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JID Becomes The Best Rapper Of His Generation With ‘The Forever Story’

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A few weeks before he announced his third studio album The Forever Story, JID tweeted an intriguing statement about his burgeoning popularity. “None of my rap co-workers be tryna rap wit me dawg,” he wrote. “I think y’all n****z is scared, I’m talking to bigger rap artists.” The Forever Story presents a wealth of compelling evidence to support that theory.

In fact, I’ll go out on a limb here and say that The Forever Story is the – as in singular, as in only – best-rapped album to come out in 2022. Present your arguments for whomever and however you see fit, but the Atlanta rapper’s project has at least one song to give it an edge over its qualified competitors.

I’ll go out even further on this narrow branch and say that JID belongs in the top five contemporary rappers discussion, and has since 2018 when he dropped DiCaprio 2. Since then, he’s followed up with the folksy Spilligion alongside his Spillage Village cohorts, utterly stolen the show on two Dreamville compilations, and made me enjoy an Imagine Dragons song.

So, why hasn’t JID gotten the recognition he deserves? There are a couple of reasons that spring to mind. First of all, JID has the unfortunate timing to have made his debut in a time slightly removed from the era where super technically skilled rappers could gain a lot of traction in a relatively short amount of time.

Think about the “blog era,” which spawned such lyrically-gifted standouts as Big KRIT, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, or Wale. Being a rapper’s rapper was prized at such a time because hip-hop goes through different cycles. There’d been a long lull in the priority of bars-first traditionalism, and the massive cultural shift toward blogs and weekly freestyles allowed artists like these to grab a lot of the spotlight.

That era came to an end in the middle of the last decade, as Chance The Rapper, who is probably the last of the blog era super rappers to get on, won his Grammy for Coloring Book. Then the Soundcloud era began, and colorful characters like Travis Scott who prized “vibes” over rhymes began to take center stage. JID is decidedly not one of those, but because he made his debut during that era, fans of hyper lyrical rappers likely wrote him off as just another punk kid.

Another reason might come directly from JID’s own words. One of the biggest drivers of any new – or even established – artist’s rise to stardom is the willingness of their peers to collaborate. Consider Lil Durk, who actually appears on The Forever Story on the song “Bruddenem.” He toiled on the underground scene for nearly a decade until Drake featured him on the 2020 standout “Laugh Now Cry Later.”

Now, Durk’s considered an A-lister, a hotly-demanded feature artist in his own right with numerous No. 1 albums under his belt. No one has yet done this for JID, aside from J. Cole, who hasn’t featured the younger MC on his own albums despite working with him on the Dreamville collabs on songs like “Stick.” Even if he did, JID’s an artist on his label, and would probably be subject to the “homie write-off” effect that plagued underlings in groups like Disturbing Tha Peace, St. Lunatics, and Roc-A-Fella. There’s only so much star power to go around, and artists can get overshadowed by their more famous labelmates.

Other rappers might really be nervous to feature JID, whose sheer force of persona could potentially overpower or overwhelm the sort of mainstream-friendly tracks it would take to expose him to a wider audience more used to party anthems than aggressive battle rap tracks.

Meanwhile, any rapper who considers themselves more lyrics-forward runs the risk of being “Renegaded” – the fan term for being outrapped on your own track, as applied to Jay-Z’s 2001 song “Renegade” from The Blueprint. When Eminem’s intricate, wordy verses seemed to tower over Jay’s more laid-back, heady ones, Nas ridiculed Jay, “Eminem killed you on your own sh*t.” Nobody wants the potential embarrassment.

The last reason JID might not radiate star power like some of his peers do is that he’s so down-to-earth and humble. He’s quiet, not prone to making outrageous pronouncements or having emotional outbursts on Twitter. In the few engagements we’ve had on that platform, he always seemed more curious and willing to learn than he did defensive, boisterous, or argumentative.

Hip-hop loves a villain – or at least an antihero – someone who talks loud and seems unafraid to make enemies. Acts like Kanye West or 50 Cent seem larger than life. Hell, even Tekashi 69, whose antics were decried by hip-hop fans, remains a subject of fascination. The soft-spoken JID just isn’t going to be as sensational a character for them to latch onto.

