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NEW MUSIC ALERT! Weezer get chill with new track ‘Happy Hour’ (LISTEN)

October 19, 2017 | Kevin

Today on 101WKQX, Walt spun this new track ‘Happy Hour’ from Weezer in his Walt’s Vault special spot.

It comes from the upcoming album ‘Pacific Daydream’ (October 27th) and it’s just the perfect song to crack open a beer to on a sunny day. The song feels like a more relaxed brother to their recent song of the summer season, ‘Feels like Summer’ which came out a few months back. Listen to other fresh Weezer tracks off ‘Pacific Daydream’ below including ‘Feels Like Summer’, ‘;Mexican Fender’, ‘Weekend Woman’ and ‘Beach Boys’.

This album follows up last year’s successful ‘White Album’ which saw Rivers Cuomo and company tour through the country with Panic! At the Disco and headline the Nights We Stole Christmas last December. Get tickets to this year’s TNWSC shows with Rise Against, Foster the People, Queens of the Stone Age, and many more here.

Listen to Rivers chat with Brian and Lou about the silliness of the ‘experience bundle’ promotional stunt for their White Album.

‘Hey, Homer!’: Moe’s Tavern-themed pop-up bar comes to Lincoln Park for Halloween

October 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagotribune.com/redeye)

You’ve heard Homer Simpson sputter “I’m going to Moe’s” a million times, and this year for Halloween, you can say the same thing and actually mean it.

In the spirit of the holiday, REPLAY Lincoln Park (2833 N. Sheffield) is dressing up its rear bar as the infamous Moe’s Tavern from “The Simpsons,” donning new digs to impersonate everyone’s favorite cartoon bar from now through Halloween.

(MORE HERE)

REVISIT YOUR BEST MID ’00S SCENE SELF WITH DOCUMENTARY ‘EVERY NITE IS EMO NITE’

October 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

( from papermag.com)

If you, like many of us, identified heavily with dark eyeliner, nice jagged bangs, and anything Brendon Urie and/or Pete Wentz, you will be happy to know there is very much a place for you.

Emo Nite, which began in Los Angeles, has expanded to become a mainstay cities all around America. Portland, Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix and LA, and Chicago all host the event, where all of us who were raised on the likes of My Chemical Romance, Greenday, Panic! At the Disco and Paramore can lose all inhibitions sweat the night away, as our overly-emotional selves. The short documentary that details the nights, Every Night Is Emo Nite, follows the stories of Rocky, Brittany and Dante on their Emo Nite journey across three different states. (MORE HERE)

Make sure to check our hour of Sad Songs and Sing Alongs Sunday nights at 10

TAKING BACK SUNDAYS

Pearl Jam released Vs. on this day in 1993

October 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from loudwire.com)

Sophomore slump? Never heard of it. In fact, on Oct. 19, 1993, Pearl Jam released Vs., one of the most successful sophomore albums in rock history. Vs. set the all-time record for first-week album sales at the time with 950,000 copies sold (back when SoundScan only counted the first 5 days instead of the full week), and spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. (MORE HERE)

Fall Out Boy finish recording delayed new album ‘M A N I A’

October 19, 2017 | Kevin

Speaking to Cleveland.com, Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy says the band has finished recording their delayed album ‘ M A N I A’ which was originally scheduled for release in September, and is now due out in January. “We’re done recording, officially! Which is pretty awesome. We’re just in the mixing stages now. Now, we’re just mixing and mastering the songs, which is really exciting. This didn’t seem like a place we could get to six months ago. It’s really cool to be here. We finished recording, maybe last week.”: says Wentz.

When asked for memories of the recording of the band’s memories of the prolonged recording process, Wentz compared his working relationship with singer/guitarist Patrick Stump to a classic cartoon. “There was a period when I was driving (lead singer) Patrick (Stump) to the studio. It felt a little bit like “The Flintstones,” picking up Barney Rubble on the way to break some rocks. That’s not that great of a story, but whatever. ”

FOB has recently brewed up the hype pot for the new album with a sold out House of Blues show in Chicago last month and the limited release fidget spinner that doubles as a blue tooth speaker. Check that out here.

