Back in December, Turnstile made their late-night TV debut on Late Night. They consistently booked high-profile performance gigs from there, including spots on the NPR Tiny Desk Concert series and on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It’s all deserved, as Glow On was one of 2021’s most esteemed albums; It was just a few spots away from the top of our Uproxx Music Critics Poll list.
Now, they continue to keep the album alive here in 2022, doing so last night with a performance of Glow On highlight “Blackout” on The Tonight Show. The track is a dynamic, multi-faceted ride, one that translated well to national television as the band brought their all to the intense performance.
As for what else the band is up to now, they’re actually on the tail end of their The Turnstile Love Connection 2022 Tour, which ran for the past couple months and wraps up in Washington DC on May 26.
On top of all that, they also recently had a chat with legendary interviewer Nardwuar, video of which was published yesterday. The conversation took place at Neptoon Records in Vancouver and is is tradition, Nardwuar pulled out a number of smile-inducing surprises for the band.
Watch Turnstile perform “Blackout” on Fallon above and find their Nardwuar interview below.
Ask most people who’ve had their heart trampled on by love if it was worth it, and the answer is usually a resounding… yes. That might be surprising, but despite the pain that comes from an inevitable breakup, most lovers agree that the good times outweighed the bad; they move forward looking to fall for someone else, pain be damned. The cycle is eternal (unless the love affair turns out to be) and for one of Sweden’s finest musicians, Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, heartache is the export she knows best. Lykke Li is a singer-songwriter — and lowkey pop star — who has spent her career contemplating this cyclical nature of romantic love and loss.
Though some artists might find it insulting to condense the scope of their career into a singular recurring theme, Lykke has made it clear that her latest album, EYEYE, is an almost meta, hyper-focused examination of her focus on adoration and heartache. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, she declared herself a “love junkie” and came to the conclusion that her pattern in relationships is something that needed to be addressed head-on. “I’ve really realized that I can’t blame anyone else any longer for my suffering,” she told the UK paper. “It’s really turning the lens back to myself and getting back to the root of why I’ve repeated some patterns.” Still, getting clean is usually easier said than done.
Even as EYEYE looks to be an overarching study of the subject, each of the eight songs on her fifth album approaches matters of the heart from a different angle. “5D” imagines a couple through the crisp, cinematic lens of a movie’s love story, and “Carousel” is the sole slightly upbeat track here, pitching tinny ‘80s as the stand-in for a carnival merry-go-round’s pure romance. But when it hurts, EYEYE pulls zero punches. Li consistently called this album “a break up with the breakup album,” but from the sounds of this, this pair is more together than ever. In some ways, the album is simply Li’s past MO turned up to eleven — a maximalist approach to pain done in Li’s signature soft, synthy tones.
And though her last album, so sad so sexy, found a hint of twisted pleasure in the pain, there’s very little to long for here. The album’s lead single, “No Hotel,” decries the tropes of toxic lovers — hotels, cigarettes — for the even sadder act of turning up on someone’s doorstep to beg for them back. Instead of glorying in a past memory spent in a gorgeous hotel room doing something sad and sexy, Li cites a moment in the back of a car, a bit of pathos too stark to need unpacking. “Happy Hurts” is the de facto center of the record, and the most vintage Lykke as she spins whispery vocals against a backdrop of stately organ chords, looking for meaning in passing cars and more old memories.
The driving theme continues on “Highway To Your Heart,” a song with the title of an ‘80s power ballad that still manages to be one of the stronger offerings here. Flanked harmonies, booming percussion and dramatic piano chords echo some of the production choices on one of Li’s best albums, I Never Learn, and indicates that the return of her longtime collaborator Peter Bjorn and John’s Björn Yttling is a positive development. But despite these high-water marks, the album’s closing numbers, “Over” and “u&i” are both mid-tier drags, the kind of sadness that only makes sense to the person going through it. Neither connect to a larger world outside of themselves like the most electric breakup songs do (“Dancing On My Own,” “Back To Black”), and the lengthy runtime of the final track only adds to the claustrophobia.
If Lykke Li really wants to break up with the breakup album format, her best bet is to attempt a new form. Whether that’s a love song, or a reflection on another facet of her emotional life, I don’t know. But one last dose of breakup songs seems unlikely to cure her of her old ways. It remains to be seen if she goes cold turkey after EYEYE, but if the album has proved anything, it’s that her talents are best spent elsewhere. Then again, give the morose “You Don’t Go Away” a spin at the right time of evening, and you might find yourself falling right back into the record again. Does EYEYE sound like the closing of a chapter? No — but odds are that doesn’t surprise any of the ex-lovers listening to it on loop.
