Yikes! Better hide your wallets before Chicago taxes you for being alive.
These pet masks are super creepy
Pet’s are essentially apart of our families,
People feel a real connection to their furry friends, and sometimes people get a little obsessed.
Well, a company in Japan will make a mask of your pet that you can wear and… uh, be completely normal in.
What is the world coming to?
Also, I’ll take ten masks, please.
McDonald’s has the cure to longer life!
Maybe it’s the secret sauce, maybe it’s the scary amount of science that goes into preserving their products.
Either way, McDonald’s seems to have stopped the aging process. As proven by this 20-year-old hamburger.
What are they hiding in those burgers?
Should we start rubbing these things on our faces? Is that weird? Or genius!
Listen McDonald, we’re onto you.
Qd Up Playlist 1/5/20
Happy New Year! First show of 2020 with music from Finneas, DMA’s, and that Glass Animals jam. Plus a little tribute to some of the wonderful women that released bops in 2019. As always, let us know what you like and what you want to year, use #QDUP.
| HOUR 1 | |
| Finneas | Lets Fall In Love For the Night |
| Silversun Pickups | Don’t Know Yet |
| Clairo | Bags |
| Two Feet | You |
| Emarosa | Ready to Love |
| Post Animal | Safe or Not |
| The Districts | Hey Jo |
| Glass Animals | Tokyo Drifting |
| Dan Luke and the Raid | Fool |
| Lukr | Big Kids |
| Saint Motel | Van Horn |
| Tame Impala | It Might Be Time |
| Electric Guest | More |
| Michigander | Misery |
| Flor | Dancing Around |
| Blue Stones | Shakin Off The Rust |
| HOUR 2 | |
| Billie Eilish | Everything I Wanted |
| Starcrawler | No More Pennies |
| Upsahl | Smile for the Camera |
| Taylor Janzen | What I Do |
| Girl in Red | Bad Idea |
| Phantogram | In A Spiral |
| Eliza nad the Delusionals | Just Exist |
| Of Montreal | Peace to All Freaks |
| Battles | Fort Green Park |
| Unlikely Candidates | Novocaine |
| Goody Grace | Scumbag |
| Mansionaire feat Shaed | Easier |
| Counterfeit | It Gets Better |
| Wolf Parade | Against the Day |
| DMA’s | Silver |
| Matt Maeson | Go Easy |
Nirvana members reunite, with St. Vincent & Beck on vocals.
The surviving members of Nirvana got together last night [1.4] for charity — and they were joined by a trio of great guest vocalists.
Two of them, in fact, have been guests in The Lounge at 101WKQX — St. Vincent & Beck. The third was a little closer to the Nirvana family: Dave Grohl’s 13 year old daughter, Violet.
They joined Dave, Pat Smear, & Krist Novoselic to rip through classic Nirvana tunes, all for the charity event known as the 2020 Art of Elysium Gala. The organization connects artists with communities of children in need. You can get a taste of what the night was like — we have a smattering of video clips captured by fans below. — [eric]
Family ties: Dave Grohl’s 13-year-old daughter Violet joins surviving members of #Nirvana to sing “Heart-Shaped Box” at @TheArtofElysium gala in Los Angeles (also in the backing band: Nirvana fans Beck and St Vincent… NBD) pic.twitter.com/TICogKODG7
— Tim Chan (@mrtimchan) January 5, 2020
@beck introduced this cover by recalling “the most insane mosh pit” of his life. How insane was it? He crowd surfed for nearly the entire show and when Beck finally got back on his feet, his hands were bleeding. Where was it? The Hollywood Palladium. What band was it? #Nirvana. pic.twitter.com/yno679yw8l
— James Patrick Herman (@TheGlamourGuy) January 5, 2020
WATCH: Dave Grohl, @KristNovoselic, and Pat Smear reunite at @TheArtofElysium gala, joined on stage by @beck and @st_vincent to perform #Nirvana’s cover of “Man Who Sold the World.” pic.twitter.com/t0ntCHUDPo
— Tim Chan (@mrtimchan) January 5, 2020
Three members of Nirvana and Beck on vocals & guitar. #nirvana #davegrohl #krisnovoselic #patsmear #beck pic.twitter.com/dMl8Pyurta
— Doc Coyle (@DocCoyle) January 5, 2020
@st_vincent channeled #KurtCobain along with @beck and the surviving members of #Nirvana — #DaveGrohl and #KristNovoselic — while also subverting the band’s testosterone-charged anthems. This happened at @TheArtofElysium’s annual “Heaven” gala (and Kurt smiled down from heaven). pic.twitter.com/8mIuknMNgd
— James Patrick Herman (@TheGlamourGuy) January 5, 2020
Chicago pays more for Uber, Lyft starting Monday.
