The BMF title isn’t an actual championship, however Max Holloway did the gimmick proud on Saturday night time with an explosive last-second knockout of Justin Gaethje at UFC 300 in Las Vegas.
Holloway (26-7), a former featherweight champion competing at light-weight on this bout, was in management from the beginning, with quicker palms and elusive footwork that made it troublesome for Gaethje (25-5) to search out him. For Gaethje, the defending BMF belt holder, the combat turned more and more troublesome after Holloway related with a spinning again kick to the face proper earlier than the horn to finish Spherical 2. The kick busted up Gaethje’s nostril, and his face was a bloody mess the remainder of the way in which.
Gaethje did ground Holloway with a proper hand late in Spherical 4, though UFC Stats didn’t credit score him with handing Holloway the primary knockdown of his profession. The punch turned the tide briefly, however Holloway retook management within the remaining spherical. As the ultimate seconds ticked away, when all Holloway needed to do was keep away from a late knockout, he as a substitute walked to the middle of the Octagon with 10 seconds to go and motioned for Gaethje to return commerce punches with him.
The audacious invitation received the group roaring and the 2 males began slinging large punches at one another. Proper earlier than the horn was to sound, Holloway related with a proper hand that despatched Gaethje face-first to the canvas. Referee Marc Goddard waved off the combat as a knockout at 4:59.
It was one of many best “wow!” moments in UFC historical past.
“I am him! I am him, guys!” Holloway shouted into the microphone throughout his interview within the cage afterward. Then he pointed towards present featherweight champ Ilia Topuria, who was cageside. “There’s ‘El Matador.’ He is working away from the bull!”
Holloway additionally known as out light-weight champ Islam Makhachev.
After this efficiency, something is feasible.
“That is why Max Holloway is beloved,” UFC president Dana White mentioned at his postfight information convention. “He is received the combat gained and in there with probably the most harmful fighters within the enterprise. That is like film s—. It is the combat of the yr. If one thing beats that as combat of the yr, holy s—.”
This was the primary time within the brief historical past of the “Baddest Motherf—er” title {that a} fighter was defending the belt, and in addition the primary time that an actual UFC champ was concerned. Gaethje is a former World Sequence of Preventing champ, UFC interim belt holder and two-time challenger for the actual belt. Holloway is a former UFC featherweight champion.
The BMF idea started in 2019 with a bout between two fighters with important avenue cred, Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz. Masvidal gained by TKO, however after that his solely BMF involvement was in wrapping the belt across the waist of Gaethje after he knocked out Dustin Poirier final July within the second BMF combat.
That might have made Saturday’s combat a title protection for Gaethje if solely the BMF gimmick operated underneath actual championship guidelines. However who is aware of whether or not Holloway shall be a part of the following BMF bout. He is perhaps busy competing for a belt which means one thing extra tangible.
Arman Tsarukyan’s path to a light-weight title shot and a rematch with champion Islam Makhachev seems extremely shut to finish.
Regardless of a harmful D’Arce choke try within the closing seconds of Spherical 3, Tsarukyan was capable of survive till the ultimate horn to barely outpoint former champion Charles Oliveira by way of cut up resolution on Saturday in a featured 155-pound bout at UFC 300 inside T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
Tsarukyan (35-9) relied on well timed takedowns and a affected person offensive assault to maneuver one step nearer towards avenging a aggressive resolution loss to Makhachev in his UFC debut again in 2019. The Armenian-Russian, who was born in Georgia, took residence a pair of 29-28 scores whereas the third decide scored it the identical for Oliveira. CBS Sports activities additionally scored the bout 29-28 for Tsarukyan.
“It was 5 years in the past in my UFC debut on quick discover that I gave Makhachev his hardest battle to this point,” Tsarukyan stated. “I will win if he simply provides me that chance, that is it.”
Whether or not or not Tsarukyan will get the following shot at Makhachev might depend on timing as veteran Dustin Poirier is recent off of a breakthrough stoppage win over Benoit Sant-Denis. The subsequent light-weight title challenger might additionally come from the winner of Saturay’s BMF title bout between Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway.
Both manner, Tsarukyan placed on a efficiency worthy of title consideration as he broke free from a deep guillotine try in Spherical 1 towards Oliveira, who holds the UFC document for each submission and stoppage victories.
Much more importantly, Tsarukyan by no means misplaced his poise or gameplan throughout the pure chaos that Oliveira (34-10, 1 NC) brings to just about each battle. Tsarukyan labored a key takedown in Spherical 2 and went on to chop Oliveira’s face with flush elbows.
“Thanks a lot to Oliveira. He is likely one of the good guys in our division who gave me this chance,” Tsarukyan stated. “I do not know why one decide gave it to him but it surely’s OK. It does not matter as a result of I received and I need to battle for the title subsequent. I will be the youngest champion within the 155-pound division.”
With the battle seemingly up for grabs coming into the ultimate spherical, Tsarukyan secured a late takedown in Spherical 3 and retained management till a late Oliveira reversal produced a threatening choke within the remaining seconds.
“I believed it was going to be all judges going to offer it to me however it’s what it’s,” Tsarukyan stated. “I acquired a win simply by taking on the end and Charles is so robust that I’ve to work on my abilities and are available again a lot stronger.”
Tsarukyan improved to 9-1 since his loss to Makhachev, which features a disputed resolution defeat to Mateusz Gamrot in 2022. Oliveira, 34, suffered his first defeat since being submitted by Makhachev of their vacant title bout two years in the past.
