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Weezer have used their last-minute appearance at Coachella to reveal to fans that the band are currently working on a movie.
The Los Angeles rockers were added to the Saturday (April 12) lineup of the festival’s first weekend, joining the bill following cancellations from FKA Twigs and Anitta due to “ongoing visa issues” and “unexpected personal reasons,” respectively. Ed Sheeran was also added to the festival, though he will appear on the second weekend, performing on Saturday afternoon (April 19).
Appearing just days after the wife of bassist Scott Shriner sustained non-life-threatening injuries during a bizarre run-in with Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers that ended in a dramatic shootout, the group’s 12-song set featured no material released past 2008. However, just before performing 1994’s “Undone – The Sweater Song,” frontman Rivers Cuomo revealed the band have been active in the world of film lately.
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“We’ve been busy making the Weezer movie back in LA the last couple weeks,” Cuomo told the crowd. “But when Coachella called us up, said, ‘Hey Weezer, could you guys make it out for a surprise appearance?,’ we’re like, ‘Heck yeah!’ It feels so good to be here with you guys and let out these emotions.”
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According to further information shared by fans online, members of the Weezer fan club had received correspondence alerting them that the band would be “doing a private filmed merchandise signing for a select few fans, for a TBA video.” Additionally, it was noted that “selected participants will need to sign a release and NDA prior to arriving,” with a shoot date of April 21 being mentioned.
Elsewhere, fans on X (formerly Twitter) had also shared a photo of a “Notice of Filming” that had appeared in Los Angeles for a scripted feature film. The film, which listed a title of Weezer: Security Threat, also named Watch Me Unravel LLC as the production company (which adopted its moniker from a lyric in “Undone – The Sweater Song”), and alerted those in attendance that that the three day shoot from April 7-9 would feature “simulated bullet effects,” “atmospheric smoke,” and more.
While few details have been officially released by Weezer, it makes them the third Californian band to be the focus of an off-kilter film project in recent years. While Stockton’s Pavement are set to be the focus of the genre-defying Pavements from director Alex Ross Perry, Rodeo trio Green Day are in the process of filming New Years Rev, which is inspired by the group and their years of living in a tour van.
Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s first collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels?, debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart dated April 19, marking the 22nd top 10 for John and fourth for Carlile.
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John earned his first Billboard 200 top 10 more than 54 years ago, with his self-titled album on the Jan. 30, 1971-dated chart. A living soloist last logged a longer top 10 span on the Oct. 16, 2021-dated survey, when Tony Bennett’s Love for Sale, with Lady Gaga, debuted at No. 8. It gave the then-95-year-old Bennett a 59-year top 10 stretch, dating to I Left My Heart in San Francisco in October 1962.
As for Carlile, she notched her first top 10 on the Billboard 200 in 2012 with Bear Creek, which debuted and peaked at No. 10 on the June 23, 2012-dated list.
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Who Believes in Angels? earned 40,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its opening week (April 4-10), according to Luminate. The album’s sales (36,500) were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl and five CD variants, including signed versions.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 19, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 15.
The new album also takes a bow atop both the Top Rock Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts, while also opening in the top 10 on Top Album Sales (No. 2), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 2) and Vinyl Albums (No. 3).
John and Carlile ushered in the release of the album with a flurry of media appearances, including CBS News Sunday Morning (CBS, March 30), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (April 3), Saturday Night Live (NBC, April 5) and the concert special An Evening With Elton John and Brandi Carlile (CBS and Paramount+, April 6), along with interviews with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, NPR and SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, among other outlets.
Meanwhile, the album’s title track extended John’s record for the most top 10s (43) in the history of the Adult Contemporary chart, where it rises to a new No. 9 high on the chart dated April 19.
“Nobody wants another Elton John album like the other 35 [I’ve made],” John recently told Billboard. “This one had to have energy, and it had to have a statement saying: ‘Listen, I’m nearly 78 and I’m gonna be really sounding powerful.’” Said Carlile, “I don’t think it’ll ever really catch up to how incredibly life-affirming this has been for me.”
