As of this post, Playboi Carti is the No. 1 trending topic on X (formerly Twitter). Why? It’s not because he released his long-awaited new album Music: It’s because he didn’t release it.
New albums typically drop at midnight ET, but shortly after midnight this morning (March 14), Carti shared a post indicating the album would actually drop at midnight PT, so 3 a.m. ET. But, 3 a.m. came and went without an album.
Most of the tweets were from fans, some of whom stayed up late to catch the drop, either dumbfounded or frustrated that the album hasn’t arrived yet.
Carti himself also seemed annoyed: On his @opium_00pium Instagram account, he shared a screenshot of himself trending on X and captioned the post, “ANY MIN NOW @spotify.” In another post with a different X trending screenshot, Carti wrote, “AINT TAKING SH*T FOR GRANTED WE CAME TOO FAR TO PUMPFAKE.”
But, around 8 a.m. ET, the album finally arrived.
Check out the tracklist below.
Playboi Carti’s Music Tracklist
1. “Pop Out”
2. “Crush” Feat. Travis Scott
3. “K Pop”
4. “Evil Jordan”
5. “Mojo Jojo”
6. “Philly” Feat. Travis Scott
7. “Radar”
8. “Rather Lie” Feat. The Weeknd
9. “Fine Shit”
10. “Backdoor”
11. “Toxic” Feat. Skepta
12. “Munyun”
13. “Crank”
14. “Charge Dem Hoes A Fee” Feat. Future
15. “Good Credit” Feat. Kendrick Lamar
16. “I Seeeeee You Baby Boi”
17. “Wake Up Filthy” Feat. Travis Scott
18. “Jumpin” Feat. Lil Uzi Vert
19. “Trim” Feat. Future
20. “Cocaine Nose”
21. “We Need All Da Vibes” Feat. Ty Dolla Sign and Young Thug
22. “Olympian”
23. “Opm Babi”
24. “Twin Trim” Feat. Lil Uzi Vert
25. “Like Weezy”
26. “Dis 1 Got It”
27. “Walk”
28. “HBA”
29. “Overly”
30. “South Atlanta Baby”
Steven and Ian open this week’s episode by addressing the confusing new slang about “reheating one’s nachos” as a metaphor for revisiting a signature style, used this week in reference to the new Lady Gaga album. They also talk about the new single from Haim, and what it portends for (presumably) their upcoming LP.
In the mailbag, they weigh possibilities of Indiecast merch and spend a ton of time contemplating their ultimate indie-rock all-star band, picking a singer, bassist, guitarist, drummer, and producer.
In Recommendation Corner, Ian goes for the latest from British pop-rock outfit Courting and Steven stumps for the new album from North Carolina alt-country band Fust.
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 230 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
Chappell Roan had a remarkable rise to the top of the pop pantheon in 2024, despite only releasing one new song that year. That’s how good “Good Luck, Babe!” — and 2023’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess — is.
But on Thursday (March 13), Roan shared a new song, “The Giver.” Okay, she technically debuted the high-energy lesbian country track on SNL (the best musical performance of the season), but now there’s an official studio version — and it’s a whole lot of fun.
“I have such a special place in my heart for country music,” Roan said in a statement. “I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bon fires, grocery stores and karaoke bars. Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is… right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and The Giver is my take on cuntry xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for y’all.”
Check out “The Giver” above. You can also find more information, including how to pre-order 7-inch limited edition vinyl records, here.
Law & Order: Organized Crime viewers didn’t have an easy time last year while awaiting news of whether their beloved Elliot Stabler would return to the criminal underworld. Do not fear, though. Hotheaded Stabler will be back, and he’ll have Olivia Benson by his side at some point since Christopher Meloni wrote her into the fifth season because he knows the assignment.
Still, the road to renewal was a surprisingly delayed one. Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU were both re-upped by NBC while thumb twiddling began on the franchise’s darkest show, wherein the format is not serialized, and ongoing stories mean that defendants don’t commit their crimes, head to trial, and go to prison in the same episode. Indeed, this is a different type of Dick Wolf drama, and so, the decision was made to move Stabler to streaming on Peacock. And you know what? That’s alright. Let’s talk about what we can expect, long after the hot octopus villain, when Meloni comes back.
Plot
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Despite the delay, Elliot Stabler’s career hasn’t changed much since “Stabler’s Lament” (which is the title of the most recent season finale). “The dangerous worlds of cross-border smuggling, high-tech domestic terrorism and a crime family intent on repaying Stabler for the injury he did them in Rome,” promises the season synopsis. “As his worlds collide, Stabler will put everything on the line to protect the vulnerable and fight for justice.”
