You’ve seen it look at from my window at you on the Damen Blue line. Maybe you even creeped and took a picture of it with me half-dressed looking in the fridge in the background. I’m looking for at least $500 but hell make an offer damaged feet but otherwise in great shape. Super light weight – it’s paper mache. Yeti is carrying a pony keg (repairmen on the Blue Line called it “the Irish yeti” for that reason). Guy in the pic below is 6 feet tall for reference. It’s really an incredible and detailed work of art. Have a piece of history from the soon-to-end last residential artsy loft space in Wicker Park. (MORE HERE)
The Foo Fighters seem to be getting all the attention today with the announcement this morning with Lauren on 101WKQX that they will be playing a special Lollapalooza Aftershow at the world fampus Metro on Friday. The tickets for that show sold-out in minutes after they went on sale just an hour after the show was announced. Now comes news that the Foos will have a very big guest singer on their new album and everyone wants to know who it is, but Dave Grohl is not spilling the weenie beenies.
In an European radio interview last month, Grohl stated “biggest pop star in the world” features on the group’s new album. “[He or she] sings backup on one of the heaviest songs on the record…And we’re not telling anybody who it is.” Speaking with Rolling Stone this week, the former Nirvana drummer clarified the mystery guest is more than a ‘pop star’. “This person is, I think, is more than that,” he says.
“It was sort of towards the end of the album and this person came up and said, ‘Man, I’d really love to sing on your record, I looked at [producer] Greg [Kurstin] and said, ‘OK, come in tomorrow and we’ll figure something out.’ So we found a backup part for this person to sing and we decided we were gonna make it our own dirty little secret and see if anyone can figure it out.I’d be amazed if anyone can really figure it out,” Grohl says.
“But it was great and this person’s been around a long time. And I think I’ve met this person maybe a few times, but I’d never spent time with this person, and we had a blast together. Really f_cking fun. And [he or she is] very talented – more so than I ever knew. But, of course, I fucking ran my mouth off; now I have to answer to it every time I pick up the telephone and I’m like, ‘F_ck! I shouldn’t have said anything. We decided we were gonna make it our own dirty little secret and see if anyone can figure it out.”
“Everyone thinks Adele sang on the record,” he says. “She didn’t sing on the record. I fucking love her, she’s an amazing person – I love her personally, and I of course also love her music – but I think everyone made this correlation because Greg had produced her. I’m like, ‘F_ck, I wish it was Adele. Goddamn, that’d be amazing.'”
In the same RS article, Grohl shot down that the singer was Taylor Swift or Adele. “Ooooh, that’d be a good one,” he says. “Wasn’t T-Swift. She’s pretty rad, but… That’s the thing. Maybe everyone should just start submitting their wish list and then the next album will be ‘We Are the World.’ We could do this.”
The Foos who made their impact on Chicago with an episode of their HBO series ‘Sonic Highways’ featuring our city’s long hardworking music scene and in the same episode the band showed how they crafted a Second City anthem in ‘Something from Nothing’. The good times with Grohl and company continued with an intimate and wild Cubby Bear show followed by a massive Wrigley Field show across the street some months later. Now we look forward to Friday’s special Metro show,a big national arena tour, a one-day festival in October in San Bernardino, California and of course, the new album ‘Concrete and Gold’ due out Sept 15th. Oh yeah, and who can forget them being very intimate with a literal tour of garage which included a Chicago stop back in 2011.
It’s important to use a bunch of buzzwords at work, since it REALLY makes you look like you know what you’re doing. So you keep on using ’em, even though your coworkers hate ’em . . . and YOU hate ’em.
A new survey asked people for their least favorite office buzzwords, and here are the six best ones that made the list . . .
1. “Let’s touch base.”
2. “Game changer.”
3. “No brainer.”
4. “Mission statement.”
5. “Pick it up and run with it.”
6. “Let’s get our ducks in a row.”
There are also a few on the list we’ve never heard before, like . . .
“Blue sky thinking,” which means creative but unrealistic ideas . . . “thought shower,” which is a new way of saying brainstorm . . . and “punch a puppy,” which is doing something bad for the greater good.
This video is sad but beautiful all at once. Seeing Chester in the crowd connecting with fans. I don’t want to believe he knew this would be his final show. Watch it here before someone takes it down.
