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It’s been nearly a decade since The Black Keys‘ seventh studio album El Camino catapulted the duo from a relatively underground rock band into the mainstream, earning them three Grammy Awards among several other accolades. To celebrate the landmark LP’s success, The Black Keys are releasing a special 10th anniversary edition of the album, complete with live sessions, exclusive posters, and more.

El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is available for purchase in several formats. A Super Deluxe edition of the album includes five vinyl LPs or four CDs, featuring a remastered version of the original album, a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording, a BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012, a 2011 Electro-Vox session, an extensive photo book, a limited-edition poster and lithograph, and a “new car scent” air freshener. A three-LP edition of the deluxe release features the remastered album and the live recording, as well as a special fan club version of the three-LP set.

Announcing the new edition of the album, the band shared a new trailer featuring Derrick T. Tuggle, reprising his role in the band’s original “Lonely Boy” video. Watch the trailer above and find The Black Keys’ El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) tracklist below.

Remastered El Camino Album
1. “Lonely Boy”
2. “Dead And Gone”
3. “Gold On The Ceiling”
4. “Little Black Submarines”
5. “Money Maker”
6. “Run Right Back”
7. “Sister”
8. “Hell Of A Season”
9. “Stop Stop”
10. “Nova Baby”
11. “Mind Eraser”

Live in Portland, ME
1. “Howlin’ For You”
2. “Next Girl”
3. “Run Right Back”
4. “Same Old Thing”
5. “Dead And Gone”
6. “Gold On The Ceiling”
7. “Thickfreakness”
8. “Girl Is On My mind”
9. “I’ll Be Your Man/ Your Touch”
10. “Little Black Submarines”
11. “Money Maker”
12. “Strange Times”
13. “Chop And Change”
14. “Nova Baby”
15. “Ten Cent Pistol”
16. “Tighten Up”
17. “Lonely Boy”
18. “Everlasting Light”
19. “She’s Long Gone”
20. “I Got Mine”

Zane Lowe BBC Session (Super Deluxe Edition only)
1. “Howlin’ For You”
2. “Next Girl”
3. “Gold On The Ceiling”
4. “Thickfreakness”
5. “I’ll Be Your Man”
6. “Your Touch”
7. “Little Black Submarines”
8. “Dead And Gone”
9. “Tighten Up”
10. “Lonely Boy”
11. “I Got Mine”

Electro Vox Session (Super Deluxe Edition only)
1. “Dead And Gone”
2. “Gold On The Ceiling”
3. “Howlin’ For You”
4. “Lonely Boy”
5. “Money Maker”
6. “Next Girl”
7. “Run Right Back”
8. “Sister”
9. “Tighten Up”

El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is out 11/5 via Nonesuch Records. Pre-order it here.

The Black Keys are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last month, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announced plans to release a follow-up to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities, simply called B-Sides & Rarities Part II, arriving on October 22 on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms. Ahead of the release, they shared the previously unreleased track “Vortex.” Now, they’ve followed up with “Earthlings,” an eerie, haunted-sounding song that features thundering choral harmonies.

An unheard track from the 2018-2019 sessions that became Ghosteen, “Earthlings” is, as Cave puts it, “the finest track of the Ghosteen sessions,” adding: “‘Earthlings’ is the missing link that binds Ghosteen together. A lovely song that just got away…”

Featuring 27 rare and unreleased tracks that span the years between 2006 and 2020 (including the first recordings of “Skeleton Tree,” “Girl In Amber,” and “Bright Horses”), B-Sides & Rarities Part II was compiled by Nick Cave and longtime band member Warren Ellis. “I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums,” Cave said in a statement last month. “It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit.

“B-Sides & Rarities Part II continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from The Bad Seeds,” added Cave. “I love the final side of the last disc because it reveals the small and fragile beginnings of some of my favorite Bad Seeds songs. ‘Waiting For You’ complete with bizarre ‘canning factory’ rhythm track, a gorgeous ‘Life Per Se’ deemed too sad for Skeleton Tree…”

Check out “Earthlings” above. B-Sides & Rarities Part II is out 10/22. Pre-order it here.

In a new cover story for Ebony magazine, hip-hop pioneer Nas reveals that he contracted COVID-19 late last year and details his struggles with the virus. “I caught COVID in late October,” he admits. “This is the first time [I’m] mentioning it. It was a tough time. It was mentally and physically hard. It’s just today’s world, with chemical warfare, crazy politics, racism, food shortages, police malpractice, Black-on-Black murder. The human spirit is being tested. I think that God has a plan for all of this. But right now, we’re in a serious time.”

