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Not much about 100 Gecs could be classified as “typical,” and that’s part of the reason they stand out. There’s more to it than that, though, because there are a lot of oddballs who have a shtick and no substance behind it. That’s not 100 Gecs, though, as there’s an undeniable appeal to whatever it is they’re doing. They recruited some people who like what they’re up to for their remix album, 1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues, and perhaps the least expected name to see on the tracklist was Fall Out Boy, who feature on the remix of “Hand Crushed By A Mallet,” as do Craig Owens and Nicole Dollanganger.

Now the duo has shared a video for the remix and, as should be no surprise, it’s strange. The psychedelic and visually busy video features some sort of chain-wearing mushroom goblin chases a key-holding rat through a house and beyond.

Aside from the aforementioned guests, also appearing on the remix album are Charli XCX, Kero Kero Bonito, Rico Nasty (all on the “Ringtone” remix), and others.

Watch the “Hand Crushed By A Mallet (Remix)” video above.

1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues is out now via Big Beat Records. Get it here.

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If there was an UPROXX Sessions award for “best prop,” our latest featured artist Skyxxx would certainly take home the prize. While prior performers like Horse Head and Dana Dentata brought their own eye-catching add-ons to their perfomances — a guitar with a rainbow strap and a shovel-“corpse” combo, respectively — Skyxxx (pronounced “Sky”) brings something a lot more endearing: His husky puppy, which he says “don’t talk to b*tch ass n****s.”

He then rips through a 90-second performance of the ping-pong flow on his new single “Madhouse,” a sparsely-produced, descriptive tableau of “a very scary place.”

Skyxxx, who hails from Orlando, Florida, first saw his profile jump late last year with the success of his “Hotboy Remix” with NLE Choppa. He was set to quickly follow up with the Madhouse EP, but COVID-19 struck and it was delayed until this Friday, August 21. It’ll feature fellow Sessions alum Guapdad 4000.

Watch Skyxxx perform “Madhouse” above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s new performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too..

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

Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to play Batman, but it appears the brooding role has lured Ben Affleck back for at least one more go. Despite a lot of fanfare about his departure from the suit, a report on Thursday indicated that Affleck will return as Batman in a movie where someone else is the feature.

According to Vanity Fair, Affleck will return to the rubber suit in The Flash, an Ezra Miller-led DC Universe movie expected to hit theaters in 2022.

“He’s a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie. The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before,” the director added. “It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story, but their characters are more related than we think. They both lost their mothers to murder, and that’s one of the emotional vessels of the movie. That’s where the Affleck Batman kicks in.”

Interestingly, Affleck’s Batman is just one of several who will reportedly appear in the film, including Michael Keaton’s Batman from the 90s film series. The Flash will apparently feature a number of different timelines from the Batman story, which is certainly one way to get a bunch of Batmen in a movie together.

Affleck won’t be the only Batman making a comeback; a few more of the alternate-dimension heroes who turn up in the Flash movie will be figures we’ve seen before. Michael Keaton’s Batman from the 1989 Tim Burton film is also set to appear in what Muschietti said was a “substantial” part.

It’s initially unclear what other “alternate-dimension heroes” will appear, but it seems this DC Universe movie is set to toy with the canon considerably come 2022.

[via Vanity Fair]

We seriously feel for the folks who made travel plans to visit Hawaii prior to our country falling headfirst into a global pandemic. But if you’ve been holding on to hope that you’d be able to resume those travel plans as soon as the state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine requirement for island arrivals expired at the start of next month, we’ve got some bad news for you. Hawaii Governor David Ige has officially announced that the state is pushing back all trans-pacific travel to the islands for another month, until at least October 1st, due to a recent surge of cases in the state.

“We cannot deny that Hawaii is seeing a surge in positive COVID-19 cases,” Ige said in a press conference announcing the extension, “There are numerous clusters and community spread.” According to Travel + Leisure, over the course of August Hawaii added an additional 3,000 coronavirus cases throughout the state — which is more than what the state had counted between March and July — with most of the cases coming from Honolulu county, bringing the total as of August 20th. 2020 to 5,586.

As a result of the explosion of cases, many bars, beaches, parks, and trails across the islands will remain closed to the public and stricter measures on indoor and outdoor gatherings are being implemented, including reducing the size of gatherings to no more than five at museums, movie theaters, and even while engaging in outdoor activities like boating. CNN reports that Governor Ige has indicated that he’s in active dialogue with the mayors of Hawaii every day on how to best bring travelers back to the island as safely and quickly as possible, but as of now, there is still no concrete plan on how the state will begin to open its shores to travelers again.

Given the uncertainty of the virus, it’s pretty safe to say that if you have plans to fly to Hawaii in 2020 or early 2021, you’re probably better off postponing those as long as possible.

Like Geralt of Rivia crawling out of a muddy bog to fight another day, Netflix’s The Witcher has resumed its season two production after a series of setbacks courtesy of the ongoing pandemic, and Henry Cavill is celebrating being back on set with a shout-out to his hair and make-up team. In a humorously candid and unflattering photo posted to Instagram, Cavill can be seen sitting in a make-up chair while a layer of medical tape is pulled from his head to make way for his luxurious white wig.

