Coi Leray might not completely get along with her dad Benzino, but there are some lines she’s wary of crossing — especially when it comes to his former (?) rival, Eminem. Although Coi had nothing but positive things to say about the Detroit rapper after Benzino’s Twitter rant tearing him down, she recently revealed that a collaboration with him — however unlikely — would be a bridge too far. During an appearance on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion, the host asked whether Coi would collaborate with Em and she said she would definitely talk to Benzino first.
“I would sit down with my father, first of all, and bring it up to him,” she said. “I wouldn’t even ask. I’d be like, ‘Yo, listen. This is what happened. I’m not even expecting an answer. I just need to tell you right away.’ Me and my father could never be speaking for f*****g years. If that was to happen, I’d be like, ‘Hold on, let me just tell you this. Let me bring it to your attention.’ hopefully, he’ll be like, ‘Yo, you know what? Do it.’”
That latter outcome would probably also be unlikely, since Benzino has had it out for Eminem since 2003, when the then co-owner of The Source launched a campaign of diss records against Em. However, much of hip-hop sided with Eminem over his rival, and Benzino dropped the feud — at least publicly — until last May, when he went on a tirade against Eminem being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, accusing the Hall of racism for skipping over other pioneering rap acts such as Eric B and Rakim, Lauryn Hill, and Nas.
You can watch Coi’s interview with Math Hoffa above.
As the story of the missing OceanGate submersible began to dominate headlines, people began raising eyebrows over the fact that the sketchy looking vessel used a $40 video game controller to navigate the ocean depths. During a CBS News report from last year, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush stunned reporter David Pogue when he pulled out the Logitech gamepad used to control the tiny submersible that’s roughly the size of a minivan.
While the jokes were flying over the submersible using an off-brand video game controller for its steering mechanism, Vice reported that using controllers to operate “serious military equipment” has become an increasingly common practice thanks to the device’s precision and ease of use:
Controllers are great off-the-shelf solutions because they’re cheap, and younger recruits are already familiar with them. It’s not just submarines. The U.S. Army has used Xbox controllers to maneuver bomb disposal robots. The British military has developed a driverless all-terrain vehicle controlled by an Xbox controller. In Israel, there’s a tank that uses an Xbox controller.
According to Vice, when the military isn’t using actual controllers on its equipment, it’s taking great pains to replicate them. The U.S. Army’s M-SHORAD combat vehicle has a controller that looks like an old school Nintendo 64 gamepad, and the Challenger 2 tank has controls that would make any gamer feel right at home.
Make no mistake, the OceanGate submersible took numerous risks with its voyage to the Titanic, but using a video game controller surprisingly isn’t one of them.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s feud has been percolating for some time. They first appeared to be fast friends (who both heckled Biden while he spoke of his late son, Beau), and then fissures began to emerge until a heated war of words in the bathroom made clear that these two can barely tolerate each other. And with the most recent update, it sure looks like that Greene feels more animosity than Boebert, and Greene wants everyone to know it, too.
To briefly recap, a Wednesday heated House floor conversation yielded multiple confirmations that Greene called Boebert a “little b*tch” straight to her face. The Daily Beast provided plenty of followup to the altercation, which revolves around Greene’s allegations that Boebert “copied” her articles of impeachment against President Biden.
More confirmation came from CNN, to which Greene made a telling on-camera expression despite outwardly declaring that she would “neither confirm nor deny.” Boebert then told HuffPost, “I’m not in middle school. This isn’t a copycat game.” She added, “Copying her would be her going and demanding a vote on the floor, and then me going and doing it right after.”
That Boebert statement does not exactly clear up the “copying” allegations, but I’m not sure why either one of them wants credit for articles of impeachment that are so silly, even Republicans rolled their eyes when Boebert made her relevant speech. Business Insider related how (via Semafor) Greene is definitely now doubling (tripling? quadrupling?) down on her sentiment, and here’s what she unequivocally declared for all to hear:
“She has genuinely been a nasty little bitch to me,” Greene told Semafor when asked about a confrontation between the two women on the House floor on Wednesday.
“I told her exactly what I think about her,” Greene said of Boebert, adding that she would “absolutely not” be reconciling with her House Freedom Caucus colleague.
