It was a graveyard smash at our Halloween Bash featuring Myllhouse and Jukebox the Ghost opening for HalloQueen! We also had a costume contest and gave away a trip to Vegas to see Imagine Dragons!
It was a graveyard smash at our Halloween Bash featuring Myllhouse and Jukebox the Ghost opening for HalloQueen! We also had a costume contest and gave away a trip to Vegas to see Imagine Dragons!
Photos of Billie Eilish joining us in The Lounge, hosted by wALT!
The Bad Lip Reading folks with their review of the 2018 MLB season:
When I first read this I was like …. HERSHEY’S … Do you have NO SOUL?
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups aren’t necessarily a good part of a healthy diet and Hershey’s knows it. So their answer is . . . slightly smaller Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Wait … didn’t they do this with those little annoying ones?
Hershey’s just announced they’re going to start selling a new version of Reese’s Cups in March that are 40% thinner than the current ones. So that means less chocolate, less peanut butter, and, by definition, fewer calories and less sugar.
There’s no word on exactly HOW much “healthier” they’ll be, but if we reduce the numbers on a current Reese’s Cup by 40%, you’d drop from 110 calories to 66 . . . 6.5 grams of fat to 3.9 . . . and 11 grams of sugar to 6.6.
This sounds fine and dandy but this is NOT gonna stop me from eating 20 of them.
Meet and Greet photos with Billie Eilish after her visit to The Lounge.
Satanic ritual? Check. Haunted house? Yep. Circus of rats? Sure thing.
Welcome to the Chicago of the late 80s. Credit to Dan Dinello of Media Burn Archive for restoring and piecing together the content of this film. And thanks to Block Club Chicago for posting about it, which brought it to our attention!
From the Media Burn description:
Break out the candy and grab your favorite mask because it’s almost time for Halloween. To celebrate the spooky holiday, we dug into the archive and found some fascinating, and entertaining, Halloween footage from across the years. Dan Dinello’s Chicago Halloween showcases the 1988 celebration of the spooky holiday with a costume contest judged by Freddy Krueger, Rat Girl’s troupe of acrobatic rats, and more. We also found clips of a Halloween wedding, trick-or-treaters with a former First Lady, and even some dancing skeletons.
The teaser trailer to “The Prodigy” sets the right horror tone:
Apparently, there’s a scene in it that’s so frightening that the screams from a test audience drowned out what happened next. Director Nicholas McCarthy told EW he had to re-edit the sequence so the audience won’t miss the dialog when the movie hits theaters on February 8, 2019.
Just in time for the holidays… PlayStation Classic hits stores on December 3 with a price tag of $100. The 20 pre-installed games were just announced, and they are:
Battle Arena Toshinden
Cool Boarders 2
Destruction Derby
Final Fantasy VII
Grand Theft Auto
Intelligent Qube
Jumping Flash!
Metal Gear Solid
Mr. Driller
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
Rayman
Resident Evil Director’s Cut
Revelations: Persona
R4 Ridge Racer Type 4
Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo
Syphon Filter
Tekken 3
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six
Twister Metal
Wild Arms
It looks like the heart-shaped “Like” button is about to face digital oblivion. Twitter boss Jack Dorsey said he wants to get rid of “Likes” “soon.” Likes evolved from “Favorites” a few years ago.
WKQX-FM’s “Gabriel Iglesias Text” Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX-FM (“Station”), owned and operated by Cumulus Media Holdings Inc. or one of its subsidiary companies, 455 N. CityFront Plaza Chicago, IL 60611, during normal business hours Monday through Friday or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.
The Station will conduct the WKQX-FM “Gabriel Iglesias Text” Contest (the “Contest”) substantially as described in these rules, and by participating, each participant agrees as follows:
There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that the Station may, at its sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Any tickets and/or gift certificates/cards awarded as part of a prize will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by the issuer and are valid only on the date(s) printed on the tickets or gift certificates/cards. Other restrictions may apply.
