The late Matthew Perry‘s 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing, included the usual kiss-and-tell and rivalry-inspired revelations, but more than that, it included raw accounts and insights regarding his nearly lifelong history of drug and alcohol addiction.
Perry actually nearly lost his life years ago, and he previously revealed that he timed his memoir for when he felt completely “secure in my sobriety.” At that point, he’d been clean for at least 18 months, and while speaking with Tom Power’s Q podcast (via Decider and Comedian Daniel O’Reilly on Twitter), Perry stated that he’d rather be remembered for helping others achieve sobriety than for his decade-long run as Chandler Bing on Friends:
“The best thing about me, bar none, is if somebody comes up to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say yes and follow up and do it. That’s the best thing … I’ve said this for a long time. When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned. I want [helping other people kick addiction] to be the first thing that’s mentioned and I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that.”
Sad news, I was tuned into his journey.
Rest in peace Matthew Perry, dedicated to using the battle he was fighting with his own demons to help other’s pic.twitter.com/8TIMPhP097
Perry’s sudden passing this past weekend came as a shock to many. His cause of death is pending further investigation by the medical examiner, and tributes have been pouring out from his friends, fellow artists, and more.
The late Matthew Perry‘s 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing, included the usual kiss-and-tell and rivalry-inspired revelations, but more than that, it included raw accounts and insights regarding his nearly lifelong history of drug and alcohol addiction.
Perry actually nearly lost his life years ago, and he previously revealed that he timed his memoir for when he felt completely “secure in my sobriety.” At that point, he’d been clean for at least 18 months, and while speaking with Tom Power’s Q podcast (via Decider and Comedian Daniel O’Reilly on Twitter), Perry stated that he’d rather be remembered for helping others achieve sobriety than for his decade-long run as Chandler Bing on Friends:
“The best thing about me, bar none, is if somebody comes up to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say yes and follow up and do it. That’s the best thing … I’ve said this for a long time. When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned. I want [helping other people kick addiction] to be the first thing that’s mentioned and I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that.”
Sad news, I was tuned into his journey.
Rest in peace Matthew Perry, dedicated to using the battle he was fighting with his own demons to help other’s pic.twitter.com/8TIMPhP097
Perry’s sudden passing this past weekend came as a shock to many. His cause of death is pending further investigation by the medical examiner, and tributes have been pouring out from his friends, fellow artists, and more.
Rap is back. Rapsody, that is. The North Carolina rapper’s last album came out over four years ago, but she’s been teasing her return on social media for the past few weeks. Today, she officially kicked off her return with a new song, “Asteroids,” which is produced by Hit-Boy, coming fresh off his triumphant run with Nas. Over a mellow, spacey beat, Rapsody serves up a punchline-laden reminder of why she’s been so respected in hip-hop for so long, spitting that “oh my god sh*t to rearrange your molars.”
“The hardest step she ever took was to blindly trust in who she was.”
While her last album was 2019’s Eve, Rapsody has maintained a strong presence since, appearing on multiple other rappers’ projects, as well as the soundtrack to Halle Berry’s 2021 Netflix film Bruised. In 2022, she appeared on Robert Glasper’s album Black Radio III, joining him for a live TV performance of “In Tune” and “Black Superhero.” Her 2022 song “Dust To Diamonds” honored the 50th anniversary of Title IX with ESPN, while she honored the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year with DJ Premier, appearing on the producer’s commemorative Mass Appeal EP with Remy Ma for “Remy Rap.” Also this year, she teamed up with John Legend on his new album and fellow 9th Wonder protege Reuben Vincent on his.
Rapsody hasn’t yet revealed too many details of the upcoming album, only that it’s done. Stay tuned for more, and check out her “Asteroids” lyrics video above.
Rap is back. Rapsody, that is. The North Carolina rapper’s last album came out over four years ago, but she’s been teasing her return on social media for the past few weeks. Today, she officially kicked off her return with a new song, “Asteroids,” which is produced by Hit-Boy, coming fresh off his triumphant run with Nas. Over a mellow, spacey beat, Rapsody serves up a punchline-laden reminder of why she’s been so respected in hip-hop for so long, spitting that “oh my god sh*t to rearrange your molars.”
