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In 2020, Primavera Sound was forced to cancel. The Spanish festival faced the same fate this year as well. Organizers are getting ready for 2022 in a big way, though: They unveiled the lineup for the massive 2022 event today, which takes place over the weekends of June 2 to 4 and June 9 to 11, along with some ancillary performances from June 5 to 8 and on June 12.

The lineup is stacked, but fans seemed most excited about the inclusion of Lorde, as she became a trending topic on Twitter this morning following the lineup reveal. Primavera Sound is Lorde’s first confirmed show in a while: Her last full live set came in November 2018 at the Corona Capital festival (according to setlist.fm).

Alongside Lorde, headliners include Massive Attack, Pavement, Tame Impala, Beck, The National, The Strokes, Gorillaz, Jorja Smith, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Tyler The Creator, Disclosure, Interpol, Jamie xx, Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The rest of the poster has too many artists to list, but some of the others include Charli XCX, 100 Gecs, Brockhampton, Big Thief, Jay Electronica, Brittany Howard, Clairo, Run The Jewels, and Slowthai.

Tickets go on sale on June 1, so learn more about tickets and the 2022 festival here.

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

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a chance to shine a light on cultures that are often pushed to the margins in American society. This is just as true in the music world as anywhere else, where artists of Asian and Pacific Island ancestry can struggle for visibility despite making some of the most groundbreaking and engaging art out there. In honor of API Heritage month, Uproxx and Warner Music’s API employees wanted to share just a handful of the incredible artists currently catching their attention, showing just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amazing API tunes being created today. The hope is that this resource introduces you off to your next favorite singer or band, and that it sparks a fire to dig deeper at the countless API acts crafting great music.

ANJL

With an absolutely gorgeous voice and music/lyrics that are deeply relatable, this Indian-Filipina songwriter and producer is a paradigm for talent that deserves massive recognition.

Asian Kung Fu Generation

Some classics never go out of style. This throwback will sure to bring a sense of nostalgia if you first found their music on YouTube in the mid-2000’s, but it’s also not too late to discover them for the first time now.

Hollis

Hollis pulls you into her songs with her dreamy vocals and lyrical imagery. Her greatest strength is in her ability to put emotions into words that listeners often feel but cannot describe. She is also an activist and uses her platform for social change.

Jay Som

Jay Som is strongly influenced by her Filipino roots and expresses her identity and emotions through breathy vocals, funky band production, and romantic music. Plus, she has a new collaborative project with Palehound, called Bachelor, out next month.

Khushi

Khushi’s music is the personification of intellectual conversation with a loved one while you’re snuggled in bed with some coffee. Intimate, sultry, and thought-provoking all at once.

Prateek Kuhad

This Mumbai-based singer-songwriter has already been shouted out by President Obama, but his folk-infused craftsmanship is now ready to be heralded by audiences far and wide.

Raveena

Raveena beautifully blends her South Asian heritage with contemporary, dreamy bedroom pop productions that just wraps you up and comforts your soul.

Rei Ami

With a name based on anime characters who both have very different personalities, this Korean artist creates songs that reflect that dichotomy through a dynamic structure where they can be high energy in the first half and dark in the second half. Or, the other way around. She also has awesome music videos.

Rina Sawayama

If you’re not listening to Rina Sawayama already, what are you waiting for? Rina masterfully blends together pop, rock, and Japanese Visual Kei among many other influences into witty social commentary, heartfelt ballads, and full-out f*ck you anthems.

Tiffany Young

A veteran of the K-pop scene, Tiffany has come a long way from her Girl’s Generation days. Her vocals and creative direction have matured and she is truly shining as a solo artist.

Umi

Umi’s rich voice draws you into her soulful productions. Heavily influenced by her Black and Japanese heritage, her songs are deep and unique but at the same time universal – evoking emotions that anyone can resonate with.

Yerin Baek

Yerin Baek embodies versatility. A Korean singer-songwriter, the music can cover ground from jazzy compositions to more alt and electronic music as well.

Yeek

Yeek is not new to the music scene, but the music is so dang sexy it still feels revolutionary. Blast it up and get someone to cuddle with.

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

“Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Jackass.”

