Florida might be a swing state, but the rapper Flo Rida (whose song, “My House,” was in heavy rotation at Marco Rubio‘s 2016 primary rallies) sure caused some swinging that didn’t end well for the pants of a certain Fox News on-air personality. That wasn’t host Steve Doocy, who handled the below situation just fine. This turned out to be a Fox and Friends dance-fest with Flo Rida, and a bunch of conservative TV personalities getting “Low” onstage might be too much.
Below (after the 15-second mark), you can see correspondent Todd Piro onstage and actually read his lips the moment after he realizes his pants were history.
At least he’s having a really good time! To Piro’s credit, he showed off his pants’ battle scars onstage, and then he took to Instagram: “I ripped my pants when I got too low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.” Mediaite fills in the blanks about how (in the moment) Piro gamely acknowledged the split as well while announcing to the live audience, “I got too low with Flo Rida.”
Naturally, Steve Doocy kept things together just fine while participating in similarly aerobic movies while onstage. Sometimes, morning TV can be truly strange. Also: Your move, Brian Kilmeade.
Burna Boy took another step forward in his quest toward worldwide dominance with the release of his sixth album Love, Damini. The project arrived on Friday with 19 songs and contributions from acts all around the globe. They include American acts Kehlani, Blxst, and Khalid, Colombia’s J Balvin, British artists J Hus and Ed Sheeran, fellow Nigerian Victony, Jamaican singer Popcaan, and more. The project seems to be received well a few days after its release, but to keep up the promotion, Burna returns with a new treat in the form of a new video for “Vanilla.’
The record is a warm release that is placed toward the end of Love, Damini. In the new visual, Burna delivers a vibrant and exciting look at his superstar life through his own eyes thanks to the use of Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses. Throughout the video, we’re introduced to dancers, instrumentalists, chess players, a group of Burna fans, and more.
The video for “Vanilla” arrives after Burna dropped a romantic “For My Hand” visual with Ed Sheeran. It joins previously released videos “Kilometre” and the summer hit “Last Last.”
You can watch the video for “Vanilla” above.
Love, Damini is out now via Atlantic Records. You can stream it here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
If you’ve paid attention to the beer world over the past decade you’ve probably come across the term “dry-hopped” fairly often. Especially if you’re not a fan of overly bitter beers (specifically IPAs) but enjoy the dank, floral flavor of hops. This is the sweet spot where dry-hopped beers thrive.
While most hopping takes place in the brewing kettle, dry-hopping occurs late in the brewing process — typically in the fermentation tanks themselves. The technique introduces aromas and flavor notes without adding any more bitterness into the equation. It’s how brewers craft epic hop-bomb beers that still manage not to pucker your mouth with over-the-top bitterness.
Those bold, hoppy beers are well-suited for any time of year but shine during the warmer months. But with so many breweries dropping dry-hopped beers, it can be difficult to wade through them all. That’s why we asked some pros for help — asking a team of our favorite craft beer experts and brewers to name the best dry-hopped beers to drink right now. You might be surprised to find that not all of their picks are IPAs!
Not to be that guy, but I’m going to be that guy. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale is the pinnacle of American IPAs. It boasts huge grapefruit and pine flavors that are on full display in this centennial dry-hopped ale. There’s a reason it’s always listed as one of the best dry-hopped beers.
Apex Predator by Off Color. Although a Saison, Apex Predator has everything I look for in a good IPA. The Saison yeast gives it a juicy ripe pineapple aroma that pairs nicely with the lemon zest of the dry hop. It finishes dry with just enough funkiness to remind you it’s a Saison.
Societe The Pupil IPA
Societe
Jeremy Marshall, brewmaster at Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, California
I hate that I sound so overly West Coast and/or Cali-centric, but this is where I live and in the times of COVID, I haven’t had the pleasures of sampling all the country’s other fine beers to cover. Therefore, I must say Societe’s The Pupil is really one of the best dry-hopped IPAs out there. It’s the perfect balance of resin, spice, tropical fruits, and dank. It’s got the old school hops in there used judiciously against a few newer school hops — a dying art amongst brewers that now so quickly and easily go straight to auto-tuning their beers with Citra and Mosaic, etc.
