It’s thrilling to wonder “what could have been” when we hear stories of great screenplays that were never shot, incredible musical collaborations that were almost recorded or TV pilots that sounded great on paper but never got the green light.
I sometimes daydream about what would have happened if John Lennon had got on the plane in 1975 and joined Paul McCartney for the recording of his Wings album “Venus and Mars.” Lennon had planned to join McCartney at the sessions in New Orleans for what would have been their first official reunion since the Beatles break-up in 1970, but was told not to go at the last minute by his wife, Yoko Ono.
I also wonder what if director Alejandro Jodorowsky (“El Topo”) had been able to make his epic version of “Dune” starring Mick Jagger, Orson Welles and Salvador Dali in the mid-’70s. That film looked so promising that the making of it became an award-winning documentary in 2013.
There was also a planned sequel to Beetlejuice where the ghost with the most goes to Hawaii.
Michael Jackson asked Prince to duet on his 1987 hit “Bad,” but His Royal Badness refused.
When it comes to TV pilots, a lot of folks couldn’t wait to see the Dwight Schrute-centered “Office” spinoff, “The Farm,” that was never picked up by NBC. Or Judd Apatow’s follow-up to “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” called “North Hollywood,” that would have starred Jason Segel as a struggling actor who worked as Frankenstein at Universal Studios.
There are also a whole host of films that could have been a whole lot different. George Lucaswas originally slated to direct Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece, “Apocalypse Now.” Instead, he made a space movie called “Star Wars.”
TV writer Dan Chamberlain took to Twitter on Sunday and asked his followers about their favorite “pop culture white whale” meaning the “unreleased/unrealized stuff” they wished they could have experienced. He gave two examples, one “The Day the Clown Cried,” an unreleased Jerry Lewis film about a clown during the Holocaust, and a Jay-Z “The Blueprint 3” track “Crispy Benjamins,” which supposedly sampled Regina Spektor’s “Chemo Limo.”
what’s your pop culture white whale? i mean unreleased/unrealized stuff like “the day the clown cried” – mine is the rumored jay-z blueprint 3 track “crispy benjamins” which supposedly sampled regina spektor’s “chemo limo”
The Lewis film, originally shot in 1972, is allegedly so bad that he donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in 2015 under the stipulation that it was not to be screened before June 2024.
Here are some of the best responses to the pop culture “white whales” people have been yearning to see and hear.
THE CHEAPEST MUPPET MOVIE EVER MADE – original concept from Juhl and Henson in ‘85, more recent Disney-rejected rewrite by Oz. Gonzo directs and blows the budget on the opening credits. The movie get cheaper as it goes… https://t.co/Kb6AUqAPVK…!
The 3 1/2 hour Director’s Cut. Explained so many things that happened, like the burglar who steals Del’s wallet in the hotel room. pic.twitter.com/nPDxUccBd5
A long, long time ago I got my hands on the script to “Dieter Movie,” about Mike Myers’ character from SPROCKETS. To this day it remains the funniest script I have ever read.
I think about the Beatles’ LotR 15 times more often than I think about either #TheBeatles or #LotR. Don’t even get me started on the Kubrick piece of the puzzle!
The only thing that could have killed it was J.R.R. Tolkien himself. So he did. pic.twitter.com/gMwvtOFVFS
Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, which was set to star Steve Carell, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Kevin Kline (in 2 roles), Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, and Paul Reubens.
There was going to be a Marx Brothers reunion movie in which each played the head of a different state running amok in the U.N. — written and directed by Billy Wilder following The Apartment. Chico died before it could be made.
James Gunn wrote a Spy vs Spy script in the late 90s for Jay Roach (Austin Powers director) with Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans allegedly playing the spies. Gunn wrote with Nic Cage and Eddie Murphy in mind as the spies. One day maybe. One day… 😓 pic.twitter.com/Lljdzo2VUH
McCartney went to his farm when the Beatles broke up, missing Hendrix’s telegram invite sent to Apple’s office: “We are recording an LP together this weekend in NewYork. How about coming in to play bass? Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.” pic.twitter.com/zubeaoT1tK
The uncut version of The Black Cauldron. Supposedly, Disney does have this version in their vault but have never made it public. Only a few surviving shots and cels have surfaced. https://t.co/Ar7Bd6Iev0
Big Bug Man. It was never released and it’s Marlon Brando’s last performance, as he recorded dialogue a month before he died in 2004 pic.twitter.com/gNcuJKcFfA
Some of the white whales mentioned seem so incredible that if they did materialize, it’d be hard for them to deliver on their promises. Sometimes it’s more fun to imagine what something would sound or look like than actually experiencing it in real life.
Comedian Harry Shearer claims to have seen a rough cut of the aforementioned Lewis film, “The Day the Clown Cried” and says that most of the time there’s no way these white whales can live up to their expectations. However, Lewis’ film is the exception that proves the rule.
“With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object,” Shearer said.
“This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. ‘Oh, My God!’—that’s all you can say,” he continued.
Thanks to his accessibility on social media, Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs has cultivated a devoted fanbase that isn’t afraid to razz him a bit with posts pointing out his lookalikes, including actor Don Cheadle. At this past weekend’s Super Bowl festivities in LA, though, Gibbs finally made contact with his celebrity doppelganger, who introduced himself by confirming fans’ observations.
The two had a fun moment recounting their meeting on Twitter, where Gibbs recalled Cheadle’s words and the actor verified the story. “N**** walked up to me last night and said, ‘People say we look alike,’ and it was Don Cheadle,” Gibbs wrote. “The f*cking goat.” Cheadle retweeted his post, calling it a “true story.” “Great meeting you, nephew,” he assured. “To be continued…”
— Don” ‘t ask me google questions” Cheadle (@DonCheadle) February 14, 2022
Whether that means the duo will find some project to work on together in the future or if it’s just the beginning of a growing friendship, plenty of fans were excited by the moment, including Gibbs’ manager, who got a photo of the two mid-embrace.
