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Lil Nas X is set to make his voice-acting debut on an upcoming episode of The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder. The episode, appropriately titled “Old Towne Road,” begins streaming tomorrow on Disney+, and viewers will see Lil Nas X as a country singer named June Bug.

In the episode, Trudy (Paula Jai Parker) tracks her mother-in-law, Suga Mama’s (Jo Marie Payton) family history, leading the Prouds on a trip to Oklahoma. During their trip, Bobby Proud (Cedric The Entertainer) joins June Bug’s country band.

When Bobby asks June Bug where he can plug in his keytar, June Bug replies, “Nah cuh, I’m the only one who plays guitar around here,” then proceeds to hand him a washboard. “Give this a try, cuh, I love that for you.”

The band proceeds to play the hit that started it all for Lil Nas X, “Old Town Road.”

Lil Nas X is one of several musicians who were announced last year as guest stars for The Proud Family revival. Normani, Jaden, Chance The Rapper and Lizzo are also set to guest star this season.

Check out a sneak peek above.

Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

When an actor is set to reprise their role from nearly two decades ago, they tend to ease into it a bit. Take Jamie Lee Curtis, for example, who would appear every so often in a Halloween movie, before giving the series an emotional conclusion.

That’s not the case for Hayden Christensen, who is preparing to return as Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Christensen famously left his character behind and didn’t return to the famous franchise until now. Obviously, a lot has changed since he last played Anakin in 2005, and he needs to do his research.

To prepare for his role, Christensen decided to dive straight into his character’s lore and watch The Clone Wars and Rebels, two character-heavy animated shows set in the Star Wars universe. The actor spoke to Entertainment Weekly to discuss how he got ready to re-immerse himself into the universe.

“It was interesting,” Christensen told EW. “They did a lot with these characters in those shows. And they did further explore the relationship. There was interesting stuff there to learn about. It was great fun getting to go back and re-immerse yourself in this world that just continues to grow and become more and more vast.” A lot has changed since Christensen last starred in a Star Wars movie, most notably the fact that it’s now a giant Disney property, and there are several dozen new characters.

Christensen will reunite with co-star Ewan McGregor for the series. McGregor also admitted that he marathoned all Star Wars movies to prepare to return to the universe. “I watched them from start to finish,” McGregor told EW. “All nine movies. Just to get back in that world.” Perhaps if they really wanted to immerse themselves in the universe, they would visit Galaxy’s Edge and wait in line for The Rise Of The Resistance ride for several hours.

This isn’t the last time Christensen will reprise his role as Vadar/Anakin: last fall, Disney also announced that he would appear in the upcoming Ashoka series based on the female padawan who should have had her own show a long time ago!

Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres on May 27th on Disney+.

As we get deeper into spring, more fall festivals are being announced, including news ones like Frantic City in New Jersey and now Format in Bentonville, Arkansas. The latter was just announced today, taking place from September 23 to 25. It’s not just music-oriented; it also involves art and technology. But it will have over 50 music acts, including Rüfüs Du Sol, Phoenix, Khruangbin, Beach House, The War On Drugs, Nile Rodgers & Chic, the Flaming Lips, Jungle, and Herbie Hancock.

The three-day event will be at the Sugar Creek Airstrip. The announcement states that it will be a “multidisciplinary experience, combining a mind-expanding music lineup featuring some of the greatest acts on the festival scene with immersive installations by dynamic visual and performing artists, site-specific commissions, and architectural interventions.” While there will be main and side stages, the festival will also have more unconventional and interesting spaces for musicians to perform, such as forest enclaves, pavilions, barns, and speakeasies.

Along with musicians, the roster for artists is packed, featuring Doug Aitken, Nick Cave, Jacolby Satterwhite, Pia Camil, Marinella Senatore, Maurizio Cattelan’s Toiletpaper Magazine, John Gerrard in collaboration with Richie Hawtin, Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman, Sissel Tolaas, Charlap Hyman & Herrero, and more.

