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Scottish indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks have been steadily releasing music since their 2009 debut, but the band’s latest effort, Enjoy The View, marks their first time recording as a trio after founding guitarist Michael Palmer left the band in 2019. Despite the lineup change, Enjoy The View is demonstrative of the band’s staying power, another strong entry to their storied catalogue.

To celebrate the new album, vocalist Adam Thompson sat down to talk Old School, The Weeknd, and loving New York City in the latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

They were great live! You shoulda seen ‘em go! I think we might be doing a reunion show by that point actually!

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?

New York. Never had a bad gig here, it just doesn’t seem possible for us. Not sure why as we’ve had bad gigs most places!

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Scott Hutchison! He was great at being a frontman, his tunes were class and his band, Frightened Rabbit, came along just at the right time to inspire us to do what we are still doing now.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life?

I don’t know about best but not too long ago I went to a place in the East Village in NYC called Sakagura to celebrate a happy occasion and loved it. Ate so much good food and drank so much good sake. I think we were there for about 7 hours. Was going to go again recently but saw it had closed down! Bummer!

What album do you know every word to?

These Four Walls.

What is the best outfit for performing and why?

Black T-shirt and dark jeans and comfortable trainers. Classic. Takes decision-making out of the equation if I just wear the same thing every show. And when looking back you can’t ever look too silly in black

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?

Bandmemes666

What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?

“Mull Of Kintyre.” That gets blasted as we enter a new country or return home to Scotland. We also like to have a song that gets played when you all get in the van at the end of the night on tour. The last song was “Return to Innocence” by Enigma. If you play the same song at the same time each night you grow to love it and appreciate the routine! Anything by Mrs Miller as well. Check her out, especially the covers of “Monday, Monday,” “Moon River,” and “Downtown.”

What’s the last thing you Googled?

What is required of me to fly back home to visit Scotland. What test and when do I need to take it?

What album makes for the perfect gift?

Any album! As long as the person giving it loves it and is just trying to share the joy.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

We stayed at a hotel somewhere in the middle of the USA that had been designed to look like a medieval courtyard with a swimming pool in the middle. Medieval swimming pool right outside your door.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

None of us have a single tattoo!

What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?

The Weeknd.

What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

My parents being super nice to me and taking care of me until I could take care of myself! What a thankless task!

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Enjoy playing all these shows and all the fun stuff that happens to you and appreciate it you piece of shit. At least try and be happy!

What’s the last show you went to?

I went to see Catholic Action play in New York just before SXSW was meant to happen in 2020. Everyone was starting to freak out about Covid by that point. Everyone knew it was getting serious by that point.

What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?

Old School. I ended up watching the last hour a few nights ago actually and it always seems to be on!

What would you cook if Obama were coming to your house for dinner?

Something really simple. I try to be a good cook but I just don’t get it. Salt, fat, acid, heat. I get too stressed cooking for people I don’t know. I make a decent pesto with basil from my garden. I think he’d appreciate that I grew that basil. Pesto pasta. And he better say he enjoyed it or I won’t be able to sleep for days.

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Every update to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl feels more bizarre than the last one. We know exactly what it is — t’s a clone of Nintendo’s crossover fighting game, Super Smash Bros. — it’s just that seeing Spongebob duke it out with Nigel Thornberry, Leonardo, and CatDog is never not going to look weird. No amount of polish or quality analysis is going to fix that. Yet, it’s also incredible, and I can’t wait to play it.

Every time there’s a new update for the game, everyone rushes to see which classic Nickelodeon character is confirmed for the game next. We’ve gotten some gems like Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Powdered Toast Man from Ren & Stimpy. It’s pretty clear that while they’re going to try and get the big names on the roster, they’re not going to be afraid to pull some of the more obscure ones from the Nickelodeon universe as well. This is a good thing, especially if you’re the kind of person who will be excited to know that Ren & Stimpy are coming to the game.

The pair are serve as a combo character, meaning they will fight opponents. This is exactly how they should play, because it’s going to lead to funny moments like Stimpy using Ren as a weapon throughout fights. The trailer also featured them running over opposing enemies with a car and Stimpy licking them with his sandpaper tongue. They need to be weird, because that show was weird, and so far, the trailer has them playing the part.

The Nickelodeon games over the last few years have definitely not been of the highest quality, so the fact that every trailer of this game looks so good is really surprising! It’s even catching the attention of professional Smash Bros. players like Mang0.

Could this game be the next true esport? Probably not, but we’d love to be able to watch a professional Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl league somewhere down the line.

In a new interview that’s sure to go over well with a certain former The View host, Amber Tamblyn revealed the surprising inspiration for her Y: The Last Man character Kimberly Campbell Cunningham. In the FX series based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Kimberly is a conservative author and daughter of the president, who along with every man on the planet (save one), died in a mysterious event.

As Tamblyn explains it, the trauma from losing her father, husband, and three sons causes Kimberly to double down on her right-wing politics. So Tamblyn modeled her character after the closest real-world approximation she could find to a fire-brand daughter of a conservative dynasty: Meghan McCain.

