As a world-famous rapper, Swae Lee is probably used to performing in stadium-sized venues by now. However, that doesn’t stop him from catching a look of awe on his face as he steps on the turf at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium in the video for “Ball Is Life” from the Madden NFL 22 soundtrack. The same goes for BRS Kash, Moneybagg Yo, Tierra Whack, and the rest of the performers who appear on the game’s hard-hitting playlist.
While the soundtrack itself launched along with the game in August, the EA team released a slew of videos for its standout tracks, including BRS Kash’s “Oh No” performed in his hometown Mercedes Benz Stadium, Moneybagg repping for Memphis in the Titans’ stadium, and Tierra Whack hanging out with Scoop, the Philadelphia Eagles’ mascot. Although Swae Lee actually hails from Tupelo, Mississippi, unfortunately, there’s no team nearby — plus, he lives in LA now anyway.
Each star gets their own video and all of the videos get mashed up in a massive megamix showing off Madden‘s uncanny valley gameplay, which you can watch above. For the individual videos, see below.
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The season premiere of Saturday Night Live is just a day away and that means that the hilarious pre-show promos featuring the guest host and musical guest have also returned. In this week’s promo, series regular Kenan Thompson joins Owen Wilson and Kacey Musgraves to contemplate whether things really are bigger in Texas, try to start a belly band, and tease Kenan’s lateness. Musgraves especially looks like she’s struggling not to break in the last clip.
The first clip is of special significance, as both Wilson and Musgraves are Texas natives. Kenan asks them whether something like burgers fall under the “everything is bigger in Texas” motto, to which Wilson replies, “Depends who’s makin’ ’em.” Musgraves brags, “I make ’em about the size of my fist.” Thompson declares he’s never going to one of her barbecues — and if I may interject here, I will gladly take his spot. He’s missing out.
You should absolutely not miss out on Musgraves’ performance, which will feature songs from her new album Star-Crossed. Each time she’s performed songs from it — such as the fiery rendition of the title track she gave to the MTV VMAs this year — it’s been a show-stopper. Personally, I’m hoping for a redux of her fun “Simple Times” video.
Watch Kacey Musgraves, Owen Wilson, and Kenan Thompson hype up the upcoming season premiere of SNL above.
Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in October. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, October 1
Audiobooks — Astro Tough (Piccadilly Records)
Ben Marc — Breathe Suite EP (Innovative Leisure)
Black Dice — Mod Prog Sic (FourFour Records)
Bonnie Cosby — Virginiana EP (Pax Aeternum)
Boy Scouts — Wayfinder (ANTI-)
Brandi Carlile — In These Silent Days (Elektra Records)
The Colorist Orchestra & Howe Gelb — Not On The Map (Dangerbird)
Couplet — LP1 (Storm Chasers LTD)
Dar Williams — I’ll Meet You Here (Renew Records/BMG)
Diet Cig — I Don’t Like Driving Like I Used To EP (Frenchkiss Records)
The Doobie Brothers — Liberté (Island Records)
Ducks Ltd. — Modern Fiction (Carpark Records)
Explosions In The Sky — Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) (Temporary Residence)
Four Stroke Baron — Classics (Prosthetic Records)
Gustaf — Audio Drag For Ego Slobs (Royal Mountain Records)
Hovvdy — True Love (Grand Jury)
Illuminati Hotties — Let Me Do One More (Hopeless Records)
Jeremy Zucker — Crusher (Republic)
Jojo — Trying Not To Think About It (Warner Records)
Joshua Speers — Midnight Horses EP (Warner Records)
JW Francis — Wanderkid (Sunday Best Recordings)
Kalabrese — Let Love Rumpel (Part 1) (Rumpelmusig)
Kit Grill — Fragile (Primary Colours)
Leisure — Side B EP (Nettwerk)
Lily Rose — Stronger Than I Am (Big Loud Records/Back Blocks)
Logan Mize — Welcome To Prairieville (Big Yellow Dog Music)
Lonr. — Land Of Nothing Real 2 EP (Epic Records)
Matt Robidoux — At Dust (Already Dead Tapes and Records)
Meek Mill — Expensive Pain (Warner)
Ministry — Moral Hygiene (Nuclear Blast)
Misty River — Promises (The Workshop Tapes)
Mod Con — Modern Condition (Poison City)
Nine Pound Hammer — When The Shit Goes Down (Acetate Records)
Olan Monk — Auto Life EP (CANVAS)
The Persian Leaps — Drone Etiquette (Land Ski Records)
Pond — 9 (Spinning Top Records)
The Script — Tales From The Script (Sony)
Secondhand Sound — The Best & Worst Of Times (Sound Division Records)
Shad — TAO (Secret City Records)
Silas Short — Drawing EP (Stones Throw)
Strand Of Oaks — In Heaven (Galacticana Records)
Sun Atoms — Let There Be Light (Little Cloud Records)
The The — The Comeback Special (Ear Music)
Tirzah — Colourgrade (Domino)
Tony Bennett And Lady Gaga — Love For Sale (Columbia)
