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Losing out on one of the biggest awards in your field can be a disappointing, humbling experience. But for the right person, it can be the motivation that inspires them to perfect their craft, becoming even more proficient and overcoming the faults that held them back in the first place.

According to Pharrell Williams, that’s what happened to Tyler The Creator when he came up short of the Best Rap Album award at the 2018 Grammy Awards. His 2017 album Flower Boy was lightyears away from his prior work and took inspiration from the work of Pharrell, Justin Timberlake, and Max Martin, maturing Tyler’s sound and expanding listeners’ understanding of the rap rebel’s musicianship and worldview.

But that wasn’t enough to impress Grammy voters… not yet. The first episode of Hulu’s newly released docuseries RapCaviar Presents, based on Spotify’s RapCaviar playlists, focuses on Tyler The Creator and finds Pharrell (one of Tyler’s greatest mentors) sharing his thoughts on Tyler’s growth — which he says was prompted in part by that 2018 Grammys loss.

In fact, he says at the 29-minute mark of the episode, the loss was “one of the greatest things that ever happened to [Tyler], ’cause it motivated him in a different kind of way. Doing that to him just expedited his growth. He realized he needed to go harder — and he did.” The result was, of course, the 2019 album Igor, which totally revamped Tyler’s approach.

That album won the Best Rap Album Grammy in 2020… but it also prompted Tyler to directly confront how an album of mostly singing still got classified as a rap album, calling the win a “backhanded compliment.” That didn’t stop Pharrell from sharing his heartfelt congrats at the time

RapCaviar Presents is now streaming on Hulu.

Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, known collectively as Boygenius, are making their highly-anticipated return with the release of their major label debut. The group shook up the indie scene with the release of their self-titled EP back in 2018. Now, the three musicians are gearing up for their sophomore release, The Record, this time on a major label. A few weeks ago, the trio surprised fans with three singles from the project — “$20,” “True Blue,” and “Emily I’m Sorry,” all led by a different member of the group.

But as their March 31 release date quickly approaches, fans want to know more about what they can expect when the full album is made available across streaming platforms. To learn more about the album, including the tracklist, potential guest features, and more, continue below.

Release Date

The Record is out 3/31 via Interscope Records. To pre-save or pre-order, click here.

Tracklist

1. “Without You Without Them”
2. “$20”
3. “Emily I’m Sorry”
4. “True Blue”
5. “Cool About It”
6. “Not Strong Enough”
7. “Revolution O”
8. “Leonard Cohen”
9. “Satanist”
10. “We’re In Love”
11. “Anti-Curse”
12. “Letter To An Old Poet”

Features

Based on the tracklist uploaded to both Apple Music and Bandcamp, the album will not feature any additional recording artists. However, when the credits for the album are released, we can certainly bet that the trio will enlist a few of their fellow musicians to play supporting instrumentation. In contrast, The Record will feature a slew of guest production and engineering.

Catherine Marks is the official co-producer for The Record. Ethan Gruska, Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som), Sarah Tudzin (of Illuminate Hotties), and Tony Berg will provide additional production. The Record is beginning engineered by Bobby Mota, Kaushles “Garry” Purohit, Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, and again by Sarah Tudzin and Catherine Marks. The Record will be mixed by Mike Mogis and master engineered by Pat Sullivan. All written contributions for the album will come directly from the trio.

Artwork

The album’s artwork, photographed by Matt Grubb, is simple yet mysterious. All three members of the band record for the clear blue sky, as their matching wisdom tooth tattoos face the camera as the sun’s glare stamps the bottom right corner of the image. The pose is a nod to Pearl Jam’s 1991 Ten album cover.

Singles

So far, Boygenius has released three singles from their forthcoming album: “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry,” and “True Blue.”

Tour

The summer Boygenius will embark on Boygenius: The Tour. The string of shows begins with a quick stop in Ponoma, CA next month before resuming on June 6 in Phoenix. From then on, Boygenius will perform consistently for just under two months before bringing the tour to an end in Denver. Carly Rae Jepsen, Broken Social Scene, Bartees Strange, Claud, and Illuminati Hotties will join Boygenius on the tour. You can check out the full dates below.

Power Trip Festival put a call out to all hard rock fans yesterday, March 29, with a teaser video asking, “Are you ready for a Power Trip?” The concert poster crafted in the video was really cool but vague, and today, March 30, Power Trip painted a clearer picture by confirming its headliners (first reported by Variety): Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and Tool.

The inaugural Power Trip Festival is scheduled for October 6 to 8, 2023.

According to the original Variety report, Power Trip comes from Goldenvoice, founders of Coachella, which explains the location: Empire Polo Field in Indio, California.

