This new world without sports has got people calling play by plays for anything!
Take this guy who narrates his dog’s walks for instance.
Olive an Mabel might be the best to ever do it if you ask me!
Wheel of Fortune golden (shower) mistake
I have never personally been on a game show, but I imagine it is nerve racking.
No one wants to look like an idiot in front of all the people watching at home.
This contestant, however, was not afraid to guess any word, no matter how weird it may be.
I mean, it makes sense…
It’s amazing how confident this contestant was in her answer!
Actor Sean Penn joins Mayor Lori Lightfoot to tour new COVID-19 testing sights
Actor Sean Penn joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the touring of a brand new testing sight for asymptomatic first responders.
Penn is also the co founder of the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), which is responsible for funding six test sights, most of which are located in minority neighborhoods.
He has been working all across the country trying to open test sites in places that lack resources and have been affected the most by the pandemic.
Good guy Sean Penn everybody!!
They were told to make a video of their apartment for their landlord to rent it out… they did not disappoint!
This might be the greatest tour video you’ll ever see.
Our letting agent asked us to make a video of the flat we are basically being forced out of. I wish them the very best of luck. pic.twitter.com/h3fcOw657w
— Sandy Batchelor (@sandybatchelor) May 17, 2020
Would you move here? Honestly doesn’t look like that bad of a place.
Shame their landlord is kicking them out, theses guys seem awesome!
Here’s an idea for a sunscreen prank
Have you ever wanted to prank your friends while also deterring them from protecting their skin from UV waves?
Well then you have got to see this sunscreen prank that some fishermen pulled on their buddy.
These fishermen are just real guys being dudes you know!
Remembering Chris Cornell
Hard to believe it has been three years since we lost Chris Cornell. One of the most talented being on this planet. Almost, otherworldly. Maybe he is.
I was lucky enough to spend some time with Chris whether on the phone, in person or in the audience watching him do what he was put here to do.
I’d like to share a sit down I had with Chris that was never posted publicly due to mic and sound issues, and hope you will see past that to feel the intimacy and warmth that was in the 101WKQX Studio 7 on October 7, 2015:
And a clip from the night before at the Chicago Theatre:
The first time I spoke with Chris was over the phone in September of 2012 when he called in to chat about Soundgarden coming back after 15 years gone guns blazing with a new album and tour, this is a clip about wanting fans to have the full album experience:
And about Soundgarden’s brand new fans:
this is a clip about how he grateful he is to do what he does:
Chris and Ben Shepherd came through our Underground Lounge at JBTV on Apil 23, 2013 and were kind enough to play some incredible acoustic songs, feel free to download and share. <3
Blow Up The Outside World
Black Saturday
Halfway There
Black Hole Sun
Fell On Black Days
Today marks 3 years since we lost Chris Cornell
It was unfortunately 3 years ago today that we lost the amazing musician Chris Cornell.
He was a contributing member of both Audioslave and Soundgarden.
A truly amazing artist who brought joy to thousands of fans through his music.
Gone but not forgotten.
Rest in piece, Chris.
Hundreds rally against stay at home order in Chicago and Springfield
It is a crazy sight to see hundreds of people crowded around one another, let alone none of them are wearing masks.
But that is exactly what hundreds of protestors have begun doing in protest against IL governor JB Pritzker’s continued stay at home order.
It is annoying to have to stay home, and some people are really struggling operating their businesses, and these protestors want the IL governor to know that they have had enough of it.
Hopefully no one get’s sick from these protests, that would look awful for their cause…
You need to hear this AC/DC song that AI created
What do you get when you plug a bunch of AC/DC lyrics into some AI and tell it to write a song?
A masterpiece, that’s what!
Now check out this artificially made song titled: Great Balls.
Well at least we don’t have to worry about AI taking over the music industry…
LA’s first legal mobile liquor store hits the streets this week
A lot of small businesses have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This business owner wouldn’t accept that, so he created LA’s first ever mobile liquor store.
It’s super simple for people to use. You just go on their website and order what you want, then they bring it to you!
How cool is that???
Maybe this is the future of alcohol sales everywhere!
Things go terribly wrong for this guys first experience with VR
People say that VR is the future of gaming.
Well ladies and gentleman, take a look at what the future looks like.