SYDNEY — Police recognized Sunday the assailant who stabbed and killed six individuals at a busy Sydney procuring heart earlier than a police officer fatally shot him.
New South Wales Police mentioned that Joel Cauchi, 40, was liable for the Saturday afternoon assault on the Westfield Purchasing Centre in Bondi Junction, within the metropolis’s jap suburbs and never removed from the world-famous Bondi Seaside.
NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke informed reporters at a media convention on Sunday that Cauchi suffered from but unspecified psychological well being points and police investigators weren’t treating the assault as terrorism-related.
“We’re persevering with to work by way of the profiling of the offender however very clearly to us at this stage, it will seem that that is associated to the psychological well being of the person concerned,” Cooke mentioned.
“There may be nonetheless, thus far… no info now we have obtained, no proof now we have recovered, no intelligence that now we have gathered that might recommend that this was pushed by any explicit motivation — ideology or in any other case,” he added.
The assault on the shopping center, one of many nation’s busiest and which was a hub of exercise on a very hot fall afternoon, started round 3:10 p.m. and police have been swiftly known as.
Six individuals — 5 girls and one man, aged between 20 and 55 — have been killed within the assault. One other 12 have been injured and stay in hospital, together with a 9-month-old little one whose mom was killed within the assault.
The male sufferer was a safety guard on the procuring heart and was later recognized as 30-year-old Faraz Tahir from Pakistan.
In line with a written assertion Sunday from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Group of Australia, Faraz had been in Australia for a lower than a yr and was a “cherished member of our neighborhood.”
Video footage taken by a witness confirmed many individuals fleeing as a knife-wielding Cauchi ran erratically by way of the shopping center and lunging at individuals.
“Once I took my footage it, was about 15 seconds perhaps earlier than he was shot by the police officer and he’d already killed numerous individuals at that time however we didn’t know and we had no concept what was happening,” mentioned Rohan Anderson, who had entered the procuring heart simply moments earlier than the assault. “We simply noticed an individual on the extent beneath us, with a knife, operating round and also you simply sit in disbelief that that is occurring in Australia, in Bondi,” he mentioned.
Different footage confirmed a person confronting the attacker on an escalator within the procuring heart by holding what seemed to be a metallic pole.
Inspector Amy Scott, who was the primary emergency responder on the scene, shot and killed Cauchi.
Chatting with reporters on Sunday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned the officer was “actually a hero” whose actions had saved many extra lives.
“The great inspector who bumped into hazard by herself and eliminated the menace that was there to others, with out interested by the dangers to herself,” he mentioned.
“We additionally see the footage of peculiar Australians placing themselves in hurt’s approach in an effort to assist their fellow residents. That bravery was fairly extraordinary that we noticed yesterday,” he added.
In a written assertion later Sunday, Cauchi’s household mentioned they have been devastated by Saturday’s occasions and so they had “no problem” with Scott taking pictures their son, saying “she was solely doing her job to guard others”.
“Joel’s actions have been actually horrific, and we’re nonetheless attempting to grasp what has occurred,” the assertion learn. “He has battled with psychological well being points since he was a young person.”
All through Sunday, individuals positioned numerous floral tributes for the victims outdoors the now-shuttered procuring heart. Police say it can stay an energetic crime scene for days.
Drake’s response monitor to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake and J. Cole-dragging verse in Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” from their album We Don’t Belief You, has appeared to have leaked. It has not been confirmed by Drake. The music, titled “Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50),” was first leaked in just a few totally different iterations earlier within the day on Saturday, April 13. The leak initially sparked followers to debate on whether or not it might have been AI-generated earlier than it was considerably confirmed as genuine later within the day.
The monitor seemed to be teased by RapCaviar and Spotify with a “Hip-Hop is a aggressive sport” tagline, implying the official monitor might come out quickly. A rep for Drake didn’t instantly reply to Rolling Stone‘s request for touch upon the validity of the music that has leaked.
On the acerbic new leak, it seems Drake takes pictures at Lamar’s peak, rapping, “You received’t by no means take no chain off of us/How the fuck you been steppin’ with a dimension 7 mens on?” Towards the top of the monitor, he additionally refers to him as a “midget.”
He then goes after Lamar for his pop collaborations: “Maroon 5 want a verse you higher make it witty/You solely want a verse for the Swiftie/High say drop and provides ‘em 50.”
Going toe-to-toe with Lamar’s verse that “it’s simply huge me” with regards to hip-hop’s huge three, Drake raps: “Pipsqueak, pipe down, you ain’t in no huge three/SZA received you wiped down/Travis received you wiped down, Savage received you wiped down.”
It additionally seems on the leak that Drake takes goal at others past Lamar, together with his “Like That” friends, Future and Metro Boomin. Drake raps: “I can by no means be no person Quantity One fan/You’re first Quantity One I needed to put in your hand” — an obvious diss on Future’s “You a nigga Quantity One fan, canine” from “We Don’t Belief You.” In the meantime, Drake calls out Metro by identify: “Metro, shut yo ho ass up and make some drums.”
Later, he additionally seems to take pictures at Rick Ross and the Weeknd, each of whom collaborate on We Don’t Belief You. Ross appeared to drop his own diss track towards Drake earlier than his monitor was formally out.
On Ross’ “Champagne Moments,” the rapper alleges that Drake received a nostril job, an accusation that even had Drake’s mother texting her son for affirmation, as Drake shared on social media. Drake additionally warned of a reprisal in opposition to Ross, “Don’t fear we’ll deal with it.”
