A few months ago, Lana Del Rey revealed that her next album would be titled Chemtrails Over The Country Club, which she said would arrive on September 5. But now that is no longer the case. In an update on Instagram, Del Rey promised the album’s lead single, “Let Me Love You Like A Woman,” is on the way but said the album will take a bit longer.
I am on the very contained set of my first music video for the title track of my album Chemtrails Over The Country Club. And I’m very excited about it. And before you even see this, you’ll hear another song called “Let Me Love You Like A Woman.” And I just want to let you know that I love the record and I love you guys and I can’t wait to see you soon. Probably in 2030. Just kidding. See you in 2029. But in the meantime the album’s coming out soon. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is coming out this month. And I know it’s been a super challenging time and I just want to let you know my prayers, my meditations are on all of us. So be safe, god bless, I love you, and I’m looking forward to finishing this up for you.
When the album arrives, it will be her follow-up to Norman F*cking Rockwell, which came out in August 2019. That album was considered by critics to be one of the best releases of the year with Del Rey. On a more recent note, Del Rey shared her audiobook project Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass back in July.
Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is out now via Simon & Schuster Audio. Get it here.
Founded in 1847, MGP (also known as Midwest Grain Products of Indiana) is a distillery located in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a good reason for that. It’s likely because most of the spirits it produces are sold for other distilleries and whiskey makers to use.
They produce around 50 different private labels that are bottled by brands like High West, Redemption, Templeton, and Angel’s Envy to name only a few. Their 95 percent rye mash bill rye whiskey makes appearances in an even longer list of whiskeys around the country. But, while MGP’s main business is crafting whiskey for other brands, it also makes its own proprietary expressions including Till Vodka, Rossville Straight Rye, and George Remus Bourbon.
Recently, its whiskeys won numerous accolades at the 2020 Whiskies of the World Competition. This is the 6th year of the event, and spirits are judged on a 100-point basis by a panel consisting of industry professionals from around the country. Rossville Straight Rye, George Remus Straight Bourbon Whiskey, and Remus Repeal Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey all took home gold medals. But it was only Remus Repeal Reserve that also received “Best in Class” recognition. And we were lucky enough to give it a try!
Remus Repeal Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey Series IV
Named for the “King of the Bootleggers” George Remus, this high-rye bourbon is made using reserve bourbons distilled in 2008. This limited release was created to pay homage to the end of prohibition. This is the fourth iteration of the expression that’s released annually in late fall and remains available until Prohibition Repeal Day on December 5. This year’s award-winning offering is dropping in September to correspond with Bourbon Heritage Month.
Each release is made using a subtly different recipe. This year, it’s made up of two different mash bills. The first, which makes up 77 percent of the blend consists of 21 percent rye. The second has a 36 percent rye mash bill. Made in limited quantities, its sure to cost you more than its current price tag on the aftermarket.
Tasting Notes:
It’s not surprising that a distillery known for its rye whiskeys would roll out an award-winning high-rye bourbon. And from the first nosing, this is obvious. The first aroma is that of the rickhouse and the sweet smell of maturing whiskey. This evolves into subtle peppery spice, rich vanilla, and dried sour cherries. The first sip is full of pleasing heat with hints of cinnamon, brown sugar, sticky toffee, and butterscotch, all with a backbone of ever-present peppery spice. The finish is very long, warming, and full of candied orange peel, cooking spices, and toasted oak.
Bottom Line:
This whiskey is something special. It deserves to be savored and sipped slowly on a cool, fall evening. But, it’s so complex that its high-rye content works well in an old fashioned or your go-to whiskey-based cocktail.
The Milwaukee Bucks got taken down by the Miami Heat in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Semifinal series on Monday evening. While it was not the kind of emphatic, one-sided defeat that leads to the losing team making gigantic changes — Miami won, 115-104 — the Bucks should probably figure out a better plan of attack with regards to Jimmy Butler. The All-Star wing was magnificent, dropping a playoff career-high 40 points and relentlessly going at the Bucks defense, especially down the stretch.