We all get one TV, this guy wasted his on a dumb VR game.
This guy broke into a museum to take selfies with dinosaurs
Police in Australia are looking for a man who broke into a museum to take selfies with the dinosaurs on display.
Police are searching for a Sydney who has been caught on camera breaking into the Australian Museum, wandering around exhibits and taking selfies with dinosaur bones. https://t.co/u2udVANO0U #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/wZrhYwOy0w
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) May 15, 2020
Have people gotten so stir crazy that this is what they’re willing to do for fun?
Or is this guy finally living out his Night at the Museum fantasy???
Queued Up Playlist 5/17
| HOUR 1 | |
| Kennyhoopla | How Will I Rest In Peace If I’m Buried By A Highway |
| Dayglow | Can I Call You Tonight? |
| Tennis | Need Your Love |
| Run the Jewels | Ooh La La |
| All Time Low | Monsters |
| Car Seat Headrest | Hollywood |
| Chvrches | Forever |
| Joji | Run |
| Finneas | Lets Fall In Love For The Night |
| 24k Goldn | City of Angels |
| White Reaper | Real Long Time |
| 070 Shake | Guilty Conscience |
| Major Lazer feat Marcu Mumford | Lay Your Head on Me |
| Bakar | Hell n Back |
| The Strokes | Bad Decisions |
| HOUR 2 | |
| The Used | The Lighthouse |
| Declan Mckenna | Beautiful Faces |
| Palaye Royale | Lonely |
| Chaz Cardigan | Not Ok |
| Wallows | OK |
| Rezz and Grabbitz | Someone Else |
| Melody Federer | This Town |
| Perfume Genius | On the Floor |
| Bloxx | Lie Out Loud |
| Flume | The Difference |
| Weezer | Hero |
| Loveleo | Rosie |
| Airborne Toxic Event | Come On Out |
| Gorillaz | Aries |
| Guardin | Alive |
| Oliver Tree | Let Me Down |
| Sam Tinnesz | Play With Fire |
5.17.2020 Alt_Backspace
Hour 1
- Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
- New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
- Dinosaur Jr. – Start Choppin’
- Live – Selling The Drama
- The Fixx – Red Skies
- Veruca Salt – Seether
- Nada Surf – Popular
- When In Rome – The Promise
- Green Day – J.A.R.
- The Flaming Lips – Turn It On
- Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
- The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- Letters To Cleo – Here And Now
- Beastie Boys – Body Movin’
Hour 2
- Social Distortion – Ball And Chain
- Talking Heads – Wild Wild Life
- Sonic Youth – Bull In The Heather
- Pearl Jam – Rearviewmirror
- XTC – Senses Working Overtime
- The Breeders – Divine Hammer
- Urge Overkill – Sister Havana
- Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
- Fuel – Shimmer
- The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
- Foo Fighters – Next Year
- The Replacements – I Will Dare
- Soul Coughing – Super Bon Bon
Eddie Vedder’s wild stories about Dennis Rodman
Tonight we get even more of the must-see documentary ‘the Last Dance’ which shows off the memorable play of the 90’s Chicago Bulls who had many characters off the court, including the rebounding wild man Dennis Rodman. ‘The Worm’ was known for spending a lot of time off court partying and enjoying life to the fullest. One night in Seattle as the Bulls were practicing before taking on the then-very formidable Sonics the next day, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was trying to get the raucous Rodman to calm down and do some relaxing reading, but Rodman was not having it. It was 6pm in Seattel, by 9:30 that night Rodman and Vedder were right off stage at a Jane’s Addiction. show in Las Vegas. You can listen to Vedder tell the whole story during a recent podcast interview with sports wizard Bill Simmons.
Rodman sat down with Genius to get quized about “his” band, Pearl Jam. Damn, Rodman really knows PJ. He even has a Carman Electra / Cypress Hill story in here.
Yankee Stadium drive-in live music festival in the works
In these challenging COVID times, the once-dead ‘drive in’ is making a big comeback with a local example being the McHenry Drive In.The past two weekends they have been turning away people from their once-shuttered drive-in theater. It is a workaround for the many of us that want to get out but still want to maintain social distance, so that same format had to expanded to live entertainment right? In Denmark and Germany, live concerts at drive-ins started in April and now it looks like they could expand to the United States in the parking lot of one of the most popular sports franchises in America, the New York Yankees.
