Waxahatchee’s Katie Cruthfield and Wynonna (Judd) represent different generations of Americana music. Now they’ve come together for the first time on a splendid duet entitled “Other Side” which captures both Waxahatchee’s sterling folk and Wynonna’s Nashville country comfort.
Recorded at Wynonna’s farmland outside of Nashville, it’s a hopeful track that looks to turn the page on the death of the Judd matriarch, Naomi, last month. The pair carry each other through the tune and Wynonna explained that it was a powerful experience for her.
“In the midst of everything that has happened, I said that I would continue to sing,” she said in a statement. “So, here I am. I met Katie Crutchfield last year and we connected immediately. We recorded ‘Other Side’ in the studio here on the farm and it was one of my favorite recording experiences ever. I’m thankful for the opportunity to sing with the next generation of greatness.”
Crutchfield added, “Wynonna is an icon and a fountain of wisdom. Sharing space with her to create something new was really nothing but a joy and an honor. Her spirit inspires me daily and her continued encouragement has meant the world.”
Meanwhile, both artists are heading out on tour this year. Waxahatchee is supporting her 2020 album Saint Cloud and Wynonna is setting out on The Judds: The Final Tour in celebration of her mother’s life and is bringing along like-minded luminaries in Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Ashley McBryde, Trisha Yearwood, and Martina McBride.
Listen to “Other Side” above and check out the tour dates for both below.
The Judds: The Final Tour dates
09/30 — Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
10/01 — Toledo, OH @ Huntington Center
10/07 — Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
10/08 — Green Bay, WI @ Resch Center
10/14 — Duluth, GA @ Gas South Arena
10/15 — Huntsville, AL @ Probst Arena @ The Van Braun Center
10/21 — Durant, OK @ Choctaw Grand Theater
10/22 — Ft. Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
10/27 — Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum
10/28 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
10/29 — Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena
Waxahatchee tour dates
06/09 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre #
06/10 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre #
06/11 — Charleston, SC @ Credit One Stadium #
06/13 — Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre #
06/15 — Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC #
06/16 — Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap #
06/17 — Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap #
06/18 — Williamsburg, VA @ Virginia Arts Festival
06/19 — Wilmington, DC @ The Queen $
06/21 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner $
06/22 — New York, NY @ SummerStage in Central Park $^
06/23 — Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall $
06/25 — Montreal, QC @ Theatre Corona $
06/26 — Greenfield, MA @ Green River Festival
08/05 — Fishers, IN @ Nickel Plate District Amphitheater
08/06 — Evanston, IL @ Canal Shores Golf Course (with Lucinda Willams)
08/07 — Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater
08/20 — Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Concerts @ McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater @
08/21 — Redmond, VA @ Marymoor Park @
# with Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit and Sheryl Crow
$ with Ohmme
^ with Swearin’
@ with Courtney Barnett, Sleater-Kinney, and Fred Armisen
The closest David Cronenberg has come to directing a family-friendly movie is when he turned downStar Wars: Return of the Jedi. Otherwise, he tends to dabble in R-rated body horror, naked bathhouse fights, and movies where people get turned on by car crashes. OK, technically, it was only one movie, 1996’s Crash, but what a movie it is! The Special Jury Prize winner is the better Crash movie, obviously, but it’s also many people’s introduction to Cronenberg’s filmography, including Kristen Stewart.
“I actually know the first movie of David’s that I watched was Crash, when I like was far probably too young to watch it. But I’m really glad I did,” the Oscar-nominated Spencer actress said at a press conference at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. “I felt like I was going to get in trouble, which is why I loved it. And didn’t understand it at all.”
Stewart also didn’t understand Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg’s new movie, until she watched it. “We, the actors, spent every single day after work being like, ‘What the f*ck are we doing?’ But then I watched the movie last night, and it was so crystal clear to me,” she said. “It [was] so exposing, and it does feel like you’re hacking up organs when you’re making something, and if it doesn’t feel that way it’s not worth it.”
Based on the early reviews, Stewart was right to put her faith in Cronenberg. Just think, somewhere out there is the next Kristen Stewart, being confused but intrigued by the “surgery is the new sex” movie at too young of an age. It’s inspiring, really.
Festival season continues, and with that comes a slew of neon colors, glitter, bold accessories, and outfits that, let’s just say, you’d never want your grandmother to see you in. Putting together outfits is part of the fun of music festivals, as it gives you the opportunity to dress in out-there ensembles you normally wouldn’t wear in your everyday life. Or maybe you would, you do you.
