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Chicago rapper Polo G is riding on a string of major successes. Now with a recent No. 1 single to his name, the 22-year-old rapper details his highly anticipated third album, Hall Of Fame.

The rapper took to social media to share a short teaser clip as an album announcement, revealing Hall Of Fame is slated for a release on June 11. “I got somethin special for you I hope you appreciate it,” he wrote.

In the video, Polo G lays out his hopes for the LP. “My goals for Hall Of Fame was just to make sure that I can show my diversity as an artist, really like elevate my sound, for the people to hear something that I ain’t ever did before,” he says.

Polo G has already previewed the album with a few singles. His track “Rapstar” hovered at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two consecutive weeks and more recently, the rapper dropped his Lil Wayne-featuring number “Gang Gang.”

Hall Of Fame will arrive just over a year after his 2020 sophomore effort The Goat. Featuring artists like NLE Choppa, Juice WRLD, and BJ The Chicago Kid, the LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified Platinum in December.

Watch Polo G’s album teaser above.

Hall Of Fame is out 6/11 via Columbia. Pre-order it here.

After revamping the Halloween franchise, Danny McBride is trying his hand at reviving another ’80s classic: The Garbage Pail Kids. According to a new report from Deadline, McBride will serve as both co-creator and writer for a new Garbage Pail Kids animated series for HBO Max. The actor’s Rough House Pictures will also produce the series that’s borne out of McBride and co-creator David Gordon Green’s love of the classic Topps trading cards and Saturday morning cartoons. Via Deadline:

The Topps Company created Garbage Pail Kids in 1985. The gross-out humor and subversive attitude of Garbage Pail Kids became a worldwide phenomenon that recently celebrated its 35th anniversary while remaining an integral part of a retro revival of all things 80’s.

The Garbage Pail Kids animated series marks a continuing love-fest between McBride and HBO after he delivered the dark comedy classic Eastbound & Down. On top of developing Garbage Pail Kids, the actor is currently hard at work on the second season of The Righteous Gemstones, which saw its production shut down barely 48 hours in at the start of the pandemic.

Walton Goggins snapped a selfie of himself in character as Baby Billy Freeman in mid-April, which let fans know The Righteous Gemstones is officially back on track. Following the Goggins reveal, Jason Schwartzman and Eric Andre were added to the season two cast, which was already stacked to begin with thanks to series regulars McBride, Goggins, Adam Devine, and the always excellent Edi Patterson.

(Via Deadline)

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr have all appeared on The Simpsons over its decades-long run, but only one of the Beatles made the show keep a promise.

In the season seven episode, “Lisa the Vegetarian,” Paul, his then-wife Linda, and “the fifth Beatle” Apu helped Lisa commit to being a vegetarian — and reveal that if you listen to “Maybe I’m Amazed” backwards, there’s a ripping lentil soup recipe. But mostly the vegetarian thing. The Simpsons staff was able to book McCartney only after agreeing to a unique stipulation, and before you ask, it has nothing to do with marrying a carrot.

“The wonderful story about Lisa becoming a vegetarian is that Paul and Linda McCartney said they would not come on the show unless Lisa remained a vegetarian for the life of the series,” Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa, said on the Allrecipes podcast to promote her Oil & Water series. “And we’ve kept our promise.” McCartney “always checks” in to make sure they live up to their word, but there was a close call in the season 24’s “Penny-Wiseguys” when Lisa added insects to her diet.

“The saving grace was that even after she ate the bugs, she then reversed course and went, this isn’t for me. I’m going back to my vegetarian ways,” Smith said. “So, I feel like ultimately we kept our promise, even if she stuck her toe in unknown waters.”

“Lisa the Vegetarian” taught me so much about vegetarianism and tolerance and animal rights, but mostly, it taught me that you don’t win friends with salad.

You can listen to the episode below.

