The Beastie Boys may not be releasing any new music, but they have certainly been active in the last year or so with the release of a lengthy book, a film on Apple TV, and now comes news that on October 23rd they will release a greatest hits compilation. You will be able to get the album digitally, on CD, and as a 2xLP set.
Beasties last released new music with 2011’s ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’. Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch sadly past away a year later after a battle with cancer. He was not able to tour or appear in music videos for the album.
Beastie Boys Music:
01 So What’Cha Want
02 Paul Revere
03 Shake Your Rump
04 Make Some Noise
05 Sure Shot
06 Intergalactic
07 Ch-Check It Out
08 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
09 Pass the Mic
10 Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
11 Body Movin’
12 Sabotage
13 Hold It Now, Hit It
14 Shadrach
15 Root Down
16 Brass Monkey
17 Get It Together
18 Jimmy James
19 Hey Ladies
20 No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Obviously this is not a traditional school year for a lot of kids with COVID-19. Many are returning to e-learning at home while in some other parts of Illinois they are going back to the classroom with regulations but something we did not expect is keeping kids from getting to school in Piatt County: Buffalos.
A herd of buffalo got on the loose near Monticello this week and diverted several school buses from getting students to class. Check out the report from WAND.
The most exciting 2 minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby will run today at Churchill Downs today in Kentucky as the biggest horse racing event of a very odd year. Now in its 146th year, the Derby was originally scheduled to place during it’s a traditional weekend in May but that was delayed due to the pandemic. You can watch the pre-race coverage starting at 1:30 PM CST on NBC, the NBC Sports app, and on its website. The post-time for the main event is set for 6PM CST. You can get the full list of horse names you can yell at a screen later today.
Chicago Blackhawks great and horse racing handicapper Eddie Olczyk joined the Rich Eisen Show to run down the ponies and how Tiz the Law stands out as the favorite to win the big dash, but another horse with a bigger possible winning behind is the one to watch.
Here are the latest betting odds from KentuckyDerby.com.
Tiz the Law (1-1)
Honor A.P. (8-1)
Authentic (9-1)
Thousand Words (9-1)
Money Moves (14-1)
Max Player (15-1)
Ny Traffic (16-1)
Enforceable (22-1)
Storm the Court (22-1)
Sole Volante (23-1)
South Bend (33-1)
Major Fed (27-1)
Necker Island (40-1)
Attachment Rate (42-1)
Mr. Big News (43-1)
Winning Impression (44-1)
It seems like we were supposed to have jetpacks by now but if we got them in wide use, hopefully we would not act like this guy.
Air traffic control operators this week in Los Angeles dealt with calls from pilots in the air, seeing a man flying near them in a jetpack. Yeah, 2020 is already odd as it is, but this is just flying in a different direction. Inside Edition has the entire conversation with pilots who seem pretty annoyed by the entire thing in the video above.
Did you know there is a really good alternative rock band called We Were Promised Jetpacks, who have released some very great post-punk influence sounds that would fit perfectly on a Riot Fest lineup. Here is one of their best songs ‘Quiet Little Voices’.
Production on the upcoming DC Cinematic film ‘The Batman’ has halted production following the unfortunate news Robert Pattinson has contracted COVID-19. It was initially reported yesterday with no acknowledgment of who was actually dealing with the virus. Vanity Fair then broke the news that it was the film’s star. This is the second time the film has been paused in London. Pattinson’s reps have not confirmed the news at this time.
“A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19,”said Warner Bros. in a statement to the press. “and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.”
At the DC Fandome event a few weeks ago, this very dark gritty trailer for the upcoming film debuted. It is culled together for what director Matt Reeves said was just 25% of the film, leaving much work to be done on the superhero epic. The trailer really hit with alternative music fans due to the on-point use of the Nirvana’s morose song ‘Soming in the Way’. Learn more about that song and why it works so well for this story here.
Late great alternative singers Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington were trending today on Twitter. The reason may not be exactly clear, but it’s worth remembering the sad time in which we lost them in 2017. Cornell would pass in May 2017 shortly after a show with Soundgarden in Detroit. Bennington would pass in July of the same year, just days before Linkin Park was scheduled to perform a session in the Lounge with 101WKQX. As we deal with the current stress and draining mental health challenges of our current times. we can look back at our collective alternative community coming together to remember these two generational voices.
If you or anyone you know is dealing with mental health issuess and thoughts of suicide, please know there is ALWAYS help just a phone call with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Here are some special performances from the time three years ago along special moments shared on stage between Bennington and Cornell.
Cornell would sadly pass in May 2017, with LP just rolling out a new album with a media tour they opted to use the platform of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ to perform the appropriate tone of ‘One More Light’, instead of playing their active single at the time.
