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Just last week, Flume provided a new mix of a track on PinkPantheress’ To Hell With It remix edition. Now the Grammy-nominated Aussie producer has announced Palaces, his third studio album and first since 2016. Out on May 2oth, Palaces has comes equipped with some high-profile guests, including Caroline Polachek and Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn. There’s also a slew of fast-rising vocalists on board like Oklau, May-A, Kučka, Virgen Maria, Emma Louise, and Laurel.

Most notably, May-A, a fellow Australia, appears on the lead single, “Say Nothing,” and it’s a kick-ass track. Flume’s drum pacing wraps you in immediately before the vocalist delivers vibes. “This song is about feelings of post relationship clarity,” Flume said in a statement. “We wrote the song midway through 2020 while the pandemic was still pretty new. I was really excited about the initial idea but it was only once I got back to Australia in early 2021 and linked up in the studio with MAY-A that the song really came to life.”

Flume is also set to play at Coachella, Governor’s Ball, and Bonnaroo this year.

Watch the video for “Say Nothing” above and check out the album artwork and tracklist below.

1. “Highest Building” Feat. Oklou
2. “Say Nothing” Feat. MAY-A
3. “DHLC”
4. “ESCAPE” Feat. Kučka With Quiet Bison
5. “I Can’t Tell” Feat. Laurel
6. “Get U”
7. “Jasper’s Song”
8. “Only Fans” Feat. Virgen Maria
9. “Hollow” Feat. Emma Louise
10. “Love Light”
11. “Sirens” Feat. Caroline Polachek
12. “Go”
13. “Palaces” Feat. Damon Albarn

Palaces is out 5/20 via Future Classic/Transgressive. Pre-order it here.

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

After starring in an ad for Crypto.com that was unveiled back in October, Matt Damon has been getting ruthlessly dragged for being the latest celebrity to hawk cryptocurrency. While Melania Trump, Reese Witherspoon, and Gwyneth Paltrow have since waded into the crypto waters and seemed to take some of the heat off of Damon, South Park didn’t forget. In its Season 25 premiere, the Comedy Central series repeatedly trolled Damon for his “fortune favors the brave” commercial that arrived just before a massive crypto crash.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

“What does Matt Damon say in the bitcoin commercial? Fortune favors the brave!” Cartman says while trying to rally the class to fight back against the school principal’s PJs decision. Clyde responds to Cartman with, “My dad said he listened to Matt Damon and lost all his money.” To which Cartman counters, “Yes, everyone did! But, they were brave in doing so!”

There are a few more shots at Damon over the commercial before the episode goes meta and notes that jokes about the commercial are already dated.

Despite South Park‘s notoriously quick turnaround time, it’s surprising the premiere didn’t take aim at Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon‘s now-notoriously cringey promotion of NFTs during a recent episode of The Tonight Show. Then again, the new season is only getting started, and so far, it’s looking like its open season on crypto. Any celebrity hopping on the latest gravy train could be next.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

It’s true that many musicians started off as actors (Ariana Grade, Olivia Rodrigo, and the rest of the Disney Channel crew), but there’s also a long list of musicians who have recently pivoted to acting, like Lady Gaga. Even Dua Lipa expressed interest in branching out to film roles. Ed Sheeran‘s acting experience, on the other hand, has been a little more controversial. Game Of Thrones fans were completely up in arms when made a cameo in Season 7. But now, Sheeran’s getting a chance for redemption as he’s just landed another role on the big screen.

Sheeran has been cast in the upcoming film Sumotherhood. Directed by Adam Deacon, the project marks the director’s return to the industry after a several-year hiatus. The movie is about to start production in East London and Sheeran will be joined by by a cast including Danny Sapani (Black Panther), Jennifer Saunders, Peter Serafinowicz, Leomie Anderson, London Hughes, and Jaime Winstone. Sheeran hasn’t yet spoken about the role, but according to Complex, Deacon noted that he “can’t wait to bring these wacky and crazy characters to life.” Apparently, the film will be an action-comedy that examines a “variety of life in East London in 2022.”

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

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever had an indie-rock highlight in 2020 with Sideways To New Italy, and now they’re ready to follow it up: Endless Rooms is set to drop on May 6, the group revealed today. They also announced an energetic new single, “The Way It Shatters,” of which the group says:

“It’s about how ending up in your particular situation in life is the result of absolute randomness. If you happen to be born into wealthy Australia or happen to be born into a war zone in Syria. That’s just the way it shatters. So it’s when this good luck is mistaken for a sense of pride in one’s self or their country they become confused and deluded about what’s important. It’s when those on the other side of the luck scale are completely othered and considered not worthy.”

They also note of the album, “It’s almost an anti-concept album. The Endless Rooms of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.”

Watch the “The Way It Shatters” video above and find the Endless Rooms art and tracklist below. Also find the band’s upcoming tour dates below, which include a newly announced run of North American concerts starting in July.