Zote IPA brewed by Calusa Brewing. Juicy, dank, always a good choice. Great IPA with clean and pure tropical aromas and flavor. It’s a great use of dry-hopping to add extra dimension, aroma, and flavor. Try it if you ever get a chance.
Epidemic Ales Patient Zero DIPA
Epidemic Ales
Eric Espinoza, bartender at Signia by Hilton in San Jose, California
Epidemic Ales Patient Zero DIPA. This one is a meal in a can. It’s a complex dry-hopped DIPA that’s super dank and full of juicy grapefruit. Despite the bigness, it’s somehow refreshing and makes me want to grab a second for dessert.
Most people don’t realize this, but I didn’t fall in love with IPAs until I had been drinking craft beer for several years. Now, IPAs are my go-to beer style whenever I am at a brewery. One of the first IPAs I ever fell in love with is WeldWerk’s Brewing Co.’s DDH Juicy Bits. With juicy notes of Mosaic, Citra and El Dorado hops, it is such an approachable IPA to drink all year long – but especially during the summer months.
Tilted Barn Libby Blonde Ale
Tilted Barn
Justin Tisdale, head brewer at Rejects Brewing Co. in Middletown, Rhode Island
ABV: 5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
The market tends to be fairly flooded in dry-hopped IPAs as of the last few years, so I’m admittedly a little jaded and burned out on the hazier side of things. That being said, my buddy Luke over at Tilted Barn in Exeter Rhode Island is cranking out some amazing stuff. Literally, last night while fishing, he treated me to a new dry-hopped blonde they released with a boatload of Bravo hops. Something a little unconventional for the style, that I admittedly never imagined would work well, but somehow, they did it.
Loads of fresh berry and melon flavor without the typical palette killing hop burn are associated with most examples that share that amount of hops.
Other Half DDH Broccoli
Other Half
Nancy Lopetegui, taproom general manager at Wynwood Brewing in Miami
DDH Broccoli by Other Half Brewing. For being double-dry-hopped, this beer has a light creaminess mouthfeel and a beautiful color. It gets its memorable flavor from the addition of Cascade, Hallertau Blanc, Mosaic, and Simcoe hops as well as Mosaic Lupulin powder, oats, and wheat. Perfect for summer.
Rising Tide Mountainside is a heavily dry-hopped IPA that packs a huge hop aroma and flavor of bright citrus and tropical fruits. The exotic aroma paired with the pillowy soft mouthfeel makes this IPA worth seeking out.
Fort Hill Brewery’s Fresh Pick is a great dry-hopped IPA with a delicious mix of tropical and piney flavors. Easy drinking for 7% ABV it’s plenty hoppy without being overdone. Lighter malts, a good balance of hop flavors, and a refreshing bitterness at the finish make it a local favorite.
Civil Society Fresh IPA
Civil Society
Marshall Hendrickson, co-founder and head of operations at Veza Sur Brewing Co. in Miami
Civil Society Fresh is my go-to. Fresh is packed with all of the amazing citrus fruit flavors for IPA lovers. Even before your first sip, the aroma hits you hard with full grapefruit, lemon, and lime aromas. This beer is truly one of my favorites, so delicious.
Green Cheek Beer Co. Swimmin’ In the Tropics (DDH Hazy TIPA). If I had unlimited time and funds, I would spend it all at Green Cheek Beer Co. in Orange County to learn more about the process behind this equatorial delight. Based on the recipe of another one of their beers, they employ the use of freeze-dried skins of Sauvignon Blanc grapes. Bursting with tropical fruit on the nose and delivering on that aromatic promise with triple doses of kiwi, pineapple, and muscat grape.
Using innovative techniques and ingredients, Green Cheek has put a spin on a style that I continue to skip over, and I’m incredibly happy that I didn’t pass on this one.
