It’s the ultimate memorial mashup…
View this post on Instagram
We put this up in the video screens pre show tonite. Rest In Peace Burt.
It’s the ultimate memorial mashup…
View this post on Instagram
We put this up in the video screens pre show tonite. Rest In Peace Burt.
It is a sad realization, but we have ALL been affected by suicide. We’re inviting YOU to join us in the Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk to raise awareness about mental health, save lives and help the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention meet their bold goal to reduce the U.S. suicide rate 20% by 2025.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!
There are two ways you can get involved and help bring hope to those affected by suicide:
Click HERE to walk with Team 101WKQX on September 22nd! Registration is free and there’s no fundraising minimum. Encourage your friends to do the same and help us make a statement that suicide stops here.
Help us reach our fundraising goal by clicking HERE to donate. Any contribution, big or small, is greatly appreciated! All donations are 100% tax deductible and benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in funding research, education, advocacy and support for those affected by suicide.
Thank YOU for your support!
<3 Lauren
Location:
Upper Hutchinson Field, Grant Park. 200 E. Balbo, Chicago, IL
Times:
Check-in/Registration – 9:00 am
Walk Begins – 11:00 am
Walk Ends – 1:00 pm
#296 9.9.18
Hour 1
Hour 2
We are less than a week away from the carnival of alternative music delights in Douglas Park that is Riot Fest. After enduring a health related cancellation by Blink 182, the lineup has seen the fitting additions of Weezer, Run the Jewels, and Taking Back Sunday. You can enter to win 3-day passes here or find us around town this week with Dos Equis to win tickets in person.
WIN YOUR WAY INTO RIOT FEST ON OUR SITE AND WHEN WE ARE OUT ‘N ABOUT WITH DOS EQUIS
Riot Fest has for years provided jump-off-the-ground good times. Wait, did I say ‘ground’ I meant mud. Yeah, if you are an RF veteran you have grimed up a few pair of shoes as the rain fell and we all continued to rock anyway.
Here are my top 10 Riot Fest performances that I have seen that you can not in anyway debate or challenge. They are in no order but I am more than certain that this list is better than anything you could come up with unless you want to prove it on Twitter or Facebook. Bring it, bruh!
Flaming Lips (2016): The Flaming LIps have never ceased in being wonderfully weird and playful with a show that is not bound by the stage. They have also brought the most striking visual presentation to RF with a shinny happy otherworldly ambiance. Yes, Wayne Coyne is performing inside a giant plastic ball.
Rancid (2013): Though they have played RF several times with stand out shows, this one stays with me as it was the last year in Humboldt Park and I got to have short walk home from the show with my clothes covered in mud, dancing up the sod, and clapping to ‘Ruby Soho’.
Faith No More (2015): This is one of those bucket list bands you have to see live if you appreciate truly ‘different’ music. They had been out of the limelight for many years after a few reunion runs in Europe and this was first time the MIke Pattoon-lead band which influenced a generation would play Chicago and man, did it deliver.
Me First & the Gimmes Gimmes ( 2014): This super-punk collective from NOFX and the Swinging Utters has been a delightful blender of American pop music with a smart-ass remix. They ooze fun basically as the ‘world’s biggest punk band covering songs your Mom who does not like punk would know.
Thursday (2017): The ‘screamo’ bands of the early 2000 owe a TON to Thursday. They were first band to sincerely place themselves as an inviting and inclusive band in the subgenre with real take on the post 9/11 world. Getting to hear ‘Signals Over The Air’ felt like soundtrack to all the personal crap I
The Original Misfit (2016): Seeing that familiar skull face on t-shirts for many years and hear those bro-chant-a-long songs about horror movies in Beverly basements, the Misfits just felt a figurative ghost that made music at one point. It was a real filling experience to see Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only bury the hatchet and slaughter it at RF. This was easily most black t-shirts in one place at one time. It was just a raging good time.
Andrew WK: Note there is no specific year listed here, because the most positive-minded in music has become such a part of the Riot Fest ethos, he basically IS Riot Fest. His exuberant power of an audience is really lasting you can not walk away from his shows without a big sweaty smile on. Check out my interview with him from last year.
I mean the guy married someone on stage!