Tasting bourbon blind (or anything blind for that matter) is always more complicated than you or our LIFE editor (who loves assigning these) might think. Most of what we run here are “single-blind” tastings — meaning that the person trying something “blind” knows the guacamole brands or salsa brands or beer brands in the lineup (typically, that’s who went out and bought them). Even if you don’t know you’re tasting a Basil Hayden bourbon instead of, say, an Old Grand-Dad, you still know in the back of your head that those two whiskeys are in the day’s lineupsomewhere.
But today, we’re going “double-blind.” Meaning, I don’t even know what’s in the mix. I had my wife pick ten bourbons at random from my whiskey shelves and pour them into Glencairns while I was out walking the dog. The only instructions I gave her were to not pull more than one bottle off a single shelf and don’t open anything that’s sealed. That cast a very wide net. She then wrote down which whiskeys were in each glass and put the bottles back where they’d been, so I wouldn’t see which had been moved.
From there, I sat down, took photos of each glass, and dove into the tasting with no other information besides the look of each whiskey. I’m not even going to list the whiskeys here — you’re going to stay as blind as me. Let’s just dive in and see if I can identify any of these blind (at all) and where they fall in my double-blind ranking.
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This opens with a sense of soft leather and vanilla syrup with a slight pear or cherry pie vibe with some dark berries and maybe nutshells. The palate isn’t too far off that profile with plums, nuts, and warming, woody spice. The mid-palate has a slight plum pudding feel that moves towards woody spices and more nutshell but ends up more like dry orchard wood than anything else.
My Guess:
Woody fruit with a bit of spice? This feels like a single barrel and very Kentucky. The berries remind me of Elijah Craig or Four Roses. It’s something in that general direction.
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Worn leather draws you in with notes of rich toffee, vanilla tobacco, blackberries, and a hint of dark potting soil. Toffee and vanilla drive the palate with a dry cedar bark next to dark and oily espresso beans. Dark berry fruit leans into more of that vanilla tobacco chewiness as that bark vibe lingers on the backend of the palate.
My Guess:
There’s zero “pie crust” or “biscuit” or “pancake batter” vibe so this has to be a sweet mash. That means it’s likely Peerless simply because I don’t think I have any other sweet mash bourbon on my shelves right now.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Leather and a berry cobbler with raw biscuits lead the way on the nose as winter spices and a hint of floral honey pop in. Clove and nutmeg dominate on the palate with a touch of anise leading towards fresh strawberries, dark chocolate-covered coffee beans, and a big piece of cinnamon bark. There’s a spiced chocolate tobacco vibe on the end that leads towards a spicy plum jamminess that’s very dark and deep.
My Guess:
The darkness of this with those bitter notes and heavy spices feels very crafty. On that overtly leathery nose and super dark look and overall deep vibe, it’d say this is Texas craft whiskey.
Garrison, Balcones, TX … one of those.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
This starts with a big dose of caramel candies with a hint of honey next to toasted oak staves and soft suede on the nose. The palate holds into the caramel sweetness as subtle hints of stone fruit arrive with more oak, spicy apricot jam, peach pits, and a hint of perfumed soap (kind of like old-school Palmolive) and maybe fennel. The finish sticks with fennel and turns it into a candy with that caramel as the perfume lingers in your senses.
My Guess:
I have no f*cking clue what this is. It’s weirdly nostalgic with that Palmolive note though.
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
This draws you in with a nose full of stale popcorn next to pecan Sandies with a dose of cinnamon, a little bit of sweet grass, and a touch of leather. There’s a vanilla cream pie note on the palate that leads toward more leather, fresh floral notes, and choco-cherry tobacco. The mid-palate peaks with that tobacco spice and sweetness and then just sort of disappear into a watery grave.
My Guess:
This is something cheaper and/or cut way down in proof. That popcorn note makes this feel like an entry-point Dickel or maybe Evan Williams.
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Sweet spice, stewed pears with saffron, and a chocolate cream pie nose greet you. The taste leans into vanilla hard candies with almond-encrusted toffees, soft cedar, and a hint of potting soil. Pears and soft apricot-laced tobacco leaves drive the mid-palate towards more pear and hint of that soil, tobacco, and nutty toffee.
My Guess:
I have no clue what this is but it’s really goddamn nice.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Vanilla pudding meets orange zest and kiwi as a hint of marshmallow drives the nose. Spicy tobacco leads the way on the palate as fresh mint lightens things up and dried roses counterpoint. The mid-palate is all about sweet spices with savory fruits leaning into figs and maybe even a touch of raw pumpkin flesh. Those figs take over on the end and create a sweet/savory fruity finish with a touch of kiwi skin.
My Guess:
This is a real outlier. It has to be some random finishing that no one else does. That savory fruit feels like something Woodford does in their limited runs but that’s not quite it though. I can’t quite put my finger on this but it’s something completely different.
Taste 8
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a mix of chocolate powder, apricots, and orange that’s tempered by five spice and a hint of wet reeds. Sweet and floral honey opens the palate up to Almond Roca (gotcha!) and peach pits. Ripe plums with more of those wet reeds drive the finish towards soft leather, more stone fruit, and a slightly spicy tobacco chew.
My Guess:
This is a Woodinville bourbon. It’s finished, maybe the PX cask? But that Almond Roca flavor note is very Seattle and gives it away instantly.
Taste 9
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
This smells like Special K with a supporting lineup of summer flowers, mocha lattes, soft cedar, and a hint of vanilla extract. Winter spices warm on the palate as biscuits with Nutella dive the sweet and sour mash mid-palate. The backend has a vanilla tobacco feel with a hint more of those spices but fades out pretty quickly.
My Guess:
It’s definitely wheated. It’s not Maker’s, Weller/Pappy, or Larceny — it’s not as dialed as those. My guess is it’s an MGP wheatie like Old Elk. Redemption maybe?
Taste 10
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Leather and berry brambles — the fruit, stems, leaves, and even dirt — pop on the nose with a hint of orange oil, mossy bark, and sweet oak. I already know this is Elijah Craig Barrel Proof by that berry bramble nose. The taste confirms it with more of those red and dark berry brambles, buttery toffee, cobbles from a cobbler, and a very creamy vanilla presence. A soft berry tobacco drives the finish towards a vanilla bark and a dusting of warming winter spices.