One event in which attendees truly came to impress with their head-turning style choices was The All Day I Dream Festival. The weekend-long party went down from May 12 to 15 at the Woodward Reservoir in Oakdale, California. Not only was the festival packed with a killer lineup, but it also offered on-site camping for the first time.
The All Day I Dream Festival lineup featured renowned electronic music performers including Lee Burridge, Little Dragon, Poolside, Ry X, Cubicolor, GHEIST, Guy Gerber, Jan Blomqvist, Matthew Dekay, Öona Dahl, Sébastien Léger, YokoO, Gorje Hewek, Tim Green, Roy Rosenfeld, Facundo Mohrr, Lost Desert, and tons more.
From eye-catching headpieces to fishnet stockings and fringe, these photos from The All Day I Dream Festival will inspire your next festival look.
As we close in on the end of the only podcast about the GOATest show of all time, we welcome an old friend back to the pod to help us say goodbye to another one of Jersey’s finest pork store associates. Writer, frequent Frot guest, and Executive Producer for Abbott Elementary and Harley Quinn, Justin Halpern rejoins Matt and Vince to talk about the penultimate episode of The Sopranos, season 6b episode 8, “The Blue Comet.”
Pay your last respects to a loving father, good earner, dutiful husband, and model train enthusiast, Bobby Bacalá. From Junior’s driver to redundant upper management, Bobby lives in our hearts, and in the ziti he left in his freezer.
— Pod Yourself A Gun (@PodYourselfAGun) May 24, 2022
Other notable dust-biters in this episode: Bert Gervasi, two poor Ukrainian suckers who answered the door for the wrong Italian DHL driver, and a guy riding his motorcycle past the Bada Bing at the wrong time (probably). Through it all, AJ makes everything about himself and his depression, like a natural-born podcaster.
Tell us how you would fix upper management redundancy in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts
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Back in December, Turnstile made their late-night TV debut on Late Night. They consistently booked high-profile performance gigs from there, including spots on the NPR Tiny Desk Concert series and on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It’s all deserved, as Glow On was one of 2021’s most esteemed albums; It was just a few spots away from the top of our Uproxx Music Critics Poll list.
Now, they continue to keep the album alive here in 2022, doing so last night with a performance of Glow On highlight “Blackout” on The Tonight Show. The track is a dynamic, multi-faceted ride, one that translated well to national television as the band brought their all to the intense performance.
As for what else the band is up to now, they’re actually on the tail end of their The Turnstile Love Connection 2022 Tour, which ran for the past couple months and wraps up in Washington DC on May 26.
On top of all that, they also recently had a chat with legendary interviewer Nardwuar, video of which was published yesterday. The conversation took place at Neptoon Records in Vancouver and is is tradition, Nardwuar pulled out a number of smile-inducing surprises for the band.
Watch Turnstile perform “Blackout” on Fallon above and find their Nardwuar interview below.
Ask most people who’ve had their heart trampled on by love if it was worth it, and the answer is usually a resounding… yes. That might be surprising, but despite the pain that comes from an inevitable breakup, most lovers agree that the good times outweighed the bad; they move forward looking to fall for someone else, pain be damned. The cycle is eternal (unless the love affair turns out to be) and for one of Sweden’s finest musicians, Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, heartache is the export she knows best. Lykke Li is a singer-songwriter — and lowkey pop star — who has spent her career contemplating this cyclical nature of romantic love and loss.
Though some artists might find it insulting to condense the scope of their career into a singular recurring theme, Lykke has made it clear that her latest album, EYEYE, is an almost meta, hyper-focused examination of her focus on adoration and heartache. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, she declared herself a “love junkie” and came to the conclusion that her pattern in relationships is something that needed to be addressed head-on. “I’ve really realized that I can’t blame anyone else any longer for my suffering,” she told the UK paper. “It’s really turning the lens back to myself and getting back to the root of why I’ve repeated some patterns.” Still, getting clean is usually easier said than done.
Even as EYEYE looks to be an overarching study of the subject, each of the eight songs on her fifth album approaches matters of the heart from a different angle. “5D” imagines a couple through the crisp, cinematic lens of a movie’s love story, and “Carousel” is the sole slightly upbeat track here, pitching tinny ‘80s as the stand-in for a carnival merry-go-round’s pure romance. But when it hurts, EYEYE pulls zero punches. Li consistently called this album “a break up with the breakup album,” but from the sounds of this, this pair is more together than ever. In some ways, the album is simply Li’s past MO turned up to eleven — a maximalist approach to pain done in Li’s signature soft, synthy tones.
