MUPPET DRAMA!! Details On Why The Kermit The Frog Actor Was Fired Paint An Ugly Picture

July 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from cinemablend.com)

The news that long-time Kermit the Frog voice Steve Whitmire was being replaceddisappointed many fans. Things got a little darker when it was confirmed he’d been fired by Disney. However, the more we learn, the more we come to realize that things behind the scenes at Muppets Studio were something of a mess. Now, The Chairman of the Jim Henson Company, Brian Henson, has come out and publicly stated that he actually wishes he’d fired Steve Whitmire sooner, specifically, prior to the sale of the Muppets to Disney. According to Brian Henson… (MORE HERE)

 

A SECURITY ROBOT CALLED STEVE ROLLED INTO A POOL AND DROWNED

July 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from digitaltrends.com)

The robot apocalypse is clearly a ways off if news out of Washington, D.C., this week is anything to go by. A security robot working at the Washington Harbourcomplex in Georgetown met a nasty end when it toppled into a water feature and promptly drowned.

Steve, as this particular Knightscope K5 robot is affectionately known, had only been patrolling his patch since last week but, for reasons currently unknown, ended up taking an unexpected dip in the water, rendering itself utterly useless. (MORE HERE)

WATCH: Portugal. The Man perform “Feel It Still” on Fallon

July 19, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from consequenceofsound.net)

Portugal. The Man released Woodstock, their first studio effort in four years, just last month. On Monday, the alt-rockers appeared on The Tonight Show in support, performing their single “Feel It Still”. A groovy cut with a contagious bassline, it’s no wonder the song is currently sitting atop the Alternative Radio charts. (The pair of stylish dancers accompanying the band didn’t hurt either.) Replay it below. (MORE HERE)

Love them. Watch their performance from our Sound Lounge below

@Midnight to end it’s run on Comedy Central after 600 episodes

July 19, 2017 | Kevin

No more POINTS! No more Hashtag wars?!  Say it ain’t so, Chris Hardwhick!

Deadline reported today that the weeknight comedy series @Midnight will end it’s run on Comedy Central after 600 episodes on Friday August 4th. The move to end the show is said to be a mutual decision by both Hardwhick and Comedy Central.

CC President Kent Alterman spoke on the move saying the following.

We took a big macro look and we started having conversations with Chris. We feel incredibly proud of the show, we think it’s had an amazing run. How many shows can say that they’d hit 600 episodes? It was a little bit of the audience telling us over time, and we mutually thought, “You know what, maybe we should walk away holding our heads high and proud, full of appreciation and gratitude.” 

Hardwhick himself cleared the air, making it clear the time is right to sign off on this show which has been consistently one of the funniest on weekly TV.

@midnight has meant the world to me these last four years. It has been a dream to come to work 600 times to make inappropriate jokes about the Internet with my fellow comedian friends. I could not be more proud of this show, staff and crew and at the end of the day, I think we accomplished everything we wanted to accomplish. Spiritually it just feels like it ran its course — I’m not sure we had many more hashtag games in us (which may actually be a relief to anyone whose Twitter feed gets overrun every night). I owe such a huge debt of gratitude to Comedy Central and Kent for taking a chance on the show, always being great partners and allowing us to exit mutually, which is rarely a gift you are given in this business. I will certainly miss awarding POINTS! to people nightly, so please understand if you see me randomly shouting it at strangers in public after August 4th.

40 Hours a Week…Old & Broke. How About a 4-Day Work Schedule?

July 19, 2017 | Eric

For those who work a standard eight-hour work week:  Could you imagine if by the end of Tuesday…you would be halfway through your work week?

A lot a time has passed since the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1937 made Friday the BEST DAY EVER….a Monday A LIVING HELL.  Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 we would have enough technology to cut it down to 15 hours a week.  I don’t remember much from my Economics 101 days…but I vaguely remember that name.  Therefore, genius idea Johnny!

So why go through with it?  Well…a doctor in the UK advocated for a four-day work week to cut down on stress, thereby lowering blood pressure and slew of other health concerns.  This guy (Basecamp founded and Chicago entrepreneur John Fried) says a 32-hour work week promotes better focus and productivity.  Even Utah is finding success with this idea, albeit with cramming 40 hours into a shorter time frame.

So, here’s a one last bit of evidence to help us build our idea case…which is dropping a full day of work from our plates.

