Eminem is a notably explicit rapper with some of the most controversial lyrics in mainstream music history. In fact, his words (and the marketing practices of the entertainment industry more broadly) were once the topic of a congressional hearing in 2001, with one representative saying, “When you hear the words about raping your mother or killing your mother, I think that the industry should be embarrassed that that’s award-winning entertainment.”
Back then, it may have seemed unlikely that Em would ever top any Christian music charts, but here in 2022, that’s just what he’s done. On Billboard‘s latest Hot Christian Songs chart, DJ Khaled’s “Use This Gospel (Remix)” featuring Kanye West and Eminem debuts at No. 1. This gives Em and Khaled their first leaders on that chart and Ye his fifth.
The “Use This Gospel” remix has multiple lines in which Em expresses his love for God, including, “Bible at my side like a rifle with a God-given gift / Every single day I thank God for / That’s why I pay so much homage / Praises to Jesus,” and, “So my Savior, I call on / To rescue me from these depths of despair / So these demons better step like a stair / Because He is my shepherd / I’m armed with Jesus, my weapon is prayer.”
So, while a lot of Eminem’s past material may not have been gospel-chart-worthy, his latest is, despite how odd that may read as a headline.
During filming for the final episode of The Walking Dead, Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on the AMC zombie series, suffered a concussion. “Thank u for the nice thoughts it’s been a week. or two,” he wrote on social media following the incident. “I was in an accident. but getting better getting cleared and gonna be back at work Tuesday.”
Reedus further discussed the injury during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Oh dude, that was horrible,” he said. “That whole ordeal for me personally was terrifying. I thought I was going to die.” Reedus didn’t disclose exactly what led to the concussion, but “it was very serious. It was scary. I’ve been hit in the face and the head a million times. I’ve gone through car windows, but that one rung my bell.” He was also worried about how it would affect the shooting schedule for the final season.
“You’re shooting over a year, and now we’re having to postpone some of the shooting because I’m lying in bed,” So the guilt of me not being at work and people are like, ‘Are we going to go a week over? Are we going two weeks over?’ — that was bothering me.”
Luckily, Reedus recovered (and enjoyed some martinis) and The Walking Dead will return for eight more episodes beginning on October 2.
In some circles, Atlanta rap group Crime Mob‘s 2004 hit “Knuck If You Buck” goes beyond just being a cultural touchstone. As Charlamagne Tha God recently put it during an interview with Regina Hall about her new movie Honk For Jesus, it’s damn near a “Negro spiritual.” The song came up in the course of the conversation because Hall’s character quotes it in the movie, leading to Hall admitting that she hadn’t heard it before she had to learn the lyrics for one of the film’s awkward-funny gags. This naturally led to some consternation among the Breakfast Club crew, prompting Hall to defend herself.
“I’m highly disappointed that you and Sterling K. Brown had to learn the words to the Negro spiritual, ‘Knuck If You Buck,’” Charlamagne joked. “You’re Black, Regina Hall!” Hall chuckled as she agreed, “It’s embarrassing! That’s what I found out!” She goes on to explain that she was in LA, not her hometown, DC, when the song came out (“It was in LA too!” CTG protests), and that it was a club hit, which is why she didn’t hear it. As she self-deprecatingly jests, “The club days ended so early for me.” When Charlamagne notes that the song is “18 years old,” Hall replies, “It was over by then!” She also explains how it took her a few days to learn Princess’ rhymes (the best part, as acknowledged by the interview crew), and laughed that Issa Rae would be disappointed in her, too.
Regina Hall talks about how she and costar Sterling K. Brown never heard “Knuck if you buck” until she had to recite it in her latest film “Honk for Jesus” on @peacockTVpic.twitter.com/11qYAAL2iy
At least, for Regina’s sake, she proved she remembers the lyrics to Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” and Lil Jon’s “Get Low,” or she would have been in danger of getting her Black Card revoked. You can check out the full interview up top.
Following the racist backlash to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power featuring a diverse cast of actors, the original Hobbit quartet from the Peter Jackson films are throwing their full support behind the Amazon series. In a photo tweeted by Elijah Wood, who played the iconic role of Frodo Baggins in the original trilogy, he’s flanked by Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (Merry and Pippin, respectively) as they sport T-shirts that read “You All Are Welcome Here” in elvish. Under the writing is a series of elf ears in various skin colors to support The Rings of Power‘s commitment to diversity.
