Toronto five-piece punk rockers Pup return with a new single following their acclaimed 2019 record Morbid Stuff. The group is continuing their lively catalog with the energetic track “Anaphylaxis.”
“Anaphylaxis” is a song about fear, anxiety, and allergies. The accompanying video, tediously constructed by Callum Scott-Dyson, brings the song’s story to life through claymation. A blindfolded man accidentally bashes a beehive with a bat. Rather than attacking him right away, the bees form a complex strategy for revenge.
Vocalist Stefan Babcock explained that he drew inspiration for “Anaphylaxis” from seeing the reaction to his partner’s cousin getting stung by a bee:
“I got the idea for the song when I was at my partner’s cottage and her cousin got stung by a bee and his whole head started to swell up. His wife, although she was concerned, also thought it was pretty hilarious and started making fun of him even as they were headed to the hospital. He ended up being totally fine, but it was just funny to watch him freaking out and her just lighting him up at the same time. It reminded me of all the times I’ve started panicking for whatever reason and was convinced I was dying and the world was ending and no one would take me seriously. In retrospect, I always find those overreactions pretty funny. So we wrote a goofy song about being a hypochondriac and tried to make our guitars sound like bees at the beginning of it.”
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is here to revive some Bandersnatch vibes, which is a grand idea because I don’t think anyone would be opposed to revisiting December 2018 right about now. Are you in? Good. Get ready for Ellie Kemper’s plucky heroine to return, one year after her Netflix series ended, for an interactive/choose-your-own-adventure special called Kimmy vs. The Reverend. No one can say for sure whether this edition will have a “trillion” permutations to both entertain and confound users as they help Kimmy and her crew make sure that Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne doesn’t get his way. However, Jon Hamm pretending to stick an invisible key up his tush is the ridiculous content that we need.
Lots of choices must be made here, obviously. For starters, should Kimmy get married to her fiancé, Frederick, who’s portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe? Well duh, yes, but first, she’s going to have to locate more missing girls who were kidnapped by The Reverend. He’s not budging with any knowledge of their whereabouts, so it’s up to Kimmy and Titus Andromedon (obligatory Dishmantled shoutout) to locate these young ladies. A press release promises that this will be Kimmy’s “biggest adventure” yet, and one should expect not only explosions but a “dancing hamburger.” And robot overlords. I can’t wait.
Beware: things might get morbid, depending on which selections that users make.
Kimmy vs. the Reverend will stream on May 12, and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) and Lillian (Carol Kane) are also on board for this official end to the four-season series.
When Daft Punk releases new music, it’s a big deal. The issue that fans have is that the French electronic duo doesn’t drop fresh material all that often. Their most recent album was 2013’s Random Access Memories, and before that, it was 2005’s Human After All. That said, their Tron: Legacy soundtrack came in 2010, they contributed to Kanye West’s 2013 album Yeezus, and they featured on a pair of songs from The Weeknd’s 2016 record Starboy.
Still, the point stands: New music from Daft Punk doesn’t come along frequently, especially not full-length releases. It looks like they are working on new material now, though, as a film score is apparently on the way: Influential Italian horror movie director Dario Argento is working on a new film titled Occhiali neri (which translates to Black Glasses), and he says Daft Punk are providing the score.
In a recent interview with Italian publication La Repubblica, Argento said (translated via Google), “They are my admirers, they know all my movies. […] They learned that I was shooting a new film and they called me: ‘We want to work with you.’ [They said], ‘We will send you the first songs shortly.’ They are enthusiastic. They will come to Rome as soon as they can.”
Given the state of the world in light of the current pandemic, it’s not clear how soon Daft Punk would be able to travel to Rome, but based on what Argento said, it seems they’re already working on the score remotely.
Pro wrestling has a long history of recruiting its competitors from NFL rosters. Roman Reigns had brief stints with the Vikings and the Jaguars; Bill Goldberg was signed with the Falcons; Brian Pillman was a part of the Bengals; hell, even Verne Gagne was drafted by the Bears way back in 1947. But now, the script has been flipped: The NFL is now recruiting its competitors from pro wrestling bloodlines.