Chicago’s congestion tax on ride shares starts on Monday, January 6th.
Riding weekdays downtown? It will cost you more. Taking a ride by yourself? Yup, you’ll pay more for that. But if you share that ride, you will pay less in tax — it’s actually gone down. ABC 7 Chicago has broken the costs down here. — [eric]
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1.5.20 Alt_Backspace
Hour 1
- Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
- Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
- They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Bush – Little Things
- Echo And The Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar
- Garbage – Vow
- Folk Implosion – Natural One
- The Cure – In Between Days
- Silverchair – Tomorrow
- Less Than Jake – History Of A Boring Town
- The Breeders – Cannonball
- XTC – Senses Working Overtime
- Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl
Hour 2
- Weezer – The Good Life
- New Order – Blue Monday
- Remy Zero – Prophecy
- Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
- The Jam – That’s Entertainment
- Beck – Sexx Laws
- Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka
- The Smiths – Ask
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get
- Radiohead – My Iron Lung
- Green Day – 2000 Light Years Away
- Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
- The Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven
In 2020, plenty of albums coming to grace your ears.
Some people may be looking forward to the Summer Olympics, Maverick taking flight at age 57, new PlayStation and XBox consoles, or even an extra day in February — but I know plenty who are looking forward to metric ton of new music in 2020. Here are just some of the things in the pipeline:
Foo Fighters – “TBD”
The 10th studio album from Dave Grohl & company is in the works — we know this because your Fighters of Foo posted some snippets to their Instagram account this week. No title or release date at this point, but we’ll keep an eye on it.
Green Day – Father Of All…
Two things to look forward to from Green Day — The Hella Mega Tour in the summer, but much sooner — Father Of All… It looks like the band shared the back cover of the album with a fan club member, complete with track listing. We’ll find out for sure on February 7th.
Is this the tracklist for Green Day’s new album, Father Of All…? https://t.co/Tzc8vdxngJ pic.twitter.com/NQ2vzs1Cb5
— Kerrang! Magazine (@KerrangMagazine) January 4, 2020
The Killers – Imploding The Mirage
It is clear that white boards play a part in the recording process for the band from Las Vegas — they’ve been sharing scribbled working titles for their songs. Their hometown has also been a constant in inspiring their inspiration of lyrics, song titles, and albums. Studio album #6 is no exception — release date TBD.
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Weezer – Van Weezer
When invoking the name of Van Halen, you best come heavy with the ax. Rivers Cuomo said in an interview the band most definitely will with their fourteenth release, coming April 26th: “Last album we didn’t have any guitars, this one is just all guitars. A hundred guitars,” says Cuomo. And as we all know, Rivers is never sarcastic 😉
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
After releasing singles “Patience” & “Borderline,” it seems fans needed a little bit of the former with no more music or details released last yera — but Kevin Parker of Tame Impala admitted the band got a bit delayed in the completion of their next album. We will see the final product on Valentine’s Day 2020 — and you can see the band later than summer at the United Center.
Yungblud – “TBD”
While we don’t have a title or release date, the subject matter of Yungblud’s second album is quite decided. He says, “It’s kind of a nod to [David] Bowie, and it’s stories about young people.” Specifically, a real-life encounter with a transgender fan made him think of “Life On Mars,” which then inspired some music.
