The Cubs wrapped up the regular season today at Wrigley Field with a 3-1 loss to Cincinnati. But, it didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things…they had already earned their way into their third consecutive post-season days before.
Having a ballpark with so much history has never been lost on me, everytime I step in to that beautiful place. Watch this video on what it’s like to have one of the more unique jobs in baseball — working the manual scoreboard at Wrigley Field.
And let’s get ready to fly the flag this fall! Go Cubs Go! #FlyTheWKQX — [eric]
A while back Fall Out Boy posted a to-do list on their Instagram that included goals like “finish recording M A N I A” and “give back to Chicago” , but one thing on the list stood out to some; “give trophies to fans”. So what are these trophies you ask?
CUSTOM LIGHT UP FIDGET SPINNERS!
Yes, select fans received the busy hand toys in the mail with special note from FOB.
Last night while performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, Marilyn Manson was forced to end his set early after a large stage prop fell on top of him during his performance. The singer was quickly aided out from underneath the prop by stage hands, and after a brief delay the show was ended. You can see the entire incident in the above fan-shot video as Manson and his band perform ‘Sweet Dreams’ an hour into their set.
Other videos online appear to show Manson trying to possibly climb on to the prop, before it toppled over on top of him.
“Manson suffered an injury towards the end of his incredible NYC show. He is being treated at a local hospital,” said a rep for Manson in a statement to Rolling Stone.
It is unclear how severe Manson’s injuries are at this time but to those in attendance at the show last night the situation appeared to be serious for the singer who was touring in anticipation of his upcoming album, ‘Heaven Upside Down’. “There was a lot of confusion in the crowd when it happened, people thought it was maybe part of the act,” says Loudwire’s John Hill, who was at the show. “When the guitarist moved over, the crowd started to freak out. Everyone was really worried and then chants started. They had the crowd move out of the venue real quick.”
This is not the first time this week the shock rocker has been endured some bodily harm on stage. Earlier this week while on the first leg of his current tour in Pittsburgh, Manson announced to the crowd that he had broken his ankle after taking a tumble off stage.
At last night’s show in New York City, Marilyn Manson climbed up a “two-gun” prop. It did not end well. The set fell on top of the singer, who was down on the stage for about fifteen minutes before being taken off on a stretcher. Reports say that he suffered an undisclosed injury and was being treated at a local hospital.
While no official word has been given, band mate Tyler Bates said he was “headed home” in a Instagram-captioned photo of an airplane…and that the tour was “on pause for a minute.” — [eric]
In Thursday’s rivalry game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bear, Packers player Davante Adams was injured after a nasty hit by the Bear’s Danny Trevathan. The hit was brutal to see in a slow-mo replay with Adam’s helmet jarring back and his mouth-piece flying out of his mouth. Today the NFL responded with a 2-game suspension on Trevathan.
The league said that Trevathan violated Rule 12, Section 2, Article 6 (i) which states that “there shall be no unnecessary roughness. This shall include, but will not be limited to: (i) using any part of a player’s helmet or facemask to butt, spear, or ram an opponent violently or unnecessarily.” – nfl.com
If Trevathan doesn’t have a successful appeal, he will be available for the Bear’s October 16th game against the Baltimore Ravens.
Trevathan expressed care for Adams in a post-game interview on Thursday, noting his intention was not to injure Adams.
Let’s go ‘around the horn’ with various sports new coverage of this story.
On October 13th, William Patrick Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins will release a new solo album produced by Rick Rubin, titled ‘Ogilala’ and it will soundtrack the silent film ‘Pillbox’. That all plays together for this fresh music video from the Chicago alternative vet who delivers a dreamy acoustic ballad with candy-cotton sweet ambiance that plays into a “ a hero’s journey.” It’s quite trippy and surreal in the best way. It reminded me of the fantasy film ‘ The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’.
‘PillBox’ will be screened in limited release, including a special event at the Music Box Theater on October 11th with Corgan and the film’s director Linda Strawberry on hand.
In addition to the soundtrack dropping today, Let’s Play Two is now showing in select theaters. But it won’t last forever — scroll to the bottom for dates/locations.
This documentary is perfect for Chicago. (The parts of the city that embrace the Cubs, that is.) The movie plays as a love story between Eddie Vedder & the Cubs…part recap of the magical run to the World Series title and part kickass concert footage from their two historical performances at Wrigley last year.
Fan club members of Pearl Jam got to hit up the Metro for the last couple of nights…and now it settles in for a week long run at Arclight in Chicago. After that, it makes a limited appearance in suburban theaters. Hit it up for the movie theatre experience…or wait until November to take it home. — [eric]
The Kids in the Hall have reunited multiple times since the cancellation of their hit sketch comedy series in the mid-’90s, but they haven’t appeared on TV under their preferred moniker since 2010’s Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town. Now, the band might be getting back together for a new limited series in the vein of Mr. Show‘s recent revival on Netflix. (MORE HERE)
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)
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)
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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!
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.
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
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.
According to BlabberMouth.netPROPHETS 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
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