Death Cab for Cutie teased a new album with the following video teaser. The new album is due out in August 2018. This will be the bands 9th studio album and their first since 2015.
Death Cab for Cutie teased a new album with the following video teaser. The new album is due out in August 2018. This will be the bands 9th studio album and their first since 2015.
With the latest Avengers film hitting theaters this past week, Marvel is hitting us while the iron (man) is still hot with the trailer for ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ starring Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly. The trailer seems to give teasers for some spectacular special effects, and maybe it gives away a little too much. Either way, it looks like another popcorn blockbuster from Marvel with a good balance of action, comedy; and of course, enlarged ants playing the drums.
You want to go deep with this trailer? YouTube movie nerd queen Beyond The Trailer breaks down each shot in the trailer and what it means in general for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Superdawg co-founder Flaurie Berman died in her sleep last night. Flaurie, along with husband Maurie, started the legendary hot dog joint 70 (!) years ago. The hot dog effigies of her and Maurie (who died three years ago) are Chicago institutions, standing proudly above the Milwaukee Avenue location (they can also be found on top of the Wheeling location).
It is with profound sadness that we inform you that our matriarch, Florence Berman, passed away peacefully in her sleep last night. For seventy years, Flaurie worked alongside and supported her husband and best friend, Maurie Berman as they built a business and a family. pic.twitter.com/Zr5LQ8ZcqR
— Superdawg Chicago🌭 (@Superdawg) May 2, 2018
Switzerland wants you to ride a bike. And come visit their beautiful country for the ‘ride of your life!’
From now until the end of May national bike month, you can enter your email for a chance to win a trip to Switzerland and a send a friend a Swiss postcard for a free bike ride HERE
they will be sent a code for unlimited 3-hour Divvy Bike rides for a 24 hour time period. (you can also send yourself a postcard to get a code)
It’s been a while for me so hopefully riding a bike is just like riding a bike!
<3 @laurenoneil
Today’s Instagram post from Florence says it all:
In what may well be the greatest moment in Brendon Urie’s career, he does a BuzzFeed interview while surrounded by puppies.
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Your Fighters of Foo certainly enjoy themselves a random cameo from time to time (see: Rick Astley)
This past weekend in Florida, John Travolta popped from watching the show side-stage as the band tipped their cap to him with a cover of “You’re The One That I Want.” You know, that everybody sings from the musical, Grease. Evidence:
That moment when John travolta comes out on stage for the foo fighters and they start playing grease #welcometorockville #FooFighters pic.twitter.com/dw8R7f8rQW
— Tyler Dennett (@SkateTaco) April 30, 2018
That’s not even the weirdest part of the story.
Come to find out that the Pulp Fiction star’s next movie is a project directed and co-written by Fred Durst — yes, Hot Dog Flavored Water-Fred — a movie about a crazed celebrity stalker titled Moose. And yeah, I’d say Travolta’s character looks a little….odd…
First image of John Travolta as a crazed stalker in ‘Moose’, directed by Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst (seriously) pic.twitter.com/T1LjRnDYtp
— Independent Film (@TheIndyFilm) April 25, 2018
Travolta says working with Durst was “maybe my favorite experience I’d had.” The former Limp Bizkit frontman has been carving out a directing career, directing Jesse Eisenberg in The Education of Charlie Banks and Ice Cube in The Longshots. No release date yet for his latest film.
Dave Grohl, John Travolta, and Fred Durst — all in the same article. 2018, what a time to be alive. — [eric]
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To celebrate National Concert Week, a select number of pavilion seats for PIQNIQ 2018 are just $20 — flat cost, no more fees. Of course, that offer joins up with the 10 bands for $20 lawn tickets that we’ve been offering. But even THOSE are cheaper, because while supplies last, there will be no fees on those either.
This is the direct link to the special offer.
The whole thing ends Tuesday, May 9th at 11:59PM….or until the tickets are gone. Get on it! — [eric]
[If for whatever reason that link is not working (computers, amiright?!?) — NCW.LiveNation.com and scroll through to find the date]
As most people predicted, Avengers: Infinity War passed up Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the biggest opening weekend in North America: $250 million big.
Here are some more numbers to put this in perspective, thanks to the Hollywood Reporter:
***SPOILERS BELOW, but only if you click on the video*** — For those who have seen the movie, a discussion of the things you experienced, picked up on, or may have totally missed.