But his rhymes are sensational. Whether he’s talking tough on “Dance Now” and “Surround Sound” or telling nostalgic stories on “Crack Sandwich,” waxing philosophical on “Better Days” or getting confessional on “Sistanem,” he shows a grasp of the artform that almost nobody in the rap business today even comes close to. So, while he might not be as universally recognized as I believe he should be, The Forever Story might well change that.

He’s got the big-name co-signs from guest stars like 21 Savage and Lil Wayne. He’s starting to talk his sh*t on Twitter. He’s got enjoyable slow burners like “Can’t Make U Change” with Ari Lennox and veteran blessings from Yasiin Bey on “Stars.” All that’s left is for listeners to finally, well, listen. The Forever Story will reward them for doing so. In turn, all they need to do is hail JID as the best rapper of his generation.

The Forever Story is out now via Dreamville/Interscope. Get it here.

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Remembering Taylor Hawkins: Looking Back At Some Of The Late Drummer’s Best Collaborations

This weekend is an event Foo Fighters fans have been anticipating for months now: The first of two announced Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts is going down at London’s Wembley Stadium on Saturday, September 3. (Here’s how to watch it if you’re don’t have tickets to the UK show, by the way.)

The headline of Hawkins’ legacy will of course be his time with Foo Fighters and all the classic songs, albums, and tours he was part of as the band’s drummer. However, he was consistently active outside of the band, too. For example, he had his side project Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders, the cover band Chevy Metal, and supergroup NHC with Jane’s Addiction members Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney.

Speaking of collaborations, his discography is full of those, too, so let’s go over some of the most notable, starting at 2022 and working backwards.

Towards the end of July, King Princess shared “Let Us Die,” on which Hawkins plays drums. In an interview, she spoke highly of Hawkins’ passion for his craft, saying, “In between takes, we’d FaceTime and he was just so kind. […] He was just saying he loves playing drums. And to hear that from somebody who’s lived such a life that, at his age and playing for as long as he has in so many different bands and his own projects, for him to just love to play the f*cking drums, that to me is just what we should all strive to be: Somebody who does not lose that love of their instrument.”

The song wasn’t Hawkins’ first posthumous release, though. That would be him teaming up with Edgar Winter on a cover of Johnny Winter’s “Guess I’ll Go Away” for a tribute album. That recording was released in April. He’s also set to feature on Ozzy Osbourne’s upcoming album, Patient Number 9.

Other noteworthy Hawkins contributions from the 2020s are drumming on Elton John’s The Lockdown Sessions album and on “Night Crawling,” Miley Cyrus’ Billy Idol collaboration from 2020’s Plastic Hearts (Hawkins is credited as a co-writer on that song, too).

Pre-2020s, Hawkins performed on Perry Farrell’s Kind Heaven (released in 2019), Pink’s Hurts 2B Human (2019), John Fogerty’s Wrote A Song For Everyone (2013), Slash’s Slash (2010), Coheed And Cambria’s Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow (2007), Cat Power’s You Are Free (2003), and Brian May’s Another World (1998). He was also Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer for a spell in the ’90s and performs on her Grammy-winning 1997 concert film Jagged Little Pill, Live.

Check out some of Hawkins’ collaborations above and below.

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Rachel Bilson Clarifies Her Comments About Breaking Up With Bill Hader (And His Giant Dong) Being ‘Harder Than Childbirth’

Pete Davidson isn’t the only former-SNL cast member with BDE. On her Broad Ideas podcast, The O.C. favorite Rachel Bilson was asked by 13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman about the thing she misses the most about her relationship with Emmy-nominated Barry actor Bill Hader (they dated for an unspecified amount of time). “His big d*ck,” she replied. Good for him, good for her, good for Lindsey Buckingham.

Bilson previously described the breakup as being “probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done⁠, harder than childbirth,” a comment she now takes back. “I said it was during a time where you could not leave your house,” she said on a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, referring to the pandemic. “You had to sit in whatever it was that you were going through. So, I had to deal with this, I had to deal with being alone and taking care of my kid.” She added, “Like all of these things — that time having to force facing all of your sh*t. [That’s what I was saying] was harder than childbirth.”

“Is there anything more painful? F*ck no,” she shared. “Maybe kidney stones—definitely a close second. But like, no, I didn’t say that. All breakups are hard. Especially when you’re in something that you’re really into and things happen. You know, things change. There was a pandemic. There were so many things going on. So, it was a hard time.”

