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Florence And The Machine are back. What started as cryptic mail to fans last month has escalated to a slew of new singles, like “King” and “Heaven Is Here,” and the announcement of their fifth studio album Dance Fever, out May 13. More exciting news has arrived today; the “Dog Days Are Over” band will be heading out on a North American tour later this year.

After a Los Angeles and New York City show this spring, they’ll be starting the run in Montreal on September 2 and ending back in LA on October 14. Along the way, they’ll be joined by Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, and Japanese Breakfast.

Check out the dates below.

04/29 — Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Theatre
05/06 — New York, NY @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
09/02 — Montreal, QC @ Place Bell*
09/03 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage*
09/07 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island†
09/08 — St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center†
09/10 — Clarkson, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre†
09/12 — Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Area†
09/14 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden†
09/16 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden†
09/20 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater‡
09/21 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre‡
09/23 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center‡
09/24 — Miami, FL @ FTX Arena‡
09/27 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center§
09/28 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory§
10/01 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
10/04 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena**
10/06 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena†
10/07 — Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds**
10/09 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre†
10/12 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre†
10/14 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

* with Arlo Parks
† with Sam Fender
‡ with King Princess
§ with Yves Tumor
** with Japanese Breakfast

Good morning. So, last night, every ounce of West Philly jumped out of Safe Black Guy Will Smith, who left fresh prints (heyo) on Chris Rock’s face during the Academy Awards after Rock made an ill-considered joke at the expense of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. In 2021, Jada revealed her ongoing struggle with alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that can make a person’s hair fall out. Rock, perhaps not realizing this, remarked that Jada’s freshly-shaved head could make her a candidate to star in a G.I. Jane remake (the titular character shaves her head upon joining the US Marines).

In a video taken from an international broadcast of the ceremony, Jada’s face says it all. For Will, who has had to put up with years of jokes about the couple’s marriage, this last straw broke the camel’s back, and he strode onto the stage to make an example of Rock, slapping him across the face. Although Rock tried to play the moment off, Will shouted from his seat: “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.” Fortunately, it seems Rock is taking things in stride, and according to Diddy, the two men had nothing but love afterward.

Obviously, those who saw the moment, whether live in person or watching at home, have thoughts about the possible overreaction, and the hot takes flew fast and furious on social media — including among Will Smith’s celebrity peers, including rappers like 50 Cent, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and more.

While 50, Drake, and others brought out the jokes, Nicki gave an empathetic — and vaguely threatening — take, expressing empathy for Jada Pinkett Smith. “Imagine what it must feel like to be losing your hair to the point where you have to shave it bald,” she wrote. “You think that’s easy to deal with for anyone? You don’t think she’s cried about that many times? 2022 y’all gon have to see these men about those jokes you made about their wives.”

Check out the responses, reactions, and hot takes below.

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Cardi B add her voice to a song and Latto drop her anticipated new album. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

Summer Walker, SZA, and Cardi B — “No Love (Extended Version)”

Summer Walker’s latest album, Still Over It, was hotly anticipated during the two years (an eternity in the modern music industry) fans waited for it. That showed in the commercial performance, as the album went No. 1. Now, Walker has brought more chart-topping energy to one of the LP’s premiere singles, as a new version of “No Love” brings Cardi B into the fold, along with SZA, who appeared on the original track.

Latto — “Sunshine” Feat. Lil Wayne and Childish Gambino

Last week brought Latto’s new album 777 and one track that immediately stood out was “Sunshine,” for which Latto managed to rope Lil Wayne and Childish Gambino to contribute verses. The Bongo ByTheWay-produced tune is ready for summer (as the title suggests) with its warm sound. Gambino’s appearance is also a testament to his faith in Latto, as he hasn’t popped up much recently in terms of music.

Machine Gun Kelly — “Drug Dealer” Feat. Lil Wayne

While MGK’s new album Mainstream Sellout continues the former rapper’s foray into pop-punk, he hasn’t completely left hip-hop behind. For instance, he reunites with Lil Wayne on a couple different tracks here: the recent single “Ay!” and the album cut “Drug Dealer.”