From this fan-filmed video from 2008 in North Carolina on the Projekt Revolution tour, you can see Cornell join Bennington and LInkin Park for a performance of ‘Crawling’. It’s something very special to hear their voices blend, and the crowd reaction when Cornell appears is something special.
On the same tour, Cornell and Bennington continued to duet together with Chester filling Eddie Vedder’s shoes on the emotive classic ‘Hunger Strike’.
The week that Cornell died, Soundgarden was supposed to be one of the headliners of the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio. Many of the acts performing on the fest paid tribute to the legendary Seattle singer including the Pretty Reckless who covered ‘Like A Stone’, Corey Taylor performing ‘Hunger Strike’, and Live doing ‘I am the Highway’.
Linkin Park with many of their friends in the music world gathered at a sold-out Hollywood Bowl in October 2017. to honor Chester’s memory and life. The live show was broadcast live, and it was quite the moving evening, to say the least. You can watch the entire 3-hour show here.
David Blaine has done wilder and wilder stunts that challenge human limits from being underwater for extended periods, remained in ice for lengthy periods of time, and other spectacles but this live stream running now is something else. In a new challenge inspired by the modern Disney animated classic, Blaine is floating currently over 22,000 feet and counting with a crew of professionals working with him to help him break an astonishing record. If you have a fear of heights, this will make your blood boil.
At some point, he was on a teleconference with his daughter while he floated so far above the Earth. It was quite the production with helicopters covering the entire spectacle from different angles in real-time, it was beyond thrilling and relieving to see Blaine descent safely via by parachute from over 24,000 feet with his chute being pulled around 5,000 feet.
Jerry Bryant is the host and founder of JBTV, America’s longest running music television show right out of downtown Chicago for going on 36 years. He also happens to be one of my favorite people on the planet. The guy lives and breathes for music and supporting artists. He beat stage 4 colorectal cancer and now faces another monumental task – JBTV may no longer have a home if he doesn’t get some help, and fast. Covid hit JBTV hard, and he lost the television studio on West Grand Avenue, since then he has been filming the show out of his apartment. But due to an extreme lack of income related to Covid, is now facing eviction.
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It’s September in a crappy year with a lot of depressing things happening to thousands of people every day, so somewhere today you will see someone reference the years-old joke about Green Day’s emotional classic ‘Wake Me Up When September’ ends. So let’s try to use more part of our collective brains than just the part that wants to see memes, to dig into the origins of the song and it’s profound impact.
The 4:19 track was one of the smash hit singles off Green Day’s wildly successful 2003 concept album ‘American Idiot’ which sold millions and became one of the biggest alternative releases of the 2000s. The song itself peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was a top ten song in multiple countries. Though the story of ‘American Idiot’ is quite clear to fans and has been adapted into a Broadway musical, ‘Wake Me Up’ is viewed as a song that has no direct connection to the album’s concept.
In the first few years after its release, the song has been seen as a bonding point for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the terror attacks of September 11th. In recent years, the song has been adopted by meme culture to be a comedic complaint about the end of summer and other saddening topics.
So what is the actual inspiration for the song? The crowd-sourced lyrical web portal Genius has culled together some info detailing that the song depicts singer Billy Joe Armstrong dealing with the death of his father from cancer on September 1, 1982 at the age of 10. The title of the song allegedly refers to a conversation that a young Armstrong had with his mother when in his room after his father’s funeral. That is a lasting experience for anyone who has lost someone they love, let alone at such an impressionable age. Armstrong though has said in recent years, the song still brings up memories of his father but that it’s also has a newer celebratory tone to it.
September already? Woof. #wakemeupwhenseptemberends
In April,2020. Armstrong performed the song on the Global Citizen ‘Together At Home’ charity broadcast to organize resources against COVID-19. Yes, April this year feels like it was years ago.
True crime has exploded as a genre of interest in the past few years from ‘Making a Murderer’ on Netflix to huge podcasts like ‘the Syndicate’. We all want to know the who-done-it’s and how they did it. They are compelling stories of tragedy and one band who has been able to tell some of those stories is the Killers.
Middle 8 created this great short documentary video that explores the ‘murder trilogy’ that plays out over several songs on their 2004 breakout album ‘Hot Fuss’ with the final piece yet to be released years later on their ‘Sawdust’ collection. “The murder of a woman named Jennifer at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. A classic tale of a romance gone bad.” says the channel in the video description.
A few months ago, 101WKQX’s Jon Manley spoke with Brandon Flowers of the Killers about their new music, being creative in quarantine, and much more.
There was no better feeling in the 1990s then flipping on MTV and having “Under The Bridge” flash on the screen. The John Frusciante outro guitar riff still rings in my head to this day. That’s the power of music and visuals, combined.