This whiskey is built from a batch of barrels that are a minimum of seven years old. Nearest’s Master Blender, Victoria Eady-Butler, creates the blend according to classic flavor notes first put into Tennessee whiskey by her ancestor, Nearest Green, back in the 1800s.
Bottom Line:
This just disappeared at the end today when I wanted it to hit a grand slam on the finish. It’s a shame because the first half of the sip is really good. I really can’t see using this outside of big cocktails.
I guess I was on the Tennessee scent in that I thought it was an “entry-point” Dickel but, nah, I didn’t come close to getting this one correct.
This release from Redemption is their take on MGP’s 45 percent winter wheat bourbon. Redemption’s team brings four-year-old barrels in-house and then masterfully blends them in small batches until they get just the right notes.
Bottom Line:
This started off really strong but ended a little thin. There was still a finish, don’t get me wrong. But at the end of the day, this felt like a solid cocktail bourbon more than anything else.
As for my guess, I nailed it at first. It’s an MGP wheated bourbon. But then I thought it was Old Elk and it’s not that.
This blend from Lux Row starts off with 14-year-old high rye bourbon. That’s cut with two different eight-year-old high-rye bourbons before that vatted juice goes into a French Sauternes casks for a final maturation. That whiskey then goes into the bottle as-is.
Bottom Line:
This was so out of leftfield. That perfume/Palmolive note reminded me of my grandmother but, like, after she’d had a whiskey or two. So there was a clear nostalgia play that drew me back and there was real depth to this whiskey. It, at least, had a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Jefferson’s Ocean is an experiment in finishing that’s pretty unique. The blenders pull in six to eight-year-old whiskeys sourced from four Kentucky distilleries. They marry those barrels and then re-barrel the whiskey, load them onto a ship, and sail those barrels around the world for almost a year. The best of those barrels are married again and bottled with a little Kentucky limestone water added.
Bottom Line:
This is where we get into the splitting hairs section. This was really good, unique, and something I want to go back to.
I guess because I couldn’t quite place it, it fell a little in the rankings. It felt like it should have stood out more somehow. Still, this difference between this and the next three entries is very small.
This Heaven Hill expression is released three times a year and has been winning award after award. The whiskey in the bottle is generally at least 12 years old and bottled with no cutting down to proof or filtration whatsoever. This expression is all about finding the best barrels in the Heaven Hill warehouses and letting that whiskey shine on its own.
Bottom Line:
This is a testament to the powerhouse whiskeys in this blind taste test. I knew this was Elijah Craig Barrel Proof and it still slotted in at sixth. But as I said with the Jefferson’s above, I’m super-duper splitting hairs with the awesome quality of this middle group of bourbons.
5. Yellowstone Hand Picked Collection Single Barrel — Taste 6
These bottles are part of an exclusive run of bourbon barrels that are “hand picked” by Steve Beam out at Limestone Branch Distillery (from sourced barrels). Beam pulls these exceptional barrels in and releases them for special retailers, bar accounts, and collections. Each release is around 200 bottles and they tend to be rare finds.
Bottom Line:
This was really nice overall. There was nothing that really blew my mind but it didn’t disappoint in any way either. I had no idea what it was but that’s sort of besides the point when the whiskey is this easy-going.
4. Four Roses Single Barrel, Barrel No. 66-2G — Taste 1
Four Rose’s standard single barrel expression is an interesting one. This is their “number one” recipe, meaning it’s a high-rye (35 percent) mash bill that’s fermented with a yeast that highlights “delicate fruit.” The juice is then bottled at 100 proof, meaning you’re getting a good sense of that single barrel in every bottle.
Bottom Line:
This was pretty damn tasty today. I can definitely see going back to this bottle for a nice end-of-the-day pour over a rock or two.
And, hey, I wasn’t that far off on guessing what it was!
This whiskey starts as Woodinville’s award-winning five-year-old bourbon. That juice is then re-barreled into Moscatel wine casks for a finish maturation period. After nearly a year, the whiskey goes into the bottle having just been touched by water but otherwise as-is.
Bottom Line:
That Almond Roca note is a dead giveaway. Though, I did call the wrong cask finishing. All of that aside, this is really pretty delicious. It’s such an easy and rewarding sipper. This is definitely where we get into the big leagues in this ranking, taste-wise.
This whiskey is hewn from 90 30-gallon barrels of four-year-old bourbon that were transferred into 26 59-gallon Tawny Port casks for a final maturation of nearly two years. That juice was then bottled as-is after a touch of water was added.
Bottom Line:
This is another one that was just delicious. I didn’t want it to end. That being said it wasn’t quite as nuanced and subtle as the next entry. This needed that rock to calm it down a bit (but only barely).
That need to be calmed is what gave it away as a big ol’ Texas palate buster whiskey. Though, I didn’t pinpoint the brand.
1. Kentucky Peerless Small Batch Bourbon — Taste 2
Kentucky Peerless Distilling takes its time for a true grain-to-glass experience. Their small batch is crafted with a fairly low-rye mash bill and fermented with a sweet mash as opposed to a sour mash (that means they use 100 percent new grains, water, and yeast with each new batch instead of holding some of the mash over to start the next one like a sourdough starter, hence the name). The barrels are then hand-selected for their taste and bottled completely as-is.
Bottom Line:
This was the most refined sip of the day by far. It was clean and distinct while still having an enticing feel to it. It’s also the one I wanted to go back to immediately.
Lastly, I think I called this one even though it was an educated guess (based on me forgetting I have Wilderness Trail on my shelf — another sweet mash whiskey).
Part 3: Final Thoughts
Zach Johnston
Even though I didn’t know any of these bottles from the jump, it all still shook out pretty close to what I might have anticipated. A few sank straight to the bottom, the middle was full of really good / very close bourbons, and the top two or three were undeniable. Not knowing what the labels were in advance had no bearing on the results.
That aside, I only really got three (maybe four) out of ten right when trying to call out what these are. In all honesty, part of that is that there are hundreds of whiskeys on my shelf and it was a bit overwhelming trying to narrow it down. Some of these could have been anything — a bottle I haven’t tried in a while, something I simply forgot about, something I haven’t tried yet … anything.