And though her last album, so sad so sexy, found a hint of twisted pleasure in the pain, there’s very little to long for here. The album’s lead single, “No Hotel,” decries the tropes of toxic lovers — hotels, cigarettes — for the even sadder act of turning up on someone’s doorstep to beg for them back. Instead of glorying in a past memory spent in a gorgeous hotel room doing something sad and sexy, Li cites a moment in the back of a car, a bit of pathos too stark to need unpacking. “Happy Hurts” is the de facto center of the record, and the most vintage Lykke as she spins whispery vocals against a backdrop of stately organ chords, looking for meaning in passing cars and more old memories.
The driving theme continues on “Highway To Your Heart,” a song with the title of an ‘80s power ballad that still manages to be one of the stronger offerings here. Flanked harmonies, booming percussion and dramatic piano chords echo some of the production choices on one of Li’s best albums, I Never Learn, and indicates that the return of her longtime collaborator Peter Bjorn and John’s Björn Yttling is a positive development. But despite these high-water marks, the album’s closing numbers, “Over” and “u&i” are both mid-tier drags, the kind of sadness that only makes sense to the person going through it. Neither connect to a larger world outside of themselves like the most electric breakup songs do (“Dancing On My Own,” “Back To Black”), and the lengthy runtime of the final track only adds to the claustrophobia.
If Lykke Li really wants to break up with the breakup album format, her best bet is to attempt a new form. Whether that’s a love song, or a reflection on another facet of her emotional life, I don’t know. But one last dose of breakup songs seems unlikely to cure her of her old ways. It remains to be seen if she goes cold turkey after EYEYE, but if the album has proved anything, it’s that her talents are best spent elsewhere. Then again, give the morose “You Don’t Go Away” a spin at the right time of evening, and you might find yourself falling right back into the record again. Does EYEYE sound like the closing of a chapter? No — but odds are that doesn’t surprise any of the ex-lovers listening to it on loop.
The mid-season finale of Better Call Saul takes the main story of the season so far and, for lack of a less literal metaphor, walks into its apartment and shoots it in the head with a silencer. The first six episodes of the show’s final season have taken their time, as Better Call Saul always does, letting Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler’s elaborate plan to humiliate Howard Hamlin unfold throughout multiple episodes. While everyone’s favorite toxic married couple with a prank kink does encounter some hiccups along the way, their plan unfolds almost entirely as planned all season long, from faking Hamlin’s cocaine addiction with a wig and self-tanner to the precise moments he appears at their apartment following their win over him. What happens next is the only thing they didn’t see coming, even though it’s the most obvious in retrospect.
When Howard confronts Jimmy and Kim, Lalo Salamanca walks in and shoots Howard in the head. The first half of the final season, which generally unfolded like a typical season of Better Call Saul with its character-driven pace and slightly upbeat tone finally proved how effective it is when its long-teased tension finally gets a release. The season is in stark contrast to every episode of the final season of Breaking Bad, whose episodes, in retrospect, wereevents with plot, tension, and twists, moving as quickly as the final two seasons Game of Thrones (with better writing, obviously).
Meanwhile, you could describe the first half of Better Call Saul’s final season so far in just a few bullet points (with dozens of annotations, of course). First, there’s Jimmy and Kim’s Howard takedown and his death, while Gustavo Fring and Mike Ermhantraout have been dealing with the fallout of the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca. On the cartel side of the story, Lalo’s solo mission to take down Gustavo Fring has been left rather ambiguous, with limited, but precious screen time. Before Howard’s death in the mid-season finale, the season’s most explosive episode was episode three, which sealed the fate of Nacho Varga.
From the very beginning, and times to a fault, Better Call Saul has operated at a glacial pace, like Mad Men in slow motion. Instead of speeding itself up before the endgame, Better Call Saul has remained loyal to its pace, ridiculously patient with itself. Even in its final episodes, Better Call Saul would rather simmer than boil.
Better Call Saul, like Mad Men, the AMC show it has more in common with than Breaking Bad, values character development over a rapid plot and shock value – which is not to say that Better Call Saul isn’t shocking because it is. The show is so patient that it’s almost cruel. This storytelling device made Howard Hamlin’s death gutting. Better Call Saul has patience with its characters, its audience, and, vitally, itself. While it’s clear that the series will pick up in the second half of the season, which returns in July, it will continue to simmer as it always has.