Have you ever heard of a movie concept so absurd that it actually makes a lot of sense? Greta Gerwig creating various incarnations of Barbie in her upcoming Barbie movie is one that seemed so bizarre and now has everyone on the edge of their seat waiting for more over-the-top set pictures. Sometimes, a movie being weird is part of the fun, like Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, and Snoop Dogg teaming up to fight vampires. It just works.
This is the case for Day Shift, the upcoming Netflix movie. Foxx stars as a normal dad who makes ends meet by killing vampires and selling their teeth for money. You know, standard stuff. The movie also stars Dave Franco as his spooked assistant and, of course, Snoop Dogg wearing a cowboy hat. And yes! There is a Twilight reference in the trailer. Here is the official synopsis:
Jamie Foxx stars as a hard working blue collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted daughter, but his mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income, hunting and killing vampires as part of an international Union of vampire hunters.
The movie comes from the producer of John Wick, so you know there will be some great action in between vampire puns and one-liners. Can we hope for a Keanu Reeves cameo? One can dream.
Day Shift hits Netflix on August 12th. Check out the trailer above.
It wasn’t that long ago that a lot of people considered “sourced” bourbon inferior. That was mostly due to huge distilleries having to sell off stock to bottlers to stay afloat. But those days are decades behind us. Sourced bourbon whiskey is everywhere on the shelves these days. It’s also among some of the most respected, sought-after, and awarded whiskey available anywhere.
But how does a great sourced bourbon stand up to an old-school unsourced bourbon? That’s what I’m here to answer today.
For this blind tasting, I’m pitting four very good sourced bourbons — in this case, a bourbon that’s made from finished barrels of whiskey by a non-distiller producer — against four very good standard bourbons put out by a distillery under one of their own brands. I purposefully kept this tasting very narrow. All eight bourbons are award-winning and highly respected. Moreover, all eight fall in the sweet spot price-wise between $50 and $70 (one bottle is $89). They aren’t cheap but these aren’t the crazy expensive bottles either. These are the bottles that sit at your eye-line as your walk through the liquor store, and will actually be next to each other on that shelf.
Our lineup today is:
Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit
Redemption High-Rye Bourbon (sourced)
Pursuit United (sourced)
Kentucky Peerless Small Batch Bourbon
Nashville Barrel Company Single Barrel Bourbon (sourced)
High West American Prairie Bourbon (sourced)
Knob Creek 12
Four Roses Single Barrel
Let’s dive in and see if the sourced stuff can stand up to the old-school distillery releases.
Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Bourbon Posts Of The Last Six Months
This is damn near perfect on the nose, with a mix of subtle vanilla next to Christmas spices, soft cedar, and dark leathery fruit with a hint of tartness. The palate leans into the darkness of the fruit while old oak staves mix with lush marzipan, a hint of orange oils, and old boot leather. The finish leans into a warm winter spice with a hint of mulled wine and candied almonds. A layer of vanilla and cinnamon-spiced chewing tobacco comes in very late with a twinge of cherry wood.
Well, this is going to be hard to beat…
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Tart berries and vanilla cookies lead to soft winter spices and a touch of orange zest on the nose. Dark chocolate and dark cherry open the palate toward a dusting of black pepper, clove nibs, and a bit more of that orange zest. But it’s brighter. The end is old and leathery with a lemon pepper vibe that eventually fades into that chocolate-cherry feel.
This was pretty nice overall. It didn’t jump out at me. Still, very solid all around.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Sour red wine with woody spices mix with fresh honey and a good dose of minced meat pie with plenty of cinnamon and white sugar. The palate takes on a chocolate vibe with a layer of honey cake next to a layer of dry tobacco and cedar. There’s a hint of orange dark chocolate near the end that leads back to the holiday spiciness with a warming edge that ends up a little thin on the back end.