MASC Hospitality, a production company that produces street festivals around the NYC area is reportedly working on the Uptown Drive-In at
the parking lot of Yankees Stadium. Brooklyn Vegan reports the event could possibly be held on weekends in July with carnival-like offerings including raffles, games, food, and of course, live music. This is a “complete drive-in” experience according to a statement from the organizers.
So this raises the question, can we do this in the parking lot near one of our arenas? 35th street party in our vans, maybe?
Many of our favorite Chicago Venues need our help right now!
Brian, Ali and Justin will be LIVE for 34 HOURS on May 21st from 6AM to May 22nd at 4PM in support of the 34 independent Chicago venues!
You can check out what venues will be directly supported here.
Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme cover (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
I cannot get enough of these quarantine collaborations and covers and hope they don’t end once we get to the other side of this. Check out Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age giving (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? a whole new vibe. <3 Lauren
New video out of quarantine from Local H
Local H’s latest album LIFERS came out a month ago, and the hauntingly beautiful track #6 ‘Sunday Best’ just got an equally haunting music video treatment out of quarantine. Enjoy, and listen to the entire album below! <3 Lauren
“Scott Lucas says “Sunday Best” is “a love song in the most macro way possible,” continuing, “trying to place our tiny individual relationships in the tiny continuum of our tiny family blood-lines. And then put THAT into the whole of human existence — which is actually pretty tiny — and still come away with the thought that finding love is some kind of miracle. It’s like a rebuke to that Bogart line in Casablanca about the troubles of two people not adding up to a ‘hill of beans.’ What we’re saying is that the hill of beans is EVERYTHING. If nothing matters — maybe everything matters.” Read more from Brooklyn Vegan HERE.
Watch must-see ‘Prince and the Revolution: Live’ concert
Prince paved the way for wild new places in music with his expansive embrace of rock, soul, funk, and everything else you can think of in a near perfect mix that became his ground breaking ‘Purple Rain’ album. So successful it had a film adaption and last impact on generations of music fans to this day. With the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Google and YouTube have partnered with the estate of Prince to raise funds for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization (powered by UN Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation) with a special streaming event that revives that special era of music.
The ‘concert film premiered on YouTube last night and will only be available for free through the weekend, so watch it now before it’s gone. If you have a few dollars to spare throw in for the cause.This live album in audio form has also finally been released on music streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify as well.
This specific performance was filmed in Syracuse, New York but was the same month the Purple One and his collective of superstars played 5 sold-out shows at was then, the Rosemont Horizon. We are thinking deeply of our hard-working friends in the local live music business at this uncertain time, and that is why 101WKQX is launching a special 34 hour radiothon to benefit the impacted staff of Chicago’s shuttered independent music venues. Tune in Thursday, May 21st through May 22nd for this special event featured Brian, Ali, and Justin from the KQX Morning Crew with many more pledging to SAVE OUR STAGES. Read more about that here.
Here is the set list from Wikipedia.
- “Let’s Go Crazy” (5:30)
- “Delirious” (2:46)
- “1999” (includes “Reveille” interpolation) (4:15)
- “Little Red Corvette” (5:10)
- “Take Me with U” (4:15)
- “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (Interlude) (6:10)
- “Do Me, Baby” (includes “Purple House” spoken intro) (4:40)
- “Irresistible Bitch” (2:00)
- “Possessed” (4:24)
- “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore” (5:05)
- “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” (4:15)
- “International Lover” (1:00)
- “God” (8:30)
- “Computer Blue” (4:30)
- “Darling Nikki” (4:00)
- “The Beautiful Ones” (includes backwards “The Dance Electric” and wind chime intro) (7:30)
- “When Doves Cry” (8:15)
- “I Would Die 4 U” (3:50)
- “Baby I’m a Star” (10:00)
- “Purple Rain” (18:24)
MLB Pitcher Blake Snell Refuses to play for reduced pay
Ace Pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays Blake Snell went on a rant and talked about why he refuses to play for a reduced pay during the corona virus pandemic.
He feels that it’s more of a risk to leave his house and play in the first place, so why would he do it for less money??
Can you blame the guy too? He just signed a $50 million contract and now they want to suddenly pay him less and risk his health?
That makes no sense.