The 1975 – Notes on a Conditional Form
Prior to hitting the stage at The Nights We Stole Christmas, we got a taste of the bands fourth studio album with the single, “People.” There are twenty-one additional songs coming our way on the 21st of February. Matty Healy says this new record is a bit emo: “I’m an active emo man I suppose I’d call myself…I think that bands when they get to a stage that maybe we’re in they wanna kind of graduate into being like a massive rock band whereas we wanna graduate like into being a small emo band, if you know what I mean.”
— The 1975 (@the1975) July 23, 2019
The Strokes – “TBA”
We haven’t seen new music from The Strokes since 2013, but after they showed up in Chicago at last year’s Lollapalooza — it was only a matter of time. During a New Year’s performance in Brooklyn, the group confirmed a new album on the way — and gave us a preview of the new song, “Ode To The Mets.”
Watch the awful Ninja Turtles rock musical
In the 90s, the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles were a pop culture phenom that consumed every kid with cartoons and toys, but this oddly crafted live ‘music’ tour of the pizza-craving reptiles performing for kids in theaters. It had a huge tie-in with a national pizza chain, a media marketing blitz on talk shows including Oprah, and more silliness to get the show attention. It does not leave you wanting to see this band come back to town. Turtle Den, a fan account broke it all down in the video above.
Screen Junkies roasted the whole thing with their ‘Honest Trailers’ series.
Here is even a deeper dive into WHY, oh why did this thing get made by SuperHero Rewind.
Why do we love imperfect physical media like vinyl & VHS tapes?
It’s somewhat notable to see in movies, TV shows, and web videos an artistic lean to imperfections. VHS flickers edited into the latest music videos that were likely shot in high definition. There is this recent artistic widespread expression in a lot of art. The faults on the surface of vinyl records are now the things that give them character.
Youtube channel Polyphonic covered this in a well crafted visually beautiful look at why we are drawn back to physical media and it’s faults.
Wrong time for a selfie
Some Detroit firefighters were fighting a fire at a house on New Year’s eve when they decided that maybe this is the perfect time to take a group photo.
Now we’re all about our emergency service workers here, but maybe wait for the fire to be out before taking the big group photo.
Kodak moment leads to controversy! A Detroit fire crew is now in hot water after taking this photo for a fireman’s retirement. The vacant home eventually burned to the ground. I’ll have reaction from people nearby in about 30 mins on @Local4News pic.twitter.com/C2ObyVy6s4
— VICTOR WILLIAMS (@NewsWithVictor) January 1, 2020
I mean, they do look pretty cool with the burning house in the background…
Hopefully they checked to make sure no one was still in the house first.
Illinois first day of legal weed sales brings huge profit
K77 thousand people went out on New Year’s day so they could, for the first time, buy legal marijuana in Illinois.
From Uber drivers to politicians, everyone was out to buy their weed.
With $3.2 million dollars worth of profit day one, it looks like this whole legal weed thing might just work out.
Enjoy Chicago!
Horse and Buggy DUI raises a lot of eyebrows.
First impressions are everything in this world, unfortunately for these four young men they did not get the pretty genes.
Well now they also have a criminal record, so at least they have the bad boy thing going for them.
The four underage men were arrested on charges of DUI while driving a horse and buggy around Michigan.
To be fair, if you only heard that some people were drunk driving a horse and buggy around these guys would probably be exactly what you imagined they looked like.
Also, don’t they kind of look like Shrek characters? Checking IMDB right now, stay tuned for any updates on their possible Hollywood careers.
Surviving members of Nirvana playing a benefit show
The surviving members of Nirvana will perform this weekend at a charity event in Los Angeles. Dave Grohl, Kris Novaselic, and Pat Smear will perform at the “Heaven is Rock & Roll Gala” at the Palladium. They will be joined by Beck, St. Vincent, and Grohl’s daughter Violet. The event will also feature Marilyn Manson, L7, and the best band out of Rockford, Cheap Trick.