(Via the Hill)

Lightning Bug find themselves in an enviable spot: Their 2019 album October Song caught the attention of esteemed indie label Fat Possum, who promptly signed Lightning Bug and reissued the album. Now, the band is readying their first new album for the label, A Color Of The Sky. They’ve already shared the singles “The Right Thing Is Hard To Do” and “September Song, Pt. II,” and today, they’re back with a new one.

This time, it’s “Song Of The Bell,” a neo-nostalgic burst of ’90s-style shoegaze that’s in the same family tree as The Verve’s early-career material and My Bloody Valentine. The band’s Audrey Kang says of the track:

“‘Song Of The Bell’ is a song about hope, but it’s also about understanding that uncertainty is an inextricable part of being alive. This was the last song to be written — we’d already recorded the bulk of the record. We were in the first leg of quarantine and I felt like our days had been abruptly hollowed out. I was thinking about emptiness and reading the Tao Te Ching, this very enlightened text, ‘to be empty is to be full, twist to be straight,’ etc. So I was thinking about that concept, how one can ’empty’ oneself to be full, and where is that line, between emptying yourself and losing yourself? I thought about how when something is empty, you sort of have two choices: you can see it for what it used to hold and no longer does (i.e. a ‘shell’), or you can look for its potential to hold new things and possibilities (i.e. a ‘vessel’).”

Kang also previously spoke about her songwriting evolution from the previous album to the new one, and about the experience she hopes listeners have: “Songs in the past sometimes felt muddled, or I felt lost where to take them. But for this one, each song felt like a whole entity from conception. […] I want listeners to explore their own interior worlds. It’s about learning to trust yourself, about being deeply honest with yourself, and about how self-acceptance yields a selfless form of love.”

Listen to “Song Of The Bell” above, and below, find the A Color Of The Sky art and tracklist, as well as the band’s upcoming tour dates below, all of which are in support of Bully.

1. “The Return”
2. “The Right Thing Is Hard To Do”
3. “September Song, Pt. II”
4. “Wings Of Desire ”
5. “The Chase”
6. “Song Of The Bell ”
7. “I Lie Awake ”
8. “Reprise”
9. “A Color Of The Sky”
10. “The Flash”

09/03 — Spokane, WA @ Lucky You Lounge
09/04 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/07 — Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
09/09 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
09/11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
09/13 — Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
09/14 — Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
09/15 — Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
09/17 — Austin, TX @ Mohawk
09/18 — San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
09/19 — Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Company

A Color Of The Sky is out 6/25 via Fat Possum. Pre-order it here.

On Wednesday, capitalizing on the moment of Phil Mickelson winning the PGA Championship at 50 years old, Capital One announced the latest edition of The Match will put Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady together to face off against Aaron Rodgers and Bryson DeChambeau.

Brady and Mickelson paired before, losing to Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning, and the last time they held the made for TV pro-am competition, Mickelson managed to win with Charles Barkley against Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning. This time he’ll have to go up against another PGA pro in DeChambeau, who has become as polarizing a figure as golf has ever had.

DeChambeau being mic’d up for a full round of golf is going to be an incredible watch, although not everyone loves listening to The Scientist’s stream of consciousness monologues. Among those people is Brooks Koepka, who has never been a big fan of Bryson’s but now full-on loathes the man as evidenced by an outtake from an interview he did after a round at last week’s PGA Championship, when his entire train of thought got interrupted by Bryson click-clacking by with his metal spikes and talking about lord knows what.

Koepka has steered into this rivalry with Bryson and when The Match got announced on Wednesday, all he could do was apologize to Rodgers for having to be paired with Bryson.

Bryson’s response was to simply note that he’s living rent free in Brooks’ head.

Phil meanwhile just wants to gloat about beating Brooks in the PGA.

It is the best rivalry golf has maybe ever had in terms of two guys actually hating each other, and while this is surely setting up for a Bryson-Brooks match at some point, we’ll tune in with glee as long as they’re mic’d up. The trash talk wasn’t limited to just Brooks and Bryson, with Brady getting in on the Brooks meme game and Bryson digging into the Deflategate jokes.