“Despite the Coachella connection, the festival is more like a hard rock version of Goldenvoice’s 2016 Desert Trip festival, which featured a classic-rock dream team of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Who and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters,” Variety relayed.

Osbourne’s involvement is particularly notable because he announced his retirement from touring in February due to ongoing physical ailments.

The official Power Trip website provides instructions to register now for ticket access. “Sale only available to those who register,” it reads. Tickets will become available beginning on Thursday, April 6, at 10 a.m. PST. The starting price for general admission tickets is $599, per the website.

Hotel packages and VIP packages ($1,749) are also available for purchase beginning next Tuesday, April 4, at 10 a.m. PST.

Tons of people found themselves clicking on the trending hashtag #RIPMarty, expecting to hear tragic news about a celebrity of some sort.

Instead, they learned about Marty the cat, whose owner shared the most heartbreakingly beautiful goodbye letter following his passing. That letter quickly went viral online, leaving folks completely invested Marty’s story, not to mention utterly devastated.

Will Menaker, who shared the letter on Twitter, began by sharing how he and Marty first met. Or more accurately, how Marty introduced himself by emerging from under a car and unapologetically following Menaker up to the steps of his apartment seeking pets. Eventually, as the weather began to get colder, Menaker experimented with bringing Marty inside.

“From that moment on I was in love. I wouldn’t say I ‘had’ a cat, but from then on I shared a house with a tuxedo cat I would name Marty,” Menaker wrote.

Other than being TNR’d (trapped, neutered, released), Marty’s past was a mystery. What Menaker did know of his feline companion was that he had “striking green eyes,” was “always friendly but aloof” and was “outgoing but possessed a Sphinx-like dignity that nothing could assail.”

Those are already lovely words, but you might want to grab tissues for this next part.

Yesterday, I had to say goodbye to a friend. pic.twitter.com/E3sbk5LTKb

— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) March 29, 2023

“Yesterday, we had to say goodbye. After months of trying to treat a cancer that he had been suffering from, enough was enough. He stopped eating and drinking entirely and by then had wasted away to weighing almost nothing…I decided to make the only decision we could on his behalf. He went to sleep in our house and in my arms.”

Tapping into every pet parent’s grief, Menaker wrote, “I know this is a small tragedy in the grand scheme of the world, but one that I feel acutely knowing that I expected many more years with my friend. We are heartbroken but grateful for the years that we did have him in our lives.”

Despite the obvious anguish, Menaker’s letter ends on a hopeful note.

“I firmly believe cats are connected in some way to the other side. They have been around human civilization for roughly 9,000 years and are the only animal species that has domesticated human beings and not vice versa…Whatever happens after our deaths, I think cats are somehow involved, and I hope that when it comes time, Marty will guide me on my own journey to the Western Lands.

“Goodbye Marty, I’ll miss you terribly.”

Menaker’s moving words had people in tears over a cat they didn’t even know.

Sees “RIP Marty” trending.

Clicks to see which Marty.

Reads about Marty the kitty.

Sobs

Marty was a good kitty. https://t.co/J5KCiAhvDI

— TheAlabastard🏒🏋🏼‍♀️🐈🤟🏻 (@ThatAlabastard) March 29, 2023

Many commiserated with pictures of their own belated fur babies.

I’m so sorry for your loss. RIP, Marty. When you see Jewel, tell her I love her and I still miss her every day pic.twitter.com/fB1qsNEg8d

— Zoe 💖💜💙✡️ black lives matter (@zmcadler) March 29, 2023

Others still applauded Menaker for showing Marty such compassion and love.

Taking in an animal and loving them, caring for them, is one of the greatest acts of compassion in this world.

RIP Marty, you lived a good life, and you were very clearly loved. https://t.co/AjNYMiS4rl

— Evangelicals Are Fascists 🏳️‍🌈 (@JasonIsCreating) March 29, 2023

Goodbye, Marty. We might not know you, but we are touched by your story. Enjoy that great scratching post in the sky.

Dogs can sometimes act like doofuses, whether it’s eating a sock and doing the poop of shame later or trying to pretend they didn’t rifle through the trash while sitting in front of the evidence. Dogs are also pretty smart and hilariously entertaining, especially when you teach them a fun trick, which makes up for their brief lapses in judgment.

A Golden Retriever named Ellie has learned one of the cutest tricks yet: hide-and-seek. In a video posted by The Dodo on Facebook Watch, you see Ellie’s parents finding difficult places to hide. And by difficult, I mean opening up the couch storage area and climbing inside to see if the dog’s nose can sniff them out.

Ellie’s way too smart for their shenanigans and continuously finds each hiding place within seconds. But it’s unclear if she’s finding her parents or if she’s just searching for her favorite toy.