From the video description:
Setlist: 0:00:36 Fallout (w/ ‘Roads Untraveled’ Vox) 0:01:50 Talking To Myself 0:05:39 Burn It Down 0:09:30 The Catalyst (No Third Chorus/Breakdown) 0:14:34 Wastelands (w/ ‘War’ Outro Sample) 0:18:00 One Step Closer (2017 Intro; Ext. Outro) 0:22:03 Castle Of Glass (Experience Version; 2017 Ending w/ ‘Petrified’ v1) 0:25:47 Good Goodbye (Ext. Sing-a-long Intro; Live Version) 0:28:58 Lost In The Echo (No First Chorus or Second Verse) 0:31:55 Battle Symphony 0:35:33 New Divide 0:40:10 From The Inside 0:43:23 Invisible (Ext. Intro) 0:47:01 Waiting For The End (‘Remember The Name’ Intro; Wall of Noise Outro) 0:53:02 Breaking The Habit 1:00:10 One More Light 1:04:28 Crawling (Piano Version) 1:07:56 Leave Out All The Rest (2017 Version) 1:12:35 Somewhere I Belong 1:16:11 What I’ve Done (2017 Intro; Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 1:20:35 In The End 1:24:07 Faint (Ext. Outro) 1:28:53 Sharp Edges (Stripped Down, Ext. Intro) 1:32:54 Numb (‘Numb/Encore’ Intro/Outro) 1:36:54 Heavy 1:39:37 Papercut 1:43:12 Bleed It Out (Ext. Sing-a-long Bridge; Ext. Ending)
Show Notes:
This is the last concert Chester ever performed.
Due to not having an opening band, Linkin Park played an extended setlist for their U.K. shows.
Mike rapped verse one of ‘Petrified’ over the outro of ‘Castle Of Glass’.
The band added ‘From The Inside’ after ‘New Divide’ to fill in the longer set time.
Chester dedicated ‘One More Light’ to the victims of the Manchester bombing earlier in the year. The band was scheduled to play that venue to end their European Tour.
1. Foster The People – Sit Next To Me
2. Sylvan Esso – Die Young
3. White Reaper – Judy French
4. Cage The Elephant – Instant Crush
5. Bishop Briggs – The Way I Do
6. The Shelters – Rebel Heart
7. The Districts – Violet
8. Glass Animals – Agnes
9. Royal Blodd – I Only Lie When I Love You
10. Banks – Crowded Places
11. Vance Joy – Lay It On Me
12. Blink 182 – Parking Lot
13. Rag N Bone Man – Skin
14. The XX – I Dare You
1. The Killers – Run For Cover
2. Hippo Campus – Way It Goes
3. Highly Suspect – Chicago
4. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – So Close
5. Middle Kids – Edge Of Town
6. Atlas Genius – 63 Days
7. CRX – Ways To Fake It
8. Declan Mckenna – Humongous
9. Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort
10. Missio – Botom Of The Deep Blue See
11. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
12. Lorde – Sober
13. George Ezra – Don’t Matter Now
14. Lo Moon – This Is It
15. DJ Shadow / Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak
Interpol – Slow Hands
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With A Night
The Hives – Walk Idot Walk
LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls
The Strokes – Modern Age
Plastic Bertrand – Ca Plane Pour Moi
Exploding Hearts – Sleeping Aides And Razorblades
Vampire Weekend – Diane Young
Matt and Kim – Hey Now
Tame Impala – Elephant
Panama – I Watched You Slip
Dagny – Wearing Nothing
RAC – The Beautiful Game featuring St. Lucia
Tigertown – Warriors
Foster The People – I Love My Friends
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Sylavn Esso – Just Dancing
Gorillaz – Andromeda (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
Sofi Tukker – Drinkee
Holy Ghost! – Static On The Wire (RAC Mix)
Passion Pit – Carried Away (Viceroy Remix)
The Knife – Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix)
The Presets – Yippiyo-Ay
M.I.A – 10 Dollar (CLEAN)
Sneaky Soundsystem – We Love
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know (Seven Stripes Remix)
New Order – Blue Monday
Foals – My Number
Tanlines – All Of Me
The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful
The Black Keys – Howlin For You
Electric Six – Danger! High Voltage
CSS – Let\’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream (Van She Remix)
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
The Presets – Are you The One
Radiohead – Everything in It\’s Rice Place (Gigamesh Remix)
1. Pearl Jam – Better Man
2. Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend
3. The Vapors – Turning Japanese (MTV)
4. Toadies – Possum Kingdom
5. The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star (MTV)
6. Lightning Seeds – Pure
7. Pavement – Cut Your Hair
8. Depeche Mode – People Are People
9. U2 – The Fly
10. Smashing Pumpkins – Drown
11. Blink 182 – What\’s My Age Again?
12. The Specials – A Message To You, Rudy (MTV)
13. The Cure – Love Cats
1. Live – Pain Lies On The Riverside
2. Crowded House – Don\’t Dream It\’s Over
3. Soup Dragons – Divine Thing
4. Oasis – Live Forever
5. Split Enz – History Never Repeats (MTV)
6. The Smiths – Panic
7. Fountains Of Wayne – Radiation Vibe
8. Pretenders – Message Of Love (MTV)
9.Silverchair – Tomorrow
10. Cast – Alright
11. 311 – Beautiful Disaster
12. Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (MTV)
1. Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down
2. Story Of the Year – Until The Day I Die
3. 3Oh!3 – Don’t Trust Me
4. Plain White Ts – Hey There Delilah
5. Paramore – Ignorance
6. Hawthorne Heights – Niki FM
7. Yellowcard – Way Away
8. Thrice – Deadbolt
9. New Found Glory – All Downhill From Here
10. Weezer – On Drugs
11. Manchester Orchestra – Shake It Out
12. Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
13. Twenty One Pilots – Cancer
14. Blink 182 – Man Overboard
15. MXPX – Lonesome Town
“Steve Bartman has received an official Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Championship ring as a special gift from the Ricketts family and the Cubs organization.
