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Regardless of where you live, late summer and early fall is a great time of year. You probably don’t mind bringing your favorite light sweaters out of storage, you might even tolerate pumpkin spice, and, at the very least, you look forward to drinking gallons of beer and gorging on German food at an Oktoberfest celebration.

Technically, the official celebration in Munich takes place from September 7 through October 3, but lucky for you, there are numerous great Oktoberfest-centered events right here in the USA. Keep scrolling to see 10 of our favorites (including, naturally, the aforementioned giant event in Germany). For many of the others, there’s still time to plan a road trip. We’d drive a few hours for beer and brats, wouldn’t you?

Mt. Angel Oktoberfest – Mt. Angel, Oregon (September 16-19)

Not only is this a massive Oktoberfest celebration, but it’s also the largest folk festival in the Northwest. Located in Mt. Angel, Oregon, you’ll feel like you’re really in Germany as you visit the entertainment, food, and drink pavilions known as the Biergarten, Weingarten, and Alpinegarten. There’s even a smaller venue called Hopfengarten where you can sample beer from smaller, local breweries. Don’t forget to check out the Glockenspiel that explains the history of the town each hour.

Trapp Family Lodge Oktoberfest – Stowe, Vermont (September 17)

Stowe, Vermont is home to the 13th annual Trapp Family Lodge Oktoberfest. If you didn’t know already, the reason this festival (and the brewery where it’s located) sounds familiar is that it’s the same family made famous in the musical The Sound of Music. This festival is held every year at the von Trapp Brewing Bierhall and features both German and Austrian beers, live music, and countless mouthwatering German and Austrian food items.

The Denver Oktoberfest – Denver (September 16-18 and September 23-25)

If you’ve ever been to the Great American Beer Festival, you know the folks in Denver know how to throw a beer-fueled celebration. Well, the city has been throwing its annual Oktoberfest festival for almost 50 years. On top of the expected vast beer and food selections, this event also includes fan favorite events like keg bowling, stein hoisting, a costume contest, and the “Long Dog Derby,” featuring an always entertaining dachshund race.

America’s Oktoberfest Zinzinnati – Cincinnati (September 16-18)

The largest Oktoberfest celebration in the US takes place in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Started in 1974, it’s expected to draw more than 700,000 people this year. It all begins with the yearly “Running of the Wieners,” a race featuring 100 dachshunds dressed up as sausages. It’s a beer and food lover’s dream with the likes of strudel, soft pretzels, bratwurst, and all the beer you can drink.

Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest – Big Bear Lake, California (Weekends from September 10-November 5)

If you find yourself near the mountains of Southern California, you’d be remiss if you didn’t take in the Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest when it kicks off on September 17. Held for the last 52 years, it’s an idyllic, nature-filled setting to enjoy polka, brats, and a frosty, giant beer stein (or three). The event is home to four different beer gardens and two full-service bars, as well as music venues, and traditional pretzels, sausages, and various other foods and drinks.

Samuel Adams Octoberfest – Boston (September 23-25)

Samuel Adams makes one of the most popular Oktoberfest-style beers in America so it’s no surprise to the iconic brewery throws a festival to celebrate it (and many other beers) in Boston each year. In true Boston fashion, on top of stein hoisting contests, live music, and special beer releases, there’s a cavalcade of food trucks including Cousins Maine Lobster Food Truck. Beer and lobster rolls, what could be better?

Oktoberfest USA – La Crosse, Wisconsin (September 29-October 1)

Even if you know very little about Wisconsin, you probably know that they make great beer and comforting food. The longest-running Oktoberfest celebration in the Midwest, this event has been held in La Crosse, Wisconsin since 1961. Featuring local, national, and global beer offerings including New Glarus, Surly, Founders, Spaten, and countless more, all the traditional German food you can imagine, and contests like stein races, barrel roll, grain toss, stein holding, and of course the tapping of the Samuel Adams Golden Keg, this is a can’t-miss event.