Let’s revolt!  (I mean…nicely ask our bosses to reconsider how business gets done.)  — [eric]

Heinz is trying to get around Chicago’s ‘No Ketchup’ Hot Dog rule

July 18, 2017 | Kevin

Heinz known the world over as one of the largest purveyors of ketchup, is trying to get around Chicago’s established ‘no ketchup’ rule with something called ‘Chicago Dog Sauce’. On National Hot Dog Day when our guard is down because we have buns in each hand, Heinz has launched the sauce which is made up of “red ripe tomatoes  and a special blend of spices and flavorings” according to WGN.  That’s ketchup, a red liquid lie I tell ya!

In a promo video above one surly ChiKAAAgo guy says that Heinz is “challenging people’s identity” with a maneuver that is a ketchup wolf-in-condiment sheep’s clothing. They just change the label to say ‘Chicago Dog Sauce’ and in the process compromise all that is right and good in greater Cook County area. These jerks even used our flag on the bottle to pull of this scam!

Hot dog eating Chicagoans playful response to Heinz’s ‘Chicago Dog Sauce’

 

It’s just not right, when I grew up I relinquished a need to put sugar on almost everything. That’s a major reason for the over-the-top-but-never-on-top-of-our-dog anti-ketchup stance of Chicagoans hold to. For those of us who have long grown up with the silly tradition of ‘never put ketcup on your hotdog’ is an attack.  One of the hot dog stand managers put it best in Heinz’s zesty hit job of a video, saying you can have it on your dog “if ya got training wheels on your bike.” I agree with him. It’s not easy to get a kid to eat some times, so just cover it in goop that looks like a liquefied Twizzler and they’ll gobble it up. As an adult you grow to appreciate the rich cured taste of Vienna Beef hot dogs, which became regional sensation over a century ago. Putting ketchup on a hot dog to me, is like putting peanut butter on a steak. It does not make sense, but I get why some people do it.

Local chain Portillos came under red hot fire last year when they permitted ketchup as a topping, even posting a video on their corporate Youtube account about it. If you want to put ketchup on it, go ahead but don’t make disrespect the craftsmanship of sausage makers who’ve filled bellies from Edison Park to Beverly, from Aurora to South Shore for generations. Heinz keeping making the yella stuff, we like that but your move with the secret label today is like chameleon , it can change colors but it’s just a lizrard.

You can order a bottle of this stuff chicagodogsauce.com

 

New song from NINE INCH NAILS ‘This Isn’t the Place’

July 18, 2017 | Kevin

Rollingstone calls the latest song released by Nine Inch Nails “disturbing” and they are riight. The track called ‘This isn’t the Place’ was posted today and is a part of the band’s upcoming EP ‘Add Violence’ due out this Friday July 21st. The song has a sense of dread and slow lumbering nature, like you can just picture in your head a giant monster pulling it’s prey in the woods to this desperate plea from Trent singing “I thought we had no time.” The Youtube for the track pulls away from vintage audio equipment, where if you look you can see the phrase ‘add violence’ labeled to a knob.

Maybe it’s the modern consumption of music in this feed-the-beast digital age, but Trent Reznor gave us a new wondrous synth-driven song last week called “Less Than” (GET THAT TRACK HERE) 

 

Lorde reveals her ‘work husband’ from a big band + performs on ‘Late Night’

July 18, 2017 | Kevin

Lorde has been making the media rounds to plug her new smash album ‘Melodrama’ which may interfere with her duties as the queen of onion rings (more on that here), but she put on a thrilling performance of the song ‘Perfect Places’ last night on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ on NBC. There was some big reveals during the New Zealand singer’s interview with Meyers. Jack Atonoff of BLEACHERS has a ‘work wife’ as opposed to his well-documented real life relationship with ‘Girls’ star Lena Dunham, it’s Lorde!

ENTER TO WIN TO SEE LORDE, MUSE, BLINK-182, AND MANY MORE AT LOLLAPALOOZA 2017 HERE 

Is R. Kelly Running a Sex Cult?

July 18, 2017 | Nicci

At least two couples are trying to get their daughters back from what they’re calling a SEX CULT run by R. KELLY.  Buzzfeed talked to those parents and some former members of Kelly’s inner circle for a disturbing expose.

Kelly supposedly has six women living in rented properties in Chicago and Atlanta, and he controls EVERYTHING, including, quote, “what they eat, how they dress, when they bathe, when they sleep, and how they engage in sexual encounters that he records.”

They also need his permission to contact anyone but him, and he restricts their social media activity.  Oh, and he makes them call him “Daddy”.

I know what you’re thinking, and surprisingly, none of these girls is underage.  Although several had just hit the legal age of consent when he “recruited” them . . . in some cases 16 and 17.  He lured several in by promising to help their music careers.

