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All The Best Things We Ate At Austin City Limits 2025
Austin City Limits Music Festival prides itself on featuring predominately local eateries, so if you don't have much time to explore the city outside of the fest, never fear: ACL offers a full range of foods from revered local establishments. Over the years, the fest has mirrored its commitment to booking diverse musical acts by consistently upping its culinary game, which emphasizes the city's flourishing foodie culture by including fine-dining restaurants with adapted menus, in addition to typical chains and street food. With more than 70 culinary mainstays featured throughout three food centers -- ACL Eats, ACL Sweets, and ACL…
Rema Hosts An Old-Fashioned House Party In His Contemplative ‘Fun’ Video
Rema has a lot on his plate, but that just means there's more to go around in the video for his new single, "Fun." The video, shot in the same Benin City suburbs as his past videos like "Benin Boys," finds Rema hosting an old-fashioned house party, as well as pulling up on some local kids playing soccer to hand out brand-new sneakers from the trunk of his Lamborghini. Despite the celebratory trappings of the video, though, the song itself is quite contemplative, as Rema requests, "Abeg, pass me my cup / I just want to have fun / I…
Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross’ Film-Focused Music Festival, Future Ruins, Has Been Canceled
Back in May, Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross announced the Future Ruins music festival, which uniquely had a focus on film music. Unfortunately, though, the show will not be going on as planned, as they announced today (October 6) that the event has been cancelled. The statement reads: "Unfortunately Future Ruins will not move forward this year. The reality is, due to a number of logistical challenges and complications, we feel we cannot provide the experience that's defined what this event was always intended to be. Rather than compromise, we're choosing to re-think and re-evaluate. Meanwhile,…
Zach Bryan Is Fired Up As He Goes After ICE In A New Song Teaser
Zach Bryan isn't afraid to keep his music releases informal. The country star will routinely share extended teasers of songs on social media, or just drop complete new songs without much warning. This time, Bryan dropped a new snippet on Instagram, and on it, he has some bones to pick. The post is captioned, "the fading of the red white and blue," seemingly the song's title. As for the lyrics, they are as follows: "Didn't wake up dead or in jail Some out-of-town boys been giving us hell I got some bad news I woke up missing you My friends…
Doja Cat Delivered Dramatic Performances Of ‘Gorgeous’ And ‘AAAHH MEN!’ On ‘SNL’
On Saturday, Bad Bunny made his second SNL hosting appearance of 2025, but having just completed his Puerto Rico residency, he let someone else handle the music: Doja Cat, who just released her new album Vie. In typical Doja Cat fashion, she went all-in on the performances, channeling Morris Day and The Time and bringing all the outrageous fashion and funk of the '80s to a dramatic performance of "AAAHH MEN!" Then, she broke out the props, sitting astride a massive rose bloom -- but not the same one as her Queen Of Thorns Fortnite skin-related throne from her earlier…
Bad Bunny Gives Fans ‘Four Months To Learn’ Spanish Before His Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny isn't sweating the conservative backlash against his upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show. During the monologue for his latest SNL hosting turn, Benito poked fun at the fake concern from pundits trying to persecute his lack of English lyrics, telling viewers they have "four months to learn" Spanish ahead of his performance if they really want to know what he's saying. And, as he also delivered the monologue in much-improved English, he provided a perfect example of bilingualism for those who seem to be so distraught over his selection. Of course, the exaggerated outrage over his booking is less…
‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Made Their Surprise Live Debut In An ‘SNL’ Sketch With Bad Bunny
Although the women behind the fictional Kpop Demon Hunters trio Huntr/x were supposed to make their live television debut performing on The Tonight Show, it looks like they just couldn't wait until Tuesday. Instead, they made a surprise early drop-in to 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Saturday night to join host Bad Bunny for an SNL sketch inspired by their hit Netflix movie and its runaway success among borderline obsessive fans. In the sketch, Bad Bunny -- who is celebrating the announcement of his Super Bowl Halftime Show in his second hosting appearance this year -- plays one of those fans,…
Japanese Breakfast And Magdalena Bay Joined Forces At Austin City Limits 2025 For An Awesome MGMT Cover
What's great about a festival environment is that with a bunch of artists all in one place, there's plenty of opportunity for collaborations that probably wouldn't have happened otherwise. Sabrina Carpenter proved that at the 2025 Austin City Limits Festival this past weekend, by bringing Shania Twain out for "That Don't Impress Me Much." Japanese Breakfast got in on the collaborative fun, too. During her set, she was joined by fellow ACL performers Magdalena Bay. Michelle Zauner fake-talked into a giant old-fashioned phone before bringing the duo out, at which point they didn't do one of either act's songs. Instead,…
Gunna Aims To Take Over The Globe On His 2025-26 ‘Wun World’ Tour