Leavenworth Oktoberfest – Wenatchee, Wisconsin (September 30-October 1, October 7-8, and October 14-15)

Usually held in the Bavarian-style village of the same name, this year’s Leavenworth Oktoberfest is being held in nearby picturesque Wenatchee, Washington at the Town Toyota Center. It all starts with the ceremonial tapping of the keg. But this is the Oktoberfest event for music fans as it features bands all day long along with authentic Oktoberfest beer, bratwurst, pork ribs, and other delicious food.

Four Peaks Oktoberfest – Phoenix, Arizona (October 7-9)

This year marks the 49th anniversary of the Phoenix area’s Four Peaks Oktoberfest. This is the premiere beer and food-fueled Oktoberfest celebration in the Southwest and even has a full carnival with rides and games, multiple music stages, dachshund races, random polka dancing, and all the Oompa music you can tolerate. Also, if you can manage to keep your beer and brats down, you can run in the event’s 10K, 5K, or one mile “Oktoberfest Runnin’ for the Brats.”

Oktoberfest – Munich, Germany (September 17-October 3)

Obviously, if you’re going to visit one Oktoberfest celebration, make it the official one. Though if you haven’t already purchased tickets for this epic beer-fueled event, you’re probably not going to now. This 16-day festival begins on September 17 and features more German beer than you could ever imagine, giant pretzels, sausages, and a lot of lederhosen. It’s by far the biggest and longest celebration in the world.

After re-introducing the cage match concept of two rings under one steel cage with two teams competing in the brutal match during his run atop NXT, Triple H is bringing WarGames back to the main roster, he announced during an interview with The Ringer.

“We’ll have a men’s WarGames match and a women’s WarGames match. The tradition of the Survivor Series has ebbed and flowed and changed slightly over time, but this will be similar to that,” Triple H said, per The Ringer. “This will not be Raw versus SmackDown. It will be much more story-line driven. I still look at it as a traditional component to Survivor Series in there because it’s large teams of people competing. We just upped the ante a little bit with WarGames and made it evolve.”

While AEW’s iteration follows the aptly-named Blood and Guts, Triple H sees WWE’s WarGames following the standard he established during his run with NXT, saying that while WWE did feature bleeding for a long period of time, the organization has “change that practice” and it would be “irresponsible to go back.”

WarGames will make its modern day return on November 26, when Survivor Series takes place from Boston at the TD Garden.

This article originally appeared on 04.25.22

A new trend in treasure hunting called magnet fishing has blown up over the past two years, evidenced by an explosion of YouTube channels covering the hobby. Magnet fishing is a pretty simple activity. Hobbyists attach high-powered magnets to strong ropes, drop them into waterways and see what they attract.

The hobby has caught the attention of law enforcement and government agencies because urban waterways are a popular place for criminals to drop weapons and stolen items after committing a crime. In 2019, a magnet fisherman in Michigan pulled up an antique World War I mortar grenade and the bomb squad had to be called out to investigate.

Fifteen-year-old George Tindale and his dad, Kevin, 52, of Grantham, Lincolnshire in the U.K., made an incredible find earlier this month when they used two magnets to pull up a safe that had been submerged in the River Witham.

George has a popular magnet fishing YouTube channel called “Magnetic G.”

After the father-and-son duo pulled the safe out of the murky depths, they cracked it open with a crowbar and found about $2,500 Australian dollars (US$1,800), a shotgun certificate and credit cards that expired in 2004. The Tindales used the name found on the cards to find the safe’s owner, Rob Everett.

Everett’s safe was stolen during an office robbery in 2000 and then dumped into the river. “I remember at the time, they smashed into a cabinet to get to the safe,” Everett said, according to The Daily Mail. “I was just upset that there was a nice pen on my desk, a Montblanc that was never recovered.”

The safe was stolen in the year 2000 nn#magnetfishinghttps://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/teenager-finds-safe-containing-thousands-of-dollars-9250637/u00a0u2026

— Grantham Journal (@Grantham Journal)
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The robber, who was a teenage boy, was apprehended soon after the crime because he left behind a cap with his name stitched inside.