This was nice but felt a little one-note — that note being “it’s Christmas!” — compared to the last two.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Blackberry pie dances with old glove leather, buttery toffee, expensive vanilla beans, and wet, almost sticky tobacco leaves on the nose. The palate leans into the butteriness and spicy tobacco has dry ropes of cedar bark leading to a bitter and oily espresso bean. The end goes deeper with a vanilla pipe tobacco which leads back to that blackberry pie filling with a hint of pie crust and white sugar frosting before the dry cedar kicks back in late.
This is a great pour. I can’t imagine this won’t be in the top three.
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Salted kettle corn, cotton candy with a hint of cherry, salted caramel, worn leather, orange oils … this nose runs deep. The palate leans sharp winter spices with plenty of cinnamon, clove, ginger, and allspice with a hint of sassafras and anise before a creamy nutmeg and eggnog arrive to smooth things out. The end has a hint of Almond Joy next to dry sweetgrass with more of that buttery salted caramel before dry cedar and leather lead to a dark berry tobacco vibe.
This is another contender!
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Caramel apples, fresh leather, vanilla pudding, and a touch of buttered popcorn open this one up. The taste is very nougat, counterpointed by creamed corn with a buttermilk biscuit in the background with a little honey. The finish smooths out with some vanilla next to dry cedar and some more of that caramel apple vibe.
This was pretty nice with a short but solid flavor profile.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Rum-soaked cherries and dark chocolate lead the way with winter spices and sourdough doughnuts supporting on the nose. There’s a touch of mint that leads to an old dark cherry profile that’s part sweet and juicy and part tart and dry before a fatty streusel takes over with plenty of spice and brown sugar. The mid-palate narrows that spice toward cinnamon and a dried chili feel while the dark chocolate circles back around. The cherry sweetens with a woody vibe at the very end as this one slowly fades out.
This is a hell of a cherry bomb. A delicious, delicious cherry bomb.
Taste 8
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Woody maple syrup and cinnamon sticks lead to a hint of pear candy with a vanilla underbelly on the nose. The palate lets the pear shine as the spices lean into woody barks and berries next to dates and plums with a butteriness. A spicy tobacco chewiness leads the mid-palate toward a soft fruitiness and a hint of plum pudding at the end with a slight nuttiness and green herb.
This whiskey is a vatted from 40 total barrels from three different states. While the team at Pursuit United doesn’t release the Tennessee distillery name, we know the juices from Kentucky and New York are from Bardstown Bourbon Company and Finger Lakes Distilling, respectively. Once those barrels are vatted, they’re slightly touched with water before bottling.
Bottom Line:
I usually dig this! That said, on this lineup, it just didn’t quite hit the same. That’s easy to square as this is a blended bourbon. It’s not quite as succinct as the rest of the whiskeys on this list (single barrels, etc.), and that’s not this whiskey’s fault at all.
These bottles are the masterwork of chef-turned-master-blender David Carpenter. The juice is hand-selected MGP single barrels that provide a classic bourbon base that then leans a little softer on the palate.
Bottom Line:
This was complex and very tasty. Again, this just didn’t quite stand up today to the other heavy-hitting bourbons on the list. That all said, this is a pretty easy pour that feels like it would be great in a cocktail.
6. High West American Prairie Bourbon (Sourced) — Taste 6
American Prairie is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after sourced whiskeys. The whiskey in the bottle is a blend of two to 13-year-old barrels rendered from high-rye, low-rye, and undisclosed source mash bills, from undisclosed sources. The release supports the American Prairie Reserve by highlighting the project and supporting it financially.
Bottom Line:
This was where things get interesting. I liked this but it feels a little short today for not having the same insane depth as the next few whiskeys on this list. Otherwise, this is a pretty easy sipper, especially on a rock or two.
Four Rose’s standard single barrel expression is an interesting one. This is their “number one” recipe, meaning it’s a high-rye (35%) mash bill that’s fermented with a yeast that highlights “delicate fruit.” The juice is then bottled at 100 proof, meaning you’re getting a good sense of that single barrel in every bottle.
