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On October 7th, North London quintet Sorry will be dropping Anywhere But Here, the follow-up to 2020’s breakthrough 925. Co-produced by the band along with Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Sorry promises Anywhere But Here will be a more rough and tumble look at the corners of their London. Now the band have announced their first ever North American headlining tour in support of the new album.

Shortly after the conclusion of Sorry’s European 2022 headlining tour dates, their North America tour begins on November 8th at Philadelphia’s Johnny Brendas. They’ll cruise the East Coast before hitting the midwest and then a full west coast wing, which culminates with a December 1st date at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop and a tour closing appearance at Zebulon in Los Angeles on December 2nd.

Check out all of Sorry’s 2022 tour dates below and tickets for all tour stops are available here.

10/14 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ekko
10/15 — Paris, France @ Pop Up
10/25 — Brighton, England @ Chalk
10/26 — Nottingham, England @ Metronome
10/27 — Leeds, England @ Brudenell Social Club
10/28 — Glasgow, Scotland @ Stereo
10/29 — Dublin, Ireland @ Academy 2
10/31 — Bristol, England @ Fleece
11/01 — Manchester, England @ White Hotel
11/02 — London, England @ Electric Brixton
11/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
11/09 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
11/11 — Washington, D.C. @ DC9
11/12 — Durham, NC @ Local 506
11/14 — Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
11/18 — Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s
11/19 — Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
11/20 — Toronto, Ontario @ The Garrison
11/22 — Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
11/23 — Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
11/27 — Vancouver, British Columbia @ Wise Hall
11/28 — Seattle, WA @ Barboza
11/29 — Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
12/01 — San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
12/02 — Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

Anywhere But Here is out 10/7 via Domino. Pre-save it here.

On the heels of being found guilty on contempt of Congress charges, Steve Bannon is proudly boasting that he’s going to “deconstruct” the government by gathering up “4,000 shock troops” in preparation for Donald Trump‘s second term. Bannon made the bold claim on his podcast while reacting to Axios writer Jonathan Swan preemptively revealing the plan over the weekend.

“Trump, in theory, could fire tens of thousands of career government officials with no recourse for appeals. He could replace them with people he believes are more loyal to him and to his ‘America First’ agenda,” Swan wrote. “It would effectively upend the modern civil service, triggering a shock wave across the bureaucracy.”

While it’s probably not the best idea to announce that Trump would once again attempt to disrupt the federal government as the January 6 hearings continue to shed light on his last effort, Bannon leaned into Axios broadcasting the plans.

Via Raw Story:

“It gets my deplorable blood going on a Monday morning to hear Jonathan Swan talk about a purge!” Cortes exclaimed while Bannon laughed. “A purge of the administrative state! Of course, he means that to be an exposé, to be a hit on our movement. We took it exactly the opposite and wear it as a badge of honor.”

“It tells me that, yes, Jonathan Swan recognizes that there is a plan in place,” he continued, “that this second Trump term is going to be far more consequential than the first one.”

Bannon then made a call to arms to his fellow deplorable, which, again, might not be the brightest move as Congress continues to investigate the last time a MAGA horde rallied together.

“I want everybody to understand deeply exactly what we’re doing here. OK? Because you’re going to be part of it,” Bannon said. “And particularly [we] want people stepping forward, say[ing], hey, I want to be one of those 4,000 shock troops.”

(Via Raw Story)

Considering the success of the Grammy-winning Black Panther soundtrack that Kendrick Lamar executive produced, there’s good reason to be excited about the soundtrack to Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever sequel. Over the weekend, the first official trailer to Wakanda Forever dropped and it was as memorable to the tribute it pays to the late Chadwick Bozeman as it was for the choice of music that was used underneath.

Throughout the clip, Nigerian afrobeats/R&B singer Tems sings a version of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” that eventually morphs into Lamar’s “Alright” in exciting ways. Today, Tems’ cover of “No Woman, No Cry,” (produced by Ludwig Göransson) has been officially released on digital streaming platforms, along with two other songs from the soundtrack entitled, Wakanda Forever Prologue. Also released today, is a vibey, afro-fusion tune from Ghanaian singer Amaarae called “A Body, A Coffin,” as well as the tribal thump of “Soy,” by Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan.

All three of the songs shift the vibe from the big-name hip-hop of the original Black Panther soundtrack. With the explosion of afrobeats music and the global rise of música Latina, it seems as though Wakanda Forever Prologue is moving towards those sounds and artists. It’s a welcome push for the film franchise which not only broke barriers as a blockbuster Black superhero movie, but also as a curator of the best artists making music today.

Ryan Coogler is back directing the sequel and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will once again feature Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira.

Listen to Tems’ “No Woman, No Cry” above.