“The hardest step she ever took was to blindly trust in who she was.”
While her last album was 2019’s Eve, Rapsody has maintained a strong presence since, appearing on multiple other rappers’ projects, as well as the soundtrack to Halle Berry’s 2021 Netflix film Bruised. In 2022, she appeared on Robert Glasper’s album Black Radio III, joining him for a live TV performance of “In Tune” and “Black Superhero.” Her 2022 song “Dust To Diamonds” honored the 50th anniversary of Title IX with ESPN, while she honored the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year with DJ Premier, appearing on the producer’s commemorative Mass Appeal EP with Remy Ma for “Remy Rap.” Also this year, she teamed up with John Legend on his new album and fellow 9th Wonder protege Reuben Vincent on his.
Rapsody hasn’t yet revealed too many details of the upcoming album, only that it’s done. Stay tuned for more, and check out her “Asteroids” lyrics video above.
In just a few days on November 10, artists like Kim Petras, Jeff Tweedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more will be uniting to unveil the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Given that fans have been waiting to see if their favorites will get a nod in any of the major categories, they also might be wondering how to livestream the announcement.
Here’s what to know.
On that day, fans will be able to watch the Grammy nominees get revealed through a stream that will run on both YouTube and their official website here. The ceremony will start by announcing the general and then select categories.
According to Billboard, this year the awards show is limiting the number of nominees in categories like Album Of The Year and more down to just 8. (It used to be up to 10.) Rounding out the general awards are Song Of The Year; Record Of The Year; Best New Artist; and now, the added Producer Of The Year; Non-Classical; and Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical.
The Grammy nominations pre-show will start at 10:45 a.m. ET. At 11, the livestream event will then kick off and will run until 11:25 a.m. ET. For those who miss the stream, the nominees will be posted online immediately after it finishes.
Then, the 2024 Grammy Awards will be held on February 4, 2024, where the winners will be revealed.
In just a few days on November 10, artists like Kim Petras, Jeff Tweedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more will be uniting to unveil the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Given that fans have been waiting to see if their favorites will get a nod in any of the major categories, they also might be wondering how to livestream the announcement.
Here’s what to know.
On that day, fans will be able to watch the Grammy nominees get revealed through a stream that will run on both YouTube and their official website here. The ceremony will start by announcing the general and then select categories.
According to Billboard, this year the awards show is limiting the number of nominees in categories like Album Of The Year and more down to just 8. (It used to be up to 10.) Rounding out the general awards are Song Of The Year; Record Of The Year; Best New Artist; and now, the added Producer Of The Year; Non-Classical; and Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical.
The Grammy nominations pre-show will start at 10:45 a.m. ET. At 11, the livestream event will then kick off and will run until 11:25 a.m. ET. For those who miss the stream, the nominees will be posted online immediately after it finishes.
Then, the 2024 Grammy Awards will be held on February 4, 2024, where the winners will be revealed.
The porter beer style was first introduced in England in the early 1700s and is still popular today. Especially in the United States, where American brewers like Deschutes, Great Lakes, and others have been crafting award-winning, sweet, fruity, chocolate, and lightly floral hopped porters for decades. And no time is better for a rich porter than the first true cold snap of fall.
First a quick note…
When it comes to stouts and porters, it’s pretty easy to mistake one for the other. They’re very similar in appearance and overall flavor. The main thing that sets the two apart is the fact that stouts are usually brewed with unmalted barley and porters are made with malted barley. This results in a porter having a lighter, sweeter body than a stout along with roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee notes, sometimes followed by light hops.
It’s a great fall beer because — while it’s still robust and rich at times — it can be lighter and have less body than its winter-ready stout counterpart. Below, you’ll find eight great examples of American porters that are particularly great for this time of year. Did we rank them? You’d better believe it!
Brewed with 2-row, Munich, Chocolate, Carafa, and Crystal malts as well as CTZ and Cascade hops, Death Before Disco is a sweet, lightly bitter, fruity porter that’s perfect for a fall dance party or simply sipping while you hang out around an autumnal bonfire.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, vanilla, freshly brewed coffee, and a light fruity aroma greets you before your first sip. The palate is chocolate-centered with espresso, toasted coconut, and vanilla beans. The finish is a mixture of sweetness and pleasant bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This is a great example of an American porter for chocolate fans. Semisweet chocolate fans, in particular.