As viewers also know, Stabler does not operate in a vacuum because it truly takes an NYPD village to keep him in the thick of underground crime syndicates. He remains on the job with Sergeant Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt), Bobby Reyes (Rick Gonzalez), and Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger). His brother, Randall, will also be on hand as portrayed by Dean Norris. And a new detective, Ted McKenna, will be portrayed by Jason Patric. (FWIW, NBC used the term “fang-tastic” while discussing The Lost Boys star in his casting announcement.)
Specific plot tidbits remain under wraps, but Dean Norris recently told TV Insider that this show will get even “edgier” now that they don’t have to stick to network TV constraints. And Stabler can cuss now? Definitely:
“It’s going to be great. There’s a lot of family stuff between me and my good buddy Chris Meloni, and I think you guys are going to love it. I’m really excited because it’s on Peacock. We can say the F word. It’s a lot edgier, it’s a lot more intense, and so it’s been kind of freeing in a way, creatively, to be on streaming, on Peacock, instead of on the network.”
Let the F-bombs begin. And if Peacock ever decides that they have had enough of Stabler’s potty mouth and cancel the series, Mariska Hargitay told the world that Meloni will always be welcome (in her eyes) on SVU.
Cast
Peacock/NBCUniversal
Chris Meloni returns as the imperfect but dogged Elliot Stabler. Additionally, this season co-stars Danielle Moné Truitt, Rick Gonzalez, Ainsley Seiger, and Dean Norris. At least one guest appearance will be made by Mariska Hargitay, and Jason Patric will be doing the detective thing.
Release Date
Finally, the spin off series will return April 17 with two episodes with weekly drops for a total of 10 episodes.
Trailer
An Elliot Stabler-focused teaser is out for a single goal: “justice.”
For Lili Reinhart, who rose to fame on the CW’s long-running teen drama, Riverdale, existing online was always the norm. Even as her peers – Maya Hawke and, more recently, Scarlett Johansson – have spoken out about the part follower counts play in franchise casting or getting indie projects off the ground, she’s always had a realistic view of social media and how useful it can be. Would it be nice, less exhausting even, to be someone like Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence, actors who don’t have a platform where people can peek at intimate pieces of their life? Sure.
“But I think I was just born and raised in the era where you had it and didn’t think otherwise,” Reinhart tells UPROXX. “I joined Instagram when I was 16. I think in hindsight, I would still choose to have it because it’s led to a lot of connections and a lot of good, but there is a weird balance there.”
She’s thinking more about that balance lately thanks to her recent indie project, a thriller titled American Sweatshop that premiered at SXSW over the weekend. In it, Reinhart plays Daisy, a twenty-something young woman working as a social media content moderator who is forced to witness the very worst of human nature, one flagged media post at a time. Directed by Uta Briesewitz (Severance, Black Mirror), the film argues that, yes, the internet is a cesspool, but it could be worse. It could exist without these real-life digital sin-eaters who wade through the amoral muck so we can enjoy our doom-scrolling without so much post traumatic stress.
Even before the film, Reinhart was rethinking her social media habits. She recently launched her own skincare brand, Personal Day, and her own production company, an entrepreneurial pivot that’s changed her persona online.
“I had to lean into being a founder and an influencer more than an actor online. And that’s been weird,” she explains. “I don’t love being more of a personality online than an acting figure, but it’s sort of what I’ve had to do to cultivate a business that I founded. So sometimes you just got to roll with the punches and know that it’s for the sake of a company or the sake of a film.”
Despite that, there’s one app she’s happy to have deleted from her phone: Twitter.
“[X] is just a toxic, shitty place,” she says.
Though American Sweatshop doesn’t explicitly name any social media platforms, Briesewitz and Reinhart drew inspiration from real-life stories of Facebook, YouTube, and X content moderators who toil long hours in warehouse-sized cubicles as they sift through the junk their Silicon Valley counterparts can’t be bothered to clean up. From German documentaries and peer-reviewed studies to investigative reports and multi-million dollar class action lawsuits, the pair didn’t have to dig too hard to realize the human cost of the internet’s dirtiest secret. A simple search can turn up dozens of stories on minimum-wage workers in places like Texas, California, and Florida (where Briesewitz’s film is based) who review millions of disturbing images, videos, and instances of hate speech – flagged content called “tickets” – per day. According to a report by NYU Stern, just one Facebook moderator examines 200 posts in an 8-hour shift or one post every 2.5 minutes. Graphic violence, pornography, and conspiracy theories can make up the bulk of that content. No wonder then that so many who take on the job begin suffering panic attacks, anxiety spikes, nightmares, insomnia, depression, and PTSD just months after onboarding.
