Knitting and heavy metal collide together in unusual competition

July 15, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

This past Thursday Finland held the very first Heavy Metal Knitting Competition.

The Heavy Metal Knitting Competition is a competition where heavy metal bands and knitters work together to make a live performance that synchronizes both art forms in the best way possible.

Scores are judged based on attitude, skill, audience engagement, and by “Heavyknittinghood”. The entire competition is to give homage towards Finland of being the “promised land” of Heavy Metal.

Winner of this year’s competition was a band from Japan called Giga Body Metal.

People can sign up for the competition by downloading the song “Fight Or Die” by the metal band MANIAC ABDUCTOR and submit a video of yourself or another knitting to the song.

Woody Harrelson stole the show at Wimbledon

July 15, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

Even when Woody Harrelson isn’t acting he’s still putting on his best performance in every way possible.

This past weekend Woody Harrelson attended the Wimbledon Tennis championship, but it isn’t the tennis matches that are making the internet go crazy, it’s the faces that Woody makes during the matches!

At one point in the match, one of the tennis players gets injured and the distraught reaction on Woody’s face is something from a horror film.

The commentators and film crew also got a kick out of Woody’s emotive reactions during the match that at one point they even stopped keeping track of the score and started counting how many times Woody got up to grab another glass of wine.

Perhaps Woody is never really acting, he is just living all the realities of all of his films at once.

It wasn’t the only thing the cameras caught Harrelson doing at Wimbledon. In fact, there was a whole Twitter page based around his actions!

Baby was born on 7/11 at 7:11 pm

July 15, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

Usually, when you head to 7-Eleven on 7-Eleven Day it means you get free Slurpees, but this family left with more than that.

Rachel Langford ended up giving birth on July 11th at 7-Eleven. But that’s not all, baby J’Aime Brown was born at 7:11 pm weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces.

Seems like a huge coincidence, but she told CNN how she kept seeing the numbers 7 and 11 during her pregnancy.

Both mom and baby are doing well!

No way anyone will forget her birth story.

7.14.19 Alt_Backspace

July 14, 2019 | bphillips

Hour 1

  • Oasis – Supersonic
  • XTC – Generals And Majors
  • Soho – Hippychick
  • Jane’s Addiction – Stop!
  • Billy Idol – Flesh For Fantasy
  • Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle
  • Love And Rockets – No New Tale To Tell
  • The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
  • Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid
  • Buffalo Tom – Sodajerk
  • Beck – The New Pollution
  • World Party – Way Down Now

Hour 2

  • Radiohead – High And Dry
  • Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning
  • The Farm – Groovy Train
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Wicked Garden
  • Paul Westerberg – Dyslexic Heart
  • Veruca Salt – Seether
  • Stroke 9 – Little Black Backpack
  • New Order – Blue Monday
  • Live – All Over You
  • The Smiths – Panic
  • Foo Fighters – I’ll Stick Around
  • Haircut 100 – Love Plus One
  • Smash Mouth – Walkin’ On The Sun

See Muse rock 72,000 people through the eyes of Matt Bellamy.

July 14, 2019 | Eric

If you’ve ever wanted to feel what it’s like to perform to 72,000 people, Matt Bellamy of Muse gave you a pretty damn good idea on his Instagram.  He had a helmet cam pointed right at the audience as he emerged with the Power Glove for the band’s second night in Paris.  The resulting video is pretty amazing.  As Matt put it, “epic.”  — [eric]

[📷 : Julia Simone Paul]

Mike Shinoda goes anime for new music video.

July 13, 2019 | Eric

For the single “World’s On Fire” on his latest solo album, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda dipped into the world of anime for a little artistic flair.  And he dropped into the Crunchyroll Q&A at Anime Expo 2019 to drop a sneak peak of the video.  Here’s what we learned from his chat:

  • Mike was the originator of artwork for this video.  No surprise, considering his (and Joe Hahn’s) influence in LP’s videos for Breaking The Habit and Somewhere I Belong.
  • The artwork has a very early Nintendo vibe to it.  That’s because Mike grew up with the NES and felt a strong influence from it in creating the video.
  • The video isn’t complete, but before the summer — you will see the whole thing.

And here is the sneak peak the convention got to see.  And for the entire chat at the Crunchyroll industry panel, click on the video following this.  — [eric]

NEW LOCAL H

July 13, 2019 | <3 Lauren

Happy birthday to ME!  Brand new music from Local H!!  This is the first new song from Scott and Ryan since 2015’s Hey, Killer.

Listen to Patrick Bateman and a cover of Motörhead’s (We Are) The Road Crew:

They will be playing a free all-ages show at Gallagher Way next to Wrigley Field with Black Pistol Fire, Touched By Ghoul, Montrose Man and The Bleacher Bum Band on August 17th, info HERE.

<3 Lauren

101WKQX’s ‘Chicago Festival’ shirt has locals freaking out

July 13, 2019 | Kevin

This is the greatest festival t shirt of all things that are so Chicago, we put them on a t-shirt. What do you think of…

Posted by 101 WKQX on Friday, July 12, 2019

So we are a bunch of smart asses in Chicago, a town with a deep sense of humor where we are always down to make fun of the many characters that exist here. Enter the ‘Chicago Festival’ shirt we put up for sale yesterday on our merch shop Aisle101.com. This mock lineup of ‘bands’ which are just a several local legends and silly things we all know about our city in the tribute font to Lollapalooza. Well, the response to this has been huge. It basically became a meme flag for everyone to wave around like it’s ’19 9tree and da Bulls tree-peated!