De Garde/Lost Abbey/ Lindeman’s/Jester King/istock/Uproxx
There are a lot of different beer styles that taste more or less the way drinkers envisionbeer to taste. We mean the pilsners, lagers, and less hopped pale ales of the world. But — seeing as beer is complex, complicated, and absolutely sprawling — some beer styles read just a little bit different. Enter fruited sour beers which are fruity and sour (no surprise, considering the name), sort of a twofer in terms of unique, memorable flavor profiles. More specifically, these brews are known for their slightly acidic, sometimes funky notes and can be brewed with pretty much any fruit, from peach to raspberry to sour cherry.
Sean Towers, owner and brewer at The Seed: A Living Beer Project in Atlantic City likes sour beers, but actually hates the term “fruited sour.”
“The style of fruited sour has come to mean kettle-soured or quick soured beer with unreasonable levels of highly processed, pasteurized, fruit purees added post-fermentation for an overly sweet, gluttonous, fruit juice with a completely masked background of beer,” he explains. “But that short rant aside, there are many beers out there that very harmoniously pair a reasonable level of acidity with fresh, pure, fruit character.”
Since we’d rather find the latter, we decided to turn to the beer pros for help. We asked a few well-known craft beer experts, brewers, and brewing professionals to tell us the best fruited sour beers they don’t make themselves. Keep reading to see all of their picks.
DeGarde The Sixth Peach
DeGarde
Mike Haakenstad, brewing operations manager at Sycamore Brewing in Charlotte, North Carolina
ABV: 6.5% Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
The Sixth Peach from DeGarde Brewing is a top fruited sour in my book. Peach comes through and through fantastically. The barrel working on this beer is perfect, with just the right amount of oak/vanilla to round out the slight tartness and dry finish. A truly beautiful beer.
My favorite fruited sour beer is Fou’ Foune by world-renowned Belgian Lambic producer, Brasserie Cantillon. Fou’ Foune is a blend of spontaneously fermented lambics aged 18-20 months and then fruited with Bergeron Apricots. Fou’ Foune has a well-rounded complexity of acidity, oak, and fruit where each sip is like biting into a juicy apricot. Not so easy to acquire these days, Fou’ Foune is a special treat and best shared with good friends.
I don’t drink many fruited sours, but the first that comes to mind is Île Sauvage Raspberry Sour. That’s been one of their key beers from day one and each time I’ve had it, it retains a fresher and more vibrant raspberry character than any other raspberry beer I’ve had. Often, I’ve been surprised at the creaminess of the malt body that’s there to back it up. It melds together so well.
Kudos to them — that beer is great.
Avery Barrel Aged Cucumber Hibiscus Sour
Avery
Hector Cavazos, owner and head brewer at Rebel Toad Brewery in Corpus Christi, Texas
ABV: 7% Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Avery Barrel Aged Cucumber Hibiscus Sour. It’s bright in color, sour and the cucumber makes it very refreshing. It has a unique flavor profile that’s fresh bright and works together perfectly. It’s definitely a can’t miss sour beer.
Lost Abbey Red Poppy
Lost Abbey
Douglas Constantiner, founder and CEO of Societe Brewing in San Diego
Red Poppy from Lost Abbey. There’s an explosion of sour cherry flavor and it truly showcases the traditional style of Belgian Beer making through an American brewery that helped create this industry. Matching the cherry with the beer in a beautifully aged product. Lost Abbey makes it look easy but to achieve that sort of balance is incredibly difficult.
Lindeman’s Oude Kriek Cuvee Renee. Not to be confused with Lindeman’s ultra-sweet dessert beers, this sour beer has a huge cherry aroma and balanced tartness with a complex wood character. Brewed in the old style of Belgium’s most famous guezeries.
Allagash Coolship Red – I’m a huge fan of the wild program at Allagash up in Portland, Maine. Their coolship has produced some incredible beers, but my favorite so far has been Coolship Red. It is fermented and conditioned in red wine barrels, with raspberries added, and aged for over two years. The resulting beer is incredibly complex and certainly worth writing home about.
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red is my favorite fruited sour. This was the first beer I noticed people lining up for at the Great American Beer Festival. Unlike any other at the time, this is Wisconsin cherry distilled into a bottle. Tart, sweet, juicy, It’s world-class.
Jester King Brewery’s Nocturn Chrysalis is a bottle I need to get my hands on again. An insane amount of blackberries added to this wild Texas yeast fermented ale aged in barrels turn this funky beer into a purple, jammy experience that somehow tastes like the best possible version of just running through a blackberry field with your mouth open.