“These people are suffering,” Briesewitz says.
For Daisy, the darkness begins to creep in after a particular ticket, one involving an off-camera act of sexual violence, causes her to faint on the warehouse floor. Most of Briesewitz’s film hinges on Reinhart’s physical reactions to content the audience is (thankfully) shielded from. She trusts viewers can draw conclusions without any spoonfeeding. Muffled moans might be porn, screams and gunshots might allude to an act of mass violence and we make educated guesses at the outcome based on Reinhart’s expressions. She’s the film’s emotional fulcrum.
“It’s not gore porn,” Reinhart says of the decision to keep some of the film’s violence vague. “It’s not something that an audience will walk away feeling like they can’t get those images out of their head. We don’t want to traumatize an audience by talking about the trauma of what’s online. Ultimately, the movie’s about how these things affect us as human beings.”
That’s why, halfway through the film, once the psychological slog of Daisy’s every day makes its impact, Briesewitz flips the script, turning her drama into a thrilling experiment in back swamp noir that sees Reinhart risking it all to track down the man in the video that’s started to haunt her waking hours.
“Seeing this video changes her,” Briesewitz says. “She talks about it, how she sees a lot of violent videos and it makes her want to be violent. It’s almost like downloading these images – everything that she sees and takes in – is changing her DNA, changing who she is.”
And this is where Florida comes in.
While most of the movie was shot abroad, Briesewitz clung to the idea of setting her film in the panhandle for two reasons. First and foremost, there’s something primal and wild about the place, at least according to the German filmmaker: “Let’s face it, Florida is just a weird place.”
But, as Briesewitz was researching stories of content moderators in the states, a wetlands mascot caught her eye.
“The gator was part of a magazine article about places like this,” Briesewitz says of the massive reptile in the film that floats in a nearby pond where Daisy spends her smoke breaks. “Workers were talking about how they could look out the window and they would see this alligator that had moved in into a little body of water near the parking lot and nobody would really fully acknowledge the danger of him; everybody would just go back to their work. That is a beautiful metaphor for it all. The danger of saying, “I’m not fully acknowledging and just living with it. It’s all okay and it’s normal.’”
Reinhart hopes her film will make audiences reconsider their chronically online status in the same way she has. Moderation is, after all, the whole point.
“As much good as there is from an online community where people can gather and share experiences and stories that are accessible to anybody, I think the spread of misinformation is so much more harmful,” she says. “I think the bad unfortunately outweighs the good. And I try to tap into the good by being more involved in the good communities. But I think as we’ve seen, if there’s going to be a community of people lifting each other up, there’s going to be the opposite. And unfortunately, I think that community is a thousand times larger and more aggressive and violent. And so that has bred a lot of fear and hate and violence, especially in America. I hope we reach a point one day where we can all collectively say, ‘Let’s be done.’”
T-Pain has enjoyed a special relationship with the state of Wisconsin ever since on his 2008 Lil Wayne collab “Can’t Believe It,” he gave the state a shout-out but pronounced it in his own special way (“Put you in a mansion, somewhere in Wiscansin”). It’s become an iconic line, and for the past few years, T-Pain has taken to the state to host his annual Wiscansin Festival.
The 2025 edition is coming right up, as the two-day event is set for June 13 and 14 in Milwaukee, it was announced today (March 13).
The first day, dubbed Wiscansin State Fear, goes down at the Milwaukee Mile and features open drifting (the thing where cars slide around), along with carnival rides, games, karaoke, and more.
Then there’s the second day, the Back To Wiscansin Fest. On the music lineup are Feid, Keyshia Cole, Pusha T, Wale, Jermaine Dupri, DJ Diesel (Shaq), NLE Choppa, Kash Doll, Prof, Duran Bernarr, Armani White, Djay Mando, and NilexNile, with more names to be revealed.
Fans can either buy a one-day pass for either event, or there’s a two-day pass that covers both. Either way, tickets go on sale starting March 14 at 10 a.m. local time. More information can be found on the Wiscansin website.
