Lollapalooza is August 2-5 in beautiful Grant Park and our hour by hour schedule is finally HERE!
Some tough decisions lie ahead. But first, you have to get in of course. Score your 4-day passes HERE!
See you there!
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New music from Local H!
Local H is one of my absolute favorite bands. Great dudes, amazing music and blistering live shows. They just released a brand new song ‘Innocents (Edited for Television)’ available now on iTunes.
Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Failure front man, Ken Andrews, Innocents is the first new music we have gotten from Scott Lucas and Ryan Harding since 2015’s album ‘Hey, Killer.’
Check out the lyric video, directed by Mr. Lucas, below.
And catch Local H on the Summerland tour with Everclear and Marcy Playground this summer, coming to The Forge in Joliet June 16th.
See you in the pit <3 @laurenoneil
Portugal. The Man performs ‘Live in the Moment’
Blink-182 are set to take off their pants again
So Blink-182 is back in the studio working on new music, and Mark Hoppus dropped this teaser of what to expect on Twitter:
Early days still but the newest blink-182 songs sound like they pick up where Take Off Your Pants and Jacket left off.
— snddoɥ ʞɹɐɯ (@markhoppus) May 7, 2018
Yes, please! We want this NOW!
If this album is a sequel to ‘Take Off Your Pants and Jacket,’ it should have a corny title like ‘Too Pants Too Jacket’ or ‘Take Off Your Pants and Jacket 2: Pop Punk Boogaloo.’ That is just my dumb two cents.
It’s still very early in the process of this new album, so there is no clear time frame on when we will get this audible glory.
Here are more details on the new Blink album from Alt-Press.
Watch paint explode in slow motion from a speaker
Watch 12,500 frames-per-second flash before your eyes when a rainbow spray of paint explodes from an speaker, all thanks to the Slow Mo Guys.
Yes, it’s engaging and relaxing to simply watch that much vivid color move together.
While we are taking in colorful visuals, we suggest you enjoy Beck’s ‘slime visualizer’ video for ‘Colors.’
Dave Grohl almost broke his leg on stage again
Dave Grohl proved himself to be the iron man of alternative a few years back when he broke his leg on stage in Europe, then finished the show with his wounded wheel propped up by a medic on stage. The Foo Fighters leader than went on a stadium tour with a robotic iron throne as his leg healed. Yeah, he’s a bad ass, but let’s not repeat that painful process again!
Grohl almost broke his leg again on stage as documented in this Instagram video from the Welcome to Rockville fest:
Bill & Ted 3 is officially happening!
First there was 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, then 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Adventure. After a loooooong time waiting and a looooooootttt of teasing from Keanu Reeves (Ted Theodore Logan) and Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esquire), the film’s original writers, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, returned to pen the script for Bill & Ted Face the Music! Excellent!!!
No word on a release date yet, but more from Consequence Of Sound HERE.
Wyld Stallyns ride again!!
It’s not TV, it’s Cord And Tish!
If you must watch coverage of the Royal Wedding next Saturday, HBO has the best play-by-play team in the business, Cord and Tish (Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon reprising their comedic personas from the Rose Bowl Parade.)
Dilly, Dilly!
Arrested Development – Season 5
I had forgotten how much I love the Bluth Family. New season hits Netflix on May 29th! -wALT
Man eats 30,000th Big Mac
Let’s hear it for ambition: A Fond du Lac, Wisconsin man put away his 30,000th Big Mac on Friday. Dan Gorsek says he’s had least one Big Mac every day since the early 1970s.
Our first taste of new Arctic Monkeys music!
Our first taste of new Arctic Monkeys music came at their first show of 2018 in San Diego. We are not getting any singles ahead of the full album release of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino this Friday, so these live clips are that much more exciting!
They debuted four of the 11 tracks appearing on TBH&C: “Four Out of Five,” “One Point Perspective,” “American Sports” and “She Looks Like Fun”. For each performance, the band was joined on stage by Tame Impala’s Cameron Avery, who worked with the band on the album. Watch fan-shot footage of the new songs below and read more at Consequence of Sound HERE.
Score 4-day passes to see Arctic Monkeys at Lollapalooza HERE.
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Most dangerous road for Chicago cyclists named
Biking around Chicago can bring with it a sense of risk. There are definitely areas and intersections where that feeling of danger is amplified. And now, a new survey shows the absolute worst stretch for cyclists is…
Milwaukee, between North and Division
The survey looked at collisions, injuries and fatalities to arrive at its conclusions. According to the survey’s author, Albuquerque is the worst for fatality rates, with Tucson, Dallas and Indianapolis on the other end of the spectrum.
Luke Cage is back
Netflix revealed the trailer for Season 2 of Luke Cage today:
LAST DAY for $20 all-in PIQNIQ tickets!
Your $20 all-in (ALL taxes, fees, etc) PIQNIQ tickets are only available for National Concert Week, which ends tomorrow! The amazing offer officially ends Tuesday, May 9th at 11:59PM….or until the tickets are gone. $20 out the doors, and there are still some pavilion seats left!