— Kennesaw State Football #EATzone (@KSUEATzone) April 26, 2020
After the conclusion of the 2020 NFL Draft last week, the Baltimore Ravens announced they were signing undrafted free agent Bronson Rechsteiner, a fullback from Kennesaw State. Rechsteiner is the son of Robert Rechsteiner, better known the world over as the Dog-Faced Gremlin himself, Rick Steiner. (TIL Rick Steiner’s ring name was literally just his real last name cut in half.) As one half of the über-popular tag team the Steiner Brothers with his brother Scott, Rick traveled the world and won countless titles (and also feuded with Chucky).
Nowadays, the elder Steiner is retired from the ring (well, mostly), working as a real estate agent instead. However, his brother is still very much an active wrestler, and as such, he took to Twitter to share the news of his nephew’s success:
Sadly, the Ravens are not playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season, which means the odds of Rechsteiner acquiring the 24/7 Championship from Gronk are slim.
Since its foundation, Netflix has consistently shown a commitment to delivering quality food TV. Starting with the now-iconic Chef’s Table, the streaming giant made it clear from the outset that they were going to take food-focused storytelling seriously and that great cinematography would be held in the same high regard as the food, locales, and personalities themselves. The formula worked and Netflix expanded its prestige offerings while also branching out into lighter, more eclectic fare.
Right now, Netflix is unarguably one of the premier spots to watch food and travel and/or food competition shows. There are a lot of options for a wide range of tastes. Too many to cover in one list, for sure. We’ve compiled our picks for the 16 best shows on the platform below, but rest assured: if you find one you love it can lead you to other shows in the same genre. Once you’ve finished watching Chef’s Table, for example, hit up Street Food: Asia — the same team is involved in both offerings and the shows work well as companion pieces.
Let’s dive in and find some hunger-inducing food shows to binge this week or weekend.
This is Netflix’s second swing at a cannabis cooking show and it hits more often than not. The conceit is simple, cannabis chefs step into the studio kitchen and make the best THC or CBD infused plates they can. It’s fairly fast-paced and the food is legitimately repeatable in your own kitchen (for the most part).
Each episode is just over half-an-hour and there are only six total, so this is a really easy binge if you’re stoned and couch-locked.
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With only six episodes, just start at the beginning. Though, episode five, High Holidays, is a particularly fun episode with a “Danksgiving” theme.
This British show is equal parts fascinating and entertaining. Burgeoning cooks gather to do a pop up for the public and a group of judges, who are also restaurant investors. Meaning there’s are some serious stakes at play here. Pop up chefs, home cooks, and food truck chefs are cooking for their professional futures.
The show doesn’t flinch as it takes you into what it’s really like to create a fully realized concept for a restaurant and then actually make that business function in the real world, in front of people willing to give you sometimes millions of dollars (well, millions of pounds in this case).
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Episode five from season one is a great place to start. The episode covers two concepts: A small plate Korean restaurant and a reimagining of the British dish bubble & squeak into a whole menu. While it’s clear early on which of these two will get funded, it’s still a fun and hunger-inducing watch.
More than anything, this show is beautiful to look at. The Chef’s Table aesthetic is on full display as the camera and narrator takes us around two Chinese provinces with a laser focus on the food.
Farms, markets, hawker stalls, family dinner tables, and professional kitchens blend to create a clear sense of the place through the food the people grow, prepare, and eat. The episodes are also about 12 minutes each, making this a really easy binge.
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Season two (Chaoshan Cuisine) episode two about Hu Tieu is a great place to start. The thick rice noodle takes on many forms over the 13-minute runtime and will have your craving noodles immediately.
This was a huge step up for Netflix when it came to fast-paced cooking competitions. Real-deal chefs gather in-studio to cook food based around a different nation’s food culture each week, creating a truly global feel.
While the show punts on their American episode, the rest of the series moves at a break-neck pace and features some truly inspired cooking.
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Start with episode one based around Mexican cuisine. It’s an hour-long episode but will give you a great introduction to the show overall.
Chef David Chang’s first Netflix show has a lot to offer. The show follows the chef around as he does his best to fill the shoes of Anthony Bourdain. There’s a clear travel element that’s focused on a food theme for each place. The second season focuses even more with Chang taking you into his family’s home as he has his first child and ponders food for kids before heading off to India and Australia.
Once you get through Ugly Delicious, check out Chang’s other food and travel show, Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, especially the episode in Cambodia with Kate McKinnon.
