After Ian took the week off to recuperate from his wedding, he’s back online with Steve to do what they do best: talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and hash out trends. This week, the dynamic duo is digging into new albums from Parquet Courts and My Morning Jacket.
My Morning Jacket is back with their ninth studio album, following last year’s surprise sequel to The Waterfall. In a recent interview with Steve, Jim James revealed that he hadn’t been actively engaged with My Morning Jacket for much of the 2010’s, but he felt more locked in on the band’s new self-titled album. It’s undoubtedly the jammiest record the band has ever made, and also more interesting than anything they’ve done in years.
Parquet Courts are in a similar point of their career with the release of their seventh album Sympathy For Life. Once considered the next great New York City band after The Strokes, the recent projects have proven them to be closer to a band like Spoon — really consistent and solid without ever quite knocking it out of the park. Will Sympathy For Life help to reinvigorate the band for years to come?
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging That’s OK, the new album from Swimming, whom he names the greatest Newfoundland band (emo or otherwise) of all time. Steve, on the other hand, has two albums you should check out: the new efforts from Trace Mountains and Mo Troper.
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As Adele prepares to release her upcoming album 30, she’s back on the promotional circuit. One recent highlight came from a Vogue “73 Questions” interview, in which she revealed that her most prized possession is some of Celine Dion’s used chewing gum, which was given to her by James Corden. Now, Corden has taken the time to explain how that gift came to be.
During last night’s episode of The Late Late Show, writer and comedian Ian Karmel asked Corden [at 5:38 into the video above] about the Adele story and the host confirmed it is true. He went on to provide some context and explain how he gained possession of the gum:
“What happened was, the weekend before we had shot [the Dion episode of ‘Carpool Karaoke’], [Adele and I] went on a weekend away to… we went to Mexico: my family, A-bomb, her son, and we spent a weekend together. The following Friday, I was shooting the ‘Carpool’ with Celine Dion, and Adele just loves Celine Dion. […] We were talking a lot about that and she was like, ‘Oh my god, she’s amazing.’ I think she’s met her once, she said she got starstruck by her, which rarely that happens to Adele, you know?
So when [Dion and I] were in the car, I think we were just about to go and she had gum in her mouth, and she was like, ‘What can I do with this?’ There was like a script thing in the back, so I ripped off a piece and she put it in, and I said, ‘Don’t… I’ll do that,’ because she was about to do, you know, the fold. I said, ‘I got it, I got it, I got it.’ I then had to give it to… I think I gave it to [The Late Late Show producer] Diana Miller or someone like that, and I was like, ‘I need to keep this super safe.’ She took it and looked at me like, ‘I think this is the day he’s lost his mind. I think this is it.’ I said, ‘Please keep it safe,’ and then I gave it to A-bomb for her birthday, I think. Because [she’s a] difficult person to buy for, do you know what I mean? A candle doesn’t cut it.”
He then joked about how valuable this piece of gum may be now: “I did suddenly think after that video: Now that it’s been in Adele’s possession and Celine Dion’s mouth, at some point in my lifetime, I’m going to see that on Sotheby’s for like $138,000.”
Check out the video above and revisit the Adele Vogue interview here.
Michael Stipe made it pretty clear last month that R.E.M. will, in his words, “never reunite.” The good news, though, is that we still have decades of music from the band to enjoy. One of their defining releases, 1996’s New Adventures In Hi-Fi, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the band is releasing an expansive new deluxe edition of the album that comes with a ton of goodies. Among those is a newly restored video for “New Test Leper,” which the band shared today.
Set to drop on October 29 via Craft Recordings, the deluxe edition comes with two CDs and 1 Blu-ray disc. Across them is the newly remastered album, B-sides, rarities, “a never-before-released 64-minute outdoor projection film (shown on buildings across five cities in 1996 to promote the album’s original release),” and a previously unreleased 30-minute EPK. On top of that, there’s a surround sound edition of the album, restored music videos (beyond just the one for “New Test Leper”), a 52-page hardcover book, and written reflections from R.E.M. members, Thom Yorke, Patti Smith, and others.