The shirts, hats, and also hoodies bearing the “You All Are Welcome Here” message can be purchased from Lord of the Rings enthusiast Don Marshall who will donate a portion of the proceeds to a charity that supports people of color.
Of course, this latest move is sure to rankle the ever-watchful Eye of Elon. The Tesla CEO complained that “Tolkien is spinning in his grave,” which resulted in being dragged by several users on Twitter and beloved fantasy author Neil Gaiman, who told Musk to stay in his lane. Whoopi Goldberg also joined the fight against the anti-woke hordes on the season premiere of The View. Goldberg blasted anyone complaining about Black elves or Hobbits and flat-out told them to “get a job.”
As the whiskey boom continues, just about everything about the industry is changing. Rapidly. One of the sectors where that’s most evident is in the distillery experience. Not long ago, visiting a big or small distillery was mostly about touring a factory and/or barrel house, and then tasting some whiskey at the end. Over time, bars were added so that whiskey tourists could enjoy a few more pours and a cocktail or two.
Then in 2019, The Bar at Willett opened and everything shifted (more on that, below). Today, there are still plenty of Kentucky distilleries that simply offer whiskey tour experiences and tastings, but there are few that have caught onto the “full-experience” aspect of visiting a distillery and added stellar food programs.
Today, I’m calling out five dining stops along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in case you’re in the Bluegrass State for Bourbon Heritage Month. While this list isn’t a comprehensive listing of every food option at every distillery, it is a list of the absolute best dishes out there. Let’s dive in!
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This is the most easy-going stop. It’s also one of the easier to get to, as it’s located just outside of downtown Lexington at the old James E. Pepper Distillery campus. The Tavern is attached to a small craft distillery, Barrel House Distillery, which makes crafty vodka, rum, moonshine, and bourbon that’s still a little young and more suited to cocktails.
The Tavern is a laid-back walk-in friendly place. There’s nice outdoor seating with the red-brick dead warehouses of the Pepper distillery behind it. The interior is full of woody vibes and old-school Kentucky charm (deer heads, leather chairs, big old whiskey bar). The crowd tends to lean younger and there’s live music most weekends.
What To Eat:
Barrel House Distilling Co.
The menu is pretty light and very Kentucky-focused. I dig the Soup Beans. It’s a hammy pinto bean affair with some pickle and a cornbread muffin on the side. You also cannot go wrong with their Pimento Cheese Sandwich. The pimento is made in-house (like any self-respecting Kentucky tavern) with jalapeños and topped with crispy bacon crumbles, tomato, and bright lettuce. The best part, for $4 you can get a cup of the Soup Beans on the side.
The menu also rotates seasonal treats — like the hot dogs pictured above. Their chicken salad sando is pretty spot on, too.
What To Drink:
Barrel House Distilling Co.
You can grab a flight of Barrel House’s offerings but I’d recommend the Elkhorn Smash. It’s a mix of Barrel House Bourbon, pinot noir, simple syrup, lemon, and cherry. It’s a deeply satisfying drink that hits a sweet/sour spot with a good spicy bourbon base.
The Garden & Gun Club feels like one of those hidden-away Kentucky clubs you’d need a membership for. While that’s the vibe, you can totally walk in, though I’d recommend reserving a table.
The joint — in West Louisville (Shively) at the famed yet non-operational Stitzel-Weller Distillery (where Pappy and Old Fitzgerlad were born) — is an old-school place with dark green walls, plenty of deer heads, leather, and laid-back vibes.
What To Eat:
Diageo
While the menu is far smaller than its sibling outlet in Atlanta, there are some good treats to go with your whiskey pours.
The Seasonal Meat and Cheese Board is the best way to go. It includes local country ham (usually boiled and/or hanged) with local cheeses, jams, pickles, and mustard. It’s the perfect plate for one if you’re really hungry or easily splittable. It’s also a great way to get into Southern country ham if you haven’t. It’s basically America’s prosciutto.
The Pimento Sandwich is also on point. It’s house-made and served on toasted sourdough with spicy pickles and house-made kettle chips on the side.
If you’re looking more for a snack while sipping whiskey, the Boiled Peanuts are the way to go. They’re very soft, nice, and warm, and dusted with a sharp spicy seasoning that makes for a great whiskey pairing.
What To Drink:
Diageo
The distillery is now owned by Diageo, so the bar is stocked with a lot of their brands. You can get decent tequila, scotch, and gin pours alongside Guinness and all their bourbon brands (Bulliet, Blade & Bow, I.W. Harper, George Dickel, and Orphan Barrel). That means a flight might be the way to go.