When asked by Call Her Daddy‘s Alex Cooper whether she’s currently single, Bilson responded, “I am not.” She declined to get into her specifics about her partner, but she did answer a pair of questions from the host: “Is he bringing you coffee in the morning? Is he bringing you missionary?” Bilson’s answer: “F*ck yeah.” Again, good for her.

(Via E! Online and People)

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‘Desperation Is The Worst Cologne’: John Fetterman Lit Up Dr. Oz During His First Post-Stroke TV Interview

After John Fetterman spent most of the summer relentlessly trolling Dr. Oz on social media, the Pennsylvania senate race took a nasty turn when the TV doctor’s campaign attacked Fetterman for having a stroke. It was a low point in Oz’s already humiliating campaign that was reeling from Fetterman capitalizing on Oz’s ridiculously bad grocery shopping video. In fact, just this week, Oz seemed to throw his staff under the bus for the stroke comments by telling a radio show, “The campaign’s been saying lots of things. My position is — I can only speak to what I’m saying.”

Despite Oz’s palpable uncomfortableness, the issue of Fetterman’s stroke is continuing to be brought up by his campaign. After Fetterman recently turned down a debate invitation because he’s having intermittent issues with “auditory processing,” Oz’s campaign released a sarcastic statement offering to “pay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.”

It was yet another crack at Fetterman’s stroke, but the PA lieutenant governor was quick to fire back. During his first national TV interview since being hospitalized, Fetterman was candid about his lingering, yet improving health issues and eager to tear apart Oz. “Desperation is the worst cologne,” he told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle before calling out Oz for trying to distance himself from his campaign’s remarks.

Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

“[The Oz campaign] figured out that, you know, let’s appeal to folks that get their jollies making fun of a stroke dude,” Mr. Fetterman added. “And again, if that’s your story, tell it the way you got to. But he really should own those words, and he just acknowledges that, as a doctor, you are going around making fun of somebody that had a stroke.”

Meanwhile, someone called in a favor with Donald Trump. Following reports that the former president has been privately telling people that Oz is going to “f*cking lose,” Trump pumped up Oz during a recent radio interview and ridiculed Fetterman for not agreeing to a debate, according to Mediaite.

“The guy, if you look at his past, I mean, he’s out, he’s into the world of communism,” Trump said. “His past is terrible. And I think Oz is gonna do very well. He’s coming up. He’s a good — actually he’s very energetic. He’s all over the place.”

(Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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The Forthcoming Milli Vanilli Biopic ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ Reveals Its Cast

A Milli Vanilli biopic is on its way. Centering on the scandal involving dancers Pilatus and Morvan who pretended to be behind the 1980s hit “Girl You Know It’s True,” the movie is long-awaited and sure to touch on the intricacies of the music industry. Today, more about the movie was revealed, including the casting.

According to Deadline, Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali will play Fabrice Morvan and the late Rob Pilatus. Matthias Schweighöfer from Army of Thieves will play the German music producer Frank Farian. Graham Rogers, known for his role in Love and Mercy, will star as Milli Vanilli’s assistant Todd Headlee. Troy: Fall of a City‘s Bella Dayne will be Milli, Farian’s right-hand woman, who is the inspiration for the group’s name.

The film will be produced by Kevin Liles, the CEO of music company 300 Entertainment who also co-wrote the original version of “Girl You Know It’s True” with Baltimore DJ crew Numarx, and co-produced by Verhoeven, Farian, and Stefan Gärtner. Associate producers include Jasmin Davis, who is the daughter of the late John Davis, as well as Brad Howell who were the true voices of Milli Vanilli. It is produced by Leonine Studios and Wiedemann & Berg Film, and it’s in co-production with Sentana Film, SevenPictures, and Mediawan.

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What’s In The Paramount+ And Showtime Bundle?

This week, Paramount+ and Showtime made streaming a little bit less stressful by making content from both services available in one app. Now, Paramount+ can be upgraded to offer Showtime all in the same app, eliminating the small but still annoying hassle of downloading, updating and opening an additional streaming service. Paramount+ and Showtime will still be available as separate apps. The merge launched on August 31. For a limited time, you can get the bundle at a discounted price.

The merger makes it so you can watch all kinds of shows and movies in the same place. For example, you can watch the latest episode of Survivor, then easily swith over to Yellowjackets. We are so spoiled.