Charli XCX — “Sorry If I Hurt You”

Charli XCX’s Crash is still a fresh release and she made it even fresher last week by adding four new tracks on a deluxe edition. “Sorry If I Hurt You” may be the most significant song cut from Crash, as it was once the title track for the album, as Charli previously noted, “This album was originally going to be called Sorry If I Hurt You and I liked that title because that sentence is both past, present, and future. You can say that sentence to someone as if you hurt them in the past or as if you’re going to hurt them or if you’re about to do it right there and then.”

Beabadoobee — “Talk”

In February, Beabadoobee described the sound of her new album as “very 2006.” Indeed, that aesthetic is on display on last week’s single, “Talk,” a distortion-heavy alt-rocker about partying on a Tuesday.

J Balvin and Ed Sheeran — “Sigue”

Sheeran has been really into collaborating in recent years, which is fair as it’s a great way to get into a different musical headspace and try new things. He did just that on his J Balvin collaboration “Sigue” last week, as Sheeran sings in Spanish on the song. “Sigue” wasn’t even the pair’s only song from last week, as they released “Forever My Love” on the same day.

Chance The Rapper — “Child Of God”

Chance’s latest album, The Big Day, is getting old, as it dropped back in 2017. It’s not clear if 2022 will bring a new Chance album, but last week did bring a new single, “Child Of God.” Uproxx’s Wongo Okon describes the song as “a mellow track that sports bare-bone production which allows Chance the show off his rap skills,” and notes, “He uses his bars to look back on simpler times in a world that tends to be very complicated.”

Nigo, ASAP Rocky, and Tyler The Creator — “Lost And Found Freestyle 2019”

A Bathing Ape creator Nigo is best known for, well, that. He’s an accomplished DJ and musician, though, and now he has a new album, I Know Nigo!, his first in 20 years. He managed to get some big names involved with the project, too, like on “Lost And Found Freestyle 2019,” where he’s joined by ASAP Rocky and Tyler The Creator.

Soccer Mommy — “Shotgun”

Soccer Mommy is leaning into experimentation on her newly announced album Sometimes, Forever, as she got Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never to produce it. Uproxx’s Adrian Spinelli notes of lead single “Shotgun,” “It shows a slow burn towards that sonic shift. It’s predicated on reverbed drums and a tipsy synth, along with Allison’s guitar and splendid vocals.”

Dream Widow — “Cold”

Foo Fighters recently released their horror-comedy movie Studio 666 and part of that cinematic universe is a fictional death metal band called Dream Widow. Dave Grohl, ever the hustler, went ahead and recorded a whole 42-minute album under the moniker and released it last week. However, this release was quickly overshadowed by the tragic news that Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead in Columbia this past weekend.

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Let’s pretend The Slap never happened. What would be the defining storyline of the 2022 Oscars? Would it be the historical wins, like Ariana DeBose becoming the first openly queer actress of color to take home an acting award? Or CODA pulling an upset over The Power of the Dog and winning Best Picture? Or the how-do-you-do-fellow-kids desperation of handing the reigns to Twitter (always a bad idea) to decide the “Oscars Cheer Moment” and “Fan-Favorite Award,” both of which went to Zack Snyder movies?

For me, someone who cares too much about dumb awards shows, the defining storyline and the number that should lead every “2022 Oscars by the Numbers” article was: 222. That’s how long, in minutes, Sunday’s Academy Awards lasted after many bad decisions were made trying to shorten the ceremony.

Here’s how it compared to previous years (in hours):

2022: 3:42
2021: 3:19
2020: 3:36
2019: 3:21
2018: 3:52
2017: 3:49
2016: 3:37

The Oscars couldn’t find time for eight categories to be shown in full — Best Film Editing and Best Original Score, among others, were handed out before the ceremony and awkwardly edited into the live broadcast — but there was space given to multiple monologues, a crummy Spider-Man joke, celebrations of White Men Can’t Jump and Pulp Fiction (on the 28th anniversary?), and an awkward seat-filler bit with Kristen Dunst. I hope all the controversy — and royally pissing off otherwise under-recognized folks who help make movies great — was worth it for the longest ceremony since 2018.