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

Along with Coachella, San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival is easily the most comprehensive music fest on the West Coast. While last year’s heavily-costumed edition took place over Halloween weekend as pandemic precautions delayed it a few months, Outside Lands 2022 is back to its usual early-August weekend and the newly announced lineup has a little bit of everything. Green Day, SZA, and Post Malone are headlining the three-day affair, which goes down from August 5th to 7th at one of the greatest venues in country, Golden Gate Park.

The first batch of artists on the lineup following the primary headliners is likewise stacked with Jack Harlow, Phoebe Bridgers, and Weezer coming next. Also performing are Lil Uzi Vert, Ilennium, Kali Uchis, Disclosure, Mitski, Anitta, and Mac DeMarco. And while this is looks like a top-heavy affair on the surface, there’s a seemingly endless list of diverse acts that standout like Pusha T, Kim Petras, Dominic Fike, The Marías, Larry June, Wet Leg, Pussy Riot, Robert Glasper, Griff, Cassandra Jenkins, L’Rain, Duckwrth, and more.

The SOMA Tent also makes its return this year, making it so that the indoor dance music tent seems to be here to stay. While it’s a bit antithetical to the concept of “outside” lands, it was obvious that the festival needed to bring this type of element into the fold so this year’s acts like Claude VonStroke, Tokimonsta, Dixon, and others could play in the club-like atmosphere that their music is best suited for.

Tickets to Outside Lands 2022 are on sale now here and check out the same link for the full lineup and additional details.

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

Phil Collins and ex-wife Orianne Cevey, Collins’ third wife, have had a long and complicated relationship. They married in 1999 and divorced in 2008, with Cevey receiving a $47 million settlement from Collins. However, they reunited in 2015: Collins told Billboard in January 2016, “I bought [a house in Miami] about six months ago. I’m actually back with my third wife — I haven’t really talked about it. We’ve been together for a while, and nobody’s noticed.”

Things soured after that, though, when Cevey eventually took over Collins’ mansion with her then-new husband. Speaking of the husband, there have been fascinating developments there, too. Cevey married Thomas Bates secretly in 2020 but they’re now in the midst of divorce proceedings. That process has been enlightening, as Page Six reports Cevey found Bates (while still living with Collins) on a male escort site called Cowboys 4 Angels, where Bates described himself as a “sexy intellectual.”

Divorce paperwork reads, “At the time the parties met, Husband was employed by an escort service. […] The Wife selected Husband through the escort service and insisted on dating him. The parties’ relationship rapidly progressed into a meaningful romantic relationship. Wife persuaded Husband to leave the escort service to marry her.”

The situation took a turn after they left Collins’ home. The paperwork notes of an incident in which Bates returned to his and Cevey’s shared home after spending Thanksgiving with his family:

“Wife, who has a ferocious temper, threatened Husband with bodily harm (by cutting off his private parts) when he asked for his clothes and personal property. The Wife, who has earned a 3rd degree black belt designation and is trained in boxing, previously physically assaulted Husband on several occasions prior to separation. On one occasion, Husband had to scream for the housekeeper to help him exit the house to avoid Wife’s assault. […] Husband voluntarily vacated the marital residence for his safety.”

The divorce was made public in December 2021, when Cevey wrote on Instagram of the dissolution of her marriage, “I believe the emotional distress of the COVID quarantine caused me to act in ways and do things that were out of character.”

The Better Call Saul Lie Detector Test is a weekly recap of the major events of the final season, separated out by their apparent truthfulness at the time. This is not one of those recaps that gets into granular detail about things. It will miss the occasional callback or foreshadowing. But it will be fun. Sometimes, that’s what’s important.

Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2: “Wine and Roses” and “Carrot and Stick”

Everyone is doing great

Let’s round these up via bullet point first and then dig in more later. There is so much to get to and to remember. Efficiency is important:

• Lalo and Nacho are both on the run, headed in different directions, with bounties on their heads from various sources in the wake of Nacho setting Lalo up to be assassinated and Lalo going full Kevin McCallister in his compound to thwart the killers
• Gus doesn’t believe Lalo is dead and is, like, weirdly intense about it
• Kim is fixated on destroying Howard and is playing the heavy in other ruses and just all-in-all is kind of going jet black in the eyes when she talks about it, not entirely unlike a demon
• Saul is slipping up and calling Lalo by his real name in front of the DA he lied to about it all

A reasonable argument can be made that Mike is doing the best of anyone, which is saying something because Mike had to talk Gus out of kidnapping Nacho’s dad and just generally has not smiled since the mid-90s, if even then. What a wonderful show. I’m so glad it’s back.

Better Call Saul should stop doing montages

See, there’s confidence in storytelling, in knowing your characters well and then things that motivate them, all of which Better Call Saul does and has done and presumably will continue doing. But please, imagine the bravado it takes to come back after a two-year absence and roll right into a wordless five-minute montage of a mansion getting emptied out at some point in the future. Five minutes! I counted! That’s incredible to me. As is the fact that it was riveting. A more eagle-eyed viewer with a better memory of the various developments in this universe could probably have a party picking out the various items and their various significances. I’m stuck on the gold toilet. I’m a simple man.

It’s a good reminder that no show does montages like this one. There’s an art to it, really, to telling and furthering a story like this. You probably thought we were going to check in with Gene at that Cinnabon. Joke’s on you, buddy. We are doing five minutes — FIVE MINUTES — of treasure hunting before anyone says a word. Buckle in.

Gus Fring’s biggest problem is his natural inclination to trust people

Gus is so cold. He’s not happy with “everyone is dead and the authorities say the charred body is Lalo.” I’m not sure exactly what would satisfy him here I mean, he’s right, as usual, because Gus is extremely good at crime, but still. Living life with your radar tuned that sensitive can’t be fun.

Picture Gus at, like, Chili’s, as the waiter brings him a quesadilla with onions on it even though he asked for none. I have this image in my head of him burning a hole with his eyes through some poor kid, like, “Samuel… why have you done this? What is the meaning of these onions? Was I not clear? I always attempt to be clear. Is this… some sort of message, Samuel?”

My point here is that the people at the table with Gus probably leave an extra big tip. Poor Samuel.

Betsy Kettleman seems happy and well adjusted

Heyyyyyy it’s the Kettlemans! I missed these rascals. Look at Craig just bopping around like a dope and Betsy shooting venom through her two front teeth when she says their children have to go to public school now. Awful people. Miserable through and through. But I still got all smiley when they popped back into the action and got hosed once again. Give me a whole show about them getting walloped with karma. I’m barely joking.

This is one of those things Better Call Saul does better than most shows, this dipping back into its own lore to mine gold. The Kettlemans, Kevin Wachtell in the country club, all of it. The whole universe is stuffed with these perfect little characters they can pull out of the bullpen to fire heaters for a few minutes. Yes, sure, I might need to Wiki it all a little to remember the significance of each person in the story, but whatever. I have time. I’m not a very busy person.

Howard Hamlin has a cocaine problem

What I mean here isn’t so much that Howard has an addiction to cocaine as it is that people are starting to think he has an addiction to cocaine, thanks to Saul and Kim and their various ruses and/or antics. It’s not easy to convince someone you don’t have a cocaine problem, even if you really don’t, because the more excited and paranoid and defensive you get about it, the more you come across as a person who has been doing a lot of cocaine. Real dilemma here.

Also, not really the point here, but… imagine Ed Begley, Jr. asking you if you’re doing drugs. That would be so weird. I do not think I would like it. No thanks.

Kim is heading down a dark path

I’m still kind of torn on this one.

On one hand, again, the demon eyes and the thing where she says “enough carrot” and almost ruins the Kettlemans and the thing where she seems to be getting a kind of sicko pleasure out of all of it that not even Saul gets. Like, he does this stuff as a means to an end. She’s doing it… kind of for kicks? It’s strange. She’s teetering toward becoming the Joker.

But.