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Season one, episode six (about fried chicken) is really when Chang hits a stride. The episode travels from Nashville’s hot chicken scene to a Chinese KFC to a Japanese home kitchen by the end. Plus, it’s all about fried chicken. That’s an easy subject to watch for an hour.
There’s something very infectious about Phil Rosenthal’s wide-eyed wonder at all the beautiful food in the world. While this show is just as much about travel as it is food, it’s really Rosenthal’s affability that carries the hour-long episodes. You really want to be at the table with him as he dives into amazing looking dishes found all over the world.
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Episode five of season one, New Orleans, is a great place to start. From there, jump around to whatever episode piques your interest. Don’t skip Tel Aviv or Saigon though.
This cooking competition from Australia is incredibly addictive. Home cooks are brought into a studio kitchen to make the cuisine they love for chefs from a restaurant specializing in that food (essentially, it’s a show extrapolated around this famous Gordon Ramsay moment). Imagine loving Italian cooking and having to cook for the head chef of your favorite Italian spot.
While it’s only one season, there are mini-seasons within. The first mini-season covers Vietnamese cuisine, then African, Turkish, Italian, and Chinese foodways. There are eliminations, personal stories, and legitimately great food from home cooks. Plus, each episode is 25 minutes — making this a very easy binge.
Can’t Miss Episode:
Start from the beginning. The first mini-season is five episodes, focused on Vietnamese cuisine, and drops you right into the action.
Taco Chronicles comes from Netflix’s Latin American division but feels like a spiritual successor to Chef’s Table. The look and feel of the show are outstanding. Each 30-minute episode takes you into a sub-culture of tacos across Mexico.
This is taco culture at every level from the farms to the streets and everywhere in between. Just make sure to have taco plans before you finish your binge. You’re going to want to feed a serious taco fix. Trust us.
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This is a really easy six-episode binge from the beginning. Still, if we had to pick just one episode, it’d probably be barbacoa. The episode covers how the ancient traditions of this dish are still used today.
Steven Rinella has devoted his life to conservation, the celebration of wild foods, and educating the public on those subjects. MeatEater follows Rinella and other hunters as they travel the Americas to hunt, fish, and cook.
This show is unflinching and deeply informational, especially if you’re looking into sourcing your own foods. Each episode ends with a cook, often in nature, of what the crew has recently hunted.
Can’t Miss Episode:
Start with season seven, episode 16. This 22-minute episode takes Rinella out of the field and into his kitchen to demonstrate various techniques for cooking game, fish, and foraged foods. It’s a great entry-level episode.
There’s probably little left to be said about this massive hit from the U.K. Home bakers assemble to, well, bake. The show has it all — from catty judges to ridiculous recipes to all the drama as the ovens heat up and flour flies. All in all, this is a very easy and fun watch, especially if you have the time to binge.
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Collection One is the place to start. Ten episodes ensue as 12 home bakers fight for the championship.
Journalist and author Michael Pollan’s Cooked takes a look at food from a scientific and often personal POV. Each episode looks at how fire, water, air, and the earth help us create the food and flavors we know and love. This is the sort of show for food lovers who want to have a better understanding of what it is that makes food cultures worldwide/ through history so incredibly unique.
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Episode one, Fire, is a great place to start. The episode looks at how cooking the food we eat changed us a species and what we owe the animals we choose to eat. It’s heady stuff but worthwhile.
Chef Samin Nosrat travels the world, digging into how salt, fat, acid, and heat change food and all the ways those elements differ across cultures. Nosrat’s infectious love of all things food really draws you in, with the beautiful dishes and locales adding a layer of wanderlust to the whole affair. It’ll be really hard not to binge this series in one sitting, is what we’re saying.
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The first episode, Fat, is a great place to start. Again, just binge this one. It’s only four hours of beautiful TV at the end of the day.
Comedian Nicole Byer and star baker Jacques Torres come together to offer home bakers the chance at winning $10,000 for recreating a ridiculous cake or confectionary. Celebrity guest judges drop in for judging (and zinger) duties. The 30-minute format and one-and-out nature of the competition make this a very addictive show that feels new with every episode.