There are few American porters more well-known than Deschutes Black Butte. It’s brewed with Crystal, Carapils, and 2-row malts as well as wheat and Cascade, and Tettnang hops, giving it a roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and floral-hopped centered flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of fruit esters, dark chocolate, and roasted malts. Drinking it reveals notes of coffee beans, roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and lightly piney, bitter hops. The finish is dry and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
As American porters go, Deschutes Black Butte is lower on the sweetness scale and higher in bitterness than many others. Still… it’s tasty if you like some IBUs!
With a name like Death By Coconut, you should have a decent idea about what you’re in for when you crack open one of these bad boys. This American-made Irish-style porter is a mix of chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconut that will appeal to the porter fan with a sweet tooth.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy on milk chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconuts. The palate continues this trend with a ton of roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, and a wallop of toasted coconut. You’d better like coconut if you open one of these beers.
Bottom Line:
This beer is the equivalent of a Mounds Bar in beer form. Chocolate, toasted coconut — a candy fan’s dream beer.
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is named for the ship of the same name that sank in Lake Superior during a late fall storm in November of 1975. This complex, rich porter was brewed with 2-row base malt, Crystal 77, Chocolate malt, and roasted barley. It gets its hop presence from the use of Northern Brewer, Willamette, and Cascade hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of dark chocolate, freshly brewed coffee, roasted malts, and toffee start everything off on a great foot. Drinking it brings forth notes of espresso, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, caramel candy, and lightly floral hops. The finish is dry, mellow, and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This is a very complex American porter. Coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, it has everything a fan of the beer style could want.
A Möbius strip is a mathematical object that is sometimes used to describe the bending of time and space. We’re not precisely sure what that has to do with this beer from Equilibrium, but it’s hard to mind when the result is this tasty! This 7% ABV porter is known for its roasted malt, coffee, and creamy flavor profile. It’s great, even if drinking it won’t help you time travel.
Tasting Notes:
This beer begins with a nose of vanilla beans, roasted malts, dark chocolate, treacle, licorice candy, and floral hops. The palate is all toasted vanilla beans, butterscotch, bitter chocolate, black licorice, roasted malts, and floral hops. The finish is sweet, mellow, and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This beer is a great choice for porter fans who enjoy bitter dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and spicy hops. It’s a very well-rounded beer.
This isn’t your average porter — this annual release from Alaskan Brewing was one of the first smoked porters made in the US when it was first released in 1988. It gets its unique, smoky flavor from the use of five different malts, two types of hops, water, and yeast. The malts are smoked in small batches with locally sourced alder wood.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, dried fruits, caramel, and a ton of campfire smoke greet you before your first sip. Diving in, you’ll find hints of dark chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, and a healthy dose of smoke throughout. The finish is smoky and lightly bitter from the roasted malts.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for the smoke fans. It’s a warming, sweet, lightly bitter smoke bomb of a fall beer.
This 6.5% ABV milk stout is brewed with Ecuadorian and Haitian cocoa nibs, toasted coconut, and Ethiopian coffee. The result is an indulgent, creamy, sweet, lightly bitter porter you’ll want to have in your fridge whenever you can find it.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, freshly brewed coffee, and coconut sweetness are big on the nose. The palate is loaded with a mix of dark and milk chocolate, coffee beans, brown sugar, roasted malts, and a nice kick of toasted coconut that swirls throughout. It’s creamy, sweet, and borderline dessert-like.
Bottom Line:
Coconut and chocolate are real winning flavors when it comes to porters. Creature Comforts Koko Buni makes the best use of them.
Named for a beloved Rwandan Silverback Gorilla, this annual release from Maine Beer is brewed with Centennial and Columbus hops as well as American 2-Row, Caramel 40L, Chocolate, Munich 10L, and Caramel 80L malts as well as midnight wheat and flaked oats.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of dark chocolate, caramel candy, candied nuts, and coffee. Drinking it reveals notes of roasted malts, bitter chocolate, brewed coffee, caramel, sweet treacle, fruit esters, and lightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
You’ll have a hard time finding a porter as well-rounded as Maine King Titus. This beer has everything porter fans crave.
