Another day, another legendary music festival lineup to announce. This go-’round is one of the most iconic festivals dedicated to jazz music lovers: the Newport Jazz Festival.
The multi-day outdoor event is set to celebrate its 69th anniversary, making its highly-anticipated return to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island. The Newport Jazz Festival will take place between August 4 and 6. Opening day, Friday, August 4, will be headlined by Kamasi Washington, DJ Pee .Wee (also known as Anderson .Paak), and Big Freedia. Whereas Jon Batiste and Thundercat are billed to headline the following day, Saturday, August 5. Closing out the festival is none other than jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Diana Krall.
Other notable acts include Grammy’s newest Best New Artist winner Samara Joy, Charles Lloyd, Vijay Iyer, DOMi & JD Beck, Arooj Aftab, Big Gigantic, Alfa Mist, Cautious Clay, Durand Jones, and The War & Treaty.
Tickets for the festival will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, March 22, at 1 p.m. est. The organizers are offering a student discount rate for those between the ages of 10 and 25. For more information, click here.
View the full lineup organized by day via the poster below.
Newport Jazz Festival
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One of Spotify’s most-followed playlists is coming to life on-screen. Today (March 22), Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for RapCaviar Presents, an upcoming hip-hop documentary series.
Over the course of six episodes, RapCaviar Presents will cover an array of topics, including mental health and trauma, misogyny, and sexism in the industry; hate and negativity online; and the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court. The participating acts will also touch on their journeys breaking through in the industry, and some of the roadblocks they’ve run into along the way.
In the trailer, fans can see clips of concert footage, studio sessions, and talking heads of their favorite rappers weighing in on the aforementioned topics.
Additionally, several hip-hop and culture experts will be providing commentary throughout the series, including journalists Ivie Anie and Jamilah Lemieux, along with Uproxx’s own hip-hop editor Aaron Williams.
Find the full trailer above.
All episodes of RapCaviar Presents will be available for streaming on Hulu on 3/31.
Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly, who were doing “daily Zoom therapy” to preserve their relationship, are taking some time apart. In person, at least. A source told US Weekly that the Pam and Tommy Lee-like couple are “currently on a break but are still in contact. They are very hot and cold.”
Fox, who recently attended the Vanity Fair Oscars party solo, and the “My Ex’s Best Friend” singer got engaged in January 2022, but no wedding date has been set yet. “They have stalled wedding planning to work on their issues,” the source claimed. “Their relationship is pretty volatile at the moment. They are currently off, but still texting each other.”
“There has been no third party interference in this relationship of any kind. That includes, but is not limited to… actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons,” she wrote in an Instagram post, channeling her Jennifer’s Body character. “While I do hate to rob you of running random baseless news stories that would have been much more accurately written by ChatGPT, you need to let this story die and leave all of these innocent people alone now.”
It looks like Coldplay leader Chris Martin isn’t the only public figure being called out on his wardrobe. Instead of the singer getting backlash for the outfit he wore to the Grammys, another musician is indirectly being thrown into the mix: Tame Impala is at the center of a brewing Australian debate.
Former rugby player turned Australian Senator David Pocock appeared on local television airing out his grievances with what has been happening in the region he serves. However, it wasn’t what Pocock said that stirred up controversy; it was what he was wearing while being interviewed that peeved one TV news reporter.
Caleb Bond of Sky News wasn’t a fan of Pocock’s Tame Impala t-shirt, saying, “He couldn’t even put on a collared shirt. Go to a shop and go and buy a bloody shirt, tie, and a suit. You’re a politician!”
Well, Pocock took to Twitter to respond to the report’s rant, writing, “I’d come straight from an early morning game of tennis to celebrate 100 years of Tennis ACT and agreed to do a door stop (not a prearranged interview) in the hallway on the way out of the Press Gallery after a morning radio interview.”
He concluded, “Great to see the big issues being reported [crying laughing emoji].”
What do you think? Play on?
I’d come straight from an early morning game of tennis to celebrate 100 years of Tennis ACT and agreed to do a door stop (not a prearranged interview) in the hallway on the way out of the Press Gallery after a morning radio interview.
Despite Tuesday coming and going with no arrest for Donald Trump, the former president is reportedly convinced that he’s going to be charged over his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels sometime soon. While you’d think the legal ramifications of those charges would be the most pressing matter on Trump’s mind, not so much. In true Trump fashion, he’s reportedly obsessed with how his “perp walk” will look on TV and has been constantly talking about it behind closed doors.