Each week our staff of film and television experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
15. Severance (Apple TV Plus)
Apple TV+
After a long, long break, one of the best shows on TV is back. Severance picks up where season 1 left off, with Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Helly Riggs), Dylan (Dylan), and Irving (Irving Bailiff) trifling with the severance barrier, “leading them further down a path of woe,” according to the cryptic Apple TV Plus synopsis. There are so many mysteries left to answer: what’s the deal with Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman)? What’s the deal with Seth Milchick (series MVP Tramell Tillman)? And seriously, what’s the deal with the freaking goats?
Mike Judge and Greg Daniels have been attached to some of the best TV comedies of the last 30 years, including Parks and Recreation, The Simpsons, and The Office for Daniels and Beavis and Butt-Head and Silicon Valley for Judge. They also co-created King of the Hill. Their latest collaboration is producing Common Side Effects, a surreal Adult Swim animated series about the “world’s greatest medicine” from creators Joseph Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (30 Rock). Episodes will stream the next day on Max.
The White Lotus returns with a new location (Thailand) and a new group of talented actors playing emotionally- and spiritually-empty rich folks. The cast includes Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Blackpink’s Lisa, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Aimee Lou Wood. “I do feel like the other seasons were a rehearsal for this one,” creator Mike White teased.
You know what time is it? It’s Reacher o’clock. In season 3, the big guy meets an even bigger guy. He also “hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when trying to rescue an undercover DEA informant whose time is running out,” according to the Prime Video synopsis. “There, he finds a world of secrecy and violence and confronts some unfinished business from his own past.” Every episode is basically the same, which is to say, they’re all a lot of fun.
11. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Netflix)
Paramount
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is one of the most purely enjoyable big-budget movies of the 2020s. So I will never understand why it underperformed at the box office. The people weren’t ready for Chris Pine’s melting face, I guess. But hopefully enough people watch Honor Among Thieves on Netflix that a sequel gets the greenlight. Do it for Jarnathan.
The Gutter premiered at South By Southwest in 2024 to strong reviews. Now that the 2025 edition of the Austin-based festival is here, the bowling comedy directed by Yassir Lester lands on Hulu. The plot follows Walt (played by Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s Shameik Moore), who lands a job at a bowling alley, and is soon pressured by former pro-bowler and current champion drinker Skunk (The Good Place‘s D’Arcy Carden) to accept his role as the greatest bowler ever put on this earth.
Hulu’s Deli Boys is a crime-comedy about a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers who lose everything following their father’s sudden death and are forced to reckon with his secret life of misdeeds as they try to take up his mantle in the underworld. The cast includes Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan.
You know who rocks? Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. Between Yellowjackets and Companion, Thatcher is everywhere all of a sudden (not a complaint), while East gave a “who is that and where can I see more of her”-level performance in The Fabelmans; she’s also reportedly in Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming movie. Together, you can see them in Heretic, where they play Mormon missionaries who attempt to convert a man (Hugh Grant!) who is more dangerous — and creepy — than he seems.
Ben and Jen (Garner) are in the headlines, and there’s a new Daredevil project. What year is it, 2003? Daredevil: Born Again brings back Charlie Cox as blind crime-fighting lawyer Matt Murdock, as well as Vincent D’Onofrio as mob boss Wilson Fisk, who is pursuing his own political endeavors. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course. Get ready for a kick-ass one-shot fight scene.
Sorry, parents, but get ready to watch Moana 2 a million times. The sequel takes place three years after the original, and has Moana (voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho) reuniting with Maui (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) to find a long-lost island. Lin-Manuel Miranda didn’t write the songs for Moana 2, like he did for Moana (“Shiny” is a banger), but at least Alan Tudyk is back as Heihei.
Sean Baker should have an Oscar for The Florida Project. And Red Rocket. Better late than never, I suppose. Baker actually won four Academy Awards for Anora (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing), while star Mikey Madison was named Best Actress for playing a Brooklyn-based stripper who hastily marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Unlike too many movies to list them all, Anora actually deserved to win Best Picture. It’s great.
Long Bright River is a suspense thriller about Philadelphia police officer Mickey (played by Amanda Seyfried), who patrols a part of the city that has been hard-hit by the opioid crisis. As per the logline: “When a series of murders hit the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history – her ongoing search for her missing younger sister – might be related to the case.” The subject material is a bit of a downer, so to cheer you up, here’s Mamma Mia 3 (?!) star Seyfried covering a Joni Mitchell song on the dulcimer. Delightful!
