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Why Mike Judge is king of the pop-culture hill: An illustrated timeline

September 29, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from avclub.com)

For nearly 25 years now, Mike Judge and his creations have been a fixture in American pop culture. From Beavis And Butthead to Silicon Valley, his TV shows and movies have captured the zeitgeist of America—even if, as in the case of his recently rediscovered film Idiocracy, it occasionally doesn’t happen until nearly a decade later. Below, we’ve created an illustrated timeline of Mike Judge’s influence, from the works he created to the pop culture that took inspiration or influence from his presence. (MORE HERE)

Watch the first clip from Josh Homme’s appearance on CBeebies’ ‘Bedtime Story’

September 29, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from nme.com)

The first clip from Josh Homme’s appearance on Bedtime Stories has been released, and it sees the Queens of The Stone Age frontman showing an altogether softer side.

The singer is set to follow in the footsteps of Tom Hardy and Avengers star Chris Evans by taking part in the CBeebies show, which sees a famous face reading out a popular children’s bedtime story.

Now, the first footage from Homme’s appearance has been released, and it shows him reading out Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ while accompanied by his friend SnoopBob Meatball, a toy dragon.

“Now, even dragons need to rest”, Homme softly tells viewers in the clip.

“It’s time for Snoop-Bob Meatball to go to sleep and you too! So snuggle up and dream of far away places. And I’ll see you soon for another bedtime story, night night!” (MORE HERE)

Brian & Lou 09.29.17

September 29, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed – Eddie Izzard – Jimmy Kimmel Wants To Know If You Have A Condom On You – Eat Travel Rock – Dave Grohl’s Impersonation Of Christopher Walken Is Spot On – What Weird Collection Do You Have.

Eat Travel Rock 09.29.17

September 29, 2017 | Nicci

Whether you are looking for a great happy hour spot, or you want to hit up Fall’s greatest beer festival, or take a quick weekend getaway… Kelly Rizzo has you covered!

Dave Grohl’s Impersonation Of Christopher Walken Is Spot On

September 29, 2017 | Nicci

It’s so GOOD!!!

Watch The Killers “Mr. Brightside’ performed as if it was live sports

September 28, 2017 | Kevin

#AFL soundcheck.

A post shared by The Killers (@thekillers) on Sep 28, 2017 at 1:17am PDT

The Killers are truly an international sensation something that evident here locally when the Nevada based band headlined Lollapalooza. Every person I met at the fest that was from another country for Lolla, almost everyone of them mentioned they were there for Brandon Flowers and company. That global appeal continued in this viral hit from Austraila, where the band is set to provide the pre-show for the Australia Football League Grand Final this Saturday. It’s the Ausssie’s equivalent to the Super Bowl that is the championship game for Aussie rules football.

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Australia’s love for the Killers produced this viral hit with sports host Gerard Whateley during a radio appearance, read the lyrics to ‘Mr. Brightside’ as if it was a sport with player charging to score a goal. It’s really striking to see the song about emotional distress over a relationship

.@GerardWhateley is ready to step in for @thekillers if they can't make the @AFL Grand Final. Watching him commentate 'Mr Brightside' is 💯 pic.twitter.com/o0hWWdhJPZ

— Veronica and Lewis (@triplejvandl) September 28, 2017

Here is Brandon and Ronnie promoted the pre-game party on Australia’s talk show. It was hard not to laugh when the host say Killers in that sweet accent.

Wild Cub in The Lounge

September 28, 2017 | Web Team

TOM MORELLO Reveals Abandoned AUDIOSLAVE Reunion Plans

September 28, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(Photo from Riot Fest 2017: Julia Simone Paul)

According to BlabberMouth.net PROPHETS OF RAGE guitarist Tom Morello revealed in an interview with Music Feeds that he and late singer Chris Cornell — with whom Morello recorded and toured in AUDIOSLAVE — had discussed an innovative way to stage a reunion of the latter band before Cornell died last May. The idea came up after AUDIOSLAVE reunited for a brief three-song set last January, with Morello explaining: “We started talking about maybe doing some sort of similar thing where maybe it would be a PROPHETS OF RAGE show and then we would drop an AUDIOSLAVE set into the middle of it, and we’d have a ball.” (MORE HERE)

Below listen to Tom Morello, DJ Lord, & Chuck D took control the 101WKQX airwaves before crushing it onstage at Riot Fest

Brian & Lou 09.28.17

September 28, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed – When Idiots Attack – Clive Davis – Justin Timberlake Is Headlining The Super Bowl Halftime Show – Football Picks – Josh Wolf – Harland Williams – Ric Flair Says He’s Banged Ten Thousand Women.

WATCH: Name That Song Challenge with Jared Leto

September 28, 2017 | Marconi🍕

Jared Leto and Jimmy go head-to-head trying to correctly guess random songs The Roots are playing one instrument at a time.

Gorillaz to release another ‘surprise’ new album?

September 28, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from nme.com)

Damon Albarn has revealed that he wants to release another ‘surprise’ Gorillazalbum, much like they did with 2010’s ‘The Fall’.