Ustad Saami — East Pakistan Sky (Glitterbeat Records)
Wage War — Manic (Fearless Records)
Wiki — Half God (Wikset Enterprise)
Work Party — My Best Days Are Behind Me (Triple Eye Industries)
Valley — Last Birthday EP (Capitol Records)
Xander Cameron — Rebel RM Roseme EP (2563977 Records DK)
Yes — The Quest (InsideOut Music)
Zoodrake — Seven (Elektrofish / Echozone)
Friday, October 8
Alice TM — Little Body In Orbit (Whatever’s Clever)
As the promotional train for the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, kicks into high gear, Daniel Craig and Rami Malek stopped by The Graham Norton Show where the conversation jokingly wandered to what the heck is happening to Malek’s character’s face? After Norton pointed out that Bond villains don’t seem to have “much luck with their complexion” while showing pictures of Blofeld, Jaws, and Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva, the host got right down to it by showing a picture of Malek’s villain and asking the actor what’s wrong with him.
“A lot’s wrong with me,” Malek quipped before turning to Craig for help because, obviously, they were now entering spoiler country. Ever the hero, the 007 star did his best to put the kibosh on the question.
“There’s a major plot point about the way he looks, and it’s sort of important that we don’t give it away,” Craig said, but Norton wasn’t quite done yet.
“Is he allergic to detergent?” Norton joked, which got a laugh from the audience, and Malek who jumped at the opportunity to keep his character’s secrets under wraps.
“He’s got allergies!” the actor quickly chimed in while looking visibly nervous about the whole thing. For over a year now, there have been theories about the true identity of Malek’s villain in No Time To Die, and with the film’s release only a week away, he can stop sweating about trying to hide it from nosy talk show hosts.
The SNL season 47 cast was announced earlier this week, and while much of the attention was paid to leave Beck Bennett leaving the show and Lorne Michaels finally finding his Trump (and Elton John) in James Austin Johnson, it’s worth highlighting that Emmy nominee Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman were bumped up to reparatory players.
Yang had his breakout sketch playing the iceberg that sank the Titanic, while Fineman is SNL‘s best impressionist (her audition involved impressions of Winona Ryder, Hannah Gadsby, and Cynthia Nixon). She showed off her skills during Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show.
Host Jimmy Fallon and Fineman had a conversation where she used different celebrity voices, including Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence (it’s while watching this clip that I realized Timothée Chalamet is the male J-Law — I will not explain this further), Keira Knightley, and Elizabeth Holmes. But my personal favorite is her Jennifer Coolidge. She even has The White Lotus star’s mannerisms down.
“I think naturally the people I want to do impressions of, I’m obsessed with them,” Fineman told Harper’s Bazaar about who she decides to impersonate. “And I find them wonderful, and want to share them with the world.” You can watch The Tonight Show clip above.
October is upon us, and with it comes new records that are perfectly timed to soundtrack the changing of the leaves. This week, Steve and Ian are digging into Let Me Have One More, the anticipated new record from Illuminati Hotties, as well as Strand Of Oaks’ In Heaven. Both artists represent relatively opposite ends of the Indiecast-core spectrum — Illuminati Hotties have perfected a brand of irreverent, anti-capitalist alternative rock while Tim Showalter’s music style tends to lean into more atmospheric soundscapes and a folk-forward songwriting style.
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is getting ready for fall with True Love, the new album from vibey Austin duo Hovvdy. Steve is plugging his recent interview with BJ Burton, the producer who has had a hand in crafting some of the best and most influential albums of the last decade (think: Yeezus, Bon Iver’s 22, A Million, and many more).
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 59 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts here. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at indiecastmailbag@gmail.com, and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
While appearing on MSNBC on Thursday night, former ESPN columnist (and current writer for The Atlantic) Jemele Hill did not hold back her thoughts on Ted Cruz after the Texas senator came out in support of NBA players who are refusing to get vaccinated. Cruz also praised LeBron James, who got the shot but refused to tell others to do the same, which put the NBA star on Whoopi Goldberg’s radar, and you don’t want that. And you probably don’t want Cruz’s praise, either.