Joey Badass has released his long-awaited follow-up to All-Amerikkkan Badass, 2000. A spiritual successor to his breakthrough mixtape, 1999, the new album is proving to be an early favorite, with appearances from rappers like Westside Gunn, Larry June, and JID. However, one unlisted feature that is getting a lot of attention is Nas, the rap icon to whom Joey drew comparisons when he dropped his debut in 2012. However, rather than appearing as a featured artist, Nas contributes to a short sketch on the outro of “Cruise Control.”

In an AMA on Reddit today, fans wondered why Nas’s voice appears in a skit rather than rapping, prompting Joey to offer a response explaining his hero’s glaring absence. “Man Nas is one of my all time favorites and one of my biggest influences,” he wrote. “I really wanted him to rap on the project but time didn’t permit so I asked him to just say a few words for me in a jazz club setting. And I gotta say, the feeling is equally satisfying to just have his blessing and presence on the project anyway.”

Another feature that drew attention, albeit much more negative attention, was Chris Brown’s feature on “Welcome Back.” When fans asked about the feature, Joey gave a pragmatic response, turning the question around on the inquirer. “Chris Brown is one of the most talented artist musicians of all time are you kidding me?” he asked. “It was an honor that he was even so willing to be a part of my album. He’s also a friend of mine. I get it, you guys may not think he’s perfect or cool because of things he’s done in his past, but which one of you guys are perfect?”

And just for fun, here’s a cute exchange between Joey and fellow rapper Guap, formerly known as Guapdad 4000.

The Chicago Bears are currently looking to potentially build a new stadium in Arlington Heights, a suburb 30 miles northwest of their current location at Soldier Field, at the site of Arlington International Racecourse, which they have begun the process of purchasing and plan on closing on the property in the next year.

The city of Chicago, of course, doesn’t want to lose the Bears given what they mean to the city and the amount of people the draw to Chicago on gamedays, and on Monday, mayor Lori Lightfoot detailed a $2.2 billion proposal to upgrade Soldier Field, putting what appears to be a windowed dome on top, along with building up the area around it with retail space, housing, entertainment and more.

As always, there’s the question of whether the city should be spending this much money on a sports stadium, even with the economic implications of the Bears leaving, but it also remains to be seen if the Bears would even want to stay with a massive renovation. They’ve been very clear about their plans to move forward with the Arlington Heights stadium build, with the potential to put a casino on site and more to make it a destination, despite their lease with the city of Chicago and Soldier Field running through 2033.

Maybe their push to move was always a leverage play to get the city to put this kind of money into the stadium, but at this point this feels like a last gasp move from Chicago and the Bears will follow a number of other teams into moving out of city centers and to the suburbs.

Aside from all of that, I will say that as a general fan of weather games, seeing another team move indoors (whether Soldier Field or a new stadium), while understandable, will feel like a loss. There’s something about football in the elements that feels right, but pretty much every new stadium being built now has a roof and climate control that strips that away.

It’s not unusual for people to ask Steve-O to do things. In fact, he does a lot of things, like give Post Malone a tattoo or allow a swam of bees to literally engulf his genitals. So when he was asked to appear in a commercial with Ryan Reynolds and promote a new ad brand while eating the world’s hottest pepper, it would be a little upsetting if he didn’t do it.

The new ad, which is a brilliant move from MNTN, features Steve-O explaining how he built an ad campaign for his hot sauce, Hot Sauce For Your Butthole, which is a real thing that exists. The duo explains how to quickly and easily make an ad for his hot sauce. But it’s really not that easy for Steve-O, who slowly descends into madness.

Reynolds periodically checks in with Steve-O as he painfully explains how he made his ads, all while his face slowly begins to turn into an unsightly shade of red as he chokes on some milk (something he is familiar with). After a few moments of walking around and saying things like “my throat is closing” and “f*ck you, Satan.” Reynolds eventually takes over for Steve-O, moments before cradling him on the ground.

The Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper in the world, according to the Guinness Book Of World Records, and Steve-O says it’s the hottest pepper you can legally put in your mouth. Not that anyone ever should!

Check out the clip above.

Not everyone is into science or even cares how it works. But sometimes science is too cool to ignore. The scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are revisiting an old hypothesis from the late 1980s by astronomer Roger Angel on creating bubbles in space to make an umbrella of sorts to shade Earth. Yeah, they’re suggesting space bubbles. Following advances in technology over the last 30 years, they now think they’ve figured out how to do it.

This news is not only incredible, it feels like it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie. It may sound outrageous, but it could be an actual real-life solution to Earth’s climate change issue. Climate change, according to the United Nations (UN), involves “long term shifts in temperature and weather patterns,” which, since the 1800s, is primarily driven by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. Coal, oil and gas all produce heat-trapping gasses that are slowly warming Earth and causing increased carbon dioxide, the warming of oceans and polar ice melt, all of which endanger animals and cause sea levels to rise.