Kelly’s former assistant says, quote, “You have to ask for food.  You have to ask to go use the bathroom . . . [Kelly] is a master at mind control . . . He is a puppet master.”

One way he keeps them in line is through PHYSICAL ABUSE.  For instance, he once allegedly slapped one of the women outside a Subway because she was too friendly with the male cashier.

Another woman was bent over and spanked because she laughed at a cab driver’s joke.

Kelly also uses verbal and emotional abuse to keep the women in line.  He basically cuts them off from their families, and when other men are around, he makes them wear tracksuits and face the wall, so the guys won’t look at them.  Which is stupid, because Kelly allegedly shows all his guy friends the tapes he makes of himself having sex with these women.

Now, some of these women’s families have asked police to check up on them, and they always say they WANT to be with Kelly.  Plus, they’re not minors, so they can’t be forced to leave him.  One of these women actually spoke to TMZ yesterday and said she’s right where she wants to be.  But she did seem a little evasive.

But if you know Kelly’s history, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising if it were all true.  In 2008, he was tried for a videotape that allegedly showed him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.  He was acquitted on all charges.

But there have been a dozen or more civil lawsuits filed against him for allegedly pursuing sexual relationships with underage girls.  He settled all of those with cash payments . . . after the girls signed nondisclosure agreements.

And in 1994, he married AALIYAH . . . who was 15 at the time.  The marriage was annulled.

Kelly’s attorney is denying all of these new allegations, of course.  And he says, quote, “We can only wonder why folks would persist in defaming a great artist who loves his fans, works 24/7, and takes care of all of the people in his life.”

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Queued Up #236

July 17, 2017 | Web Team

1. Dirty Heads – Vacation
2. Cage The Elephant – Whole Wide World
3. Tender – Machine
4. Vance Joy – Lay It On Me
5. White Reaper – The World’s Best American Band
6. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
7. Missio – Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea
8. Green Day – Revolution Radio
9. The Aces – Stuck (Queued Up Artist Showcase 8/31)
10. Death From Above – Freeze Me
11. Jet & The Bloody Beetroots – My Name Is Thunder
12. The Struts – One Night Only
13. Middle Kids – Edge Of Town
14. Prophets Of Rage – Living On The 110

1. Cold War Kids – So Tied Up (feat. Bishop Briggs)
2. In The Valley Below – Bloodhands
3. The Academic – Bear Claws
4. Wolf Alice – Don’t Delete The Kisses
5. J. Roddy Walston and The Business – The Wanting
6. Nine Inch Nails – Less Than
7. Rostam – Bike Dream
8. Declan McKenna – Humongous
9. Portugal. The Man – Live IN The Moment
10. Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
11. Grace Mitchell – Kids (Ain’t All Right)
12. Vinyl Theatre – 30 Seconds
13. Imagine Dragons – Thunder
14. Beth Ditto – Fire

Indie-Pendent Dance Party – 7.15.17

July 17, 2017 | Web Team

A Tribe Called Quest – We The People
Awolnation – Kill Your Heroes
Too Many T\’s – God Save The T\’s
Five Knives – Criminal
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Elliphant – Ciant Hear It
Sleigh Bells – Kids
Santigold – Kicking Down Doors
Chvrches – Recover
Disclosure Featuring Lorde – Magnets
The Vaccines – Handsome
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Phoenix – Lisztomania
The Orwells – Who Needs You
The Strokes – Last Night
Mark Ronson – Valerie [feat. Amy Winehouse]
Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go
Foster The People – Houdini
Ghostland Observatory – Sad Sad City

Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
Luster – You\’ve Got The Heat
Courtship. – Sunroof
Yacht – Summer Song
Sunday Girl – Love You More (RAC Mix)
The Knocks – Classic (Discotech Remix)
RAC – Cheap Sunglasses (Viceroy Remix)
Magician featuring Years and Years – Sunlight
New Politics – Harlem
Elle King – Ex\’s and Oh\’s
Young The Giant – My Body
Royal Concept – On Our Way
Dan Black – Pump My Pumps
The Struts – Dirty Sexy Money
Fitz and The Tantrums – The Walker
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
Blur – Song #2

Taking Back Sundays – 7.16.17

July 17, 2017 | Web Team

1. Bloodhound Gang – Fire Water Burn
2. Sum 41 – Fat Lip
3. Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down
4. All Time Low – Dear Maria, Count Me In
5. Panic! At The Disco – The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
6. Blink-182 – Feeling This
7. Yellowcard – Way Away
8. Caheed and Cambria – A Favour House Atlantic
9. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
10. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
11. Against Me! – I Was A Teenage Anarchist
12. Simple Plan – I’d Do Anything
13. Paramore – Now
14. Taking Back Sunday – What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost
15. Alkaline Trio – Stupid Kid