The first shipment of the shirt has sold-out! This has to be the fastest selling item we have sold since we started Aisle101  late last year, so we are so pumped that you want to run with the joke on your back. Do not worry you can still place orders as we have another shipment coming. Get your orders in before they are gone!

And just like every time a festival line up comes out, there is furious debate over ‘bands’ that people wanted to see. Now we have people saying how come you didn’t include the jingle for Empire carpet?!

Humboldt Park Gator Watch Day 4: Well, he’s on Twitter now

July 12, 2019 | Kevin

An alligator has alluded animal experts including a professional named ‘Alligator Bob’ and several other officials. He is somewhere in the lagoon at Humboldt Park on the west side of Chicago. He has been there for four days now, so since he’s frustrating the authorities so much he may as well kill some time on Twitter. That is right, the Humboldt Park Gator has a Twitter @ParkGator.

The coolest reptile in town has a friend helping out with his jump into the social media influencer game in comedian Jon Torres, and let’s just his Twitter game is meaner than his bite. And do not get it twisted, an alligators may not naturally come from the greater Chicagoland area but dis gator is totally a true blue Chicaaaaagoan.

Maybe I am can score an interview with him?

Ali’s Big Birthday Bonanza

July 12, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

It’s Ali’s Birthday!!!

To celebrate the Morning Crew planned a bunch of surprises to fully celebrate!

First a special message from her nephew “Happy Birthday Auntie! I love you!”

Then Ali’s best friend stopped by to challenge her in Know it Ali (THE BIRTHDAY EDITION).


Brian’s “lady friend” brought in some vegan cupcakes which we topped with candles to sing a very special happy birthday!

Then finally a special call from Ali’s sister and an EXTREMELY GOOD GIRL, Elane from PAWS Chicago, came in to make a special appearance.


Happy Birthday, Ali!

Coast guardsman says f*** it and jumps on top of a narcotics submarine

July 12, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

Did you know that drug smugglers have freaking submarines! Well, they do and the Coastguard doesn’t give two sh*ts about jumping right on them.

Like a bunch of action stars, the crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro tracked down the narcos sub and jumped on the top of it and started banging on the hatch to get inside.

Imagine being one of the smugglers inside. You’re in a sub in the middle of the ocean, no one can find you right? Then all of a sudden you hear a loud banging on the hatch like your neighbor coming over to tell you to turn down that damn music.

Words can’t do it justice, you got to watch them board this sub.

 

 

The boarding netted in a total of 17,000 pounds of cocaine! Are you kidding me!!

Two big thumbs up to the U.S. Coast Guard. Keep up the bad-ass work

There’s a Facebook event to raid Area 51, you in?

July 12, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

Over 400,000 people have ‘confirmed’ they are going to a Facebook event to raid Area 51.

The event is called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” and it’s inviting users from around the world to “see them aliens.”

Their page description wrote:

“We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.”

Some people have come up with game plans on how they’ll raid at Area 51 in September.

Brian from The KQX Morning Crew believes in aliens and thinks about going, are you down to storm Area 51?

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Licking challenge should not involve medical supplies

July 12, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

A Florida mom was arrested and charged with a felony for letting her daughter lick a tongue depressor and put it back.

First off, gross!

Cori E. Ward posted the video on her snap chat where one of her followers captured it and posted it on Facebook. Before deleting her account she defended herself saying, “What I didn’t know was that there was a “licking challenge” as I don’t scroll social media like that.” “The video doesn’t show that the items were thrown away or anything else that happened,” her explanation continued. “I posted this on my personal Snapchat with my 20-something friends, where someone allowed another person to video it. I didn’t post it on Facebook or YouTube as a challenge or whatever.”

The medical center did release a statement, saying “we immediately removed all materials and containers from the specific exam room and re-sanitized our entire facility.”

Let’s just stop licking public things, okay?

Plastic-Free Music Festivals? YES, PLEASE.

July 11, 2019 | Web Team
Plastic-Free Music Festivals? YES, PLEASE.

In an effort to cut down on plastic pollution, concert promoters Live Nation announced this week that its music festivals will be plastic-free by 2021.

The company announced a list of environmental goals, which includes getting rid of single-use plastic items by 2021, cutting down on fossil fuels, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

Live Nation hosts more than 35,000 concerts globally each year.

In a statement, company president Michael Rapino said they have a \”responsibility to provide our artists and fans with a live music experience that protects our planet.\”

Head to NME for the full details.

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‘Flintstones’ adult-leaning prime time series in the works

July 11, 2019 | JVO

“The Flintstones” may be heading back to television, only this time around, it’ll be an adult comedy series. Variety reports that Warner Brothers and Elizabeth Banks’ production company (Brownstone Productions) are developing a series that would presumably include the classic cave-dwelling cast. It would be nice if piano thief 88 Fingers Louie returned for the series. In the meantime, here’s Chicago band 88 Fingers Louie:

(See 88 Fingers Louie at T1 Fest in November!)

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“American Horror Story” Season 9 is totally 80s

July 11, 2019 | JVO

“American Horror Story” returns in September with “American Horror Story: 1984.” This round looks like it’s set up to be a serialized version of a typical 80s slasher flick. Check out the teases from co-creator Ryan Murphy’s Instagram today:

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Honoring a slain skateboarder by helping him with his last trick

July 11, 2019 | kimberlykaczmarek

A very sad situation for the friends and family of a skateboarder who was tragically slain at his favorite skatepark.

Local skateboarders gathered together to honor their friend the best way they could think, by having him do one last trick.

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Last Rock to Fakie. Love you David Magee

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What a way to go out, doing what you love

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