Every time one of her parents hid, they were holding a little pink stuffed dog toy. So maybe she was just on the hunt for her toy and couldn’t care less about finding the human hiding behind clothes in the closet for some unknown-to-Ellie reason. Either way, it seems her adorable game of hide-and-seek got a lot of people in the feels reminiscing about their own dogs.

“I had a border collie that loved to play hide and seek with the neighbor children! It was SO adorable!!!” one commenter wrote.

“Our golden used to be the best!! He could find anything/anyone fast!! He loved it!” another person wrote.

“Best video I’ve seen in ages! The love between you shows. I love it!” a different commenter said.

Ellie’s game of hide and seek is capturing hearts across the internet. The cute Golden Retriever even has her own TikTok page where you can see even more of her antics. But before you jaunt off to TikTok, watch Ellie outsmart her humans below.

As the old saying goes, “the map is not the territory,” and sometimes maps can be misleading. David Blattman, head of production at Barstool Sports, shared four unbelievable facts about U.S. geography on Twitter, all of which appear to be wildly incorrect, but aren’t.

“These geography facts have left me speechless,” Blattman wrote on Twitter.

• Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.
• You can travel north, south, east, or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.
• Reno is further west than LA.

• Detroit is further east than Atlanta.

Each one of these bullet points deserves a fact check, but Snopes stepped in to make sense of the last one, which feels false. Is Detroit, a midwestern city, really east of Atlanta, a city that’s a 4-hour drive from the east coast?

Yes, Detroit is east of Atlanta.

u201cThese geography facts have left me speechless:nnu2022Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.nnu2022You can travel north, south, east or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.nnu2022Reno is further west than LA.nnu2022Detroit is further east than Atlanta.u201d

— David Blattman (@David Blattman)
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“Atlanta is actually west of Detroit. Its coordinates are (emphasis added): 33.7488° N, 84.3877° W while Detroit’s are 42.3314° N, 83.0458° W,” Bethania Palma at Snopes confirmed. The fact-checking site reached out to geographer Maria Lane for further comment.

She explained that our eyes are fooled by their locations because the east coast extends further east as it moves north. Conversely, in the south, the coast moves towards the west. This makes Atlanta appear to be much further east.

We are also fooled by how we’ve determined what’s “east coast” and what’s “midwest.”

“So it shouldn’t be any surprise that places on the southern ‘east coast’ are further west than places on the northern ‘east coast,'” Lane wrote. “And northern places that we consider ‘inland’ or ‘midwest’ when compared to those far-north areas of the east coast, can still be relatively farther east than coast-adjacent places in the South.”

This Tumblr post from @realtivegeography explains it perfectly.

So what about the other three hard-to-believe geographical facts?

Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state.

It makes sense that Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state. It also has the title of easternmost because the Aleutian Islands arc right up to the edge of the Western Hemisphere and cross over into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Semisopochnoi Island (179° East) is so far west it actually lies in the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Little Diomede island lies only 4 km from Big Diomede, a Russian territory. In the dead of winter, when the water around the island freezes, one can walk from the U.S. to Russia in under an hour.

You can travel north, south, east or west in Stamford, Connecticut, and the next state you hit is NY.

Blattman explained this perfectly in a tweet with a map showing how it works.

I think the Stamford one is my favorite. pic.twitter.com/pLLzjtxkpd

— David Blattman (@davidblattman) April 30, 2020

Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

How can Reno, Nevada, be west of Los Angeles, California? Los Angeles has beaches, and Reno is 128 miles from the coastline. Much like how the east coast recedes west as it heads south, the west coast does the same, pushing Los Angeles to the east of Reno.

It feels safe to say that many, if not most people hail Drew Barrymore as the “Queen of Candid.” She can seemingly talk to absolutely anyone about anything in a way that’s consistently warm and authentic.

That even goes for when she experiences her first hot flash in front of a live television audience, apparently.

While speaking with guests Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler on her talk show, Barrymore abruptly appears flustered, fanning herself and removing her jacket.

Without missing a beat, she says, “I am so hot, I think I’m having my first perimenopause hot flashes.”

“Oh, I feel so honored!” Jennifer Aniston quips as she fixes Barrymore’s mic, which is a sweet moment in and of itself.

“I’m so sorry!” Barrymore continues, laughing through it all. “Do you feel this?!” she says, placing Aniston’s hand just below her neck. “Or maybe I’m just excited!”

@drewbarrymore I either had my first perimenopause hot flash or got really exciting! Maybe both? @thedrewbarrymoreshow ♬ original sound – Drew Barrymore

Sandler, then reaching for Barrymore’s palm, assures her, “Yeah you got a hot hand.”