So, do not hold your breath for these two to hug and make up, possibly never. And yes, this sounds like Greene feels even more strongly about Boebert than Trump does about dogs or war heroes, including John McCain (“I like people who weren’t captured”). To close (for now), here’s what Greene further told Semafor about Boebert’s impeachment shenanigans:
“It’s purely for fundraising. It’s throwing out red meat so that people will donate to her campaign because she’s coming up on the end of the month, and she’s trying to produce good fundraising numbers.”
The “fundraising” allegation does check out. When Boebert revealed her latest round of impeachment nonsense on Twitter, she (of course) tried to fundraise at the same time. Are we all caught up now? Let’s hope so.
Barack Obama was the 44th President Of The United States for eight years, but his most eternal legacy might be as an ongoing curator of books, movies, and music. Obama shares his favorite offerings every December, and his “Favorite Music Of 2022” list included Ari Lennox, Bad Bunny, Burna Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Lizzo, Omar Apollo, Rema, SZA, and more. That’s before mentioning his 2022 Summer Playlist
Hasan Minhaj asked what all of us struggling to complete ordinary to-do lists have been thinking.
“Mr. President, when you do your end-of-the-year lists, do you really read all those books, watch all those shows, and listen to all those songs,” Minhaj posed to Obama for a sit-down interview posted to his YouTube on Wednesday, June 21.
“I do!” Obama responded.
Minhaj giggled and countered with, “No, you don’t!” But he allowed Obama to make his case.
“People, they believe the books and the movies, but the playlists, they somehow think — and this is mostly coming from young people like you. Somehow, y’all think you invented rock and roll. You invented hip-hop,” the former president explained. “And so the fact that my lists are pretty incredible, people seem to think, ‘Well, he must’ve had some 20-year-old intern who was figuring out this latest cut.’ No, man. It’s on my iPad right now!”
Obama later added, “I am very scrupulous about making sure that this is stuff that I actually like. I will confess that there are times — on the playlists, on the music lists — where I will get suggestions because it’s not like I got time to be listening to music all the time. Typically, at the end of the year, what happens is folks will be like, ‘Man, you need to listen to this. This is good.’ But unless I’m actually listening to it, watching it, reading it, I won’t put it on there.”
Minhaj and Obama spent the rest of the 29-minute conversation discussing how bleak the country’s outlook feels, reflecting on Obama’s most trying moments in office, and updating his Twitter bio.
Watch it in full above, and revisit Obama’s latest lists below.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Last week, Kim Kardashian shared her “man list” of her biggest turn-ons. This week, she dropped by Hailey Bieber‘s “Who’s In My Bathroom?” YouTube series to discuss makeup sex, kissing, and the mile high club.
When asked by the model (and Justin Bieber’s wife) who her current celebrity crush is during a game of “Truth or Shot,” Kardashian responded, “I almost want to take a drink because I kinda want it to come true.” The mystery man doesn’t know about her infatuation with him. “I’m more into privacy these days,” she said before taking a shot.
Bieber also asked her guest whether she prefers angry sex or makeup sex. “Makeup sex,” she quickly answered. “Isn’t that, like, the best? ‘Cause it’s like, you missed each other and it’s passionate.” Later, talk turned to having sex in a plane.
Kardashian — who last dated comedian Pete Davidson — asked Hailey if she’s “ever joined the mile-high club,” to which she replied, “Yes.”
“Samezies,” the mother of four let out — a response that did not surprise Bieber, who said she knew she didn’t need to reciprocate the question. “Why do you not need to ask me that?” a slightly offended Kardashian wondered. “You own a plane,” the youngest daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin reminded her guest. “I thought you were just saying, like, ‘Of course you’re a whore!’” the Skims founder quipped, eliciting giggles from both girls.
It probably wasn’t with Pete. He’s too tall for an airplane (or even a private jet) bathroom. You can watch the video above.
Latto is the subject of a recent Cosmopolitan profile, and during the interview, she discussed the thought process behind getting naked for the cover photo shoot.