Elsewhere in the profile, he reveals the contemporary rappers who inspire him while freely offering his advice for them to reach the level at which he currently finds himself. “I like Lady London,” he says, praising the rising rapper whose freestyles on social media have repeatedly gone viral, making her part of a rising tide of female rappers distinguishing themselves in the modern streaming era. He also salutes another pair of rappers who have impressed him lyrically. “Kendrick Lamar. Cordae. I think rappers today have [an] entrepreneurial spirit, and they know even more than what I used to and are seizing opportunities. They just have to balance the street and their long-term goals.”

Meanwhile, Nas himself sees his inspirations as the high watermark to achieve. “I just wanna become as great as the ones I came up thinking were the greatest,” he says. “Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, LL, Slick Rick, Ice Cube—the list goes on. I just wanna be able to look at myself and say that I did what they are doing.”

You can read Ebony‘s full feature here.

The Pope might be the literal face of all that is good and holy for Catholics around the world, but even he doesn’t have time for people’s anti-vaxxing bullsh*t in the middle of a pandemic that has killed more than 4.5 million people around the world, and counting.

As AP reports, the Pope doesn’t seem to quite be able to wrap his head around the number of people who are risking their lives—not to mention the lives of those around them—by opting out of one of the many COVID vaccines available. “Humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” the supreme pontiff said while traveling aboard the papal plane, a.k.a. the Flying Popemobile, on Wednesday.

Though he didn’t name names, His Holiness noted that even within the higher-ups of the Catholic Church, there are some non-believers—who could easily turn into non-breathers. “Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some negationists,” he said, explaining how one “poor guy” who refused to get vaccinated ended up testing positive for COVID and being hospitalized. (“That was an apparent reference to U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke,” AP wrote, “who was hospitalized in the U.S. and placed on a ventilator last month after contracting the virus.”)

What the Pope (and the rest of us) find most confusing is how and/or why so many people—especially parents with kids—have been happily vaccinated against measles, mumps, and polio, “and no one said anything.”

Of course, thanks in large part to conspiracy theorists/sh*t disturbers like followers of the 45th President of the United States and conservative media personalities, many people seem to view the COVID pandemic as less of a public health crisis and more of a political minefield. Not only did the Pope confirm that it was “morally acceptable” to receive the vaccine, but noted that not getting it was tantamount to “suicide.”

For those who are afraid of what might be in the vaccine, the Pope suggests it’s time to “talk with serenity.” And if Serenity isn’t picking up or your calls are going straight to voicemail, try Logic.

(Via AP)

After blowing up his job at iTV by storming off the set of Good Morning Britain because a coworker pushed back on his criticism of Meghan Markle‘s mental health struggles, Piers Morgan has returned to the dark nether-regions from whence he first came: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox media empire. In a statement to his Twitter account, which Morgan shamelessly labels as “BREAKING,” the British TV personality announced he’s “gone home” to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire after almost three decades.

“Great to be rejoining Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation after 28 years,” Morgan tweeted. “The place I started my media career, with the boss who gave me my first big break. We’re going to have a lot of fun….”

As for the terms of the deal, Morgan will have his own TV show — just not on Fox News. The British anchor will host a primetime show for the Fox Nation streaming service alongside the likes of Tomi Lahren and Candace Owens. Morgan will also be published in News Corp.’s vast portfolio of media outlets. Via Variety:

Under the terms of the deal, Morgan will host a daily TV show that will air on weeknights in the U.K., U.S. and Australia, write a weekly column for Murdoch’s U.K. tabloid The Sun and the U.S. publication The New York Post and also present a series of true crime documentaries.

The TV show will air on Fox Nation in the U.S., talkTV in the U.K. and Sky News Australia.

Like all things Morgan, he’s already being ruthlessly dunked on social media, but nothing can match this reaction from The Daily Show who kept their eyes on the ball(s).

(Via Piers Morgan on Twitter, Variety)

Any time you hear him speak, you get the impression Chris Godwin is thinking. Whether that be about what his next words might be or his next move. That’s true when he’s laughing off accusations lobbed from Dallas that he pushed off on a game-sealing catch on the opening night of the season and when he’s taking me inside his mindset on a new business partnership.

That partnership is with Lids, the hat company that has given over some creative ideas to Godwin for a new project in which Godwin was able to design five new hats that will be sold at Lids stores everywhere. It gives fans, as Godwin says, a chance to bring a little bit of him along with them.