The guests for the first episode of John Mulaney’s weekly talk show Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney: Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, Fred Armisen, Jessica Roy, and musical guest Cypress Hill. Oh, and the GOAT himself, Richard Kind, is Mulaney’s sidekick and announcer. This is the definition of must-see TV.
It’s tough to pinpoint Netflix‘s most expensive movie, but don’t be surprised if it’s The Electric State. The film, which reunites the directors (Anthony and Joe Russo) and writers (Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, has a reported $320 million budget. That’s quite the chunk of change, but for Netflix, it’s money well spent if the retro-futuristic The Electric State — which stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, who team up to find her brother; also, there are robots — ends up being the level of hit it almost assuredly will be.
In 2018, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers teamed up to form Boygenius, an indie supergroup that released the best song of 2018 (and, in my estimation, the best song of the 2010s). It seemed like a one-off collaboration at the time, but five years later, they reformed for The Record. Critical admiration, Nirvana homages, and Grammys followed. Then, following a sold-out tour, the Boys went on hiatus to focus on their solo careers.
Let’s catch up with Baker, Dacus, and Bridgers to see what they’re up to now in a post-Boygenius era.
Julien Baker
Julien Baker and Torres (real name: Mackenzie Scott) had a wild idea during COVID-era lockdown: what if they made a country album together? Unlike most projects that originated during quarantine, however, they saw it through: Send A Prayer My Way, which includes twangy singles “Sugar In The Tank” and “Tuesday,” comes out on April 18 via Matador Records.
Interestingly, despite The Record dropping in 2023, Send A Prayer My Way came first; a decision was made to “temporarily shelve” the album until Baker was finished with her Boygenius duties, otherwise the promotional cycle with Torres (including a spot on The Tonight Show) would have been rushed.
“It sucked because we were both chomping at the bit to get it out,” Baker told The Independent. “It would’ve felt really bad to start something and have an end date already in the future and to truncate it [because] it had to be done by the time I started doing Boygenius stuff. I’m glad we waited.”
You can catch Julien Baker & Torres on tour this spring.
Lucy Dacus
Lucy Dacus released her first three albums on indie stalwart Matador. But she signed with a major label (Geffen) for Forever Is A Feeling, which features contributions from both Baker and Bridgers, as well as Hozier, Bartees Strange, and Blake Mills.
“I think with this whole record, I wrote songs as things were happening,” Dacus told Dazed Digital about Forever Is A Feeling, which is due out March 28. “A lot of the time, it’s taken years before I can write about something, but this is the first time I felt like I needed to write about my current emotions, for my own well-being, to express to myself what’s going on.”
The early singles have been a terrific showcase for Dacus’ smoky voice and candid songwriting. She’s also a terrific person: Dacus gave away $10,000 in $500 increments to trans people looking to pay for gender-affirming surgeries.
After Boygenius announced their hiatus in early 2024, Bridgers has stayed mostly off the radar, other than performing with Sloppy Jane in Jane Schoenbrun’s must-see I Saw The TV Glow, producing collaborator Christian Lee Hutson’s album Paradise Pop. 10, and a Disneyland date with comedian and actor Bo Burnham.
Bridgers may have caught the acting bug herself, as she was recently spotted on the set of the Robert Pattinson-starring movie Primetime. The A24 film “follows a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and ends up changing television forever,” according to Variety, and is said to be inspired by To Catch A Predator. Maybe Bridgers can get Pattinson to sing in a freaky lil’ voice on her next album, whenever it eventually comes out. Just a thought.
Shake Shack has a lot going on right now. There is the new spring-inspired shake trio (definitely try the cherry blossom flavor), the brand’s first discount combo meal (one of the most affordable and best-tasting chicken sandwich combos currently in fast food), and the fast casual chain just dropped a trio of new black truffle-infused cheeseburgers.
We dig that Shake Shack is giving people a mix of everything, from indulgent treats to affordable meals to the sort of elevated and luxurious takes on fast food that we’ve come to expect from the brand. We’re big fans of luxurious and decadent cheeseburgers, so when the Black Truffle menu was announced, we were already pretty hyped without even trying it. Now that we have, we’re even more psyched!
The Black Truffle trio, which consists of a Black Truffle Burger, the vegetarian-friendly Black Truffle ‘Shroom, and the gargantuan Black Truffle Shack Stack is available for a limited time at all Shake Shack locations nationwide. The time frame for this one is unspecified, but given how long Shake Shack’s limited-time burger options usually last, we’re pretty confident in saying this trio is sticking around until the start of summer at the earliest.
To help separate the good from the great, we tasted and ranked all three from least to most essential. Let’s dive in.