She explained, “My label manager hit me and asked, ‘Are you open to doing this?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m open. It just has to be tastefully done.’ That’s why during the shoot, my eyes are glued to the monitor. My lyrics are vulgar and explicit but tastefully done, at least in my opinion. I wanted the pictures to be as well. Not just boom-bam right in your face, but more like a tease. Like you’re imagining me being fully naked and not really seeing it for real. I like the fantasy aspect to it. I felt like the prettiest girl in the world, like that’s the best I’ve ever looked.”
Of the monitor Latto mentioned, the publication noted, “We placed a screen within eyeshot for Latto so she could see exactly what the photographer was capturing.”
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Latto continued, “I’m young right now. I don’t have real responsibilities as far as kids and a husband. I feel like it’s the right time to embrace how my body looks — and before I have kids and wrinkle up, I’m showing it off while I can, boo. Everyone always asks what my parents think about the sexy clothes I wear. My mama is here for it. She loves it! She’s like, ‘Girl, do it now!’ She had me at 15 years old and wishes that she could have flaunted her body before kids. And then she turned around and had my sister at 19. She’s my biggest advocate.”
Netflix takes viewers into the thick of summer in July, where hopefully, power outages across the U.S. will remain as minimal as possible, so the binging can commence in full force. This month, the streaming audience can finally see a followup to Sandra Bullock’s ridiculously viral 2018 apocalyptic film, Bird Box. Two other prominent franchises are returning with new seasons of TV, and that includes more from a slick-as-hell lawyer and a grumpy-as-hades monster hunter. This will be the last time we see Henry Cavill in his Geralt of Rivia wig, and that sad development will mark the end of a The Witcher era.
A pop music documentary is also on the way to your living room for some 1980s flavor, and the Netflix back library is growing increasingly stacked. Additions include the entire collection of The Karate Kid movies, which will come in handy while we await word of the next Cobra Kai return to the dojo.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in July.
Bird Box Barcelona (film streaming 7/14)
The first Bird Box film brought in such massive viewership that the Sandra Bullock-starring picture retains the third-place position among Netflix original films. Bullock won’t be back for this installment, which obviously takes place in Spain during the early days of the mysterious outbreak. Get ready to watch everyone bust out those blindfolds, and hopefully, the streaming service stays smart and never shows us what those monsters look like because even though the first film did contain a bit of unintentional humor, no one wants to see a flat-out comedy here.
The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2 (Netflix series streaming 7/27)
It’s hard to imagine that Henry Cavill is really on his way out the door as Geralt of Rivia, and Liam Hemsworth will soon pick up the grunting, swashbuckling, potion-wielding monster hunter for a fourth season. Where this franchise goes from there, one can only guess, but thankfully, we should still have Jaskier. In this Season 3 wrap-up, Ciri continues to train as a Witcher while Yennifer is attempting to maneuver around territorial sorcerers who are pressing the buttons to f*ck with everyone. Hate it when that happens.
The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 2 Part 1 (Netflix series streaming 7/6)
The series picked up the same subject matter as the movie, and whaddya know, the show turned into a streaming hit that kept the adventures of Los Angeles’ most talked-about defense attorney. Naturally, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is still running business out of his Lincoln’s backseat, where he’ll handle just about every case, and if you’ve been missing Neve Campbell from the continuing Scream franchise, you can find her here. Expect Part 2 of this season about a month after this installment.
WHAM! (Netflix documentary streaming 7/5)
Much like The Beastie Boys (only not like them at all), this duo began their journey as high school pals who decided, what the hell, let’s form a band. Soon enough, they became a global sensation, and this documentary promises to stir a few heart strings while looking back at George Michael (RIP) and Andrew Ridgeley’s personal trove of footage along with previously unrevealed discussions from both pop stars.
Avail. TBA The Dragon Prince: Season 5 Dream
Kohrra
The Murderer
Avail. 7/1 Bridesmaids
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Jumanji (1995) The Karate Kid (2010) The Karate Kid (1984) The Karate Kid Part II
The Karate Kid Part III
Kick-Ass
Liar Liar
ONE PIECE: Thriller Bark
ONE PIECE: TV Original 2
Pride & Prejudice (2005) Prom Night
Ray
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Snow White & the Huntsman
The Squid and the Whale
Star Trek
Star Trek Into Darkness
The Sweetest Thing
Titanic
Uncle Buck
Warm Bodies
Avail. 7/3 Little Angel: Volume 3 Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Avail. 7/4 The King Who Never Was
Tom Segura: Sledgehammer
Avail. 7/5 Back to 15: Season 2 My Happy Marriage
WHAM!
