The Kentucky staples aren’t just for bucking broncos. Apparently, country, Americana, bluegrass, and folk fans also make for great tenants. The 2024 Railbird Music Festival will dig its horseshoe into The Infield at Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky, come June.
Across June 1 and 2, Noah Kahan, Turnpike Troubadours, Chris Stapleton, and Hozier will serve as headliners for the festival. Noah Kahan and Turnpike Troubadours will do the honors on opening night (June 1). To close out the event, on June 2, Chris Stapleton and Hozier will bring the attendees to their knees. The 2024 Railbird Music Festival will feature over thirty performances on its three stages.
Other notable acts on the festival’s opening-day lineup include Counting Crows, Wynonna Judd, Marcus King, Sam Barber, Katie Pruitt, and Brother Smith. For day two, the stand-outs are Lord Huron, Dwight Yoakam, Elle King, Allison Russell, and Tanner Usrey. View the entire talent bill below. Country music fans admirers will not be forgotten next music festival season.
Railbird Music Festival 2024’s presale will begin on Thursday, December 7. Then, based on ticket availability, a general sale for standard admission, standard admission plus, VIP, and platinum tickets will follow. It is important to note that children under 8 are free with a ticketed adult. Find more information here.
For months now (pretty much all year, actually), Bas has been teasing the release of his fourth studio album, We Only Talk About Real Sh!t When We’re F*cked Up. He kicked off 2023 with the release of “Diamonds” in January, following up in July with the J. Cole-featuring “Passport Bros” (you can check out the video for that above). In August came the video for “Ho Chi Minh,” in October, he dropped “Khartoum,” and last week, he shared “179 Deli” featuring AJ Tracey.
Today, he finally revealed just when the album is dropping: Next Friday, December 15. Along with the release date, he also shared the album artwork and its tracklist. Consisting of 17 tracks, We Only Talk About Real Sh!t When We’re F*cked Up will contain features from the aforementioned AJ Tracey and J. Cole, as well as Adekunle Gold, Amaarae, Blxckie, Ferg, FKJ and Sha Sha. J. Cole will appear three times, with FKJ popping up twice. You can check out the artwork and the tracklist below.
The rumor mill was ignited by zSneakerHeadz sharing a “first look at the 2024 Travis Scott x Jordan 1 Low OG” in the “Black/Olive” colorway. The source also noted that Scott is eyeing a fall 2024 release.
That is all we know, and it’s not much. If this speculative information is correct, then the new pair will be in the same vein as the olive-colored Air Jordan 1 Low that arrived this April. According to the Nike listing, the Women’s Air Jordan 1 Low x Travis Scott “Medium Olive” retailed at $150, while the aforementioned “Neutral Olive” Air Jordan 1 Love Golf went for $170. It wouldn’t be totally off-base to use those prices to ballpark what the rumored Air Jordan 1 Low OG might cost you if/when it becomes available. (That is not to speak of the exorbitant prices on resale sites.)
Screaming Females, a critically beloved rock trio from New Jersey, has decided to call it quits after 18 years.
The band — consisting of Marissa Paternoster, Jarrett Dougherty, and Mike Abbate — made the announcement today (December 5). On social media, they shared a modified version of their cover art for 2006’s Baby Teeth, their debut album, with the album title replaced with “2005 – 2023.” A written message posted alongside the image reads:
“After 18 years we have decided that Screaming Females is coming to an end. A lot changed around us over those 18 years but at our core we operated pretty much the same throughout. We funded and made the records we wanted to make. We did our own art. We printed a lot of our own merch. We managed ourselves. Probably most importantly we loaded up our van with our gear and traveled around the world to play shows wherever you would have us. We tried to build and celebrate community the best we could. There are too many people to thank and too many things that should be said but right now we have some leftover merch that we would love to get out of Mike’s basement! Order something for you, your friends, your family, your pets!”
As for why specifically the band decided to break up, they haven’t said.
The group self-released their first two albums, and those projects got the attention of Don Giovanni Records, which has been the band’s label home since their third album, 2009’s Power Move. All in all, the band released eight albums, with what is presumably their final one, Desire Pathway, coming out this past February. The band has regularly received critical praise, and this past October, Rolling Stone named Paternoster one of the 250 best guitarists of all time.