The father and son met up with Everett to return his stolen money and the businessman gave George a small reward for his honesty. He also offered him an internship because of the math skills he displayed in the YouTube video when he counted the Australian dollars. “What’s good about it is, I run a wealth management company and… I’d love him to work for us,” Everett said.

Although the safe saga began with a robbery 22 years ago, its conclusion has left Everett with more faith in humanity.

“I was just amazed that they’d been able to track me down,” he said. “There are some really nice and good people in this world. They could have kept the money, they could have said they attempted to get hold of me.”

“There’s a big lesson there. It teaches George that doing good and being honest and giving back is actually more rewarding than taking,” Everett added.

Treasure hunting isn’t the only allure of the hobby for George. His mother says the hobby has taught him a lot about water pollution and its effects on local wildlife. “George is very environmentally conscious. He always has been since primary school,” she said. “When he first started to do this, he was after treasure. Everything ends up in the rivers and canals.”

This article originally appeared on 04.22.22

We’ve seen some moving [Fill in the country]’s Got Talent stories before, but a recent viral audition absolutely requires a tissue warning. I tried to steel myself in preparation when I saw the “Admit it, we were *all* in tears after this” caption on the Facebook share of it, but I failed.

In a video that’s been shared more than 95,000 times, the “Britain’s Got Talent” audition shows two tiny little girls onstage with their grandmother. They introduce themselves as “Cally” (age 4) and “Savannah” (age 3) and “Nanny” (their “daddy’s mummy”) then the girls share that they are there to surprise their dad.

Dad—also known as Nick Edwards—is sitting in the audience. He thought the family was there to watch the audition on a fun outing; he had no idea that they had arranged a surprise audition for him, so when his girls and mom showed up on stage, he wondered what was going on.

A “Britain’s Got Talent” spokesperson explained to the Daily Mail how they got Edwards mic’d up without giving away the surprise.

“When Nick entered the Palladium auditorium during ‘BGT’ auditions, he was approached to be part of our ‘gogglebox’ audience and told he would be mic’d up so we could capture his reactions throughout the day as he sat in the audience,” they said. “He was totally unsuspecting. We did this so we could mic him up without him suspecting a thing.”

As Edwards tried to figure out what his mom and daughters were doing on stage, Edwards’ mother explained to the judges and the audience that he sings a special song to his girls. She said they wanted him to come up and sing it. Naturally, not being prepared for an audition, Edwards was stunned. But the judges sent him backstage to “grab a glass of water” so he could compose himself and get ready.

“They gave me some time to warm up—about 45 minutes in total,” Edwards told This Morning. “They gave me my guitar my family brought down on the day, they [producers] said this is the song we want you to sing because we’d seen it on your Instagram.”

The song is an emotional doozy, especially if you’re a parent. “It’s a song I’ve felt quite attached to so I sing it a lot around the house,” Edwards told the judges before he started to sing. Once you hear it, you’ll see why he joked about trying to keep from crying while he sang it.

Lovely voice. Beautiful song. Adorable little girls. Not a dry eye in the house.

Tissue, seriously. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The fact that Edwards was able to pull off that audition with less than an hour of preparation was quite impressive. He told This Morning what he was thinking during that prep time.

“If I go out I’ve got two options here, I either go out and try to own it or I come out and it all crumbles…” he said. “The whole thing just went so quickly. I do remember playing and in a way my fingers started to get a bit jelly, I remember thinking ‘this is going to be a big moment for you.’ I don’t want to stuff it up.”

Stuff it up he did not. What a lovely performance, and what lucky little girls to have a daddy who shares his love for them in such a beautiful and creative way.

What truly makes us happy? Psychologists, social scientists, artists, religious authorities and philosophers have grappled with this question for centuries and it doesn’t seem that anyone has completely cracked the code.