Get them while you can and I’ll see you at PIQNIQ!!! Along with AWOLNATION, Dashboard Confessional, Bush, The Neighbourhood, Greta Van Fleet, The Front Bottoms, Bishop Briggs, Welshly Arms, L.I.F.T. and Chicago’s own Marina City June 20th at the Hollywood Casino Ampitheatre!
See you there!
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5.6.18 Alt_Backspace
Hour 1
- Oasis -Supersonic
- Midnight Oil – The Dead Heart
- The Breeders – Cannonball
- Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
- The Smiths – The Boy With A Thorn In His Side
- Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray
- Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
- Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
- Faith No More – We Care A Lot
- Beastie Boys – Body Movin’
- Beck – The New Pollution
- Lightning Seeds – Pure
- Nirvana – Been A Son
Hour 2
- Depeche Mode – Walking In My Shoes
- Jane’s Addiction – Stop!
- The Cure – Let’s Go To Bed
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Knock Me Down
- Re-Flex – The Politics Of Dancing
- Buffalo Tom – Sodajerk
- Jimmy Eat World – Lucky Denver Mint
- Psychedelic Furs – Heaven
- The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
- Hole – Celebrity Skin
- Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Dramarama – Anything, Anything
Francis Bean Cobain strums, sings her way through original song
When your parents are both well-known in a particular field, following in their footsteps has got to be burdensome. The pressure, the questions, the comparisons…
Now imagine you are Francis Bean Cobain.
The daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love has dabbled in music before, but mostly has been known for her art work and modeling — and you know, being the offspring of a pretty famous alternative rock couple.
She released this song earlier — then deleted — and now has returned to Instagram with a taste of the revamped original song:
Consequence of Sound helped break down the important takeaways from her post. Echoing a statement she made earlier, she confirms in the comments of this post an intention pursue a music career. And to the fan that (already) was comparing her style to the style of her parents, she had this to say:
“You are probably right in the respect that people probably can make assumptions or conclusions about my art because they are informed about my life’s trajectory,” she wrote. “Not everyone has to like it, that’s not a requirement of making and receiving art.”
Playing off her post title, it won’t be Plain White T’s (purveyors of 2006’s Hey There, Delilah)….it won’t be Hole….it won’t be Nirvana. Her musical journal will be uniquely hers, no matter how far or where that journey takes her. — [eric]
Dog Tries To Trick Vet
Corgan says Pumpkins reunion with D’arcy Wretzky would be a “sh**** reality show”
One of the most talked-about alternative music tours of the summer will see most of the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup reunite for the ‘Shiny And Oh So Bright’ Tour. The annoying shadow hanging over this feel-good story has been the absence of original bassist D’arcy Wretzky. This week, Pumpkins singer/guitarist Billy Corgan reluctantly commented on the feelings within the band heading into the tour, and how it relates to Wretzky.
Consequence of Sound released the following transcription from an interview with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich where Corgan detailed why James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and himself are content with doing this reunion without Wretzky:
“If you’re really not passionate about what you do and you’re not passionate about providing that passion to fans by extension and saying, ‘Look we really love what we do and we want to share this with you.’ If that relationship is not at the heart of what you do, then what are you doing? The thing that keeps you on the rudder is the music and the fact that somehow when the three of us [Corgan, Chamberlin, and James Iha) come together, this magical thing happens that’s bigger than me, and I have no problem admitting to that. And if that’s not your guiding principle, then it’s a sh*tty reality show. And we don’t want the sh*tty reality show, we really don’t. We’d rather just stay on the music, and if we can do that, great.”
WIN YOUR WAY INTO THE SMASHING PUMPKINS AT UNITED CENTER IN AUGUST HERE
Are the Foo Fighters a wedding band now?
The Foo Fighters played to thousands this week in Dallas, but they apparently didn’t know they were also playing as a pop-up wedding ceremony was happening in the crowd.
Hey @foofighters big shout out for being the band at your wedding . Thanks a million to the staff at the starplex pavilion for helping our dreams come true #foofighterswedding #bestfoodayever #davegrohl #foofighters pic.twitter.com/ioq9Sunj4p
— Belinda Marie Rosales (@BeLLaHMaReE) April 23, 2018
And if you are thinking was this a legal wedding, the bride confirmed it in a follow-up post.
Yes it was legal.. and it was the best day of my life https://t.co/IpbRVlgMwJ
— Belinda Marie Rosales (@BeLLaHMaReE) May 2, 2018
Watch YouTube mad scientist play with his homemade Hulkbuster
YouTube mad scientist Colin Furze took the nerd joy over the new Avengers movie to a new level in the following video:
At 3.2m high it’s a monster! Weight? No idea but there’s not one piece can be lifted by one person. Thanks to eBay for working with us on this project it’s amazing that all the components came from there site.