You might have heard a rumor that Jon Hamm, his nipple rings, and his butt are all starring in the new season of Fargo, and that rumor would be 100% true! Luckily for you, it’s not too late to tune in.
Season five of the mid-western comedy/drama Fargo was originally supposed to hit your home screens in September and after some delays, it’s now in full swing. The season follows Hamm as a dedicated lawman looking into the peculiar past of a mysterious housewife, portrayed by Juno Temple. Here is the official synopsis:
The latest installment of Fargo is set in Minnesota and North Dakota, 2019. After an unexpected series of events lands “Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon” (Juno Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.
Episodes one and two premiered on November 21st, while episode three dropped a week later, on the 28th. The next seven episodes are expected to be released weekly on Tuesdays until January 16th, when the season finale will air.
Of course, if you aren’t a lucky FX subscriber, you will have to wait until the next day for the new episodes to drop on Hulu. Typically, new episodes stream on Hulu by 3 a.m. ET. Then, you can access Jon Hamm and his nipple rings at your earliest convenience.
With the arrival of the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer, fans of the franchise have been poring over details of every frame looking for clues to the gameplay and story for the highly anticipated installment that, unfortunately, won’t be arriving until 2025. (PC players are in for an even longer wait.)
This time around, the series returns to Vice City, the fictional locale that takes its cues from Miami. However, gamers are discovering that GTA VI appears to aping real-life events that only the state of Florida can produce. Naturally, those events are gator-based, but there’s some other Floridian shenanigans thrown in for good measure.
The trailer contains multiple shots of alligators sniffing around buildings, as we often see them do in real-life Florida. Other shots look inspired by local news broadcasts that reported on the weird and wonderful goings on in the state.
The shot of the naked man watering his garden looks like a riff on 2018 news reports about a Florida man who did yard work naked. And yes, the clip of the woman twerking on top of a moving car seems similarly inspired by real-world events.
The tweet below from Central Gaming Hub has a screen-by-screen breakdown of the confirmed news events that GTA VI will make liberal use of in the game, and accordingly, there’s going to be a lot of thong-based humor. We fully expect more real-life headlines to work there way into the sixth installment:
The GTA VI trailer makes reference to various events from real life, for comparison here are images showing which events they are based off. #GTAVIpic.twitter.com/fCQNuiu30G
Christmas is celebrated around the world, but it looks a bit different everywhere you go. While there are some fairly universal traditions, such as decorating a tree and giving gifts, there are some traditions specific to different cultures that are both unique and intriguing.
In Italy, La Befana is a good witch who flies around on a broomstick on January 5th, the night before Epiphany. Children put their shoes out with a glass of wine and a piece of bread for La Befana, and fills their shoes with candy or small gifts—or chunks of coal, onions or garlic for the naughty ones
2. ICELAND—The Yule Lads
Iceland’s 13 Yule Lads are merry and mischievous troll-like figures, each with a different name and personality. They visit children one at a time during the 13 days leading up to Christmas, leaving gifts and playing tricks, including leaving rotten potatoes in the shoes of kids who don’t behave. According to the Smithsonian, the Yule Lads used to be a lot creepier, but in 1746, the country outlawed scaring children with monstrous tales about the 13 lads. (Would love to know what prompted that law!)
3. ALSO ICELAND—The Yule Cat
As if the Yule Lads weren’t enough, a towering, fearsome cat roams the Icelandic countryside around Christmastime, peeking into homes to spy on children’s presents. In Icelandic tradition, if kids get all of their chores done, they are gifted some new clothes. If the Yule Cat (aka Jólakötturinn) sees that a child wasn’t given clothes (in other words, a child was lazy), the cat proceeds to eats the child’s dinner and then moves on to eating the child. Yes, you read that right. It eats the child. Icelandic folklore doesn’t mess around.
4. PHILIPPINES—The Giant Lantern Festival
In the Philippines, the Giant Lantern Festival is held in San Fernando City (dubbed the Christmas capital of the Philippines) every year the week before Christmas Eve. According to Travel & Leisure, the lantern tradition is rooted in the history of Filipino Catholics building small, colorful lanterns to light up the procession to Christmas Eve mass. The giant parol lanterns for the festival, however, are huge—up to 20 feet tall—and it can take up to 10,000 light bulbs to illuminate them.