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J. Cole dropped his personal Lamar diss monitor, “7 Minute Drill,” which he later stated he regretted throughout a speech from the stage at his Dreamville competition. Regardless of the entire drama, Cole seems on the second installment of Future and Metro Boomin’s joint album sequence, We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You, along with his music “Crimson Leather-based.”
This story was up to date on Sunday at 11:15 am EST with Drake’s response to Rick Ross’ diss monitor.
After Kendrick Lamar aimed toward Drake and J. Cole on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” Drake has apparently fired again — though there’s been no official affirmation — with a diss observe that surfaced on social media on Saturday (April 13).
Early within the day, a four-minute “leaked” track attributed to Drake hit social media, with some doubting its authenticity and speculating that it was an A.I.-created report. The unique model gave the impression of an unmixed demo over an interpolation of Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s “Get Cash,” whereas a high-quality model with a distinct beat emerged within the afternoon. To make issues extra opaque, Energy 105 claimed that the diss observe was official and debuted the official paintings exhibiting Lamar doing push ups, although Drake’s workforce didn’t instantly verify the observe’s legitimacy when contacted by Selection.
After a protracted day of web chatter, Drake seemingly confirmed the observe’s legitimacy, posting a photograph to Instagram of Uma Thurman because the Bride in “Kill Invoice,” wielding a samurai sword whereas surrounded by a gaggle of attackers. Not solely Energy 105 however its guardian firm iHeartRadio — the nation’s largest radio community — have posted the track, which additionally helps its authenticity.
Drake’s track, apparently titled “Push Ups,” sees the rapper firing photographs in all instructions. He after all goes at Lamar straight out of the gate with a couple of jabs. “How the fuck you large steppin with a dimension 7 mens on?” he raps. “Your final one bricked, you actually not on shit / They make excuses for you ’trigger they hate to see me lit / Pull your contract ’trigger we gotta see the cut up / Ain’t no method you doin’ splits bitch your pants would possibly rip.”
He then continues by poking enjoyable at Lamar’s visitor appearances on mainstream pop songs, and means that Lamar’s former label, Prime Dawg Leisure, demanded half of his earnings. “Maroon 5 want a verse, you higher make it witty / Then we’d like a verse for the Swifties / Prime say drop, you higher drop and provides him 50 / Pipsqueak, pipe down / You ain’t in no large three, SZA acquired you wiped down, Travis acquired you wiped down, Savage acquired you wiped down / Like your label boy, you Interscope proper now.”
He additionally seems to be taking a shot at Cole, who dropped his Lamar response report “7 Minute Drill” after which eliminated it from streaming after regretting its launch. “Look, I may by no means be no person primary fan / Your first primary, I needed to put it in your hand,” he says, referring to “First Individual Shooter,” his collaboration with Cole included on final 12 months’s “For All of the Canine” that grew to become Cole’s first track to prime the Billboard Sizzling 100.
Afterward the track, Drake brings Cole again up, rapping, “And that fuckin’ track y’all acquired shouldn’t be beginning beef with us / This shit brewin’ in a pot, now I’m heating up / I don’t care what Cole suppose, that Dot shit was weak as fuck.”
He places longtime collaborator the Weeknd within the crosshairs as nicely, probably as a result of singer’s look on Future and Metro Boomin’s newest album “We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You.” “Declare the 6 and boys ain’t even come from it / And once you boys acquired wealthy you needed to run from it / Money blowin’ Abel bread out right here trickin’/ Shit we do for bitches, he doing for n—s.” Shortly after Drake’s track hit social media, the Weeknd posted a photograph to his Instagram story depicting him consuming popcorn and laughing.
And, for good measure, he lets off a bar at Metro Boomin, with whom he’s had a simmering beef over the previous 12 months: “Metro shut your ho ass up and make some drums, n—a.”
Rick Ross is one more rapper to catch a stray on “Push Ups” after he appeared on “We Don’t Belief You” and unfollowed Drake on Instagram. “I’d take your newest lady and cuff her like I’m Ricky,” raps Drake, referencing Ross’ historical past as a correctional officer. “Can’t consider he jumpin’ in, this n—a turnin’ fifty / Each track that made it on the chart, he acquired from Drizzy / Spend that lil’ test you bought and keep up out my enterprise / Fear ’bout no matter goin’ on with you and…” He trails off, with some speculating he’s referencing Diddy and his ongoing authorized points.
Ross was fast to move into the studio after Drake’s diss surfaced, releasing a track referred to as “Champagne Moments” the place he alleges that Drake acquired a nostril job and stole his stream from Lil Wayne.
All of this kicked into full gear on March 25, when Lamar took goal at Drake and Cole in an uncredited verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” a observe that appeared on the pair’s collaborative report “We Don’t Belief You.” Lamar’s verse was a transparent response to “First Individual Shooter,” wherein Cole referred to himself, Drake and Lamar as “the massive three”: “Love after they argue the toughest MC / Is it Ok. Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the massive three, like we began a league.”
Lamar responded in a tenacious verse that boldly drew the road between him and his fellow rappers. “Yeah stand up with me, fuck sneak dissing / ‘First Individual Shooter,’ I hope they got here with three switches,” he rapped. “Motherfuck the massive three, n—a, it’s simply large me.”
Cole later responded in his diss observe “7 Minute Drill,” included on his shock album “May Delete Later.” “I acquired a cellphone name, they are saying that any person dissing / You need some consideration, it include extensions,” he rapped. “He nonetheless doing exhibits however fell off like ‘The Simpsons’ / Your first shit was traditional, your final shit was tragic / Your second shit put n—s to sleep however they gassed it / Your third shit was large and that was your prime / I used to be trailing proper behind and I simply now hit mine.”
