Billy Corgan Is Selling Original Smashing Pumpkins-Era Gear

July 13, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoist.com)

The rumor mill is swirling again about a possible original-lineup Smashing Pumpkins reunion, but that doesn’t mean the band’s frontman can’t still downsize the instrument closet a bit. That’s right, gear fetishists and alt-rock nostalgists, Billy Corgan is latest musician to put a chunk of equipment on the public selling block.

Following the footsteps of Wilco and Corgan’s bandmate Jimmy Chamberlain will offer up studio- and tour-used guitars, amps and assorted musical paraphernalia. Expect to find 100-plus pieces of gear—ranging from the OG Pumpkins days to (perhaps slightly less exciting) the Zwan era—when the shop launches on Wednesday, August 16. (MORE HERE)

WATCH: New NIN – LESS THAN

July 13, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from engadget.com)

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor’s current interest in video games goes beyond remastering the Quake soundtrack for vinyl and using Kinect on tour. The video for NIN’s new single “Less Than” uses the retro PlayStation VR game Polybius as its main attraction. The on-screen action ramps up in time with the music, lyrics flying toward the viewer, building to a crescendo at the two-minute mark where all hell breaks loose.

(MORE HERE)

 

Never Before Seen Kurt Cobain Art

July 13, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from nytimes.com)

Two never-before-exhibited paintings by Kurt Cobain will be on display at the Seattle Art Fair, from Aug. 3 through Aug. 6. Sort of homecoming, with Cobain’s artwork returning to the city he helped put on the map culturally. “He was born near there, he passed away there, and he created the soundtrack for a counterculture there,” said Joshua Roth, the director for United Talent Agency Fine Arts.
Having long represented Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, United Talent Agency gained representation of the estate last year for what Mr. Roth describes as an “agencywide collaboration.” While one team at United Talent Agency is working to develop a feature-length motion picture about Kurt Cobain’s life, Mr. Roth is planning to “create a touring exhibition that really tells the story of who Kurt was through artworks, personal artifacts and memorabilia, sort of like what the Rolling Stones did in London.” (MORE HERE)

Illinois May Lose In Taxes…But We Make Up For It In BEER.

July 13, 2017 | Eric

Illinois may have made headlines for adding more taxation to us poor saps, but turns out we are actually winning the pour game.

Illinois ranks as the third cheapest in the nation when ringing up a case of beer — at an average of $15.00.  The most expensive?  Pennsylvania.  The “state of independence.”  Yeah, more like….freeing you from your hard earned money.  A case of beer on average will cost you just under $22.00.

Check out all 50 nifty United States below…and read more about this study while you crack open a cold one.  — [eric]

Brian & Lou 07.13.17

July 13, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed, Caught up with our BADASS 48 winner Tish, Rolling Stones Greatest 90’s movies and Do you sleep with a childhood toy like Lou?

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Do You Say “Sneakers” or “Tennis Shoes”? America Is Divided and Furious

July 13, 2017 | Nicci

Did we really need another thing to tear this country apart?

There are lots of famous debates about what people in different regions call different things . . . like “soda” versus “pop” and “sub” versus “hoagie.”  But one of those debates REALLY just started heating up this week on Twitter.

What do you call the shoes you wear when you exercise?

According to a study by Harvard, 45.5% of people call them “sneakers,” mostly in the northeast . . . 41.3% call them “tennis shoes” . . . and the rest use other terms like “gym shoes” or just plain “shoes.”

Apparently, though, LOTS of people had no idea there was any other term than the one they used . . . so the reactions on social media are trending toward disbelief.

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Google finally released its tool to let you backup your entire computer

July 12, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from mashable.com)

Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage to backup an entire computer’s system files. The new Backup and Sync feature will let you use Drive to automatically store files that you’ve already saved on your computer’s internal hard drive or other devices like memory cards in the same format. (MORE HERE)

 

WATCH: Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Video Of Chicago

July 12, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from dnainfo.com)

Chicago is mesmerizing at night, especially in this video that compiles five years of time-lapse videos into four minutes. (MORE HERE)

Entitled “Windy City Nights III,” the video is part of the larger “Chicago Timelapse Project” by photographer Max Wilson. The new video strings together 60 clips taken across the city over the past five years.

Wilson calls the scenes in the video “some of my most memorable shots.”

Besides lugging equipment around, Wilson said “one of the biggest challenges is getting access to some of the locations.”

Netflix turns former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way’s warped superhero comic into a TV show

July 12, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from engadget.com)

Hot on the heels of releasing its Castlevania animated series last Friday, Netflix announced a new adaptation from a different nerd corner. The streaming content titan will make a 10-episode live action show out of Dark Horse Comics’ dysfunctional superhero property The Umbrella Academy, which was created by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way and award-winning illustrator Gabriel Bá. (MORE HERE)

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