54 Years of Top 10 Albums: John earned his first Billboard 200 top 10 a little over 54 years ago, when his self-titled album climbed 11-7 on the Jan. 30, 1971-dated chart; it peaked at No. 4 a week later (Feb. 6, 1971). Breaking down John’s 22 top 10s by decade: 13 in the 1970s, two in the 1990s, one in the 2000s, four in the 2010s and two in the 2020s. Who Believes in Angels? is John’s second album with shared artist billing to reach the top 10, following The Union, with Leon Russell, which reached No. 3 in 2010.
John continues to be among elite company of acts with at least 20 top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200, from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the new, April 19, 2025-dated chart. Here’s an updated leaderboard:
Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:38, The Rolling Stones34, Barbra Streisand33, Frank Sinatra32, The Beatles27, Elvis Presley23, Bob Dylan23, Madonna22, Elton John22, Bruce Springsteen21, Paul McCartney/Wings21, George Strait20, Prince
Notably, the Kidz Bop Kids music brand has collected 24 top 10s, in 2005-16, with its series of kid-friendly covers of hit singles. The franchise’s early albums were performed mostly by anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.
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Donald Trump’s stupid trade war and his blatant abuse of tariffs continue, showing no clear indication this madness will end.
Orange Mussolini said aht aht aht after numerous reports claiming he was gonna exempt smartphones, PCs, and chips from his sweeping tariffs.
Spotted on Eurogamer, Donald Trump has backtracked on those exemptions, saying “no one is getting off the hook” and “there was no Tariff ‘exception” on his Truth social account. This kills all hope of anyone avoiding the absurd 145 percent tariff he slapped on China.
There is also a separate tariff specifically for semiconductors coming as well.
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Chinese electrical goods would simply now be placed in “a different tariff bucket”, Trump continued, concluding that National Security Tarriff Investigations would be reviewing “the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN”.
US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has told ABC News that a separate “semiconductor tariff” was now planned – exact details of which are yet to be determined.
“We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels, we need to have these things made in America,” Lutnick said. “We can’t be reliant on Southeast Asia for all of the things that operate for us.”
Speaking to CBS News, US trade representative Jamieson Greer confirmed this semiconductor tariff meant Chinese electrical goods had therefore been given something that was “not really an exception. That’s not even the right word for it.”
“It’s not that they won’t be subject to tariffs geared at reshoring,” Greer continued. “They’ll just be under a different regime. It’s shifting from one bucket of tariffs to a different bucket of potential tariffs.”
There is no clear plan for anything this Trump administration does; there is no exact date on when the Trump administration will introduce the semiconductor tariff or how much it will be.
The Gaming Industry Has Begun Prepping For Trump’s Tariffs
The video game world has been prepping and making moves ahead and after Trump’s “Liberation Day.”
Nintendo has already delayed Nintendo Switch 2 preorders in the US indefinitely, begun stockpiling the console in the country, and shifted most of its non-Chinese output there.
Nintendo is not alone. Sony just recently announced it was raising the price of the PlayStation 5’s digital edition in the UK, mainland Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
The company said the “tough decision” was a result of “the backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates.”
This nightmare has no end in sight.
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When Kendrick Lamar surprise-dropped his GNX album, an immediate standout from the project was “Squabble Up.”
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100, at the same time as GNX debuting atop the Billboard 200 albums chart. The track became Lamar’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1 out of six total, and his third of 2024 – the most among all artists of the year. He previously led in 2024 with “Not Like Us,” for two weeks beginning in May, and “Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin, for three weeks in April.
Below, find the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar’s “Squabble Up.”