It’s an important question a lot of people are asking in America where happiness seems to be on the decline. A U.N. report from 2019 found that when Americans rated their level of happiness on a scale of 1 to 3, the average person gave themselves a 2.18. That’s down from a high of 2.28 in the 1980s.

What’s interesting is that this decline comes during a period in which Americans have become richer. Obviously, money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does provide the security necessary to find contentment.

Spencer Greenberg, a mathematician and entrepreneur in the field of social science, asked his followers on Twitter: “Why do you think that many people are unhappy even when they have all their material needs met?” and the answers were thoughtful and varied.

u201cA question for you: why do you think that many people are unhappy even when they have all their material needs met?u201d

— Spencer Greenberg ud83dudd0d (@Spencer Greenberg ud83dudd0d)
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u201cThis THE question of the 21st century, I think. Thx @SpencrGreenbergu201d

— Nick Gillespie (@Nick Gillespie)
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Some believe that many people who have their material needs met aren’t happy because they compare themselves to others who are better off, or at least they appear to be, on social media.

Comparison is a biggie. And unmet societal norms/milestones, perhaps, depending on how important a person finds them

— Cat (@ritavita4) September 15, 2022

Because we are hardwired for comparisons. And we compare our insides to others outsides

— Karen Tibbals (@KarenTibbals) September 15, 2022

People are wired to care about positional status as much or more than absolute well-being. And the globalization of media and communications means that people are comparing themselves to the richest in the world instead of solely within their community, making them feel poorer.

— corey_lanum (@corey_lanum) September 15, 2022

Headonic treadmill, need for control, social comparisons, negativity bias.

— Isidro Landa, Ph.D. (@LandaIsidro) September 15, 2022

Humans used to not be able to look online at their peers in the same relative social castes and compare their qualities of life. It’s a different level of perspective as opposed to the Average Joe/celebrity of decades past.

— Nick Mordowanec (@NickMordo) September 15, 2022

Could it be that the quest for possessions and status are a distraction from what truly makes us happy?

But I also think sometimes people are not reflective enough to realise that they don’t really need the things they think they need – e.g., they might be sad that they can’t afford luxuries, but they could theoretically stop caring about this

— Amber Dawn (@contemplatonist) September 15, 2022

Capitalism teaches us that material needs are only the tip of the iceberg and that additional possessions will compound to happiness. Happiness itself is a misnomer. What humans truly seek is fulfillment – something entirely outside of material needs.

— Justin W. Waldrop (@JustinWWaldrop) September 15, 2022

There is a theory on happiness put forth by Benjamin Hoff in his book “The Tao of Pooh” that does a good job of describing the happiness problem. Hoff believes that future thinking makes people unhappy because they fail to find happiness where it exists—in the moment.

“Our religions, sciences, and business ethics have tried their hardest to convince us that there is a Great Reward waiting for us somewhere, and that what we have to do is spend our lives working like lunatics to catch up with it,” Hoff writes.

“Whether it’s up in the sky, behind the next molecule, or in the executive suite … somehow always farther along than we are—just down the road, on the other side of the world, past the moon, beyond the stars… A way of life that keeps saying, ‘Around the next corner, above the next step,’ works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good,” Hoff continues.

That’s how humans are, we think we will be happy WHEN…. (home, car, relationship…) and then that wears off and we reach for the next thing and next and never happen

— ♡ 🌱 (@VeganSicilian) September 15, 2022

Some believe that we’ve evolved to live in struggle so we’re not sure how to process having our basic material needs met.

Because happiness derived from material satiety is not an outcome of evolution. Better said, such happiness did not determine survival and reproduction likelihood in the past. If it had, more people would experience it. Question is whether we can/should alter that going forward

— James McQuivey (@jmcquivey) September 15, 2022

When we don’t have to focus on and work with others to get get enough calories/warmth/safety, we worry about relationships/reputation/insecurities/etc

— Spencer🙏🔍📚🥕🚲🧘‍♂️🚐🌐 (@spencemo_c) September 15, 2022

No real goals and no real struggle.

