GoneTrending

After Donald Trump issued a remarkably tone-deaf and heartless statement on Colin Powell’s death (it was a real doozy), The Daily Show quickly got to work making “A Donald Trump Sympathy Card for Any Occassion,” so now anyone can experience our 45th president insult their recently deceased loved ones. Look at this message that perfectly captures the well of emotions that only Trump can produce by editing together his actual words from over the years:

I heard recently that your family member is dead. He or she was a stone cold loser, made a lot of mistakes, a vicious, horrible person, ate like a pig, a big fat, disgusting fraud. There’s a lingering stench. I was not a big fan. I was never a fan and I never will be. I have no idea who this person was and I don’t give a damn. But anyway, may he rest in peace.

Just to show how hilariously spot-on the Donald Trump Sympathy Card is, here is Trump’s real-life “tribute” to Colin Powell where Trump basically made a pee tape on his grave:

Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!

It’s yet another case for Trump where satire and reality blend, but damn, if The Daily Show didn’t give it their best shot.

Back in June, Spain’s Mad Cool Festival announced its 2022 lineup, and it was pretty stacked. Now, though, it just got even more so, as organizers have announced some tantalizing new additions to the event, which is set to go down between July 6 through 10.

Some notable artists are newly present on the lineup, including Haim, Florence And The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Glass Animals. You may have noticed that July 6 through 10 spans five days as opposed to the four-day fest that was initially announced: Aside from the aforementioned new artists, the festival also went ahead and added another day, Sunday the 10th. Performing on Sunday are Arlo Parks, Tones And I, Tinashe, Sam Fender, and others.

Other artists on the lineup include Metallica, Twenty One Pilots, Placebo, Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Muse, Faith No More, Kings Of Leon, Pixies, Carly Rae Jepsen, Wolf Alice, Deftones, St. Vincent, Foals, Sigrid, Tove Lo, Beabadoobee, Cherry Glazerr, Alt-J, The War On Drugs, Mø, Phoebe Bridgers, Black Pumas, Shura, Royal Blood, Zara Larsson, Editors, Leon Bridges, Sylvan Esso, Princess Nokia, Gang Of Youths, Marika Hackman, and Bartees Strange.

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

Despite a slew of far out experimental releases in the last few years, Baltimore-bred Animal Collective haven’t released a full-length album since 2016’s Painting With. The wait is over, though, as the core four band members in Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear recorded the completed new album, Time Skiffs, over the course of 2020 and have announced its early 2022 release today.

Out on February 4 via Domino Records, the album features the just-released lead single “Prester John.” Comprised of oddball rhythms and those familiar strangely alluring effects, it’s as well-formed of a composition as the band’s early material. The song is actually an amalgamation of a song written by Avey Tare and another one by Panda Bear, and long-time fans of the band will appreciate how fluidly their vocals converge in their signature seesaw harmonies.

The band have also announced a number of tour dates for next March and a release for the album added some color on the intent behind the album for the four:

“These nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder, same as they ever were.”

Listen to “Preseter John” above, and below, find the Time Skiffs art and tracklist, as well as Animal Collective’s upcoming tour dates.

1. “Dragon Slayer”
2. “Car Keys”
3. “Prester John”
4. “Strung With Everything”
5. “Walker”
6. “Cherokee”
7. “Passer-By”
8. “We Go Back”
9. “Royal And Desire”

03/08 —Richmond, VA @ The National
03/09 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
03/11 — North Adams, MA @ Mass MOCA – Hunter Center
03/12 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
03/13 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
03/15 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03/16 — Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
03/18 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
03/19 — Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
03/20 — Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
03/21 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
03/23 — Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
03/24 — Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
03/24-03/27 —Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
03/26 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

Time Skiffs is out 2/4/2022 via Domino. Pre-order it here.

The Orlando Magic are, in a word, funky. Eleven of their 15 players are 24 or younger. Five of them haven’t played more than one NBA season. At both guard and big, they are stocked with young depth. Among the guards, there is Jalen Suggs, Cole Anthony, RJ Hampton, and Markelle Fultz. For various reasons, all of them are still searching for firm NBA footing. In the front-court, three guys all likely optimized at center — Jonathan Isaac, Wendell Carter Jr., and Mo Bamba — exist. At the (big) wings, Franz Wagner and Chuma Okeke, perk up.

Aside from Suggs and Wagner, each of these players has previously suited up for Orlando in a regular-season game. The issue, however, is finding them on the same wavelength. Last year, Isaac missed the entire season due to a torn ACL suffered in the Bubble a season prior. After an encouraging 2019-20, Fultz only played eight games before tearing his ACL. Okeke sat out 2019-20 as he recovered from an ACL tear and hasn’t played a minute with Isaac or Fultz.

Whether it’s injuries or the residual effects of contracting COVID-19 (fingers crossed he’s worked past this), Bamba has struggled to maintain consistent health. Even Anthony missed about a third of the season with injuries. Meanwhile, both Hampton and Carter arrived in Orlando post-trade deadline, and notched fewer than 50 combined games with the Magic.