“No bald cap this year. Just pounds of 2 types of medical tape and some glue,” Cavill wrote in the caption. “Removal is a joy. Jacqui and Ailbhe here, though, have the deft touch of angels. Jacqui more so an Angel of Vengeance, but that’s all part of her charm.”

You can see the photo below:

Like most film and TV productions, season two of The Witcher was shut down in March as the pandemic went global. However, the hit Netflix series had a very close call after actor Kristofer Hijvu texted positive for COVID-19 after being on set. Fortunately, Hijvu and his wife made a full recovery, and there were no reports of other cast and crew members being infected. But the incident was enough to halt production on season two even though the show was filming in remote, outdoor locations outside of London.

After working out the logistics of filming with the threat of COVID still hanging in the air, The Witcher resumed filming in early July, which raises questions around just how long fans will have to wait for the next season to premiere on Netflix. Not to mention, Cavill returning to the set has deprived the world of his thirsty computer building videos and nerdy obsession with meticulously painting roleplaying game miniatures. You win some, you lose some.

(Via Henry Cavill on Instagram)

Bats have gotten a really bad rap after the whole COVID-19 thing. But a video that’s going viral on Reddit shows when you look at them from the way they see the world, they’re actually pretty hip.

In the video shot by Das Kraftfuttermischwerk, a group of bats appear to awkwardly gyrate to music while strutting their stuff on a lighted floor. The jittery sway the bats have appears to mimic the vampiric dance moves you’d see at a Goth club.

Yes, Goths dance, they just do it a lot creepier than everyone else.

Things get a little scary the moment you notice that one of the bats is foaming at the mouth and another is flexing at the camera like somebody’s ’bout to get their blood sucked. The buckets hanging in the video look a lot like fancy club lamps when they’re seen upside-down.

The video is set to the eerie sounds of Russian Goth group Molchat Doma and their song “Ship (Boris Rizhiy).”

Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

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The oft-oft-oft-oft-oft-delayed The New Mutants is (definitely) coming out on August 28 (maybe). The standalone X-Men movie, which is “probably the hardest PG-13 ever made,” was originally going to be the first of three movies, but plans changed when the former-20th Century Fox was acquired by Disney and changed to 20th Century Studios.

“There still are references to the X-Men universe. It’s just like we made this at such a strange time in the circumstances under which we made it was strange, which was, we didn’t know there was gonna be a merger till we finished shooting. So we made the movie thinking it was the first of three,” director Josh Boone told Comic Book.

The plan was for The New Mutants gang, including Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane and Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, to “dovetail” with the recent X-Men movies, the ones starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence, “in a big Marvel-type way,” Boone added. But then “everything sort of got flipped upside down where it’s like, we had to do a really good job this last time I went into the edit, making sure it didn’t feel too much, like there were too many loose ends to be followed up on in another movie.”

Boone also teased that while The New Mutants is a “full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe,” the sequels would have been “an alien invasion movie based on a Warlock and his dad coming to earth and all that” and “a demonic supernatural horror movie.” At this point, I think he would settle for the just first one to finally come out.

(Via Comic Book)

A quick look at TikTok star Bryce Hall‘s Instagram reads like someone at the New Yorker decided to write a fictional short story about an influencer, then got carried away. There’s Bryce flipping off the camera. Here he is closing one eye in a way he must feel favors his angles. Next, he’s sticking out his tongue. Tongue out, eye closed. Flipping bird, tongue out. Eye closed, tongue out, flipping bird (trifecta!). Beer pong. Post-boxing pic. Von Dutch hat. Von Dutch hat pulled low. Von Dutch hat pulled low and on backwards. Flipping bird. Abs.

You get the idea. Hall has a clothing line called Party Animal University. He owns an energy drink. He’s been crtisized for homophobia. Basically, he’s the Lonley Island’s “Spring Break Anthem” come to life.

Through the quarantine, Hall and the collective of internet influencers that he lives and parties with at Sway House [which has its own merch line, modeled exclusively by young white men with tongues out and one or both eyes closed (a pretty on the nose metaphor)], have insisted on throwing all out ragers. This caused them to essentially get subtweeted by Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, when his office issued the following statement on August 4th:

“The highest-risk settings are large in-person gatherings where it is difficult for individuals to remain spaced at least 6 feet apart and where face coverings are not worn. The consequences of these large parties ripple throughout our entire community because the virus can quickly and easily spread.”

A day later, Garcetti amended his original June 1st public order related to gatherings to allow utility shutoffs at party houses. Between the fifth and the nineteenth, Hall defied that order twice in his Hollywood Hills rental and then again at a rented home in Encino, where he hosted his own birthday party on August 14th. A night that included strippers, more than 100 people, and mandatory nondisclosure agreements.