— Brad Gruetzmacher (@vongruetz) September 15, 2022

​Does having our material needs met mean anything if we don’t have what really matters?

Because the most important things in life aren’t material.

— The BCS Pierogi Penguin | SaulSweep2023 (@DividingByZer0s) September 15, 2022

1. Genetic predisposition. (underrated)
2. Few or no close, meaningful relationships. (appropriately rated)
2. Transcendental goals. (underrated)

— josefyau (@josefyau1) September 15, 2022

Their immaterial (spiritual) needs aren’t being met.

— RobertPaulV (@RobertPaulV79) September 15, 2022

Abd social media being weaponized against us.

— Martin (@mbrochh) September 15, 2022

The responses show that there are a lot of factors that contribute to finding true happiness. But for those whose material needs are met and they’re still unhappy, there’s one practice that’s scientifically proven to make people happier, practicing gratitude.

Those who are grateful are less inclined to feel chronically unsatisfied and to waste their energy pursuing things that fail to create happiness in the first place.

“Experiencing gratitude activates neurotransmitters like dopamine, which we associate with pleasure, and serotonin, which regulates our mood,” Amy E. Keller, PsyD, MFT is quoted as saying in Verywell Mind. “It also causes the brain to release oxytocin, a hormone which induces feelings like trust and generosity which promotes social bonding, and feeling connected.”

There are many different ways to practice gratitude but the first step is focusing on what we have instead of what we lack. Waking up every morning and feeling grateful for the small things in life will set us further down the path to happiness than waking up pondering the infinite list of what we don’t.

Over the weekend, Rockstar Games had a nightmare of a leak when the next Grand Theft Auto game had video of gameplay and cutscenes posted to multiple message boards. It quickly became clear that the leak was legitimate, not only because of the details in the leak but because of Rockstar Games’ quick response to remove the videos wherever they could find them.

As rumors persisted of everything that was leaked out, including the supposed source code of GTA V, Rockstar Games felt compelled to explain exactly happened and how they are going to respond to the leak. They posted a statement early Monday morning explaining that they had a “network intrusion” that resulted in “confidential information” being stolen. Among that was the early footage of the new Grand Theft Auto game. Rockstar did not clarify what else could have been stolen in the hack.

Video games leak out information sometimes, but one of this magnitude being the result of a hack feels really sour. Hopefully, the only thing lost in the hack was information related to the games, and no personal information related to employees was lost.

As for what’s next? Rockstar states that none of this should impact the development of the new GTA game, or the continued support of current games, so we can assume that internally it’s business as usual for now.

We all know that nothing is just a coincidence when it comes to little details during any Game of Thrones episode (except for that one time) and it’s the same for House Of The Dragon. So when Alicent Hightower ditches her red and blue hues for an emerald ensemble, you know that some sh*t is going down.

This is the first time we see young Alicent, played by Emma Carey, wearing green, a significant color to House Hightower. As we learn, the top of Hightower glows green when war is afoot, so her dress color is no accident: it signifies that Alicent will not go down without a fight.

Alicent’s luck has already begun to run out: she found out that her best friend-turned-step-daughter had lied to her about her virginity status, which is obviously a huge deal when it comes to this royal stuff. On top of that, Alicent’s father Otto was removed as Hand, so she barely had anybody on her side, although Westeros will likely have to choose sides soon because if (and when) Viserys dies, her children will be in grave danger. All in all, it’s not looking great for Alicent, but she made a move that could change things.

When it was time to attend the wedding feast, Alicent donned a sweeping green dress which signified that she is ready and willing to fight with her former best friend who is now her daughter. That makes sense, right? She also recruited Ser Criston in the waning moments of the episode, and the next episode picks up a decade later, so we’ll hopefully soon find out how that team-up works out.

House of the Dragon airs on Sundays on HBO at 9:00pm EST.