The porter beer style was first introduced in England in the early 1700s and is still popular today. Especially in the United States, where American brewers like Deschutes, Great Lakes, and others have been crafting award-winning, sweet, fruity, chocolate, and lightly floral hopped porters for decades. And no time is better for a rich porter than the first true cold snap of fall.
First a quick note…
When it comes to stouts and porters, it’s pretty easy to mistake one for the other. They’re very similar in appearance and overall flavor. The main thing that sets the two apart is the fact that stouts are usually brewed with unmalted barley and porters are made with malted barley. This results in a porter having a lighter, sweeter body than a stout along with roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee notes, sometimes followed by light hops.
It’s a great fall beer because — while it’s still robust and rich at times — it can be lighter and have less body than its winter-ready stout counterpart. Below, you’ll find eight great examples of American porters that are particularly great for this time of year. Did we rank them? You’d better believe it!
Brewed with 2-row, Munich, Chocolate, Carafa, and Crystal malts as well as CTZ and Cascade hops, Death Before Disco is a sweet, lightly bitter, fruity porter that’s perfect for a fall dance party or simply sipping while you hang out around an autumnal bonfire.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, vanilla, freshly brewed coffee, and a light fruity aroma greets you before your first sip. The palate is chocolate-centered with espresso, toasted coconut, and vanilla beans. The finish is a mixture of sweetness and pleasant bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This is a great example of an American porter for chocolate fans. Semisweet chocolate fans, in particular.
There are few American porters more well-known than Deschutes Black Butte. It’s brewed with Crystal, Carapils, and 2-row malts as well as wheat and Cascade, and Tettnang hops, giving it a roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and floral-hopped centered flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of fruit esters, dark chocolate, and roasted malts. Drinking it reveals notes of coffee beans, roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and lightly piney, bitter hops. The finish is dry and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
As American porters go, Deschutes Black Butte is lower on the sweetness scale and higher in bitterness than many others. Still… it’s tasty if you like some IBUs!
With a name like Death By Coconut, you should have a decent idea about what you’re in for when you crack open one of these bad boys. This American-made Irish-style porter is a mix of chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconut that will appeal to the porter fan with a sweet tooth.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy on milk chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconuts. The palate continues this trend with a ton of roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, and a wallop of toasted coconut. You’d better like coconut if you open one of these beers.
Bottom Line:
This beer is the equivalent of a Mounds Bar in beer form. Chocolate, toasted coconut — a candy fan’s dream beer.
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is named for the ship of the same name that sank in Lake Superior during a late fall storm in November of 1975. This complex, rich porter was brewed with 2-row base malt, Crystal 77, Chocolate malt, and roasted barley. It gets its hop presence from the use of Northern Brewer, Willamette, and Cascade hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of dark chocolate, freshly brewed coffee, roasted malts, and toffee start everything off on a great foot. Drinking it brings forth notes of espresso, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, caramel candy, and lightly floral hops. The finish is dry, mellow, and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This is a very complex American porter. Coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, it has everything a fan of the beer style could want.
A Möbius strip is a mathematical object that is sometimes used to describe the bending of time and space. We’re not precisely sure what that has to do with this beer from Equilibrium, but it’s hard to mind when the result is this tasty! This 7% ABV porter is known for its roasted malt, coffee, and creamy flavor profile. It’s great, even if drinking it won’t help you time travel.
Tasting Notes:
This beer begins with a nose of vanilla beans, roasted malts, dark chocolate, treacle, licorice candy, and floral hops. The palate is all toasted vanilla beans, butterscotch, bitter chocolate, black licorice, roasted malts, and floral hops. The finish is sweet, mellow, and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This beer is a great choice for porter fans who enjoy bitter dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and spicy hops. It’s a very well-rounded beer.