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God knowsI amReincarnated, I was stargazin’Life goes on, I need all my babies (gyah, gyah)
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Woke up lookin’ for the broccoliHigh-key, keep a horn on me, that KamasiIP, ownership, the blueprint is by meMr. Get Off, I get off at my feet(When I hear music, it makes me dance)(You got the music, now is your chance)A yee nigga couldn’t try me in the tri-stateBuddy pass, bet I get him splashed ’til he hydratedBounce out, know he spook town, eyes dilatedI got the money and the power both gyratin’
I feel good, get the fuck out my faceLook good, but she don’t got no tasteI walk in, walked out with the safeMando, let me know what the play
What the fuck? I got hits, I got bucks, I got new paper cutsI got friends, I got foes, but they all sitting ducksHit his turf and get crackin’, double back like a deluxeFifty deep, but it ain’t deep enoughFuck a plea, there he go, beat him upFallin’ from my money tree and it grow throughout the monthsSpit a loogie at the camera, speed off, yeah, it’s us
I feel good, get the fuck out my faceLook good, but she don’t got no tasteI walk in, walked out with the safeMando, let me know what the play
Squabble up, squabble upSquabble up, squabble upSquabble up (mh-mh), squabble up (mh-mh)Squabble up (mh-mh), squabble up
Hol’ up (hol’ up), where you from? (Where you from?)Bye, bitch (bye, bitch), I’m finna go dumb (finna go dumb)Sideways (sideways), bunk skunk (bunk skunk)Fever (fever), I’m on one (I’m on one)
Thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, baby rockin’ itQuid pro quo, what you want? ‘Cause I’m watchin’ itWork on the floor, let me know if you clockin’ itBrodie won’t go, but I know that he poppin’ itIt was woof tickets on sale ’til I silenced itPipe down, young, these some whole other politicsBitch with him and some bitch in him, that’s a lot of bitchDon’t hit him, he got kids with him, my apologiesGhetto child, it was Black & Milds with the SmirnoffYeehaw, we outside, whoadie ’bout to kill him offBlaps on blaps, it’s a fact, this a brick of rawTell me why the fuck you niggas rap if it’s fictional?Tell me why the fuck you niggas fed if you criminal?“Ayy, Dot, can I get a drop?” I’m like, “Nigga, nah”Ace boon coon from the Westside to SenegalIt’s a full moon, let the (ah) wolves out, I been a dog
I feel good, get the fuck out my faceLook good, but she don’t got no tasteI walked in, walked out with the safeMando, let me know what the play
Squabble up, squabble upSquabble up, squabble upSquabble up (mh-mh), squabble up (mh-mh)Squabble up (mh-mh), squabble up
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Ariana Grande’s 2024 album Eternal Sunshine returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third total week at the summit, thanks to project’s deluxe reissue, dubbed Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead.
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The project featured six new songs, including the emotion-filled “Twilight Zone.”
Below, find the lyrics to Ariana Grande’s “Twilight Zone.”
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Did I dream the whole thing?Was I just a nightmare?Different dimensionsStuck in the twilight zoneIs this a black and white scene?If so, then I’m in the gray oneHope you win for best actor‘Cause I had you completely wrong
Does she know you’re not who you say you are?‘Cause I might give her a callOr was I just not me at all?
And it’s not like I’m still not over youIt’s so strange, this I never doNot that I miss you, I don’tSometimes, I just can’t believeYou happenedIt’s not like I’d ever change a thing‘Cause I’m right here where I’m meant to beNot that I’d call you, I won’tSometimes, I just can’t believeYou happened
Were we just mistaken?Disguised our intentions?Our nest was a masquerade (masquerade)Why do I still protect you? (Mm)Pretend these songs aren’t about you (songs aren’t about you)Hope this might be the last one‘Cause I’m not foolin’ anyone (I’m not)
Does she know you’re not who you say you are?‘Cause I might give her a callOr was I just not me at all?
And it’s not like I’m still not over youIt’s so strange, this I never doNot that I miss you, I don’tSometimes, I just can’t believeYou happenedIt’s not like I’d ever change a thing (not like I’d change a thing)‘Cause I’m right here where I’m meant to be (ah)Not that I’d call you (you), I won’tSometimes, I just can’t believe (I can’t believe you)You happened
(Not) it’s not (like) like (I’m) I’m over youIt’s so strange (I don’t miss you)Not that I miss you, I don’tSometimes, I just can’t believe (can’t believe)(You) you happened
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