“Let me say that if Ted Cruz was standing with me, I’d probably vomit a little bit in my mouth,” Hill said before voicing her concerns about the implications of Republicans backing unvaccinated players, who she believes are already doing enough damage as it is. Via Mediaite:
“You have to sometimes pay attention to who are the people egging you on and — quote, unquote — cheering for you,” Hill said. “That tells you a lot about the stance that you’re taking.”
Hill did point out that more than 90 percent of NBA players are vaccinated — and that the players who garnered attention this week are part of a small minority. Nonetheless, Hill noted that the words of Beal, Irving, and Wiggins could resonate with people of color.
After the segment aired, Hill made it a point to tweet out a clip of her appearance where she reinforced her assertion that just being near Cruz would make her puke.
A totally screwed-up, Shakespearean family, spooky delights, a romcom, and zombies. October is stacked with new TV shows and returning favorites, so you can settle in for fall and avoid people, which is especially handy if you’re still doing the social-distancing thing. Regardless, you’re definitely looking for entertainment if you’re reading this list, so let’s get down to business on what’s worth stuffing into your streaming queue and cable viewing plans. HBO brings a few of the bigger attractions here with the long-awaited return of Succession and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and HBO Max has a few more returning fan-favorite series. Apple TV+ also comes in strong with multiple entries on this list, which range from a sports-drama to a very spooky story.
Naturally, there’s a lot of spooking going on this month, as is customary, so Netflix, Discovery+, and USA Network are bringing those scares. Meanwhile, Hulu and AMC are not to be ignored for their offerings, including a Michael Keaton series and the return of Fear The Walking Dead respectively. Ignore the tricks, for this month is all about treats.
Here are the biggest shows worth noticing in October:
Selena + Chef: Season 3 (HBO Max series streaming TBA)
Selena Gomez has come a long way since her Disney days, including a recent turn in the terrific Only Murders In The Building. Here, she’s totally herself and in an environment that she loves while not pretending at all to be a chef (or have any type of formal training with food) or do anything besides love to eat. The first season landed on HBO Max as the perfect quarantine show, and the trend continues as Selena keeps things real while dabbling further into culinary adventures. It’s simply delightful stuff.
MAID (Netflix series streaming 10/1)
Margaret Qualley (a Once Upon A Time In Hollywood breakout and daughter to Andie MacDowell) stars in this heartbreaking adaptation of Stephanie Land’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. This will, clearly, be a difficult watch, but Qualley’s raw portrayal (of a woman who flees an abusive relationship to go through exceedingly difficult times to break the cycle for her daughter) yields a burgeoning star in a juicy role that could yield rewards, if the powers that be are paying attention to perspectives presented in projects like these.
The Haunted Museum: Season 1 (Discovery+ series streaming 10/2)
Eli Roth has so much going on over at Discovery+ this month (following his recent real-life horror/Shark-Week film on the streamer) that one has to wonder… is he running the joint? It’s a valid question, but more to the point, he’s teaming up with Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans for this scripted anthology series, in which they illuminate nine of the world’s most cursed artifacts. These relics are actually in display in Bagans’ Vegas museum, but here, you’ll get the historic commentary in addition to having the pants scared off of you. (When you’re done with that series, also check out Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life, streaming on 10/7, to witness personal accounts on those who have survived feeling like they’re been dragged through hell and fought their way back.)
Chucky: Season 1 (SYFY and USA Network series streaming 10/12)
The good-bad news is that the O.G. homicidal doll shall never die. Granted, a mid-2020 teaser that kept things very mysterious regarding who would voice Chucky, but this trailer puts that mystery to rest. Mark Hamill may have been the most recent Chucky, but original voice actor Brad Dourif will return for this USA Network/SyFy sequel series. Also notably, Jennifer Tilly will return as Tiffany Valentine, but this trailer largely focuses on Zackary Arthur’s Jake, who makes the mistake of adopting Chucky at a garage sale. All hell breaks loose, and as Chucky puts it, this will be the “World Series of slaughter.”
Dopesick: Season 1 (Hulu series streaming 10/13)
Michael Keaton (who is still the greatest Batman in history, so don’t mess with him in any role) finally comes to TV beyond cameo mode. Here, he takes on Big Pharma as a physician whose patients are dying off amid an opioid epidemic, and Rosario Dawson portrays one of the heroes who want to take the makers of Oxycontin down. The title of the source material (Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America, the book by Beth Macy) tells you a lot, but this trailer promises an intense ride, and the cast includes Michael Stuhlbarg and Kaitlyn Dever, who’s in just about everything now and making Justified‘s Loretta proud here.
