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Washington Post
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Tyler Childers looks to the alt-country future
Tyler Childers could have done whatever he wanted. The Kentuckian singer-songwriter broke through in 2017 with 'Purgatory,' a collection of immediately satisfying neo-traditional country songs produced by fellow alt-country journeyman Sturgill Simpson. Within a few years, Childers was playing arenas — sometimes with Simpson — where audiences sang along to 2019's 'All Your'n' like it was 'I Will Always Love You.' Detours followed quickly: In 2020, he released 'Long Violent History,' which was almost entirely instrumental fiddle music. A triple-album of gospel songs followed in 2022, before 2023's 'Rustin' in the Rain,' which contained only five original songs.
Yahoo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tyler Childers Takes Big Risks and Reaps Huge Rewards on ‘Snipe Hunter'
Tyler Childers has always seemed comfortable in his contradictions. He's an old-soul traditionalist whose throwback ballads regularly go TikTok viral; a recovering alcoholic who still releases some of the 21st century's best drinking music; a stadium-sized star who hasn't performed his most popular song in a half-decade. For the past ten years, Childers has been preaching his righteous Kentucky gospel (see 'Long Violent History,' written in the wake of George Floyd protests). Part of that project is showing that, in contrast to how it's typically portrayed, Childers' home region of Appalachia is just as contradictory, complex, and full of surprises as he is. Until now, he's anchored that message to Purgatory, his 2017 debut LP. It remains his best-selling LP and the backbone of his live show, despite him having released several terrific records (like 2022's Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?) since. More from Rolling Stone Robert Earl Keen Taps Tyler Childers, Miranda Lambert for Massive Texas Flood Benefit Tyler Childers Pines for an Older Woman in New Song 'Oneida' Tyler Childers Readies New Album 'Snipe Hunter' With Rick Rubin That's destined to change with Snipe Hunter, Childers' career-redefining, Rick Rubin-produced new album. Over 13 tracks, Childers triples down on the trailblazing he's already known for, singing about hunting and hindu scripture while name checking songs by everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Stephen Foster and exploring new sonic territory (garage rock, Phil Spector pop) with his longtime bar band-turned-arena-headliners, the Food Stamps. Childers could be taking victory laps, but Snipe Hunter is anything but: There's the riff about koala STD's on 'Down Under;' the hare krishna chants that open up the Scottish folk-inspired ballad 'Tom Cat and a Dandy;' the verse about lighting the 'devil's dick on fire' on 'Getting to the Bottom;' the drum programming that turns 'Dirty Ought Trill,' the album-closing ode to a dog training deer hunter, into a stadium-sized sing-along. Seldom does anyone with Childers' level of fame take this many bold leaps and wacky left-turns. In a risk-averse genre like country, it's unheard of. Snipe Hunter, however, makes such risks feel as inevitable as they are natural. The album is a thrilling, entirely sui generis statement of purpose that simultaneously closes the loop on Childers' past (see the update on fan favorite 'Nose on the Grindstone') while pointing toward his boundless future. In the process, it establishes him as arguably the most singular and visionary artist in country music today. There will be much hoopla surrounding Childers' sonic departures on this record (in addition to drum programming, there's vocoder, mouth harp, clavinet and modular synths played by Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn). But what Rubin seems to have drawn out of Childers, more than anything, is an entirely new level of vocal performance from the 34 year-old. Childers' voice has never sounded like this: On Snipe Hunter, he shouts, shrieks, coos, croons, belts and whispers from one track to the next. On 'Getting to the Bottom,' he leans into vibrato, drawing practically four syllables out of the word 'doused.' On 'Cuttin' Teeth,' a fictionalized tale of his own come up as a road-dogging twenty-something, Childers embraces new vocal registers, delivering the tune with an affected whisper that establishes the distance the modern-day Childers likely feels from the tale's protagonist. Just one song prior, on 'Eatin' Big Time,' he spends much of the song outright screaming. That latter song, the album opener, shows the Kentucky songwriter fully in command of his pen. Leave it to Childers to take one of the most tired songwriting tropes for an artist of his stature — the 'it's so hard to be famous and rich' song—and turn it into a searing meditation on class anxiety and gratitude. 