Cole was met with combined reactions after telling the viewers at his Dreamville Pageant that releasing the observe was the “lamest shit I did in my fuckin’ life.” Though some praised Cole for squashing the meat, many mocked the rapper for folding to Lamar so shortly. Yesterday, he eliminated the observe from streaming companies.
After Day One of Coachella noticed artists similar to Sabrina Carpenter and Younger Miko take inspiration from the Eighties, Day Two was a celebration of the Nineties because of reunion performances from No Doubt and Chic, and the 2000s with Ice Spice’s Y2K aesthetic and the presence of Vampire Weekend.
In contrast to in years previous the place the warmth took over for the overwhelming majority of the day, the chilly took over the Coachella competition grounds early within the afternoon. By Tyler, the Creator and No Doubt’s set followers had been already wrapped within the shiny, aluminum foil-looking jackets to look at the efficiency. However the chilly didn’t deter the group from having enjoyable. (Editor’s Be aware: When you’re going to Coachella, it’s going to be even colder on Sunday.)
Day Two was additionally crammed with crossover friends galore, as Olivia Rodrigo dueted with Gwen Stefani, Feid carried out with Blxst, and Charlie Wilson made the “Earfquake” with Tyler, the Creator.
Tyler, The Creator Goes Full Circle
In 2011, Tyler, The Creator tweeted that he’d be headlining Coachella within the subsequent 4 years. He estimation was off a bit, however 13 years later, that premonition got here true as Tyler delivered an electrical Saturday night time set, a full circle second for certainly one of hip hop’s most dynamic artists.
“11:40 p.m., what the fuck, Paul T,” Tyler quipped relating to his set time, referring to Coachella’s founder Paul Tollett. “These are Epstein hours I need to fall asleep.”
Beginning his set by bursting via a trailer through harness whereas he adorned a park ranger costume, Tyler’s set was humorous, intricate, and at occasions susceptible, a mirrored image of who Tyler is as an total artist. He introduced out a star-studded lineup of Infantile Gambino, A$AP Rocky and Kali Uchis, and showcased a very candy duet of “Earfquake” alongside Charlie Wilson.
“Each time I write a tune with vocals, I copy this N—a proper right here. The motherfucking biggest,” Tyler stated of Wilson.
Tyler, the Creator performs on the Coachella Stage throughout the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition at Empire Polo Membership on April 13, 2024 in Indio, California.
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Tyler didn’t tease any new music as some followers had hoped when he was introduced as a headliner in January, however he saved his present recent with a wide-ranging set representing his full musical breadth. He recalled his first Coachella with Odd Future (and alluded to briefly getting kicked out over drama with tremendous soakers) then ran via a fast hearth part of early period tracks like “Tamale,” “Yonkers” “Odd Toddlers,” and “She.”
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He completed his set simply earlier than curfew, with a parting message that was began gracious and ended absurd, simply after he jokingly egged on the group to boo Tollett for the present ending.
“To everybody who got here to see me, I recognize your consideration and watching me. I’m so excited to scrub my dick and fall asleep as a result of I’m sweating balls,” he stated. “When you do molly and you find yourself in an orgy, use safety, as a result of n—as is soiled.”
No Doubt About It
“I didn’t suppose this was actually gonna occur, did you?” Gwen Stefani yells as as she begins singing “Hold On Dancing” to start No Doubt’s Coachella set Saturday night time. The basic ska-punk group’s present was among the many very unlikely and stunning of the weekend, marking No Doubt’s first present collectively in 9 years.
The novelty didn’t appear to put on off for Stefani, who paused a number of occasions throughout the set feigning her personal shock that the group was even on stage.
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“You actually confirmed as much as Coachella, Saturday night time 2024 to see No Doubt play for the primary time in 9 years? Are you loopy?” She requested halfway via the set.
No Doubt’s reunion gave a stark reminder of simply what number of hits the band has amassed, performing songs together with “Don’t Converse,” “Simply A Woman,” “Beneath It All” and “Hey Child.” In fact probably the most viral second of the present got here once they introduced up Olivia Rodrigo to assist carry out “Bathwater.”
“Come right here my little vampire,” Stefani stated, hugging Rodrigo as she left the stage.
It’s All a Blur
The one-time Coachella headlining britpop group made their return to the desert on Saturday, marking the band’s first North American live performance (other than a Coachella warmup gig final week) in 9 years.
Albarn himself has been a Coachella common for the previous few years, becoming a member of Billie Eilish as a shock visitor throughout her headlining set and taking part in final 12 months for the Gorillaz’ present previous to the Blur gig now.
Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn of Blur carry out on the Coachella Stage throughout the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition at Empire Polo Membership on April 13, 2024 in Indio, California.
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Of their hour-long set on the principle stage earlier than No Doubt’s reunion present, the group began with “St. Charles Sq.,” and likewise performed “Goodbye Albert” “Ladies & Boys” and “Loss of life of a Occasion” together with their ubiquitous “Track 2.”
“This tune has been so good to us. I did get proven a TikTok of it being form of carried out by a vacuum cleaner,” Albarn instructed the group earlier than beginning that latter tune. “It’s humbling and provoking on the identical time.” – E.M.
Jakob Nowell Resurrects Chic
The largest query heading into Chic’s first full-length present in almost 30 years was if Jakob Nowell may successfully fill the function of his late father Bradley. After witnessing their debut at Coachella, the reply is a powerful sure.