Here’s a glimpse at what that looked like:

Now, Hall’s rental has had the power shut off, according to Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times and confirmed by the mayor’s office. The city issued the following statement yesterday:

Despite several warnings, this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills, hosting large gatherings in flagrant violation of our public health orders. The City has now disconnected utilities at this home to stop these parties that endanger our community.

If we wish to reopen more businesses, return our kids to school, or get back to our normal lives, we must continue to wear masks, wash our hands frequently, and as we’re emphasizing today, avoid gathering with others. All of these actions save lives.

Hall was quick with a rebuttal, posting a TikTok of himself and another influencer (who, dammit, I refuse to look up), bobbing their heads to the song “Electric Love.” At the very least, it’s nice to hear that Børns will be getting some royalty money out of all this.

The power shut off comes after weeks of LA-based influencers partying in direct contradiction to city ordinances. Jake Paul and another influencer mansion called the Hype House have also been critisized for throwing excessive parties.

To date, 173,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.

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In case it wasn’t already clear that The Batman will have a huge presence at DC FanDome, director Matt Reeves has tweeted the first official logo from the latest take on The Dark Knight, which will star Robert Pattinson. But that’s not all. Reeves also shared a cool little piece of artwork from comics pro Jim Lee, which showcases a surprisingly detailed look at the new Batsuit for the film. The last time fans caught a glimpse of the new Bat-armor was back in February when the paparazzi snapped photos of an action sequence filming in Glasgow, although that was more than likely an overly padded version of the suit built for stunt shots. Regardless, the Jim Lee art looks way cooler.

You can see the official logo for The Batman along with the Jim Lee poster below:

This latest update from The Batman arrives on the heels of news that filming will resume in early September. Like virtually every film in Hollywood, production on The Batman was shut down in March as the global pandemic became an untenable situation for making a blockbuster movie. Via Variety:

The comic book adventure was roughly seven weeks into production when filming had to be halted in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The Batman,” which is said to be a grittier and more realistic take on the Dark Knight mythos, has approximately three months of material left to shoot. It could potentially be wrapped by the end of 2020. Crew members have been constructing sets for the film this month, which spurred rumors that filming could resume shortly. Of course, given the fast-changing nature of the pandemic, those plans could be upended and cameras may not roll for several more weeks or even months.

Despite the uncertainty of resuming production, Warner Bros. seems to be feeling very confident about the status of The Batman given the latest efforts to heavily promote its presence at DC FanDome. Should filming be delayed again, its October 2021 release is still over a year away, which could still give the studio plenty of time to keep the highly anticipated R-Batz film on track.

(Via Matt Reeves on Twitter)

While you’ve been distracted by some awesome playoff basketball, the NBA draft lottery might have snuck up on you. The annual allocation of draft picks, as determined by ping pong balls, will occur on Thursday evening, and as you can guess, it will look a bit different due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

For those who are interested in a quick primer on what you can expect this evening, here’s what you need to know:

When is the NBA draft lottery again?

The virtual event will take place Thursday at 8:30 p.m. EST on ESPN following Bucks-Magic, with Rachel Nichols and a panel of analysts guiding you through the evening. It will last 30 minutes between playoff games.

Who’s involved?

All the teams who either weren’t invited or have since had to leave the Bubble. That’s the Warriors, Cavs, Timberwolves, Hawks, Pistons, Knicks, Bulls, Hornets, Wizards, Suns, Spurs, Kings, Pelicans, and Grizzlies.

Each team will have a representative at the dais as usual, only this time it will be virtual, similar to what the NFL and WNBA did for their drafts back in April. Those reps include Steph Curry, D’Angelo Russell, and De’Aaron Fox.

Didn’t the NBA change the odds for this thing?

Yes, that happened last year. It means the bottom three teams in the league all have a 14 percent chance at the top pick, while each team in the lottery has a better chance at hopping up into the top four than before.

Golden State, Cleveland and Minnesota have the best odds at picking first overall, but last year, the Pelicans won the lottery while having just a 6 percent chance at No. 1 heading into the night, while the Lakers hopped up from No. 11 all the way to No. 4. Here is what this year’s odds for the No. 1 pick look like.

Golden State Warriors: 14%
Cleveland Cavaliers: 14%
Minnesota Timberwolves: 14%
Atlanta Hawks: 12.5%
Detroit Pistons: 10.5%
New York Knicks: 9%
Chicago Bulls: 7.5%
Charlotte Hornets: 6%
Washington Wizards: 4.5%
Phoenix Suns: 3%
San Antonio Spurs: 2%
Sacramento Kings: 1.3%
New Orleans Pelicans: 1.2%
Memphis Grizzlies: 0.5%

Who’s the top prospect?

That’s a harder question to answer. A few guys have claim to that crown right now, including Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, and James Wiseman. Ball is an even more interesting prospect than his older brother, while Edwards looks like an heir apparent to Bradley Beal and Devin Booker and Wiseman has the chance to be another generational defensive center if he works out. This class is not viewed as particularly top heavy, drawing comparisons to the miserable 2013 draft, but as always, there is exciting talent among this group.