“Well, I’m so glad I have this moment documented!” Barrymore exclaims.

One viewer on TikTok gushed, “I don’t know that I have ever heard a celebrity talk about a hot flash in the moment. Thank you for being so real.”

Another echoed, “Drew, we have a whole generation (X) entering the change. Let’s normalize it. Just wait until you’re soaked with sweat, then cold lol.”

One person commented on the exchange between Aniston and Barrymore, noting how refreshing it was to see two “beautiful, authentic, powerful women my own age to look up to.”

Only a week prior, Barrymore had again been an unofficial spokeswoman for perimenopause when she sat down with Gayle King of “CBS Mornings” to share more of her personal experiences, including having a period “every two weeks.”

“One doctor also just told me this could last, in the worst-case scenario, 10 years. And I was like, ‘I will never make it 10 years like this!’” she told King.

@cbsmornings How did Drew Barrymore know she was in perimenopause? She tells Gayle King and Nikki Battiste one of the main symptoms she experienced. Watch their full conversation tomorrow on #CBSMornings. #drewbarrymore #gayleking #menopause #perimenopause #fertility #health ♬ original sound – CBS Mornings

Considering that every woman who lives past their 40s will probably go through at least some version of this—even earlier, for some—one would think that there should be more conversations about this pivotal life chapter. Maybe then it wouldn’t be so daunting.

Or at the very least, there might be less stigma around it. As Barrymore eloquently put it in her interview, “The way menopause has been branded is, ‘You’re old, you’re done.’ That’s not it.” Instead, she feels that in reality, “more women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are looking so attractive, feeling so vibrant, living their best lives.”

Imagine that—life getting better as you grow older. What a radical thought.

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“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a Greek guy with a gun.” -James Fritz

On the latest The Wire rewatch podcast episode, comedian and writer from The Frankie Quinones Show, James Fritz joins Matt and Vince on Pod Yourself A Gun to discuss The Wire season two episode nine, “Storm Warnings.”

Well, Ziggy has really gone and done it now, hasn’t he? Congratulations to all the Ziggy haters out there, you got what you wanted — two dead Greeks. Ziggy and his huge hog burned too damn bright for the Bawlmer ports, and while he lives to tell his own heartless tale to Jay Landsman, there will be no more Zig on The Wire.

During the episode, there is a conversation about the actor who plays Lamar (Brother Mouzone’s valet), and how he, like too many cast members, is no longer with us. The recording took place the day before we also lost the actor who played Daniels, Lance Reddick. RIP to another real one. Here’s an interview he did after the third season and before the show really took off.

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It’s been a tumultuous month for The Cure, who announced their first North American tour since 2016 and shared a whole plan to prevent scalpers from ruining the concert experience for fans. And what happened next was infinitely frustrating: Ticketmaster turned their back on the band by charging insane fees to inflate the prices.

Smith went on a strong-worded rant on Twitter, saying he was sickened. He was able to get customers a partial refund from the company.

It’s not over, though. On Tuesday (March 28), the eccentric singer tweeted, “I AM ASKING ABOUT THE WEIRD OVER PRICED ‘FACE VALUE’ TICKETS THAT ARE POPPING UP HERE AND THERE… X.” One fan replied with a screenshot of two tickets that cost almost $1,400, yet they were dubbed as face value tickets. Meanwhile, most fans paid just a little over $100 for a ticket.

The problem has become so big that Neil Young recently commented on it. “TICKETMASTER FEES at 30%. It’s over,” the legend wrote on his website. “The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000.00 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers.”

The 2023 Dreamville Festival kicks off this weekend and whether you’re attending in person or watching it online, Uproxx has you covered on the set times for your favorite artists, which you can find below.

The Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina doors will open at 12 noon on both days; Usher is headlining Saturday’s festivities at 9:30 pm, while J. Cole and Drake’s joint headlining set on Sunday will be slightly earlier, at 9:15. The smaller festival also has the benefit of being able to program nearly every set with enough time to set just about all of them (provided they all begin and end on time), with plenty of time to get from Burna Boy to Cole and Drake.

Funnily enough, it looks like Lil Durk and Usher are a little closer together, but it does make you wonder how much overlap those fanbases have. If you’re watching online via Amazon Music’s Twitch channel or on Prime Video, you won’t have to worry about this stuff, obviously.

In addition to the usual Dreamville roster mainstays like Ari Lennox, Bas, Cozz, Earthgang, JID, Lute, and Omen, the lineup also includes fan faves like Baby Tate, City Girls, GloRilla, Jessie Reyez, Key Glock, Lil Durk, Mario, Sean Paul, SiR, Summer Walker, and Waka Flock Flame. Check out the set times below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.