If you’re going for a cocktail, I dig the Bourbon Bloody Mary. There’s a good amount of peppery heat, pickle brine, and tomato-y goodness. I also really like the Stranger in Paradise with Blade & Bow bourbon, pineapple habanero shrub, almond liqueur, lime juice, and topped with nutmeg. It’s like a spicy tropical surprise in a glass.
This restaurant opened back in 2019 and completely changed the way people look at food in both the distillery experience and rural Kentucky, especially around Bardstown. The Bar At Willett leans heavily into fine dining with a menu of small plates crafted to accentuate the world-renowned whiskeys made just feet away by the Kulsveen family, who have kept the brand alive since the 1980s.
The restaurant has a great outdoor porch vibe with the distillery and warehouses providing a dramatic backdrop to your meal and drinks. The interior is understated, dark, and modern. It’s still cozy with plenty of bourbon-bar charm. It’s also immaculate to the point of being Michelin star-level.
The menu shifts a bit from season to season. If you’re around when they have the cheeseburger on the menu, then that’s the play — it’s one of the best in the country. They also bake some amazing oysters from time to time. The point is, the menu is always in flux and you want to just go with the flow because it’ll be stellar no matter what’s on.
The real star of the show, though, is the Egg Salad Sandwich. The sandwich is so good/popular that it has its own IG account. The bread is thick white slices toasted off in plenty of butter sandwiching a beautifully creamy and spiced egg salad with grated yolk all over it. It 100 percent lives up to the hype.
What To Drink:
Willett
Willett! Seriously, Willett bourbon and rye are hard enough to find so get yourself a killer flight. That said, their bar program is also phenomenal. Their Sazerac, Manhattan, and Vieux Carre are all stellar Willett Rye cocktails. You cannot go wrong with any of them.
Sticking to the Bardstown area, Bardstown Bourbon Company took Willett’s amazing food program and made it accessible to the masses without cutting corners. The Kitchen & Bar at BBC is a great place to drop in or relax after a tour and tasting.
The Kitchen is right in the middle of the welcome center. There are massive, ceiling-high windows that let the light pour in. Hell, there’s even a selfie wall on the back wall of the place. There’s also a great bottle/gift shop right next to the dining room as well. If you’re not feeling the light-filled dining room, you can hit the bar outside for a little alfresco drinking and dining with rows of barrel houses filling your view.
What To Eat:
Bardstown Bourbon Company
This menu also shifts slightly from season to season. I tend to be a Club Sandwich snob and BBC knocks their Bardstown Club out of the park. The bread is perfectly toasted, the turkey is actually house-made and perfectly seasoned, the bacon is just the right amount of crispy and fatty, the mayo is spot on, and the lettuce/tomato element feels fresh and has the right crunch. Plus, the fries are great (hand-cut, dark fried, and good seasoning).
There’s so much other good stuff on this menu. Nashville Hot Chicken and Waffles, Southern Eggs Benny, a dope local Charcuterie board, Kentucky Poutine (with country gravy!), Brisket Pasta, Shrimp and Grits, and a Pan-Seared Salmon that has no business being as good as it is this far from a coastline (trust me, I grew up on the Washington Coast). It’s served on a butternut squash puree and it’s really damn good.
Their Cheesecake is one point too with a great creaminess and that perfect buttery/crumbly crust that makes it shine.
What To Drink:
Bardstown Bourbon Company
This is another spot that has some whiskeys that are harder to find outside of Kentucky. So a slight of BBC Fusion Series or Discovery Series is a solid move (or both). Their single-barrel Old Fashioned or Manhattan is also a great choice. Both have serious depth and really hit the spot.
I also really dig their One Of Those … Please, Berry Cream Soda. It’s a mix of five-year Plantation Rum, house-made white cacao liqueur, and house-made blackberry syrup topped with sparkling white wine and lemon. It’s light yet bursting with flavor. You’ll want one more for sure.
James B. Beam Distilling Co., The Kitchen Table Restaurant
Beam Suntory
The Restaurant:
James B. Beam Distilling Co. just finished a massive revamp of, well, everything on their Clermont, Kentucky campus. The biggest change is their restaurant and bar right next to the old Beam family home and the visitor’s center.