With those immortal words (and one cannon blast), the Jackass franchise was born. Over three seasons of an MTV show, spin-offs, movies, and a video game, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, Wee Man, the late Ryan Dunn, and Dave England have been taking nut shots, filling a limo with bees, and getting launched into the air in a revolting port-a-potty for our perverse enjoyment (I will never forget the visceral reaction in my theater to “Poo Cocktail Supreme”). Jackass 4 can’t get here soon enough.

But as Knoville revealed to GQ, it will be his final Jackass project.

This fall, the fourth of the Jackass films will be released, a project that Knoxville told me will be his last contribution to the franchise. When we spoke, he was finishing work on the movie, marveling at the absurdity of what he had just put his body through — and feeling fortunate to simply be upright

“You can only take so many chances before something irreversible happens,” the Bad Grandpa star explained. “I feel like I’ve been extremely lucky to take the chances I’ve taken and still be walking around.” Knoxville was hospitalized while filming Jackass 4, on top of all the other injuries he’s suffered over the years. He had “four concussions, broke my hand, busted my meniscus, whiplash, stitches over my right eye, [and] lost a couple of teeth” while making Action Point alone. No wonder the 50-year-old is ready to throw in the towel. (The towel is covered with razor blades and pepper spray.)

Jackass 4 comes out on October 22.

(Via GQ)

Rand Paul is pointing the finger at a 1980s pop star, who he believes inspired someone to send a mysterious package to his Kentucky home. That’s quite a sentence, and certainly, no one should condone violence; and Paul has already been the victim of violence outside his home, way back in 2017 when a neighbor attacked him and broke six of the senator’s ribs in what appeared to be some sort of curb-appeal dispute. Four years later, Paul is calling out Richard Marx (the 1980s crooner with hits including “Right Here Waiting” and “Don’t Mean Nothing”) after a package containing white powder arrived at his Bowling Green residence.

The accusation, of course, has to do with Twitter, as do many feuds these days. It must also be mentioned that Rand Paul has put himself forth as a polarizing figure during this pandemic, and this week, the physician-senator declared that he won’t be taking the COVID vaccine because he caught the virus. That’s a stance that other medical professionals are warning is both wrong and dangerous. This may or may not have anything to do with the suspicious package, and this is all a muddled mess, during which Marx tweeted, “If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.”

That tweet isn’t in great taste, obviously. And then there’s Fox News’ report that the suspicious package contained a threat (“I’ll finish what your neighbor started, you m*therf*cker”) while referencing (in an illustration) the aforementioned 2017 attack. Well, Paul’s statement (as revealed by Washington Post) singled out Marx’s tweet: “Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”

In response, Marx sarcastically wrote on Twitter (in response to a Rand Paul supporter who came for him), “Yeah… I’m the only person on Twitter who’s ever referenced Rand Paul’s neighbor. Must have been me. This was also a day after that traitor made a public showing of refusing the vaccine.” Marx also tweeted a link to an article about Rand Paul testing COVID-positive last year after hanging out at the Senate gym and attending luncheons: “You know who actually put multiple people’s lives at potential risk?”

Marx has continued tweeting while referring to hardcore Trump fans as the “nameless, faceless, gutless” and the “ultimate snowflakes.” Paul was one of several Republican senators who publicly opposed the second impeachment effort against Donald Trump following the January 6 insurrection. And there are no winners here.

Dave Grohl has more projects to promote right now than just about anybody. There’s the What Drives Us documentary, the From Cradle To Stage TV series he made with his mother, his upcoming memoir The Storyteller, and of course, Foo Fighters’ latest album, Medicine At Midnight, was just released a few months ago. One late-night TV guest appearance apparently wasn’t enough to get all that across, so last night, he co-hosted The Tonight Show alongside Jimmy Fallon.

On the program, Grohl did typical late-night things, like join Fallon for the opening monologue and make jokes about current events like the pandemic, Phil Mickelson’s historic PGA win, and news oddities. Elsewhere, he and Fallon played a game called “Off Songs, Song Off.” Grohl and Fallon had to identify what popular song The Roots were performing, but the catch was the band changed something about the songs to make them harder to identify.

He also sat down for a more traditional interview, where he spoke about his various upcoming projects and bringing his mom on tour with him.

Furthermore, he and Fallon interviewed Lil Nas X about his SNL wardrobe malfunction, and Grohl performed the repetitive meme version of Foo Fighters’ “Best Of You.”