Watch out, world. Here comes Gunna. The Uproxx Visionary is fresh off the release of his new album, The Last Wun, and as he promised in the album's single, he "Won't Stop" now, announcing the dates for his 2025-2026 Wun World Tour. In addition to hitting stops across the US, the UK, and Europe, the Atlanta superstar also has a pair of dates in South Africa, courtesy of the Milk & Cookies Festival, and Australia at Rolling Loud's inaugural event there. Tickets go on sale for North America and Europe on Monday, October 13 at 10 am local time at…
Sabrina Carpenter ‘Arrested’ Djo And Sang With Shania Twain During Her Packed Austin City Limits Set
The first weekend of the 2025 Austin City Limits festival is in the books. Before looking forward to the upcoming second weekend, though, it's good to look back, especially at headliner Sabrina Carpenter's set on Saturday, October 4, as it was a major highlight of this year's event so far. For one, she brought out Shania Twain to sing "That Don't Impress Me Much" (here's a video). Introducing Twain, Carpenter said, "I show love in weird ways. One of the ways I show my love is by gift-giving. That’s one of my languages, and I thought it’d be fun to…
All The Best New Music From This Week That You Need To Hear
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it's easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we're offering up this rundown of the best new music this week. This week saw Fred Again.. launch (or continue, perhaps) an era and Kali Uchis extend her own current epoch. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check…
The Best-Dressed People We Saw At The 2025 Austin City Limits Festival
The first weekend of the 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival, from October 3 to 5, was electric. It was hard not to be with headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Doja Cat, Luke Combs, The Strokes, John Summit, and Doechii, along with the other stellar names sprinkled throughout the poster, familiar faces like Djo, Mk.gee, Role Model, Wet Leg, Japanese Breakfast, MJ Lenderman, Magdalena Bay, King Princess, The Dare, Hotline TNT, and more. It was an event not to be missed, and those who couldn't make it out to Texas didn't have to go without, as Hulu came through with a…
SNX DLX: This Week’s Best Sneaker Drops, Featuring The LeBron XXIII Uncharted And More!
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week’s offerings are aimed squarely at a hyper niche crowd and unless you’re into Nike’s LeBron, there aren’t any major releases that are going to have a majority of sneakerheads foaming at the month. If you’re one of the handful that is going to lose your mind over a Sushi Club AF-1, a Patta Nike link up, or the debut of Adidas’ AE-2 — we mean no offense! In fact, we salute your taste. But for those sneakerheads who need a new Jordan drop…
Austin City Limits 2025 Nails The Art Of The Lineup
As many of us who grew up in the age of Napster and Limewire can attest, creating the perfect playlist is an art form, one that we should not hand over to the likes of streaming curators or even TikTok algorithms. Instead, curation is a ship that only tried and true music lovers should helm. Witness this year’s Austin City Limits lineup, which has to be the result of someone who has listened to the radio for an hour with a cassette just to record one song and who interrupts conversations and even pulls out Shazam while sitting front row…
Khalid Reveals His ‘After The Sun Goes Down’ Tracklist With A Week To Go Until Its Release
After building up the buzz for the release of his new album After The Sun Goes Down with singles like "In Plain Sight" and "Out Of Body," Khalid has revealed the tracklist for the album, which is set to drop in one week. The follow-up to Sincere will have plenty of narrative material to address, after Khalid was outed against his will by an ex-boyfriend who also accused him of abuse. However, judging from the video for "In Plain Sight" (the closet is literally made of glass!), Khalid doesn't have vindication on his agenda so much as he does catharsis;…
Kali Uchis And Mariah The Scientist Team Up Yet Again On The Dreamy ‘Pretty Promises’
Kali Uchis and Mariah The Scientist are buds. In July, Uchis guested on Mariah's "Is It A Crime," from her album Hearts Sold Separately. Today (October 3), they released a video for the track. Also today, the pair offered another new collaboration. This time, it's Mariah guesting on Kali's song, from Uchis' deluxe album Sincerely: P.S. that's out now. The dreamy track sees the two singing about keeping their word. Uchis previously noted that the original Sincerely, album was inspired by a “life-altering event," revealing, "The album is about the complexities of life and finding ways to find joy in…
Ashnikko Recruits Cobrah For The Provocative New Single ‘Wet Like’
Ashnikko's new album Smoochies isn't far now with a release date set for two weeks from now, October 17. Today (October 3), she shared a new preview of it, the thumping "Wet Like" featuring Cobrah. Ashnikko says of the song, "This is pure carnal lust and hedonism. This is music to stomp down the street to, eye f*ck a stranger in the club to, music to top to!” She also previously said of the album: "Smoochies feels like Demidevil's older sister. It’s sexy, playful, and feminine, while toeing the line of grotesque and absurd. I feel like purse sediment so…
Green Day Is Releasing A Massive 49-Track Anniversary Reissue Of Their 2000 Album ‘Warning’