Of “New Test Leper,” Yorke said, “Now there’s a song from the inside, from the other side of the bubble. But because of the way that Michael made his observations, they’re weirdly direct, but at the same time he’s sort of taking the pieces of a picture frame and smashing it, you know, he’s not being specific enough, so that he leaves these gaps, which allow you in in a kind of weird way.”
Peter Buck also noted, “‘New Test Leper’ still may be my favorite R.E.M. song. Funnily enough, that’s one that we only played once on the entire tour at soundcheck, and we totally forgot about it. Then Michael said, ‘I’ve got a cassette of this one song I’ve got lyrics for,”‘and he played it, and we’re like, ‘Oh yeah!’”
The band is also releasing a vinyl edition of the reissue, as well as digital and 2-CD versions.
Upon its initial release, New Adventures In Hi-Fi topped the charts around the world and achieved a peak at No. 2 in the US. It’s also the band’s most recently released Platinum-certified album. In the liner notes, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills says, “We wanted to make a record about being on the road without singing about being on the road. The idea was that the feeling of being on the road would come through in the sound and feel of the record itself.”
Check out the deluxe edition art and tracklist below.
Craft Recordings
Disc 1 — New Adventures In Hi-Fi
1. “How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us”
2. “The Wake-Up Bomb”
3. “New Test Leper”
4. “Undertow”
5. “E-Bow The Letter”
6. “Leave”
7. “Departure”
8. “Bittersweet Me”
9. “Be Mine”
10. “Binky The Doormat”
11. “Zither”
12. “So Fast, So Numb”
13. “Low Desert”
14. “Electrolite”
Disc 2 — B-sides And Rarities
1. “Tricycle (Instrumental)”
2. “Departure (Live Rome Soundcheck / Rome, Italy / 2/22/1995)”
3. “Wall Of Death”
4. “Undertow (Live / Atlanta, GA / 11/18/1995)”
5. “Wichita Lineman (Live / Houston, TX / 9/15/1995)”
6. “New Test Leper (Live Acoustic / Seattle, WA / 4/19/1996)”
7. “The Wake-Up Bomb (Live / Atlanta, GA / 10/4/1995)”
8. “Binky The Doormat (Live / Atlanta, GA / 11/18/1995)”
9. “King Of Comedy (808 State Remix)”
10. “Be Mine (Mike On Bus version)”
11. “Love Is All Around”
12. “Sponge”
13. “Leave (Alternate Version)”
Disc 3 (Blu-Ray)
1. R.E.M. Outdoor Projections – Saturday Sept 7, 1996 – 5 cities
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi EPK – previously unreleased 30 min version
3. New Adventures In Hi-Fi 5.1 Audio
4. New Adventures In Hi-Fi – Hi-Resolution Audio
5. “E-Bow The Letter” (Music Video)
6. “Bittersweet Me” (Music Video)
7. “Electrolite” (Music Video)
8. “How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us” (Music Video)
9. “New Test Leper” (Music Video)
New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition) is out 10/29 via Craft Recordings. Pre-order it here.
R.E.M. is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Michael Stipe made it pretty clear last month that R.E.M. will, in his words, “never reunite.” The good news, though, is that we still have decades of music from the band to enjoy. One of their defining releases, 1996’s New Adventures In Hi-Fi, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the band is releasing an expansive new deluxe edition of the album that comes with a ton of goodies.
Set to drop on October 29 via Craft Recordings, the deluxe edition comes with two CDs and 1 Blu-ray disc. Across them is the newly remastered album, B-sides, rarities, “a never-before-released 64-minute outdoor projection film (shown on buildings across five cities in 1996 to promote the album’s original release),” and a previously unreleased 30-minute EPK. On top of that, there’s a surround sound edition of the album, restored music videos, a 52-page hardcover book, and written reflections from R.E.M. members, Thom Yorke, Patti Smith, and others.