The band took the stage after a pre-recorded video hit the screens with Jakob stating his father’s trsgic passing at 28, noting that he’s now the identical age. “I’m attempting as a lot as I can to reinvigorate the band,” Nowell stated within the video.
Within the band’s 50-minute set on the principle stage on Saturday, at occasions Nowell was a carbon copy of his father, leaping from a loss of life metal-like growl into his father’s trilling greater falsetto. “It’s a household enterprise,” Nowell stated, panting after operating via Chic’s basic “What I Acquired.”
He was witty, joking for Lana Del Rey to return on stage as they carried out “Doin’ Time,” referencing Lana masking the Chic tune throughout her headlining set Friday.
The band took the stage after a quick recording during which Nowell talks about how “he’s “attempting as a lot as I can to reinvigorate the model.” – E.M.
Jakob Nowell of Chic performs throughout the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition on the Empire Polo Membership in Indio, California, on April 13, 2024.
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Raye Is All the time Actual
Solely Raye may carry a full orchestra — strings, woodwinds, backup singers and all — to the center of the desert and make it work.
After a triumphant efficiency on Saturday Night time Dwell final week, the singer took at Coachella’s Mojave tent wearing what she described as “workplace stylish” to carry out standout songs from My twenty first Century Blues.
“We acquired 45 minutes and we’re gonna provide the greatest that we’ve acquired,” Raye instructed the group as she carried out songs similar to “The Thrill Is Gone” and “Mary Jane” as she gave a schpiel about dependancy. Raye wasn’t afraid to take a darkish flip as she carried out “Ice Cream Man” and instructed the group about her expertise with sexual assault and rape. “It’s a horrible phrase to say out loud,” she stated earlier than combating again tears. “It’s not a straightforward tune for me to do.”
Issues acquired a bit extra upbeat as she closed her set singing her voice to the EDM Cassö collab “Prada,” and naturally, “Escapism,” her breakthrough. Raye can SANG. – T.M.
Santa Fe Klan reps México on Day Two
Y’all ever seen a rapper play the accordion? Santa Fe Klan instructed Rolling Stone forward of his efficiency that he was able to characterize Mexico and its hip-hop scene on the largest Coachella stage. What he didn’t tease? The cumbia bangers he’d drop throughout his set.
Santa Fe Klan switched effortlessly between fiery rap verses with cumbias that despatched tfhe crowd dancing.“I wish to depart the group with a Mexican celebration in order that they depart my set wanting extra Mexico,” Santa instructed Rolling Stone. “Numerous inexperienced, white, and crimson confetti shall be flying.”
The singer even introduced on some particular friends: Nanpa Básico for “Te Iré a Buscar” and Tornillo for “Un Día Todo Se Termina.” – T.M.
Vampire Weekend Goes Nation (And Performs Cornhole With Paris Hilton)
Vampire Weekend introduced Stagecoach to the Empire Polo Membership two weeks early, devoting the ultimate section of their shock afternoon set on Saturday to an prolonged (and deeply entertaining) nation shuffle medley of “Married in a Gold Rush,” “All The Gold in California,” “Sin Metropolis” “Cumberland Blues” and “Possum.”
“The reality is once I acquired the textual content [to play the festival], I used to be twisted off that ranch water, I wasn’t positive if it was Coachella or Stagecoach,” Ezra Koenig joked because the band began to jam.
The band isn’t above some nonsense, enlisting Paris Hilton and an Abraham Lincoln impersonator to video games of Cornhole with idiot’s gold for the group on the road. Quickly after, the band was throwing gold chocolate bars into the group. Nation shuffle apart, the band performed a couple of songs from their just-released album Solely God Was Above Us and older favorites like “A-Punk,” “This Life,” “Unbelievers” and “Vacation.”
“It’s an honor to play for you on this late afternoon solar,” Koenig stated. “Actually per week in the past you didn’t know we had been going to be right here, we didn’t both. Life’s humorous like that.”
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend performs on the Out of doors stage throughout the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition on the Empire Polo Membership in Indio, California, on April 13, 2024.
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Blxst Brings Out Feid and All of the R&B
“There aren’t that many artists like him on the lineup,” stated Tinashe within the crowd as he watched Blxst take the Out of doors Theatre stage.
The R&B star took the stage from inside a black basic automotive, sporting a inexperienced snapback and bedazzled jorts as an eagle mascot hyped the group onstage and within the crowd. The musician carried out tracks similar to “Gang Slide” and “Peru” and his verse in Kendrick Lamar’s “Die Arduous” as the group swayed and sang again the tracks’ lyrics.
“Not gonna lie my voice is out like a mothafucker however we pushing via,” he stated. (The gang positively couldn’t inform.)
Blxst stunned the group with an look from Colombian reggaeton star Feid for a efficiency of their current collaboration, “Rewind.” Feid took the stage draped in Karol G’s new collaborative jersey with Spotify and Barcelona. We love a supportive boyfriend. – T.M.
Ice Spice performs on the Sahara Stage on the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Competition – Weekend 1 – Day 2 at Empire Polo Membership on April 13, 2024 in Indio, California.
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All Ice Spice wanted was to shake a lil (or numerous) ass to get an ovation from the packed-to-the-brim Sahara stage Saturday night time.
Spice commanded the stage adorned with inflatable subway automobiles at Fordham Highway station and an enormous Maggie Simpson-style model of Ice Spice hovering over the group. “Baddies say hello!” Ice requested the group after performing “Munch.”