Bottom Line:
This has a really nice pear note to it with a hint of savory green herbs. I like that. Today, it helped this bottle stand out but not above. This felt like the perfect middle-of-the-road whiskey for this tasting. Everything that comes next is a certified killer. Everything that came before really depends on what mood you’re in or the profile you’re looking for.
This is the classic Beam whiskey. The juice is left alone in the Beam warehouses in Clermont, Kentucky, for 12 long years. The barrels are chosen according to a specific taste and mingled to create this aged expression with a drop or two of that soft Kentucky limestone water.
Bottom Line:
While this was a cherry bomb!, it still had some serious depth and was not a “one-note” whiskey by any stretch. It’s also one of the easier whiskeys to drink in general thanks to that lush cherry profile. Still, it falls a little lower today because it might be hard to get past that big cherry note for some.
3. Nashville Barrel Company Single Barrel Bourbon (Sourced) — Taste 5
Nashville Barrel Co. is sourcing incredible barrels (a lot from MGP) and bottling them as-is without any cutting, filtering, or fussing — they let the whiskey speak for itself and it’s kind of magical. This expression tends to be five to eight-year-old barrels that will vary slightly in the flavor profile while always leaning into bold and distinct flavors.
Bottom Line:
I’ve had a lot of these single barrels from NBC, and not one has been bad. They’re almost always above average. Had this had a single rock in it, it might have hit number one today since it was a little hot compared to the rest of the list. That aside, this juice is fire.
2. Kentucky Peerless Small Batch Bourbon (Unsourced) — Taste 4
Kentucky Peerless Distilling takes its time for a true grain-to-glass experience. Their Small Batch Bourbon is crafted with a fairly low-rye mash bill and fermented with a sweet mash as opposed to a sour mash (that means they use 100% new grains, water, and yeast with each new batch instead of holding some of the mash over to start the next one like a sourdough starter). The barrels are then hand-selected for their taste and bottled completely un-messed with.
Bottom Line:
This was the boldest whiskey on the list. That said, the heat of the proof never overpowered the depth of the flavor profile. This was nuanced, enjoyable, and memorable. It was balanced but didn’t have quite the same subtleness as the next entry.
Jimmy and Eddie Russell (Wild Turkey’s father-son team) hand-selects eight to nine-year-old barrels from their warehouses for each barrel’s individual taste and quality. Those barrels are then cut down ever-so-slightly to 101 proof and bottled as-is with no other fussing.
Bottom Line:
This was just perfection today. It’s balanced and deep while still being 100% approachable, bright, and almost refreshing. This was a great pour neat. A little water and those would have exploded into something spectacular.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
Zach Johnston
So, the sourced juice didn’t quite hit the heights of the distillery-made-and-released product today. That said, they weren’t really that far off. Not a single one of these bourbons was bad. They were all some level of good to great.
Nashville Barrel Company easily walked into the top three without a single question. As for the other three “sourced” whiskeys, they all have their place. Still, if there’s a Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit on the shelf right next to any of these (sourced or not), I’m buying that without hesitation.
While not a sport that’s caught on in North America, cricket is one of the world’s biggest sports and draws tremendous action on international betting markets, with so much interest that people can apparently be easily conned into betting on fake games.
This week a fake “Indian Premier Cricket League,” pretending to mimic the real IPL, got broken up after weeks of conning Russian bettors into wagering on fake matches played on a farm and broadcast online with laborers dressing up as fake players. The game broadcasts featured just one camera angle tight on the pitch, never showing a wide angle of the “stadium” they were playing in, using fake crowd noise, so when the ball got hit off screen, a fake referee would make up calls based on what bettors had bet on to make them the most money.
The video of the broadcast is particularly hilarious.
Here it is, the moment you’ve all been waiting for….
Footage of the Fake IPL, which somehow conned people in Russia into betting on it.
Per the BBC, they managed to pull this off for weeks, taking bets online on a site they set up, despite the actual IPL having long since finished its actual season before police stepped in.