CONTEST SPONSOR: Cumulus Media Holdings Inc., WKQX-FM, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611.
Rosemont Theatre, 5400 North River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018
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WKQX-FM’s “Queued Up with Morgxn Text” Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX-FM (“Station”), owned and operated by Cumulus Media Holdings Inc. or one of its subsidiary companies, 455 N. CityFront Plaza Chicago, IL 60611, during normal business hours Monday through Friday or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.
The Station will conduct the WKQX-FM “Queued Up with Morgxn Text” Contest (the “Contest”) substantially as described in these rules, and by participating, each participant agrees as follows:
There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that the Station may, at its sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Any tickets and/or gift certificates/cards awarded as part of a prize will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by the issuer and are valid only on the date(s) printed on the tickets or gift certificates/cards. Other restrictions may apply.
CONTEST SPONSOR: Cumulus Media Holdings Inc., WKQX-FM, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611.
Reggies, 2105 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616
The “Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)” video features Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray as a wacky, over-the-top radio host.
In the video, the Smashing Pumpkins, as part of a radio-station promotion, agree to spend the night in a haunted mansion, encountering all things spooky (including McGrath dusting off an old Sugar Ray “classic”.)
Watch it here:
Twenty One Pilots are capturing moments on their current road trip with The Bandito Tour. In episode one, experience the pure joy of the band just holding on to the packaging for the new album, “Trench.” You can also experience the opposite feeling when Josh has an accident during rehearsal. WARNING: there is a fair amount of blood, for the squeamish. — [eric]
Came across a couple of “before they were famous” moments with Nirvana this week.
First, this audio interview with the band from 1989. The night after the band played to a couple of handfuls of fans in Hoboken — literally 10 fans — they sat down with music journalist John Robb to discuss their future. And at that time, the future would have been the work their were putting in on their defining album, “Nevermind.” Kurt Cobain mentioned one of the songs he wrote had a similar sound to “About A Girl.” That song ended up a little thing called “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
The other is this record store performance captured in their hometown of Seattle — just one week before the release of that aforementioned album. Apparently Kurt was really freaked out that some of his high school peers sought out his autograph during the event. — [eric]
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it was the perfect smart comedic take on dumb things.’Amercian Vandal’ a mockumentary series that spoofed true crime shows like ‘Making a Murderer’ with a deep dive into high school pranks was axed this week by Netflix after just two seasons. The show is profoundly entertaining and binge-wortthy for sure, but for whatever reason Netflix said no more faux documentaries about who spray painted male body parts on a car and the cover-up surrounding it.
The second season advanced the concept with the teen film makers taking the sheanigans from their own school, to a new shcool with poop jokes. It was refreshing look at the high school culuture and the characters you knew back in the day.
One of the most unique and striking voices in alternative Just Loud stopped by for an intimate session in the LOUNGE yesterday with Lauren. The sessions shed light on his emotional inspirations for his music, how he refused to be a pop singer, and features a crushing cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ as well as his breakout hit ‘Electrified’.
Want to get into a future session in the LOUNGE ? Text LOUNGE to 312101 for text alerts on how you enter-to-way your way into future visits from the biggest bands in alternative.
Trick or Treat!! Definitely treat! My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way dropped a new song out of nowhere today. Check out “Baby, You’re a Haunted House”! -wALT
Before she plays a sold-out show at the Metro on Sunday and streams a live session with 101WKQX from the Lounge on Monday, Billie Eilish made more waves around the web this week with a video for the emotive breakup ballad ‘when the party’s over’. It’s currently trending number 5 of all videos of Youtube with over 5.8 million views when we last checked.
The clip which feels like it’s shot in one continuous flow, shows the teenage alt maverick sipping from a cup that represent some pain from her past. What happens here visiual weighs heavy if you have ever had to live through something awful in a relationship while having to a long with your everyday life.
It’s one of the best music videos I have seen all year, and adds so much more engagement to the song itself.