The Nirvana family played a while back in 2018 at the Foo Fighter’s Cal Jam festival. They also had guest singers when they performed for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Joan Jett, Lorde, and St. Vincent all providing vocals.
Gronk vs Steve Harvey
Steve Harvey might want to kill Rob Gronkowski, and understandably so.
Gronk spiked Lego Steve Harvey and Harvey was NOT happy 💀
pic.twitter.com/R7ULNIR0Tq— FB4L™ (@FBForL) January 1, 2020
Smashing a man’s lego statue is just plain wrong. No doubt about it.
At the same time, it’s Gronk, you have to know this was going to happen.
Hey, 10/10 spike though!
Wait… who’s buying weed?
Legal weed is finally here in Chicago!
Everyone is getting in on it, even the politicians who wanted to pass the bill to make this possible.
Light one up for the … uh, government?
That’s weird to say.
Happy Weed Year Chicago!!!!!
Wait, you’re not a real maid!
The birds and the bees talk is tough for every parent, that’s why Hilton’s Double Tree hotels are now offering free sexual education events for kids in their hotels!
No, that’s not true, but it was for these unlucky parents who just wanted to take a nice family vacation.
That’s right, a gosh darn swingers convention was happening at their hotel!
Obviously, this was not ideal for the parents, but in the long run it does save them an awkward conversation.
So, you’re welcome parents.
Signed, The Swingers of America.
Watch The Strokes play new song, confirm new music in 2020 during NYE show
Street musician crushes Strokes cover after Lolla 2019
So The Strokes were so awesome at Lolla last night, that their music took over the Jackson Blue line with this incredible street musican Alex Kleiner OSTRICH music at the helm. If you love random fun moments, this is one of them #Lolla101 -Kevin
Posted by 101 WKQX on Thursday, August 1, 2019
Solo street guitarists starts a party at the Lake street Red Line station after Lollapalooza
One of the coolest bands to break out in mid-2000s post-punk wave of New York, Strokes confirmed on stage last night at the Barclays Center that they are indeed releasing new music in 2020. This will be the Lollapalooza headliner’s first new album since 2013. The Julian Casablanca led outfit played a new song last night at the Brooklyn holiday gig. Consequence of Sound has more details on the story here.
Youtuber Jim Powers shot this video from the show last night with the new yet-to-be-officially named song.
Here is how they rang in the New Year, watching the ball drop on the big screen with opening band Hinds and Mac Demarco joining them to drink in 2020.
Watch My Chemical Romance reunion show: Fan-produced video of the full show
One of the biggest bands of a generation reunited for a lucky few thousands at the Shrine Expo in Los Angeles on December 20th when My Chemical Romance made their anticipated return, with so many fans not able to get tickets a lot of footage made it’s way online. This fan-produced muli-cam video was put together by YouTuber Jayzeus Hayes who culled together footage from dozens of fans who attended the show. The result is something that is pretty remarkable, even though it does not play like a fully shot TV production but rather an endearing passionate collage of this epic show. Yes, it’s the entire show with Gerard Way and company setting the tone for many more shows we are all anticipating. Thank you to AltPress for bringing this to our attention.
Consequence of Sound reported MCR are going to play the Coachella festival in California this spring along with the recently reunited Rage Against the Machine. MCR has been confirmed for several European festival dates, so when can we expect to see them in Chicago?
Man demands refund after family shares hotel with NYE swingers’ party.
A father booked his family of four into a Sacramento hotel for New Year’s Eve. So did a swinger’s convention. Now he wants his money back.
The man says he didn’t care that the group planned to ring in 2020 with a party complete with play suite and dungeon room — but is pissed that he wasn’t notified about the party in advance and that he was denied a refund when he complained.
“People that are spending good money to stay at the Hilton should be aware of what’s going on under their nose, especially if they have families,” he said. “And, you know, there’s a hot tub there and there’s crazies in the hot tub,” the father said in the article.
Never trust a hotel hot tub, bro. Rule #1. — [eric]