You: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 10/15)
Nothing says (twisted) family bonding like two parents digging a grave for their murder victims while an infant sits in his car seat and does his best to amuse himself. Yikes. From the looks of things, this show somehow manages to sustain its own gimmick after a second season of barely containing its own crazy (and careening off a cliff). Near the end of that sophomore round, Stalker Joe (Penn Badgley) found himself trapped in a relationship with a woman, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), who’s just as homicidal (if not more) as he is. Naturally, it seemed that Joe didn’t quite learn his lesson by the end of the season, and we saw him noticing that he’s got an attractive neighbor that perhaps he might stalk. This sounds like a good time for the ghost of Beck to deliver a lecture, and who knows what shall happen there, but in the Season 3 trailer, Joe appears to be scared out of his mind. (Good!) Love definitely has the upper hand, or so it appears, but Joe’s awfully nervous that his kid will follow in his parents’ footsteps.
I Know What You Did Last Summer: Season 1 (Amazon Prime series streaming 10/15)
Sure, you remember the 1997 film and perhaps you’re aware that that was based upon the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, but this Amazon Studios collaboration with Sony Pictures Television wants you to relive the nightmare once more. Granted this version doesn’t have Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or Freddie Prinze, but the trailer still looks sufficiently chilling for a new generation, and it’ll be interesting to see how they draw out the story to full-season form, rather than a feature-lengthy movie. These teens, as well, seem more twisted by nature than the O.G. bunch, so perhaps that will add some shading to justify reviving their shared dark secret as they aim to survive.
Succession: Season 3 (HBO series premiering 10/17)
Well, well, well. Jeremy Strong’s Kendall lit this seriously screwed-up family on fire during the last season finale. As a result, Brian Cox’s Logan Roy is ready to go “full f*cking beast,” and that means a lot of things, but one important one: it’s time for everyone to f*ck off. Alexander Skarsgård and Adrien Brody join the club this season, and maybe the Pope (or a pope) is somehow involved, but one thing remains clear throughout this show: alliances are made to be broken. In other words, the familiar civil war is on. No other show besides Deadwood has been able to wield profanity with such adept rhythm, and it’s time to get Shakespearean again up in this motherf*cker while I keep on rooting for Shiv Roy to (finally) dominate all.
Fear The Walking Dead: Season 7 (AMC series premiering 10/15)
This show didn’t shy away from speculation that a possible time jump was in store for this spinoff, and maybe that could have been a way to tie some of The Walking Dead universe threads together. Well, the way that the season ended could have conceivably set up such a jump by sealing many characters into an underground-bunker setting, where presumably, they’d need to stay for years following a detonated nuke in Texas. Yet the way that the action played out seemed to rule out a logical set up to a time jump occurring. In the above teaser, things don’t seem too time-jumpy, at least not in what we’re seeing here. Morgan and Grace awaken in the bunker, and she heads out into the outside world while wearing a protective suit and gazing out into the immediate wasteland before walking past an incapacitated walker on the ground. All of this would lead one to believe that, nope, there’s no leap into the future here, but the good news is that this spinoff found fresh legs last year.
Invasion: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 10/22)
Apple TV+ has been crushing the outer-space game with All For Mankind, and with this Simon Kinberg sci-fi show, they’re bringing the (dubious) party to planet Earth. Kinberg, of course, has plenty of producing clout under his belt (The Martian, the Deadpool movies, Logan) and he’s teaming up here with procedural-minded director Jakob Verbruggen (The Alienist, The Fall) to focus on individual stories around the globe during the fallout of an alien invasion. There’s some Sam Neill flavor up in here, too, and if there’s a god, he’ll be wearing a hat in this show. Yes, it’s intense-looking show, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, but a hat can always help.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 11 (HBO series streaming 10/24)
The world needed more Larry David and, by god, he’s giving it to us, even if he’s never gonna drop those curmudgeon ways. Expect the Seinfeld co-creator to bring his usual flavor and more of the iconic theme, so this is pure comfort food for those of us who are weary of all the ways that the world has transformed over the past 20 months or so. Larry hasn’t changed on us, and thank god for that. Rather than focus on the massive problems that reality brings, let us all focus upon the tiny annoyances in life and find comfort in pretending they’re the biggest of problems.