The plans: From now until October 2, subscribers can sign up for the Paramount+ and Showtime bundle at discounted rate. A basic subscription with ads is $7.99 per month, and the ad-free offer is $12.99 per month. After that, the ad-supported version will cost you $11.99 per month, and the ad-free service will cost you $14.99 per month.

What can I watch on this? Everything you can watch on Paramount+, plus everything you can watch on Showtime.

Paramount+: Formerly called CBS All Access, Paramount+ offers CBS originals, Paramount+ originals, and films and other television shows owned by Paramount Global. Here’s some notable shows and films you can stream with the Paramount+ and Showtime bundle:

1883

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The Lost City

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Star Trek: Discovery

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The Good Fight

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CBS All Access

The Offer

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Paramount+

Top Gun: Maverick (eventually)

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YouTube

Survivor

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Showtime: Showtime offers its slate of original series to the bundle. Showtime also offers a rotating roster of films on the service that come and go. Here’s some notable Showtime series that will be part of the Paramount+ and Showtime bundle:

Yellowjackets

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American Gigolo

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Showtime

Billions

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Dexter: New Blood

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Showtime

What you can’t watch in the Paramount+ and Showtime bundle:

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Paramount Network

Although Weeds originally aired on Showtime, it is currently available to stream on Hulu or Peackcok. Yellowstone, which is a Paramount Network original, and is currently available to stream exclusively Peacock. 1883, a Yellowstone spin-off, is a Paramount+ original series.

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Kanye West Takes Another Swipe At Kid Cudi In A Post Declaring Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted ‘Dead At 60’

Kanye West may have dialed down his Instagram petty to only celebrating his perceived enemies’ supposed failures, but he’s packing double the vitriol in those posts, often lashing out at two in the same post. His preferred secondary target is Kid Cudi, who he zings in the subheadlines of the bizarre fake New York Times covers he has been posting to strike out at rivals such as Pete Davidson and Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted.

In his latest post, he declares the latter “also dead at 60,” calling back to his post about Pete. In the subheadline, though, he throws two jabs at once, writing, “I know what you’re thinking… who is Kasper? but even less importantly who is Kid Cudi?”

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Actually, I was thinking how badly Kanye needs a copy editor, but I digress. In Kanye’s previous dig at his former artist, Kanye sniped at him for cutting his Rolling Loud set short after fans threw objects onstage. “Kid Cudi meant to play funeral but fearful of bottle throwers,” he trolled. His latest shot is likely a response he’s been sitting on since Cudi told Esquire he has no plans to reconcile with his former mentor.

“With all due respect, I’m not Drake,” he said. “It’s gonna take a motherf*cking miracle for me and that man to be friends again. I don’t see it happening. He gon’ have to become a monk.” Cudi later clarified that he meant no disrespect to Drake, with whom he previously did have a feud but they’ve since made up.

Kanye’s beef with Rørsted, meanwhile, stems from his belief that the Adidas chief is responsible for the company seemingly distancing itself from Kanye while continuing to use his designs, which is not in any way Kanye’s own fault for acting like a colicky toddler for the past year or so. Rørsted is stepping down as CEO sometime this year. May whoever succeeds him finally drop Kanye so he can enjoy his creative freedom, or whatever.

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Brionna Jones Is The WNBA’s 2022 Sixth Player Of The Year

For the first time in four seasons, the WNBA’s Sixth Player of the Year award is not going to someone on the Las Vegas Aces. Instead, the award will go to a player on the Connecticut Sun, as Brionna Jones’ excellence off of the bench has led to her getting honored by the league.

The WNBA announced that Jones won the award on Thursday afternoon as part of its weeklong award roll-out. Jones received 53 out of a potential 56 votes for the award, with two going to Azurá Stevens of the Chicago Sky and the remaining one going to Myisha Hines-Allen of the Washington Mystics. She is the third player in franchise history to win the award, as Renee Montgomery took it home in 2012 and current teammate Jonquel Jones, who received the honor in 2019, is the most recent non-Aces player to win it.

Jones, an All-Star selection and the WNBA’s reigning Most Improved Player, was instrumental in the Sun’s 25-11 campaign this year. After starting all 32 games in which she appeared last season, Jones came off the bench in 29 of a potential 36 contests this year, averaging 13.8 points and 5.1 rebounds in 25.1 minutes a night.