ANDREW W.K. INTERPRETIVE DANCE PARTY
Andrew W.K. interpretively dances about all 16 tracks on his new album, 'You’re Not Alone’, out today. Check it out at www.riotfest.org/AWK#AndrewWKinterpretiveDanceParty
Posted by Riot Fest on Friday, March 2, 2018
System of a Down (2015): Through the last 10 years or so, SOAD has been hesitant about making new music but their live shows still deliver the goods and this muddy set was no different. Their set had to be stopped possibly twice due to the wet post-rain ground being slippery for the moshing hordes.
Tenacious D (2015): Seeing the most prolific duo in comedy rock live was another long-pursued treasure here. They were just as funny and charismatic as they were in the ‘Pick of Destiny’ movie and their albums.
Nine Inch Nails (2017) : The dark engaging energy of NIN live is so profound. They connect all the savage emotional violence of their records into the live space, and dressed up with this awesome light show that pulled in thousands during their headlining set.
‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’ the scary-for-kids show from 90’s Nickelodeon is getting a big screen movie adaption!
Screenwriter Gary Dauberman spoke with Slash Film about how the throwback 90’s spooky show will get revamped for a movie:
“That show is so important to me. I didn’t want to age it down too much because for it’s time, it had some really disturbing episodes and some really dark episodes. Not every story the Midnight Society told ended with happily ever after or a person learning their lesson and it will never happen again. I really embraced that side of things and I think it’s been a long time. I think fear is healthy for kids. I don’t think we have to always sand down the edges of things and that’s something I really wanted to do with Are You Afraid of the Dark. I think it is scary and I think kids will be scared watching it at times, and also they’ll laugh at times. I think it’s got a great message. I think it’s got a great heart to it but it is still scary. I think that’s great. I think it’s going to open it up to a wider audience. It is a completely original story I came up with, but it still has the Midnight Society and it still has the campfire. It’s still a story being told.”
If that is not enough Nickelodeon nostalgia, they are launching a streaming on-demand service.
Hour 1
Hour 2
Paramore came to acclaim with the sneering song ‘Misery Business’ off their 2007 breakout album ‘Riot!” , but the band has stated this week they will no longer play the track live or at least not for a long time. The move was revealed on stage on Friday while performing at their own Art + Friends show in Nashville during an introduction for the song by singer Hayley Williams.
AltPress reports that the song has come under some scrutiny for the lyric ““Once a whore, you’re nothing more/I’m sorry that’ll never change.”
In a fan shot video above from the show, Williams clarified on stage why the beloved track was being shelved before playing it for what could be the last time. “Tonight we’re playing this song for the last time for a really long time,” Williams says from the stage. “This is a choice we made because we feel like we should.We feel like it’s time to move away from it for a little while.”
In 2015 Tumblr post, Williams stated that her mindset had evolved since she first penned the song, and no longer felt it held the same emotional value:
i read a couple comments today about how i can’t be feminist or whether or not i’m a “good” feminist. to speak specifically to one of those comments, i’ll say this: Misery Business is not a set of lyrics that I relate to as a 26 year old woman. i haven’t related to it in a very long time. those words were written when i was 17… admittedly, from a very narrow-minded perspective. it wasn’t really meant to be this big philosophical statement about anything. it was quite literally a page in my diary about a singular moment i experienced as a high schooler.
Check out exclusive Lounge session with Paramore here where they perform track off ‘After Laughter’ and share insights into how the songs came to be.
@Chicago_Scanner @cta @CTARedLn pic.twitter.com/Po1JTDcIH7
— S▲DGURRL (@soyyarielle) September 8, 2018
This video surfaced online last night with an unknown man climbing on top of a Red Line train while it was moving. Whether he was injured is not yet known, but really, this is dumb. This is so wildly unsafe and proves you can do things to harm yourself or others on the CTA. Please do not ever think to do this.
NBC 5 Traffic Reporter and all-around awesome person Jen DeSalvo alerted us to this freeloading adrenaline-fiend who just felt compelled for some reason to climb on top of a Red Line. Twitter user @soyyarielle posted the video.
Why? He already paid for the Ventra! Maybe he climbed up because it would smell better than a Red Line normally smells like at 1:30 on a Saturday morning.
After some digging around, we have not been able to find out anymore about this dare-to-be-stupid devil, but if you know anything reach out to us on Facebook or Twitter.