The Academy needs to make a choice: find a way to keep the ceremony at a tight three-ish hours, or embrace the bloat. I support the latter. The longest Oscars ever was in 2002 (the year A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture) at four hours and twenty-three minutes. I have faith that next year’s telecast can beat the record. Hand out more Twitter awards, double the number of hosts to six, get the cast of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World to reunite for the 20th anniversary (seriously, I want this to happen). Otherwise, we’re stuck in this awkward middle-ground where the Oscars is too long to be entertaining, but too short to be comical. It’s time to make history.

Chris Rock was supposed to present the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards last night. He did do that, but that wasn’t the takeaway from his time on stage, given that after Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith got on stage and slapped him.

After the incident, though, Rock did manage to present the award, giving it to Questlove’s film Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised). In an already emotionally charged atmosphere, Questlove (who shook Smith’s hand and hugged him on his way to the stage) gave an acceptance speech, in which he too got emotional.

Pausing on multiple occasions, Questlove said:

“It’s not lost on me that the Harlem Cultural Festival should have been something that my beautiful mother… and my dad… should have taken me to when I was 5 years old, and… This is such a stunning moment for me right now. But this is not about me. This is about marginalized people in Harlem that needed to heal from pain. And just know that in 2022, this is not just a 1969 story about marginalized people in Harlem. This is a story of… I’m sorry, I’m just overwhelmed right now. I’m going to get myself together and thank everyone properly when I get off stage. […] I’m so happy right now, I could cry. Thank you.”

During a recent Late Night With Seth Meyers interview, Questlove noted the success of the movie has exceeded his expectations, saying, “At least I know with music what a goal is, but with the movie world, I just had no clue. I just wanted to make something really cool and hopefully they were gonna show it in a few classrooms, and then maybe discover it 20 years from now, like, ‘Yo, you know Questlove did this thing?’”

Watch Questlove’s acceptance speech above and find the full list of this year’s Academy Award winners here.

After what seemed like a scripted moment at the Oscars turned out to be an actual altercation that immediately overshadowed the rest of the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has issued a statement addressing Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the ceremony. In theory, the short tweet chastises Smith for his actions, but the statement also focuses attention upon the winners who may have missed out on Oscar glory over the now-viral attack.

“The Academy does not condone violence of any form,” the official Academy Twitter account wrote roughly two hours after the broadcast. “Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.”

According to Deadline, the Academy may have more work to do beyond a tweet. While Rock may have declined to press charges at least one member (Marshall Herskovitz, producer of The Last Samauri) is calling for disciplinary action against Smith. That position is shared by many social media users, who noted that the Academy still allowed Smith to give an emotional speech after winning the award for Best Actor for his performance in King Richard.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Deadline)

A couple of weeks ago, rap prodigy Vince Staples released the music video for “Magic,” the first single from his forthcoming album Ramona Park Broke My Heart, which he first began teasing even before unveiling last year’s critically-acclaimed Vince Staples. Today, he’s back with a new single, “Rose Street,” and another music video.

The first 45 seconds of the song is a sample, leaving only a little over a minute for Staples to break into a flow. Against a trap beat and booming bass, he spews quips about his devotion to his friends over his romantic relationships: “I’m married to the gang, don’t be playing games / Only bringing flowers to the homie’s grave.” It ends abruptly.

The video is much less chaotic than the one for “Magic”; instead of getting jumped at a house party, he’s sitting solemnly on graffiti-adorned rocks at a beach looking at the crashing waves introspectively.

Before releasing the song at midnight, Staples took to Twitter to generate some hype: “Will Smith inspired me man let me drop this video,” he wrote, referring, of course, to Smith smacking Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith at the Oscars.

Watch the video for “Rose Street” above.

