Irish alternative band The Cranberries announced today that they will release a final album with vocals from their late singer Delores O’Riordan in early 2019. O’Riordan recorded vocals for the album in early 2018.“All going well we hope to have this new album finished and out early next year,” the band writes in a statement on their site.
The band will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album ‘Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?’ with a re-mastered deluxe version that will feature previously unreleased material. The reissue will come out before the end of 2018, but was supposed to be released this month but was delay due to O’Riordan’s death in January.
One of the best reoocurring bits on late night TV is Jimmy Kimmel Live’s ‘Mean Tweets’. It’s refresh to see the bands, actors, and whoevers read the snarkiest, meanest, and downright cruel things say about them on the internet.
This edition of the mean joke parade features our alt favorites Green Day, Blink-182, the Lumineers, Depeche Mode, Fall Out Boy, and more music stars all got in on the sh**post train. I have been watching these for years and just noticed that REM’s ‘Everybody Hurts’ is the soundtrack for these!
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Whether or not you are playing the walk-around-with-your-phone game ‘Pokemon Go’ which dominated our collective lives a while, it’s still one of the more popular video games in the world. It brought a grander and more engaging level of ‘augmented reality’ tech to allow our environments to become the level to beat. Now if you are just not interested in chasing a Pikachu around anymore, well what about a dinosaur or a ghost?
Ghostbusters fans will turn their phones into proton packs with ‘Ghostbusters World’.The game is due out some time this year. It
With the success of ‘Jurassic World’ at the box office, the revived franchise will now get the auggie treatment with a game that based on this teaser makes
The artistic characters that drank it up at the Old Town Ale House
The Old Town Ale House which is not far from Second City, Zanies, and the Steppenwolf Theater so that’s why it’s been hub for actors, comedians, and creatives to enjoy in a place where no one really cares who they are. They also have nude paintings of celebrities on the walls. It has character for people who play and perform as characters. It’s the perfect to get away from the world and watch it all from a far. That is exactly where actor Michael Shannon watched his co-stars and his director Guillermo Del Toro accept the Oscar for Best Picture for ‘the Shape of Water’.
House artist at the Old Town Ale House, Bruce Elliot snapped out this Tweet of a mustached Shannon taking in the grand moment. The TV was on mute, because it’s a chatty place.
Michael Shannon watching the film he starred in, "Shape of Water", win best picture while sitting in the Old Town Ale House. No sound on the TV, just sub-titles. Of course the juke box was rocking, and the beer flowing. Where else would you want to spend Oscar night? pic.twitter.com/WAC6uc6guZ
No he didn’t just dodge the Oscar in some holier-than-thou protest or anything like that. Shannon is in town directing the play Brett Neveu’s Traitor at A Red Orchid Theatre, which is a short walk from the Ale House. According to AV Club, Shannon has been a member of the A Red Orchid Theatre since 1993. Shannon attended the Oscars last year when he was nominated for ‘Nocturnal Animals’ for Best Supporting Actor.
Pizza Hutt is rolling out PieTops II, a stylish hi-top shoes that order you pizza on one button via Bluetooth and second button that pauses your TV. Yes, they do that. This plays into their March Maddness promotion with HyperBeast, who will sell a limited stock of 50 pairs of the shoes. According to a Tweet from @PizzaHutt, the kicks will “include a patent leather marinara splash, cheese grater mesh sides and gold lace tips.” So yeah give me those now!
While Matt Forte decided to retire from football last week, it seemed really wrong that he go out as a member of the Jets. His best years came with the Bears from 2008-2015. So, it only makes sense that the will offer Matt a one day contract so he can end his career the right way, as a member of the Chicago Bears.
The SImpsons have done a lot over their 29 seasons. Including some pretty impressive predictions, but now they will be credited with creating a word. Merriam Webster announce they are adding 850 words to the dictionary. Including ’embiggen.’ ‘Embniggen’ means “to make bigger or more expansive: enlarge, expand.”
The word was first used in the season 7 episode “Lisa The Iconoclast.” Jebediah Springfield, or Troy McClure playing the Springfield founding father, used it in this sentence, ‘A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.’ Maybe ‘cromulent’ makes it next time.
Now we know the talked-about award show jokes were told this weekend by late night giant Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars, (I WANT THAT JET SKI!) but the day before the Golden statues got handed out on ABC, the film world assembled for the Independent Spirit Awards where comedy titans John Mulaney and Nick Kroll truly roasted Hollywood. With the #MeToo movement following multiple sexual misconduct scandals and the fall out surrounding it, this was 11 minutes of pure slicing-deep funny. It satirized all of the cultural changes in movies and the film industry right now.
The two comics who team for the character duo Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland in their Netflix special, ‘Oh, Hello’. Go seek it out, it’s well worth it. They first perform the Gil and George sketches in Kroll’s Comedy Central series ‘Kroll Show’ and podcasts like Comedy Bang! Bang!. Mulaney and Koll also worked the characters out in a stage show in New York for years, and their chemistry is just electric.
The Spirit Awards also featured several outlandish and very funny sketches including this whacked-out bit where SNL alum Andy Samberg performed a tribute to “the stars we are about to lose” to big blockbuster series. Yes, he sang a spoof of ‘the Breakfast Club’ theme with lyrics digging into breaking stars who lose their way in superhero and young adult novel adaptions. Yes, he’s dressed like Judd Nelson.
And then there was ‘Bridesmaid’ star Kristen Wig who performed as the faux aging Hollywood starlet who seems to get trouted for the feel-good standing ovation every year during award season.
This week (March 9th) will mark the next big pop-up restaurant to hit Chicago: one themed around the TV show It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
According to Eater, the latest brainchild of Replay Lincoln Park will transform their location into a tribute to Paddy’s Pub. It will include drinks like Rum Ham and The Chardee Mac Dennis IV Bag (maybe a fine canned wine as well?). The food of choice? Philly cheese steaks. And they will have a photo opp for you and your gang to….well, live just like The Gang.
This isn’t the first time these folks have done a pop-up….they also had runs with Rick & Morty as well as The Simpsons. It all ends on March 17th. — [eric]
It’s been a interesting week of mashups — go ahead and look up Ratt/Marvin Gaye in Google — but the Foo Fighters are streaking towards the number one entry of the week.
Who knew that “Imagine” and “Jump” would go together like lamb and tuna fish? Crossing my fingers they drop this on the crowds at Wrigley for two shows…July 29th and July 30th. — [eric]
Woodshedding for the summer tour has never felt so good….see you out there….(I’ll learn the words by then, I swear)
So the guys in Linkin Park have been through a lot in the last year with the tragic loss of their singer Chester Bennington and they had to deal with honoring his legacy through a very memorable tribute show last year. Recently LP’s Mike Shinoda released the very emotional solo EP called ‘Post Traumatic’ (listen to it above), but this week other members appear to be with Shinoda in a recording studio in social media posts. It’s unclear if this could potentially lead to Linkin Park making music together or if this something involved in Shinoda’s solo work.