Meanwhile they have released three singles from ‘M A N I A’ including the most recent ‘Champion’ which you have heard recently on 101WKQX.

DRONES ARE DELIVERING BURRITOS DIRECTLY TO THE HOMES OF RURAL AUSTRALIANS

October 18, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from digitaltrends.com)
Google parent Alphabet has been developing its Project Wing delivery drone for several years. Striving for perfection, it even ditched the entirety of its work at one stage and started over.

This week the company revealed it’s been testing its latest design in the real world — as opposed to highly regulated test areas — by ferrying burritos and medicine to folks living in rural communities in Australia.

(MORE HERE)

See Rami Malek Performing as Freddie Mercury in New Bohemian Rhapsody Photo

October 18, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from pitchfork.com)

The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is slated to come out in December 2018. Well ahead of the release, director Bryan Singer has said he “couldn’t help [himself]” and shared a new photo of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Check it out below.

(MORE HERE)

Letterman Gives Kimmel Ties And Conan A Horse

October 18, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from avclub.com)

Conan O’Brien appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Friday, where he told a funny story about how David Letterman once sent him a horse. Unprepared for a horse in his life (especially the ornery one Letterman had selected), O’Brien confided to Colbert that the gift (in recompense for a glowing profile Conan wrote of Letterman upon Dave’s retirement from that same Late Show in 2015) has been something of a burden, frankly. Well, emerging from wherever he’s been cultivating his gloriously Skinny Santa beard for a rare talk show appearance with Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, Dave spun a very Letterman-like response to Conan’s televised griping, explaining that the horse was just a goof, intended to “take a dump” on Conan’s stage and then be returned to the ornery horse farm he’d come from. (MORE HERE)

Jimmy however got the gift of a box of Dave’s ties from the show. My friend John Michael Elliot was gifted one of those ties by Jimmy

See the full interview below.

Netflix is turning an Indiana Target into the Upside Down on Tuesday

October 18, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from timeout.com)

Still mourning the loss of Emporium’s Stranger Things pop-up bar in Logan Square? Return to the Upside Down for one night only as a Target in Granger, Indiana, transforms into 1980s Hawkins to celebrate the launch of an exclusive line of Stranger Things merch. (We already Google Mapped it for you: It’s a 100-mile drive from Chicago.) (MORE HERE)

National Pasta Day + Taco Tuesday

October 17, 2017 | <3 Lauren

Taco Tuesday is a religion in my house, but today is also National Pasta Day… how do we solve this conundrum? Thanks to all your text messages, the solution is simple…

SPAGHETTI TACOS!!!

Picture and recipe from Community Table:

How to Make the Famous Spaghetti Taco

1 lb turkey meat
1 packet taco seasoning
3 cup marinara sauce
½ lb spaghetti (½ box, broken in half)
6 Tbsp salsa
10 Taco shells
Cilantro for garnish

DIRECTIONS

Cook Pasta & Sauce:
In a skillet over medium-high, brown 1 lb ground turkey until done. Add taco seasoning; cook according to package instructions. Add 3 cups marinara sauce. Simmer until very hot. Cook ½ lb spaghetti. 3 minutes before spaghetti is done, add taco shells to oven.
Assemble Tacos:
When spaghetti is done, drain and return to pot. Stir in meat sauce and 6 Tbsp salsa. Remove taco shells from oven and fill with spaghetti mixture. Garnish with some fresh chopped cilantro.

If you make Spaghetti Tacos tonight, please tweet me about it!!

<3 @laurenoneil

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8: Everything You Need to Know

October 17, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from rollingstone.com)

Last October, The Walking Dead‘s seventh season debuted with one of the most-watched episodes of the entire series. Long-time fans – and even a handful of haters – tuned in to see the resolution to the “Who did Negan bludgeon?” cliffhanger, in one of those rare 21st century TV moments shared by over 15 million people at once. (MORE HERE)

WATCH NEW MGMT – Little Dark Age

October 17, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from nme.com)

MGMT have officially returned with a new track this week. Fans have been eagerly awaiting news of the band’s long-awaited fourth album for some time. They last released their self-titled record in 2013, Watch the video for “Little Dark Age” below

(MORE HERE)

WATCH This Skittles Halloween Ad Is Creepily Awesome!!