The 2021 NFL champion and top receiver on the 2022 title favorites took some time to talk with Uproxx this week ahead of the release of this new Lids collection about hats, this colorful Bucs squad, and how he’s keeping the Tampa connection to the Toronto Raptors alive even as they leave town.

Let’s start with the main reason we’re here, which is this new Lids partnership. Tell me what went into putting this together, what drew you to it, and what do you hope comes of it as you put together these designs and people see everything come out?

Really, this is something I’m very fortunate to be able to do. When I was younger, I always felt like it was cool to be able to go to Lids, and Lids hats used to be really big. I know my older brothers had some.

But I guess when I really started to take interest was when my brother-in-law actually used to work there at a Lids at a school. He started to kind of make his own designs on his hats and break down for me how he was doing it, with the embroidery machine where you could customize any hat you wanted. I always used to think that was really cool, so when I was approached with my own opportunity to do a design and be able to put those in Lids stores all across the country, I jumped at the opportunity.

I thought it was something that would be really cool for me, but also for people that are fans of me to be able to I guess add a little bit of my creativity, a little bit of things that symbolize me, to their hats, as a way to support me, so to speak.

Did you have a favorite hat when you were a kid, one that you used to wear the most?

Ironically enough, my first team that I ever played for was called the Buccaneers, so then my first NFL team that I liked was the Bucs because of that association. Then when I found out they used to wear creamsicle, they had an all-creamsicle hat, and I always thought that was so dope. It was the coolest thing to me, like man, that’s a swaggy hat.

Then it was full circle, obviously playing for the Bucs now and I’ve got my own creamsicle hat similar to the one I used to like whenever I would see it. Now I can put my own design on it and it’s like my own personal hat.

What’s different coming into this season, after last year where nobody knew what to expect, what’s different about this year where you’re coming into a season where there are expectations as the defending champs?

I don’t necessarily know if the changes have been due to whatever expectations are placed on us. I think more so it comes from the familiarity that we have. Like you said, last year at this point, we had never really played together before, so we were figuring everything out, trying to figure out our timing with our quarterback. What’s crazy to me is how much chemistry we had to build with not much time to figure it out.

You fast forward to this year and now, we were fortunate enough to bring everybody back, so we’re starting at a further point. That doesn’t guarantee anything, that doesn’t mean we’re automatically going to win, that doesn’t mean that the throws we made last year we’re going to make this year, but it gives us a further starting point and a more open chain of communication so that when things do go wrong, we know how to address each other, we know how to talk each other’s language so we can address it as fast as possible. I think to go through the adversity we ended up going through last year to win the title, I think the combination of those two things are going to ultimately end up helping us when we go through adversity this year.

Who’s a Bucs player that people may not know is a funny, a big personality that may not come across? An everyday NFL fan, we know Gronk is a big personality, we know guys like you are out and about doing things, but who’s somebody in that Tampa Bay locker room that we might not expect is a big character?

I think two people. One would be Scotty Miller, the other would be Cam Brate. These guys are familiar to Bucs fans, but I think in terms of a national audience, I don’t think they necessarily have too much recognition, but they are like the biggest jokesters on the team. They like to troll people.

Any time someone posts something on social media, I can bet on going in and looking in the comments and seeing Cam saying some kind of troll. It’s hilarious.

Coming off the game last week which was down to the wire, you make that catch at the end, obviously entertaining and you gave the fans a good show, but what I saw a lot of talk about was that last catch on your part, was it pass interference and this and that, because we love to debate that type of thing as football fans. But you got asked about it postgame and you said you never worry about pass interference. Is that just the mindset you have to have because you can’t be out there worried, or you just think they’re never going to call it? Because, they’re never going to call it.

Mostly the former. You can’t go out there and not play aggressive because you’re worried that you’re going to get called for OPI. Because at the end of the day when you’re in the heat of battle, defensive backs hold, there’s hand-fighting going on back and forth, you’re kind of trading blows throughout the game, so in that final moment, I’m not worried about OPI, I’m just trying to get free.

And I also don’t think that I had pass interference. So there’s the bonus on that one (laughs).

I think this was dating back to last season when the Raptors were down there (in Tampa) with you guys, repping that team. I saw you had the Vince Carter jersey on the other day and we do a lot of basketball coverage here, so I have to ask you. Obviously you want to support the team when they had to come down there last season and deal with everything, but I was surprised to see you were still doing it. Is that a fandom that’s going to stick with you, or did it just look cool because the pink is sick?

So it was multifaceted. I went to a game when the team was down here last year and just wanted to support the team because I thought that was cool that there was a professional basketball team in Tampa.