Avail. 7/6 The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 2 Part 1
Avail. 7/7 Fatal Seduction
Hack My Home
The Out-Laws
Seasons
Avail. 7/10 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
StoryBots: Answer Time: Season 2 Unknown: Killer Robots
Avail. 7/11 Nineteen to Twenty
Avail. 7/12 Mr. Car and the Knights Templar
Quarterback
Record of Ragnarok: Season 2: Episodes 11-15 Sugar Rush: The Baking Point
Avail. 7/13 Burn the House Down
Devil’s Advocate
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Sonic Prime: Season 2 Survival of the Thickest
Avail. 7/14 The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem: Season 2 Bird Box Barcelona
Five Star Chef
Love Tactics 2
Too Hot to Handle: Season 5
Avail. 7/15 Country Queen
Morphle 3D: Season 1 My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale: Season 1
Avail. 7/16 Ride Along
Avail. 7/17 Unknown: Cave of Bones
Avail. 7/19 The (Almost) Legends
The Deepest Breath
Avail. 7/20 Supa Team 4
Sweet Magnolias: Season 3
Avail. 7/21 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
They Cloned Tyrone
Avail. 7/24 Big Eyes
Dew Drop Diaries
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Avail. 7/25 Mark Normand: Soup to Nuts
Sintonia: Season 4
Avail. 7/26 Baki Hanma: Season 2: The Tale of Pickle & The Pickle War Saga The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals: Season 7 Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case
Avail. 7/27 Happiness For Beginners
The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders
Paradise
Today We’ll Talk About That Day
The Witcher: Season 3 Volume 2
Avail. 7/28 A Perfect Story
Captain Fall
D.P.: Season 2 Hidden Strike
How to Become a Cult Leader
Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
The Tailor: Season 2
Avail. 7/29 BASTARD -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-: Season 2
And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:
Leaving 7/9 12 Strong
Baby Ballroom: Seasons 1-2
Leaving 7/12 Tom Segura: Completely Normal
Leaving 7/14 Married at First Sight: Season 11
Leaving 7/20 Ip Man
Ip Man 2
Ip Man 3
Ip Man 4: The Finale
Leaving 7/23 Popples: Seasons 1-3
Leaving 7/24 Serenity
Leaving 7/25 August: Osage County
Leaving 7/31 Five Feet Apart
Flight
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Hardcore Henry
I, Frankenstein
Julie & Julia
Moesha: Seasons 1-6 Skyfall
Stepmom
The Ottoman Lieutenant
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Wedding Date
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys
Underworld
For some reason only known to capitalism, there’s been a slew of Wild Business Origin Stories lately. Blackberry, Tetris, and now the faddiest of fads is getting its turn. The Beanie Bubble illustrates the dramatic rise and uncomfortably continued rise of Ty Warner — the guy who would get mad if others got co-credit for building the Beanie Baby empire.
Zach Galifianakis stars as Warner with Elizabeth Banks as his business partner Robbie, Sarah Snook as his wife Sheila, and Geraldine Viswanathan as Maya, a crucial employee. “Maya” is undoubtedly meant to be a stand-in for Lina Trivedi, the woman who wrote the original poems on the Beanie Baby tags and basically invented e-commerce by running the Beanie Baby website to sell directly to customers. There’s an excellent You’re Wrong About episode about the Beanie Baby craze if you want to get all journalistic about it.
Meanwhile, The Beanie Bubble looks like it’s going to go bonkers with it.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Why did the world suddenly treat stuffed animals like gold? Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his masterstroke of an idea into the biggest toy craze in history. “The Beanie Bubble” is an inventive story about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn’t appear on the heart-shaped tag. From the married directing duo Kristin Gore (<em>Her</em>, <em>Foxcatcher</em>) and Damian Kulash, Jr. (lead singer of OK Go), and written by Gore, comes one of America’s most outlandish success stories.”
The Apple TV+ movie about false scarcity and half-stuffed stuffies lands in select theaters July 21st, with a streaming debut July 28th.
