Weezer & more excellent bands on ‘Bill & Ted 3’ soundtrack

August 14, 2020 | Kevin

EXCELLENT! From some beloveds from the world of alternative music to some monsters from the heavier side of rock, the sound track for the anticipated ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ looks pretty darn good.  Both the film and soundtrack drop on August 28th.

According to Blabbermouth, here is the tracklist for the upcoming soundtrack:

01. BIG BLACK DELTA – “Lost in Time”
02. ALEC WIGDAHL – “Big Red Balloon”
03. WEEZER – “Beginning Of The End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)”
04. COLD WAR KIDS – “Story Of Our Lives”
05. MASTODON – “Rufus Lives”
06. BIG BLACK DELTA – “Circuits Of Time”
07. POORSTACY – “Darkest Night”
08. LAMB OF GOD – “The Death Of Us”
09. FIDLAR – “Breaker”
10. CULTURE WARS – “Leave Me Alone”
11. BLAME MY YOUTH – “Right Where You Belong”
12. WYLD STALLYNS (feat. Animals As Leaders, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah) – “Face The Music”
13. WYLD STALLYNS – “That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical and Biological Nature of Love; an Exploration of The Meaning of Meaning, Part 1”

You can’t play Fortnite on iPhone, and here’s why

August 14, 2020 | Kevin

Fortnite is easily one of the most popular free-to-play video games. Apple’s iPhone with the associated marketplace is easily one of the biggest combinations of devices and online stores. This week the two sides clashed, with Apple yanking Fortnite off the Apple store when Epic Games, the company behind the game offered direct payments the in-game currency, ‘v-bucks’. These direct payments are noticeably cheaper for users and work around Apple. Google the same move by Apple, and booted Fortnite off its Play store. Epic Games then responded by suing both Apple and Google. In the video above, Internet Today broke down the entire dispute in detail and how the gaming world is responding.

Epic started the hashtag #FreeFortnite campaign and released this short parody video which mocks the classic 1984 ad that Apple made for the release of its home PC, the Macintosh which challenged the market-dominance of IBM at the time.

Some big budget movies return to production

August 14, 2020 | Kevin

So how do we continue to make entertainment on a grand scale when we are dealing with a worldwide respiratory pandemic?

That’s been a lingering question that has hit Hollywood as the studios behind major TV and film productions work with unions in California on how to move forward, but some big blockbuster has returned to production overseas.  ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ resumed production in England under some very advanced protocols that have completely reorganized everyone from the cast and the crew working on the big-budget movie for Universal. Just to start, the cast is tested three times a week with a doctor on-set full time with three nurses doing temperature checks. The crew that does not interact with the cast wears protective equipment.

“If production of this magnitude can successfully manage through the uncertainties of filming amid a pandemic, and keep people working and the production pipeline moving, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for film shoots of all sizes to create safe and sustainable environments,” said Donna Langley, the head of Universal’s Filmed Entertainment division.

This is not the only movie to get back to it, as several other films are in the works overseas like the Avatar sequels, the ‘Uncharted’ adaption, and Marvel’s Shang-Chi.

Read the entire article from the New York Times here.

Collider spoke with Jurassic World creative mind Colin Trevorrow on how the new film will feature a mixture of CGI effects with animatronics.

Jeff Goldblum is returning for this sixth Jurassic Park film with a lot of the original cast coming back to deal with the dinos.

Boban should be the only NBA player mic’d up ever

August 14, 2020 | jnettlebeck

Boban might not be the best basketball player ever.

He might not be on evert kids wall like Jordan.

But he sure has the hearts of the fans.

Just listen to his mic’d up segment inside the NBA bubble.

I love him so much.

Stream new song from the Killers ‘Dying Breed’

August 14, 2020 | Kevin

Stream it here, the latest single from the Killers off their anticipated album ‘Imploding the Mirage’. Here is the link to check it out on Spotify.

The song sees the alt icons from Nevada collaborate with producer Flood, who had previously worked with the group on their album, ‘Sam’s Town’. 

