At last week’s Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIA), Canberra singer Genesis Owusu was the big winner of the night. The Ghanaian-Australian won four awards, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, for Smiling With No Teeth. For comparison, the ARIA’s are essentially Australia’s version of the Grammy Awards, and Owusu’s feat is damn near Eilish-ian in nature.
Smiling With No Teeth is a jovial, soul-packed expression of hip-hop; more melodic than rugged, more danceable than pensive, more rock & roll than R&B, and cheekier than stoic. In short, it’s hella fun. Today, Owusu has shared a new video for the remix version of “Waitin On Ya” (which he performed at the ARIA gala.) It’s a time-and space-shifting visual that features Jagwar Ma’s Jono Ma assisting on the mix. There’s a lively snare drum beat with a hint of the amen break in the background, breathing new energy into the song. A spritely sax peppers its way in as Owusu plays a shady travel agent that teleports to tropical locales while smiling broadly through gold teeth.
Watch the video for “Waitin On Ya (Remix)” above and check out the tour dates for Owusu’s first US headlining tour below. Get tickets here.
01/13/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
01/15/2022 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
01/17/2022 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
01/19/2022 — Denver, CO @ The Bluebird
01/25/2022 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
01/28/2022 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
01/29/2022 — Nashville, TN @ Basement East
01/30/2022 — Austin, TX @ Antone’s
Smiling With No Teeth is out now via House Anxiety / Ourness
It’s been six years since Undertale won the hearts of many. The indie RPG that can probably be best compared to Earthbound became an internet phenomenon that we’re still witnessing today. The community around that game has shown an adoration that few games receive and with that adoration has come memes, inside jokes, and a lot of covers for the killer soundtrack. Undertale has a phenomenal soundtrack that can be played endlessly. For some, that’s exactly what they did throughout 2021.
It’s the first day of December, and that means Spotify has given everyone their annual Spotify Wrapped summaries. Undertale creator Toby Fox has dominated plenty of lists, and it’s a reminder that even all these years later, gamers are still showing it some love. In fact, Fox started trending.
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We also saw some love for Deltarune Chapter 2, which was released by Fox back in September. Of course, with songs as great as “BIG SHOT” on there, we can understand why.
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If it isn’t clear by now, people really enjoy Fox’s music and they’re going to continue loving it for years to come. This isn’t a new phenomenon — some said that this is not the first time Fox has popped up on their Wrapped.
Move over Sufjan Stevens, Wild Pink’s John Ross might finally be the indie artist to give us music dedicated to each of the 50 states. Ok, that’s a stretch, but following the recently released track with Samia entitled “Ohio,” Ross and Wild Pink are back with “Florida.” Both are follow-ups to Wild Pink’s excellent A Billion Little Lights, which came out in February.
On “Florida,” the Ross-led Brooklyn trio play on the juxtaposition of Florida’s stigma as the home of shady suspects, but also with its beauty as the uniquely beautiful home of the Everglades. It’s a glistening track with pedal steel, acoustic strums, lovely keys, and a driving thump that flashes the new-age folk that the band has totally nailed. Ross shared some words in a statement on the track:
“Florida” is a love letter to the state I grew up in,” says Ross. “It has a bad reputation, which is well deserved, but I think it’s also a misunderstood state. It’s got it’s own thing going on if you look hard enough and the natural beauty there is unreal. Florida is a rewarding place if you spend the time finding its charm. I grew up listening to a lot of Florida bands like I Hate Myself and Shai Hulud, which was really formative for me early on.”
“This was the first song I wrote after a long musical hiatus during the lockdown. I had just gotten an upright piano for free on Facebook Marketplace and the piano loop was the first thing I wrote on it. “Florida” puts a period at the end of the A Billion Little Lights sentence, in my mind.”
Seven years ago, someone broke into Sandra Bullock’s house. A man who was stalking the actress, Joshua James Corbett, was sentenced to five years probation for entering the actress’ Los Angeles home. Bullock, alone, locked herself in a room and dialed 911. (Her terrifying call was later made public.) During a sitdown on Red Table Talk, the Facebook Watch show hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow, and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Bullock opened up about the incident, and said it still haunts her to this day.
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The Bird Box star said it happened when her adopted son, Louis, happened to be staying overnight with the nanny. “It was the one night that our nanny goes, ‘Let me just take him to my apartment which is up the street because you’re going to be out late,’” Bullock recalled. “Had he been home, I would’ve run to the closet, which is now my official closet but that was his bedroom, and it would have changed our destiny forever…So why was he not home on that one night?”
