James Blake has been staying quite busy in the last few months. Not only did the singer host a handful of livestreams at the onset of the lockdown, but Blake has worked with a bevvy of artists on a recent releases. The singer collaborated with Flatbush Zombies on their upcoming full-length and hit the studio with Slowthai for an energetic single. Blake has now revealed he has a new project, and fans won’t have to wait long before hearing it.

On Tuesday, Blake took to Twitter to share that his EP Before drops on Wednesday. While the announcement comes as a surprise, Blake did previously tease the project with a snippet of him working on the EP in the studio.

In order to celebrate the unexpected release, Blake will take over Boiler Room TV’s livestream for a listening party. Blake’s Boiler Room appearance marks his first time on the series in seven years, so he’s sure to impress.

According to press materials, Blake’s EP credits a handful of contributors. Mount Kimbie, who Blake also worked with for the recent Slowthai single, will apparently appear on the project as well as his girlfriend Jameela Jamil. While it’s not yet clear of Jamil offered vocals on the project, she did help with production and arrangement throughout the EP.

Check out Blake’s Before cover art and tracklist below.

1. “I Keep Calling”
2. “Before”
3. “Do You Ever?”
4. “Summer Of Now”

Before is out 10/14 via Polydor. Pre-order it here.

Source: https://uproxx.com/indie/jakes-blake-ep-before/

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European soccer is in the midst of its international break as national squads face off in the UEFA Nations League, and for Portugal that means leaning heavily on star Cristiano Ronaldo. However, this Wednesday when they host Sweden they will be without the services of their star as he isolates after testing positive for COVID-19, the Portuguese national team announced on Tuesday (via ESPN).

No other players have tested positive, but Ronaldo played in Sunday’s scoreless draw with France and against Spain last week, posting a picture on Monday of he and the entire Portugal team having a meal together.

Ronaldo won’t just be absent from Portugal’s action on Wednesday, but as he continues to isolate it seems likely that he misses Juventus’ first games back from the international break, including possibly the first Champions League game against Dynamo Kiev. The Juventus team had been quarantined prior to the break at a hotel in Turin after two staffers tested positive, but Ronaldo left early to join the Portuguese squad.

Given the more stringent protocols in place in Italy, a country that had one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks earlier this year, he will have to not only meet those protocols but also deal with potential punishment for leaving quarantine early to go to Portugal.

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Living alone for the first time ever is totally exciting. It’s also totally a learning experience. There’s a lot to figure out, like how to cook, clean, pay your bills on time, and so on! Some of those early lessons can be pretty humbling, too. That much is true for one 20-year-old who was living on his own for the first time when he learned that he was using his oven completely (and hilariously) wrong.

Luckily, thanks to his cousin tweeting about it, we all get to enjoy the rookie mistake. The tweet, a screenshot of the hilarious conversation between Henpecked Hal and his 20-year-old cousin, has since gone viral. And it’s not hard to see why.

It started off when the young man asked his cousin how often his oven should be cleaned. While at first, the conversation seemed normal enough, it got interesting real quick. Hal answered that he “pretty much never” cleans his oven, and that definitely confused his cuz.

“Seriously? I’m cleaning it every time. Its not worth it,” he wrote back.

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After the lockdown was put in place, the competition series Verzuz offered some much-needed entertainment and only continues to grow in popularity. September’s Verzuz saw legends Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle competing to an audience of over 3.7 million. Since each battle is announced with little warning, many musicians have challenged one another to put their discography side-by-side. Now, Swae Lee is talking the possibility of tapping his brother for a Rae Sremmurd Verzuz battle against Migos.

Swae recently sat down in an interview with Power 106 to chat about his upcoming album. The conversation eventually turned to Verzuz, and the interviewer asked if Swae was willing to battle it out against Migos.

“All I’m gonna say is we got a nice catalog,” he said, seemingly confirming his interest. “It’s gonna be hard. We got some classics. I got some classics. SremmLife got some classics. You know what I’m sayin’? The numbers don’t lie. That would be good because they got some hits, we got some hits. That’d be fun. […] They’d have to cut us all a nice little [check]. That’s gonna be action-packed. You know we gonna turn up.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Swae talked about his recent single, “Dance Like No One’s Watching.” “It was just so relevant. ‘Dance Like No One’s Watching,’ it was really a play on words. No one’s supposed to be watching because we’re supposed to be in the house. I think nobody really catch that.”