This is not the first time someone has done something like this. In 2016, DNAInfo alerted us to this video showing a man riding on the side of a Red Line train.
Now here is a virtual and safe way to get that outer-train experience with this official video from the CTA Connections Youtube channel showing a complete northbound Red Line from the perspective of the first car coming into each station. Actually watching this on a TV is oddly relaxing even though I have spent a massive amount on this train in my life.
A Philadelphia woman’s video of bed bugs on Philly’s SEPTA bus system has gone viral. And it’s enough to make you tear your clothes off and immediately jump in the shower…
You should have time to finish Iron Fist season 2 before this happens… Norm Macdonald’s new talk show debuts next Friday on Netflix!
WKQX-FM’s “Ash In The Lounge Text” Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX (“Station”), owned or 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 “Ash in The Lounge 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, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611
WKQX-FM’s “Ash Best Seat In The House Text” Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX (“Station”), owned or 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 “Ash Best Seat In The House 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, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611
From Riot Fest:
“We know the wait has been frustrating for many of you. Riot Fest is happening next weekend. With that, we have bad news and good news. Bad news: Blink-182 had to cancel its tour due to Travis’ health. Good news: Our friends Weezer, Run The Jewels, and Taking Back Sunday have graciously stepped up to fill in. The next round of announcements will begin tomorrow at 10am CDT.
Thank you for being patient with us, and please know that we have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to make the best possible festival experience for our fans.”
More HERE.
See you in the pit.
<3 Lauren
Does mustard ever belong on a pizza?
Pizza toppings can be a start of and all out verbal war between friends, especially if those toppings involve pineapple. Lions & Tigers & Squares, a Detroit-style pizzeria in New York, has announced a pizza that replaces tomato sauce with mustard and tops it with corned beef, sauerkraut, and cheese. THIS IS A REUBEN! Is it not?
Inspired take on a classic? Or the most disgusting thing ever created? Without tasting, hard to say. But of course, that isn’t going to stop the folks on Twitter from chiming in:
This mustard pizza was invented in New Jersey, now you can try it in New York 😋 pic.twitter.com/IKCVYKmFSr
— FOOD INSIDER (@InsiderFood) September 6, 2018
Hey @InsiderFood, mustard on pizza sounds great, but we’ve heard over 8 thousand people say that they put ketchup on their pizza. Are you #TeamKetchup or #TeamMustard?#NationalCheesePizzaDay
— Heinz Ketchup (@HeinzKetchup_US) September 5, 2018
To all yall that complain about pineapples on pizza, THIS pizza with mustard on it is what yall should be disgusted with instead 🤢 https://t.co/hxtMXaqIwl
— Foreverbrandnew (@foreverbrandnew) September 4, 2018
Because the internet is a treasure trove of wondrous content, here’s a picture of a guy’s dog whose ear looks like another dog.
My dog’s ear looks like his own face. from r/mildlyinteresting
WKQX-FM’s “The Nights We Stole Christmas Ticket Blitz 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 “The Nights We Stole Christmas Ticket Blitz 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.
WKQX-FM’s “White Boy Rick Web” 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 “White Boy Rick Web” Contest (the “Contest”) substantially as described in these rules, and by participating, each participant agrees as follows:
(i) Online: Visit the Station’s website www.101wkqx.com during the Contest Period, click on the “Contest” link, click on the “White Boy Rick Early Screening” Contest link, and complete an entry form. All entries must be received by 11:59 am CT on Friday, September 7, 2018 to be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing. Limit one (1) entry per person per email address. Multiple participants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any participant to submit more than one (1) entry by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entry and the participant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Station is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, inappropriate or misdirected registrations, all of which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the participant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned the telephone number by the wireless carrier or an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. All entries become the sole and exclusive property of Station and will not be returned. Station reserves the right to contact entrants and all other individuals whose email address is submitted as part of this promotion. No mail-in entries will be accepted.
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.
Allied Integrated Marketing, 500 North Michigan Avenue #700, Chicago, IL 60611
Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died by drowning due to alcohol intoxication, according to a ruling from coroner Shirley Radcliffe at Westminster Coroner’s Court.
The announcement, made yesterday, said O’Riordan had four times the legal alcohol limit for driving when she died in her hotel bathtub.
O’Riordan died on January 15, 2018.