Jones and the Sun are in the midst of a WNBA semifinal series against Stevens and the Sky. After Connecticut won Game 1 earlier this week, Chicago was able to bounce back and pick up a victory in Game 2 on Wednesday night.

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All The New Albums Coming Out In September 2022

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in September. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, September 2

  • The Amazons — How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? (Blood Records)
  • Ayka — Eleven EP (Glassnote Records)
  • Armani Caesar — The Liz 2 (Griselda Records)
  • Bitchin Bajas — Bajascillators (Drag City)
  • Creature Canyon — Remarks (Gnu Roam/Kartel Music)
  • Coma Girls — No Umbrella For Star Flower (Baby Robot Records)
  • George FitzGerald — Stellar Drifting (Domino)
  • The Front Bottoms — Theresa EP (Wuacasokle/Fueled By Ramen)
  • The Hu — Rumble Of Thunder (Better Noise Music)
  • Jon Pardi — Mr. Saturday Night (Capitol Nashville)
  • Lean Year — Sides (Western Vinyl)
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry — King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from The Upsetter Ark-ive) (Trojan Records)
  • Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! (Tradecraft)
  • Nina Nesbitt — Älskar (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Pale Blue Eyes — Souvenirs (Full Time Hobby)
  • Parker Gispert — Golden Years (Normaltown/New West Records)
  • Rina Sawayama — Hold The Girl (Dirty Hit)
  • S. Raekwon — I Like It When You Smile EP (Lex Records)
  • Stereolab — Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (Warp/Duophonic UHF Disks)
  • Tom Chaplin — Midpoint (‎BMG)
  • Two Door Cinema Club — Keep On Smiling ([PIAS])
  • Unloved — The Pink Album (Heavenly Records / [PIAS])
  • Warmduscher — At The Hotspot EP (Bella Union)
  • The Wonder Years — The Hum Goes On Forever (Hopeless Records)
  • Yungblud — Yungblud (Locomotion/Geffen)

Friday, September 9

  • The Afghan Whigs — How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  • Ari Lennox — Age/Sex/Location (Dreamville/Interscope Records)
  • Beacon — Along The Lethe (Apparent Movement)
  • Built To Spill — When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  • Breland — Cross Country (Bad Realm Records/Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville)
  • Charles Stepney — Step On Step (International Anthem Recording Co.)
  • Charley Crockett — The Man From Waco (Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers)
  • Daniel Romano’s Outfit — La Luna (You’ve Changed Records)
  • The Deer — The Beautiful Undead (22 Sound Records)
  • Flogging Molly — Anthem (Rise Records))
  • Foreign Air — Hello Sunshine (Lex Records)
  • George Riley — Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  • Highly Suspect — The Midnight Demon Club (Roadrunner/FRSKT)
  • Holy Fawn — Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
  • Jackson Wang — Magic Man (Team Wang)
  • Jockstrap — I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade Records)
  • John Legend — Legend (Columbia)
  • JR Slayer — Not Rotten EP (Memory Music)
  • Kane Brown — Different Man (Sony Music Nashville)
  • Lake Street Dive — Fun Machine: The Sequel EP (Fantasy Records)
  • Living Hour — Someday Is Today (Kanine)
  • Marlon Williams — My Boy (Dead Oceans)
  • Mike Adams — Graphic Blandishment (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Miya Folick — 2007 EP (Nettwerk)
  • Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard (Young)
  • Ozzy Osbourne — Patient Number 9 (Epic Records)
  • The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk (Third Man Records)
  • Parkway Drive — Darker Still (Epitaph Records)
  • Preoccupations — Arrangements (self-released)
  • Reuben And The Dark — In Lieu Of Light (Arts & Crafts)
  • Robbie Williams — XXV (Columbia)
  • Sampa The Great — As Above, So Below (Loma Vista)
  • San Fermin — Your Ghost EP (Better Company Records)
  • Santigold — Spirituals (Little Jerk Records)
  • Sarah Davachi — Two Sisters (Bleep)
  • Son Little — Like Neptune (ANTI-)
  • Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  • Suzi Analogue — Infinite Zonez (Disciples)
  • Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown — Shake The Roots (Rattle Shake Records)
  • Wyldest — Feed The Flowers Nightmares (Hand In Hive)