On the other hand, I still refuse to believe this all ends with Kim dying or falling victim to various cartel-related retribution. I think the most likely thing is that she gets caught screwing around and gets in trouble — possibly disbarred — and moves back to the Midwest to get away from it all.

Still. Kim has a lot going on. She’s going a little Walter White here. We will continue to monitor this.

It would be cool to know a safecracker

Mike and his crew busting into Nacho’s safe and swapping in a new one to plant evidence for the Salamancas to find raises an important point: Do you think it would be fun to know a safecracker?

I’m on the fence. It seems like it would be cool because you could call him up and crack safes and find jewels and things, but also… what if you have a falling out one day and he cracks your safe? That’s where your stuff is. It’s too risky. Kind of like a Scorpion and the Frog situation. Please do not crack my safes.

Being followed by a mysterious car is probably fine

The second episode ended with a mysterious car rolling into the frame all ominous-like. This seems bad. But, also, we don’t know who is driving it, so… it could be good, too. You don’t know. What if it’s Santa Claus? No way to rule anything out just yet.

You should be nice to Lalo Salamanca

There is almost no limit to the amount of time I could spend watching Lalo Salamanca do, well, anything. Eating, running, giving grooming tips, holding scissors in a way that implies murder, reciting the alphabet in Spanish one letter at a time to translate a message from Hector, all of it. He fascinates me, this charisma bomb of a man who goes dark sometimes and becomes the most efficient killer since John Wick. “Be nice,” he says, moments before you hear tussling and gunshots and see him emerge with a wad of cash to be redistributed among travelers. A perfect television character. I love him.

I am also terrified of him and what his next steps are. Everyone but Gus and Hector thinks he’s dead. He’s driving back into Mexico for proof Gus called for the hit. We know Gus survives into Breaking Bad, so Lalo isn’t getting revenge soon. I don’t know. I would kind of be fine with this entire season just following him on his various missions. No Saul, no Kim resolution, nothing. Everyone else would be so mad.

Mike is the best… even when he’s being the worst

Look at Mike stare at people. Look at him refuse to let Gus go after Nacho’s dad. He’s old and not that strong in physical combat anymore, one assumes, but he gives off the single most “Do not screw around with me” energy of any character on the show and maybe on all of television. He’s the best. Even when he’s being awful. Mike Ehrmantraut remains a land of contrasts.

This was an important episode for air conditioners and toilets

I’m still not over the gold toilet and I probably won’t be for a while, but it was somehow not even the most important toilet-related moment of the two-part premiere. That honor goes to Saul flooding the toilet in the country club as part of the cocaine ruse. That was a fun sentence to type.

And yet, with that said, the toilets weren’t even the most important Home Depot-related product from the action. That honor goes to air conditioners, both the one in Nacho’s room that was malfunctioning and the one in the shack across the yard that tipped him off to the dude in there spying on him. That was a nice piece of business. I didn’t even get it at first. I thought he was just staring at it in envy because it looked cool and nice compared to his sweltering room. Because I am an idiot.

It did not go too great for Nacho after that. There was a shootout and various Salamanca cousins and all of it. He’s going to have a rough stretch here. I worry about him. Maybe more than Kim. Which is weird. I have much to consider.

We are on the verge of chaos

Hell yeah, buddy. We sure are. And I love it. Better Call Saul was gone for too long and is only back for a bit before it leaves us for good. We must savor this. We must not take it for granted. We must embrace the coming chaos.

Let’s ride.

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.

Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days. This week we got new music by Kurt Vile, Phoebe Bridgers, Faye Webster, and more.

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Kurt Vile — Watch My Moves

It’s been four years since Kurt Vile last released an album, which is pretty unusual seeing the former War On Drugs guitarist typically drops a new project every year or two. But with his latest LP Watch My Moves, Vile shows it was worth the wait. The sprawling album is packed with laid-back tunes and meandering melodies. “I think my records are always enough of something new in my evolution,” Vile told Uproxx in a recent interview. “I’ve always got new things to say.”