The Kitchen Table Restaurant sits on a hill in the middle of the distillery, so you get a great look at both the black warehouses and distillery grounds but also over the rolling green hills of central Kentucky. The restaurant is modernist with big, open spaces (and an open kitchen). There’s indoor seating around the central bar with more seating on a covered porch. You can also sit outside at picnic tables and enjoy the fresh air.
What To Eat:
Zach Johnston
This is another great menu. The Brisket is perfectly smoked and served on some of the best, creamiest grits money can buy. The sous vide Fried Chicken is a moist masterpiece. Hell, even the iceberg Wedge Salad is excellent with legitimately solid mini iceberg wedges, fresh cherry tomatoes, crispy bacon lardons, fresh and sharp radish, and a wonderfully fresh ranch dressing made with fresh herbs instead of dried ones.
The real star of the show is the pizza though. The crust is fermented with the same proprietary yeast that’s used to make Beam’s whiskeys. The cold fermented dough spends days in the fridge before it’s proofed, hand-stretched, topped, and baked in a blazing wood-fired oven. This is one of the best pizzas you can get outside of Naples, Rome, Sao Paulo, New York, or Chicago. Fucking legit.
The dough has that perfect fermented chewiness on the edges while the middle crust is thin and moves from soft to cracker-y. The tomato is perfectly balanced between sweet, spicy, and umami. The cheese is a good mix of low moisture mozzarella and some high-end parm. The toppings are also spot on. The Pepperoni pie has the perfect spicy bite with Calabrian chilis and is drizzled with spicy honey, providing a wonderful counterpoint to the mildly spicy pepperoni slices. The Hot Brown pie loses the tomato base but adds a cheesy mornay sauce, smoked turkey, bacon lardons, cherry tomato, and Swiss cheese. It’s just great on that crust.
What To Drink:
Beam Suntory
The cocktail bar scene is on point. I really dig the Blossom, which is an old fashioned take that feels like a Manhattan in a lowball glass with Legent Bourbon, sweet vermouth, maraschino liqueur, and bitters. The Old Grand-dad Brown Derby is also a citrus delight with a hint of honey and thyme.
Naturally, the whiskey pours are great too. You can try the new Hardin’s Creek expressions, the new Booker’s and Little Book releases, as well as a long list of all of Beam’s other whiskey brands.
A few years ago, Anna Kendrick starred in HBO Max’s Love Life, in which she portrayed a serial monogamist (Darby) who finds herself in a batch of unfulfilling relationships, including one with a sophisticated guy portrayed by Scoot McNairy. Then came a particularly awful marriage to a jerk named Magnus (Nick Thune) who was not only bad with money but emotionally abusive. Darby ended up getting married in Season 2, although the details of that relationship weren’t too clear. We do know she was drinking a lot at her wedding, but moving onto other characters with bad relationship experiences, Anna picked up a role in a film, Alice, Darling that hit close to home.
While speaking to PEOPLE, Anna revealed how the script — about a woman who finds herself trapped in an emotionally abusive relationship that greatly concerns her friends — got passed her way from her rep, who was aware that Anna had a “personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse.” Anna wasn’t sure whether she should take the role (when she received the script, her experience had happened “very recently”), but in the end, she found it telling that she found the film “at that moment in my life.” It’s a sobering thought to realize that abuse can not only be invisible, but it really can happen to anyone, even an Oscar-nominated actress who outwardly seems to have a fantastic life. Anna unloaded what happened to PEOPLE:
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself. So when that person is telling you that you have a distorted sense of reality and that you are impossible and that all the stuff that you think is going on is not going on, your life gets really confusing really quickly. And I was in a situation where, at the end, I had the unique experience of finding out that everything I thought was going on was in fact going on. So I had this kind of springboard for feeling and recovery that a lot of people don’t get.”
Anna went on to describe “the hardest task of my adult life” as figuring out really “what happened” in that relationship.
In addition, it sounds as though Anna found some authenticity in Alice, Darling, given that she mentions how she’d seen “a lot” of movies about relationships with abusive or toxic components, and none of them really resonated with her and helped her recognize when it happened to her. And whew. It sounds like Alice, Darling will be a heavy viewing experience but also an invaluable one when it premieres this weekend at TIFF. In other Anna news, she’s also gearing up for her directorial debut in The Dating Game, in which she will also star. This shall be a true-crime thriller about a serial killer (Rodney Alcala, who died in 2021) who ended up on the 1970s show of the same name. Again, whew.