1. “Pearl Like You”
2. “Tidal River”
3. “The Way It Shatters”
4. “Caught Low”
5. “My Echo”
6. “Dive Deep”
7. “Open Up Your Window”
8. “Blue Eye Lake”
9. “Saw You At The Eastern Beach”
10. “Vanishing Dots”
11. “Endless Rooms”
12. “Bounce Off The Bottom”

02/09 — Sydney, AU @ Factory Theatre
02/10 — Sydney, AU @ Factory Theatre
02/17 — Eltham, AU @ Eltham Hotel
02/18 — Brisbane, AU @ The Tivoli
02/19 — Canberra, AU @ Kambri — ANU
02/25 — Melbourne, AU @ The Forum
03/03 — Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
03/04 — Hobart, AU @ Altar
03/18 — Fremantle, WA @ AU @ Freo Social
05/20 — Madrid, ES @ Tomavistas
05/22 — Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2 *
05/23 — Norwich, UK @ Waterfront *
05/24 — Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy *
05/25 — Bristol, UK @ Motion *
05/26 — Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed *
05/28 — Northampton, UK @ Roadmender *
05/29 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute *
05/30 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Irish Centre *
05/31 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz *
06/02 — London, UK @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire *
06/03 — Sheffield, UK @ The Foundry *
06/04 — Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union *
06/05 — Edinburgh, UK @ The Liquid Room *
06/06 — Newcastle upon Tyne, UK @ Boiler Shop *
06/08 — Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street *
06/10 — Parque Da Cidade, BR @ Primavera Porto
06/11 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/12 — Mannheim, DE @ Maifield Derby
06/13 — Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia *
06/15 — Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest
06/16 — Oslo, NO @ John Dee *
06/17 — Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset *
06/19 — Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie *
06/21 — Brussels, BE @ Botanique Orangerie *
06/22 — Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje *
06/23 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *
07/22 — North Byron Parklands, AU @ Splendour In The Grass
07/27 — St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
08/01 — Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
08/02 — Montréal, QC @ L’Escogriffe Bar
08/03 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
08/06 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
08/07 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
08/08 — Washington, DC @ Black Cat
08/10 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal west
08/12 — Austin, TX @ Empire
08/13 — Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips
08/15 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
08/16 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
08/18 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
08/19 — Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
08/20 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
08/22 — San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
08/23 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom

* with Stella Donnelly

Endless Rooms is out 5/6 via Sub Pop. Pre-order it here.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has always been somewhat of a maverick in the hip-hop game. When his album Hoodie SZN reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while setting a record low for physical sales, he smartly spun the news with a progressive outlook that appears prescient in hindsight. Meanwhile, in an interview with Uproxx that year, A Boogie shared a number of surprising observations pointing to his willingness to defy expectations as a rapper and a businessman.

His latest future-thinking move will likewise undoubtedly raise some eyebrows, but if it pans out, he could look like a genius in a few years’ time. Hopping aboard the burgeoning blockchain movement, he declared he was hitching his wagon completely to cryptocurrency. “Only accepting Ethereum for shows now for those who been trying to book me,” he tweeted, informing anyone looking to put him on an event bill to invest in an online wallet. Technically, Ethereum is the name of the blockchain, while Ether (ETH) is the designation for its currency, but the point stands.

But while A Boogie is possibly the first rapper to limit his income in this particular way, he’s far from the first to invest in blockchain. That NFT craze you’ve been reading so much about is actually based on the technology, with everyone from Eminem to Steve Aoki joining the train (although Kanye remains skepticaldrawbacks to go with the benefits, but if A Boogie can navigate the potential pitfalls, his decision could prove lucrative in the long run.

The Inside the NBA crew has not been shy in expressing its disappointment in Ben Simmons for his continued absence from the Philadelphia 76ers as he looks to jumpstart his career elsewhere. The most recent example of this came last week, when Shaquille O’Neal torched Simmons — without bringing him up by name — by calling him “soft” and a “crybaby” while praising Joel Embiid for being open to taking criticism.

Shaq is not one to bite his tongue when something disappoints him, but even by that standard, he really laid into Simmons in the clip. As it turns out, Simmons was not a particularly big fan of this. As Shaq explained on a recent episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq, the Hall of Fame big man explained that Simmons reached out via DM in the aftermath of the clip and expressed his disappointment with what Shaq had to say.

“I’ve been in this moment many times,” Shaq said. “They ask, say, ‘Hey, you think you can win with Shaq in the fourth quarter?’ My coaches say, ‘He gotta step up and knock ’em down.’ They all said that. I didn’t go, man, I got 38, I missed 12 free throws, trade me, get rid of me. You actin’ like a baby. So he kinda got in my DM and said some things, and I said some things back.”