Friday, September 16

  • Bazzi — Infinite Dream (Atlantic)
  • Behemoth — Opvs Contra Natvram (Nuclear Blast)
  • The Beths — Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark Records)
  • The Black Angels — Wilderness Of Mirrors (Partisan Records)
  • Blackpink — Born Pink (YG Entertainment/Interscope Records)
  • Carina — Spaceout! EP (Mini Mind Museum)
  • Carl Cox — Electronic Generations (BMG)
  • Clutch — Sunrise On Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker Music)
  • Con Brio — Seasons EP (self-released)
  • Crack Cloud — Tough Baby (Meat Machine)
  • Daniele Luppi And Greg Gonzalez — Charm Of Pleasure (Mute)
  • Danielle Ponder — Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  • Daya — In Between Dreams EP (Sandlot Records)
  • Death Cab For Cutie — Roman Candles (Atlantic)
  • Dear Boy — Forever Sometimes (Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers)
  • Disco Doom — Mt. Surreal (Exploding in Sound)
  • Djo — Decide (AWAL)
  • Ela Minus & DJ Python — Corazón EP (Smugglers Way)
  • Fletcher — Girl Of My Dreams (Capitol Records)
  • Gloria de Oliveira And Dean Hurley — Oceans Of Time (Sacred Bones)
  • Gogol Bordello — Solidaritine (Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl)
  • Horace Andy — Midnight Scorchers (On-U Sound Records)
  • Jesca Hoop — Order Of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  • Jessie Reyez — Yessie (FMLY/Island Records)
  • Julian Lage — View With A Room (Blue Note Records)
  • Kings Elliot — Bored Of The Circus EP (Vertigo Berlin)
  • LeAnn Rimes — God’s Work (EverLe Records/Thirty Tigers/The Orchard)
  • Lissie — Carving Canyons (Lionboy Records)
  • Little Big Town — Mr. Sun (UMG Nashville)
  • Little Dragon — Opening The Door EP (Ninja Tune)
  • The London Suede — Autofiction (BMG)
  • Maggie Lindemann — Suckerpunch (swixxzaudio)
  • Marcus Mumford — Self-Titled (Island Records)
  • The Mars Volta — The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  • Michelle Branch — The Trouble With Fever (Nonesuch Records)
  • Miloe — Gaps EP (Loma Vista)
  • Molly Lewis — Mirage EP (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Ms — Introducing… The Mellons (Earth Libraries)
  • The Murlocs — Rapscallion (Greenway Records)
  • Mura Masa — Demon Time (Polydor)
  • Mxmtoon — Rising (The Deluxe) (AWAL Recordings)
  • The New Mastersounds — The Deplar Effect (Color Red)
  • No Age — People Helping People (Drag City)
  • No Devotion — No Oblivion (Equal Vision Records)
  • Noah Cyrus — The Hardest Part (Records, LLC/Columbia Records)
  • Ondara — Spanish Villager No: 3 (Verve Forecast)
  • Quinn Christopherson — Write Your Name In Pink (Play It Again Sam)
  • Rhett Miller — The Misfit (ATO)
  • PJ Western — Here I Go (New West Records)
  • Ringo Starr — EP3 (UMe)
  • Smith/Kotzen — Better Days… And Nights (Bertelsmann Music Group)
  • Steve Aoki — Hiroquest (Ultra/Dim Mak)
  • Vundabar — Good Old (Amuse)
  • Well Wisher — That Weight (Egghunt Records)
  • What So Not — Anomaly (Too Future)
  • Whitney — Spark (Secretly Canadian)
  • Young Jesus — Shepherd Head (Saddle Creek)