According to sources who have spoken to Trump, he’s apparently very concerned with not looking like he’s not “slinking away in shame.”
He has concentrated on projecting strength and avoiding any signals of shame over his circumstances, an approach that mirrors his handling of repeated political crises and his flair for creating dramatic, made-for-TV moments. Seeing Mr. Trump after a court appearance could also galvanize his supporters, whom Mr. Trump urged over the weekend to protest in the event of his arrest.
“He wants to be defiant — to show the world that if they can try to do this to him, they can do it to anyone,” said one person who spoke to Mr. Trump over the weekend.
However, the Times report that Trump’s worrying may be for nothing. There is reportedly “no indication” that authorities would even engage in a perp walk. Instead, “arrangements are likely to be made between the Secret Service and law enforcement to avoid a media circus.”
In a way, that would be the ultimate punishment for Trump because, seriously, the guy loves being on TV. Can’t enough of it.
To that end, I’m conducting a classic rye whiskey blind taste test with new bottles that have just hit shelves for spring drinking. These are all straight rye whiskeys with at least 51% rye grains in the mix. I even added a new Irish rye whiskey that was released exclusively for the U.S. market. There are small batch blends, special oak barrel finishes, and some limited editions that go full rye with 100% of the grain in the mash bill.
Our lineup today features the following rye whiskeys:
291 All Rye 100% Rye Malt Colorado Whiskey Finished with Aspen Wood Staves
15 STARS Fine Aged Rye First West A Select Blend of Straight Rye Whiskeys
Rare Character Single Barrel Series Selected by ReserveBar Topflight Series Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Jaqueira Casks
Doc Swinson’s Alter Ego Solera Method Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Rum Casks
Lost Lantern 2023 Single Cask #4 Corbin Cash California Straight Rye Whiskey 7 Years Old
Sagamore Spirit Reserve Series 8-Year-Old Straight Rye Whiskey
Method And Madness Irish Whiskey Triple Distilled Rye And Malt USA Limited Edition
As for the ranking, this is about taste only. I’m looking for that one bottle of new rye whiskey that you should be drinking right now. So let’s dive right in and find you that perfect whiskey to add to your bar cart this spring!
Also Read: The Top Five Rye Whiskey from the Last Six Months on UPROXX
Nose: The nose opens with dark fruit leather, dark black tea leaves, cinnamon bark, and a fistful of dry dill and marjoram with a whisper of salted caramel sweetness.
Palate: The palate has a cinnamon toast vibe next to more of that dark black tea with a hint of clove-spiced plum jam, freshly cracked black pepper, and more of that salted caramel.
Finish: The plumminess drives the finish with a hint of cracked almond shell and dark dill next to fresh flat-leaf parsley and a touch of sweet-sour cherry packed in sawdust.
Initial Thoughts:
This is excellent whiskey. It really balances the green herbal notes with deeply classic and dark American whiskey fruitiness and sweetness.
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s a deep winter spice — clove, anise, cinnamon, nutmeg — next to Earl Grey tea, dried cranberry, dried cherry, and a dash of sour plum.
Palate: Apricot jam over buttermilk scones dusted with cinnamon leads to dry oolong tea leaves, sweet sage, creamed honey, and a touch of ginger tobacco just kissed with dark chocolate sauce.
Finish: That sharp gingery tobacco drives the finish with a bitter chocolate underbelly toward lush cherrywood and sour plum sauce with a hint more of those opening winter spices.
Initial Thoughts:
What a great ride! This whiskey is complex and fun. Rye on steroids.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose is deeply nutty with a dark and worn leatheriness next to a soft sense of mild mushrooms, green banana, macadamia, and anise with a soft Kentucky cherry/vanilla/winter spice undertone.
Palate: The palate is lush and silky with a sense of vanilla oils, star fruit, clove, cinnamon bark, and nutmeg next to creamy nuttiness with a dash of toffee and alder planks.
Finish: The finish just lingers and lingers while slowly fading through vanilla buttercream, sour cherries tossed in maple sea salt, and moist marzipan cut with orange and pomelo oils.
Initial Thoughts:
This is whiskey is fabulous. 5-stars. A+++++. 100%.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Quince jam and stewed pears lead the way on the nose with a sense of apple cider spiked with cinnamon bark and allspice berries next to a mild sweet oakiness and grassiness.
Palate: Grilled peaches drizzled in caramel mix with the syrup from a can of fruit cocktail next to smudged wild sage, pineapple rinds, burnt orange, and a sense of sweet wet herbs.