The mid-season finale of Better Call Saul takes the main story of the season so far and, for lack of a less literal metaphor, walks into its apartment and shoots it in the head with a silencer. The first six episodes of the show’s final season have taken their time, as Better Call Saul always does, letting Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler’s elaborate plan to humiliate Howard Hamlin unfold throughout multiple episodes. While everyone’s favorite toxic married couple with a prank kink does encounter some hiccups along the way, their plan unfolds almost entirely as planned all season long, from faking Hamlin’s cocaine addiction with a wig and self-tanner to the precise moments he appears at their apartment following their win over him. What happens next is the only thing they didn’t see coming, even though it’s the most obvious in retrospect.
When Howard confronts Jimmy and Kim, Lalo Salamanca walks in and shoots Howard in the head. The first half of the final season, which generally unfolded like a typical season of Better Call Saul with its character-driven pace and slightly upbeat tone finally proved how effective it is when its long-teased tension finally gets a release. The season is in stark contrast to every episode of the final season of Breaking Bad, whose episodes, in retrospect, wereevents with plot, tension, and twists, moving as quickly as the final two seasons Game of Thrones (with better writing, obviously).
Meanwhile, you could describe the first half of Better Call Saul’s final season so far in just a few bullet points (with dozens of annotations, of course). First, there’s Jimmy and Kim’s Howard takedown and his death, while Gustavo Fring and Mike Ermhantraout have been dealing with the fallout of the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca. On the cartel side of the story, Lalo’s solo mission to take down Gustavo Fring has been left rather ambiguous, with limited, but precious screen time. Before Howard’s death in the mid-season finale, the season’s most explosive episode was episode three, which sealed the fate of Nacho Varga.
From the very beginning, and times to a fault, Better Call Saul has operated at a glacial pace, like Mad Men in slow motion. Instead of speeding itself up before the endgame, Better Call Saul has remained loyal to its pace, ridiculously patient with itself. Even in its final episodes, Better Call Saul would rather simmer than boil.
Better Call Saul, like Mad Men, the AMC show it has more in common with than Breaking Bad, values character development over a rapid plot and shock value – which is not to say that Better Call Saul isn’t shocking because it is. The show is so patient that it’s almost cruel. This storytelling device made Howard Hamlin’s death gutting. Better Call Saul has patience with its characters, its audience, and, vitally, itself. While it’s clear that the series will pick up in the second half of the season, which returns in July, it will continue to simmer as it always has.
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There are a lot of different beer styles that taste more or less the way drinkers envisionbeer to taste. We mean the pilsners, lagers, and less hopped pale ales of the world. But — seeing as beer is complex, complicated, and absolutely sprawling — some beer styles read just a little bit different. Enter fruited sour beers which are fruity and sour (no surprise, considering the name), sort of a twofer in terms of unique, memorable flavor profiles. More specifically, these brews are known for their slightly acidic, sometimes funky notes and can be brewed with pretty much any fruit, from peach to raspberry to sour cherry.
Sean Towers, owner and brewer at The Seed: A Living Beer Project in Atlantic City likes sour beers, but actually hates the term “fruited sour.”
“The style of fruited sour has come to mean kettle-soured or quick soured beer with unreasonable levels of highly processed, pasteurized, fruit purees added post-fermentation for an overly sweet, gluttonous, fruit juice with a completely masked background of beer,” he explains. “But that short rant aside, there are many beers out there that very harmoniously pair a reasonable level of acidity with fresh, pure, fruit character.”
Since we’d rather find the latter, we decided to turn to the beer pros for help. We asked a few well-known craft beer experts, brewers, and brewing professionals to tell us the best fruited sour beers they don’t make themselves. Keep reading to see all of their picks.
DeGarde The Sixth Peach
DeGarde
Mike Haakenstad, brewing operations manager at Sycamore Brewing in Charlotte, North Carolina
ABV: 6.5% Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
The Sixth Peach from DeGarde Brewing is a top fruited sour in my book. Peach comes through and through fantastically. The barrel working on this beer is perfect, with just the right amount of oak/vanilla to round out the slight tartness and dry finish. A truly beautiful beer.
