JBTV (one of my most favorite places in the whole wide world) led by Jerry Bryant (one of my most favorite people in the whole wide world) is the music industry’s longest running creator of original music television programming, and is opening its archives to share 37 years of live music performances for a limited-engagement, on-demand festival experience to help save our stages.
The JBTV Revolution Television Virtual Festival features full concert performances by The Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, Alt-J, AWOLNATION, Imagine Dragons, The Struts, Filter, Local H, Portugal. The Man, Atlas Genius, Sir Sly, The Ting Tings, Frank Turner, Twin Peaks, The Joy Formidable, Dead Sara, The Wombats, Failure, LPX, Grandson, Charli XCX and more, totaling 28 genre-spanning artists and benefits Chicago Independent Venue League (CIVL), National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), and music therapy foundation Nordoff Robbins.
Photo by Chris Vicente.
“JBTV Revolution Television Virtual Festival – Presented by the Jim Beam® Highball is a once-in-a-lifetime on-demand music experience showcasing the very best concert performances from JBTV’s archive,” says Peter Bowers, JBTV Music Television executive producer. “JBTV Revolution Television Virtual Festival recreates the musical variety of a festival with footage of entire concerts recorded at Chicago music venues and at JBTV’s studios. Each timeless performance, whether it was recorded 30 years or 30 days ago, will remind viewers of the excitement only a live concert brings.”
Surely at this point you just have to go home, right? What is even the appropriate response to a disaster like this other than entering Witness Protection. Knowing that this is security cam footage and not someone’s cell phone adds a grittiness to this video that makes it so much worse. This is, by far, the worst workday ever.
This is kind of a gnarly trick to get the best nachos possible. At the very least, it’s certainly for the hardcore nacho fans and amateurs need to leave this to the pros. Still, even for nacho experts, this is a lot.
I really… REALLY want to believe this is parody… BUT SHE EATS IT AT THE END!🤮 pic.twitter.com/8r5oS1qQHp
After watching that, we…kind of want to try it? It’s not the craziest thing and at the end of the day they’re nachos, which means they’re really hard to screw up. Count us in!
It took a mother in Wales two days to sculpt and create this Amazon package-themed birthday cake, but rest assured it was worth the wait. This cake is unbelievably detailed. The mother said that her 24-year-old son had been receiving packages nearly every day since the lockdown began and she used that as her inspiration.
What sort of birthday cakes have you crafted? Show it off on Facebook if you think you can beat this one.
Every parent thinks their kid is the most special kid in the universe, but being a Kardashian-West means you’re truly elite. According to Kim’s social media, seven-year-old North painted this Bob Ross-inspired gem.
Kanye West & Kim Kardashian’s daughter North is already painting masterpieces at 7 years old 🤯🎨 pic.twitter.com/uR1cBENJE9
Sorry, not buying it. Everyone lies about what their kids do and this is no different. What you have lied about that your kids have done? Do you have friends that lie about their kids constantly. Check in with us on Facebook and let us know.
Great news for underboob fans and bad news for the rest of society – celebrities are losing their minds for this new upside-down bikini trend. After Kourtney Kardashian busted out (or rather busted out of) the bikini, made by Sommer Swim, the company instantly ran out of this style of bikini.
We need to check the room on this one. What are you all thinking of this new trend? For it? Against it? Would you wear something like this. Sound off on Facebook and let us know.
You know how it sometimes feels like you have to learn a whole new language to keep up with modern dating? Yeah, that’s so legit that now even the language education companies have gotten involved.
There’s a language learning app called Babbel and one of their linguists just released a new report on the new dating terms that have come out of the pandemic. Check ’em out . . .
1. Zumping. Getting dumped over Zoom.
2. Corona-zoned. When a physical relationship is delayed because of Covid fears, so you keep things virtual for longer than you would’ve in normal times.
3. Lockblocking. Canceling or rescheduling a date because of new lockdown rules.
4. On-nomi. A Japanese term for drinking together online.
5. FODA. Stands for “fear of dating again,” and happens to people who haven’t been dating since the pandemic began.
6. Quarantionship. A relationship that started during quarantine and developed virtually.
7. Smugsolation. When a new couple uses social media to flaunt how they’re now spending all of their time together in person.