The gang additionally went wild after she performed a few of her greatest collabs in a row, beginning with “Karma” as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce watched from the viewers. After turning the stage pink for “Barbie World,” as she shouted out Nicki Minaj, she debuted a catchy new tune that had the group roaring. Y2K can’t come any sooner. – T.M.
Jonny Pierce Is a Gem
Wearing a bedazzled leather-based jacket, Jonny Pierce danced freely onstage as he carried out among the Drums’ greatest songs like “Let’s Go Surfin,” “I Don’t Know Tips on how to Love,” and “Cash” as visuals of wrestlers and gymnasts adorned the onstage screens.
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Pierce additionally carried out a pair of songs — “I Need It All” and “Apparent” from his current album Jonny. He instructed Rolling Stone final October that possibly that album wasn’t one “to be shared with the plenty,” however the response from the dancing and frolicking crowd at his set stated in any other case.
“Perhaps that is an album that isn’t to be shared with the plenty or large teams of individuals can sit down and simply take heed to it collectively. Perhaps this new album, Jonny, is for the headphones and for closing your door and placing on the vinyl, and simply being alone with it,” he says. “That truly looks like a fantastic technique to expertise this album.”
One 12 months after his onetime Odd Future collaborator Frank Ocean headlined the Coachella predominant stage on weekend one (to normal bafflement from the general public), Tyler, the Creator took a crack on the pageant’s Saturday headlining slot with a fierce, visually arresting efficiency of a few of his best-loved tracks.
All through the rapper’s roughly 80-minute efficiency, he held the assembled crowd within the palm of his hand because of a potent mixture of down-to-earth actual discuss, a liberal dousing of (sometimes racy) humor, passionate efficiency depth, hard-charging rap stream, eye-catching visuals and a bevy of particular shock friends.
For the efficiency, which rivaled Lana Del Rey‘s Friday set by way of theatricality, the primary stage was remodeled right into a desert vista, centered by a broken-down trailer flanked by two rocky hillsides — one topped by a inexperienced tent and adjoining signal that sarcastically learn, “NO CAMPING.” The projection behind the bodily set was a factor of ever-changing magnificence, internet hosting such arresting photographs as a desert rainstorm, an enormous silvery moon in opposition to a purple sky, a fiery hellscape and a sci-fi tableau full with flying saucer.
“Thanks for staying. I do know you all are drained [after] being right here all day, so thanks for staying to look at my drained ass up right here,” stated Tyler close to the start of his set. However the amped-up crowd was something however drained, energized by the rapper’s impassioned renditions of songs like “See You Once more,” “EARFQUAKE,” “NEW MAGIC WAND,” “WUSYANAME” and “RUNNING OUT OF TIME.”
The impassioned efficiency was marked by pyrotechnics in each the literal and figurative sense, as sparks flew not solely from the literal stage however between Tyler and his fiercely loyal followers, a lot of whom may very well be heard belting out the brainy rapper’s usually complicated lyrics proper together with him.
Take a look at all of the highlights from Tyler’s set beneath.
An Explosive Entrance
Following an introductory video that confirmed Tyler sporting a park ranger uniform and explaining how he’d given up his life as a music star to reside inside a camper, the rapper materialized onstage in a little bit of stage magic. In an explosion of spark and smoke, Tyler (sporting a harness) “crashed by way of” a wall of the trailer parked in its middle and flew by way of the air earlier than touchdown on stage, all whereas decked out in the identical ranger uniform seen within the video. It was an attention-grabbing entrance that properly set the barometer for the rest of his scorching, no-holds-barred efficiency.
Infantile Gambino Hits the Stage
The “This Is America” singer (a.ok.a. Donald Glover) grew to become the evening’s first particular visitor when he got here out to duet with Tyler on “Operating Out of Time,” a observe off the latter’s 2019 album IGOR. At one level, the 2 dipped and swayed round each other as they harmonized, with Tyler later explaining, “I used to hate that n—a. Critically. I don’t know why, I gotta go to remedy to determine it out.” He added, “however this n—a put this music referred to as ‘Urn’ out…I used to be at battle with myself, like…how may a n—a I hate a lot make one thing so good?” Clearly, that exact beef has been squashed.
About That Jerrod Carmichael Clip…
Early within the set, Tyler made some extent of addressing the elephant within the room: A newsmaking phase from HBO’s Jerrod Carmichael Actuality Present through which Carmichael revealed his unrequited crush on the rapper earlier than capturing a dialog between the 2 associates for the present to debate the second when Tyler rejected him. “I’m guessing y’all received TikTok and possibly seen my homie attempt to f— me on digital camera,” Tyler advised the gang. “I regarded horrible. I advised the n—a no and he stated, ‘What about if we filmed it?’ Horrible.”
A$AP Rocky Comes Out to Play
The rapper joined Tyler for the efficiency of two tracks — “Potato Salad” and “Who Dat Boy” — after which Tyler admitted that after upon a time, like Glover, he additionally thought-about A$AP a nemesis: “I used to hate that n—a too…we thought we had beef,” he started. However, he went on to clarify, “it was the n—as round us” that induced the problem — “after which me and Rock was like, we received love and now we associates.”
A Nod to How Far He is Come
In a single amongst many moments of candor throughout Saturday’s set, Tyler reminisced about his first efficiency at Coachella in 2011, as a part of the Odd Future collective. “It was horrible,” he described of the set — after which he and his bandmates have been famously booted from the pageant by safety for capturing Tremendous Soakers at different friends. Clearly, Coachella has forgiven him: Along with Saturday’s efficiency, Tyler was additionally invited again as a performer in 2015 and 2018.