When Corbett entered the premises, Bullock was sure things would turn south. “I’m in the closet going, ‘This doesn’t end well,’” she recalled thinking.
Bullock was unharmed and Corbett was arrested. He committed suicide in 2018 during a stand-off with a SWAT team.
Bullock, meanwhile, continues to suffer from PTSD. “I wasn’t the same after that. I was unraveling,” Bullock said, nothing that she hasn’t “been alone since the day it happened.”
To cope, she discovered EMDR, short for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, a form of therapy to address PTSD issues.
She also came to stark realizations about herself. “I realized I have surrounded myself often with unsafe people and situations and have put myself there,” Bullock said. “I have no one else to blame but myself because that was the most familiar feeling that I had.”
You can watch Bullock’s full Red Table Talk appearance here.
The Portland Trail Blazers have gotten off to an 11-11 start, placing them 10th in a crowded Western Conference through a quarter of the season.
Damian Lillard’s shooting struggles to open the season have been one of the reasons for the Blazers’ up-and-down start, as the All-NBA guard is shooting just 39.7 percent from the field and 30.2 percent from three-point range through 20 games. Lillard has been battling an abdominal injury that he says has been something he’s dealt with for some time, but it has finally gotten to the point that the star will have to take some time away from the court to try and get healthy.
The Blazers announced on Wednesday that an MRI revealed Lillard is dealing with lower abdominal tendinopathy and will be out for at least 10 days for recovery. After 10 days, Lillard will be re-evaluated, so there is the potential that his absence will continue beyond the next week and a half. That is obviously a significant hurdle for the Blazers to clear as they look to keep pace in the West, as they’re only a half game out of a tie for fourth in the conference, but falling behind the cluster from 4-9 in the West would create a difficult hill to climb later.
The 10-day window would mean Lillard will miss games with the Spurs, Celtics, Clippers, and Warriors, with the earliest possible return being Sunday, Dec. 12 against the Timberwolves at home.
The Power of the Dog (Netflix film) — Benedict Cumberbatch briefly leaves the MCU to collaborate with director Jane Campion as he portrays a “charismatic rancher,” which is certainly something that we’ve never seen him do before. However, he’s got a sinister streak and terrorizes his brother and sister-in-law (played by real-life spouses Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst) while whistling and apparently never saying a word (at least in the above trailer). Cumberbatch Chills are a real thing, as you’ll witness from this film.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX, 10:00pm) — Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, and the rest of the gang are raising hell in Ireland, and for some reason, someone is clad in a QAnon Shaman while not even It’s Always Sunny can escape the fresh hell that is 2021. So, expect to see COVID-19 acknowledged, along with the rest of 2020, in the special way that only this show can do. Uh, even a Jeffrey Epstein reference happens as the group bounces across the pond, and it’s good to have this crew back.
Hawkeye: Season 1 (Disney+ series) — The MCU is in holiday mood for this series, which begins to pass the arrow from Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton to Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop, and Steinfeld is freaking fantastic while Hawkeye only wants a damn break from this hero stuff. This week follows up on that Echo reveal from that cliffhanger.
Lost In Space: Season 3 (Netflix series) — The final season raises the stakes for the survival of the Robinsons after being stuck on a mysterious planet. They’ll aim for an evacuation, but will buried secrets rise up to threaten their escape? Overwhelming odds and emotional challenges and alien threats will all rear their heads. Man, this is almost as stressful as our current life on Earth, but it’s an enormously popular series.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Season 5 (Netflix series) — Jolyne Cujoh receives a fifteen-year prison sentence, but once she’s incarcerated at “the Aquarium,” a gifted pendant causes her to embody a mysterious power. As if that doesn’t sound weird enough, a mysterious child appears to spread secrets, and there are other horrible truths that awaken which makes this much more horrible than a flat-out boring prison sentence in a stone ocean would have been. Yikes.