This isn’t your average porter — this annual release from Alaskan Brewing was one of the first smoked porters made in the US when it was first released in 1988. It gets its unique, smoky flavor from the use of five different malts, two types of hops, water, and yeast. The malts are smoked in small batches with locally sourced alder wood.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, dried fruits, caramel, and a ton of campfire smoke greet you before your first sip. Diving in, you’ll find hints of dark chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, and a healthy dose of smoke throughout. The finish is smoky and lightly bitter from the roasted malts.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for the smoke fans. It’s a warming, sweet, lightly bitter smoke bomb of a fall beer.
This 6.5% ABV milk stout is brewed with Ecuadorian and Haitian cocoa nibs, toasted coconut, and Ethiopian coffee. The result is an indulgent, creamy, sweet, lightly bitter porter you’ll want to have in your fridge whenever you can find it.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, freshly brewed coffee, and coconut sweetness are big on the nose. The palate is loaded with a mix of dark and milk chocolate, coffee beans, brown sugar, roasted malts, and a nice kick of toasted coconut that swirls throughout. It’s creamy, sweet, and borderline dessert-like.
Bottom Line:
Coconut and chocolate are real winning flavors when it comes to porters. Creature Comforts Koko Buni makes the best use of them.
Named for a beloved Rwandan Silverback Gorilla, this annual release from Maine Beer is brewed with Centennial and Columbus hops as well as American 2-Row, Caramel 40L, Chocolate, Munich 10L, and Caramel 80L malts as well as midnight wheat and flaked oats.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of dark chocolate, caramel candy, candied nuts, and coffee. Drinking it reveals notes of roasted malts, bitter chocolate, brewed coffee, caramel, sweet treacle, fruit esters, and lightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
You’ll have a hard time finding a porter as well-rounded as Maine King Titus. This beer has everything porter fans crave.
Diddy recently returned to his first love, music, with a new album titled, fittingly, The Love Album: Off The Grid. Unlike many of his past projects, though, it was less of a rap album than a survey of modern R&B, from throwback neo-soul sounds to the murky “PBR&B” style pioneered by The Weeknd a little over a decade ago.
But Diddy being Diddy, he couldn’t just put out an album or even go on a tour. He’s always got his hands in a lot of pies, and this time, it looks like he wants to extend his empire into movies. Today, the music mogul shared a trailer for Off The Grid: The Movie, a film inspired by his new album. The trailer, which features songs from the album, finds Diddy and go-star Eva Apio circling each other emotionally while struggling to keep each other at arms’ length.
From shooting flamethrowers in the desert to apparently running from and eventually kidnapping a police officer, Off The Grid appears to depict a Sid & Nancy-style relationship and all its self-destructive consequences. In a press release, Diddy said of his co-star: “This movie is an extension of the album’s soul. It’s not just about the music but about the stories, emotions, and experiences behind each song. Working with Eva Apio was an incredible experience; her talent and energy brought my vision to life.”
The trailer alleges the short film is coming soon to theaters. For now, though, you can check out the trailer above and listen to The Love Albumhere.
Diddy recently returned to his first love, music, with a new album titled, fittingly, The Love Album: Off The Grid. Unlike many of his past projects, though, it was less of a rap album than a survey of modern R&B, from throwback neo-soul sounds to the murky “PBR&B” style pioneered by The Weeknd a little over a decade ago.
But Diddy being Diddy, he couldn’t just put out an album or even go on a tour. He’s always got his hands in a lot of pies, and this time, it looks like he wants to extend his empire into movies. Today, the music mogul shared a trailer for Off The Grid: The Movie, a film inspired by his new album. The trailer, which features songs from the album, finds Diddy and go-star Eva Apio circling each other emotionally while struggling to keep each other at arms’ length.
From shooting flamethrowers in the desert to apparently running from and eventually kidnapping a police officer, Off The Grid appears to depict a Sid & Nancy-style relationship and all its self-destructive consequences. In a press release, Diddy said of his co-star: “This movie is an extension of the album’s soul. It’s not just about the music but about the stories, emotions, and experiences behind each song. Working with Eva Apio was an incredible experience; her talent and energy brought my vision to life.”
The trailer alleges the short film is coming soon to theaters. For now, though, you can check out the trailer above and listen to The Love Albumhere.
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