My favorite fruited sour beer is Fou’ Foune by world-renowned Belgian Lambic producer, Brasserie Cantillon. Fou’ Foune is a blend of spontaneously fermented lambics aged 18-20 months and then fruited with Bergeron Apricots. Fou’ Foune has a well-rounded complexity of acidity, oak, and fruit where each sip is like biting into a juicy apricot. Not so easy to acquire these days, Fou’ Foune is a special treat and best shared with good friends.
I don’t drink many fruited sours, but the first that comes to mind is Île Sauvage Raspberry Sour. That’s been one of their key beers from day one and each time I’ve had it, it retains a fresher and more vibrant raspberry character than any other raspberry beer I’ve had. Often, I’ve been surprised at the creaminess of the malt body that’s there to back it up. It melds together so well.
Kudos to them — that beer is great.
Avery Barrel Aged Cucumber Hibiscus Sour
Avery
Hector Cavazos, owner and head brewer at Rebel Toad Brewery in Corpus Christi, Texas
ABV: 7% Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Avery Barrel Aged Cucumber Hibiscus Sour. It’s bright in color, sour and the cucumber makes it very refreshing. It has a unique flavor profile that’s fresh bright and works together perfectly. It’s definitely a can’t miss sour beer.
Lost Abbey Red Poppy
Lost Abbey
Douglas Constantiner, founder and CEO of Societe Brewing in San Diego
Red Poppy from Lost Abbey. There’s an explosion of sour cherry flavor and it truly showcases the traditional style of Belgian Beer making through an American brewery that helped create this industry. Matching the cherry with the beer in a beautifully aged product. Lost Abbey makes it look easy but to achieve that sort of balance is incredibly difficult.
Lindeman’s Oude Kriek Cuvee Renee. Not to be confused with Lindeman’s ultra-sweet dessert beers, this sour beer has a huge cherry aroma and balanced tartness with a complex wood character. Brewed in the old style of Belgium’s most famous guezeries.
Allagash Coolship Red – I’m a huge fan of the wild program at Allagash up in Portland, Maine. Their coolship has produced some incredible beers, but my favorite so far has been Coolship Red. It is fermented and conditioned in red wine barrels, with raspberries added, and aged for over two years. The resulting beer is incredibly complex and certainly worth writing home about.
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red is my favorite fruited sour. This was the first beer I noticed people lining up for at the Great American Beer Festival. Unlike any other at the time, this is Wisconsin cherry distilled into a bottle. Tart, sweet, juicy, It’s world-class.
Jester King Brewery’s Nocturn Chrysalis is a bottle I need to get my hands on again. An insane amount of blackberries added to this wild Texas yeast fermented ale aged in barrels turn this funky beer into a purple, jammy experience that somehow tastes like the best possible version of just running through a blackberry field with your mouth open.
I have tried a lot of fruited sours over the years, but I keep coming back to the classics. Cantillon Kriek is probably my all-time favorite fruited sour. The blast of fresh cherry flavor coupled with the earthy and sour characters of a classic lambic is just fantastic.
Blueberry Muffin by Great Notion. I grew up with my family making blueberry muffins at least once a week with blueberries we picked from our garden, and this beer reminds me of that. Tart with great blueberry flavor and enough breadiness/sweetness to mirror that muffin top, this is a beer that will always bring me back to my childhood.
Anything from Cascade Brewing is great. I don’t see a whole lot of their stuff on the East Coast, but we stopped by their brewery one time when we were in Portland and loved just about everything we had there. They are definitely known for their sour beers, and they did not disappoint. It is absolutely a must-try if you like sours and haven’t had one before. One of the best is called The Vine. It’s a fruited sour made with tripel, blonde, and golden ales that are fermented using white grape juice.
Framboos Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen is really difficult to beat. Ripe raspberries all day long. It’s so tart, sweet, and loaded with raspberry flavor it makes me feel like we need to open another facility to brew lambics or mixed culture beers.
Lost Abbey Framboise de Amorosa. I am a sucker for raspberry sours and Lost Abbey always brings it. This beer starts with Lost and Found ale that is aged for a year in recently emptied wine barrels where it has raspberries added to it multiple times. It’s sour, tart, and filled with fresh, ripe raspberry flavor.
Surprising nobody, a new Call of Duty game will be released in 2022. First confirmed back in February, we’ve known for quite some time that a new game was on the way and that it would be a sequel to Modern Warfare. What we didn’t know was when exactly everyone would be able to get their hands on the next entry in the series.