Shaq stressed that he couldn’t go into the specifics of what they said because “that’s not cool,” but he said that Simmons was mad, presumably because “I’m his LSU brother, and I am, I’m still his brother.”

There is no word on whether or not we’ll see Simmons again this season. While the Sixers have stressed that they want him to suit up for the team again, Simmons has made clear he wants to seek greener pastures, and recently, Philadelphia executive Daryl Morey expressed his skepticism over the ability to get a deal done before next week’s trade deadline.

Dua Lipa is proving herself a very busy pop star. Not only is the singer gearing up to finally hit the road in support of her 2020 album Future Nostalgia, but she’s also just launched a weekly newsletter that highlights her favorite writers, restaurants, fashion, and more. Tiled Service95, the inaugural newsletter hit subscribers’ inbox on Thursday and it arrived with a brief tour update from Lipa.

The Service95 newsletter kick off with an introduction written by Lipa herself. She revealed that she’s been rehearsing for her tour for more than six hours a day, but she’s more exhilarated than exhausted by all the projects she has on her plate:

“Six hours a day and then some… That’s the time I’m putting in rehearsing for my upcoming Future Nostalgia tour. Oh, and I’ve also taken on another full-time job; Service95, the exciting global style, arts and culture newsletter you’re reading right now.

Soon, you’ll also be able to listen to Dua Lipa: At Your Service, my accompanying podcast where I interview some of the world’s most fascinating, inspiring and influential names across music, literature, entertainment, fashion, activism, politics… Am I exhausted? Ha. Actually, I’m exhilarated! I feel like I’m strapped to a rocket, ready for take-off – and I’m hoping you’ll join me for the ride.”

The remainder of the newsletter consisted of pieces written by writers from around the world. It included a story about South African genre amapiano, a piece about design from an Irish disability activist, news about an all-female roller derby crew in Hong Kong, and a profile on Parisian glassware.

Subscribe to Lipa’s Service95 email here.

Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last night, Kamasi Washington made his television debut on The Tonight Show, and his performance of “The Garden Path” lived up to the hype. Where most late-night performers bring at most a five-piece band (drums, bass, guitar, keys, and maybe a DJ), Kamasi brought an only slightly scaled-down version of his usual extravagant orchestras with him, utilizing what looks like every square inch of available space on the Tonight Show stage to play the sweeping, funky composition.

Kamasi himself stood in the center of the storm flanked by his backup singers, controlling the chaos with massive blasts from his sax.

Although “The Garden Path” is Washington’s first solo release since 2021’s “Sun-Kissed Child,” the jazz revivalist did find time over the past year to contribute to The Metallica Blacklist, a tribute album dedicated to the metal pioneers, with a horn-heavy cover of “My Friend Of Misery.”

Of his latest song, Kamasi said in a press release, “The world feels turned upside down. There’s so much push and pull in every direction, from everyone you meet—no one knows what to think, who to believe, or how to approach life right now. No matter how smart you are, it’s hard not to feel blind.”

Watch Kamasi Washington’s Tonight Show performance of “The Garden Path” above.

After Peacock dropped a short tease of Joe vs Carole last month, its new biopic series takes a deeper look at the Tiger King reality stars Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, the streaming platform is back with an official trailer and a slew of new photos of John Cameron Mitchell and SNL star Kate McKinnon in the title roles.

Described by executive producer Etan Frankel as a “fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives,” Joe Vs. Carole will go beyond what viewers saw in Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, and also throw in some wild performances from Mitchell and McKinnon as they recreate that led to Exotic’s imprisonment after attempting to kill Baskin through a murder-for-hire plot.

You can see new photos from Joe vs. Carole below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” hosted and reported by Robert Moor, the limited series will center on Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.

Joe vs Carole starts streaming March 3 on Peacock.

For many celebrity couples, the gift of a Birkin bag is a way to flex both their wealth and their love for each other. And with bags costing a minimum of about $4,000 and upwards of $380,000, it’s definitely no small gesture. That’s why Ye’s recent birthday gift to his new boo Julia Fox is so impressive. They’ve only been dating for less than two months now and Ye celebrated Fox’s birthday by giving a Birkin bag not just to her, but to all her best friends as well.

Fox, Ye, and much of their entourage spent Wednesday night celebrating Fox’s 32nd birthday. According to TMZ, the party rented out NYC’s French restaurant Lucien for dinner. Fox opened her birthday gifts at the table, making it clear that Ye went all-out. He gave her some flashy jewelry but saved the best gift for last. Everyone at the table, including all of Fox’s closest friends, was gifted Baby Birkin bags by Ye in an assortment of colors.

Fox was clearly overjoyed about the gifts. I mean, who wouldn’t want their new boyfriend to impress their friends with designer gifts? As you can see, Fox and all of her friends were posing with their new, very expensive bags.

Check out clips from Fox’s birthday bash above.