Fultz, Carter, and Isaac already received rookie contract extensions. Bamba is set to become a restricted free agent and Okeke is eligible for an extension after this season. To clarify which young guys are the pillars of this rebuild, health is imperative. Let these dudes mesh and share the floor together. Trot out some youth-heavy lineups that feature one or two of the team’s, well, four veterans (Terrence Ross, Michael Carter-Williams, Robin Lopez, E’Twaun Moore) for a modicum of stability, while still prioritizing the future.

Discern whether two of Carter, Bamba, and Isaac can play together. The backcourt rotation is full of secondary handlers. Can one of the guards become a more consistent perimeter creator and simplify the offense for everyone else? Are Wagner and Okeke exclusively 4s or can one of them slide up to the 3 and form a versatile, complementary duo on the wing? Among this 11-man core, is there enough volume shooting to space the floor and offset potential troubles generating paint touches?

There are so many fascinating questions surrounding this team as it fully embraces an era of development. With Nikola Vucevic leading the way, Orlando toed the line between a playoff chase and rebuilding the past few seasons. He’s now in Chicago and while there’s a clear direction, who exactly should be guiding that journey remains hazy. Remedying the situation requires health and converging timelines, something the Magic’s prospects have failed to enjoy thus far.

All of those fan campaigns for LeVar Burton to host Jeopardy! did not end up working much magic. We all know what happened there, regarding former executive producer Mike Richards and his disastrous one-week reign as host, all of which left Jeopardy Productions searching again for a host (with Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings sharing duties for the rest of the year). LeVar stayed lovable in the aftermath while revealing how he realized that he didn’t really want the job, although that hasn’t stopped people from asking him about it.

LeVar has actually started to push back (although he’s still being classy, like he truly is) on Twitter, where he called out a journalist who suggested that LeVar would take the job “in a heartbeat” if asked. And when The Daily Beast recently broached the subject with him, the former Reading Rainbow host wanted to set the record really straight. Dawn Ennis asked LeVar what he would do if approached by Jeopardy! to please take the job, and LeVar was like no way: “I’d say, ‘No. You’ve got to be kidding me! You’re out of your mind. Goodbye!’”

As if that wasn’t clear enough, LeVar’s moving forward, and he elaborated:

“I want to make it clear, for the record, that I’m really happy with the way things worked out… I was disappointed to not get the job, but I’m the sort of person, I believe that everything happens for a reason. And if I didn’t get that job, that meant it wasn’t supposed to be for me, and I accepted that almost instantly and willingly. I know that the opportunities that are in front of me right now wouldn’t have come my way had I gotten the job, so I’m certain that this has worked out better for me than I could ever have imagined.”

That’s a more than fair answer. Hopefully, that’s the end of the discussion, and hopefully, Ava DuVernay’s suggested team-up with the Star Trek: The Next Generation actor will actually materialize.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Given his advancing age, it’s unlikely that there will ever come a day when Donald Trump realizes that the real world and the world as the former president sees it don’t have a whole lot in common. In the septuagenarian’s mind, simply uttering a sentence out loud for someone else to hear should make it true, i.e. “The 2020 presidential was rigged.”

So when Trump told Steve Bannon and a handful of other confidantes who could help shed some light on the role the then-president might have played in the Capitol insurrection to ignore any subpoenas they might receive from the January 6th committee—and that his executive privilege, which Biden has revoked, would give them cover—he expected that no one would dare beg to differ. But differ they have. And on Tuesday evening, the committee unanimously voted yes to holding Bannon in criminal contempt for not complying with their requests to meet with them. And Trump is pissed!

As Raw Story reports, just hours before that decision was made, Trump had a wee bit of a meltdown—via an official statement, which was then shared to Twitter by Liz Harrington, his spokeswoman, because a 75-year-old former president can’t be trusted to use a public social media network responsibly. While he didn’t mention Bannon by name, the reason for his attack on the “unselect committee” was not lost on anyone:

“The fake, highly partisan Unselect Committee continues to rock and roll. They were unable to make a deal with Kevin McCarthy to put real Republicans on the Committee, so they got stuck with low-polling warmonger Liz Cheney and Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger who have no idea what our Party stands for. Cheney is polling in the low 20’s in Wyoming, the State she doesn’t represent. This is just a continuation of the Witch Hunt which started with the now fully debunked and discredited Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, quickly reverting to a perfect phone call with Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and now this. The Unselect Committee is composed of absolute political hacks who want to destroy the Republican Party and are decimating America itself. I am the only thing in their way. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

We await today’s even more frantic statement with bated breath.

(Via Raw Story)

Quentin Tarantino has long said his 10th film would be his final film. Well, guess what: he’s up to his 10th film. No pressure. While speaking at the Rome Film Festival where he received a lifetime achievement award from Italian horror legend Dario Argento, Tarantino told Variety that he has “no idea” what his next movie will be. Could it be Kill Bill: Vol. 3, as he’s previously discussed? “Why not?” he replied.