As Donald Trump stares down a seemingly endless parade of legal troubles, one woman has stood dutifully by his side through thick and thin: Kari Lake. According to a new report, the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate has been a frequent fixture at Mar-a-Lago to the point where it’s basically her second home.
“Kari Lake is there every night … She’s there all the time,”a source told PEOPLE. “There’s a suite there that she practically lives in.”
Granted, Mar-a-Lago is a golf resort. However, due to the Florida heat, it “generally clears out for the summer,” so Lake is mainly there with Trump and his inner circle. On top of aggressively denying Trump’s brand of election denial (Lake continues to insist the Arizona election was stolen), there’s another reason for Lake’s constant presence: She wants to be Trump’s VP.
Lake’s frequent appearances at Mar-a-Lago come months after Trump officially announced his 2024 campaign for president in November, and after sources told PEOPLE that Lake has been vying for the role of his running mate.
“She is working the deal. She wants something bigger, fast, to compensate for her loss in Arizona,” one source previously said.
Lake isn’t exactly hiding her presence at Mar-a-Lago. She recently tweeted a swimsuit photo of herself wearing an inflatable Trump float while boating off the Florida coast.
— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) June 21, 2023
While Lake’s presence certainly raises eyebrows, PEOPLE reports that Trump continues to make public appearances at his golf resort during the weekends, and Melania has been seen joining him for dinner. The former president also continues to act as a DJ and personally curates the golf club’s evening music.
Ian Shelton envisioned Militarie Gun as a witness to the absurdity of context collapse. Now, he accepts they’re an example of it. Take “Militarie Gun” itself, originally a goof on an actor’s once-farcical and now disgraced name, and now something that they’re stuck with “for the rest of our lives.” Or, the very moment Shelton realized he could relate to Kanye West in any way whatsoever. The word-of-mouth success that followed Militarie Gun’s 2021 All Roads Lead To The Gun EPs put them on the radar of Roc Nation Management, and when the two parties were in discussion, Shelton was coincidentally watching jeen-yus – which, at least for its first third, is probably the last time Kanye West can be remembered in a sympathetic light. Though Shelton never went to the Roc Nation offices trying to throw the diamond up or spit a verse from “Don’t Pick Up The Phone,” “I’m low key chasing the same guys he was chasing back then,” he laughs. “Which I never thought would be the case.”
And now on the verge of releasing their debut LP Life Under The Gun, as the man once said, Militarie Gun are major. Go to the Roc Nation website and there they are, smack between Miguel and Moneybagg Yo. After linking up with Loma Vista Records in late 2022, they’re also labelmates with Killer Mike, St. Vincent, and Korn. Life Under The Gun already crashed some mid-year album lists two weeks before it actually dropped, a testament to Shelton’s elevation of immediacy above all else. “I don’t care what you do, just do it faster,” he barks on the album’s lead single, setting the course for an album that’s both buffed and buff; the goofball videos for “Do It Faster” and “Very High” are fairly blatant throwbacks to a time when bouncy hardcore acts like CIV could sneak into the Buzz Bin alongside Weezer. “I’ve always been a very impatient person, I want the answers now, I want the result now,” he explains. Not coincidentally, the IRL conversations I’ve had about MLife Under The Gun have led to descriptions like “Guided By Voices with good production” or “swole Joyce Manor.”
The former is pretty much what Shelton envisioned; “I wanted to make a band that sounded like Guided By Voices eight years ago but was not a competent singer,” he admits. By the time Militarie Gun started making headway, he cautiously asked a friend, “Do you ever think this band could be as popular as Fucked Up?” For most of the past 15 years, this was indeed the best-case scenario for any hardcore band hoping to avail themselves of Big Indie’s spoils – i.e., Best New Music, Rolling Stone profiles, opening for the Foo Fighters, late-night TV appearances that couldn’t say the band’s actual name. But for all of the impact of David Comes To Life, Fucked Up were a band whose ambitions recalled The Who as much as Hüsker Dü, oftentimes celebrated as an exception that justified ignoring whatever else was happening in hardcore. They were a unicorn, not one that had listeners and industry types seeking out “the next Fucked Up.”