'Ya goddamn right I'm flexing,' Childers sings of his Weiss watch, before delivering the subsequent line with so much fury you can practically hear the vein popping in his neck. 'Have you ever got to hold and blow a thousand fucking dollars?' Indeed, Childers' writing has never felt sharper in its strange specificity. Here he is describing alcoholism: 'Do their livers scream for water?' Here he is daydreaming about bringing his band along for a holy Hindu pilgrimage: 'We'd leave behind all our merch.' Here he is arguing with the 'bro' bouncer in his otherwise flowery devotional 'Oneida.' Here he is singing the words sworp, joist, tupperware, crocidilian, and booger. Here he is, mid-song, delivering dog training commands: Gib laut! Childers ties it all together in 'Poachers,' an understated ballad that at first glance, feels merely like yet another new song about hunting. But Childers uses his portrait of a character caught flouting poaching laws to touch on a long list of big-picture themes: the criminal justice system, small town gossip and prejudice, the crisis of American drug addiction. By the end of the mini-masterpiece, the song's narrator is in danger of getting into some trouble: 'I'm too busy for prison,' he explains. But the narrator is proud of where he comes from, and he just might be able to find a way forward. 'I'm a miner at heart,' Childers sings with a big wink, 'so I'd dig out a way.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Syracuse Orange football lands commitment from star recruit nicknamed 'Purgatory'
Syracuse just picked up quite the name in its 2026 recruiting class. Really, it's both a full name and nickname win for the Orange and second-year head football coach Fran Brown. The new commitment comes from Roseby Lubintus. He's a 3-star offensive tackle from New Jersey. Advertisement And he has the nickname Purgatory. For the uninitiated, purgatory is the intermediate state after physical death before a soul can enter heaven. It's not exactly clear why Lubintus has this nickname. We'll go with the idea that as an offensive tackle, it's his job to keep the defense in purgatory and not let them reach their goal of the quarterback, the parallel to heaven in this analogy. Lubintus is huge, checking in at 6-foot-6 and 330 pounds. He chose Syracuse over a top-five that also included Michigan, Penn State, Florida and West Virginia. It's yet another big recruiting win for the Orange. Advertisement MORE: Syracuse lands shocking 5-star commitment to make decades worth of program history
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Is Kengan Omega the sequel to Kengan Ashura? Explained
Kengan Omega We get to see anime shows like Kengan Ashura once in a while and maintaining the legacy is something more difficult. The Kengan Ashura anime has two seasons along with one crossover with the Baki universe - Baki Hanma vs Kengan Ashura. Keeping the manga in mind, the Kengan Ashura has been completed and it consists of a total of 236 chapters. Now, the manga also has a sequel named Kengan Omega , which is currently running and has around 280 chapters. The manga is set two years ahead of the events that we get to see in the Kengan Ashura. It revolves around a new protagonist named Narushima Koga who steps into Kengan Association with the story taking a new dive with the introduction of Purgatory. Kengan Omega: The story ahead of Kengan Annihilation tournament Kengan Omega could be dubbed a spiritual sequel of Kengan Ashura along with not losing the essence of the original one. Here the story introduces two new characters - Narushima Koga and Gaoh Ryuki. For an introduction, Ryuki is a killer who looks like a heavily unhinged version of Ohma Tokita . And then we have Narushima Koga who is an underdog and wants to become the strongest fighter of all. Here the people get to see two new organizations - Purgatory and The Worm. Purgatory is an underground fighting organization that are rivals of Kengan. On the other hand, The Worm is a clan that is related to Chinese martial arts and Gaoh lineage. And Kengan Omega also explores the historical and political roots of different clans and organizations. Now, for all the Ohma Tokita fans, yes, he makes a comeback in the sequel and is stronger than ever. The debut of Ohma Tokita was something that will give you chills all along. His entry into the party freezes everyone. Turns out that Ohma was saved by Dr Hanafusa Hajime after the Kengan Annihilation Final tournament. You should definitely read the Kengan Omega manga to understand the role of Ohma in the Kengan vs Purgatory tournament. Also Read: The Boxer Manhwa is getting an anime adaptation most probably on Netflix; Have a look at the details
Wall Street Journal
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting' Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
Paris Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in 'Purgatory.' Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronounced that Cimabue had 'shed the first light on the art of painting.'