Oh, and also the Joker. Gotta have the Joker in there. Via Entertainment Tonight:

Viewing Kimberly’s late father, President Ted Campbell, as a John McCain type, it only makes sense that Tamblyn drew inspiration from his daughter. “I pulled from Meghan [and] I pulled elements from a lot of different kinds of women for this character,” the actress explains, before revealing that she even turned to the Joker for inspiration. “Even though he’s not a woman, I pulled from the Joker for some of her looks.”

In a particularly damning quote, Tamblyn also said, “Kimberly’s entire identity has been built on her relationship to her three sons, to her husband, certainly to her father and his access to power,” which, yeah, sounds a whole lot like Meghan McCain. So far the Daily Mail‘s newest columnist has yet to react to being Tamblyn’s muse, but we wouldn’t put money on McCain being quiet about it. That’s not exactly her style.

New episodes of Y: The Last Man stream Monday on FX on Hulu.

(Via Entertainment Tonight)

If the TCAs are any indication, Ted Lasso is going to have an Emmys night to “Believe” in.

The Apple TV+ series won three awards at the 2021 TCA Awards: Outstanding New Program, Outstanding Achievement In Comedy, and Program of the Year, beating Bridgerton, Hacks, I May Destroy for You, Mare of Easttown, The Queen’s Gambit (which feels like it was on seven years ago), The Underground Railroad, and WandaVision. The awards are selected by the Television Critics Association, an organization composed of 200 TV critics and journalists across the United States and Canada. I am not a member, otherwise this clip of a drunk Ewok doing the moonwalk before humping Al Roker’s leg would have won for an unprecedented 12th year in a row.

Other big winners include Jean Smart (it’s her summer and her fall; she can have the whole dang year) and I May Destroy You. The Golden Girls also received the Heritage Award, joining previous winners The Simpsons, Cheers, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Here’s the full list:

Individual Achievement In Drama: Michaela Coel (“I MAY DESTROY YOU,” HBO)
Individual Achievement In Comedy: Jean Smart (“HACKS,” HBO Max)
Outstanding Achievement In News and Information: “FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS” (FX/FX On Hulu)
Outstanding Achievement In Reality Programming: TIE: “COUPLES THERAPY” (Showtime), “DEAF U” (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement In Youth Programming: “THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB” (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement In Variety, Talk Or Sketch: “LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER” (HBO)
Outstanding New Program: “TED LASSO” (Apple TV+)
Outstanding Achievement In Movies, Miniseries, Or Specials: “MARE OF EASTTOWN” (HBO)
Outstanding Achievement In Drama: “THE CROWN” (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement In Comedy: “TED LASSO” (Apple TV+)
Program of the Year: “TED LASSO” (Apple TV+)
Career Achievement Honoree: Jean Smart
Heritage Award: “THE GOLDEN GIRLS” (NBC)

Ted Lasso received 20 nominations for the 2021 Emmys (it’s already won three), while Smart and Michaela Coel are up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, respectively.

The ceremony airs this Sunday, September 19.

Jordan Battle, a safety for the Alabama Crimson Tide, said something eyebrow-raising earlier this week: Nick Saban loves deez nuts jokes. Battle was asked during a press conference whether he has a favorite saying from Saban, which led to a truly delightful answer that appeared to get someone in the room to yelp.

“He’s always talkin’ about, ‘touch deez,’ or, you know, ‘suck on deez,’” Battle claims Saban loves to say.

This surprised plenty of folks, because Saban does not exactly seem like the kind of guy who laughs at much of anything, let alone jokes that formed in the darkest depths of Twitter. Saban has in the past been asked about his love of this specific joke, but there is still a pretty major question that exists: Why, exactly, is this a go-to for Nick Saban?

Source of all important college football information Lane Kiffin has the answer. Kiffin was Saban’s offensive coordinator for several years, and he has the backstory as to how he became aware of this joke format.

Humphrey addressed this but decided to sidestep Kiffin’s claim.

I would still like to know exactly what joke hooked Saban here, but Marlon Humphrey, thank you for your role in teaching Saban about deez nuts jokes.

Singer Lauren Jauregui is the latest Fifth Harmony member to pivot to a solo career, something that fans have been begging for ever since the group’s 2018 disbandment. Jauregui previously teased the beginning of a new era with her rhythmic 2020 single “Lento” and “50ft.” But now, over a year after the singles dropped, Jauregui has finally released details about her debut solo album.

Titled Prelude, Jauregui is set to further detail the upcoming solo debut project in a cinematic livestream. Jauregui announced Prelude with a the livestream’s trailer Wednesday, which previews an exquisitely choreographed performance complete with white, flowing outfits and plenty of flowers. The livestream, presented in partnership with the platform Moment House, airs October 14 and 15 and features several dancers, costume changes, and more.