Friday, September 23

  • Alex G — God Save The Animals (Domino)
  • Alphaville — Eternally Yours (BFD)
  • Altopalo — Frenemy (Nettwerk)
  • Arkells — Blink Twice (Universal Music Canada)
  • Beth Orton — Weather Alive (Partisan Records)
  • Billy Idol — The Cage EP (Dark Horse Records)
  • Blackstarkids — Cyberkiss (Dirty Hit)
  • Daniel Lanois — Player, Piano (Modern Recordings)
  • David Poe — Everyone’s Got A Camera (ECR Music Group)
  • De Lux — Do You Need A Release? (Innovative Leisure)
  • Divino Niño — Last Spa On Earth (Winspear)
  • Dr. John — Things Happen That Way (Rounder Records)
  • Editors — EBM (Play It Again Sam)
  • Eerie Wanda — Internal Radio (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Francis Lung — Short Stories EP (Memphis Industries)
  • Future Teens — Self Help (Triple Crown Records)
  • Jackie Cohen — Pratfall (Earth Libraries)
  • Jessie Baylin — Jersey Girl (Missing Piece)
  • Kelsea Ballerini — Subject To Change (Warner Music Nashville)
  • Khruangbin And Vieux Farka Touré — Ali (Dead Oceans)
  • Luci — Juvenilia EP (Don’t Sleep)
  • Maddie & Tae — Through The Madness Vol. 2 (Lex Records)
  • Magdalena Bay — Mercurial World Deluxe (Luminelle Recordings)
  • Makaya McCraven — In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)
  • Marisa Anderson — Still, Here (Thrill Jockey)
  • Mark Owen — Land Of Dreams (BMG)
  • Maya Hawke — Moss (Mom + Pop)
  • Mobley — Cry Havoc! EP (Last Gang Records)
  • Nils Frahm — Music For Animals (Leiter)
  • Nikki Lane — Denim & Diamonds (New West Records)
  • Peter Matthew Bauer — Flowers (Fortune Tellers)
  • Redcar — Redcar les adorables étoiles (Because Music)
  • Sofie Royer — Harlequin (Stones Throw)
  • The Soft Moon — Exister (Sacred Bones)
  • Sorcha Richardson — Smiling Like An Idiot (Faction)
  • Tim Burgess — Typical Music (Bella Union)
  • Toledo — How It Ends (Grand Jury)
  • Willow — Copingmechanism (Roc Nation/MSFTSMusic)

Friday, September 30

  • 2nd Grade — Easy Listening (Double Double Whammy)
  • The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus (Edition)
  • The Big Pink — The Love That’s Ours (Project Melody Music)
  • The Cowsills — Rhythm Of The World (Omnivore Recordings)
  • Dream, Ivory — About A Boy (AWAL)
  • Dropkick Murphys — This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music/[PIAS])
  • Drowning Pool — Strike A Nerve (T-BOY/UMe)
  • e4444e — I Spend All Day Drawing A Circle (Dinosaur City)
  • False Heads — Sick Moon (Scruff Of The Neck)
  • Fujiya & Miyagi — Slight Variations (Impossible Objects)
  • Julia, Julia — Derealization (Suicide Squeeze Records)
  • Julie Odell — Autumn Eve (Frenchkiss Records)
  • Kaya Stewart — If Things Go South (Bay Street Records)
  • Lambchop — The Bible (Merge/City Slang)
  • Mamalarky — Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk Records)
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unfold (Fat Possum)
  • Milly — Eternal Ring (Dangerbird Records)
  • Moon Duo — Live At Levitation (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  • Off! — Free LSD (Fat Possum)
  • Oren Ambarchi — Shebang (Drag City)
  • Pixies — Doggerel (BMG)
  • Pretty Sick — Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile (Dirty Hit)
  • Sammy Hagar & The Circle — Crazy Times (UMe)
  • Shygirl — Nymph (Because Music)
  • Slipknot — The End, So Far (Roadrunner Records)
  • Snarky Puppy — Empire Central (GroundUP Music)
  • Sonic Flower — Me And My Bellbottom Blues (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • Titus Andronicus — The Will To Live (Merge)
  • Tycho — Back To Mine (Back To Mine)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)

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People are sharing the marriage advice that ‘sounded absurd’ but is actually really helpful

This article originally appeared on 05.30.22

The best advice isn’t always obvious, or else we would have thought of it ourselves. It often comes out of left field and can be counterintuitive. When it comes to marriage, the best advice tends to be centered around keeping a focus on the long game.

One of the best pieces of marriage advice I ever received was, “Buy her a bottle of shampoo from time to time without her asking.” Now, that doesn’t mean to get shampoo specifically, but just pick up something here and there to show you care and are thinking about her.

Marriage, if done right, is forever, so that often means taking a loss in the short-term to enjoy the long-term benefits of a happy life with someone. This is great as a concept but in practice can be pretty darn hard, day in and day out.

Hence why about 50% of American marriages end in divorce.