On Tuesday, that detail was finally unveiled in a live-action trailer that saw a cargo ship with the face of Call of Duty campaign character, Ghost, displayed across the ship. The trailer also features the faces of other characters from the game’s campaign, also displayed in a cargo port setting, until finally at the end of the trailer we get the release date of October 28.
This is one of the more unique ways to unveil a game’s release date and artwork, mainly because it didn’t give us any actual gameplay to look at. Modern Warfare 2 has the potential to change the franchise formula and engine in a way that it sorely needs. Right now, the last handful of games has all used the same original engine that the first Modern Warfare game used in 2019. This has some benefits, such as allowing all of the games to sync well with the Call of Duty battle royale game, Warzone. However, because each game uses the same outline it has led to most of them dealing with a massive hacker problem.
With all that in mind, we were hoping that this next game was also going to represent a step forward for the franchise and give us something new. Unfortunately, gameplay details have been very scare so far so we’ll have to wait for more information to come out in the future.
While fans will have to wait a little longer for the Exploding Kittenstv show starring Lucy Liu and Tom Ellis, the game is coming to Netflix much sooner!
Exploding Kittens– The Game will drop on May 31st on Netflix’s mobile app, free of charge for ay current subscribers, though that number has been dwindling. The game lets you play alone or with up to five friends (they also need to be a Netflix customer) as you flip over virtual cards decorated with cat art, until the exploding kitten is revealed, and the game explodes. Hence the name Exploding Kittens. Makes sense! Here are the official rules:
Draw as many cards as you can, and do your best to dodge — or defuse — fatal felines. Or else, boom goes the dynamite! In this kitty-powered game of chance, players draw cards — until someone draws an exploding kitten and blows up. But that’s not all, Netflix members will be able to play with two new exclusive cards, Radar and Flip Flop, enabling players to manipulate the deck in new ways. Radar reveals to players the position of the Exploding Kitten closest to the top of the card deck and Flip Flop reverses the order of the cards in the deck. Featuring original art by The Oatmeal.
Exploding Kittens started as a crowdfunded project which then became a record-setting card game. A series based on the game will premiere on Netflix next year, with expansion packs revolving around the show’s characters becoming available in the future.
The combusting cat game is just one of the games Netflix is introducing to its roster, with three more games debuting today on the app. Dragon Up is a single-player game where players are expected to look for rare dragons in order to save their kingdom. Townsmen- A Kingdom Rebuilt is a strategy game where players build their own medieval city, and Moonlighter is a role-playing game that puts users working in a store in a mysterious village overrun by monsters. Looking forward to seeing if anybody actually plays these games, or if Netflix pulls the plug on them too.
As promised, Marvel dropped a new Thor: Love and Thunder trailer during Monday night’s NBA playoff game, and people are freaking out over this latest look at the Taiki Waititi-directed film. Not only did it unveil the first official look at Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher, as well as promises of seeing Chris Hemsworth’s naked Thor butt, but audiences finally got to see Natalie Portman in action as Mighty Thor. Judging by the responses on social media, folks are definitely here for her bringing the female God of Thunder to life.
As shown in both trailers now, Portman’s Jane Foster somehow has possession of Mjölnir, Thor’s mythical hammer gifted to him by his father that was seemingly destroyed by his sister Hela in Thor: Ragnarok. And, yet, here it is, mostly intact. We say mostly because the cracks in the hammer from when it was shattered are still visible, but imbued with glowing blue lightning. As the new trailer reveals, that separation provides Mighty Thor with the opportunity to pull off a devastating attack.
In a brief clip, Jane can be seen felling a line of foes by hurling the shards of Mjölnir at them, which then fly back to her to reform the hammer. It’s a pretty sweet trick that not only impresses Thor, but also a ton of people on social media who are absolutely freaking out after the new attack. Again, we’re talking about a trailer where Thor is totally nude, and all people want to talk about is Jane’s new badass hammer move.
You can see just some of the Mjölnir reactions pouring in below:
The Belgian Malinois is a special breed of dog. It’s highly intelligent, extremely athletic and needs a ton of interaction. While these attributes make the Belgian Malinois the perfect dog for police and military work, they can be a bit of a handful as a typical pet.
As Belgian Malinois owner Erin Wilson jokingly told NPR, they’re basically “a German shepherd on steroids or crack or cocaine.”
It was her Malinois Eva’s natural drive, however, that ended up saving Wilson’s life.