Alex G — We’re All Going To The World’s Fair

Alex G just dropped his first new collection of songs since his 2019 album House Of Sugar. The singer’s project is the soundtrack to the upcoming film We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, and as such, it’s not your typical Alex G album. For one, the album is almost entirely instrumental besides the album closer “End Song.” Some songs like “Stitch” feature jarring ambient chords while others like “Are You In Trouble” sound more like the rest of Alex G’s tender catalog.

Prince Daddy & The Hyena — Prince Daddy & The Hyena

Albany, NY-based four-piece Prince Daddy & The Hyena has quickly emerged as one of modern emo’s buzziest bands, and their new self-titled album shows why. The 13-track LP moves between relentlessly ripping tracks and passionate power ballads, drawing inspiration from vocalist Kory Gregory’s fear of death, which was worsened by a scary car accident in 2018. “I think the record as a whole, as a journey, feels bittersweet and hopeful in a way,” Gregory said about the self-titled effort.

Phoebe Bridgers — “Sidelines”

Ahead of her captivating Coachella performance last weekend, Phoebe Bridgers returned with the brand new track “Sidelines.” News of the new song promptly crashed her website thanks to excited fans, but the wistful single doesn’t point to an upcoming project anytime soon. Rather, “Sidelines” was written for the upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends (she’s been a longtime fan of the author) and features Bridgers’ earnest reflections on mortality and emotional vulnerability.

Faye Webster — “Car Therapy”

Atlanta indie songwriter Faye Webster announced the new project Car Therapy Sessions, an EP of new and reimagined songs backed by a full orchestra. It’s lead single “Car Therapy” displays Webster’s versatile songwriting, transforming a contemplative ballad into a nostalgia-inducing and cinematic masterpiece.

Built To Spill — “Gonna Lose”

After several successful decades as a band, Built To Spill announced their eighth studio album and Sub Pop debut, When The Wind Forgets Your Name. The album isn’t out until September, but they’re keeping fans excited for the release with the new track “Gonna Lose,” a frenetic tune that combines catchy refrains with feverish guitar riffs.

Saya Gray — “Saving Grace”

Musician Saya Gray has positioned herself as one to watch with a pair of previously released singles. Now offering another look at her upcoming debut album 19 Masters, Gray drops the captivating track “Saving Grace,” a song that features intricate chords and Gray’s soulful vocals for an overall soothing single.

Bruce Lee Band — “I Hate This!”

Bruce Lee Band first made a name for themselves with witty ska-punk hits on their 1994 debut. Decades later, Bruce Lee Band are still kicking and a year after their EP Division In The Heartland, the group is back to preview the upcoming LP One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. The new track “I Hate This!” gives a taste of the raucous week-long session that the album was recorded in, featuring propulsive refrains and catchy lyrics over impressively fast-paced beats.

The Walters — “Million Little Problems”

Indie-pop band The Walters are making their Warner Records debut with Try Again, an album that marks a new direction for the LA-by-way-of-Chicago band. The lead single “Million Little Problems” shows what made fans initially fall in love with The Walters’ platinum-selling track “I Love You So,” boasting playful melodies and dreamy guitars.

Tomberlin — “Sunstruck”

Tomberlin is just over a week away from the release of her sophomore album I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This…, sharing one last look at the album with the serene and confident new song “Sunstruck.” Tomberlin explained the song holds similarities to a love song, but isn’t exactly a love song. “It is more a love song to forced distance, time alone with yourself, letting go, searching for yourself and the healing that takes place when you make those things an active focus in your life.”

Wild Pink — “Q. Degraw”

A year after Wild Pink’s most-acclaimed album A Billion Little Lights, the band is back with another captivating track, “Q. Degraw.” The pastoral track includes heavily distorted guitars and lyrics that mirror the warped instrumentals. “This song is about my experiences with some health problems and how an extremely stressful situation can sharpen your focus on what’s important in life,” vocalist John Ross said. “It’s also about how that stress can sometimes cause you to dissociate from yourself.”