In the end, I’m glad Kentucky Peerless Bourbon won. I like that brand, the people behind it, and I truly adore their whiskeys. But even looking at the top three (which was all pretty much a tie), all of them are from small craft distillery operations that really, really care about the product they make themselves and put out into the world. All of the sourced stuff (with Elijah Craig and Four Roses being the exceptions) was below that.
Wrestler-turned-actor John Cena is no stranger to violence. He can currently be seen in the very blue DC show Peacemaker, reviving his fascist do-gooder from James Gunn’s cheerfully R-rated The Suicide Squad. Now he’s lending his voice, at least, to one of the most violent classic cartoons.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cena is set to play a key role in Coyote vs. Acme, a riff on the Looney Tunes shorts involving Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote, the perpetually hapless predator who wants nothing more than to catch and devour the ever-elusive Road Runner.
Mind you, Cena won’t be voicing Mr. Coyote, who’s voice is seldom heard (at least in the ones with the Roadrunner; he speaks with a lovely Mid-Atlantic accent in the ones where he’s pursuing others, like Bugs Bunny). The plot of the film, based on a much-liked 1990 New Yorker humor article of the same name, is summarized by THR like so:
The feature will tell the story of a down-on-his-luck (human) attorney who takes on Wile E. as a client in his suit against Acme over its defective products, only to discover that his boss at his former law firm is representing Acme.
Cena voices the attorney’s former boss.
First launched in 1949, the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons were director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese’s attempts to parody the chase cartoons that had come to dominate the likes of Looney Tunes and particularly Tom and Jerry shorts by their rivals at MGM. The nearly 50 shorts they created during the Golden Age were stripped down, minimalist affairs, comprised of nothing but one gag after another, always ending in magnanimous, humiliating, and very violent defeat. Wile E. regularly spent money ordering gizmos and weapons from the proto-Amazon company Acme, which always backfired in some spectacular, gruesome fashion.
In the meantime, HBO Max subscribers can go to the streamer, where a heaping helping of the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner shorts — plus hundreds of other classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies — reside. Here is but a taste from the maiden voyage, the excellently named Fast and Furry-ous.
Britney Spears has been through a lot on her conservatorship journey, and now a couple of US congressmen have invited her to speak about it, as Spears revealed today by sharing a letter she received months ago.
The letter is dated December 1, 2021 and signed by Florida representative Charlie Crist and California representative Eric Swalwell. In it, the members of Congress congratulate Spears, and attorney Mathew Rosengart, on the ending of her conservatorship, and given her recent legal journey, they invited her to speak with them in Congress. They wrote, “We wanted to personally invite you and your counsel to meet with us in Congress at a mutually convenient time to describe in your own words how you achieved justice. There is no doubt that your story will empower countless others outside the millions that are already inspired by you and your art. Please know that you have absolutely no obligation to do anything more but fight for yourself, but if you are willing, we would appreciate learning more about the emotional and financial turmoil you faced within the conservatorship system.”
In her post caption, Spears noted she received the letter when she “wasn’t nearly at the healing stage I’m in now” and was “immediately flattered.” She went on to note, “I’m grateful that my story was even ACKNOWLEDGED !!! Because of the letter, I felt heard and like I mattered for the first time in my life !!! In a world where your own family goes against you, it’s actually hard to find people that get it and show empathy !!!! Again, I’m not here to be a victim although I’m the first to admit I’m pretty messed up by it all … I want to help others in vulnerable situations, take life by the balls and be brave !!! I wish I would have been … I was so scared and nothing is worse than your own family doing what they did to me … I’m lucky to have a small circle of adorable friends who I can count on … In the mean time thank you to Congress for inviting me to the White House …”
It’s unclear if Spears will accept the invitation to speak about her journey, but based on something she said last month, she may end up respectfully declining: In a post addressing her sister Jamie Lynn, Spears wrote, “I wish I would be able to do what you’re doing and do interviews !!! I’m scared of all of it.”
The Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl earlier this week, taking down the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium, 23-20. Among the many big-name players on L.A.’s roster who got to lift the Lombardi Trophy for the first time was starting quarterback Matthew Stafford, who joined the team via a trade from the Detroit Lions this past offseason.
With this being the highest point that any football player can achieve in their career, Stafford, uh, celebrated extremely hard. Wednesday was the Rams’ championship parade in Los Angeles, and videos from the event show that Stafford is absolutely bombed out of his mind. At one point, Stafford addressed the assembled fans and slurred his way through a speech while appearing to hold a bottle of Don Julio 1942 tequila.
— CJ Fogler AKA Perc70 #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) February 16, 2022
Listen, you win the Super Bowl, you deserve to celebrate however you see fit so long as you’re not bothering anyone else. And besides, it’s not like Stafford is the only Rams players who is a little bombed.
Uncharted is the first of three major video game movies scheduled to come out this year, along with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and the untiled Mario movie (although I prefer to think of it as a Toad movie featuring Mario). The reviews for the Tom Holland-starring action flick have not been kind so far, but if you see it in Los Angeles this weekend, you better whoop it up: Mark Wahlberg might be watching.
“On Friday, I will be going to random theaters around LA, because I want to see the reaction to the movie,” the future-Bill Belichick told host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “You know, we used to do that all the time. Whenever you had a movie opening, you wanted to go to the theater, see if people are waiting in line to go and see it, go in to watch the movie a little bit.” This experience can go one of two ways: if it goes well, you “thank people for coming,” Wahlberg said. It it doesn’t, “you sneak out the door.” Either way, don’t ask to touch his mustache. He doesn’t like that.
You can watch Wahlberg’s Jimmy Kimmel Live interview above.
On the heels of the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trailer dropping during the Super Bowl, Marvel also released a brand new poster for the highly anticipated film. It didn’t take long for eagle-eyed fans to scour every inch of it looking for clues, and sure enough, they were convinced they found something. In one of the shards of broken glass featured in the poster, there’s a very, very, very blurry reflection that fans are certain is Deadpool.