October 17, 2017 | Marconi🍕

Will you be taking the stairs from now on? Me too…Wait. Nobody takes the stairs. Even creepier.

MisterWives in The Lounge

October 17, 2017 | Web Team

Moon Taxi in The Lounge

October 17, 2017 | Web Team

SEE The Amazing Acro-Cats !!

October 17, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoreader.com)

Thu 10/19: The Amazing Acro-Cats includes a skateboarding cat, a cat that holds the Guinness Book of World Records’ record for longest cat jump, and an entire band called Tuna and the Rock Cats! entirely made up of . . . cats. Bring your cat-hoarding pals to the Vittum Theater (1012 N. Noble). 7:30 PM, $23-$38 (MORE HERE)

My cat can’t do any of these things, but she just doesn’t want it bad enough.

Fidget Spinner In Space!

October 17, 2017 | Lou

After watching this, there is almost nothing I want to do more in life. -Lou

A fidget spinner in space! How long does it spin? I’m not sure, but it’s a great way to experiment with Newton’s laws of motion! pic.twitter.com/5xIJDs2544

— Randy Bresnik (@AstroKomrade) October 13, 2017

Watch the trailer for Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’

October 16, 2017 | Kevin

Here is the trailer for ‘Black Panther’ which is due in theaters in February. The next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe features Chadwick Boseman reprising the role of the King of Wakanda who doubles as a superhero and returns home to reclaim his family’s throne amidst chaos. It looks really dramatic, epic, and visually gripping as we have come to expect from Marvel.

After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T’Challa returns home to Wakanda. He soon finds his sovereignty challenged by factions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to bring down the kingdom, T’Challa must team up, as the Black Panther, with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje—Wakanda’s special forces—to prevent a world war.

Check out the trailer for the other upcoming Marvel movie, Thor: Raganarok ..if it was done in the sytle of 1987

If your family with this character in ever expanding Marvel movieverse, here’s a look into his origins from Marvel Comics in Watch Mojo video form.

Chicago (Yet Again) is the rattiest city in America

October 16, 2017 | Kevin

This sadly not surprising. Chicago has the most rats of any city in America. When the rats learn how to communicate how good deep dish and Polish sausages are, that’s when it is going to get worse.

In response to this news, $1 million has been promised to attack the ratty situation from Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. “The rodent battle will only benefit from the investment in garbage carts which helps ensure that residents can swap out any damaged carts for a new or refurbished one in a timely manner,” said Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Charles William in a press release.

The list is put together by the pest control Orkin.

1) Chicago
2) New York
3) Los Angeles
4) San Francisco – Oakland
5) Washington, DC
6) Philadelphia
7) Detroit
8) Baltimore
9) Seattle – Tacoma
10) Dallas – Ft. Worth

Contrasting artistic styles on two city posters about rats pic.twitter.com/q6N1BcnRQR

— Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) March 21, 2017

Fox News makes fun of Radiohead? Um, ok….

October 16, 2017 | Kevin

FOX News contributor Kat Trumpf apparently has something against alternative icons Radiohead saying on a recent episode of Greg Gutfeld Show, that the band whose been nominated for the upcoming class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will get inducted since “it’s about fame, and not talent”. Which dismissive alone, but Trampf went onto to dig her proverbial hole with the following dumb stuff: ‘”the kind of guys that I like have to be three things: strange, malnourished, and sad. Those guys always like Radiohead, so I’ve been having to pretend to like Radiohead for years to get these men, even though the music is just elaborate moaning and whining for ring tone sounds. You know what, if that’s not fame and power that will get me to do that for someone else, then I don’t know what is.”

Ok….

So this is just snarky news panel chatter, at least that what it came off as in that clip. And to simply write Radiohead into a simplistic box of description when their music is so much more diverse and unique than “ring tone sounds” is just ignorant and uninformed. If you agree of disagree, let us know on our Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.

source: Consequence of Sound