7.16.17 – Alt_Backspace

July 17, 2017 | Web Team

1. Garbage – Stupid Girl
2. The Jam – Going Underground
3. U2 – In God’s Country
4. Beastie Boys – Sabotage
5. The Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
6. The B-52s – Rock Lobster
7. Folk Implosion – Natural One
8. R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
9. Foo Fighters – Alone + Easy Target
10. Butthole Surfers – Pepper
11. Sponge – Molly
12. The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You

1. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
2. The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
3. Husker Du – Could You Be The One
4. Radiohead – Karma Police
5. Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka
6. Blur – There’s No Other Way
7. Beck – The New Pollution
8. Midnight Oil – The Dead Heart
9. EMF – Unbelievable
10. Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart
11. The Replacements – Alex Chilton

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW 10AM

July 17, 2017 | Kevin

Let’s just say you can not sleep on this. 10am tomorrow (July 18th) listen to 101WKQX for more info about this very interesting tweet about from @Lollapalooza, like set your alarm so you remember to listen. In the words of the great Ron Burganday, it’s “kind of a big deal”.

Marconi will be out tomorrow at Trtion College with your shot at Lolla tickets.

https://www.101wkqx.com/amp-events/71817-win-lolla-tickets-at-triton-college/

WEB GOLD: Star Wars light sabre sounds replaced by Owen Wilson’s ‘Wow’

July 17, 2017 | Kevin

Sometimes people post something on the web that makes virtually no sense at all, and then sometimes that thing that in theory makes no sense comes off a perfect piece of weird entertainment. Insert this odd clip from Twitter user  who posted this clip from ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menance’  that has removed all the wooshing light sabre sounds and replaced them actor Owen Wilson’s consistently uttered signature word, “wow!”.  It should not make sense, but watch it delivers an immediate laugh. 

 

BLACKHAWKS: Brian Campbell announces retirement

July 17, 2017 | Kevin

Defenseman Brian Campbell announced his retirement today after 17 seasons in NHL, and will assume a role in the business operations of the Chicago Blackhawks.

His career numbers are strong for his position with 1,082 games played, 87 goals, 417 assists, and four All-Star games. He had two strong stints with the Hawks during his career, including the glorious Stanley Cup victory in 2010. Campbell kept Chicago close even after being traded to Florida in 2011, keeping a home in the area. He finished his career as a Blackhawk this past season.

“I’m excited to transition into the next step in both my professional career and life,” said Campbell in a statement. “I’m grateful to the countless number of teammates, coaches, team staff and fans that I have crossed paths with throughout my playing career in Chicago, Buffalo, Florida and San Jose. The Blackhawks organization has allowed me to take on this challenge and I’m thankful for this new opportunity.”

”After a brilliant career on the ice, Brian will remain an important part of our franchise,” Blackhawks president John McDonough said.

‘Soupie’ has proven to be a lovable persoanlity off the ice, which was on display in his ‘talk show’ ‘Soup and Sandwich’.

 

Legendary Horror Director George A. Romero Has Died

Watch Dave Grohl Bag on Old Foo Fighters Demos

July 17, 2017 | Eric

I’m sure we all have things from our youth….that we aren’t proud of.  Dave Grohl is just like you and me, apparently.  In just released footage cut from the HBO documentary Sonic Highways, he comes across original demo material with the producer he collaborated with back in 1995.  Dave’s visuals say it all, two previously unearthed tracks play.  Enjoy.  Oh, and he drops a couple of four letter words — so technically NSFW if you are blasting over your speakers.  — [eric]

New Trailer For ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is Pretty Epic

July 17, 2017 | Eric

Just released this morning…a new teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2049:

Being a big sci-fi movie fan, it was a revelation when I came across the original Blade Runner (89% on Rotten Tomatoes) as a young man.  When it was first released, it was not accepted well by critics and the public alike. Perhaps it’s too complicated.  Perhaps the original version lacked enough narrative (they fixed it with a redux).   Perhaps it was a bit ahead of it’s time — as the idea of artificial intelligence is NOW inching closer and closer to reality.  That only took about 40 years.   That’s why it took me so long to get around to it.

But it is a beautiful film — both visually and audibly.  If you haven’t seen it — you’ve got plenty of time between now and October.  Stream it.  — [eric]

PHOTO CREDIT:  Screen Rant

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