Matthew is in need of some help. His wife started a new job, which is great, but this is where things begin to unravel.
What does Matthew need to do here? Surely there’s a right way to go about this. Sound off on Facebook with whatever advice you have for our fallen soldier.
It happened in Utah over the weekend. A crew was enjoying their time in the beautiful, fresh powder when disaster struck. As you can see in the video below, all hell broke loose as a massive avalanche came crashing down on top of them.
After the snow took control, the snowmobiler was able to dig himself out. His little brother, who you can see in the video, was able to dig himself out as well. This is wild and we’re stoked they lived to tell their story. What’s your near death experience? Sound off on Facebook and let us know.
Look, us Midwesterners are built different. We like our hot dogs loaded, ours “opes”, and we tolerate the cold weather. Tolerating is not taking a dip in the frozen Lake Michigan water, like this woman did, however.
Who does this? Why would someone do something like this? What is wrong with her that compelled her to make this “Ice Lily Pad” video. This is the definition of “oh hell no!” or “Imma head out”. It’s insanity.
With regular temperatures flirting with zero and windchills falling to dangerously cold temperatures, it is important that we, as a community, look after our most vulnerable. That is what Jermaine Jordan, a local Chicago resident, is doing. Houseless Shelters are at a reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic so Jordan and his team are making sure that guests all around the city are given hot meals and warmth during this incredibly difficult time.
You can donate to Jordan’s cause here and you can read more information about how to aid in Chicago’s houseless epidemic here.
There’s a genius living in West Ridge. Adam Selzer is the man behind it. During the Polar Vortex two years ago, he began experimenting with ways to call “dibs” on parking spots and eventually landed on soaking a pair of jeans and then bringing them outside to freeze, as jeans can stand up when frozen. This is incredible.
The best part is that this is so Chicago. Have you seen anyone call dibs like this before? What’s the wildest thing that goes on in your neighborhood to secure a parking spot. Let us know on Facebook.
A 30-second ad during last night’s Super Bowl cost $5.5 MILLION . . . or about $183,000 per second. So were any of them worth all that coin?
Many of them were released early this year to milk as much exposure as possible, which seems like the norm now. Here’s a quick rundown of the highlights . . .
1. Timothée Chalamet was great as Edward Scissorhands’ son . . . Edgar Scissorhands . . . in a clever ad for Cadillac. Winona Ryder returned as her character from the movie, who’s now Edgar’s mom.
2. Matthew McConaughey delivered a very FLAT performance for Doritos 3D chips. The ad had a weird-looking, 2-D version of Matthew hanging out with Mindy Kaling and Jimmy Kimmel while “I Want to Break Free” by Queen played.
3. Dolly Parton reimagined her classic “9 to 5” song as “5 to 9” for Squarespace, encouraging everyone to keep hustling. So . . . 16-hour workdays, huh? Thanks, Squarespace. (Oscar winner Damien Chazelle directed both this one AND the McConaughey ad.)
4. The task marketplace Fiverr poked fun at the “Four Seasons Total Landscaping” debacle. (You know, Rudy Giuliani . . .) Their ad talked about how you can find all sorts of freelancers on there . . . even a PR expert if you need help booking a last-minute press conference.
5. John Cena’s ad for Mountain Dew’s new Major Melon flavor promised $1 million to the first person who could Tweet out the exact number of Mountain Dew bottles in the ad. (Last we checked, they hadn’t announced a winner yet.)
6. Drake played an insurance agent in an ad for State Farm. Or technically, the STAND-IN for an insurance agent. Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, and Paul Rudd were in it too.
7. If you blinked, you might have missed Reddit’s five-second ad that touched on the whole GameStop fiasco. You couldn’t read it all unless you hit pause. It ended with the line, “Powerful things happen when people rally around something they really care about. And there’s a place for that. It’s called Reddit.”
(Robinhood also ran an ad that said, “We are all investors.” Which the “gamestonk” crowd took issue with.)
8. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey brought back their “Wayne’s World” characters for Uber Eats, and tried to convince us to eat local with cute lookalike babies, a shot of “sexy Garth,” and a cameo by Cardi B.
9. Paramount had a lot of air time during the game, and plenty of star power. The game aired on CBS, and their “CBS All Access” app is becoming “Paramount-Plus” next month. So that’s why.