The Merc with the Mouth immediately started trending on Twitter as the theory went viral, but in true Marvel fashion, Ryan Reynolds put the kibosh on the whole thing during an event in London. Via Variety:
“I’m really not in the movie,” Reynolds told me on Tuesday night at the London West Hollywood before a special screening of his upcoming Netflix sci-fi action movie “The Adam Project.”
When I suggested he could be lying, Reynolds insisted, “I’m promising, I’m not in the movie.”
Of course, Marvel fans have heard this song and dance before, and very recently. Andrew Garfield swore up and down that he wasn’t in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and sure enough, he ended up being in the film. That said, Garfield’s inclusion made perfect sense given the No Way Home was already bringing in villains from other Spider films. Whereas the Deadpool theory is operating off a questionable, super blurry image.
In the meantime, Tom Cruise is also rumored to be in the Doctor Strange sequel, but so far, the Mission: Impossible star hasn’t issued a denial. Yet.
First it was Matt Damon and Spike Lee, and now the blockchain has come for Larry David and Lebron James. David and James became the latest celebrities to endorse cryptocurrency, in Super Bowl commercials aired this Sunday — David as a character mocking great ideas throughout history in an ad for the Bahamian crypto exchange FTX, and present-day Lebron James traveling back in time to Biff Tannen his digitally de-aged teenage self into buying crypto in an ad for Crypto.com, a Singapore-based exchange app.
As far as Super Bowl ads go, neither was the worst I’ve ever seen (far fewer corporations apologizing for scandals and promising to do better this year), and David’s was actually reasonably funny — at least, right up until the moment it became clear that it was an ad for crypto, which felt more like a revelation than a punchline. They got to Larry David?
It was one thing to see Spike Lee in a Bitcoin spot or Gwyneth Paltrow promoting buying Bitcoin via Cash App or Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather promoting an apparent EthereumMax pump and dump, but a famously crotchety trend hater like Larry David jumping on the bandwagon felt like a particular kind of persona betrayal. That persona was essentially the entire basis for the ad, which was directed by David’s long-time Curb Your Enthusiasm collaborator Jeff Shaffer, whom, as you might’ve already guessed, was not paid in crypto.
Between David, Lebron James, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen (subjects of a separate campaign for FTX), Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather — all of them basically as rich as it’s possible for any famous person not famous specifically for being rich itself to be — it seems part of a deliberate strategy to choose crypto spokespeople who very plainly don’t need the money. The “why the hell are they doing this” of it all is practically baked in.
The answer? Paradoxically, it has to be money, right? What else could it be?
Perhaps there was some earlier age of greater assumed social responsibility than today, when otherwise putatively socially conscious celebrities would’ve been more reticent to promote an at best highly speculative and at worst environmentally destructive investment strategy. Whatever the case, some of our richest celebrities have clearly determined that the upside of hawking crypto outweighs the social costs.
Which is to say: the only way I can wrap my mind around Larry David agreeing to star in a crypto ad is that they were offering him so much money that he would’ve felt like an idiot to turn it down.
If the first question this massive crypto ad push raises is, “why did these celebrities agree to do this?” And the most logical answer is “because they got paid an obscene amount of money to do so,” the next logical mystery is how these crypto companies have so much money to blow in the first place.
The figures are staggering. According to the LA Times, Larry David’s ad cost up to $7 million just for the air time. Which doesn’t include however much they paid David and Shaffer, the $100,000-a-day production, and fees to all the agencies involved in its creation (“the ad and public relations agencies 360i, dentsu X, and Mitchell in addition to dentsuMB; the production company Partizan; and editors at Mackcut”). According to a New York Times piece, the company behind the ads, FTX, recently spent $17.5 million to sponsor sports at Cal, paid $20 million for the aforementioned Tom Brady/Gisele ad campaign, and bought the naming rights to the Miami Heat basketball team’s home arena for $135 million.
Incredibly, FTX is a company that has only existed since 2019. Its founder is a 29-year-old multi-billionaire* named Sam Bankman-Fried (*”though such estimates are fuzzy—many of Bankman-Fried’s digital assets are illiquid, of speculative value, and just plain weird,” as noted by Yahoo Finance) who first set up shop first in Hong Kong and, as of this past Fall, in the Bahamas — in both cases, it seems, in order to find a friendlier regulatory environment for his business.
As the Yahoo Finance profile of Bankman-Fried published in August put it, there are two types of crypto exchanges, the kind that operate in the US, which have been designed to comply with some of the “cumbersome” US regulations, and the second kind:
…like BitMEX, Binance, Bitfinex, and FTX’s international exchange— [which] have taken a much riskier approach. They have set up offshore, and have offered a wide array of innovative products, including crypto futures, swaps, other derivatives, and ‘tokenized stock’ (digital assets said to be tethered to actual stock holdings held by a custodian somewhere, like, in FTX’s case, a German bank). The offshore exchanges have also let traders—including unsophisticated retail traders—buy many of these volatile instruments on margin. Until last month, for instance, several exchanges, including FTX, spotted their customers margin ratios as high as 100:1; that is, you could buy a $100,000 position in a crypto derivative with just a $1,000 deposit. One big price swing—hardly unusual in crypto markets—can result in automated margin calls that wipe out a trader’s position.
Does anyone else miss the days when some talking frogs wanted us to drink more beer? Even the question of whether this exchange, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars advertising to a majority-American audience, is even legal to use in the US seems to get complicated in a hurry. According to the same profile on FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: “In hopes of evading U.S. regulators, the offshore exchanges, including FTX, all say they refuse orders from U.S. customers.”
“FTX does not allow residents of the United States of America to trade on its platform.
– FTT is not offered in the United States of America.
– FTX.US, a separate trading platform not owned by FTX, does operate in the United States, and maintains a variety of US regulatory licenses, including an MSB, MTLs, DCO, DCM, and SEF.”
This page includes a link to FTX.us, which, again, is described as “a separate trading platform not owned by FTX.” The About page on FTX.us in turn looks something like this:
FTX.us
Yes, that’s a picture of FTX.US CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. I don’t know enough about corporate law to understand the legal definitions of “a separate trading platform not owned by FTX,” but when the founder is the same guy it feels like there are some crucial corporate loopholes being utilized. (We all know that corporations are legally people, but isn’t it also true that corporations are legally not people?)