The conmen managed to reach the quarter-finals stage of their so-called “Indian Premier Cricket League” before police stopped play.
Russian gamblers placed bets on a Telegram channel set up by the gang, who then alerted the fake umpire using walkie-talkies, police inspector Bhavesh Rathod told reporters.
The fake umpire would then “signal the bowler and batsman to hit a six, four or get out”, Mr Rathod said.
Four people were arrested and the fake league was shut down, with the take being approximately $4,000 (which is 300,000 rupees) for the scam before they got caught.
Alief, Texas rapper Tobe Nwigwe‘s videos are always elaborate, self-directed affairs but he really pulls out all the stops in his new video for “Been Broke,” which also features Atlanta trap captain 2 Chainz, Houston hard hitter Chamillionaire, and, as always, Tobe’s wife, Fat. As he does in many of his videos, Tobe highlights his Nigerian heritage, his family’s close bond, and unique aesthetic sensibilities. This time, though, he goes all-in on flexing his wealth too, contrasting his current circumstances with the song’s all-too-relatable chorus.
The video opens with a reference to the tradition of a newly wedded couple being showered with cash as he and Fat embrace on the lawn of a massive mansion, surrounded by aunties in their big hats, the usual Tobe dance team, and a squadron of muscle cars doing laps around the circular driveway. Of course, there’s the requisite shot of Tobe, Fat, and their babies, then 2 Chainz and Chamillionaire both tell their own rags-to-riches stories from various spots on the grounds. Chainz’s verse makes nifty use of an international wordplay motif, while Chamillionaire brags about escaping one-hit-wonder status. And, as usual, the whole cast is decked out in mint green styles designed by Tobe himself.
Watch Tobe Nwigwe’s Facebook-exclusive “Been Broke” video featuring 2 Chainz and Chamillionaire below.
Meghan McCain is not a fan of Elon Musk‘s method for addressing the “underpopulation crisis.” In her latest column, McCain dragged Musk for confirming that he secretly impregnated one of his top execs with twins last year by boasting about the importance of having large families.
“Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” Musk tweeted. “I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!”
Musk’s devotion to constantly pumping out kids (the twins are now his eighth and ninth children) earned him praise from Nick Cannon, who’s also been a non-stop baby factory. Seeing Cannon’s praise for Musk was enough for McCain to devote a Daily Mail column to the situation.
“This is flat out weird,” McCain wrote while noting that Musk “apparently had simultaneous pregnancies going on” if you look at the timeline for the secret twins and his children with Grimes:
This ‘impregnate the planet’ mentality is creepy and comes off like the actions of a cult leader more than an altruistic person who wants to expand their family and save the planet.
Elon is the wealthiest man on the planet, he certainly can largely do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, but don’t for a minute think that ordinary Americans relate to this at all.
While McCain appreciates Musk for the way he “eviscerates cancel culture and wokeism,” the former The View co-host can’t get past his possible philandering. “Let’s get one thing straight,” she wrote. “Musk is no role model.”
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 new music this week.
This week saw Murda Beatz recruit nearly half the music industry for a new song and Burna Boy come through with a big-time collaboration of his own. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Everybody’s trying to drop a “song of the summer” contender right now and Murda Beatz got all the help he possibly could on one last week. “No Más” is definitely a warm and breezy tune fit for the hotter months and the list of features is a party on its own, as the tune includes contributions from Quavo, J Balvin, Anitta, and Pharrell.
Burna Boy — “For My Hand” Feat. Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran’s a pretty good dude to have in your corner and indeed, that’s what Burna Boy has on “For My Hand.” On the tender tune, the two make an exceptionally good vocal pairing, with Burna’s deeper voice playing extremely well with Sheeran’s higher register.
King Princess — “Change The Locks”
King Princess gave herself a tough act to follow with her 2019 debut album Cheap Queen, but she’s going to try with Hold On Baby, which is out at the end of July. She offered a taste of it last week with “Change The Locks,” a mostly low-key with a boisterous and explosive chorus that conveys the emotional intensity of the tune.