Meanwhile, Life Under The Gun is something of a heat check for hardcore itself. More specifically, the “TurnstileEffect,” in which the immediate acclaim and long-tail success of GLOW ON has been likened to a small-scale Nevermind – a wave that potentially lifts respected lifers up to the majors as a kind of credibility-based loss leader for the copycats. In other words, will there be Melvins and Meat Puppets to justify the inevitable Candleboxes and Bushes to come?
Though Life Under The Gun is technically a debut LP from a band that’s been releasing music for less than three years, it’s misleading to call it anyone’s introduction to Militarie Gun. “We had all these songs written and demoed for the third time before we ever played a show,” Shelton reveals, and indeed, the album has been completed for about a year and a half. “If we were impatient, we could’ve released All Roads Lead To The Gun earlier and went straight into releasing these songs before we ever started touring, but we knew how good the songs were so it was easy for us to have restraint.”
Prior to his move to Los Angeles, Shelton had been a veteran of Seattle’s hardcore scene and, eventually, a member of the chaotically creative punk institution Self Defense Family. As recently as 2021, Militarie Gun was likely to be viewed as a spinoff of Regional Justice Center, probably the most successful band of its time that could accurately be described as “powerviolence.” RJC took its name from the for-profit prison complex in which Ian’s brother Max had been incarcerated since 2016, yet he describes their music as “emotionally political and not outwardly political”; intended as much to honor the experience of his brother as it was to avoid the didacticism that infested hardcore and really just about every other form of art during the onset of the Trump administration. “It was an era that was fucking bleak to be a part of artistically,” Shelton explains. “It was so introductory in its approach to politics, so robotic, not interesting, regurgitated half-thought ideas.” Regional Justice Center provided catharsis and connection, though as to be expected from a band that plays extremely fast and angry music, it was liable to collapse at any time.
Whether or not Militarie Gun was conceived as something more sustainable than Shelton’s other bands – another goes by the name S.W.A.T., aka “Sex With A Terrorist” – they’ve been buoyed by a concurrent trend of ascendant bands who’ve emerged from hardcore while conducting themselves like a Britpop or power-pop act; play “Never Fucked Up Once” or “My Friends Are Having A Hard Time” on an acoustic and you might have a Lemonheads or Teenage Fanclub song. But ask anyone about Militarie Gun’s way with a hook, and they’ll point to Shelton’s “OOF! OOF!” ad-lib, a sound both gruff and endearing, like getting pummeled by a playful bull mastiff. “I probably had eight songs with it before we played a show and thinking this is kind of a big swing to come in so hard before anyone knew it,” Shelton recalls. It likely became his signature on 2022’s “Pressure Cooker,” a collaboration with lo-fi power-pop wizard Dazy that already feels like genre canon.
Or at least a culmination of trends that date back much farther than Militarie Gun itself. “It took a long way to break down this kind of wall, [and acknowledge] that people who come from hardcore are capable songwriters,” Shelton explains, crediting acts like Angel Du$t and Ceremony for swinging the hammers first. Still, Shelton recognizes that he’s more likely to be considered an elder statesman at this point in his career, or at least he’s willing to act as one. “It took me a really long time to get to where I’m at and if I can save someone the hassle of the same exact things I did, I’d love to do that.” Take his willingness to “interject myself into the creative process” with MSPAINT, the Hattiesburg synth-punk firebrands who will be joining Militarie Gun on the road this fall. In addition to his guest vocals on “Delete It,” Shelton is credited as a co-producer, even if he sees that role as a kind of motivational speaker. “I told them I didn’t think the recordings were good enough and we should do them again together,” he recalls. “And I couldn’t ask for a better result.” That end result was Post-American, an album that’s neck and neck with Life Under The Gun as the most impactful album to emerge from the extended hardcore universe in 2023 – debut or otherwise.
The tougher job is learning how to parlay those managerial skills into Militarie Gun itself. “I’ve demanded enough of everyone’s life where I’m pretty much responsible to make sure they have their bills paid,” he says. “That’s a scary thought.” Indeed, it’s possible that his last day job will have come functioning as an essential worker during the pandemic (i.e., weed delivery guy). While Militarie Gun is striking while the iron’s hot, Shelton is grateful that it’s been a slow, slow burn. “If I was younger and experiencing these things, I would not have been as well adjusted,” he jokes. “I would’ve been an idiot.”
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