The band is also releasing a vinyl edition of the reissue, which just features the remastered original album.
Upon its initial release, New Adventures In Hi-Fi topped the charts around the world and achieved a peak at No. 2 in the US. It’s also the band’s most recently released Platinum-certified album. In the liner notes, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills says, “We wanted to make a record about being on the road without singing about being on the road. The idea was that the feeling of being on the road would come through in the sound and feel of the record itself.”
Check out the deluxe edition art and tracklist below.
Craft Recordings
Disc 1 — New Adventures In Hi-Fi
1. “How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us”
2. “The Wake-Up Bomb”
3. “New Test Leper”
4. “Undertow”
5. “E-Bow The Letter”
6. “Leave”
7. “Departure”
8. “Bittersweet Me”
9. “Be Mine”
10. “Binky The Doormat”
11. “Zither”
12. “So Fast, So Numb”
13. “Low Desert”
14. “Electrolite”
Disc 2 — B-sides And Rarities
1. “Tricycle (Instrumental)”
2. “Departure (Live Rome Soundcheck / Rome, Italy / 2/22/1995)”
3. “Wall Of Death”
4. “Undertow (Live / Atlanta, GA / 11/18/1995)”
5. “Wichita Lineman (Live / Houston, TX / 9/15/1995)”
6. “New Test Leper (Live Acoustic / Seattle, WA / 4/19/1996)”
7. “The Wake-Up Bomb (Live / Atlanta, GA / 10/4/1995)”
8. “Binky The Doormat (Live / Atlanta, GA / 11/18/1995)”
9. “King Of Comedy (808 State Remix)”
10. “Be Mine (Mike On Bus version)”
11. “Love Is All Around”
12. “Sponge”
13. “Leave (Alternate Version)”
Disc 3 (Blu-Ray)
1. R.E.M. Outdoor Projections – Saturday Sept 7, 1996 – 5 cities
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi EPK – previously unreleased 30 min version
3. New Adventures In Hi-Fi 5.1 Audio
4. New Adventures In Hi-Fi – Hi-Resolution Audio
5. “E-Bow The Letter” (Music Video)
6. “Bittersweet Me” (Music Video)
7. “Electrolite” (Music Video)
8. “How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us” (Music Video)
9. “New Test Leper” (Music Video)
New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition) is out 10/29 via Craft Recordings. Pre-order it here.
R.E.M. is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Davion Mitchell is a bit of an unusual rookie. Usually when teams are drafting in the lottery, the hope is to find a player at a position of need, or to draft someone young who can be molded into something down the road.
Sacramento opted to go in neither of those directions with Mitchell. Their guards are already impressive — De’Aaron Fox and Tyrese Haliburton are among the NBA’s most promising backcourts, while Buddy Hield is among the best shooters in the game. Mitchell’s also old for a rookie, as the former Baylor standout is 23, about 9.5 months younger than Fox.
This is also what makes him such an interesting fit on the roster of a team that largely decided to run it back after going 31-41. Unlike many rookies who get time to figure out what they are as a player, Mitchell is pretty clearly defined. He is, from day one, among the most tenacious on-ball defenders among guards in the league. There are obvious concerns about whether he can co-exist alongside Fox and Haliburton — it’s three guards that run 6’1, 6’3, and 6’5 — but if he can take on the opposing team’s best perimeter player and not get shot over every single night, that’ll be a huge boost.
Also huge: Can Mitchell shoot? It is very, very easy to point to his 44.7 percent on 4.7 attempts from three per game in his final year at Baylor and answer yes, but that jump seemingly came out of nowhere (he was a 31.2 percent shooter his first two years of college) and has never been an especially strong free throw shooter, connecting on 65.7 percent of his attempts from the charity stripe at the collegiate level.