Can’t Miss Episode:
Pop over to the “Holiday” version of the show. Season one, episode six has Jason Mantzoukas guest judging a New Year’s Eve bake-off and it’s an absolute blast.
This is a crucial watch. The series is a journalist-forward documentary series covering our food supply chains. There are some harrowing aspects to how we get the food we eat every day and they’re revealed here in sobering detail. Over two seasons, the show covers everything from chocolate and big chicken to bottled water and French wine.
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The season two opener, The Avocado Wars, is an eye-opening look at how Mexican cartels are shifting to avocados to fill in the gap left by losing part of the cannabis market.
Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi created a great cooking show based around Favreau’s hit movie, Chef. The show takes elements from food and travel TV and stand-and-stir cooking shows and blends them into a micro-talk show format with big-name guests.
This show has it all but still feels small and personal. Plus, the easy back-and-forth between Favreau and Choi as they cook is wonderfully familiar.
Can’t Miss Episode:
The fourth episode of Volume Two where Choi and Favreau head to Hog Island Oysters is a great place to start, especially if you’re looking for a little bit more of a travel element. The episode ends with a massive oyster cook right on the beach that’ll leave you salivating.
Chef’s Table is the gold standard of the Netflix food series. The show has even spun off into a Street Food series that we’d highly recommend watching after this one.
The thrust of the series is a look at a chef, baker, butcher, or cook who has devoted their lives to food. There’s a travel element at play here, but it’s really the single personality at the center of each story that drives this series. From a visual standpoint, this show is also just amazing to look at.
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The Volume Six opener with The Grey’s chef Mashama Bailey is the perfect place to start. The show goes deep into Georgia and Savannah’s food scene with one of the region’s most important chefs. It’s a part history lesson, part culinary education, and 100 percent entertaining.
Top Dawg Appreciation Week may have concluded with Reason’s animated video for “Might Not Make It,” but it seems the illustrated shenanigans may continue for a just a bit longer. The latest TDE video comes via an unusual source: The Instagram page of Guapdad 4000, who posted an animated video for TDE singer SiR’s “John Redcorn” video to his own feed and tagged SiR in the caption.
At the moment, there are few details about where the video came from or who made it, but one thing is for sure: The core Top Dawg roster of Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and Schoolboy Q fit amazingly well into the roles of King Of The Hill‘s main characters Bill Dauterive, Dale Gribble, Hank Hill, and Jeff Boomhauer. Naturally, SiR himself embodies the song’s namesake as he chills in his room, makes beats, ignores a call from “Neicy,” and of course, smokes weed.
There’s no telling where Guapdad came across the video or whether it’s an official TDE release, but it’s Guapdad’s first non-Rona Raps or Falcon Fridays post to his feed, so make of that what you will. The clip itself is only around 30 seconds long, implying that there might be a longer version out there somewhere. The only question now is, of course, whether or not TDE will release it.
Black Hippy as King of the Hill Jay Rock as Boomhaur Kendrick as Hank Hill Ab-Soul as Dale Q as Bill (Very accurate) pic.twitter.com/E5aT1PTN0q
The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary series about Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, is one of the biggest things in pop culture at the moment. Consequently, a lot of people who have ever had run-ins with the sports legend are sharing their stories about it. Now that includes Eminem, who, like Jordan, is one of the greatest ever at his chosen craft.
During a recent appearance on Sway’s Universe, Eminem spoke about a phone call he and Jordan once had about a potential sneaker collaboration. He said that he thought he blew his shot at working with MJ thanks to a joke he made at the end of the call:
“We were talking about doing some sort of shoe together. I was on the phone with him, we were talking, and everything was cool. He’s super cool, and everything was good until we get to the end of the phone call, and I said, ‘Yo man, when are you gonna come to Detroit so I can dunk on you?’ And it was crickets. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I think he just kinda was like, ‘Ha ha ha,’ like laughed. I remember getting off the phone going, ‘Oh my God, I think I might have just blew it.’ Because to me, in my head, it was a total joke. It’s so ridiculous for me to think I could dunk on Jordan. In my head, it’s one of those things you think is going to be funnier in your head than when you actually say it.”
It turns out Eminem’s attempt at humor didn’t irreparably sour his relationship with the Jordan brand, as he has gone on to work with the company on multiple occasions, like on the recent Air Jordan 4 Retro “Carhartt x Eminem” sneakers.