I read the entire profile on Bankman-Fried, and I still don’t quite understand the convoluted legality of cryptocurrency. Though I did learn that Bankman-Fried was Joe Biden’s second-biggest individual donor behind Michael Bloomberg, that he describes himself as a “radical utilitarian,” that he sleeps four hours a night on beanbag chairs, and that his parents teach at Stanford, his father mostly on the subject of tax policy (a great job for a guy named “Bank Man,” to be sure).
Meanwhile, the Super Bowl’s other biggest cryptocurrency ad came from Crypto.com, a Singapore-based company that recently paid $700 million to have the Staples Center renamed the Crypto.com Arena. Crypto.com’s four cofounders, also apparently based in Hong Kong and Singapore, seem to keep lower profiles than Bankman-Fried. Though the Daily Beast reports that Kris Marszalek, Crypto.com CEO, left his last job, at an Australian version of Groupon called Ensogo, “amid accusations from customers and business partners that they had been ripped off.”
Which explains… well, not much. Virtually the entirety of the crypto world, and the players in it, feels sketchy and obtuse, something to handwave away without thinking about like your iTunes terms and conditions on your way to FUN and PROFIT. And that, in and of itself, would seem to offer an explanation as to why cryptocurrency companies are spending such insane amounts of money on advertising in the first place: legitimacy. They want us to imagine purchasing a volatile asset on a pseudo-legal exchange to be as commonplace as drinking a beer or driving a pickup truck.
Clearly it’s not, and the more hundreds of millions of dollars they pay celebrities to convince me otherwise, the warier I become. It also seems telling that almost all of those ad dollars have gone towards traditionally male-skewing things, like football and MMA. Which calls to mind a particular exchange in the movie Boiler Room:
Greg Weinstein (Nicky Katt): Now there’s two rules you have to remember as a trainee, number one, we don’t pitch the bitch here.
Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi): What?
Greg Weinstein: We don’t sell stock to women. I don’t care who it is, we don’t do it. Nancy Sinatra calls, you tell her you’re sorry. They’re a constant pain in the ass and you’re never going to hear the end of it alright? They’re going to call you every fucking day wanting to know why the stock is dropping and God forbid the stock should go up, you’re going to hear from them every fucking 15 minutes. It’s just not worth it, don’t pitch the bitch.
It should be noted that Boiler Room was a film about a pump-and-dump scheme. Maybe the crypto era will eventually end the same way, with an FBI raid and a truck full of computers. Or maybe the fatal flaw of the Boiler Room scheme wasn’t that it was illegal, maybe it was that it wasn’t complicated enough and JT Marlin Investments didn’t spend enough on advertising.
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This year’s Record Store Day is on April 23, and now the moment everybody has been waiting for has arrived: The lengthy list of exclusive releases has been revealed.
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters are releasing a split single that includes a version of “Making A Fire” re-worked by Mark Ronson and a version of “Chasing Birds” reimagined by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Childish Gambino is also making his 2014 EP Kauai available on vinyl for the first time ever.
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — The Century Of Self
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — Madonna
A.R. Kane — Americana
Alan Vega — Jukebox Babe b/w Speedway
Albert Ayler — Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings
Alice Cooper — Brutal Planet
Alice In Chains — We Die Young
Allman Brothers Band — Cream Of The Crop 2003 — Highlights
America — Alternates & Rarities
America — History 180 Translucent Blue Vinyl
America — History 180 White Vinyl
Angelo Badalamenti — Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers — In My Prime
Art Pepper — Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section [Mono]
Asia — XXX
Bad Company — Live 1979
Barry White — No Limit On Love
Be Bop Deluxe — Live In The Air Age
Belinda Carlisle — The Heaven on Earth Tour
Bell Biv Devoe — Poison
Ben Vaughn — The World Of Ben Vaughn
Bernard Butler — People Move On: The B-Sides, 1998 + 2021
Betty Harris — The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul
Bill Evans — Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert At The Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
Bill Evans — Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert At The Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires
Billy Bragg — Life’s A Riot With Spy vs Spy (30th Anniversary Edition)
Billy F Gibbons — Hardware [Deluxe Edition]
Black Label Society — Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live
Black Pumas — Black Pumas [Collector’s Edition 7″ Box Set]
Blondie — Sunday Girl EP
Blue Stingrays — Grits & Eggs
Blur — Bustin’ + Dronin’
Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited — Dream Queen
Bomba Estero — Live in Dublin
Brian Bennett — Voyage (A Journey into Discoid Funk)
Brian Tyler — The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (Original Score)
Bruno Nicolai — La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times)
Buena Vista Social Club — Ahora Me Da Pena
C-Bo — Orca (Deluxe Edition)
Calvin Keys — Full Court Press
Camera Obscura — Making Money
Charles Mingus — The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s
Charlie Benante — Moving Pitchers
Chet Baker — Live In Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1983-1984
Chicago — Chicago At Carnegie Hall, April 9, 1971 (Live)
Chief Keef — Sorry 4 The Weight (Deluxe Edition)
Childish Gambino — Kauai
Christian McBride — Conversations With Christian
Chuck Prophet — The Age of Miracles
Cold War Kids — Zowie Selects
Collective Soul — Disciplined Breakdown
Commander Venus — The Uneventful Vacation [25th Anniversary]
Coolio — It Takes A Thief
Corinne Bailey Rae — The Sea
Cypress Hill — The 420 Remixes
Czarface — Czarmageddon
Dana Gillespie — Foolish Seasons
Darlene Love — Darlene Love: The Many Sides of Love — The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus!
Daughtry — Dearly Beloved
Dave Brubeck Trio — Live From Vienna 1967
Dave Davies — Kinked
David Bowie — Brilliant Adventure EP
David Bowie — Toy EP (‘You’ve got it made with all the toys’)
Debbie Gibson — Lost in Your Eyes, The Duet with Joey McIntyre
Def Leppard — High ‘n’ Dry
Del Shannon — Rock On
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio — Live in Loveland!