The 1975 — “Part Of The Band”
The 1975 are coming back, beginning their trek last week with “Part Of The Band,” a tune more organic-sounding than their recent output. The headline, though, is the very Matty Healy lyrics, with lines like, “I like my men like I like my coffee / Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won’t offend anybody,” and, “Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke? / Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke / Calling his ego imagination?”
Brent Faiyaz — “All Mine”
On his new album Wasteland, Faiyaz goes through a deep journey of self-discovery, or at least one of self-expression. Uproxx’s Wongo Okon notes in his review of the album, “What he soon learns through this album’s well-crafted, dark, and vivid records is that the fast life is oftentimes a death race rather than a carefree cruise through the city.”
Aespa — “Girls”
K-pop has proven to be an especially impactful part of the American music landscape in recent years and now Aespa is the latest group to help push the genre forward, like they do on the new single “Girls.” Uproxx’s Armon Sadler notes of the song and its accompanying video, “‘Girls’ is fierce both vocally and visually, as the K-pop group displays sharp choreography, firm lyricism, and collectively jarring melodies as they traverse an elevator and dance in a dojo.”
Kid Cudi — “Love”
Cudi has had himself a better music career than most so far, which he observed last week with The Boy Who Flew To The Moon, Vol. 1, a new compilation album. The best-of also serves as a resurfacing of “Love,” which Cudi previously shared on SoundCloud back in 2015, so learned Cudi fans are surely pleased to have this one on streaming services.
Fivio Foreign and The Kid Laroi — “Paris To Tokyo”
This week was especially rich with top-tier collaborations, thanks to the aforementioned as well as Fivio Foreign and The Kid Laroi’s new link-up, “Paris To Tokyo.” It’s a brief tune, clocking in at just a couple minutes, but the two get after it over an excitable, in-your-face instrumental and similarly spirited lyrical performances.
Doechii — “B*tch I’m Nice”
In a time when a lot of songs mainly get heard in 10-second, TikTok-friendly chunks, 90 seconds can seem like an eternity. That’s also how long Doechii needed to make an impact on last week’s “B*tch I’m Nice,” a quick, rapid-fire tune that packs some witty and memorable bars, like, “Know this p*ssy good, and it purr, but it still got bite.”
Alvvays — “Pharmacist”
The Canadian group found themselves on the rise with their 2017 sophomore album Antisocialites, but it’s been nearly five years since that album and they’ve yet to release a new one. They’re working on that, though: They announced Blue Rev last week and shared “Pharmacist,” yet another example this week of a notably short song (just over a couple minutes here), but their signature dreamy/hazy indie rock aesthetic it out in full force here, complete with a frenetic and exciting guitar solo to cap off what can only be described as a fantastic set-up for this long-awaited album cycle.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Warning: Some goat-related spoilers from Thor: Love And Thunder ahead.
One of the most ridiculous moments of the already ridiculous Thor: Love And Thunderis a bunch of giant goats coming in to save the day while letting out the most annoying scream to ever come out of a living being. Of course, it was…a choice to have that be a recurring joke in the movie, one director and star Taika Waititi attributes to the one and only Taylor Swift.
“They were never meant to be screaming. The goats were always going to be in there because they are in the comics, but we didn’t know how they would sound,” Waititi explained. “Then someone in post-production found this meme of a Taylor Swift song that has screaming goats in it. I didn’t even know that existed. So I hear the screaming goats and I just felt it was awesome. A lot of people think it’s me screaming. It’s not.”
Marvel Studios
Waititi continued that they found the concept funny enough to keep it in the final cut. “I think one of the vendors that was making the CG goats, they just added the Taylor Swift song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble,’ but the fan-made one with the goat sounds, and we just thought it was so funny. So it was just a shot of how the CG creatures were coming along, it wasn’t meant for the film or anything, it was just an update. And the screams were freakin’ awesome.” Well it was literal trouble when they walked in, so it worked out well!
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