Then two, Vince Carter is actually a Bucs fan, personally he grew up in Daytona, Florida, so he came out to one of our practices a few years ago and I remembered that when I got the jersey. Then I also love wearing throwback jerseys, so when I got that one last year, I knew that was something I was going to be able to do and I wanted to wear that for the first game of the season to bring it all together.

It kind of comes full circle because with this Lids locker room stuff, they have a whole bunch of throwback jerseys, so I’m able to go and get my jerseys and then I’ve got my throwbacks for the year, and then I got my Vince Carter to begin the year.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage isn’t even out yet (every day without Venom making breakfast is a waking nightmare), but Tom Hardy is already answering questions about the inevitable clash between Venom and Spider-Man. Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, as it’s officially called, is not the same thing as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Hardy is certain that Eddie Brock and Tom Holland’s Peter Parker will cross paths someday.

As for the connections between the two universes, the Dunkirk actor explained to Entertainment Tonight, “There’s a Venom-Verse, you know, there’s a Spider-Verse, there’s multiverses, there’s all kinds of canon and lore and mythology to explore both laterally and forward in time. I think with the right people and the right planning, and feedback from the audience, and understanding it’s about making the right choices at the right time… Even with foresight of understanding where things may go already or they wish to go, it’s a combination of all those in the alchemy of what it will be.”

First off, more sentences should begin with “there’s a Venom-Verse…” Also, I have no idea what Hardy is talking about, but it sounds promising. If Venom: Let There Be Carnage does well, it’s hard to imagine Spider-Man not appearing in the third movie — or Hardy being in the MCU. The Marvel movies could use more lobster-based hijinks.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage opens on October 1.

(Via Comic Book Movie)

Nicki Minaj is going to get someone killed — even if only indirectly. In much the same way a straight line can be drawn between Donald Trump’s COVID-19 skepticism and racist invective against Asian people and the real-world harm they caused, Nicki Minaj’s anti-vaccine rhetoric is very likely having a devastating, if not immediately visible impact. As was pointed out by numerous sources in Trinidad & Tobago including the Minister Of Health and one sassy news anchor, Nicki’s platform is far too large and her influence is far too powerful for her to keep propagating the sort of dangerous messages that have already resulted in so many deaths, both in the US and worldwide.

While television hosts like Tucker Carlson and Stephen Colbert made light of Nicki Minaj’s tweets — mainly because the comedic potential in her chain letter-esque, Snopes-worthy narrative was too great to ignore — their fellow host Jake Tapper probably had the better handle on how truly dangerous it is that she keeps going. And yes, she’s still going. Now, she’s trying to defend herself, likely out of a sense of embarrassment at the pile-on of ridicule of her silly, poorly-sourced anecdote, but as she does, she only further entrenches herself — and those who agree with her or are otherwise timid about receiving their shots — in their delusion of anti-scientific fear.

If it seems like I’m being harsh, that’s probably because I lost patience for COVID deniers and anti-vaxxers right around the time my uncle Cecil died of COVID complications last year, before a vaccine could be made available that could have saved his life. It’s because my dad, whose immune system has been compromised by chemotherapy and reduced lung capacity since I was in eighth grade, wasn’t able to safely leave his home in over a year. It’s because my stories are more than just second or thirdhand anecdotes from the Facebook family gossip chain. It’s because my younger brother had to have his graduation via Zoom, and so many of those nearest and dearest to me are suffering after losing loved ones to a virus our country had the capacity to stop in its tracks but didn’t.

So yeah, I understand the reticence of Nicki Minaj and others who say they don’t understand how the vaccine works. I also call “bullshit” on that bad faith line of reasoning. You don’t know how your smartphone works either, or half of your household appliances. Your planes, your trains, and your automobiles are beyond your ability or knowledge to explain too. You don’t know what’s in McDonald’s’ Secret Sauce, and you don’t even know what’s in your record contract. But you still use your phone, microwave your leftover Big Macs, and sign your contract, because there is some benefit in it for you, whether it’s entertainment, or nourishment, or that big, fat advance the label waved in front of you in exchange for 90% of your publishing rights.

There’s a benefit to getting vaccinated, too: Protecting yourself, those you love, the people who help you pay your bills, and strangers you’ll never meet but won’t infect via the long, sinuous game of telephone that defines how epidemics and pandemics like this one spread. You say you’re doing research, but the research is already done. You can find it in any number of trustworthy, source-citing articles from the Associated Press, from the Center For Disease Control — outlets where experts, whose jobs involve checking and double-checking facts and observations backed by decades of scientific discoveries share their knowledge for the sole purpose of keeping people from dying from this preventable disease.