Finish: Those sweet herbs drive the finish toward a sense of spiced cherry next to vanilla cookies with a nice dose of winter spice.
Initial Thoughts:
What’s crazy is that this is really, really good rye but I want to go back to the last pour. That’s the sort of rub with these blind tastings, this could be a number one had I not had the last pour right before this. Still, this is delicious but… maybe a touch fruity/sweet?
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Chili-spiced old chocolate bars sit next to mint chocolate chip ice cream in waffle cones with a hint of old grain silos off in the distance.
Palate: There’s a clear ABV buzz on the palate with a clear sense of fresh green tea leaves, sweet stone fruits, spiced hot chocolate topped with vanilla buttercream, and a light sense of nuttiness.
Finish: The end has this vibe that’s kind of like a hot green matcha creamy tea (the ones made with condensed milk from the can) that’s rolled into a mint mochi ball and dipped in dark chocolate.
Initial Thoughts:
This is another great whiskey. It’s so different yet makes total sense once you go on the journey from the nose to the finish. I really want more of this one too.
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose draws you in with dried cherries dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with ground clove and allspice and then dipped in old vanilla syrup made with burnt pods and orange peels.
Palate: A soft cherry sweetness plays with a classic winter spice mix — think cinnamon sticks, anise, clove, orange rind, holly — next to ginger rock candy, peanut butter cookies, and a hint of rum-raisin.
Finish: That sweet/rummy dried fruit drives the finish toward clove-laced plum jam, peanut brittle, vanilla oils, and a whisper of pine resin layered into rum-raisin tobacco.
Initial Thoughts:
Goddamn it, this is f*cking great too. I’m six pours in and all of these whiskeys have been stellar. I have no idea how I’m going to rank these.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s a nice deep leatheriness on the nose with a sense of old dry lemon rinds next to lavender oils, clove buds, and a fleeting sense of eggnog with a lightness to it.
Palate: Oats and winter spices lead the way on the palate with a sense of fresh firewood, honey-dipped malt cookies, and raisins dipped in dark chocolate and flaked with salt.
Finish: Those malt cookies drive the finish toward more raisin and oats with a honeyed vibe, a hint of dry red chili, and a dash of white pepper.
Initial Thoughts:
This is very good too, but much lighter. It looks a lot lighter too. I’m guessing this is the Irish rye, mostly due to the oatiness and honey vibes. Still, this is pretty good all things considered.
Taste 8
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose is rich and full of nutty banana bread brimming with cinnamon and cardamom next to salted caramel and moist vanilla cake kissed with tart cherry and a pinch of dark chocolate.
Palate: The palate leads off with a hint of burnt orange that sweetens towards marmalade with more of that vanilla and caramel accented by a campfire-singed marshmallow.
Finish: The end has a light smudged sage vibe that circles back to that nutty and spicy banana bread with a buttery softness.
Initial Thoughts:
This was good but kind of standard. That might just be that the first six pours on this panel were all on a different plane.
Buzzard’s Roost is a female-led Kentucky bottler. The whiskey in this bottle is double-casked rye from Indiana (MGP’s famed 95/5 rye). After four years of resting, the rye whiskey is re-barreled into new American oak that was toasted and then smoked instead of charred for a final maturation rest before blending and bottling.
Bottom Line:
This was nice, standard rye whiskey. It had a nice sweetness to it and would work as an easy everyday sipper.
5. Method And Madness Irish Whiskey Triple Distilled Rye And Malt USA Limited Edition — Taste 7
This whiskey is from Midleton Distillery’s (the place that makes Jameson, Powers, Spot, and Redbreast) craft distillery. The whiskey is made from a mash (recipe) of 60% rye and 40% malted barley. The whiskey is twice-distilled as per most Irish whiskeys before a long rest in ex-bourbon casks. Once those barrels were ready, they were batched, proofed, and bottled for the U.S. marketplace.
Bottom Line:
This was a nice rye whiskey that felt like a good bridge between classic Irish whiskeys and bolder ryes from the U.S. Overall, if you’re looking for something a little different but still very drinkable, then grab one of these. I think with the honey vibes on the palate, this will make a great citrus-forward cocktail too.
4. Doc Swinson’s Alter Ego Solera Method Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Rum Casks — Taste 4
This whiskey is a blend of classic Indiana 95/5 rye/malted barley whiskey with a very low-rye mash whiskey made with 45% corn, 51% rye, and 4% malted barley. Once blended, those whiskeys are added to Doc Swinson’s solera system where they’re finished in a mix of rum casks from St. Croix, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, and Jamaica. As the barrels are emptied, new whiskey is added to keep the solera method going indefinitely.
