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October 27, 2019 | bphillips

Hour 1

  • Social Distortion – Bad Luck
  • The Ramones – Pet Sematary
  • Ministry – (Everyday Is) Halloween
  • Toadies – Possum Kingdom
  • Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
  • Garbage – Vow
  • The Cure – Lullaby
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell
  • Prodigy – Breathe
  • Siouxsie And The Banshees – Halloween

Hour 2

  • Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore
  • Echo And The Bunnymen – People Are Strange
  • L7 – Pretend We’re Dead
  • Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
  • Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
  • Lo Fidelity All-Stars – Battle Flag
  • The Smiths – Cemetery Gates
  • Veruca Salt – Seether
  • Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
  • Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson – Candy
  • The Hooters – All You Zombies

So many cool Halloween videos:


Kurt Cobain’s cardigan snags more than $300K at auction.

October 26, 2019 | Eric

$334,000.  That is what the famed cardigan that Kurt Cobain wore for the MTV Unplugged performance just sold for at auction this weekend.

Rolling Stone has the details on the auction AND the sweater — “a blend of acrylic, mohair and Lycra with five-button closure (one button absent), with two exterior pockets, a burn hole and discoloration near left pocket and discoloration on right pocket” — which, by the way, was also reportedly unwashed since the last time Kurt wore it.

So, does the winner hang it on the wall — or sit around and smear Doritos dust on it while basking in its warm, historical music glow?  — [eric]

[📷 : YouTube/screen grab]

White Sox: Let’s remember the 2005 World Series run

October 26, 2019 | Kevin

On this day in 2005, I was in a crowded bar right off 103rd and Pulaski, Gilhoouley’s. My very tall friend Nick towered over the crowd with a broom above his head, shouting at a TV “LET’S GO SOX!” It was the magical night that the White Sox won the World Series in epic fashion defeating the Houston Astros, ending an 88 year period without a championship. It was one of my favorite memories as a Southsider.

Winning the World Series was validation as a Sox fan. We did not need to be the most popular team in town to be the top team in baseball. The 05 Sox were a collection of talented hard-working players who won 99 games in the regular series, but as this video from EXE_Edits breaks down that despite their success the team was disregarded by the national media.

 

Here are some video reliving that memorable October.

In the ALDS, the Sox dominated with a 5 run inning against Boston.

Paul Konerko crushing a GRAND SLAM in Game 2 of the World Series.

Joe Crede evens the odds for the Sox to tie the ALCS with this banger.

Jermaine Dye grinds in the RBI to give the Sox the lead late in the series-clinching Game 4.

A few years ago,. NBC Sports Chicago put out this retrospective in a special called ‘Believe’.

 

Carell & Colbert recall their favorite comedy sketch together

October 26, 2019 | Kevin

Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell have had tremendous careers in comedy. Colbert just resigned with CBS to extend his run on ‘Late Show’ and Carrell continues to put hit movies, but they are still just guys who came out of Chicago’s beloved Second City comedy theater. The two friends caught up last night on national television (you know like all friends), and they recalled their roles as players in the short-lived sketch comedy series ‘the Dana Carvey Show’ in an oddly memorable piece called ‘waiters nauseated by food’.

If you never got to see ‘the Dana Carvey Show’, Hulu produced a retrospective documentary a while back.

Here is the original sketch.

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New music from Josh Homme of QOTSA and guests

October 25, 2019 | <3 Lauren

This is the best day ever!

Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels) is available NOW.

Vols. 11 & 12 were recorded mostly in a six-day span in December 2018 at Rancho De La Luna studios in Joshua Tree, CA, with Queens of the Stone Age founder and Desert Sessions ringleader/producer Joshua Homme enlisting a cast of players including:

  • Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
  • Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint)
  • Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters)
  • Mike Kerr (Royal Blood)
  • Carla Azar (Autolux, Jack White)
  • Les Claypool (Primus)
  • Matt Sweeney
  • Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, Toast of London)
  • Libby Grace
  • Töôrnst Hülpft

And the first video for ‘Crucifire’ with Mike “Devil May Not” Kerr from Royal Blood on lead vox comin’ in hot at a minute ’45:

And up next… a tour!  😀  <3 Lauren

Shocking twist leads to deer living, man dying

October 25, 2019 | jnettlebeck

A man in Arkansas is believed to have died after a hunting accident earlier this week. After shooting the buck, the man approached the deer, and that’s when disaster struck.

The deer was wounded, but not entirely down for the count, and when the hunter approached his would-be-trophy, the deer got up and attacked him. The man was airlifted to the hospital but unfortunately passed in the commute there.

Arkansas Game & Fish Commission reminds you that hunters should wait at least 30 minutes after shooting a deer before approaching it, and the KQX Morning Crew reminds you that maybe if you shoot something, it’s not that weird that they fight back.

Robber goes wrong in a way you’d never expect

October 25, 2019 | jnettlebeck

A man in Pennsylvania schemed a clever plan to rob a bank on Tuesday. His plan, at points, involved changing car license plates, putting on a “realistic” old man mask (no word yet on if he was going to choose Nixon or Reagan), provide a fake tip that there were two active shooters and a bomb threat at nearby schools, and then with the police distracted, rob a bank.

. Unfortunately, the plan never got off the ground. When he told people about the active security threat at the schools, they called the cops, and when the cops found out nothing was going on, they arrested the man. He overthought the process and ended up getting arrested before he could even commit his robbery.