Reddit user thecountnotthesaint put out a call to the AskMen forum for some of the best marriage advice that “sounded absurd” but was actually helpful.

The question was inspired by some advice the Reddit user had received from their father, who claimed that a king-sized bed is the key to a happy marriage. “I’ll be damned if that wasn’t one of the best decisions we made aside from getting married and having kids,” they wrote.

A lot of the advice was about being careful not to escalate small disagreements into larger arguments that could turn personal and ugly. A lot of people think that to have a successful marriage means being able to compromise and to let things go quickly.

Here are some of the best responses to the question, “What random marriage advice sounded absurd but was actually spot on helpful?”

1.

“Dad said ‘Be kind even if you’re not feeling it. Maybe especially if you’re not feeling it.’” — semantician

2. 

“At my wedding, my wife’s Grandmother offered so funny, weird, solid advice. She said, ‘If you get angry with each other, go to bed naked and see if you can resolve it before you go to sleep.’ So far, so good. Anniversary on Monday!” — drizzyjdracco

3. 

“The advice I’ve given people is this: if you can go grocery shopping with your person and have the best time ever, you have yourself a keeper. It’s all about making the best of the mundane things, because after years of being together, life becomes predictable. You’ll need to keep the spice going, regardless of what you’re doing. Source: married 15 years.” — LemonFizzy0000

4. 

“My grandfather told me ‘Never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink.’ What I learned is that he would always help my grandma and that is when they did their most talking.” — t480

5. 

“When our kid was about to be born, someone told me to change the first diaper. If you can handle the first one, the others will be easy.’ So I did. I didn’t know what I was doing, so I asked the nurse at the hospital to teach me, and I changed the first several few diapers while my wife recovered from a difficult labor. The advice was correct, no other diaper was as disgusting as the first one. It got very easy and I never minded doing it, and my wife was really really grateful. And I loved that I could take on some of the parenting chores, since there was so much that she was the only one… equipped to provide.” — wordserious

6. 

“Focus on tackling the problem, not each other.” — bobbobbobbobbob123

7. 

“Don’t have too high of expectations. My dad told us that, but we found most of our early fights were when one or the other had unspoken expectations of the other or marriage. It is positively life changing to be married, and an amazing experience, but still life goes on.”— nopants_ranchdance

8. 

“Marry him for who he is. Not his potential.” — There-is-No-beyond

9. 

“My stepmom just passed away, and dad said something that has profoundly changed my attitude: ‘The little things that annoyed me are the things I now miss.’ So, like, yea for some reason she squeezes a massive glob of toothpaste which mostly falls into the sink basin and she doesn’t wash away the toothpaste spit. If/when she’s gone, that little constant annoyance that reminds me she’s there will be gone too. Don’t nag on the little things, rather, embrace them. (still, let her know she has made progress on other things I’ve pointed out, as I try to adapt to her wishes).” — drewkungfu

10. 

“Say thank you for day to day things, even taking out the trash, sweeping the floor, or folding laundry. Audibly hearing thank you reinforces the feeling of being appreciated.” — BVolatte

11. 

“Randomly give your partner a cold beverage on a hot day. It’s the little things that show you care.” — Purple12Inchruler

12. 


“You don’t just marry her, you marry her whole damn family.”
— crazypersn

13. 

“One of my colonels told me: ‘Just buy two damn pizzas, instead of arguing over the toppings.'”— MgoBlue702

14. 

“Be honest. Don’t lie to your partner.” — Mikeydeeluxe

15. 

“Don’t marry a woman whose dad calls her ‘princess,’ because she probably believes it. Much to his regret, my brother ignored this advice from our dad.” — Toadie9622

16. 

“My fiance always says that ‘just because’ flowers are the best kind of flowers.” — agaribay1010

17. 

“My Gramps who was married for over 50 yrs said: ‘tell her you love her every single day.’ Kind of obvious, but I definitely took it to heart.” — sorellk

18. 

“Love isn’t about having ‘nice feelings for each other.’ It’s about acting for the betterment of someone else, even if you don’t feel like it. Emotions will change. Your willingness to treat your spouse a certain way doesn’t have to.” — sirplaind

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“Bill Maher said “The three most important words in a relationship aren’t ‘I love you’, they’re ‘let it go.’ Oddly, this has proven to be some of the best relationship advice I’ve ever heard.”
— KrssCom