5. SPAIN (CATALONIA)—The Tió de Nadal (pooping log)
Some cultures have a yule log. Catalonia, Spain, has the Tió de Nadal—a log with a hat, a blanket, a smiley face and a penchant for pooping out presents. Children feed the smiling log scraps of food at night and it poop out presents on Christmas Day. There’s even a song kids sing to the log, imploring it to not poop out salted herring (too salty), but nougats in instead, all while hitting the log with a stick. According to Catalan tradition, the eating of the scraps and the beating with the stick leads to Tió de Nadal pooping out presents and nougat on Christmas. And apparently, no one questions it.
6. BAVARIA—The Krampus
In Bavaria (which includes Austria, Germany, Switzerland and some of the surrounding area), the Krampus is a centuries-old tradition that has been revived in modern times. The Krampus is a horned, hairy, hellish creature who follows St. Nick on his rounds to punish naughty children by scaring them (or tossing them in a sack and beating them). Many cities hold Krampus festivals each year, where people parade around in Krampus costumes like the one above.
7. VENEZUELA—Roller Skating to Christmas Mass
Most of us don’t association Christmas with roller skating, but that’s not the case for Venezuelans. Christmas is an all-night roller skating party, which includes singing Christmas songs and culminates with everyone rolling their way to Christmas Mass at dawn. Most interestingly, according to a Venezuelan woman’s explanation in America Magazine, it’s not even like Venezuelans are a big roller skating culture the rest of the year—it’s just a Christmas thing.
8. JAPAN—A Finger Lickin’ Good Tradition
Japan doesn’t have a long history with Christmas and thus no long-standing traditions associated with it. What they do have is 50 years of eating KFC for Christmas, thanks to a “Kentucky for Christmas” marketing campaign launched by the first KFC restaurant owner in Nagoya, Japan, in 1970. Somehow, it stuck and is now a beloved tradition for millions of Japanese families.
9. UKRAINE—Spider Webs on Christmas Trees
According to Ukrainian legend, an impoverished widow and her children grew a tree from a pinecone outside of their house, but they were too poor to decorate it for Christmas. The household spiders heard the children’s sobs and spun their webs into decorations overnight. When the children awoke on Christmas morning, they cried out “Mother, mother wake up and see the tree. It is beautiful!” As the day went on and the sun’s rays hit the delicate webs, they transformed into silver and gold and the widow never wanted for anything again. Today, Ukrainians decorate trees with spider webs for good luck and fortune in the new year.
Whatever your family or cultural holiday traditions are, let’s celebrate the differences that make our world so interesting.
Is “Bongos” rapper Cardi B entering the new year as a single woman? Well, that’s what users online have begun to speculate based on her latest social media activity. Over the weekend, Cardi B was the center of conversation across social media due to her runway debut via Balenciaga’s Fall 2024 outdoor fashion show. But today (December 5), Cardi’s speculated relationship status is fueling her virality.
In a series of Instagram story posts, fans believe Cardi is hinting at a split from her rapper husband, Offset. The screenshots of Cardi’s uploaded, captured by users, read: “You know when you just outgrow relationships,” and “I’m tired of protecting people’s feelings…I GOTTA PUT MYSELF FIRST.”
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Others also pointed out that the couple is no longer connected on the platform. So, why did Cardi B and Offset unfollow each other on Instagram? The formal answer is unknown. The pair have unfollowed, exchanged subtle jabs, and affectionately recounted on the app several times. It even inspired their latest collaborative single, “Jealous.”
But Cardi’s recent Instagram livestream has fans worried this could be the end. She previously took steps to formally divorce Offset, but the pair found a way to work it out. Hopefully, they can do the same thing this time, especially now that they have two young children.
Cardi B went live and spoke about removing dead weight and leaving it in 2023 she later went and unfollowed her husband Offset .It’s Alleged he cheated on her for the 110th time full story here : https://t.co/g20GjiwSJB
In recent years, Epic Games has really ramped up its efforts to strengthen Fortnite‘s chokehold on pop culture, in part through the use of music stars appearing in the game as playable skins or performers in special events and virtual concerts. Most recently, Ed Sheeran, Kid Cudi, and Eminem have all found their way to the island, and soon, they’ll be joined by The Weeknd, who’ll also perform in the upcoming Fortnite Festival game mode.