Stream 2 new Coldplay songs, New album out on November 22nd

October 24, 2019 | Tim Virgin

 

Coldplay just dropped two new songs called ‘Arabesque’ and ‘Orphans’. These will be on their upcoming album ‘Everyday Life’ which drops November 22nd. Both tracks are quite adventurous and diverge from the band’s established sound with horns mixed up front.

The album’s tracklist is as follows:

Sunrise

Sunrise
Church
Trouble In Town
BrokEn
Daddy
WOTW / POTP
Arabesque
When I Need A Friend

Sunset

Guns
Orphans
Èkó (Stomach in Yoruba)
Cry Cry Cry
Old Friends
بنی آدم (Bani Adam in Persian)
Champion Of The World
Everyday Life

Text Cage the Elephant!

October 24, 2019 | jmanley

Cage the Elephant just released a new music video for their #1 song Social Cues that contains a phone number for you to text the band.  Ask them what the deal is with Matt’s costume changes, the meaning of the song, or if they want to get weird before their sold out Nights We Stole Christmas show, I dunno.  Check out the video below and tell Brad what’s up for me if you get him on the phone.

 

 

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It’s Official, David Ross in as Cubs manager

October 24, 2019 | <3 Lauren

Grandpa Rossy is getting a three-year contract with a team option for 2023, according to the Cubs. He will be officially introduced at a news conference Monday.

“I’m honored by this opportunity to be the next manager of the Chicago Cubs. My time with this organization has been special since the day I joined, so to continue with the club in this role is a blessing for which I’m so very thankful. We have accomplished so much together since 2015, and my desire to lead this organization to another World Series championship could not be any stronger.

A lot has been made, and rightfully so, of my connection to the 2016 World Series team, and the notion that I’ll now be managing the players I once counted on as teammates,” he said in a statement. “Having those relationships going into this will be a bonus, no doubt about it. But those guys know I’ll be the first to hold them accountable, the first to demand their best daily effort and the first to let them know about it if they give anything but their best. I never had a problem dishing out a lot of tough love as their teammate, and that won’t change as their manager,” Ross said in a statement Thursday. “We’ll have our fair share of fun along the way, but working hard as a team, playing fundamental team baseball and winning a lot of games will be out top priorities.

There will be people I want to thank on Monday, but for today I’d especially like to thank my family and two of my mentors, Bobby Cox and Joe Maddon for their guidance and support throughout the years. I’d also like to thank the Ricketts family, Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and the Cubs for this opportunity of a lifetime. Now let’s get to work.”

More from NBC HERE and ESPN HERE.

Car crash saves couple’s lives

October 24, 2019 | jnettlebeck

Phoenix police released a video that plays heavy into the idea of bringing blindside blocking back into the NFL.

A suspected drunk driver completely blew through a red light, luckily though a car happened to be turning left ( the fullback of the road) at the green at the light.

Right before the drunk driver had a chance to run over the couple crossing the street the left side (strong side) car caused a hardcore and firey crash!

This driver must have watched The Blindside in their drivers-ed class.

Shredder wins over millions in heartwarming video

October 24, 2019 | jnettlebeck

We’ve never seen anything quite this heartwarming. A seven-year-old in Brazil with cerebral palsy was built this skate contraption by Skate Anima in Brazil and his badass mother helped him shred around their local skatepark.

This is simply incredible. If that didn’t satisfy your good vibes for the day, here’s one more,

This is the kind of joy and happiness that we should all strive for every day.

Watch Beck’s new ‘Uneventful Days’ video with big guest stars

October 23, 2019 | Tim Virgin

 

Beck is following up 2017’s ‘Colors’ with a new album called ‘Hyperspace’ due out on November 22nd. To build to that release, Mr. Hansen dropped a new video today with some big cameos from actors Evan Rachel Wood (Frozen 2) , Tessa Thompson (Westworld) , and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development).

 

Will David Ross be the next Cubs manager?

October 23, 2019 | Web Team
Will David Ross be the next Cubs manager?

While the contract hasn\’t been finalized yet, the Cubs are reportedly hiring catcher David Ross as their next manager.

Cubs President Theo Epstein told the Chicago Tribune, “It’s an obvious goal, but we want to make sure the players we have, we’re developing them and creating an environment where they can continue to grow and thrive. If we have players who can be successful major-league players, we have to find a way to make it here.”

After numerous interviews with former managers and current coaches, they appear to have landed on Ross. Though he doesn\’t have any formal manager experience on his resume, he\’s demonstrated his leadership skills throughout his career.

Read the full Chicago Tribune article here.

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Sign a 40-page waiver to ENTER this haunted house

October 23, 2019 | jnettlebeck

McKamey Manor in Summertown, Tennessee is ground zero for scary scenarios this Halloween season. The scariest haunted house in the world requires a sports physical, a background check, and a 40-page waiver to even enter the park

Owner Russ McKamey notes that the price of admission is relatively cheap, but finishing the thrill ride nets you $20,000. This year, the visitors must watch a two-hour video called “And Then There Were None” which details how no one has ever been able to finish the park.

We at the KQX Morning Crew volunteer to send Justin to McKamey Manor. Not only do we think he can survive, but we think he might like it there. He might even volunteer to live there once he’s done with the haunted house.

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