One thing that Milwaukee decidedly did not do was use Giannis Antetokounmpo to man up Butler. According to NBA.com’s tracking data, the Defensive Player of the Year spent 38 seconds checking Butler in Game 1, while Wesley Matthews and Khris Middleton spent the most time defending him. It led to a whole lot of people asking why Antetokounmpo doesn’t just take Butler on that end of the floor.
When asked about whether he asked to take Butler on in his media availability after the game, Antetokounmpo said no, then said he’d do whatever Mike Budenholzer asked of him.
Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo on whether he asked to switch onto Heat’s Jimmy Butler during late-game explosion: “To guard him? No, I didn’t. Why would you ask that? I’ll do whatever coach wants me to do.” pic.twitter.com/IFpR5pk1s1
One day later and Budenholzer revealed that Antetokounmpo taking on this assignment is something that is on the table, noting that he does believe the team needs to be better defensively against him and one of his Miami teammates, Goran Dragic, who scored 27 points in Game 1.
Mike Budenholzer, on Giannis potentially guarding Jimmy Butler, “It’s certainly a consideration and discussion.”
Mike Budenholzer, “Certainly I think we can be better on Jimmy Butler.” Adds, “I think being better on both Butler and Dragic is probably where it starts.”
That sentiment was shared by Middleton, who said that Milwaukee has to defend Butler better as a five-man unit, because letting him play one-on-one is a recipe for disaster.
Khris Middleton, on stopping Jimmy Butler, “He’s a great one-on-one player, and we allowed him to play one-on-one.” Said team defense has to be better.
Of course, while the idea of having Antetokounmpo and Butler battle is a fascinating one, there are some inherent issues with it for Milwaukee, mainly that they’ve been able to beat teams this year by making it brutally hard to score at the rim, something that is possible in large part because they have Antetokounmpo patrolling that area of the court. The Bucks are also a team that believe in their system, and seeing as how they were the best team in the league this year, it makes sense they would not want to do a total overhaul of how they defend so Antetokounmpo can guard one player.
Having said this, a major issue that led to Milwaukee’s departure last year was how something the other team did — in this case, Toronto putting Kawhi Leonard on Antetokounmpo — threw them out of sorts and they struggled to respond en route to losing four games in a row. If Butler keeps this up, it will be fascinating to see if the Bucks do decide to play the Antetokounmpo card, even if it would require moving him a little farther away from the basket.
Back one million years ago — that is, last December — the Internet came for Jason Sudeikis. Why? Because he punched Baby Yoda. The actor saw a dream come true: He got to appear in the Star Wars-verse. But it was a monkey’s paw kind of situation: He was playing the anonymous Stormtrooper that whacks the beloved Baby Yoda on the head during the first season of The Mandalorian. But it turns out Sudeikis forgot he committed that crime until the episode premiered and the incident went viral.
On a recent (remote) episode of Conan, the actor was talking with O’Brien about his and actress Olivia Wilde’s kids, specifically about showing their oldest child, Otis, some of his favorite age-appropriate movies. Sudeikis has shown him E.T. and the Star Wars movies. But he hasn’t yet shown him The Mandalorian, nor has he told him that his character did something that enraged the Internet.
Thing is, Sudeikis kind of forgot about his crime against the show’s most meme-able character. He says he shot the episode, then life just kind of carried on. It wasn’t until the episode dropped that he remembered what he’d done. Then one morning, as he was hanging with Otis, Wilde came in, informing him that he was trending on Twitter. Though he’s on Twitter, he’s not addicted to it, so this was news to him.
“Immediately I was like, ‘Wait, why?’” he recalled. “In today’s age, it’s like, ‘Wait, am I dead? Did I die? Am I cancelled? What’s happened?’” But he was being cancelled, sort of, at least for the time being. It took him a few seconds to put two and two together. “I had that moment like in the end of Sixth Sense or Ratatouille, where I’m like, ‘Oh, right!’ I should have been able to anticipate two-and-a-half months earlier, when Baby Yoda became the belle of the ball on the Internet. I totally forgot.”