If you’re trying to dunk on a social media platform’s push to make the internet more inclusive by way of performative outrage, you might want to make sure you have a basic understanding of grammar and terminology. Lauren Boebert clearly forgot to do so.

After both Linkedin and Instagram implemented new capabilities allowing users to share their preferred pronouns on their profiles, the Republican representative from Colorado posted a tweet that seemed intended as a dig at anyone not strictly adhering to the gender binary labels of old.

In Bobert’s defense, she did skip high school, receiving her GED just a few months before she was elected to office, so the mechanics of good grammar — including the difference between a noun and a pronoun — might not be of concern to her. However, though unfortunately for Boebert, Twitter’s knives were already sharpened, and they came out fairly quickly in response to the Congresswoman’s willful ignorance.

Why it matters to Boebert (or anyone else for that matter) what pronoun a person uses in their social media bio, well, we couldn’t tell you, but she seems to be triggered, which is ironic considering that she’s a gun-obsessed nationalist. And her approach says lot about how Boebert approaches many other issues.

NBC’s hit series The Voice closed out its 20th season Tuesday night. The show boasts several talented judges like Blake Shelton, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, and Nick Jonas, but the star power was upped even more for the season finale. To celebrate the end of another successful season, the show tapped Justin Bieber to give a captivating rendition of a couple of his Justice songs.

Performing a medley of his hits, Bieber kicked off the set in a fancy sports car. He was eventually joined by a crew of backup dancers who delivered a fun choreography amid flashing neon lights while the singer delivered part of his No. 1 song “Peaches.” Bieber closed out the set with his hopeful track “Hold On,” where he sang uplifting lyrics about the importance of leaning on loved ones in a time of need.

Though the performance aired Tuesday night, it must have been filmed in the days prior because Bieber was still rocking a controversial hair style. The singer revealed last Sunday that he had buzzed his hair, a stark contrast to his former frizzy locs. He had put his hair in locs over a month ago and was hit with continuous accusations of cultural appropriation seeing as the hairstyle has cultural and historical significant for Black people. Bieber never addressed the allegations of cultural appropriation and didn’t give a reason as to why he chose to debut the buzz cut.

Watch Bieber perform “Peaches” and “Hold On” on The Voice above.

Justice is out now via Def Jam. Get it here.

If it feels like Patton Oswalt’s everywhere right now on TV at the moment, that’s because he kind-of is everywhere these days. The man who embodied Constable Bob is currently bringing us Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. (on Hulu), a villain who’s far too good (and bad) for the MCU. Before that, he managed to shock Amazon Prime’s The Boys audience (that’s what happens when you “cameo” as a set of gills for the lead pervert character who deserves comeuppance), and soon, he’ll be the voice of an adorable-as-hell Netflix docuseries about Penguins. And he’s executive producing a new episode of HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, which will detail new revelations on a case that sparked the true-crime obsession of the late Michelle McNamara.

That’s certainly not all. Patton has been cast in the long-gestating live-action version of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman for Netflix (which is happening in addition to more of Audible’s installments that will be forthcoming soon). Patton will voice Matthew the Raven, a trusted representative who undertakes missions on behalf of Dream/Morpheus, and Patton comes by his interest in the role honestly. That’s according to Neil Gaiman, by the way, who reflected (in a blog post) upon news of around a dozen new castings for the series. When it came to Patton as Matthew, Gaiman revealed that Patton was the first actor cast in the series, and the reasons are glowing ones.

“I expected our animals to be CGI, and was both taken aback and thrilled when the dailies started coming in, and there was Dream talking to… well, a raven. But ravens don’t really talk,” Gaiman wrote. “The question was, could we find an actor who could make you care about a dead person who was now a bird in the Dreaming — one who isn’t certain what’s going on, or whether any of this is a good idea? And could we find a voice performer who was also the kind of Sandman fan who used to stand in line to get his Sandman comics signed? The answer was, we could if we asked Patton Oswalt (he/him). And Patton was the first person we asked, and the first person we cast, the day before we pitched The Sandman to Netflix.”