Dermot Kennedy — Doves & Ravens
Detective — Detective
Devo — Oh, No! It’s Devo (40th Anniversary Edition)
Dillinger Escape Plan — Dissociation
Dio — Double Dose of Donington
Doctor Who — Dead Air
Donna Summer — Donna Summer — 40th Anniversary Picture Disc
Durand Jones and the Indications — Power To The People
Echo & The Bunnymen — B-Sides and Live (2001 – 2005)
Edgar Froese — Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
Edison International — It Happened At The Hop: Edison International Doo Woppers & Sock Hoppers
Electronic — Remix Mini Album
Elton John — The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (EP)
Erasure — Ne:EP
Erika de Casier — The Sensational Remixes
Esther Marrow — Sister Woman
Everlast — Whitey Ford
Everything But The Girl — Night and Day (40th Anniversary Edition)
Fats Domino — Here Comes… Fats Domino
Field Music — Plumb
Flash & The Dynamics — The New York Sound
Foo Fighters — “Making A Fire (Mark Ronson Re-Version)” b/w “Chasing Birds (Preservation Hall Jazz Band Re-Version)”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood — Altered Reels
Frankie and The Witch Fingers — Frankie and The Witch Fingers
Future — DS2
G.B.H. — City Baby Attacked By Rats
Gavid Rossdale — Wanderlust
Geoff Tate — Kings & Thieves
Gerard Way — Hesitant Alien
Girlhouse — The girlhouse Eps
Glass Animals — I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)
Gojira — Live at Brixton Academy
Golden Smog — On Golden Smog
Gong — Gong In the 70s
Gorgon City — Olympia Remixes
Grateful Dead — Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/8/72 (Live)
Handsome Boy Modeling School — So… How’s Your Girl?
Hasaan Ibn Ali — Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay: The Solo Recordings
Heartbreakers — The L.A.M.F. demo sessions
Home Boy and the C.O.L. — Home Boy And The C.O.L.
Iggy Pop — Live In Berlin
Jacka — Tear Gas
James Blake — COVERS
James Luckett — May OST
Jay Bennett — “Kicking at the Perfumed Air” & “Whatever Happened I Apologize” with the film “Where are you, Jay Bennett?”
Jazz Sabbath — Vol. 2
Jeannie C. Riley — Harper Valley PTA
Jerry Garcia Band — Ragged But Right
Jessie Ware — Devotion: The Gold Edition (10th Anniversary)
Jesus Jones — Scratched – Unreleased Rare Tracks & Remixes
Jetstar Records — The Rock Sides
Jetstar Records — The Soul Sides
Jim Jones — Hustler’s P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment)
Jimmy Cliff — Follow My Mind
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts — Acoustics
John Craigie — Abbey Road Lonely
John Fred & His Playboy Band — Judy In Disguise
John Williams — Lost In Space: Title Themes from the Hit TV Series
John Williams — The Cowboys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [50th Anniversary]
Johnny Marr — Spirit, Power & Soul
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers — Modern Lovers 88 [35th Anniversary]
Joni Mitchell — Blue Highlights
Jorma Kaukonen — The Land of Heroes
Joss Stone — LP1
Judas Priest — Hero Hero
June 18
KITTIE — Spit
Kacey Musgraves — star-crossed
Karen Dalton — Shuckin’ Sugar
Keith Richards — Talk is Cheap / Live At The Hollywood Palladium
Kenny Garrett — Sketches of MD: Live at the Iridium
Kid Creole and The Coconuts — Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places
Kirk Hammett — Portals
L’Imperatrice — Vanilla Fraise
L.A.Guns — Walking The Dead
La Femme — Paradigmes : Suppléments
La Luz — The Instrumentals
Larry Coryell — Fairyland
Laura Nyro — Trees Of The Ages: Laura Nyro Live In Japan
Lil Wayne — Sorry 4 The Wait
Linda Hoover — I Need To Shine
Lou Reed — I’m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos
Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson — The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words: With Vin Scelsa (3LP)
Madness — Baggy Trousers
Madonna — Who’s That Girl (Super Club Mix)
Marco Beltrami — Mimic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Maria Callas — Maria Callas: Pure
Mariah Carey — #1’s
Masego — Studying Abroad: Extended Stay (EP)
Max Roach — We Insist
Maxim Mental — Fucking EP
Melanie C — Northern Star
Michel F April — Dead By Daylight V2 Original Soundtrack
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells II
Mike Watt + Larry Mullins — Fun House
Mikey Dread/Edi Fitzroy — The Gun / Jah Jah Style
Miles Davis — What It Is: Montreal 7/783
Mockasin, Connan & Ade — It’s Just Wind
Morcheeba — Blackest Blue – The Remixes
Mother Mother — O My Heart
Motorhead — Lost Tapes Vol 2
Mxmtoon — true colors (from Life is Strange)
My Morning Jacket — Live From RCA Studio A (Jim James Acoustic)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Live Seeds
Nick Lowe — Wireless World
Nicki Minaj — Beam Me Up Scotty
Nico — Live At The Hacienda ’83
Nico and The Faction — Camera Obscura
Night Beats — Live at Valentine
Night Ranger — Somewhere in California
Night Ranger — Wasted Time
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Bird — Magic Secrets 2022
Opeth — My Arms, Your Hearse
Otto Kentrol — No Mistakes
Paquito d´Rivera & Arturo Sandoval — Reunion
Parry Gripp — For Kids About To Rock
Patti Smith — Curated By Record Store Day
Pearl Jam — Live on Two Legs
Peppa Pig — Peppa’s Adventures: The Album
Pepper Adams with The Tommy Banks Trio — Live at Room At The Top
Pete Krebs & The Gossamer Wings — I Know It By Heart
Pete Townshend — Face The Face
Peter Gabriel — Live Blood
Peter Tosh — Complete Captured Live
Pixies — Live at Coachella 2004
Prince — The Gold Experience
Prodigy — Return of the Mac
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys — The Bluegrass Sound
Ramones — The Sire Albums (1981-1989)
Ray Charles — Genius Loves Company
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Unlimited Love