I have tried a lot of fruited sours over the years, but I keep coming back to the classics. Cantillon Kriek is probably my all-time favorite fruited sour. The blast of fresh cherry flavor coupled with the earthy and sour characters of a classic lambic is just fantastic.
Blueberry Muffin by Great Notion. I grew up with my family making blueberry muffins at least once a week with blueberries we picked from our garden, and this beer reminds me of that. Tart with great blueberry flavor and enough breadiness/sweetness to mirror that muffin top, this is a beer that will always bring me back to my childhood.
Anything from Cascade Brewing is great. I don’t see a whole lot of their stuff on the East Coast, but we stopped by their brewery one time when we were in Portland and loved just about everything we had there. They are definitely known for their sour beers, and they did not disappoint. It is absolutely a must-try if you like sours and haven’t had one before. One of the best is called The Vine. It’s a fruited sour made with tripel, blonde, and golden ales that are fermented using white grape juice.
Framboos Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen is really difficult to beat. Ripe raspberries all day long. It’s so tart, sweet, and loaded with raspberry flavor it makes me feel like we need to open another facility to brew lambics or mixed culture beers.
Lost Abbey Framboise de Amorosa. I am a sucker for raspberry sours and Lost Abbey always brings it. This beer starts with Lost and Found ale that is aged for a year in recently emptied wine barrels where it has raspberries added to it multiple times. It’s sour, tart, and filled with fresh, ripe raspberry flavor.
Surprising nobody, a new Call of Duty game will be released in 2022. First confirmed back in February, we’ve known for quite some time that a new game was on the way and that it would be a sequel to Modern Warfare. What we didn’t know was when exactly everyone would be able to get their hands on the next entry in the series.
On Tuesday, that detail was finally unveiled in a live-action trailer that saw a cargo ship with the face of Call of Duty campaign character, Ghost, displayed across the ship. The trailer also features the faces of other characters from the game’s campaign, also displayed in a cargo port setting, until finally at the end of the trailer we get the release date of October 28.
This is one of the more unique ways to unveil a game’s release date and artwork, mainly because it didn’t give us any actual gameplay to look at. Modern Warfare 2 has the potential to change the franchise formula and engine in a way that it sorely needs. Right now, the last handful of games has all used the same original engine that the first Modern Warfare game used in 2019. This has some benefits, such as allowing all of the games to sync well with the Call of Duty battle royale game, Warzone. However, because each game uses the same outline it has led to most of them dealing with a massive hacker problem.
With all that in mind, we were hoping that this next game was also going to represent a step forward for the franchise and give us something new. Unfortunately, gameplay details have been very scare so far so we’ll have to wait for more information to come out in the future.
While fans will have to wait a little longer for the Exploding Kittenstv show starring Lucy Liu and Tom Ellis, the game is coming to Netflix much sooner!
Exploding Kittens– The Game will drop on May 31st on Netflix’s mobile app, free of charge for ay current subscribers, though that number has been dwindling. The game lets you play alone or with up to five friends (they also need to be a Netflix customer) as you flip over virtual cards decorated with cat art, until the exploding kitten is revealed, and the game explodes. Hence the name Exploding Kittens. Makes sense! Here are the official rules:
Draw as many cards as you can, and do your best to dodge — or defuse — fatal felines. Or else, boom goes the dynamite! In this kitty-powered game of chance, players draw cards — until someone draws an exploding kitten and blows up. But that’s not all, Netflix members will be able to play with two new exclusive cards, Radar and Flip Flop, enabling players to manipulate the deck in new ways. Radar reveals to players the position of the Exploding Kitten closest to the top of the card deck and Flip Flop reverses the order of the cards in the deck. Featuring original art by The Oatmeal.
Exploding Kittens started as a crowdfunded project which then became a record-setting card game. A series based on the game will premiere on Netflix next year, with expansion packs revolving around the show’s characters becoming available in the future.
The combusting cat game is just one of the games Netflix is introducing to its roster, with three more games debuting today on the app. Dragon Up is a single-player game where players are expected to look for rare dragons in order to save their kingdom. Townsmen- A Kingdom Rebuilt is a strategy game where players build their own medieval city, and Moonlighter is a role-playing game that puts users working in a store in a mysterious village overrun by monsters. Looking forward to seeing if anybody actually plays these games, or if Netflix pulls the plug on them too.
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