It’s been quite the week for A’ja Wilson. The Las Vegas Aces star received an individual honor last week when she won the league’s Defensive Player of the Year award for the 2022 campaign and led the league’s All-Defensive first team, and on Tuesday night, Wilson and the Aces beat the Seattle Storm to earn a spot in the WNBA Finals.
Now, Wilson gets to add yet another honor to her trophy case, and it’s one that she has received in the past. The league announced on Wednesday afternoon that Wilson got the better of Storm star Breanna Stewart for the second time in as many days, as she received 31 first-place votes to be named league MVP. Stewart got 23 votes to finish in second.
Wilson and the Aces found out after their Game 4 win in Seattle last night from Becky Hammon, and celebrated accordingly — although they were told to keep their mouths (and Twitter fingers) shut until the official announcement today.
Here is how the full voting broke down. The only players to receive first-place votes beyond Wilson and Stewart were Candace Parker and Chelsea Gray, while no one had Wilson any lower than second on their ballots.
Wilson previously won the league’s MVP award back in 2020, when she led the Aces to an appearance in the WNBA Finals. She’ll hope things go different this time, as Las Vegas was swept by Seattle. The two teams with a chance to represent the Eastern Conference, the Connecticut Sun and the Chicago Sky, will play a winner-take-all Game 5 on Thursday.
Wilson averaged 19.5 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.9 blocks, and 1.4 steals in 30 minutes per game for the Aces, which went 26-10 during the regular season.
The 2022 season of Hard Knocks with the Detroit Lions concluded last night. The five episode series showed head coach Dan Campbell’s team trying to find an identity and establish a winning culture after a disastrous 3-13-1 previous season. Campbell’s message to the team throughout the season was about having “Grit,” something that means a lot to the workhorse city of Detroit. And it’s hard to think of someone who embodies that grit, passion, and ability to rise up to the top, quite as much as arguably Detroit’s most famous export, Eminem.
So on the season finale, Eminem visited the Lions’ training camp facility and looked to be having a lot of fun in the process. He joked about throwing a football on the street as far as he can, but realizing that it only goes 10 yards. He told quarterback Jared Goff that he was much taller than he expected him to be.
He also volunteered his services to the team, saying, “Any position, I’m good. Actually, any position, I’m great.” He passed the ice baths and a running back Jamaal Williams told him all he needed was a 90-second dip to soothe achy muscles. To that, Em replied, “F*ck that. That’s 90 seconds too long!” He even treated the team to a lunch of his “Mom’s Spaghetti.”
Eminem had clearly been watching this season of Hard Knocks as he referenced rookie phenom Aidan Hutchinson’s rendition of “Billie Jean” in front of the entire team. But what really stood out was that Em was humble, present, and gracious enough to take photos and shake hands and chat with everyone he met. The mutual respect was most evident when he met the Lions head coach and Campbell (who is a massive human and dwarfed the rapper) gave him a hug and said, “Nobody represents this city more than you do. It’s a pleasure to have you out here.”
“Nobody represents this city more than you do.”
HC Dan Campbell has the ultimate respect for Detroit native, @Eminem. (via @NFLFilms)
Having ADHD is like having this weirdly inconvenient but sometimes timely super power. If you don’t have ADHD then that sentence probably makes little sense and if you do have ADHD I’m currently giving you the Hunger Games three finger salute. Hilariously the acronym ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but in reality, there’s no issue with a deficit of attention. We just seem to focus on the thing we aren’t supposed to be focused on because it’s shiny and the task we should be doing is dull and repetitive. This can make working (you know, the thing adults are supposed to do) difficult.
The routine of going into the office to work in a different environment can be helpful so long as no one talks to you for hours long stretches. But working from home when you have ADHD is a whole different type of beast, the distractions are abundant. Why would you want to focus on writing a brief or doing a spreadsheet when you suddenly realize you haven’t cleaned your baseboard since you moved into the house seven years ago? Now the spreadsheet that should’ve taken two hours takes a full work day because you keep looking at the baseboards and before you know what’s happening you’re on your hands and knees with a wet rag working up a sweat.