The growth of craft beer sales in Oregon sharply dropped off in 2016 — about the time that recreation marijuana became legal in that state.
The head of a top craft brewery says that is no coincidence. From the Bend Bulletin:
“I believe cannabis has affected sales,” said Deschutes Brewery CEO Michael LaLonde. “It’s so potent today. Someone might go and have a beer and do some edibles, and the combination of those two things means they don’t consume as much alcohol.”
That very well could be. But also pointed out in the same article, craft beer sales growth nationwide has fallen each year since 2014. These are places that do not have legal outlets for cannabis. So the slowdown is everywhere. Why?
Perhaps the answer lies in the pure number of beer choices. The number of craft breweries in the U.S. continues to grow and the volume of their product is up, too. The market is leveling off, which means meteoric growth is no longer an automatic. And the home of Deschutes — Bend, OR — has the highest brewery per capita of anywhere in the nation. Maybe that has something to do with sales declines?
Sure, marijuana is becoming a competitor. But I would be more worried about making my beer stand out and be better than the rest. That’s the one thing you still control. — [eric]
It’s taking over the movie world as expected, but is it delivering the superhero goods in this highly anticipated Marvel epic?
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ currently holds a ‘fresh’ aggregated rating on Rotten Tomatoes , and here are some of the most reliable YouTube video reviewers talking about how well it plays off as it ranks in millions in it’s opening weekend.
NOTE: SOME OF THESE VIDEOS MAY REVEAL SPOILERS BUT THEY WILL GIVE YOU A HEADS UP!
Online dating can be an exhausting and frustrating process no matter what the app is, your putting yourself out there and maybe your simply not getting the results you want back. There is consistent complaints from both men and women that I know that someone can be creepy or simply unattractive in text responses or the roles are reversed and you simply don’t know how to turn an online interaction into a real date.
Enter the controversial service called VIDA (Virtual Dating Assistants). A service where users can paying a company to have “closers” run their dating profiles so they don’t have endure tedious trials and tribulations of it all. Yes, you can pay someone to run your Tinder, OK Cupid, etc. The site does offer the service to men and women, but Quartz which covered VIDA in deep detail in this article says most of the customers are men.
The ‘Closers’ get $1.75 for every phone number they get for their customers. It’s a website founded by dating expert Scott Valdez, who has authored the books Women On Demand and The Automatic Date Transition.
The company also provides ‘matchmakers’ and ‘profile writers’ to handle other tasks in the quest to turn swipes into “ok, let’s meet at (INSERT PLACE) for drinks”.
It’s a pretty ethically questionable practice, but when there are over 12 million Tinder matches in a day, why should we be surprised by this? It’s not an entirely new concept as services like have been around for some time, but their interior practices have never been revealed nearly as much in this Quartz article in which author Chole Rose Stuart-Ulin worked as a ‘closer’ to get a full grasp of what VIDA does for it’s clients.
Let’s just be happy we don’t have to date like they did in the 80’s with this HILARIOUS vhs dating service….. it’s cringe comedy at it’s finest!
Double Dare will return to Nickelodeon this summer, proving that while you can’t pick your friends, you also can’t pick your friend’s nose — but you can dig around inside a giant paper mache nostril in search of a flag.
Gross.
A walk down memory lane below, after you check out the teaser trailer:
After a “toss-up” physical challenge, host Marc Summers would always explain the game:
“I’m going to ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, or think the other team hasn’t got a clue, you can dare them to answer it for double the dollars. But, be careful, because they can always double dare you back for four times the amount, and then you either have to answer that question or take the physical challenge.”
Of course, the BEST part of the show was the obstacle course that waited for you at the end of every show. And at the end of every show, I pitied the poor people who had to clean up that trashed set.
Some interesting facts about Double Dare:
Check out a full episode of the show from back in the day. — [eric]
A fan in the front row of a Foo Fighters show in Houston had a simple message for Dave Grohl: “NO DAD – BE MINE?”
Ask and ye shall receive.
Before strumming into a down-tempo version of “Big Me”, Dave not only “adopts” the twenty year old, but has some sound paternal advice about ear plugs, t-shirt selection & life in general. [NSFW, because Dave likes to say f#$%. A lot.] — [eric]