On Twitter, Patton confirmed that, yes, he did stand in line to get The Sandman signed by Gaiman. (As fans would say, you love to see it.)

Previously, Netflix announced that Dream would be played by Tom Sturridge, and Gwendoline Christie would rule Hell as Lucifer, and Gaiman detailed many more roles, including a big one: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Cruella, The Good Place), who will play Dream’s sister, Death (portrayed in the Audible version by Kat Dennings). Gaiman wrote, “[W]e knew we had our Death” when he saw Kirby’s audition and realized that she could pull off “[s]omeone who could speak the truth to Dream, on the one hand, but also be the person you’d want to meet when your life was done on the other.”

You can read Gaiman’s full blog post (with even more casting news) here.

(Via Netflix)

One of the biggest developers in gaming is Activision Blizzard. Specifically, the Blizzard side of the company has some of the most beloved IP’s out there, as franchises like Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and Starcraft have all come from the legendary developer. The popularity and love for them eventually led to Blizzard creating a convention specifically for fans to hear about the latest developments with their favorite Blizzard titles, BlizzCon.

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has led to many popular conventions over the last few years being cancelled and that has continued into 2021. According to Blizzard, the challenges of the last year have made creating a worthwhile convention too challenging. There were just too many roadblocks for them to conceivably put something together, and as such, there will be no BlizzCon in 2021. Via Blizzard.com:

Building an in-person BlizzCon is an epic and complex affair that takes many months of preparation—not just for us, but also for the many talented production partners, esports pros, hosts, entertainers, artists, and other collaborators we team up with locally and globally to put all of the pieces together. The ongoing complexities and uncertainties of the pandemic have impacted our ability to properly move forward on many of these fronts, and ultimately we’re now past the point where we’d be able to develop the kind of event we’d want to create for you in November.

This is unfortunate for anyone that was hoping for updates on titles like Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, and the latest World of Warcraft updates, but fear not. Blizzard has plans to give fans an insight into what they’re up to in early 2022.

But we don’t want to let too long go by before we connect with everyone again. So in the meantime, we’re planning a global event for the early part of next year, combining an online show along the lines of our recent BlizzConline with smaller in-person gatherings, and we’ll share more as our plans come together.

There’s no need for a giant in-person gathering just so it can have a few developers up on stage to talk about a few trailers. While these moments are certainly fun, they aren’t exactly necessary. Activision Blizzard can create the same excitement for its games without a convention.

Olivia Rodrigo is just a few days removed from the release of her debut album, Sour (and Kim Kardashian can’t wait to hear it). Now that fans have had a few days to get familiar with and digest the album, they’re brimming with questions about it. Rodrigo knew this, so this afternoon, she decided to hop on Twitter and solicit questions from her followers with the hashtag #AskOlivia. Rodrigo’s responses pulled back the curtain on Sour a bit and revealed some interesting trivia about the record.

One fan asked Rodrigo about the lyrics she’s most proud of writing and Rodrigo had two answers: “Hope he took his bad deal and made a royal flush” from “Hope Ur OK” and “I crossed my heart as you crossed the line” from “Favorite Crime.” As far as the hardest Sour track to write, Rodrigo tentatively answered “Jealousy, Jealousy,” noting, “I wrote like 4 different verses before deciding on the one that’s on the record.” She also made her pick for the song she’s most looking forward to performing in concert: “im so stoked to perform brutal!!!!! gonna be a rager.”

Rodrigo also offered some advice for her younger self: “I would tell her that everything works out the way it is supposed to. i think lil Olivia would be so happy to know all her heartbreak would turn into something rlly beautiful.”

Check out all of Rodrigo’s #AskOlivia responses below or here.

Sour is out now via Geffen Records. Get it here.