In case you haven’t been online for the past 12 hours, what will certainly go down as one of the year’s defining pop culture events happened last night. While on stage to present the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards last night, Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. Will Smith, her husband, didn’t take kindly to the jab, so he got on stage, slapped Rock in the face pretty hard on live television, returned to his seat, and screamed twice, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f*cking mouth!”

It was a surreal moment and now we’re left with the aftermath. On that note, it appears Rock and Smith have settled their differences and moved on: Diddy, who was in attendance, told Page Six, “That’s not a problem. That’s over. I can confirm that.” The publication noted he did not elaborate on how the two had reconciled but continued, “It’s all love. They’re brothers.”

This comes after Page Six reported, citing “sources at the Academy Awards,” that Diddy talked to both Rock and Smith and that the two had “agreed to make amends later in the evening.” Later, Smith showed up to Vanity Fair‘s Oscars party, while Rock did not, as Page Six notes. They also said of the scene, “Smith arrived after midnight and headed to the dance floor. DJ D-Nice was spinning tunes and played a number of songs by Smith as a tribute when the star and his family arrived. Smith, 53, danced and rapped along to his ’90s hits ‘Summertime,’ Miami,’ and ‘Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It.’ Jada, 50, was by his side grooving on the dance floor, along with their kids Jaden, 23, and Willow, 21.”

In his teary Best Actor acceptance speech at the 2022 Oscars, King Richard star Will Smith said, “To do what we do, you gotta be able to take abuse. You gotta be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business, you gotta be able to have people disrespecting you and you gotta smile and pretend like that’s OK.” But Smith was not reacting that way when he smacked presenter Chris Rock during the live telecast for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

It was the most shocking Oscars moment since the Moonlight vs. La La Land incident (and maybe ever), and there will be plenty of hot takes in the days to come. But Rock has reportedly threatened to decline a police report against Smith, according to Variety.

A full statement from the Los Angeles Police Department reads: “LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report. If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”

A “highly placed Hollywood source” told the New York Post that while it’s extremely unlikely that Smith will be forced to return his Oscar for breaking the Academy’s conduct code, they added, “It’s basically assault. Everyone was just so shocked in the room, it was so uncomfortable… Who knows what will happen now.” Smith was seen dancing at the Vanity Fair Oscar party following his win (and the slap).

(Via Variety)

By now, you are well aware (even if you didn’t watch The Oscars) what happened at The Oscars. Will Smith smacked Chris Rock, onstage, after he made a G.I. Jane joke about Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Then Chris carried on with the show, and Will pretty clearly referenced the moment while winning Best Actor (his weepy speech included, “Love will make you do crazy things”). By then, the show was in chaos mode with some viewers still wondering if the moment was real, but it certainly sounded real and, in the light of day, is being seen as such with the Academy denouncing violence in a pointed statement.

The fallout is enormous, with a little bit of that (initially) landing on the verified Will Smith Twitter account (not owned by Will Smith, the actor). A larger discussion about violence is now taking place, and (just for some context, not as anything close to an excuse), it’s worth looking at the history. This wasn’t the first time that Rock told jokes about Jada (and Will) at the Oscars. In 2016, Rock hosted the show and made light of Jada boycotting the Oscars (over a lack of diversity), which Rock likened to “me boycotting Rihanna’s panties–I wasn’t invited!” In the below clip, Rock also spoke to those who believed that Will should have been nominated (for Concussion), and Rock reacted with this: “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West.”

It’s a clip worth noting for some historical context, for sure, yet it doesn’t erase the reality that Will Smith reacted to a joke in the way that he did. Yes, Jada has spoken openly about being afflicted with alopecia, and the GI Jane joke wasn’t fantastic (whether or not Rock was aware of the reason for Jada’s hairstyle), but yeah, boy, what a mess. The fallout will continue, and people sure are remembering the 2016 jokes.

If you need something a little less tension-filled, remember how Timothée Chalamet tried to start the show off in a less controversial way? Man, what a night.