Music videos are a big part of The History Of Alternative. And The Red Hot Chili Peppers have a lot of great ones. Here’s ten.
This list was made from a compilation of Top 10’s [Rolling Stone, Louder Sound, Pop Matters, Noise Creep, Diffuser] as well as views and other fan feedback/polls. Ultimately, these 10 songs shook out in order of popularity — down from a list of 25+, which for ANY band would be an impressive resume of video hits. — [eric]
MTV is airing the VMAs tonight, an annual reminder that they used to feature music a lot more and still post content about it online. Their other annual event the MTV Movie Awards was postponed indefinitely due to the current pandemic, but that did not stop ‘SNL’ writer Steven Castillo from creating 40-minute hilarious spoof of an award show that was always just a pop culture curveball on the Oscars. From telling hammy two liners with spliced-in footage of bored celebrities to the gratuitous use of green screens, Castillo makes you think the MTV Movie Awards are somehow airing on Adult Swim.
Castillo spent several years on comedy stages around Chicago, before moving east a few years ago. It’s nice to see several other midwest converts like Tyler Snodgrass, Meg Stalter, and more contribute to this must-see mini-movie. SNL cast members Chriss Redd and Melissa Villasenor also make cameos here as well. If you really like this, go ahead and share the link
In the original video post, Castillo called for viewers to help out those in the need in New York City. Donate to Community Service Society of New York at: https://www.cssny.org/donate
They have 19 million impressionable people following them on Tik Tok and they are throwing huge parties in our current pandemic without any social distancing or masks, but the city of Los Angeles is not having it anymore. Blake Gray and Bryce Hall who have been hosting the huge house parties recently and documenting them online are now facing criminal charges for unsafe events. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the charges this week for defiance of local health codes, with the pair potentially facing up to a year in jail and $2,000 in fines.
“If you have a combined 19 million followers on TikTok in the middle of a public health crisis, you should be modeling great behavior…rather than brazenly violating the law,” Feuer said during a press conference according to CNN.
The controversial parties in question have gotten so out of control, they have faced multiple police calls. On August 19th, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti even ordered to cut the power off the Hollywood Hills house involved in one of the ragers.
Internet Today went off on the whole issue in their latest video here.
Green Day is the band that has ruled Chicago with a huge Wrigley Field show and a live streaming press conference today on the 101WKQX Facebook page. They are Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famers, have sold millions of albums, played to hundreds of thousands all over the world, and they are still going with a vibrant energy that shows their time at the top of the alternative mountain is far from over.
Guitarist/singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been hustling to get they are today at the ‘stadium level’ shared by top tier bands like Foo Fighters and Coldplay, with an enduring focus to political activism, emotional truth, and constant dedication delivering on being so much more ‘just another punk band’.
So let the delightful debate begin about what songs are the best from this West Coast trio, here is a Top 20 according to me and suggestions of trusted music fanatics of GD. So if you don’t like it or you love it, let ME know on social media. Yeah, if you are upset in any remote way, it’s my fault.
10-year old Nandi Bushell has taken the internet by storm with her on-point rock covers, earning praise from the bands she is paying tribute to, and now she has even earned an answer to her dream drum off challenge. Foo Fighters leader and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has answered the music community’s call to see him do a drum-off with Nandi, and he delivered in the following videos this weekend..
You might burst out laughing when the brash and bold Bushell yells “CHECKMATE!” at the camera after crushing this Foos cover.
Chadwick Boseman who starred the massively successful Marvel film ‘Black Panther’ has passed away at the age of 43 after a long fight with colon cancer. The sad news was confirmed by the actor’s publicist and has been garnering a massive reaction across the world online. Boseman was reportedly scheduled to reprise his Black Panther role for a solo sequel due out in 2022.
Boseman’s career was not limited to being a superhero, as he also portrayed groundbreaking baseball player Jackie Robinson in ’42’ and music icon James Brown in ‘Get On Up’.
His cancer diagnosis was not public knowledge. The Howard University graduate was fighting the disease since 2016. He filmed several hit films during the period including the critically acclaimed ‘Da 5 Bloods’.
His performance as Black Panther’s T’Challa gained him international fame and praise as the film became the cultural event of 2018.
Joeseph Grisamore of Minnesota proved he’s pretty dedicated to a hairstyle that could be ruined by a ceiling fan this week when he earned the Guiness World Record for the tallest mohawk. The impressive do stands at 42 inches and takes over an hour to create with a hairstylist or his very supportive wife helping him. He attempted a spiked mohawk some years back and was unsuccessful, but cut it all off before spending years to get follically fit for this current record.
The new Guiness World Record 2021 edition comes out next week.