Charlie Wilson Helps Begin a Muted ‘Earfquake’
The night’s least-known particular visitor, 71-year-old singer-songwriter Charlie Wilson, additionally simply so occurs to be one in every of its most lauded, with 13 complete Grammy nominations and a BET Lifetime Achievement Award, amongst different honors. For his cameo, Wilson joined Tyler on the piano (perched atop one of many on-set “mountains”) for a charmingly low-key model of “Earfquake.” Even in his transient look, the music veteran’s onstage chemistry along with his a lot youthful duet accomplice was palpable.
Kali Uchis Makes a Temporary Cameo
The rising singer emerged onstage for a quick look throughout Tyler’s efficiency of “See You Once more,” a single from his 2017 album Flower Boy, launched lengthy earlier than Uchis grew to become a star in her personal proper. Whereas it was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it second, it was one other welcome present of help from Tyler’s lengthy record of trade associates and collaborators.
A Windblown Exit
After warning that he had solely 4 minutes of efficiency time left earlier than Coachella’s 1 a.m. curfew on Saturday — a bit of stories that induced the gang to erupt right into a spherical of booing (“B—- don’t boo me…boo [Coachella founder] Paul [Tollett], he put this s— collectively,” he responded) — Tyler donned a harness as soon as extra for the grand finale, a gravity-defying efficiency of “NEW MAGIC WAND” that noticed him caught in a “windstorm” (a coming tempest hinted at earlier within the set) whereas clutching desperately at some onstage boulders. In a ultimate little bit of drama, the rapper soared swiftly off stage only a minute earlier than midnight — a beautiful little bit of stagecraft and a fittingly epic finish to the cinematic set.
No Doubt reunited Saturday Evening on the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition to play their first full live performance collectively since 2015.
The band carried out their coronary heart out, and Gwen Stefani gushed to the gang a number of occasions (even saying she wished to “slap” us all so dangerous … lovingly I feel?). The Anaheim band even introduced out fellow well-known SoCal artist Olivia Rodrigo, who positively was born lengthy after No Doubt’s prime period, however who cares?
Overview:No Doubt reunites at Coachella, brings followers again to the 90s with nostalgic, energetic set
Here is the complete setlist from No Doubt’s Coachella 2024 Weekend 1 efficiency:
“Hella Good”
“Sunday Morning”
“Ex-Girlfriend”
“It’s My Life”
“Completely different Individuals”
“Hey Child”
“Complete Hate ’95”
“Bathwater” (that includes Olivia Rodrigo)
“One Step Past” (horns-only interlude, cowl of Insanity track)
When No Doubt broke by with “Only a Woman” virtually 30 years in the past, it was immediately clear that frontwoman Gwen Stefani wasn’t “simply” something. And at a main-stage reunion Saturday night time (April 13) at Coachella, Stefani proved that the band’s debut hit — and the band itself — stays as very important as ever in its third decade.
“You inform me, however I really feel like this track may very well be extra related now than it’s ever been,” Stefani stated to intro “Only a Woman,” which incorporates lyrics like “I’m only a lady, all fairly and petite/ So don’t let me have any rights.”
It’s unclear how anybody may underestimate Stefani, or womankind for that matter, after seeing the show she placed on Saturday alongside along with her band – bassist Tony Kanal, drummer Adrian Younger, guitarist Tom Dumont, trombonist/keyboardist Gabrial McNair and trumpeter/keyboardist Stephen Bradley – for the one hour and 20-minute set. She was continually working the size of the stage, or prowling the catwalk into the group, or high-kicking the air, or climbing the scaffolding — all whereas sustaining the powerhouse vocals that made No Doubt’s songs reduce by the noise within the mid-’90s and past.
Whereas they weren’t the day 2 headliner (that was Tyler, The Creator), No Doubt handled their efficiency like Saturday night time’s most important occasion, providing up a historical past lesson of the ska music that impressed their early sound by to their Rock Regular radio domination. And their affect stays evident, particularly in shock visitor Olivia Rodrigo, who had simply gushed in a Nylon cowl story final week that Stefani’s songs all really feel like they’re “ripped from the diary of the good lady .”
Beneath, discover our 5 favourite moments from No Doubt’s Coachella reunion, from Rodrigo’s cheeky cameo to the band’s heart-warming group picture.
Olivia Rodrigo Duets on One in all Her Favorites
When Olivia Rodrigo was tasked with selecting her “18 favourite songs” to rejoice her 18th birthday again in 2021, No Doubt’s “Bathwater” was amongst her picks. Quick-forward three years, and Rodrigo — sporting a cropped white tank high that learn “I [heart] ND” — popped up on the Coachella Stage for a shock duet on the Return of Saturn single, buying and selling verses and sharing the refrain with Stefani. The 2 had been playful all through the track, with Stefani saying forward of the bridge, “Olivia Rodrigo, why do the nice women, like me and also you, at all times need…”
“…the unhealthy boys!” Rodrigo completed with a theatrical flourish. Stefani even known as her fellow singer/songwriter over on the finish of the track by calling, “Come right here, my little Vampire!”
Rodrigo has had fairly a streak lately of paying homage to her heroes, from Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette to Jewel and the Breeders, and this newest cease on her appreciation tour couldn’t have been a greater match.