According to a news release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wilson had been walking down a path with Eva slightly ahead of her when a mountain lion suddenly appeared and swiped Wilson across the left shoulder. She quickly yelled Eva’s name and the dog’s instincts kicked in immediately. Eva rushed in to defend her owner.
It wasn’t long, though, before the mountain lion won the upper hand, much to Wilson’s horror.
She told TODAY, “They fought for a couple seconds, and then I heard her start crying. That’s when the cat latched on to her skull.”
Wilson did everything she could to release Eva from the cat’s grasp. She told The Sacramento Bee that she threw rocks, tried choking it and gouging its eyes. But no luck. It wasn’t until she received help from a passing motorist, Sharon Houston, who had a PVC pipe and some pepper spray that the situation improved. The pair were finally able to get the mountain lion to let go, but not before it dragged poor Eva along the path trying to escape. She was quickly rushed to the vet.
Wilson’s beloved canine companion was in life-threatening trouble. Wilson’s husband, Connor Kenny, told SFGATE that Eva had suffered two skull fractures, a punctured sinus cavity, severe damage to her left eye and experienced seizures. The pup’s situation was dire.
To help cover the medical expenses, Wilson created a GoFundMe account and was soon surprised by the outpouring of love and support the public had for her heroic Malinois. The fundraiser gathered more than $30,000, well exceeding what the family needed.
And luckily, Eva never lost her fighting spirit. As was posted on her own Instagram account, Eva recovered, returning home to her sister Mishka (and to new toys, no less).
She even got a milkshake on the way home. And Wilson shared with The Sacramento Bee that there’s going to be more treats where that came from, “stuffies” shall be chewed and steak dinners shall be had.
Eva might technically be a Belgian Malinois, but her true breed is hero. Her fierce determination, loyalty to her loved ones and unbridled courage came out in full force. Because of her, a life was saved. She is, without a doubt, the goodest girl.
Grant Williams, a former studio worker for Wu-Tang Clan, will be awarded $7 million from New York City. Williams served a 23-year prison sentence beginning in 1996 for the murder of Shdell Lewis — a murder he did not commit.
After being granted parole in 2019, Williams was cleared two years after. He then filed a notice of claim to sue the city and overturn the wrongful conviction. According to Associated Press, the comptroller’s office settled Willams’ claim, using their authority to do so without court action, and will pay Williams $7 million.
“This will assist him in going forward and trying to get back on his feet,” said Williams’ layer Irving Cohen.
“I missed him,” Ghostface said. “When he left, part of me left.”
Ghostface was by Williams’ side when he shared the news that he will be receiving $7 million from New York City, according to Associated Press. Cohen also noted that while Williams was incarcerated, he received an associate’s degree and plans to help other wrongfully convicted people in the future.
Wu-Tang Clan is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Last Thursday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Dr. Timothy Snyder, a Yale University history professor and author of several books on fascism and European history. In the piece, simply titled “We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist,” Snyder claimed that the fascism sentiment in Russia right now is as high as it was during World War II. As such, according to Snyder, “If Ukraine does not win [the Russia Ukraine War], we can expect decades of darkness.”
As The Daily Beast reports, this article has gained a lot of traction in Russian state media circles where an enraged Kremlin has gone so far to dispute the claims that they’ve actually turned on one of their most beloved heroes: former president Donald Trump.
On Friday night, Kremlin TV host Vladimir Solovyov addressed America at large with one big “Listen, you bastards,” then proceeded to explain the many ways in which Trump is a fascist: “Strong leader, with large crowds coming out in his support… Discussions of former greatness. Donald Trump promised to make America great again… Donald Trump’s red hats.”
Russian propagandists seemed all too comfortable labeling their favorite American president as a fascist, despite the fact that they’re counting on Republicans—led by Trump—to gain ground in the U.S. midterm elections and follow an agenda favored by the Kremlin. Meanwhile, Biden’s falling popularity ratings have been discussed by state media with gusto on an almost daily basis. The Biden administration’s backing of Ukraine, including the brutal wave of sanctions against Russia over the invasion, has not sat well with Moscow.
“Author, professor of Yale University Snyder, is trying to convince the readers that we are waging a fascist war,” Solovyov fumed, referring to the historian as a “pseudo-professor of a pseudo-university. “[They say that] we call Ukrainians Nazis because they refuse to recognize themselves as Russians and dare to resist. Snyder knows nothing and understands nothing. He is simply a liar.”
Trump may currently be persona non grata on Russian state TV, but at least they’ve still got golden boy Tucker Carlson.
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