Arguably the team’s most infamous fan, Bartman is remembered for tipping a foul ball that left fielder Moises Alou unsuccessfully dove for in the stands during Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series.
Now, 14 years later, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts thought it was high time to extend an olive branch.” More from WGN HERE
I think it is well deserved and am so glad he accepted the ring and broke his silence. Even though I didn’t live in Chicago at this time, watching the 30 for 30 about Bartman broke my heart. I hope that he will feel comfortable enough to come out to a game this season, I would sure like to shake his hand.
X Ambassadors are playing a free show at Huntington Bank Pavillion tonight for the MLS All-Star Concert!
You just need to grab a free ticket, which you can do HERE
They take the stage at 8p!
Sam, Casey and Adam stopped by the studio during The Lockout to play their new song Ahead Of Myself, give us a new album update and talk about tonight’s show!
Trying to get the boys to hang through the weekend and pull a pop-up just like Tom Morello did with them last year…
Beer, it seems, makes the world go ’round. And now, there are some numbers to back that statement up.
The Chicagoland area, according to data from a research firm called CoStar, has the most breweries in the nation with just over 200. And according to this study, breweries seemingly are the anchor for a growing housing market. In other words, where local craft brewing is happening, so booms the housing market.
This mean that young people don’t just look at shopping, schools, and transportation in neighborhoods and cities — they want BEER from their ‘hood just as much.
Chicagoland beer lovers, you never let me down. I raise a toast to you. — [eric]
I was excited to see the A&E show add Lake County, IL to the lineup for Live PD. It would be a chance for the Chicagoland area to show off its finest and its…well, finest. Who had any idea, though, that a Pearl Jam fan (who calls the band his “religion”) would flip the script upside down by performing his rendition of “Even Flow” to the masses (video NSFW, language):
Yesterday marked a week since Chester Bennington left us.
Mike Shinoda jumped online to share some updates starting with worldwide memorials MORE HERE and if that google doc is not working for you, North America listings are HERE
Including Lincoln Park Memorial 8/14 INFO HERE Memorial shirts with proceeds going to Music For Relief HERE
LollaShop is back! Check out this year’s Lollapalooza Pop-Up Store with the latest collaborations from your most loved Chicago sports teams, pop-up exclusives, as well as your favorite festival keepsakes! It’s open July 28th through August 7th at 129 North Wabash Ave. Check out the hours of the store & the hours that you could win Lolla tickets from us below!
Hours For LollaShop July 28th-August 7th Monday-Saturday 10am-9pm
Sunday 11am-7pm
(open 10am on Sunday 8/6 during the festival)
Come hang with us at the Pop-Up Store for your last chance to score Lolla tickets, merch prize packages, and more!
Hours 101WKQX will Be At LollaShop:
Friday, July 28th from 3pm-7pm
Saturday, July 29th & Sunday, July 30th from 12pm-4pm
Monday, July 31st through Friday, August 4th from 3pm-7pm
Saturday, August 5th & Sunday, August 6th from 12pm-4pm
Just when you thought Lolla week couldn’t get any better… Run The Jewels have teamed up with Pipeworks Brewing Co for a Pop Up! They will be taking over Emporium (2367 N. Milwaukee) in Logan Square. They collaborated with Pipeworks to create their own IPA called Stay Gold. Pop Up times are below! -wALT
Bad things happen to good people on Game of Thrones, so when a good thing happens, it can only mean one thing: Death approaches. Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) experienced one of the few joyful moments of an extremely difficult life on Sunday when he and Missandei finally consummated their love — so, naturally, fans are terrified he’s going to die. (MORE HERE)
It’s tough not to like him. He’s a wonderful human, incredibly talented and seems very genuine. Brendon Urie opened a bunch of fan mail on Nightline, and it’s pretty great. Watch the video below:
Just when you thought Lolla week couldn’t get any better… Run The Jewels have teamed up with Pipeworks Brewing Co for a Pop Up! They will be taking over Emporium (2367 N. Milwaukee) in Logan Square. They collaborated with Pipeworks to create their own IPA called Stay Gold. Pop Up times are below! -wALT