When Does The Weeknd Come To Fortnite?
In a new trailer released this week, the skin for Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, can be seen as the star performs in a virtual concert — as well gameplay for the rhythm-based Fortnite Festival mode a la Rock Band (whose developers also made the new game) or Guitar Hero — in two different incarnation. While his After Hours persona is quickly highlighted, it looks like the big feature is Abel’s more recent, MF DOOM-inspired tour look, complete with a glimmering chrome mask and a white, robe-like hoodie.
The trailer also reveals when he’ll be available in the game: December 9. Fortnite Festival launches the same day, allowing players to play in a band for and with their friends. It sounds like a cool expansion on the core gameplay, especially as Fortnite attracts a larger and larger audience (who may not all want to shoot each other all the time).
Check out the trailer for Fortnite Festival above.
Yellowstone reruns have been keeping CBS primetime slots filled for this year and beyond. That show will finally begin filming its final episodes in late 2024, but fortunately, Taylor Sheridan has kept the Dutton ranch fires burning with spinoffs including 1983 and 1923. Eventually, there will also be 1944 and 2024, but there will be an outlier that enters the fray as well: 6666.
That series is not only titled for an entity other than a year but will also move away from the franchise’s usual stomping grounds. As it turns out, the location will be famous amongst cowboy and ranch-hand circles, too. Let’s talk about what to expect from 6666.
Plot
During what seems like a million years ago (Season 4 premiered in 2021), Yellowstone set the stage for this spinoff by bidding farewell to Jimmy (Jefferson White), who left the building and headed to the 6666 Ranch. Interestingly enough, it was Taylor Sheridan’s character (Travis) who had given Jimmy a ride to the ranch while perhaps intimidating the hell out of him:
“A horse is gonna be your only f*ckin’ friend” does not bode well for Jimmy getting any rest and relaxation. And speaking of sleep, Travis told him to get shuteye on the road because “you are gonna f*ckin’ need it.” Will those F-bombs be edited out when Season 4 eventually airs on CBS? I hope not.
The show will film on the real-life 6666 Ranch, also known as the “Four Sixes” or simply (as referred to in the above clip) “the Sixes.” The ranch was founded in 1870 and named for a head of branded cattle, but the prolific show creator and screenwriter actually purchased the soaring swath of land (which is reportedly twice as big as Chicago), and so, it is gonna be on to film on location for the entire series rather than in limited instance as in 1923. There’s every chance that this series could be most near and dear to Sheridan out of all his currently running series, but ideally, he’ll keep the cowboy soap opera flavor alive, too. Here’s the official 6666 synopsis:
Founded when Comanches still ruled West Texas, no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 has inspired a new scripted series where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing. The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world-class cowboys are born and made.
Cast
It would be awfully bizarre if one of the centerpieces of this show wasn’t Jefferson White as Jimmy, but we can probably expect an ensemble cast to flesh out all the events taking place in ranch-hand world. Speculation has also run rampant about Ryan Bingham joining the cast as Walker, but these days, Sheridan is also adding A-listers to his joints.
Over the past few years, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Renner, Sam Elliott, Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, and Donald Sutherland have done the small-screen thing with Sheridan, and Matthew McConaughey will likely be onboard for 2024. Surely, that trend will not stop here, but all casting details have been kept quiet so far.
Release Date
Sheridan previously revealed that the 2023 Hollywood chaos led to 6666 being delayed, but he’s probably also going to be writing this show by himself, so it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that he suddenly has a whole first season of scripts ready to film. Officially, however, no one knows when 6666 will arrive, only that it is on the way. Yet when the show does exist, we can expect it to stream on Paramount+ like every other Taylor Sheridan show other than Yellowstone, which streams on Peacock and now airs reruns on CBS.
Trailer
No trailer has materialized yet, obviously, so let’s imagine that this show is actually a horror series with 6666 being the theme of a cowboy exorcism. Yes, I concede that this is a dumb joke (because a year-based 6666 would be even worse, like with… cowboys and aliens, ugh), but perhaps that will motivate Sheridan (even more than he already is on every other day of his life) to get this show cranking.
Maybe we’ll get some more failed biker brawling? Don’t tell me that this clip wasn’t shading Sons of Anarchy.
Fingers crossed for more 6666 updates.
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