This actually wasn’t Grohl’s first time hosting a network late-night show: In 2017, he guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Check out clips from Grohl’s Tonight Show guest-hosting stint above and below.

This first came up in an interview with Joel Edgerton. Talking about his return as Owen Lars in the new Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, I asked if he gets an “It’s me!” moment like so many other characters seem to get when they make a dramatic return to the Star Wars galaxy. (Edgerton, for his part, confirmed that if they give him two seconds to get his moment in the sun, he will turn it into four.)

But the Star Wars movies have a lot of “It’s me!” moments. (And I call them “It’s me!” because, in Return of the Jedi, Han Solo literally says, “It’s me,” even though that particular moment isn’t technically an “It’s me!” moment under these rules. The “It’s me!” moment is that little beat a returning fan-favorite character gets where they appear on screen for maybe just an extra second or two, just to visually announce to the audience, “Hey, look, it’s me! I’m back!”

And these “It’s me!” moments usually cause the audience to erupt in applause. But that’s the thing, it has to be the return of a fan-favorite character. (So, in the first Star Wars, Alec Guinness dramatically removing his hood when he looks up at R2-D2 doesn’t count, even though it’s totally an “It’s me!” moment, but that was Guinness saying, “Hey, look, it’s me! The legendary actor! Alec!,” as opposed to, “It’s me, your old pal Ben.”)

These are effective scenes! But some are better than others. Tuesday is the 44th birthday of the original Star Wars so, why not, let’s rank all the best “It’s me!” moments in the Star Wars films.

14. Anakin Skywalker, Return of the Jedi

For some reason, George Lucas thought Hayden Christensen needed to be inserted into the last scene of Return of the Jedi, replacing Sebastian Shaw. And this is nothing against Christensen, it’s just this change makes absolutely no sense, even in the context of the story. But, Christensen is most definitely looking at the camera saying, “It’s me!,” but with an added twist of, “Yeah, I can’t believe it either.”

13. Chewbacca, Revenge of the Sith

We see Chewbacca before this moment, at least we are pretty sure it’s him. But this, when Yoda says Chewbacca’s name, is Chewbacca’s true “It’s me!” moment in the movie. And it’s still very weird Yoda and Chewbacca hung out: to the point that Yoda is riding around on Chewbacca’s back. I still wonder if this ever came up between Ben and Chewbacca in the cantina. “Oh, we’re in luck! This Wookiee knows Yoda!”

12. Darth Maul, Solo

Another bizarre moment, especially since most people watching Solo just assumed Darth Maul was dead, since we all saw him die in The Phantom Menace. Beyond that though, the dramatic removal of his hood does make for a pretty good, “It’s me!” moment.

11. Darth Vader, Rogue One

It was a minor surprise we saw Vader at all in Rogue One, so his long, dramatic walk towards Krennic was a nice, “It’s me!” moment for the audience.

10. R2-D2, The Phantom Menace

It may not seem like it now, but this moment got a massive amount of applause when The Phantom Menace was in theaters. First of all, R2 rams himself right into Jar Jar Binks and is called, “rude.” Then R2 gets his true moment as he turns around fully for the audience. Then R2 gets a whole other moment a few minutes later when they read his name out loud for saving the crew and, once again, the audience applauded.

9. Boba Fett, Return of the Jedi

This happens when Boushh (who we don’t yet know is Leia, which later becomes its own “It’s me!” moment; Jabba’s palace is filled with “It’s me!” moments) enters Jabba’s palace with Chewbacca as a prisoner. We see Boba Fett first react in a hostile way, but eventually gives Boushh a nod of approval, which also serves as Fett’s official “It’s me!” moment.

8. Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Phantom Menace

Lucas knew what he was doing when both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon dramatically turn around at the same time and remove their hoods. Then, of course, Obi-Wan gets to say the fan favorite line, “I have a bad feeling about this,” which for all intents and purposes is, “Hey, it’s me!” Though, since it’s not the same actor returning, this had to go to a special outside committee to make sure this scene qualified as an “It’s me!” moment, but the scene got the green light from our panel of judges, so it’s included.

7. C-3PO, The Force Awakens

Based on the look on Harrison Ford’s face alone, this is the funniest of the “It’s me!” moments.