Facebook is not a source. Anonymous anecdotes on Reddit are not “research.” It feels more like what Nicki and those other skeptics are looking for are horror stories that validate their fears, because they are more afraid of the medicine than the disease. And I get it; no one likes getting shots. But you did it when you were a kid in order to enroll in most schools. You do it when you’re planning that overseas trip. You can do it now, to save lives, to help someone other than yourself. You can even buy yourself a lollipop after with the millions of dollars you’ve made from being an entertainer — and can get back to making when there’s no longer a life-threatening pandemic shutting down the venues where you ply your trade.

And if you’re not going to get the shot, despite the millions of people who have gotten it without side effects (many more than the negligible number who have experienced adverse reactions), despite the growing number of cases, despite the virus’ potential to mutate and become even more deadly and drug-resistant the longer it circulates, then at the very least, stop tweeting about it. Because, Nicki, you could get someone killed.

After three days of backlash to her tweets about refusing COVID-19 vaccines until she’s “done more research,” Nicki Minaj claimed to have been locked out of her Twitter account. Twitter’s administrators say they’ve taken no such action against her, but her say-so was enough to prompt her fans to get #FreeNicki trending. Unfortunately, as her COVID tweets hewed pretty closely to the Fox News playbook of “just asking questions,” it didn’t take long for conservative pundits like Jack Posobiec and right-wing Twitter trolls to hijack the trend for their political theater wargames.

Call me crazy, but if the people tweeting Pepe memes are siding with you — the same people who were holding tiki torches in Charleston and putting their feet up on desks at the Capitol building — it might be time to examine your commentary and start issuing some retractions. Nicki has already backpedaled from one of her more outrageous claims: The tweet that could be said to have more or less caused all this chaos to begin with. Trying to provide an example of the sort of thing she fears from vaccines, she relayed the tale of her cousin’s friend in Trinidad, who supposedly canceled his wedding after a vaccine side effect gave him swollen testes and impotence.

You don’t need to work at Snopes.com to see through that one, and Nicki was roundly roasted by users on Twitter, Stephen Colbert, and even Trinidad’s Health Minister for spreading vaccine misinformation. However, right-wingers like Tucker Carlon and Candace Owens were only too happy to jump on the Nicki Minaj bandwagon (remember when they did the same to Kanye West?), placing the rapper firmly on the side of folks who only see her as a prop and not as a person. Lest we forget, these are the same people who either ignored or outright derided Nicki up until now and would likely have continued to do so were it not convenient for them to pretend to defend her.

However, even with all the hot air they’ve blown, Nicki’s Barbz and reactionary defenders do actually kind of have a point: Donald Trump was allowed to spew anti-vaccine conspiracy nonsense for almost a year before Twitter disabled his account. However, like most of their arguments, it also falls apart on the slightest scrutiny — among the differences between them, Nicki is not a public official whose statements need to be preserved for historical purposes and Twitter says it did not remove her access to her account. One thing they do have in common, though: Neither’s First Amendment rights were violated because its protections only extend to the Federal government and do not cover sedition or being a public safety menace.

The tight end position has become increasingly important in recent years as the pass-happy NFL has forced defenses to put more smaller defenders on the field to deal with all of the speed, leaving an opportunity for big-bodied pass catchers to feast against defensive backs.

Still, it takes a special type of tight end to be a dominant force, which is why only a select few are capable of filling up the stat sheet week in and week out. For fantasy players, knowing the matchups and knowing the projections is key if you don’t have a Travis Kelce or Darren Waller type, because for many tight ends, being able to exploit a soft middle of the defense is often the key to a big week.

Here, we’ve rounded up a ranking of the top 20 tight ends for Week 2 in the NFL based on the average of five sites standard league rankings (ESPN, NFL, CBS, FantasyPros, FFToday).

CONSENSUS WEEK 2 PROJECTION TIGHT END RANKINGS

1. Travis Kelce
2. Darren Waller
3. George Kittle
4. TJ Hockenson
5. Mark Andrews
6. Rob Gronkowski
7. Noah Fant
8. Logan Thomas
9. Robert Tonyan
10. Tyler Higbee
11. Dallas Goedert
12. Jared Cook
13. Jonnu Smith
14. Kyle Pitts
15. Austin Hooper
16. Mike Gesicki
17. Cole Kmet
18. Hunter Henry
19. Anthony Firkser
20. Gerald Everett