I know, I got you. That’s why I came up with a list to help ADHDers stay focused on the task they’re actually supposed to be doing while still hitting that reward button, even when you work from home. Obviously this list isn’t exhaustive and won’t work for every ADHD brain because ADHD is truly like a box of chocolates. Sure there are similarities, it’s all chocolate after all, but nearly every piece is different. See what works for you and toss the rest. Well, don’t toss it because that would be wasteful, repurpose it or give it away. Without further ado, the list:
Yeah, a timer. That’s where the reward comes in. You tell yourself you’re going to do a task for 20 minutes, so you set the timer and see how much you can do before the time is up. Sometimes it’s just the right amount of pressure to motivate you to do the thing that feels like watching paint dry. The reward for completing the task before the timer is done makes your brain light up and before you know it, you’re setting that bad boy again. You can get it here.
Sure, you’re thinking, “Why do I need a basket if I’m at home? I can walk to the trash can.” Stop that. The basket is for everything you will inevitably collect when you’re on your 5th trip to the kitchen or bathroom. That sock you picked up will lead to you in turn collecting more laundry. The next thing you know you’ve got a load in the washer and dryer and you’re folding clothes instead of working. The sock you picked up goes into this basket by your workspace. This is the “until I can put it away basket.” It will save you from deviating from the task. Buy it here.
Because meetings are boring and your energy has to go somewhere so you can actually hear what the person is saying. I personally prefer the animal shaped ones because I’m actually a child with a mortgage, but really any kind will do. They’re quiet and mindless. You don’t have to look down to concentrate on the activity so you can focus on the task at hand – pretending to be an adulty adult in the meeting. No one will know you’re playing with a toy off camera. Grab it here.
I’m not sure if it’s an ADHD thing or if it’s just a coincidence but I’ve yet to meet a person that has ADHD who can sit in a chair like chairs are intended. Legs just don’t seem to work that way when you have ADHD. This isn’t backed by science but I’m sure they can do a study on it and prove my hypothesis. A wide seated chair will let you sit however your legs need to fold in order for your brain to focus. Sit criss cross apple sauce if you’d like. Having the right chair will help create the environment you need to focus. Pick it up here.
Making a “to-do” list doesn’t seem to work for ADHD people. I’m sure someone loves lists that also have ADHD, but I personally have not met one. I like to make a reverse list so at the end of the day I can see everything I’ve actually accomplished. So instead of writing a list in advance, as I finish things I just write them down and cross them off. Check. It’s done. I’ve found this keeps me motivated to start the next task because there’s no order I have to follow. You just do a thing then write it down and cross it off. Get the notebook here.
Everyone’s needs will be different but if you find you’re focusing on the wrong things while you’re working from home, this list can help. If you have a hack that works for you, don’t keep secrets. Share yours and help another human.
Five years have passed since Phoenix’s last album, 2017’s Ti Amo. Today, the French indie band officially announced their next album, Alpha Zulu, which is slated for a November release. Along with the announcement, the band dropped the first single, “Tonight.” The upbeat track features none other than Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, marking Phoenix’s first time bringing on another vocalist. Koenig also appears with the band in the video, which was filmed between Paris and Tokyo.
Band members Thomas Mars (vocals), Christian Mazzalai (guitarist), Laurent “Branco” Brancowitz (keys, guitars), and Deck d’Arcy (bass, key bass) self-produced and recorded Alpha Zulu in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The album came to fruition during lockdown, with most of the songs written in just ten days, as Brancowitz described in a statement.
“We felt it would be a fantastic adventure to create something out of nothing in a museum,” he said. “And so with the pandemic, we could live exactly this scene, to be alone in an empty museum.”
Amidst the pandemic, Phoenix also sought to honor their late friend and collaborator, Philippe Zdar, who died in 2019. “We lost more than ever, almost,” Mazzalai shared. “We had many moments where we could feel his ideas. Jeté, that’s a word he would say, when you’re throwing something very fast.”
In addition to the announcement, Phoenix kick off their tour tonight in Chicago, Illinois, before heading across North America and Europe. A complete list of dates are available below, along with the complete Alpha Zulu tracklist and cover art.
09/07 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre *
09/09 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall *
09/11 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall *
09/13 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *
09/16 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem *
09/19 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
09/20 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room *
09/22 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
09/23 – Bentonville, AR @ FOR_MAT Festival
10/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater *
10/07 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre *
10/10 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom *
10/12 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre *
10/13 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
10/14 – Austin, TX @ ACL
10/18 – Mexico City @ Pepsi Center
10/19 – Monterrey, MX @ Show Center
11/16 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy
11/18 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz Club
11/20 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
11/22 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
11/23 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
11/25 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/28 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
11/29 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
* with Porches
Alpha Zulu is out 11/4 via Loyaute/Glassnote Records. Pre-order it here.
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