There are certain genre-modifying words people tend to use when describing a band. For Chicago duo Whitney‘s first two albums, that phrase is “sepia-tinged rock.” “People love that word, but I don’t necessarily like it,” Max Kakacek, one-half of Whitney, says one sunny Chicago day in the courtyard of a French café. “If that was something before, we were now thinking about more of a colorful palette, a lot more diversity.” Whereas Whitney’s 2016 debut Light Upon The Lake and their 2019 sophomore album Forever Turned Around could be described as dusty, autumnal folk rock, their newest album Spark is Whitney in technicolor.

The opening line on Spark‘s “Nothing Remains” lays out the album’s ethos. A shifting beat accompanies Whitney vocalist Julien Ehrlich’s recognizable tenor as he sings, “Troubles never go away, but they change / I just stay the same.” When the band began writing Spark, they recognized the world around them was changing and — though they never lost sight of where Whitney began — their sound changed with it. Across 12 tracks, the duo sidestep their reputation for pastoral, folksy music and instead embrace playfulness and experimentation on their most opalescent, pop-leaning effort yet.

Whitney didn’t initially set out to make an indie pop album. In fact, Ehrlich used to tell interviewers that you “won’t hear Whitney making a synth record any time soon.” But Spark was recorded during “unprecedented times,” a phrase that became ubiquitous in 2020, which led to Whitney making some reevaluations about their lives and about their music. The band had just finished a lengthy tour and were in the midst of respective breakups when Kakacek traveled out to Portland to join Ehrlich, who had decamped to his hometown. Kakacek’s plane touched down on March 14th of 2020 — the exact day businesses closed and the country faced the reality of the pandemic — and he realized he would be stuck there for a while. So, in the face of new anxieties, lockdowns, and wildfires shrouding the West Coast in a haze of smoke, Ehrlich and Kakacek spent their days experimenting with a Mellotron synth while choreographed pop music videos played on a loop in the background. “The way in which you can probably hear our reaction to the state of the world through the record is how we wrote things that felt strong and vividly beautiful to us,” Elrich says. “We were just trying to create something that we could get lost in.”

These more casual songwriting sessions led the duo to let go of obsessiveness and perfectionism they had clung to in the past. “This was a little more open and we gave ourselves more space for experimentation,” Kakacek says. “Being able to be more carefree about the process was important.” And being essentially isolated helped the band detach themselves from the pressure of a new album. Elrich admits he got caught up in the media cycle during their sophomore release, which is understandable in the face of new fame and “sophomore slump” stress. “I was pretty preoccupied with making sure that [Forever Turned Around] had a story, down to the PR, which also just seems like trying to control something that you really can’t control anyway,” he recalls. So this time around, they relinquished expectations while still keeping fans in mind. “It’s always at the forefront of our minds to think about, ‘Someone who knows our band or likes our band, what would they like to hear? How would they want to hear us change and evolve?’”

Whitney’s indie-pop evolution and new, breezy approach to songwriting are more than tangible on the album. The music on Spark is refractory and iridescent, perhaps inspired by the disco ball that spun over their heads while they were recording. Some tracks like “Blue” do hearken back to their early, bluesy catalog. But songs like the lead single “Real Love” and the penultimate track “Lost Control” contrast their first two albums with a groove-driven beat, buoyant keys, and an upbeat tempo. Though 2016 Whitney might be surprised by their use of synths on Spark, Ehrlich says their renewed sound still feels like a natural progression for the band. “I think with each record, we’ve always been making the poppiest and most immediate music that we were capable of,” he says. “With this one, we were just doing exactly that. And I just think we executed it on a level that we had never reached before.”

Even the album title itself, Spark, reflects a certain liveliness and panache they bring to the music. It was born out of a lengthy cross-country drive back to Chicago, when the two were keeping entertained by throwing out words to see what stuck. “[The word] embrace kept coming up,” Ehrlich recalls. “We thought about Embrace as an album title as well, but something about it wasn’t perfect.” So, they eventually landed on Spark, a title that felt true to the band but captured their musical transformation. A spark is bright and chromatic, as seen both on the colorful cover and the glittering production that ties the album together.