While the band are currently on a world tour in support of their acclaimed 2017 album ‘Humanz‘, Albarn is already planning out their next record. In December 2010, Gorillaz fourth album ‘The Fall‘ was released with just five days notice as a free download. Now, it looks like they could catch their fans off guard once again. “I really like the idea of making new music and playing it live almost simultaneously,” Albarn told Q. “It will be a more complete record than ‘The Fall’, but hopefully have that spontaneity.” (MORE HERE)

Every Pop-Culture Reference (So Far) in Season Three of ‘Rick and Morty’

September 28, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from vice.com)

You don’t need a degree in quantum physics to enjoy Adult Swim’s popular sci-fi sitcom Rick and Morty, but a healthy appetite for pop culture enhances the trope-filled show’s satirical flavor. As promised, the show’s third season of adventures with depressed, alcoholic, super-genius sociopath Rick Sanchez and his awkward grandson Morty are darker than ever. This season also offers a veritable masterclass in film and television trivia to those with a careful eye and a lot of time on their hands. (MORE HERE)

The Rick & Morty mobile was in Chicago in June. 101WKQX was on the scene and we have a FB LIVE video to prove it!!

Bill Murray in talks to play Joe Maddon in Cubs World Series movie

September 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from wgntv.com)

Nothing is official yet, but Deadline has reported that Bill Murray is negotiating to play Cubs manager Joe Maddon in a film about the World Series champs.

The big-time Cubs fan has not confirmed the report but he is well known for his love for the team.

The website reports that Shane Abbess, an Australian film director, is on board for the film titled “Teammate.” The movie will center around the team’s first World Series team since 1908.

(MORE HERE)

Video of Bill Murray the moment it finally happened. Thanks to our pal Craig Gass (watch below)

Was September 1991 the best month ever for albums?

September 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from bbc.co.uk)

In terms of great musical eras, the early 90s were an amazingly fertile time for music, with the new heroes of alternative rock ruthlessly overthrowing the old guard, hip hop coming of age and rave culture leaving its grinning stamp on musicians across the spectrum. As a result, September 1991 yielded an incredible crop of killer albums – several of which changed music forever. (MORE HERE)

Nirvana – Nevermind (September 24)

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (September 24)

Reddit Asks The Question: ‘What is the Most Ridiculous Rule in Your Place of Work?’

September 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from pajiba.com)

Who doesn’t love a good arbitrary workplace rule?! Reddit recently asked the question: ‘What is the Most Ridiculous Rule in Your Place of Work?’ Here is the full thread, but below are some highlights.

(MORE HERE)

Freaks and Geeks Documentary Coming in 2018

September 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from geektyrant.com)

The 1999 series Freaks and Geeks was a perfect storm of greatness. It was an amazing coming of age series from Judd Apatow and Paul Feig that helped launch the careers of several high-profile creative talent in Hollywood. Linda Cardellini, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, Samm Levine, Martin Starr to name a few. Unfortunately, it was canceled way too soon. (MORE HERE)

Jon Lester Is Not Amused With #NachoMan

September 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoist.com)

It was all pretty cool, and at least so far, we didn’t even go and Ken Bone the whole thing up by elevating Nacho Man, as he will forever be known henceforth, into some modern-day folk hero.

But Cubs starting pitcher and chief lieutenant in the No Fun Police Jon Lester was not amused by the tomfoolery.

“Great effort. But I don’t understand the other stuff,” Lester told the Sun-Times. “A guy fell into him and got nacho cheese on his arm and now he’s taking pictures and signing autographs. It shows you where our society’s at right now with all that stuff.”

Yes, the culture has dutifully given Gudermuth his 15 minutes, but have we really memed him, ironically or not, to the point of grotesque, ouroboros-like megastardom? That, or maybe Jon Lester is kinda cranky. Cheer up, dude, your magic number is one!

(MORE HERE)

WE NEED TO TALK – Jessica & Chris

September 27, 2017 | Nicci

Chris thinks he’s way more handy around the house than he is…

Brian & Lou 09.27.17

September 27, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed – Weird Teachers – Psychopaths Like Rap – We Need To Talk – Fake Outrage Over Fixer Upper

Twitter doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters

September 26, 2017 | Kevin

Twitter has been the social media standard for brief posts with it’s longstanding 140 character limit, but that all changes today as the platform has announced it will expand to a new bigger 280 character limit for tweets. The company clarified the change today in blog post why this huge change is being done. “We understand since many of you have been Tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too. But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint. We are excited to share this today, and we will keep you posted about what we see and what comes next.,” said the post. The move from 140 to 280 is not official just yet but is being tested with some users.

The response to it has been mixed with many divided on Twitter about the new character limit and how it may make the idea of tweeting less focused and concise. And because it’s Twitter it also garnered it’s fair share of jokes as well.

Yeah, because this site needs people talking MORE…#280characters

— Matt Drufke (@IHateMattDrufke) September 26, 2017

Twitter: Bigger is better baby!
People on Twitter: Uh … you sure?#280characters pic.twitter.com/T5NGMqkxWm

— JustNotSports (@JustNotSports) September 26, 2017

In 2016, Twitter allowed users to post GIFs and photos in their tweets while it didn’t count towards their 140 character limit. This allowed for a lot more memes and playfulness on the platform. It’s certainly made it easier to send that silly eyeroll gif when needed.