6. Leia Organa, Return of the Jedi

Up until this point, we still thought this was a mysterious bounty hunter who had captured Chewbacca. (Well, sort of, spoilers were not really a big deal in 1983.) Instead, it’s Leia who gets a dramatic, “It’s me!” moment, even though she probably shouldn’t have taken off her helmet here. I wrote about this when I tried and failed to figure out Luke’s whole plan to rescue Han from Jabba (it literally makes no sense), but imagine if Leia and Han had successfully got away at this point. How would that have gone? Han would have said, “Thanks for coming to get me. I’m glad we are all safe.” And Leia would have had to tell Han, “Oh, no, actually Jabba has C-3PO, R2-D2, and Chewbacca now.”

5. Yoda, The Last Jedi

Yoda gets the only “It’s me!” moment to start out from just seeing the still very recognizable shape of his head from behind. This is truly one of the great moments of the Sequel Trilogy and also a scene we probably don’t talk about quite enough. In theaters, this was less the sound of applause and more the sound of one giant gasp. Yoda truly earns his, “It’s me!” moment here.

4. Lando Calrissian, Return of the Jedi

This is a personal favorite because, in the context of the story, it makes no sense. There is absolutely no reason for Lando to pull his mask down and reveal his entire face to the rest of Jabba’s palace. The only reason to do this is to show the audience, “It’s me! Lando!” (Though, I’d still watch a full movie about how Lando got that guard job at Jabba’s palace in the first place. Did he go to his interview with that mask on? Or does Jabba realize he hired Lando, but just doesn’t realize he’s working with the Rebellion? That maybe Lando is just down on his luck these days after losing his gig at Cloud City and needs to earn a few credits on the side? Anyway, either of these two scenarios seems equally plausible.)

3. Luke Skywalker, The Force Awakens

As it turns out, The Force Awakens is filled with “It’s me!” moments. Which, being the first direct sequal to Return of the Jedi, makes sense. Though, of all the moments in all the movies, no actor is trying harder to make a “It’s me!” gesture and “It’s me!” face than Mark Hamill. I would not be surprised to learn that Mark Hamill had to physically be stopped from saying, “It’s me!”

2. Han Solo and Chewbacca, The Force Awakens

What’s remarkable about this scene is that it was heavily used in the marketing for The Force Awakens and yet it still killed when it played in theaters, in context with the rest of the movie. For the purposes of this list, seeing Harrison Ford as Han Solo for the first time in 32 years isn’t quite as good as the number one choice, but as far as pure adrenaline, this one is hard to beat.

1. Bail Organa, Rogue One

Of course, not as popular of a character as Han Solo, Chewbacca, Luke, Leia, or Lando, but this is the epitome of the “It’s me!” moment. This is what every actor returning to Star Wars should strive for. This is the moment you want: out of the shadows, the score swells, all the other characters are looking around dramatically, and then, boom, “It’s me!” Plus, Rogue One is a movie where we are following basically a fresh slate of new characters. So having our friend Bail (and Leia’s adopted father) from Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith show up made us all feel pretty good. This is “It’s me!” perfection.

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The third season of Amazon Prime’s The Boys has been in production for a few months now, and in that time, showrunner Eric Kripke has kept us apprised of several details to expect from the forthcoming installment of the superhero series. We’ve seen a picture of Homelander’s super crotch, Kripke has teased his response to the production meeting discussing the Herogasm storyline, and we’ve gotten a glimpse of an almost unrecognizable Jensen Ackles playing Soldier Boy.

This week, Eric Kripke teased the third-season premiere, which is currently being edited. The episode is called “Payback,” and is written by executive producer Craig Rosenberg. “Payback” could refer to revenge, or more likely, it refers to the superhero team that predated The Seven, which is led by Soldier Boy (and also included Aya Cash’s Stormfront). After the (possible) death of Stormfront, the Payback superhero team could be looking for revenge, which allows the word to work on two levels.

In either respect, Eric Kripke has seen the director’s cut of that episode, and suffice to say, his mind was blown.

The official account for The Boys added that the “editing room is fully covered in gore already and they’re only working on episode 1,” while Antony Starr — who plays Homelander — has weighed in as well, adding, “I feel like that’s not an abnormal statement. Is that weird?”

Given the level of gore we’ve seen through two seasons, including an exploding whale, there is nothing atypical about a few heads exploding. Bring it on.