Adrienne (HBO, 8:00pm) — Adrienne Shelly gets the biopic treatment here to highlight her Waitress genius and status as a Hal Hartley muse.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Seth Rogen, Nicholas Braun, Macklemore Ft. Windser
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Cate Blanchett, Gangs Of Youth
The Late Late Show With James Corden — Octavia Spencer, Max Greenfield, Travis
One month ago, Alec Baldwin broke his silence about the accidental gun discharge on the set of his low-budget Western film Rust. In the process, he honored the tragically killed Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer on the movie starring and produced by Baldwin. At the time, Baldwin revealed that he couldn’t publicly discuss what had transpired during the fatal incident, given that the investigation was ongoing. He’s cooperated with law enforcement throughout, and he’s one of the parties named in a negligence lawsuit filed by the film’s script supervisor. Now, Baldwin has sat down with ABC News‘ George Stephanopoulos in an interview that will air on Thursday at 8:00pm EST (and later to stream on Hulu).
In a clip released by ABC News, Baldwin contradicted previous reports that he discharged the gun that killed Hutchens and wounded director Joel Souza. Below, a teary-eyed Baldwin is shown on camera before Stephanopoulos says, “The gun was in your hand.” A few moments later, Baldwin declares, “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger.” Baldwin then adds, “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never.”
Asked by @GStephanopoulos how a real bullet got on the “Rust” set, Alec Baldwin says: “I have no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property.”
When later quizzed by Stephanopoulos on how the live bullet materialized on the film’s set, Baldwin has “no idea” how it happened. He then added, “Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property.”
As this clip also reveals, Stephanopoulos broached the subject of George Clooney branding the incident as “insane” and “infuriating.” Likewise, Kurt Sutter couldn’t believe that live ammo surfaced on the Rust set. On a number of issues — (1) How Baldwin addressed the Clooney question; (2) How the gun fired if Baldwin didn’t pull the trigger; and (3) Why the film hired an inexperienced armorer (who has insisted that she has “no idea where the live rounds came from”) — we don’t receive answers in this short clip. The full ABC News interview airs on Thursday night at 8:00pm EST.
After nearly two years of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 5.2 million people worldwide—and counting—one would think that those who were initially skeptical of the dangers of the virus would have come around by now. But, as Trevor Noah pointed out, one would be wrong.
On Tuesday,The Daily Show host spent some time marveling at how the various lies and conspiracy theories surrounding COVID have only gotten zanier. Dubbing the situation “The Pandumbic,” Noah shared some clips about former White House physician-turned-congressman Ronny Jackson dubbing the new omicron variant the “Midterm Election Variant,” and a couple of Fox News nincompoops running with that narrative. He was, understandably, perplexed.
“OK, just so I’ve got this straight: The Democrats’ big plan is to intentionally never solve the problem that is ruining everyone’s life? That is such a dumbass strategy to win an election. Which makes me think the Democrats actually did come up with it…
I mean, you realize for this to be true the Democrats would have had to coordinate on this lie with the World Health Organization and South African scientists and governments across Europe. Are you serious, people? You know the Democrats can’t coordinate shit. The only thing they can coordinate are their kente cloths.”
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Even more amazing to Noah is that the main Republican pushing this theory is the former White House physician, who worked under both Donald Trump and Barack Obama. “Seriously, it’s amazing that Trump and Obama actually survived,” said Noah.
“But whatever, man. I guess the Democrats—in coordination with scientists in South Africa, Europe, Israel, all over—are simply pretending there’s a new corona variant out there,” he concluded. “That’s what they’re doing. And they’re not only doing it to justify mail-in voting—no, no, no. It’s also because they’re really horny for lockdowns.”
Come December 8th, Moses Sumney will be out with a new concert film entitled Blackalachia. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, it was filmed in the fall of 2020, when playing in front of live crowds was something we all weren’t sure of when would happen again. Part of WeTranfer’s Wepresent series, the 67-minute set sees Sumney playing songs off of both Græ and Aromanticism, along with some new material, which is what brings us here today.
On “In Bloom (In The Woods),” Sumney operates with a renewed comfort vocally. Perhaps it’s the bucolic setting, but there’s a distinct peace-of-mind in his delivery as he sings over gorgeous strings and a modest beat. You can almost hear the insects chirping in the background of the audience-less recording. The film itself obviously stars Sumney, but it was also directed by him. “Over the course of two days, we filmed 14 songs, totally live, the trees as our audience, the grasshoppers our background singers,” Sumney said in a statement. “The film is a wild imagining of what can happen when we seek not just to reclaim nature, but to reintegrate with it.”
Listen to “In Bloom (In The Woods)” above and watch a whip-fast drone-filmed trailer for Blackalachia below.
IPAs never go out of style. The beer is massively popular in the U.S. craft beer scene, particularly because they’re easy to make and can be adjusted to fit pretty much any season, style, or vibe. Meaning there’s plenty of good IPAs for the winter months.