He is not going to be the primary ball-handler much of the time, and when he’s out there with both Fox and Haliburton, he’s not going to be the secondary ball-handler all that often, either. While he is able to create for others — he ranked 111th in college basketball in assist rate last season and was a snug fit playing alongside another guard in Jared Butler — Mitchell has room to grow in that regard, plus his two backcourt mates are just flat out better at that. His ability to hit shots, if he can make that happen, is going to be huge.
For a team with a playoff drought as long as the one possessed by the Kings, adding a ready-made rookie who could, theoretically, step in and help them win games from the jump is good. The question is whether or not Mitchell will be able to do that enough to get them into a spot where Sacramento is competing for the play-in, or if he is, you know, a rookie whose ups and downs are just part of their learning process.
Marjorie Taylor Greene should never give up her day job—though, admittedly, not a lot of people are quite sure just what that is. Judging by her actions, it would seem to be professional stalker? But on Thursday, she took a break from harassing AOC—her most beloved and frequent target—and instead went after Liz Cheney and Jamie Raskin on the floor of the House shortly after the vote on whether to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for ignoring the January 6th committee’s subpoenas.
According to The Hill, Raskin—who led Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, which began just about a month after the Capitol insurrection—was the first to serve MTG with some roasting retorts. Greene, who apparently doesn’t see why anyone should care if a man who has intimate knowledge of the president’s part in an act of domestic terrorism, asked the Maryland congressman when he planned to investigate the violence that erupted around the Black Lives Matter protests, to which he replied: “Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters?” I’m sure there will be an opportunity for us to get to that.”
Greene, perhaps realizing she had lost that argument or not, then reportedly proclaimed—loudly and to no one in particular—that the contempt vote was “a joke.” Then, as The Hill notes:
Cheney shot back that Greene was “a joke” and that she should be focusing on Jewish space lasers, a reference to a conspiracy theory Greene previously had promoted on Facebook blaming “space lasers” controlled by a powerful Jewish family for starting wildfires in California.
“I never said that! You’re done. You’re a joke!” Greene yelled at Cheney, according to CNN. “Why don’t you go investigate something that matters to the American people?”
According to Raskin, “[Greene] seemed to have some kind of ancient beef with the former chair of the House Republican Conference, Liz Cheney, over the Jewish space lasers thing or something like that. And she denied that she’d ever said that and blamed that on the mainstream media.”
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Greene, never the voice of reason, spoke with The Hill about dust-up and, in true MTG style, said that: “Liz Cheney is a liar, and you can quote me on that. She’s a liar and she’s only serving her own interests, which is to tear Trump down. She’s a liar. It’s a scam. It’s a witch hunt. It’s a joke committee, and I think it’s a waste of taxpayers’ dollars… She’s just jealous and she hates Trump. Nobody cares about Liz Cheney. I think that’s the biggest story—nobody cares about Liz Cheney or their stupid committee.”
Now if someone could just produce video of this whole exchange and set it to the Benny Hill theme, this week’s news cycle would be complete.
Fronted by the incomparable Meg Remy, US Girls are flat out one of the best live acts in the world. The Toronto group’s ability to express themselves through expert musicality, surreal rhythms, and an undying commitment to the many forms of movement, have rendered them nothing short of an essential live band. Where 2018’sIn A Poem Unlimited proved to be their breakthrough (the band’s sixth album, mind you), 2020’s Heavy Light cemented their stalwart status.
Today, US Girls release “Good Kinda High,” a single which appears on the deluxe edition of the Uninvited Guests compilation, devoted to the late, great Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould, who made a name for himself as a progressive musical savant who was often shunned by classical musical community types. The project itself is the brainchild of producer Billy Wild and his Toronto-based Division 88 collective, in an effort to pair samples of Gould’s with contemporary artists. Wild said in a statement that the project “started 7 years ago as a challenge on whether or not Glenn Gould could be made to sound current. The main thing I learned on Gould is that he truly belonged in this generation.”