Mt. Joy — “Orange Blood”

Five-piece indie group Mt. Joy announce their third studio album with the carefree title track “Orange Blood.” The impassioned song was inspired by a transformative trip the band took to Joshua Tree, which is reflected in the single’s sunny chords and airy melodies.

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

A federal judge has ruled that Georgia voters can proceed with legal efforts to disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election due to her alleged involvement in the January 6 insurrection, and she’s not taking the news well. Hours after the ruling on Monday, Greene popped up on noted testicle tanner Tucker Carlson‘s show to rail against the “progressive” and “leftists” seeking to block her campaign.

“It is not [democracy], Tucker, that is the thing. These people hate the people in my district so much,” Greene ranted.

Via Newsweek:

“They look down on them because they voted for me and sent me to Washington to fight for the things that most Americans care about, like secure borders, stopping abortion, protecting our Second Amendment, stopping the out-of-control spending in Washington, stop funding never-ending foreign wars.”

Greene also argued that the January 6 riot is “something I was completely against,” which is not entirely true. In October 2021, she was named in an explosive Rolling Stone report that linked Greene to “dozens” of meetings and planning sessions leading up to the MAGA rally. While Greene has gone on to denounce the “political violence” that took place, she publicly defended the January 6 attackers less than 24 hours after the Rolling Stone report was published.

“Jan. 6 was just a riot,” Greene said during a Real America’s Voice appearance. “And if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants.”

However, Greene’s “Declaration of Independence” quote was cited in the lawsuit seeking to stop her re-election campaign. With Monday’s ruling, it appears her words will be coming back to haunt her, and she won’t be able to wave them away like she does on Fox News.

(Via Newsweek)

Roseanne Barr is still on Twitter, but her tweeting has slowed down considerably since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The comedian is an avowed Trump supporter, claiming that she was fired from the Roseanne revival (which was later reworked into The Conners) because she “voted for Donald Trump and that is not allowed in Hollywood.” In actuality, she was axed from the sitcom for her “abhorrent” and “repugnant” tweet about Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarret.

In the new documentary, Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood, Barr blames the reaction to her racially-charged tweet on the media and cancel culture and liberals, and everything and everyone but herself. “Witch-burning is what it is. Intellectual witch-burning, and arrogance and ignorance,” she said, via the Daily Beast. “All of the press of the United States and the world, how they interpreted my tweet without any knowledge of the fact that I was sending it to a journalist in Iran about what was happening to the people in Iran. We’re under such terrible censorship. It’s just terrible and frightening.”

Barr also said that around the time of the tweet (2018), “everyone was begging me to give up my Twitter. Everyone,” Barr recalls. “My kids were trying to lock me out, but I wouldn’t! Because it’s like, I just couldn’t. I’m a goddamn American, I’m not going to do it. I’m a comic, I’m a bad girl, I’m too rock ’n’ roll. I’m going to say f*ck it and f*ck you ’til I take my last breath.” How long before Roseanne opens for Kid Rock instead of Trump?

(Via the Daily Beast)

Iconic indie group Wilco have been celebrating the 20-year anniversary of their beloved opus Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The band, led by amazing songwriter Jeff Tweedy, is currently on their special run of shows, celebrating the album in New York and Chicago. Last night they brought the sprawling track “Poor Places” to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for its network television debut, inviting the Aizuri Quartet to contribute layers and make the sound even richer and bigger.

Along with this stunning performance, Wilco are releasing seven special editions of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, including a box set with 11 vinyl albums, one CD, and a book. It will contain demos, instrumentals, show recordings, radio interviews, and more.

This follows Tweedy’s confession last month that the band is working on a new LP: “It’s almost entirely because I’ve been in the studio with Wilco making some new music, chipping away at a new record. It’s been very, very fun and exciting and we’re having a great time,” he said. “Next time we should be able to get back to some normal correspondence. If I can get everyone in the Wilco braintrust on board, maybe I’ll share a snippet of a work in progress or something like that over the weekend behind the paywall.”

Watch Wilco perform “Poor Places” on Colbert above.