Warning came between two massive moments for Green Day, between 1997's Nimrod (the album with "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)") and the massive 2004 hit American Idiot. This year, the 2000 album turns 25 years old and Green Day is celebrating with an expansive anniversary reissue, which includes 49 tracks. Among them is a demo of "Castaway," which appears on streaming platforms for the first time with this release. The reissue will be available in a number of configurations, including 5LP and 4CD editions. In addition to a new remaster of the original album, bonus goodies include eight demos,…
These Are The Must-See Acts For Austin City Limits’ First Weekend
Austin City Limits (ACL) kicks off this weekend in Zilker Park just south of downtown Austin. Since its inception in 2002, ACL has hosted some of the most prominent artists in the world and has become one of the most important festivals on the American concert calendar. Over what’s shaping up to be a hot three days, the weather won’t deter the hundreds of thousands of people in town for the annual festival. Unlike other two-weekend festivals, ACL makes small but vital tweaks to its lineup, ensuring that each weekend has the same vibe but a slightly different flavor. The…
Blxst’s Questioning ‘Aye Girl’ Puts Romance On The Back Burner
Blxst puts love on the back burner with his new single, "Aye Girl." Employing a sample that brings to mind Brandy and Monica's signature collab "The Boy Is Mine," Blxst details all the moves he's making to ensure a future with a woman he isn't sure is willing to stick around to reap the benefits. "Aye girl, you the only thing real in this fake world," he croons. "Know you want me sitting still, but I can't, girl / I ain't sinning, I been in and out the bank, girl / I'm hoping God go to work when you pray,…
Coi Leray Shows Off Her Baby In Her ‘Act Like You Know’ Video With Shoreline Mafia
Coi Leray might be a product of New Jersey, but as it turns out, her flow is perfect for LA ratchet party rap. Her new song, "Act Like You Know" with Shoreline Mafia, proves as much, pairing her clipped growl with a sparse beat sure to get the functions turnt up. Naturally, that means she has great chemistry with OhGeesy and Fenix Flexin, who come through with their own braggartly verses. In the video, Coi gives fans their first glimpse of her daughter Miyoco, who she cares into the frame to begin the clip. However, the rest of the video…
Mariah The Scientist’s ‘Is It A Crime’ Video With Kali Uchis Is A Riveting Courtroom Drama
Mariah The Scientist imagines the fight for love as a courtroom battle in the video for her Hearts Sold Separately single, "Is It A Crime" featuring Kali Uchis. The video also stars Atlanta rapper Karrahbooo, another artist who was recently at the center of some drama related to one of her colleagues, as the defendant in the case. Mariah and Kali are her lawyers, arguing passionately on her behalf. The clip opens with some subtle social commentary, as the ladies watch a news story about a "War On Love," something it seems many of us can relate to these days.…
Myke Towers Links With Kris R And Alemán For The Fiery New Single ‘K Hubo Ps Mor’
Since last summer, Myke Towers has released three albums. The Puerto Rican rapper/singer started the run with La Pantera Negra in August 2024, followed that with Lyke Miike that December, and this past July, he dropped his latest project, Island Boyz. He also popped up on the stacked F1 movie soundtrack. Now the relentless Towers is back with even more new music: Last night (October 2), he shared "K Hubo Ps Mor," a collaboration with Colombian artist Kris R and Mexican rapper Alemán. The song sees the artists telling stories of love and their ties to the streets. In a…
Sabrina Carpenter Helps Taylor Swift Close Out ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ With A Feature On The Title Track
When Taylor Swift shared the tracklist for her album The Life Of A Showgirl in August, Sabrina Carpenter said she was "freaking out" due to her feature on the album-closing title track. Well, now it's fans who are freaking out, as the album is out today (October 3). On the title track, Swift and Carpenter sing of a character named "Kitty," who warns that her life as a showgirl isn't all glamorous. Meanwhile, Swift recently explained that the 12 songs that are on the tracklist are all that will be on the album, saying, “With Tortured Poets Department, I was…
Fred Again.. Pairs Up With Amyl And The Sniffers For A New ‘USB’ Song, ‘You’re A Star’
Fred Again.. recently announced a new era of his ever-evolving USB album, revealing he has ten new songs on the way. Today (October 3), we got the first of them, a collaboration with Amyl And The Sniffers called "You're A Star." The track remixes the band's "Big Dreams." Fred and singer Amy Taylor debuted the song during a show in August. Fred previously shared a clip from the performance and captioned it, "this is footage of me witnessing the degree of icon that amyl is. she’s playing Leeds today so joined us in Sheffield last night. yesterday was the first…
Indiecast Previews The Biggest Release For 2025’s Q4
Steven and Ian begin with an extended Cinema-cast about one of the biggest movies of the year, One Battle After Another, as well as an anticipated release coming later this month, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Then they do their fantasy draft for the year's Q4, and propose a rule change to the draft. Also, did Steven make a huge mistake? We'll see! After that, they use a new Richard Ashcroft album as an excuse to talk about a band they both love, The Verve, and where they land in the hierarchy of '90s Britpop. Finally, they do a "yay…