Watch our recent interview with Brendon Flowers where he talks his life in quarantine and more

The lyrics talk about the internalized anxiety about the future of the relationship and how we can weather the trials of life ahead. It has those emotional touchstones that Brendon Flowers has gracefully produced in the past, but with our current world these lyrics may take on new meaning. With thumping bass line that gets your head-bobbing on the first listen, this song could get its teeth into you quickly. The song breaks out in this very Bruce Springsteen vibe at a point that catches you off guard in a great way.

You can stream the other fresh singles released so far off the yet-to-be-released album here.

Listen to a previously unreleased Linkin Park song

August 13, 2020 | <3 Lauren

It’s a big day for LP fans, the band just released a never-before-heard demo from 1999 with the announcement that for the 20th anniversary of the band’s ground-breaking debut Hybrid Theory will be reissued on October 9th, details below.

Listen to the previously unreleased ‘She Couldn’t’

“The LP reissue comes in multiple physical and digital formats, including a super deluxe box set, super deluxe vinyl box set and deluxe CD that all come with the original Hybrid Theory as well as the B-Side Rarities with 12 previously-released tracks from the album era.

The super deluxe box set comes with three more CDs, including the accompanying remix record Reanimation, LPU Rarities with 18 exclusive tracks from the Linkin Park Underground (LPU) fan club, and Forgotten Demos with 12 unreleased tracks, such as “She Couldn’t.” Three vinyl LPs and three DVDs, featuring unseen live footage from 2000 and 2001 and a replica of the band’s first documentary Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, are also tacked onto the Hybrid Theory super deluxe reissue edition. Extra facets include an 80-page illustrated book with contributions from the band members and previously unseen photos; the original street team 2-track cassette; three lithographs with new art by Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, and Frank Maddocks; replicata tour laminate; and poster of the late lead vocalist Chester Bennington.”  More from Billboard.

Image by Bill Whitmire, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda at PIQNIQ 2014

<3 Lauren

Chicago’s Rainforest Cafe closing & the weird history of theme restaurants

August 13, 2020 | Kevin

At the corner of Ohio and Clark for 23 years, Rainforest Cafe has been a tourist trap of giant molded plastic animals luring in families with a gift shop that has a restaurant behind it but those days are gone, as this week came the news that it’s closing. Block Club Chicago published this detailed report yesterday about how the pandemic helped speed up the closure plans that had been in the works for some time. You can also see on-site pictures of the store’s signs being dismantled in the article.

In the video above, Innovision 3D breaks down how the chain restaurant has faded off from it’s trendy highs in the 90s.  The video also digs deep into the concept of theme restaurants goes back to the 1800’s. Yeah, it was a thing way before Planet Hollywood.

Here is another video from Erik Nicholas showing off what the Rainforest Cafe in Chicago looked like with all of it’s animal decorations.

Botched nose job gives man 3 month long erection

August 13, 2020 | jnettlebeck

This is the strangest side effect i’ve heard of…

Neven Ciganovic, a blogger and TV personality from Zagreb, Croatia, underwent rhinoplasty surgery in Iran in 2017 because he has this weird goal of looking like a Bratz doll.

I mean check the guy out, seems perfectly normal.

Well, the nose job in Iran went wrong and left the personality with an erection that lasted 3 MONTHS!

Doctors tried to correct the issue by draining the blood out of his penis. Guess what though… DIDN’T WORK!!!

So now I guess he can at least go for some sort of world record. I mean he has to have beaten it by now right!?!

Take a look at the first socially distant concert venue

August 13, 2020 | Kevin

We posted about this a while ago, but now it’s a reality. In Newcastle, England this week the country’s first socially distant concert venue opened up and of course, we got a look at how it’s operating through social media posts. Here is what the Virgin Money ty Arena looks liked for a sold-out from the first show with Sam Fender. Music Biz dug into how the venue could influence massive changes to the future of live music with the global pandemic.

The way they are doing it is giving everyone their enclosures to main tain the distance. The capacity for the venue is 2500. All drinks and food can be pre-ordered.

Some big names in UK alternative are playing Unity Arena in the weeks and months to come including Two Door Cinema Club, the Libertines, and more.

 

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