Speaking about her upcoming project in a statement, Jauregui expressed her “deep gratitude” for the chance to finally share it with the world:

“Deep gratitude to be able to finally birth the beginning of this project into the world. ‘Prelude’ is a piece of my heart and I can’t wait for you all to hear what that sounds like.”

While Jauregui has shared only a few songs since leaving Fifth Harmony, the singer has still been hard at work both in and out of the studio. She’s spent the last few years recording and revising her music in anticipation for her debut release, as well as expressing her support for various social justice and human rights issues.

Watch Jauregui’s Prelude trailer above.

At this year’s VMAs, Lizzo and Cardi B’s “Rumors” was up for Song Of The Summer, a title that ultimately went to BTS’ “Butter.” Lizzo did end the evening with one award, though, as she and Yayayayummy won Best Artist x Creator Collab for the “mustard watermelon” TikTok trend they launched. Lizzo wasn’t at the ceremony, though, because she was keeping busy with… something else.

In a TikTok video yesterday, Lizzo hinted at what she was doing the night of the VMAs, with the clip’s text overlay reading, “I really won a VMA while I was getting my back blown out last night… I’ll be there next year promise.” In the video, “Rumors” plays in the background, and the lyrics heard in the clip are fitting: “All the rumors are true, yeah / I f*cked him and you, yeah.”

She also captioned her post, “WE WON THE FIRST @mtv VMA FOR A TIKTOK BESTIES!!! WE DID IT— WHERE MY MOONMAN AT?”

Naturally, a lot of the comments on the post reference Chris Evans, as Lizzo and the actor have had some flirtatious social media interactions in recent months. Lizzo didn’t indicate who she spent time with that evening, though.

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While it was easy enough to tell that Nicki Minaj’s tweet featuring a cousin’s vaccine horror story probably wasn’t true based on its junior high urban myth-level sourcing, a new report cast even more aspersions on the likely tall tale by citing one important missing factor. When even Tucker Carlson doesn’t believe you, it might be time to issue a retraction.

Nicki’s story cited her cousin in Trinidad, who told her that his friend’s wedding was canceled by his adverse reaction to a COVID vaccine — swollen testicles and impotence. However, the Health Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh, refuted the claim at a press conference, explaining that, “We could not respond in real-time yesterday to Ms. Minaj [because] we had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false. We did, and unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim. As far as we know, at this point in time, there has been no such reported side effect or adverse event.”

He further lamented the cost of the investigation in both time and effort, which could have gone to shoring up real COVID defenses that would actually help people. His comments echoed those of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also had to debunk the AOL chain letter rumor-quality anecdote in an interview with Jake Tapper. Meanwhile, CNC3 Television in Port of Spain, Trinidad also had some thoughts on the tweet, directly admonishing Nicki for misusing her platform. Props for calling it a “Bacchanal story.”

Seriously, though, Nicki’s cousin’s friend — if he even exists — should probably seek treatment for what sounds like a sexually transmitted disease… and then get the damn vaccine. I have no advice on repairing his relationship; next time, wear a condom or something. As for Nicki, a good prescription would be another social media hiatus… and getting the damn vaccine.

Deathloop rules. Arkane Studios, the creators of the Dishonored series, has a gem on their hand with the time loop game nobody can stop talking about. The concept is simple: The main character, Colt, wakes up on a beach unable to remember what happened the night before. Turns out, he’s been in a non-stop loop where the entire island keeps killing him for fun. The only way to get out of the loop is for Colt to eliminate the eight targets in a single day, and if he fails, it’s back to the beach.

The game is really fun and has garnered a lot of attention for taking a not-so-unique premise and making it fun. It’s so impressive that legendary developer Hideo Kojima wants to play it, which on its surface makes sense. But there’s just one problem: As someone who suffers from motion sickness, this is the kind of game that he believes will make him sick.

It says a lot about how good Deathloop must be that even someone with a history of motion sickness wants to play it. Interestingly enough, Kojima has made a first-person 3D game in the past: P.T., the infamous demo for the now-canceled Silent Hills, was a first-person horror experience. Regardless, it’s a bummer that he might not get to experience one of the best games of the year because of motion sickness. Maybe Arkane can throw him a bone and add in a third-person mode for him.

After flying in hot as the new Captain America, Anthony Mackie is crashing into the world of video games by signing onto a live-action Twisted Metal series from Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions. Mackie still star as John Doe in the half-hour action comedy from the creative team behind Deadpool, which will give the series an added boost as Sony gears up to shop it around to potential buyers. Also, the whole premise sounds pretty rad. Via Deadline:

Twisted Metal is a high-octane action comedy based on an original take by Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

Obviously, scoring Mackie is a huge get for the Twisted Metal series. The actor’s transformation into the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new Captain America in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale went over huge with fans. Within hours of Mackie making his debut as Cap, Marvel announced a fourth Captain America movie featuring his Sam Wilson character in the title role.

Of course, the big question is whether we’ll see Mackie engage in vehicular combat with a murderous clown before he takes flight as Cap again, but frankly, either one sounds awesome. There’s been a whole entire pandemic. We’re not picky.

(Via Deadline)