Love Life: Season 2 (HBO Max series streaming 10/28)
Love Life ended up being the HBO Max original show to launch the service, and apparently, the numbers were pretty darn good. Although we don’t know the actual viewership numbers, they were high enough for executive producer Paul Feig to celebrate the show’s solo-act success while speaking with us, and Season 2 is upon us with Anna Kendrick’s Darby passing the baton to a new unlucky-in-love protagonist, Marcus, who will be portrayed by William Jackson Harper. He’s still best known for playing Jacked Chidi in The Good Place. Previously, we saw in a teaser that Darby (who’s still in the show a little bit) got married, and who knows if she’ll actually be happy (or found herself with another a-hole), but this season will mostly focus upon the divorced Marcus. He did the whole sunk-cost investment thing, apparently, and now, he’s finding himself in the hell hole known as the dating world. Godspeed, Marcus.
Apple TV+
Swagger: Season 1 (Apple TV+ streaming 10/29)
Get ready, sports-drama fans. This show’s inspired by Kevin Durant’s pre-NBA experiences, and more specifically, it examines early ambition and dreams and the fine line between those two things, along with the comparable delineation between opportunism and corruption on the grown-up side. The cast includes Isaiah Hill, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis, all of whom are bringing some truths on the experience of coming in age in America. With the talent involved here, don’t be surprised to be sucked in, even if you aren’t exactly watching NBA games.
Channing Tatum might be dating Zoe Kravitz, but he’s all up in noted Scarf King Lenny Kravitz’s Instagram over a certain shredded photo. Yep, Channing and Zoe reportedly went public with their relationship on Met Gala night, and it seems that Channing is pretty fond of her dad, too. And who could blame him?
This a good time to remind everyone that one of the only good things that has happened during the pandemic is that Lenny Kravitz invited Men’s Health into his private compound in the Bahamas, where he showed off his workout moves in a way that no one else could have gotten away with doing without being called inauthentic. Lenny’s effortlessly cool, though, so seeing him use a tree trunk as a weight bench actually worked.
Lenny was ripped then, and he’s ripped now and will always be ripped, so that’s why (I guess?) he decided to make coffee with his shirt wide open (as one does). Then he generously treated everyone to the visual on Instagram.
“2:37pm. Good morning,” read the caption. “All nighter in the studio last night. 3 albums on the horizon. Going back in. Love.”
Y’all, Lenny Kravitz is 57 years old, and he looks mind-bogglingly like a chiseled statue. Everyone noticed. The Rock stepped up with a “My brotha. Inspiring. #ohana.” And Channing wrote, “Good god man! What are you eating or what’s in the water or the genes. It’s not natural. Do you just do abs like all day?”
To that, Lenny responded, “@channingtatum Dude, I’m just trying to get in the next Magic Mike. Any connections?”
Make it happen: Magic Mike XXL, The Last Dance: Let Love Rule.
Whoever coined the phrase “parents know best” has obviously never been to Polk County, Iowa. The county, which is located just about 5 miles from Des Moines, is home to the Ankeny Community School District, a public school district with a number of parents who are so aggressively anti-mask that they’d rather see their kids get a terrible education, if not forgo one entirely, than have them to wear a light piece of cloth across their faces for a few hours each day—a measure that could very well protect these same kids’ health and lives.
As Daily Beast reports, anti-mask parents across the country have been coming up with all sorts of creative ways to get their point across to teachers and school administrators, including the trio of dads in Tucson, Arizona, who attempted to zip-tie their kids’ principal for enforcing in-school mask mandates, per CDC guidelines, so that kids across America don’t start dying in record numbers. But these Iowa parents think that hitting their school district’s checkbook is the better tack. As Pilar Melendez writes for Daily Beast:
The Iowa Department of Education takes a certified enrollment count on Oct. 1 to determine how much funding each district is allotted for the following year, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. So if a student leaves the district—even temporarily—before the count this Friday, they may not be tallied for the award of funding for the next school year.
That means if students whose parents are enraged by mask mandates come back after the count, the school could be forced to make do with less—all to appease parents who refuse to accept experts’ consensus about how to avoid death and disaster in the classroom.
Yes, you read that correctly: In order to get a school district to comply with their illogical demands, these parents want to ensure not only that their children’s schools are as dangerous a breeding ground for a deadly virus that has already killed nearly 700,000 Americans—but that the school district is basically bankrupted in the process.
“It’s absolute insanity to try to defund the schools and then enroll your kid back into the school the next day,” one local (and actually sane) mom told Daily Beast, but would only speak on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from her fellow parents.
“Nothing surprises me anymore,” she added—a statement that could very well replace “In God We Trust” on our currency these days.
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