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best music released in the last week.
This week saw a reunion between a couple of Scotts and more from Charli XCX’s upcoming quarantine album. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Travis Scott and Kid Cudi — “The Scotts”
Travis Scott recently became the first rapper to perform a concert in Fortnite, and he made the occasion special by premiering a new song with Kid Cudi. Billed to The Scotts — based on Cudi’s real name, Scott Mescudi — their self-titled track is their second collaboration following the Birds In The Trap highlight “Through The Night.”
Juice WRLD — “Righteous”
Juice WRLD has popped up on a number of songs since his tragic passing, but he’s been the featured guest on all of them. That is, until a few days ago, when his estate dropped “Righteous,” which was accompanied by a video featuring lighthearted, behind-the-scenes footage of the late rapper.
Charli XCX — “Claws”
Charli XCX is in the midst of a fascinating album rollout: She’s making the record with real-time input from her fans. It’s not just her devotees she’s collaborating with, though, as she worked with 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady on her latest output, “Claws.”
Kacey Musgraves — “Oh, What A World 2.0”
To celebrate Earth day (during a time when people could use something to celebrate), Kacey Musgraves dropped a new, slightly poppier version of “Oh, What A World 2.0.” She said in a hopeful message accompanying her fresh release, “In spite of all its troubles, it’s still a wild, beautiful world and if you need proof, it’s out there. You just might have to look in a different corner of the sky.”
Lil Baby — “All In”
My Turn, Lil Baby’s No. 1 album that has made him one of the most successful artists on the chart this year, is about to get even bigger. He just announced a new deluxe version, and he did so with a video for “All In,” a quarantine-friendly visual in which he cleans his jewelry and otherwise stays at home.
Isaiah Rashad — “Why Worry”
Isaiah Rashad dropped his beloved album The Sun’s Tirade in 2016, and he hasn’t been heard from much since then. That changed last week, though, when the reclusive rapper dropped “Why Worry,” his first new music in four years.
The Killers — “Fire In Bone”
The bad news is that The Killers, like many artists, have pushed back the release of their upcoming album. The good news is that they returned with a new song last week, which Brandon Flowers described as “my take on the unicorn entering the room or lightning striking.’
Kali Uchis — To Feel Alive EP
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Kali Uchis announced an EP last week, and a few days later, it was out. It comes in advance of a new full-length record of Uchis, and she wrote of the EP, “can’t give you my album yet, but i recorded some demos in my room for u.”
The 1975 — “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”
Despite all the postponements, The 1975 have been nailing the rollout for their upcoming album, because the music has completely been there. Their latest taste of the record is “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” an ’80s-inspired track that is another brick in the super-solid wall that is shaping up to be Notes On A Conditional Form.
Bright Eyes — “Forced Convalescence”
Another bad-news-good-news scenario: Bright Eyes are “re-thinking” their comeback tour, but the comeback album isn’t going anywhere. They just shared a new track from it, “Forced Convalescence,” an Americana-inspired new track that about imaginations running wild while laid up in bed.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Eve Lindley is the breakout star of AMC’s Dispatches From Elsewhere, co-starring alongside series creator and producer Jason Segel, legend Sally Field, and Outkast musical genius Andre Benjamin. Despite that imposing list of screen mates, however, Lindley has more than held her own, winning raves for her multi-faceted performance as a transgendered woman who, alongside the others, seeks the end of a thread on a mystery that illuminates their lives while calling into question the nature of what is and isn’t.
Ahead of tonight’s finale (airing at 10 pm ET on AMC), Lindley was willing to weigh in on decidedly less intense mysteries such as her cartoon preference, the eternal battle between cats and dogs, and what she’d do if Nic Cage knocked on her door, with a batch of charming answers unlike any we’ve seen before in our ongoing Uproxx 20 series.
1. You walk into a bar. What do you order from the bartender?
An ice-cold Coca-Cola. (Unsponsored unless they wanna?)
2. Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
20. What would you cook if Nic Cage were coming to your house for dinner?
I mean, I don’t know, does he have any dietary restrictions? I’m sure I can figure out some sort of pasta that will suffice. Now I’m nervous. What time is he getting here? Have I figured out a lighting scheme? What about mood music? Scents?!
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