You heard it here first, folks: QT’s final film will be Kill Bill: Vol. 3, unless it isn’t.

But before then, “first I want to make a comedy,” he added. “It’s not like my next movie. It’s a piece of something else that I’m thinking about doing — and I’m not going to describe what it is… There is supposed to be a Spaghetti Western in it. I’m looking forward to shooting that [thing] because it’s going to be really fun. I want to shoot it in the Spaghetti Western style where everybody’s speaking a different language.”

“The Mexican Bandido is an Italian; the hero is an American; the bad sheriff is a German; the Mexican saloon girl is Israeli. And everybody is speaking a different language. And you [the actors] just know: OK, when he’s finished talking then I can talk,” Tarantino laughed again.

No wonder Tarantino’s Star Trek project is on life support: the “universal translator” deflates the, uh, comedy of everyone speaking a different language.

(Via Variety)

Coldplay has a new album, Music Of The Spheres, out now, which means Chris Martin and company are out and about making the promotional rounds. Their latest stop was at The Late Late Show last night, where they brought their No. 1 hit “My Universe” to James Corden’s stage.

While BTS didn’t join them for the performance, the band didn’t strip the Korean lyrics from the song, instead electing to play them pre-recorded while Martin sang along. He actually does know the Korean lyrics, too, as he proved while singing the song to Kelly Clarkson last month.

The band was also on the show on Monday, singing “Let Somebody Go” with Selena Gomez.

Coldplay previously said of the song, “BTS were asked in an interview who they’d like to collaborate with, potentially, and a couple of the guys said they’d love to collaborate with us. A lot of the themes on this album are about bringing people together and taking away divisions and walls and boundaries and all of these human constructs that keep people apart. So we felt like this would be great because it’s an unusual collaboration between people who are known to come from a different genre and completely different part of the world.”

Watch Coldplay perform “My Universe” above.

Music Of The Spheres is out now via Parlophone. Get it here.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And if you’re Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you simply change your company name to something that’s more in line with your goal of “effectively transition[ing] from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Yes, that sentence of futurist-leaning, marketing-speak gobbledygook is what Zuck told The Verge back in July. And now they’re reporting that a company name change is afoot, most likely either at or before Facebook Connect, the company’s annual AR/VR conference, which is scheduled to take place on October 28.

According to The Verge’s Alex Heath, who spoke a source with direct knowledge of these social media shenanigans:

“The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.”

It’s possible the name change has been in the works for years, but the timing of the announcement seems suspiciously convenient. It was just a few weeks ago that Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen went scorched Earth on her former employer, and shared how the company’s algorithm favors profits over their audience’s well-being.

This, of course, wouldn’t be the first time a company changed its name in the midst of scandal. Just ask the folks Academi (a.k.a. Blackwater). Nor would it be the first seemingly unnecessary company rebrand (see: New Coke). And while it’s hard to imagine that it could be worse than The Facebook, Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about “the metaverse” lately. Like, a lot.

So New Facebook is probably out. And something painfully pretentious that you only half understand is likely in. In short, what it means for you is that just when you’ve finally taught your grandma the difference between Facebook replies and Facebook DMs, you’re going to have to explain to her why it’s no longer called Facebook.

(Via The Verge)

The rap supergroup is a concept that could really stand to be further explored. We can point to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne album, Killer Mike and El-P’s ongoing parade around the sun with Run The Jewels, and Mos Def, Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek’s independent hip-hop triumph in Blackstar as creme de la creme examples. But is it ever really enough? The answer is no.

And if you were tuned E-40 and Too Short’s Verzuz battle last December, you’d have seen the delightfully sauced Bay Area rappers hyping that they were forming a West Coast rap supergroup with Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg. Then in April, at Triller’s Fight Club main event between Jake Paul and Ben Askren, we indeed saw the four rappers of the newly minted Mount Westmore play a new song at the end of their set. But that was it. No further announcements, no song title, no nothing. Just legit heat on the mic.

Finally today, the tireless West Coast titans have delivered as only they can, with a video for their first single, “Big Subwoofer,” of the four of them riding in a spaceship, smoking weed, and getting down with alien honeys. The video has it all, an alien in flannel crip walking on Mars while flanked by back-up dancers that look like they’re right out of the Avatar set, Snoop smoking a joint as he steers a spaceship and ray guns.

But when you clear through the space dust, there’s a banger of a single under the hood. Propped up on a familiar West Coast bass thump, the track rides on both hyphy and G-Funk production leans. Each rapper takes a turn spitting their verse with Ice Cube proclaiming that “You know me I’m up in it like a booger // then I tried the b**** like some dice and I shook her,” and E-40 stealing the show from the get go with, “She got her legs open like a field goal post // booty softer than a King Hawaiian roll.”

It might seem like there’s a comedy rap element here, but it’s obvious that the four are having a lot of fun on this track. And let’s face it, they’ve paid their dues.

Watch the video for “Big Subwoofer” above.