You might otherwise realize that “Good Kinda High” is merged with Gould’s music when you hear Remy’s always arresting vocals as the track begins. But she wrote her lyrics to a beat produced by Wild and relaxed hip-hop producer Gabriel Pick. Gould’s piano is a steady presence on the track which feels as dark as an Eastern European horror novel. In fact, Remy said, “I like to imagine Gould and I as two freaks on the same leash. Trying to be invisible trying to be seen.”
Listen to “Good Kinda High” above and check out the Uninvited Guests deluxe edition art and tracklist below.
During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, host Joe Rogan demanded that Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, tell him why the news network “lied” about him taking horse dewormer to treat COVID-19 (even though he literally took horse dewormer to treat COVID-19). “Why would they lie and say that’s horse dewormer? I can afford people medicine, motherf*cker,” Rogan said. “It’s ridiculous! It’s just a lie! Don’t you think that a lie like that is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they’re lying?” Dr. Gupta admitted that “they shouldn’t have said that,” but CNN has since released a statement defending itself.
The heart of this debate has been purposely confused and ultimately lost. It’s never been about livestock versus human dosage of Ivermectin. The issue is that a powerful voice in the media, who by example and through his platform, sowed doubt in the proven and approved science of vaccines while promoting the use of an unproven treatment for covid-19 — a drug developed to ward off parasites in farm animals. The only thing CNN did wrong here was bruise the ego of a popular podcaster who pushed dangerous conspiracy theories and risked the lives of millions of people in doing so.
Dang, that last sentence, although as the Post notes, “CNN’s statement sounds more like the work of an advocacy group than a journalism outfit… If we take Rogan’s prescription claim at face value — and CNN hasn’t challenged it — then the network’s coverage was slanted in some cases and straight-up incorrect in others.”
Pink Sweats is slowly making a return to the spotlight just months after he released his debut album, Pink Planet. It’s a project that delivered 18 songs, with a lone guest appearance from Kehlani, to fans. It’s also an effort that arrived after three EPs: Volume 1, Volume 2, and The Prelude. Fast-forward to the present and the Philly singer is back with his second song in as many weeks with “Nothing Feels Better.” The singer’s near-acoustic sound serves as the landscape for a romantic message to a partner he’s head over heels for as their love helped him “realize I’m right where I should be.”
Prior to “Nothing Feels Better,” Pink Sweats touched down with “I Feel Good,” a track that found him appreciating the world around him and how great life is to him nowadays. It all comes amid a spike in activity for him. He recently made an appearance on The Eye, a new series that allows up-and-coming artists to their breakout songs in beautiful and minimalistic environments. There he performed “At My Worst,” “Heaven,” and “Paradise” and also spoke about his debut Pink Planet.
He described the project as “an album about one of the most timeless emotions… love. I wanted to express my love about someone I truly love and document that.”
Listen to “Nothing Feels Better” above.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The grind never stops for Lil Tjay. The New York rapper is just a few months removed from sharing his second album, Destined 2 Win, with the world. The project debuted at No. 5 on the album charts, which tied a personal record for the highest position. Destined 2 Win also gave him his highest-charting song thanks to “Calling My Phone” with 6lack. After basking in the success of the album for some time, Lil Tjay is back in action with new music and it comes in the form of his new single “Not In The Mood” featuring Fivio Foreign and Kay Flock.
The new track finds the trio of rappers pushing as hard as they can to overcome life’s obstacles. “I almost gave up every other day / We made a way,” Tjay raps on the song. “We never relate, it’s big food for the plate / It’s time to go drill, I never do dates.” The tunnel-visioned approach to consistent success is emulated by Fivio Foreign and Kay Flock, who provide verses of their own on “Not In The Mood.”
Lil Tjay drops off the new song after teaming up with Joyner Lucas for a raunchy video to their collaboration, “Untold Stories.” Prior to that, he teamed with Bas and J. Cole for “The Jackie” and appeared on G Herbo’s fourth album, 25, on a track titled “Cry No More” that also featured Polo G.
Watch the “Not In The Mood” video above.
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