No official premiere date has been set for the third season.

Last weekend, Lil Nas X enjoyed one of the biggest moments of his young music career when he was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. One of the songs he performed was his hit “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” but that didn’t go without incident: While dancing, he ripped his pants. He later addressed the incident, writing on Twitter, “i know i do a lot of planned sh*t but ripping my pants on live television is not one of them.” Now, he has discussed the performance in greater depth, chatting with Jimmy Fallon (and guest host Dave Grohl) on The Tonight Show.

He broke down what was going through his head when it happened, saying:

“I was pretty much going down the pole, you know, doing my little sexy drop-down, and boom: I feel air. I was like, ‘OK, there’s definitely a breeze going on.’ And I also feel, like, some popping still happening while I was down there. I was like, ‘Oh god, I hope it’s not…’ I was like, ‘Just please don’t be on TV already,’ you know? And SNL is actually live, so… You know what the worst part is? At the end of the performance, the dancers are supposed to touch me and tug on me or whatever, and they were tugging on the pants, and I was like, ‘Please stop.’ […] I couldn’t say it because I would ruin the performance, like, ‘Guys, stop, please,’ but I couldn’t say it.”

Elsewhere during the interview, Fallon showed a clip of Lil Nas X’s dress rehearsal performance, so the world could see what the rapper’s choreography would have looked like had it not been thrown off course.

Check out the interview above.

The Office fans are mourning the death of Mark York, the 55-year-old actor who had a recurring role as Scranton Business Park property manager Billy Merchant between the sitcom’s second and fifth seasons. According to Variety:

Following a brief and unexpected illness, York died early in the morning on May 19 at the Miami Valley Hospital in Ohio. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office confirmed his death, although the exact cause of death has not been disclosed.

While, over the course of nine seasons and 201 episodes, The Office was never short on bit players, York stood out—and turned his role into a recurring one—by being one of the few people who called Michael Scott (Steve Carell) out on his bullsh*t. York’s first appearance on the show was a particularly cringe-y moment: In the season 2 episode “The Injury” (you know, the episode where Michael gets his foot stuck in a George Foreman grill… then Dwight sustains a concussion while attempting to save him), Michael invites Billy to pay a visit to the “CONFERENCE ROOM!!” with the sole purpose of comparing lightly toasting his foot with an As Seen on TV cooking device to be a nearly lifelong wheelchair user.

York’s comedic timing in the scene was impeccable, and his frustration with having to answer Michael’s idiotic questions about using a wheelchair resulted in the kind of blow-up we didn’t often see from the characters Michael pestered. At one point, the scene cuts to a confessional interview with Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), in which he admits that he wants “to clamp Michael’s face in a George Foreman grill.” Don’t we all?

According to York’s obituary, “Even though he has been paraplegic since 1988, he had such an outgoing, uplifting, positive attitude and personality. He always tried to look at what he could accomplish and do, not what he couldn’t do. He had experienced many travel opportunities and many dreams for the future. In the past several years, he had been working as an inventor, and had obtained two patents for his inventions.”

No word on whether one of those inventions was for a face-shaped George Foreman grill.

You can watch York’s first, and arguably most memorable, appearance on The Office above.

(Via Variety)

Between their successful albums, beloved singles, and upcoming induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Foo Fighters have cemented their place in rock history. The band also has a notable place in meme history. Back in May 2005, the band released In Your Honor highlight “Best Of You” as a single, and it went on to become their highest-charting song in the US, a title it still holds today. A few years later, in 2008, some internet hero shared an edited version of the song’s music video, which they modified so Dave Grohl repeatedly shouts “the best” for minutes. The meme was a memorable one, so much so that Dave Grohl has finally re-created it in real life.

Grohl joined Jimmy Fallon yesterday to co-host The Tonight Show, and on the program, Fallon and Grohl discussed the meme. Fallon then convinced Grohl to perform it live. So, backed by The Roots, Grohl grabbed a guitar and started singing “Best Of You.” When it came time for the iconic hook, though, instead of going through the song like normal, he did as the meme does and repeated “the best” over and over, with Fallon jumping in to alternate lyrics with Grohl, presumably to save Grohl’s throat so it wasn’t toast for the rest of the show.

What happened last night is a tremendous moment in meme history, so check it out above.