A Ska Historical past Lesson
No Doubt made positive to pay tribute to their ska roots all through the present, taking part in non-singles from their breakout album Tragic Kingdom like “Totally different Individuals” and taking to the B-stage for a first-time cowl of Insanity’ “One Step Past,” which saved the band busy as Stefani underwent a mid-set costume change. No Doubt has usually pointed to the late ’70s and early ’80s British ska revivalists as inspirations behind their very own early ska sound.
‘Only a Woman’ Callbacks
When Stefani dropped to the stage to do push-ups because the band performed the intro of “Only a Woman,” we couldn’t assist however consider Gwen additionally doing push-ups within the track’s 1995 music video. And when she climbed the scaffolding to provoke a call-and-response in the course of the track (first for the boys after which for the titular women), it known as to thoughts the same stunt she pulls in a video from a late ’90s live performance – solely this time, she didn’t inform the ladies to yell, “F— you, I’m a lady!”
Gwen & Tony’s ‘Don’t Converse’ Gradual Dance
Whereas not rising to the tense inter-band romantic drama of a gaggle like Fleetwood Mac, No Doubt does have its personal tangled spiderweb, due to a pre-fame, seven-year relationship between Stefani and Kanal, which famously impressed the band’s largest Pop Airplay hit: “Don’t Converse,” a 10-week No. 1 in 1996. But when there’s any query about lingering animosity, the lovable sluggish dance the previous couple shared throughout Dumont’s “Don’t Converse” guitar solo on Saturday night time certainly put that to relaxation.
A Household Picture to Finish the Night time
Picture Credit score: John Shearer/Getty Photographs for No Doubt
The No Doubt reunion was in fact an enormous deal for followers who hadn’t seen the band play collectively in virtually 10 years, but it surely was additionally an enormous deal for the group. As soon as they wrapped their set with “Spiderwebs,” the six bandmates turned their backs to the group to face the drum equipment and take a gaggle image with their epic Coachella crowd behind them. Like they are saying of their track “New,” which additionally they carried out on Saturday, “Don’t let it go away/ This sense has received to remain.”
They undoubtedly wish to immortalize this night time eternally.
No Doubt’s full Coachella setlist
Hella Good Sunday Morning Ex-Girlfriend It’s My Life Totally different Individuals Hey Child Whole Hate ‘95 Bathwater (with Olivia Rodrigo) One Step Past (Insanity cowl) Easy Sort of Life Beneath It All Glad Now? New Only a Woman Don’t Converse Spiderwebs
Conor McGregor will make his long-awaited return to the octagon towards Michael Chandler on 29 June, three years after he broke his left leg throughout a battle towards Dustin Poirier, the Final Combating Championship (UFC) president, Dana White, mentioned. The welterweight bout is scheduled to headline the UFC 303 card in Las Vegas, White mentioned after Saturday’s UFC 300 occasion.
McGregor (who has 22 wins and 6 defeats) has not fought because the clear break in his tibia resulted in a second technical knockout loss to Poirier in a row in July 2021. The damage required the previous UFC featherweight and light-weight champion to endure surgical procedure. The previous Bellator light-weight champion Chandler (23-8) additionally misplaced to his fellow American, Poirier, in his final battle in November 2022.
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The battle has been teased by the UFC for greater than a 12 months, with McGregor and Chandler teaching opposing groups of their MMA-based actuality present The Final Fighter final 12 months. McGregor introduced the identical date and opponent for his subsequent bout in a video posted on X final December, calling it the “best comeback of all time”.
“There’s all types of issues that go on behind the scenes and it’s all about timing. Chandler’s been prepared however Conor hasn’t been prepared,” White mentioned. “We talked about this in one of many press conferences not too long ago, he had a variety of obligations that he needed to take care of. What you don’t need him doing is accepting a battle when he’s received a ton of obligations and he can’t practice 100% for a battle, so right here we’re tonight.”
On the UFC 300 card, Brazil’s Alex Pereira pulled off a surprising first-round knockout victory over Jamahal Hill to retain the sunshine heavyweight title, whereas Zhang Weili beat Yan Xiaonan to retain the strawweight belt.
Alex Pereira celebrates after defeating Jamahal Hill. {Photograph}: Mark J Rebilas/USA In the present day Sports activities
Pereira waved off what a low blow from Hill earlier than touchdown a left hook that despatched the American sprawling backwards on to the canvas. He then pounced to rain down blows and drive the stoppage on the 3min 14sec mark of the primary spherical. “I informed everybody the entire time, he’s a robust man, I can’t go away from my technique, and that’s precisely what I used to be doing … I used to be gauging the gap and the timing, and every thing went completely,” Pereira mentioned in a post-fight interview within the cage.
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Hill had gained the title in January 2023, however an damage suffered taking part in basketball compelled him to vacate in July and the adorned kickboxer Pereira, a former UFC middleweight champion, took over the belt with a second-round knockout of Jiri Prochazka in November. After coming via the battle comparatively unscathed, Pereira mentioned he want to battle on the upcoming UFC card in Brazil in Could, and that he had sustained no harm towards Hill.
Within the all-Chinese language conflict within the strawweight occasion, Zhang regarded like she had nearly ended the battle within the first spherical with a rear bare choke, however her 34-year-old opponent survived till the bell, wanting unsteady as she received again to her toes. Yan had some success on her toes, however Zhang introduced the battle to the mat as usually as attainable, dominating the grappling exchanges en path to a unanimous-decision victory.
In maybe probably the most thrilling end on the cardboard, Max Holloway folded Justin Gaethje with a thunderous proper hand to win their light-weight battle by knockout with one second left on the clock after an incredible five-round battle.
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