Just lately, it feels like we are melting when we spend more than a few minutes outside, but not everything is doom and gloom. Scientists are working to find a solution to the fiery Earth situation while the effects of newer renewable energy sources are being realized. And that’s where space bubbles come in. The MIT scientists have been able to create a high-tech thin film in the form of a bubble in space-like conditions, which means this should be able to be recreated in space.

These scientists have asked for a “feasibility study” to see if space bubbles actually work, recommending the creation of a bubbly mass in space the size of Brazil. And no, it doesn’t involve scientists blowing bubbles with a giant bubble wand—that would be pretty comical.

The high-tech bubbles if able to be hurled into space to save the planet could reflect wavelengths from solar radiation of different varieties. But there’s this pesky thing called gravity. The bubbles would need to be far enough away from Earth that they don’t get pulled down but far enough from the sun that they don’t burn up. For the moment, researchers are just putting the idea out into the world with the hope that it can be built on in the future. Outside of the preliminary experiments that have shown that space bubbles are possible, more work has to be done to make them a reality.

In the meantime, we can enjoy the image in our heads of an umbrella made of space bubbles shading Earth. Envisioning astronauts popping them with a video game like laser gun is fun too. All eyes are on MIT as they figure out if we get to have space bubbles for Earth’s birthday party in the next few years. In the meantime, we nonscientist humans should probably keep doing our part to slow climate change.

If you’re behind on Better Call Saul, you should not watch Vanity Fair‘s “fan theories” video with Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn. But if you’re all caught up, congratulations, you’re enjoying the best show on television — and you get to watch Bob and Rhea shut down what Redditors think is going to happen in the final four episodes.

In the video above, Odenkirk and Seehorn take turns “reading, confirming, and denying,” but mostly denying, Better Call Saul fan theories from Reddit, many of which revolve around the fate of Kim Wexler. PostyMcPosterson believes that following the events of “Rock and Hard Place,” the episode from earlier this season where Nacho kills himself, “I think they want us to believe she won’t live until the end of the McGill story timeline.”

Odenkirk understands the idea that Kim would die. “It would also be a huge catalyst,” Seehorn added… but “because some major characters just were slaughtered,” like Lalo and Howard and, uh, Gus’ goons, “it feels like everybody can’t die all at once,” Odenkirk continued. “Unless it’s an apocalyptic, you know, scenario.” I don’t care for this scenario.

Odenkirk and Seehorn also discuss Walt and Jesse making their long-anticipated Better Call Saul debut, including confirmation that it will be more than one episode.

Even though The Notorious B.I.G. passed away over 20 years ago, the late Brooklyn hometown hero has one of rap’s most extensive posthumous discographies — and it’s about to get even bigger, thanks to web3. That’s right; Biggie is the latest rapper to hop on the NFT train (courtesy of The Christopher Wallace Estate) with a new NFT collection, Sky’s The Limit: The Notorious B.I.G. NFT Collection.

In addition to 3D art that holders can use as a profile picture online, holders will be included in the Sky’s The Limit collective, allowing them access to the license for Biggie’s iconic Fulton Street freestyle audio. That means they can use the audio in their own tunes (with the approval of both the collective and the Christopher Wallace Estate) and upload them to streaming platforms with a “featuring The Notorious B.I.G.” credit.

The NFT collection will go live Tuesday, July 26. Check out the NFTs on offer below.

The Sky’s The Limit collection is just one example of how great Biggie’s impact and influence have been on hip-hop and the wider culture. Earlier this year, on what would have been his 50th birthday, the city of New York put on a celebration across all five boroughs, lighting up the Empire State Building and debuting new murals of the late, great rap icon.

There has been uncertainty about whether Britney Spears would be resuming her music career now that her conservatorship is over. Well, it looks like her comeback is not only potentially happening, but perhaps happening sooner than anybody could have expected: Page Six reports that according to a “music industry insider,” Spears and Elton John recently recorded a rendition of “Tiny Dancer” and they’re set to release it in August via Universal Music.

The insider told the publication, “This was Elton’s idea, and Britney is a huge fan. They have recorded a remix of ‘Tiny Dancer’ as a full duet — and it is incredible. Britney was in the studio in Beverly Hills last week with Elton for the super-secret recording session overseen by uber-producer Andrew Watt.”

The source also noted, “They’ve already played it for people at their record label, and everybody is freaking out. It is so good. They are saying this is going to be the song of the summer. Britney is officially back. She’s back to work, and she’s super excited.”

Whether this report is true or not, Spears seems to have an itch to get back to singing: Earlier this month, she shared a video of herself singing “…Baby One More Time” and noted, “I haven’t shared my voice in an extremely long time … maybe too long.” Meanwhile, in a post from April, Spears noted the “thrill of the business” has been ruined for her “100000%.” In February, Spears teased she had “so many exciting projects ahead.”