Bottom Line:
This was very good whiskey. It didn’t quite pop as much as the next whiskeys, but it got the job done. If you’re looking for a solid easy-sipper, this is a great choice.
3. 15 STARS Fine Aged Rye First West A Select Blend of Straight Rye Whiskeys — Taste 2
This new release from 15 STARS is a blend of six, seven, and eight-year-old ryes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. That blend informs the name “First West” as those states were considered the “West” during the early days of the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Bottom Line:
This, again, was a very nice sipping whiskey. It is complex and rewarding. There are no faults at all. If you can find a bottle of this one, you’ll be in for a rich and fun rye whiskey to take slow as a sipper.
2. (tie) 291 All Rye 100% Rye Malt Colorado Whiskey Finished with Aspen Wood Staves — Taste 1
This Colorado whiskey is made with a 100% rye mash bill — 50% Colorado malted rye (from Root Shoot Malting) and 50% German rye malt — on a bespoke still. The hot juice is then aged in new oak with signature toasted aspen wood staves added to help refine the aging process. Finally, the barrels were batched and bottled 100% as-is, yielding only 1,000 bottles.
Bottom Line:
This was fantastic. This one and the next entry are number two simply because they’re instant classics but maybe not quite trailblazers. Still, this whiskey hits every note so clearly and well that I kind of don’t care. This is so good.
This newest spring reserve release from Sagamore Spirit is an eight-year-old rye. The whiskey was batched and bottled as-is to highlight the deep maritime aging in Maryland.
Bottom Line:
This is just classic from top to bottom with a depth that’s beautiful. If you’re looking for a quintessential pour of rye whiskey, this is it.
1. (tie) Lost Lantern 2023 Single Cask #4 Corbin Cash California Straight Rye Whiskey 7 Years Old — Taste 5
This rye is from a tiny California distillery. The distillery was founded on a sweet potato farm that uses rye as a cover crop. The whiskey in this single barrel pick bottle is made with 100% Merced rye grown in sweet potato soil. That whiskey aged for seven years on the farm before Lost Lantern came along and bottled it into 217 bottles completely as-is.
Bottom Line:
Wow! This is next-level rye whiskey. It’s warm on the palate but offers just a wild and exciting ride of flavors so much so that you just want more. Get a bottle before this one disappears forever.
1. (tie) Rare Character Single Barrel Series Selected by ReserveBar Topflight Series Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Jaqueira Casks — Taste 3
Japqueira is a Brazilian wood that most notably grows jack fruit and is used to age cachaça. The whiskey in the bottle is 95/5 rye from Indiana that’s then refilled into a Jacqueira barrel that previously held cachaça and let it rest in Kentucky for a spell. After four years and six months, ReserveBar bottled a single barrel 100% as-is.
Bottom Line:
Yeah, this is another next-level rye that goes places that you’d never expect while still holding the thread of a complete story/journey on/in your senses. It’s wildly delicious and lush with a deep profile that just kind of keeps going deeper. This is where rye is going and I can’t wait to go on that ride.
Part 3 — Final Thoughts on the Spring Rye Whiskeys
Zach Johnston
The top four whiskeys on this list are some of the best whiskeys I’ve tasted this year (and I’m already north of 300 individual whiskeys so far). Find any of the top four whiskeys on this list, they’re amazing.
If those don’t speak to you for whatever reason, really all the whiskeys on this list are great and you’ll be in for a real treat if you buy any of them. Truly — just check the tasing notes to see what speaks to you.
Everybody is buzzing about Swarm, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ new psychological thriller series about the dangers of fandom, which dropped on Amazon’s Prime Video on March 17. Anyone who has binge-watched the series clearly knows that it was inspired by Beyoncé and her Beyhive—with even Glover jokingly asking Beyoncé superfans not to kill the creators behind the series at its premiere. What’s less clear to viewers is: Will there be a season 2?
While Swarm has been promoted as a “limited series,” that term has become pretty elastic, as evidenced by other “limited” series like The White Lotus, which is currently readying its third season. So will Swarm follow the masses and ride the wave of its current popularity? If Nabers has the final word, the answer would be: no.
Nabers and Swarm star Dominique Fishback spoke with the Los Angeles Times about the series, and its true-to-life inspirations. When asked if she would “be open or interested in returning for another season,” Nabers gave a matter-of-fact answer. “This is a limited series,” she said. “This is a story that has a very clear beginning, middle, and end, so this is it.”