Reigning Sound — Memphis In June
Rex Orange County — Apricot Princess – 5th Anniversary Edition
Richie Furay — In The Country
Richie Hell — Gumbo Limbo Remixes
Rick Astley — Whenever You Need Somebody
Ringo Starr — Ringo The 4th Translucent Blue Vinyl
Ringo Starr — Ringo The 4th Translucent Orange Vinyl
Rizzle Kicks — Stereo Typical
Robert Lester Folsom — Music and Dreams
Rockabye Baby! — Lullaby Renditions of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On
Roky Erickson & The Explosives — Halloween II: Live 2007
Ron Sexsmith — Long Player Late Bloomer
Rory Gallagher — Live In San Diego ’74
Ryan Hamilton — 1221
Sam Smith — Nirvana
Sandy Denny — Gold Dust Live At The Royalty
Santana — Splendiferous Santana
Sara Bareilles — Little Voice
Satan’s Pilgrims — Live At Jackpot Records
Scott Walker — Boy Child: The Best Of 1967-1970
Sepultura — Revolusongs
Shankar Family & Friends — I Am Missing You
Sheena Easton — The Definitive 12″ Singles 1983-1987
Simple Minds — 5 x 5 Live
Slang — RSD 2022 7″
Slash — Live At Studio 60
Sleep Token — Sundowning
Soul Jazz Records Presents — 100% DYNAMITE! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady & Funk in Jamaica
Soul Jazz Records Presents — PUNK 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
Soul Jazz Records Presents — STUDIO ONE CLASSICS
Souren Baronian — The Middle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records
Speed, Glue & Shinki — Eve (2017 Remaster)
St. Vincent — The Nowhere Inn (Official Soundtrack)
Steve Earle — Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother / Night Rider’s Lament
Steve Hackett — The Tokyo Tapes
Stevie Nicks — Bella Donna
Stiff Little Fingers — BBC Live in Concert
Sun’s Signature — Sun’s Signature
Super Furry Animals — (Brawd Bach) – Rings Around the World
Superchunk — Incidental Music: 1991 – 1995
Supergrass — Moving
Surfbort — Keep On Truckin’
Suzanne Vega — Close-Up Extras
Tangerine Dream — Alpha Centauri
Tangerine Dream — Live At Reims Cinema Opera (September 23rd, 1975)
Tangerine Dream — Strange Behavior
Taylor Swift — The Lakes
Tegan and Sara — Still Jealous
Tennis System — Autophobia
Tesseract — Polaris
The Academic — Community Spirit EP
The Album Leaf — Past and Future Tense
The Bleeding Hearts — Riches to Rags
The Brand New Heavies — Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol. 1 [30th Anniversary]
The Catatonics — Hunted Down
The Ceyleib People — Tanyet
The Cranberries — Remembering Dolores
The Cure — Pornography
The Damned — Strawberries
The Doors — L.A. Woman
The Everly Brothers — Hey Doll Baby
The Five Americans — Western Union
The Go! Team — Proof of Youth
The Grouch — Show You The World
The Gun Club — Live At The Hacienda ’83
The Jackson 5 — ABC
The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset EP
The Knack — Live At The House of Blues
The Lord — Forest Nocturne
The Lumineers — Brightside: Bonus Tracks
The Muffs — New Improved Kim Shattuck Demos
The Offspring — Greatest Hits
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band — The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (Expanded)
The Proclaimers — Sunshine on Leith (2 LP Expanded Edition)
The Rain Parade — Explosions in the Glass Palace
The Rationals — The Rationals
The Replacements — Unsuitable for Airplay: The Lost KFAI Concert (Live)
The Residents — Warning: Uninc – Live And Experimental Recordings 1971-1972
The Rolling Stones — More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) [50th Anniversary]
The Rubinoos — The Rubinoos
The Sheila Divine — Where Have My Countrymen Gone
The Shocking Blue — At Home (The Singles)
The Sound — Counting The Days
The Sweet — Platinum Rare VOL 2
The Walkmen — Lisbon
The Who — It’s Hard (40th Anniversary)
The Whole Darn Family — Seven Minutes of Funk/Ain’t Nothing But Something to Do
Thomas Dolby — Hyperactive!
Tiny Tim & Brave Combo — Girl
Twiztid — I Tried 2 Warn U
Tyler Bates and Various Artists — Music from the Motion Picture Watchmen
U2 — A Celebration (40th Anniversary)
Udo Dirkschneider — My Way
Ultravox! — Live At The Rainbow 1977 (45th Anniversary)
Van McCoy — The Hustle
Various Artists — 50 Years of TV’s Greatest Hits
Various Artists — Adult Swim & RVNG INTL.: Correspondence
Various Artists — Atenção!: Novos Sons do Brasil
Various Artists — Big Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists — Brazil 45 Boxset Vol.3
Various Artists — Breakin’: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists — Go Ahead Punk…Make My Day
Various Artists — Greensleeves Ganja Anthems
Various Artists — Jazz Dispensary: Super Skunk
Various Artists — Latin Legends Live (Tierra, El Chicano, Malo)
Various Artists — Love Is All I Bring
Various Artists — Panama’s Soul Gems
Various Artists — Portraits of Her
Various Artists — Song Confessional Vol 1
Various Artists — Soul Power ’68
Various Artists — The Best Of Chi-Sound Records 1976-1983
Various Artists — The Royal Tenenbaums (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists — The Sam Phillips Years: Sun Records Curated by RSD, Volume 9
Viktor Vaughn — Vaudeville Villain
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Baseball Theme
Virgin Prunes — Pagan Lovesong (40th Anniversary Edition)
Vitamin String Quartet — VSQ Performs Coldplay’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Warrior Soul — Odds & Ends
Weyes Blood — A Certain Kind b/w Everybody’s Talkin’
Weyes Blood — The Innocents
Willie Nelson — Live At The Texas Opry House, 1974
Wipers — Over The Edge – Anniversary Edition
World Party — Seaview Records Presents: World Party – Curated By RSD
Wye Oak — If Children
Young-Holt Unlimited — Young-Holt Unlimited Plays Superfly
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