Watch Swae’s full interview on Power 106 above.

Source: https://uproxx.com/music/swae-lee-migos-rae-sremmurd-verzuz-battle/

If you’re unhappy with your current situation, you’re allowed to remove yourself from it. You’re allowed to make changes to your universe. You’re allowed to do things differently than you have in the past.

You don’t have to continue walking down the same path you’ve been stuck on your entire life. You’re allowed to go off route at any point in time.

You don’t want to stay in the wrong relationship because of your history. Because you’ve already dedicated so much time to this person. Because you’ve grown used to having them in your world.

The same goes for your career, your friendships, your hobbies. You don’t want to continue doing something, simply because it’s the way you’ve always done things. You don’t have to stick to tradition. You can do whatever the hell you want, whatever makes you happiest.

Even though you might feel like you’ve already committed to a career or a home or a person — you don’t have any obligation to stay. If you’re feeling unfulfilled or unhappy or unmotivated, then you’re allowed to rethink things. You’re allowed to change your life at any point in time.

Remember, you’re not going to be the same person forever. Your thoughts and opinions and desires aren’t necessarily going to remain the same over the years. You’re going to grow. You’re going to learn more about yourself. You’re going to have realizations that change the course of your life — and there’s nothing wrong with that.

There’s nothing wrong with changing your mind, with deciding what you thought would make you happy isn’t actually working out after all.

You don’t have to remain where you’re comfortable. You don’t have to settle for what you already have because it would be greedy to ask for more. You’re allowed to make a change, even though the thought is scary. Even though it means taking a risk. Even though it means you might end up with some regrets.

It’s always best to follow your heart, your gut, your soul. Even though it might be stressful to make a change, even though it might mean saying goodbye to certain places and people, you’re going to get through this. You’re going to come out stronger. You’re going to be thankful you chose to do the right thing for yourself over the easy thing.

Remember, figuring out what you really want is hard work. It can take some time, some patience, and some deep introspection. However, when you’re lucky enough to realize you’ve been heading in the wrong direction, you’re allowed to make a change. You’re allowed to walk away from everything you’ve built to create something better.

Even though it’s so much easier to remain in place, to pretend everything is fine, to keep doing what you’ve always been doing, it’s never too late to change your life. It’s never too late to take action. It’s never too late to do whatever you’ve been daydreaming about doing with your life.

You’re allowed to make changes whenever you want. So make them.

Source: https://thoughtcatalog.com/holly-riordan/2020/10/its-not-too-late-to-change-your-life/

When it comes to huge action set pieces, The Boys outdid itself in Season 2 with an epic sea battle between the ragtag team and Chace Crawford’s The Deep. Although, it’s not so much a fight as a gruesome shipwreck that ends with a boat being rammed into the belly of a whale, covering everyone and everything in piles of aquatic blood and guts. While the opening moments of the gory showdown are heavily CGI, the ensuing carnage — including the massive whale carcass — was all practical effects. The Boys VFX guru Stephan Spzak-Fleet recently sat down with Comic Book to break down the logistics of creating the memorable scene and the massive amount of fake blood it required.

“I think they were telling me they had like 150 buckets of blood or gallons of blood for the whale sequence or something like that,” Spzak-Fleet said. Despite featuring all manners of crazy moments, The Boys producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were big on making sure the look of it felt “grounded” even while depicting pure insanity. That pushed Spzak-Fleet and his team to find just the right mix of practical and digital effects, and it shows in the final product:

With the whale, we had a lot of practical blood, and then as Eric has said on social media and stuff and in other interviews, they built this giant whale set that we didn’t have to do very much work to. We added a little bit of wetness to it here and there, but it was real. We had a real set and I’m telling you when you’re an actor or crew member or anybody and you go up and you see this real exploded whale set, it’s different, man. It connects with you in a different way than if I would have just put up a green tennis ball, so it was still the right way to go. It’s another reason why I love working on the show is we get to work with people and do things like that in that kind of way. It’s just so cool.

The Boys Season Two is available to stream on Amazon Prime.

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Source: https://uproxx.com/tv/the-boys-whale-scene-gallons-of-blood/

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