But it all worked out in the end. The Internet mostly forgot about Sudeikis’ in-character transgression, moving onto, well, other, more serious topics. But it taught him what it feels like to have the internet gang up on you. “I know what Jim Gaffigan’s going through,” he joked, referring to the comic getting blowback over his epic anti-Trump tweetstorm. “I get it, I get it.”
You can watch Sudeikis’ chat with Conan O’Brien in the video above. The Baby Yoda business begins around the 3:27 mark.
50 Cent and Eminem have a near-20-year friendship that has spanned rap beefs, business partnerships, musical collaborations, and several film and TV roles for both men. In a new interview for his website ThisIs50.com, 50 Cent details one of the more unusual aspects of that friendship: The sometimes bizarre and “random” content of their text conversations. 50 says the two maintain a regular correspondence but that he’s often nonplussed by the contents of Em’s messages for him.
By way of example, he pulls out his phone to read the last text Em sent him: “He texted me and he was like, ‘When you gone fly me out private so I can land on that dick? Oh, so you on some other sh*t,’” he reads bemusedly. Of course, Em is actually referring to one of 50’s lines from the recently-released Pop Smoke single “The Woo” with Roddy Ricch, which finds 50 describing a question from a paramour. However, he says these sorts of messages make his day because it lets him know that Em will “stop doing what he’s doing to send me that. That sh*t makes my day on a whole other level. I’ll always have love for him. That’s my guy.”
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices (Netflix series) — The first season of this series focuses upon Black celebrities and artists (including Lupita Nyong’o, Common, Tiffany Haddish, Jill Scott, and more) reading children’s stories from Black authors who showcase the Black experience. There’s no rule against adults enjoying this show too, you know. Sometimes, especially now, it’s fun to pretend to be a kid again. However, each book (from I Love My Hair to Firebird to I Am Enough to Pretty Grown Face and ABC’s For Girls Like Me) will revolve around themes like identity, respect, justice, and action, which should also provide a nice jumping-off point for difficult conversations.
Tell Me A Story (CW 9:00pm EST) — If you’re looking for more of a psychological-thriller bent to your stories, this show should fit the bill well. This week, Eddie’s feeling the brunt of Jordan’s tortuous ways while Kayla and Nick consider the future of their relationship.
Transplant (NBC 10:00pm EST) — This new drama series follows a trained doctor from Syria who works to save the wounded but finds a new opportunity after a life-changing event.
Hard Knocks: Training Camp (HBO 10:00pm EST) — The Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers both get deep-dive, all-access journeys into their season prep. Enjoy!
Last week, players around the NBA made the historic and unprecedented decision to strike in the midst of the playoffs in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Initial reports indicated that both the Lakers and the Clippers voted to end the season and leave Orlando altogether so that they could focus on social justice reform, but the details about how this came about remain murky, at best. Clippers guard Lou Williams attempted to clarify the situation when speaking to reporters on Wednesday, suggesting that what took place was more of an informal poll and discussion rather than an official vote, but added that the discussions fell apart as emotions ran hot.
Clippers guard Lou Williams filling in the details on how the team mulled whether to play or stop the season pic.twitter.com/ksBxLoLo37
“It was never a decision,” Williams said. “It was a poll being taken in the room, and what was supposed to happen was that there was supposed to be conversation, why this team feels like this, why this team feels like that. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that far. Emotions were running high. And then the reports came out that we were one of the teams to say no. So we never had an opportunity to really explain our position because, truth be told, we didn’t really know our position.”
Regardless of how it came out, the strike resulted in league owners implemented a multi-tiered coalition to ramp up their efforts toward social reform, one that includes earmarking significant funds for equal justice initiatives, launching a media campaign designed to educate the public on these causes, and turning team-owned arenas into voting stations for the upcoming election.
Greta Thunberg kicks off the latest album from indie favorites the 1975 with a warning: “We are right now in the beginning of a climate and ecological crisis, and we need to call it what it is: an emergency.” It’s message that the 17-year-old, arguably the most prominent voice in climate action today, has been trying to get across for years, as documented in Hulu’s I Am Greta. The documentary, from director Nathan Grossman, follows Thunberg from her strike outside Swedish parliament at 15 years old to when Time‘s Person of the Year pissed off You-Know-Who (and out-trolled him in the process).