For her part, Fishback agreed. “I feel really proud of Dre, of the humor that I got to exhibit with this role,” the actress said. “She really takes on different personas every episode, so it’s like a one-woman show on-screen. I think I got what I came for and we can lay that to rest.”
Ahead of her big on-screen film debut in John Wick 4, Rina Sawayama has shared a new song from the movie’s soundtrack. On the song “Eye For An Eye,” Sawayama is on guard and vigilant, and a force to be reckoned with. Over an ’80s-influenced electric guitar-and-drum-heavy beat, Sawayama gets proverbial.
“An eye for an eye / an eye for an eye / I’ll see you in Hell on the other side,” she sings on the song’s chorus, warning her opposition of their impending fate.
In John Wick 4, Sawayama plays Akira, a new ally alongside Keanu Reaves’ iconic character.
Last week, during an interview on Good Morning America, Sawayama revealed that the role was a dream come true for her, as she had been submitting self-audition tapes to several films and TV shows for years. It’s only fitting that she records music for the soundtrack, as her songs and visuals helped play a part in landing her the role of Akira.
“I actually got a call out of the blue from Chad Stahelski, the director,” said Sawayama. “He said, ‘I’m trying to find this role and I’ve seen your music videos, and I see that you act and I can see that you do dance and choreography and fight scenes … What are you doing for the next three months?’”
It’s bizarre to think about seeing sound, but nowadays we can do just that. If you haven’t seen an acoustic camera before, that’s because they’re mainly used for industrial purposes, but they’ve been available commercially from gfai tech since 2001.
YouTuber Steve Mould, who has a science channel with over 2.1 million subscribers, took the complicated concept of the acoustic camera and made it easy to understand in his latest video, “Acoustic cameras can SEE sound.”
In the video, Mould explains how an acoustic camera is much like your smartphone’s video recorder. But it also creates visual representations of sound emanating from where it’s generated within the video.
“They can show you where, in a scene, sound is coming from,” Mould says. The videos also allow you to isolate images within the recording and listen to any sound they produce.
The video shows how acoustic cameras are used in industrial settings for noise reduction and machine maintenance. For example, if a train is flying by at top speed, the acoustic camera can separate the sounds from each wheel as it passes. This allows engineers to analyze the sounds produced by each wheel to determine if they need to be fixed or replaced before there’s trouble.
To record the sound and visuals simultaneously, each camera has an array of strategically placed microphones to reproduce spatial information about sound. They even work in slow motion, and the echoes look amazing.
It’s not hard to imagine a world where, in addition to the video we take on our smartphones, we’ll be able to get a three-dimensional look at the soundscape as well.
Raising kids is no small feat. Just the basic logistics of caring for a human being from their helpless newborn stage to the full-fledged adult stage is a lot, much less doing the countless other things that will actually help that human thrive.
Mason Smith (@thedadsocial) shared a video of a special spa day he gave his young daughter when her mom and older sister were having their own pampered outing. “Mom and sister went to the salon so I couldn’t have her feeling left out,” he wrote.
The video shows Smith putting his daughter’s hair up and gently rubbing a homemade avocado mask on her face. He then appears to attempt to do something with the cucumber slices (which usually go over the eyes but may not feel particularly comfy for the preschool set).
Next comes the moisturizer, which the sweet dad smoothed into his daughter’s face and neck, massaging her temples and tickling her ears as he went. She clearly loves it.
Next up: some hairstyling, with spritzes and pigtails, followed by a nice little mani-pedi.
It’s as soothing to watch as it must have been to experience:
People in the comments raved about what a simple-yet-special day Smith created for his little girl.
“Every girl deserves a daddy like this, 🥺❤️” wrote one person.
“I really miss my dad, he was a great friend and same like this, even when I was 18, he use to help me straighten my hair, but he’s no more, passed away on Feb 10th.. missing you dadaaaa,” wrote another.
One commenter said it made them “cry in an incredibly cathartic way” and thanked him for being “this kind of dad” and “sharing it with pride.”
“She will never forget her daddy,” shared another. “This is fantabulous. She loves what he is doing and she admires and loves him for taking the time to make her feel special like mommy. God Bless.”
“This healed a part of me. Thank you for doing this with your daughter,” wrote another.
This isn’t Smith’s first foray into at-home-spa-day-making with his daughter. Another video shows him pampering both of his daughters in this way and it’s just as precious.
It doesn’t take a lot to let your kids know they are loved, and these kinds of special moments go a long way. Three cheers for good dads.
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