April hits and Harry Styles has the No. 1 song in the country (at least during the first weekend) and artists like Fred Again.., Carly Rae Jepsen, Japanese Breakfast, and 21 Savage all made their tents overflow with the kind of real-world interaction that can’t be inflated by Spotify listens or Instagram followers. Likewise, artists like Beach Bunny, 100 Gecs, Denzel Curry, Wallows, Finneas, and even our beloved Phoebe Bridgers didn’t manage to woo people in mass to their sets. Each of these musicians have had different pathways to the polo fields and different measurements for success. But it is still a curious thing that can only really be seen at a music festival, where musicians have to compete with each other, half-mile walks, and hand-dipped corndogs for attention. It’s definitely not as easy as getting someone to click follow or maintaining passive attention on a curated playlist.

Whether Coachella’s next phase is to reinvent itself for the next group of young people or to age with its current audience remains to be seen, but for this year at least, there was something special in the air. People seemed appreciative to have music festivals at all, soaking in the moments rather than blacking them out. Of all the awful shit we’ve had to deal with since 2020, the hope coming out of it was that we’d be a little better as a culture, that we wouldn’t take things for granted. Arcade Fire, a band that somewhat unfairly lost the good will it had built in the aughts, understands this. Fred Again.., who wasn’t even releasing music before the pandemic, also gets it. Doja Cat, the star-of-the-moment that did the best job of securing that title over the weekend, for sure gets this. She didn’t waste time in her set for a contrived special guest that had little to do with her performance, but instead put on fellow oddball Rico Nasty, who in turn got to play in front of what is surely the biggest audience of her life. For maybe the first time ever, Coachella was able to look backward and forward at the same time, the kind of self-reflection (self-reflektion? sorry) that only comes in adulthood. Coachella felt all grown up, and ready for whatever comes next.

Check out our exclusive gallery of Coachella 2022 photos below.

Daniel Caesar

Phoebe Bridgers

Lil Baby

Arcade Fire

Anitta w/ Snoop Dogg and Saweetie

Carly Rae Jepsen

Ari Lennox

Raveena

21 Savage

Megan Thee Stallion

Freddie Gibbs

100 Gecs

Girl In Red

Giveon

Arlo Parks

Japanese Breakfast

Conan Gray

Head In The Clouds Forever

Run The Jewels

Dave

Doja Cat

Swedish House Mafia x The Weeknd

Jamie xx

Joji

Karol G

Fred Again..

Maggie Rogers

Orville Peck

Finneas

Coachella

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

A month away from her upcoming album, Eyeye, Lykke Li has revealed a new song called “Highway To Your Heart.” On the track, Li ponders her loneliness, while still hoping to return to a past love. In the song’s accompanying visual, directed by Theo Lindquist, Li is seen incapacitated on the ground after a car accident has seemingly taken place off-screen. A man attempts to revive her as rain pours down.

For Eyeye, Li wanted the songs to “have the intimacy of listening to a voice memo on a macro dose of LSD,” as she said in a statement. She recorded the album in her Los Angeles bedroom using a “$70 mic,” often writing the lyrics in the moment she recorded them.

In addition to the album’s music videos, Li says Eyeye will contain seven minute-long “visual loops”, centered around love, addiction, relapse, and obsession.

“We wanted to capture the beauty and grandeur of a three-hour European arthouse movie, while making something native to modern media,” she said. “The intention is to deliver the full impact of a movie in sixty seconds on a phone screen, which is where most of our emotional experiences happen now anyway.”

In support of Eyeye, Li will perform various shows across Europe.

Check out “Highway To Your Heart” above and the concert dates below.

10/17 – Stockholm @ Cirkus
10/19 – Copenhagen @ Vega
10/21 – Amsterdam @ Royal Theatre Carré
10/22 – London @ Barbican
10/24 – Berlin @ The Metropol
10/26 – Paris @ Le Trianon

Eyeye is out 5/20 via Play It Again Sam/Crush Music. Pre-save it here.

Lauren Boebert’s the usual suspect when it comes bashing U.S. policy at the Mexico border, and Ted Cruz has been known to film himself lurking in the bushes in an effort to make something happen. Well, both of them have been distracted with Boebert tweeting about masks and Ted fretting about Mickey and Pluto getting it on, so House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) stepped in and fill the void.

Did she ever. Lesko apparently decided not to read a Wall Street Journal article citing one million border arrests within the past six months. Instead, she inflated the number to one billion while tweeting, “Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 1,000,000,000 migrants at our southern border in just 6 months.” She added, “President Biden’s open border policies are fueling this crisis! #BidenBorderCrisis.”

The tweet’s still up, although people have screencapped it in case Debbie decides to delete it. Is the not paying attention to Twitter, or does she believe that it’s really “one billion”? There’s no telling. Regardless, people are pouncing on her for the careless-or-reckless number inflation along with her strange use of the word “apprehended.” She also seems to believe that the entire population of China has entered the U.S. over the past half year. Is this really what happens when the math books get banned for being too “woke”? Yup, there’s lots of feedback here, including from Rep. Eric Stalwell.