(Paramount’s parent company Viacom merged with CBS last year.)
It featured a bunch of celebrities climbing the Paramount mountain. Patrick Stewart, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Tom Selleck, Christine Baranski, and Jeff Probst all made appearances. And Beavis and Butt-Head’s “giant crack” joke was fun too.
Unfortunately, CBS All Access CRASHED for people who were trying to stream the game. Apparently, there were technical issues and outages at the very start, but they tapered off after 10 minutes. So that didn’t help their promo blitz.
10. In Amazon’s “Sexy Alexa” ad, a woman couldn’t fathom the new Amazon Echo looking any better . . . until she imagined Alexa in the body of Michael B. Jordan.
11. In a spot for GM, Will Ferrell found out Norway puts out more electric cars per capita than the U.S. and vowed to “crush those lugers.” Then he traveled to Sweden by mistake. Awkwafina and Kenan Thompson were also in it.
12. Cheetos had a silly “Cheetos fingers” spot with Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and Shaggy that featured his song, “It Wasn’t Me”.
13. An ad for Tide Pods had a kid in his favorite “Jason Alexander Hoodie.” “Seinfeld” fans liked that it referenced George’s outgoing answering machine message that used the “Greatest American Hero” theme song.
14. Dan Levy popped in at the end of a fun M&Ms ad that had one of the best exchanges of the night: “Sorry I called you Karen” . . . “My name IS Karen” . . . “Sorry your name is Karen.”
15. Samuel Adams hijacked the Budweiser Clydesdales and tossed around some wicked Boston accents for their Wicked Hazy IPA ad. Like a handful of the ads we all saw, this one was a local ad, so not EVERYONE got to see it.
16. Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer had a funny spot with celebrity lookalikes. The REAL Don Cheadle was in it, but the FAKE Sly Stallone and FAKE Megan Fox were also kind of mesmerizing.
17. We found out about this before the game, but two companies accidentally used the same stock footage in their Super Bowl commercials. Ads for Indeed and the mortgage company Guaranteed Rate both had the same shot of a kid riding on her dad’s shoulders. They blamed it on COVID making it harder to shoot footage this year.
18. Bud Light had a nostalgic spot where they brought back all of the Bud Light Legends of years past. The beer bottle football players from the ’90s and the “Real Men of Genius” singer had cameos.
19. T-Mobile released a commercial on social media with Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski that they claim was “banned,” because it ruffled the feathers of Verizon, which is a bigtime sponsor of the NFL. They did have other ads that were approved.
20. According to Google Trends, the Jeep commercial that was narrated by Bruce Springsteen was one of the most-searched ads.=
What 3 albums should you use to teach your kids about (good) music? Dave Grohl gave his ideas on it today, and while 2 you can probably guess, the 3rd is a bit of a curve ball, although still pretty epic in its own right. Check out his answers below, and then give us yours!
Foo Fighters founder, Dave Grohl told #BBCBreakfast which three albums he would recommend children listen to as a music home schooling lesson 🎸👇
Dashboard Confessional just announced its first live performance in nearly a year.
It will be the band’s first performance since Chris Carrabba was involved in a motorcycle crash last June that resulted in injuries including two broken shoulders.
Streaming on Valentine's Day, February 14th, at 7PM Eastern, the 'Lonely Hearts and Lovers’ stream is our first performance since Chris’s tragic accident in June of 2020. Tickets & exclusive merch bundles are available now at https://t.co/QTMd0Qndn6pic.twitter.com/jxsAH4bTGk
The “Snyder cut” of “Justice League” debuts on HBO Max next month, and we just caught this hi-res tease of Superman in his “Reign of the Supermen” black costume:
A 20-year-old Tennessee man was fatally shot while filming a ‘prank robbery’ for YouTube that went horribly wrong. Police say Timothy Wilks and a friend wielded butcher knives as they approached people at the Urban Air Trampoline Park in Nashville. Believing they were in danger, one of the people in the group pulled out a handgun and shot Wilks. The stunt was being filmed for a YouTube video. The shooter says he was acting in self-defense. Prank videos – including robbery pranks – are very popular on YouTube, but the platform cracked down on dangerous pranks in 2019.