3. Black Truffle ‘Shroom
Shake Shack
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
I’m sorry to the vegetarians out there but I’m naming the Black Truffle ‘Shroom as the least essential of the three sandwiches. That isn’t to say that this burger isn’t good though, and in fact it’s a sharp improvement over Shake Shack’s regular veggie burger, the veggie shack. The veggie shack, which features a patty made from a mix of mushrooms, sweet potatoes, carrots, farro, and quinoa, lacks the indulgent decadence of a juicy cheeseburger. The Black Truffle ‘Shroom remedies that, bringing big flavors into the veggie space.
The patty — if you want to call it that — consists of a portabello mushroom top filled with Muenster and cheddar cheese, breaded and fried, and topped with black truffle sauce, shredded lettuce, and served on a potato bun. Biting into this burger will treat your tastebuds to a burst (literally, this thing explodes when you bite into it) of rich umami flavors and melted creamy cheese notes. The black truffle sauce, with its pungent and umami-rich flavor, keeps the burger from coming across as too salty and cheesy, while the shredded lettuce adds some additional texture.
Generally I’m not a fan of shredded lettuce, but it works in this sandwich, allowing the burger to stay crisp and not come across as too soft and soggy.
The Bottom Line:
Shake Shack’s best veggie burger, but at the end of the day, still a veggie burger. So if you’re a hardcore carnivore, look elsewhere.
2. Black Truffle Burger
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
This isn’t the first time we’ve had the Black Truffle Burger, the burger hits the Shake Shack menu at least once a year, and every year we order it. It’s that good. The burger features an Angus beef patty (or two if you opt for the double), topped with a thick layer of melted Gruyère cheese, a generous handful of fried sweet onion, and a double layer of thick black truffle sauce.
Biting into this burger is an explosion of flavors. The sumptuous juiciness of the beef is elevated by the creamy and salty Gruyère, while the fried onions bring a delicate sweetness, a much-needed contrast to the intense umami flavor of the black truffle sauce.
The Bottom Line:
This used to be Shake Shack’s most decadent umami-rich burger, but now that honor goes to our number one pick. We’d still say this one is worth ordering, as the fried onions add a touch of sweetness that plays nicely with the rich and intense flavors of the black truffle.
1. Black Truffle Shack Stack
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
I’ve never had a burger quite as rich and — I know I keep throwing this word around in this ranking — decadent. This is flavor indulgence at its finest. The Black Truffle Shack Stack is essentially a combination of the Black Truffle ‘Shroom and Black Truffle Burger. What we loved about the latter was the balance between sweet and umami flavors, but Black Truffle Shack Stack throws balance out the window, instead doubling down on the umami flavor notes, resulting in a burger that is sumptuous, rich, ultra-meaty.
The burger features a lacy and crispy-edged beef patty topped with Gruyère, and a thick fried Muenster and cheddar cheese-stuffed portobello mushroom top. Biting into this burger is an explosion of meaty flavors and gooey cheesy textures, with a salty mushroom top note and finish. It’s messy in the best way, as cheese and burger juices explode in your mouth with every bite. This isn’t the sort of burger you order if your appetite is mild, instead this burger should be reserved for those looking for big rich flavors that’ll leave you in a heavy food coma by meal’s end.
Be warned though, you need a big mouth for this burger. Biting into it is truly a challenge.
The Bottom Line:
The richest, most decadent burger we’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. This burger is an absolute umami flavor bomb. If you love the meaty flavor of mushrooms, this burger does not disappoint.
FKA Twigs and ASAP Rocky have been pals for a long time, and now Twigs has reminisced about what it was like when they were roommates back in the early 2010.
In a new chat between Twigs and Playboi Carti for i-D, Twigs explained the living situation. Here’s the relevant excerpt:
Twigs: You know Rocky and I used to live together? I think it was 2012 or 2013. I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves. So they’d come back from the studio…
Carti: …coming in, got the munchies. Twigs over there going crazy. I’ve never met Yams a day in my life. I always just hear so many cool stories. You and Rocky and Yams in the crib? That’s fire.
Twigs: Yams was the best, and he was such a gentleman. He’d always let me sleep in his room. He’d sleep on the sofa, and I would take his bed.
Carti also said, “When I was coming up with Rocky, he always used to tell me, ‘Yo, Twigs is the one. I got to introduce you to Twigs.’ And when I met you, everything he said about you was true. Shorty from the other side of the world. She got me off the bat.”
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