Underneath all of Spark‘s luster has the band grappling with some big questions, masked by upbeat rhythms and danceable riffs. Forever Turned Around examined shifting relationships and their roles within them, but Spark turns inward. “Never Crossed My Mind” is a wistful and anthemic reflection on the passage of time and “Self,” a song that sits snugly in the centerfold of the album, also offers a pensive respite. “Self” has rippling, washed-out horns and cascading vocals that cut in to confront self-isolation and the people they’ve become. It’s also a song Whitney are particularly proud of. “When we were making it, I was like, ‘This stretches everything we’ve ever tried to do and takes it to another place,’” Kakacek said. “It took us years to try to figure out how to write a song like that.”

Pondering their legacy and doing some soul-searching might have been a symptom of their isolation and state of the world at the time, but it’s a subject Whitney has never shied away from in the past. “Writing about aging and time passing is always so easy to do because it’s always happening,” Elrich jokes. But they do try to walk a fine line between being guarded about their personal lives in their lyrics and remaining true to what they are feeling. The single “Memory,” for example, has Elrich singing about confronting loneliness and anxiety, lyrics which are juxtaposed by swift and spirited instrumentals.

“Memory” also copes with legacy after death. When asked how Whitney want to be remembered by the people around them, the band first says they hope their music speaks for itself. But they add that they mostly hope they’ll be remembered as committed artists who are grateful for the opportunity to make music as their job. Even if their sound continues to change on future albums, and they decide to lean into synths even more than they ever thought they would, one overarching goal remains: to continue creating music their listeners can connect with, and most importantly, to be remembered as “good people that impacted people with their art.”

Spark is out now via Secretly Canadian. Get it here.

Mariah Carey, after previously revealing the existence of her 1995 grunge album in her 2020 memoir, will be releasing the record with her original lead vocals. In The Meaning Of Mariah Carey, she wrote that her friend Clarissa Dane re-recorded the vocals and Sony released the album Someone’s Ugly Daughter under the band named Chick. Carey had been working on the project while making her other album Daydream.

“I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time,” Carey wrote. “You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every movie I made was so calculated and manicured. I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery — but I also wanted to laugh. totally looked forward to doing my alter-ego band sessions after Daydream each night.”

Now, in a recent interview on Rolling Stone‘s Music Now podcast about the anniversary of Butterfly, Carey detailed her future plans for the hidden grunge album. Specifically, she plans to release her version, which she found as a still-existing copy. While her exact plans still remain a mystery, she is setting something up for the Chick grunge record and “another artist.”

In addition, she is currently working on a handful of other projects, including recording a new album entirely, plans for a documentary, and re-recording her hit song “We Belong Together.”

“And then there’s a themed album. It’s something that people have been asking me to do for years, but it’s not done in the traditional sense. It’s not done yet, but I’m really excited about it,” Carey said on the podcast.

Korean R&B singer-songwriter Crush dropped a teaser over the weekend for his upcoming digital single “Rush Hour” set to release on Thursday, September 22.

Since its been two years since Crush has released any of his own music, due to military service, the news couldn’t get any better when it was revealed the P NATION artist tapped BTS‘ very own J-Hope to hop on the track.

Though no trace of the BTS member can be found in the 23-second teaser, the funk- and soul-inspired track compliments J-Hope’s energy and style for music. For fans of Crush, however, will notice the slight genre shift in “Rush Hour” as many may know Crush as the R&B/hip-hop crooner and balladeer.

Seen in the teaser rocking in the streets, surrounded by dancers all while ad-libbing, one can say Crush’s take on funk and soul can be quite reminiscent of the Godfather Of Soul, the late James Brown.

Just last month, the award-winning artist was discharged from the military and took part in PSY’s PSY 9 studio album by featuring in his track “Happier.” The digital release of “Rush Hour” is set to drop on September 22 at 6 p.m. KST — 5 a.m. ET/2 a.m. PT on all streaming platforms.