We asked brewers, beer experts, and craft beer insiders to name the IPAs that they still drink all winter long. Keep scrolling to see their picks and maybe give a few of these a shot if they sound good to you.
Wolfe’s Neck from Maine Beer Company is such a great IPA year-round, but especially in the winter. Its malt profile has a lot of depth for the colder months while the hopping has distinct papaya with coconut and stone fruit tones.
Fat Head’s Head Hunter
Fat Head
Sam Petrey, expert beer guide for City Brew Tours in Cleveland
When the brief fall we have turns to winter, I want a clean and classic IPA that is going to have some oomph to it. Head Hunter is the perfect example of a west coast IPA. It comes in at 7.5 percent ABV, pours a beautiful clear orange, and the malts are balanced with the pungent aromas and flavors of pine, grapefruit, and pineapple that you get from the aggressive amount of hops used.
When it’s cold outside this beer is always in my fridge, it’s refreshing and warms you up at the same time.
Eddyline’s Crank Yanker IPA is in its own category. It’s amazing. This medium-bodied, citrusy, wonderful IPA is a beer that could be drunk anytime and anywhere.
With hops like Citra and Mosaic, this beer has a wonderful citrusy and pine-like aroma that will make you come back for more. Its malty character nicely balances the citrusy hops.
Burgeon Treevona
Burgeon
Jensen Atwood, director of brewing operations at Pure Brewing Project in San Diego
I will always drink a nice hoppy and bitter West Coast IPA during the winter. In San Diego, it can still be sunny and warm all winter long and a nice refreshing piney West Coast IPA will always be a staple.
I tried Masthead’s Midwest Red IPA recently and it’s fantastic. The “red IPA” style barely exists anymore and it’s an ideal example of it with some toasty, caramel malt backbone underneath classic piney, resinous hops.
It makes for a nice cold weather sipper.
Third Wheel Gotta Have It
Third Wheel
Stephen Hale, founding brewer at Schlafly Beer in St. Louis
Third Wheel Brewing Gotta Have It IPA is loaded with a big floral and citrusy character. This beer keeps you coming back for more. Who says you can’t enjoy a hoppy, citrus-filled IPA in the middle of winter?
Sixpoint Resin
Sixpoint
Manny Salvatori, lead brewer at The Bronx Brewery in Bronx, New York
I’m able to drink this beer year-round but I find it particularly well-suited for winter. It’s a well-balanced DIPA that’s not a hop bomb with just enough maltiness to counter the bitterness without being sweet or masking the notes of pine.
It’s both creamy and crisp and hits like a smooth train ride.
Bell’s Two-Hearted
Bell
Brad Bergman, director of brewing at Sycamore Brewing in Charlotte, North Carolina
I lived and brewed for several years in Michigan and fresh Two Hearted was always available. It was a go-to at the convenience store. For me, this beer is not always super consistent, but when fresh it’s always delightful, and it reminds me of my time in wintry Northern Michigan.
It’s piney, citrusy, a touch of tropical fruit, all over a firm malty backbone.
Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale is a fresh hop IPA brewed with hops that were harvested this past season. Celebration Ale has a deep rouge color, syrup malt aroma, pie crust sweet flavor, present bitterness, and a hop aroma of bright citrus and sappy pine. This hop character is achieved by the addition of fresh whole hops that were recently picked from the field, dried, and baled a matter of weeks before.
This beer along with the classic label with its snowy cabin scene pulls you into the holidays, holding you there like a crocheted blanket, safe and warm.
I could drink this IPA regardless of the time of year. This West Coast IPA is packed with hops and has a paired down malt bill that really lets the hops shine. There’s a big nose of fresh tropical citrus with complex flavors of melon and berry.
IPA and all beer styles can be enjoyed throughout the year. They can be paired to specific meals, celebrations, etc. That being said, a stronger ABV in an IPA during winter may help keep you warmer and so I would choose Antidote IPA from Ratio Beerworks. Plus, it’s available year-round.
Bale Breaker’s Top Cutter IPA is in my fridge beer whether it is 90 degrees outside or a balmy sub-zero. I love this beer because even in the depths of a Teton winter, it reminds me that shorts will return at some point. The way Bale Breaker can present that “fresh off the farm” hop flavor and aroma in their beer is incredible and just the pick me up I need when I forget what summer weather is like — and how good a cold IPA can taste.
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