“I really like the film and I think it gives a realistic image of myself and my daily life. I hope anyone who watches the film can finally understand that we young people aren’t school-striking just for fun. We are protesting because we don’t have a choice,” Thunberg said about I Am Greta. “All that we ask for is for our society to treat the climate crisis as a crisis, and give us a safe future. I think the film shows just how far that is from happening right now. It shows that the urgency of the scientific message isn’t getting through.” The clip above shows her voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States aboard a boat (she doesn’t fly due to the “enormous climate impact of aviation”) to attend a climate change conference.
Here’s the official plot synopsis:
In August 2018, Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist. The documentary follows Greta’s heroism and passion in fighting for climate change.
I Am Greta premieres at the Venice Film Festival before hitting Hulu on November 13.
Adele fans are anxiously awaiting a new album from the superstar, but she’s been making headlines in different ways lately. She recently posted an outfit of the photo she wore to Notting Hill Carnival in London, and it drummed up some controversy. She wore a Jamaican flag bikini top and had her hair in bantu knots, a traditionally African hairstyle, and some folks didn’t care for her style. There was one person who was predictably a fan, though, and that’s Chet Hanks.
Hanks — who was born in Los Angeles and whose parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were also born in California — generated some controversy when he spoke in a Jamaican Patois accent at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Hanks is, to put it one way, a Jamaica enthusiast. So, after Adele shared her photo, he posted a video of himself jamming out to and singing along with Adele’s “Set Fire To The Rain” in his car. After turning down the volume, he said, in a Jamaican accent and with Jamaican slang, that he was a fan of the photo. After turning the volume back up, he pointed to his phone and mouthed, “Get in my DMs.” He also captioned the post, “PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ADELE HIT MY LINE ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED TO TALK TO HER ABOUT SOMETHING,” followed by a bevy of Jamaican flag emojis.
Hanks did not expand on what he wants to discuss with Adele, and that might be for the best.
Love & Hip Hop: New York star Tahiry Jose detailed the alleged abuse she endured at the hands of rapper and podcast host Joe Budden during their relationship during a recent interview, including broken bones. Their relationship, which lasted several years and helped make them a focus of the popular reality show, ended in 2014. The duo have since been the subject of online gossip relating to their relationship and their apparent friendship after it ended but speaking with Hollywood Unlocked, Jose revealed the extent of how tumultuous their relationship truly was.
The subject came up after Jose addressed a recent incident on the show Marriage Bootcamp in which her most recent rapper ex, Harlem’s Vado, attacked her during filming, grabbing her by the throat. The incident resulting in Vado’s removal from the program and a torrent of rumors on social media. Speaking on the incident, Jose mentioned past abusive relationships, leading to a question about Joe Budden. She confirmed that Budden was the ex she referred to and gave details of the alleged abuse, while insisting that she wanted nothing more than to be done with him altogether.
“I’ve had to endure this bully for the last 10 years,” she said. “I even befriended the bully. I didn’t know what else to do… Then watch your ex say something like, ‘Tahiry will fight a man…’” referring to Joe’s reaction to Vado’s attack. “I didn’t fight him. I was scared to death. No, I don’t walk around throwing apples or fighting a man. I’ve been beaten before. That relationship left me with a fractured rib, a broken nose because somebody was sending him a message….pushed me down a flight of stairs.”
“I remember having a plan to leave because the reason he was so upset was because I was already leaving,” she continued. “Looking through my phone and sh*t. But I had already told him, give me two weeks to pack up my things, and he agreed to it. Then he started looking through my phone. Next thing you know, I got woken up by him dragging me from my ankle.”
For his part, Budden has acknowledged the volatile nature of his past relationships in interviews, on his podcast, and in his music, but has always downplayed the seriousness of his part in them. However, he was also accused by model Esther Baxter of beating her so badly she suffered a miscarriage.
Watch the full interview above.
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