When the coronavirus became a life-changing international concern, music festivals across the world made the decision to postpone their events until later in the summer, or even into the fall. Now it appears that these delays may not be enough. Primavera Sound, for instance, was initially pushed back to August, but has since been rescheduled to 2021. Now it looks like Coachella is preparing for the possibility that they may need to cancel this year’s festival.

Coachella was originally set to go down in April, but in March, it was pushed back to October. Bloomberg reports, however, that Coachella is getting ready to abandon the idea of a festival happening this year: Organizers are apparently asking artists scheduled to play the 2020 festival if they could perform in 2021 instead. While Goldenvoice hasn’t made any sort of public statement about canceling/postponing this year’s festival, this report appears to be a strong sign that at the very least, Coachella 2020 is in jeopardy.

At the top of 2020, Coachella revealed its lineup for this year’s festival, and it features Travis Scott, Frank Ocean, Rage Against The Machine, Thom Yorke, Lana Del Rey, Calvin Harris, Run The Jewels, Megan Thee Stallion, Disclosure, Brockhampton, Charli XCX, Lil Uzi Vert, FKA Twigs, Lil Nas X, Carly Rae Jepsen, and others.

Notably, Coachella was one of the first major festivals to announce a postponement earlier this year, which set a precedent for other festivals to do the same. So, if Coachella really is pushed back to 2021, the 2020 festival season more broadly could be in big trouble.

If Coachella is actually delayed to 2021, maybe the delay will give the festival a chance to “stop sucking,” as Elon Musk put it.

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

John David Washington had dreams of playing in the National Football League; he was even signed by the then-St. Louis Rams in 2006, and bounced around NFL Europe and United Football League, before an achilles injury ended his career. Luckily, he had a backup plan: Washington is now the leading man in a Christopher Nolan movie, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, and Matthew McConaughey before him. It helps that his father is Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, but as everyone who saw BlacKkKlansman can attest, Washington is a damn fine actor in his own right.

It was actually at the BlacKkKlansman world premiere where Nolan took note of his future-star. Esquire recently spoke to Spike Lee, who told journalist Kate Storey to pass this message to Nolan: “Dear Chris, this is your cinema brother, Spike Lee. I’m looking forward to seeing Tenet, starring the great, great John David Washington. Thank you for casting him and making yourself look good. Thank you for casting him, for hoisting him into the stratosphere. My question for you is: Did you decide that you’re going to cast John David Washington at the world premiere of BlacKkKlansman?”

Nolan responded:

“Oh, very much. By the way, it was a pretty intense experience to sit in front of Spike Lee at the premiere. And no, it very much sort of felt like destiny to me. That was an extraordinary screening, and the audience response to Spike’s movie was really electric in that room at Cannes; it was quite something. And I just felt a sort of magnetism there. It really was an important thing for me in terms of feeling like it was meant to be somehow.”

Nolan also said that he had previously seen Washington on Ballers, where he played Ricky Jerret, and it’s fun to imagine the super-serious filmmaker cracking open some cold ones with the boys (Leo) to watch Ballers. Make that into a $200 million movie.

Tenet comes out on July 17.

(Via Esquire)

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When the tracklist for Lady Gaga’s Chromatica leaked a month ago, the headline was that the album features an Ariana Grande collaboration, “Rain On Me.” K-pop fans were surely more excited to see, though, that Blackpink also features on Chromatica, via the track “Sour Candy.” Now, one day before the album’s release, Gaga has shared the song.

On the dance-ready electro-pop tune, Gaga and Blackpink use the titular confection to illustrate how they function in a relationship. Blackpink’s Jennie sings on the chorus, “I’m sour candy, so sweet then I get a little angry.” Gaga also sings during the refrain, “I’m hard on the outside / But if you give me time / Then I could make time for your love.”

Lady Gaga told Japanese entertainment site TV Groove of the collaboration (translated via Google):

“When I called them and asked if they wanted to write a song with me, they were so happy and motivated. It was a really exciting collaboration. I wanted to celebrate them because they love powerful women like us, and they also wanted to celebrate me, and we had a great time together with this song. I was excited to hear them interpret the song in Korean, and told them that the part was so creative and fun. I was impressed when I heard their singing voice. I’m a woman, really talented and proud to be the fifth member of Blackpink (in this song).”

Listen to “Sour Candy” above.

Chromatica is out 5/29 via Interscope. Pre-order it here.

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A DIY macrame kit, a cushy bath pillow, an unofficial Harry Potter cookbook, sushi socks, and other packages they’ll be delighted to open.

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From soft-as-a-cloud jeggings to the best joggers for lounging. 👖

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Myka Stauffer built her YouTube following partly by sharing every step of her journey to adopt a toddler from China. This week, she revealed why he’d gone missing from her videos.

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