Brian & Lou 07.07.17

What Ya Missed, Worst Tippers in Chicago, Nicci has a snap chat boyfriends and Paige VanZant

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Eat. Travel. Rock. 07.07.17

Just like every fleeting and cherished Chicago summer weekend, this one is also filled with amazing music and festivals.  But don’t worry, Kelly Rizzo snuck in some food too.

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A News Anchor Is Caught on Camera Angrily Tossing His Notes

A news anchor in New Mexico named Doug Fernandez tried to send it live to a street reporter, but the camera stayed on him instead.  He started reading a different story, but then they DID go live to the reporter for a second . . . and then QUICKLY came back again and caught him angrily tossing some papers and walking away.

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Ever Hear 65,000 People Sing Bohemian Rhapsody?

If you saw Green Day at the Aragon last year, then you heard this happen.  Before Green Day takes the stage, with the house lights still one, they play Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.  Without fail, the crowd all joins in and starts singing along.

This past weekend, Green Day played Hyde Park in London and all 65,000 people in the park sang along!  This is pretty impressive!

The bar has been raised for when they hit Wrigley Field next month.  -wALT

Paramore’s Hayley Williams and New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert Are Breaking Up

Paramore singer Hayley Williams and New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert were the perfect couple for 10 years. This week they made a joint statement on instagram that they were separating. Then the posts disappeared. Here’s a screen shot below. They say they will remain close friends. I hope this doesn’t make it awkward at Riot Fest. They both seem like cool humans. Sad to see them break up. (-_\\) \m/

 Hear more about this break along with a full hour of emo / pop-punk songs Sunday night at 10 on Taking Back Sundays

 

Hangover cure from the world’s heaviest drinking country

(from mashable.com)

Work hard, play hard — that’s South Korea’s formula for success.

For one South Korean entrepreneur, it only made sense to bottle that formula from his home country and bring it to the hands of hard-working, hard-playing Americans.

Sisun Lee’s product, Morning Recovery, is a hangover cure based on some of the many traditional remedies in South Korea’s heavy drinking culture. (MORE HERE)

You know this tastes like liquid raisin privates.

Get Hot Doug’s Sausages Delivered!

(from chicagoist.com)

The late, great Hot Doug’s has been closed for over four years, but the encased-meats emporium hasn’t let a little detail like not existing stop it from staying in the spotlight. Just this month, for instance, Chicago hosted the premiere of Hot Doug’s: The Movie; and former owner Doug Sohn continues to serve up sausages at Wrigley Field. Now, it looks like you can even get Hot Doug’s sausages delivered to your door. What a time to be alive!

(MORE HERE)

Brian & Lou 07.06.17

What Ya Missed, Big boob problems, Fake Outrage over NPR tweet, Rob Kardashian sent out revenge porn, Godfrey and Chad Zumock in studio

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NPR’s Declaration of Independence Tweets Leave Some Confused and Angry

NPR calling for listeners to overthrow the government definitely would have made for an interesting Independence Day.

But the public radio network wasn’t calling for a revolution, and it wasn’t calling the President a tyrant. NPR was just doing what it has done for years on the Fourth of July: Reciting the Declaration of Independence. READ MORE

 

We decided to do our own experiment and tweet out the Bill of Rights and people are reacting just like we thought they would.

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Men Don’t Get What’s Wrong with This Pool Float, But Women See It Immediately

Someone posted a photo this week of an inflatable pool float Sam’s Club has been selling.  And it’s trending online, because guys don’t see what’s wrong with it . . . but women see it immediately.

The thing looks EXACTLY like a giant maxi pad.  It’s white with a little bit of blue, and the design even makes it look like it’s quilted.

Someone posted a photo on Reddit.  Then it blew up after a romance novelist named Jillian David shared it on Twitter with a caption that said, “This could have been avoided with ONE focus group of women.”

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Queued Up #234

1. Imagine Dragons – Thunder
2. Death From Above – Freeze Me
3. 78RPM – Unbreakable
4. The Lumineers – Angela
5. Palaye Royale – Get higher (Queued up Artist Showcase 7/13)
6. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
7. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – So Close
8. Dirty Heads – Vacation
9. Nothing But Thieves – Amsterdam
10. Fall Out Boy – Champion
11. Beth Ditto – Fire
12. Cage The Elephant – Whole Wide World
13. Alvvays – In Undertow
14. Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort

1. Irontom – Be Bold Like Elijah
2. Joywave – It’s A Trip
3. Vinyl Theatre – 30 Seconds
4. J. Roddy Walston and The Business – The Wanting
5. DJ Shadow/ Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak
6. Phoenix – Ti Amo
7. Kacy Hill – Hard To Love
8. The Picturebooks – I Need That Oooh
9. Lorde – Perfect Places
10. Rag N Bone Man – Skin
11. St. Vincent – New York
12. George Ezra – Don’t Matter Now
13. Papa Roach – Periscope
14. Mondo Cozmo – Automatic
15. Lo Moon – This Is It

Indie-Pendent Dance Party – 7.1.17

LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
The Bravery – An Honest Mistake
Cold War Kids – Miracle Mile
The Aces – Touch
Ok Go – Here It Goes Again
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
Vampire Weekend – Diane Young
The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wallflowers
BØRNS – Seeing Stars
Phantogram – You Don\’t Get Me High Anymore
Matt and Kim – Hey Now
The Orwells – Who Needs You
The Strokes – Last Night
Tokyo Police Club – In A Cave
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – S.O.B.

Bleachers – Don\’t Take The Money
Foster The People – Houdini
Haim – The Wire
The Virgins – Rich Girls
Edward Sharpe – Home
MGMT – Kids
Grouplove – Tongue Tied (Gigamesh Remix)
Portugal The Man – Purple, Yello , Red and Blue (Passion Pit Remix)
Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Hey Champ Remix)
Rapture – Out of the Races and Onto The Tracks
Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Black Keys – Gold On The Ceiling
Black Kids – I\’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Twelves Remix)
Penguin Prison – Never Gets Old (Solidisco Remix)
Santigold – The Keepers (The Knocks Remix)
Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire (richard Sharkey And Peter Sar Remix)
Kid Cudi – Pursuit Of Happiness (Steve Aoki Remix) – Clean

Taking Back Sundays – 7.2.17

1. We The Kings – Check Yes Juliet
2. Paramore – Now
3. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
4. Taking Back Sunday – Cute Without The E
5. New Found Glory – My Friends Over You
6. Head Automatica – Brooklyn Is Burning
7. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
8. Hawthorne Heights – Saying Sorry
9. Rise Against – Swing Life Away
10. Papa Roach – Scars
11. Fountains Of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
12. AFI – Girls Not Grey
13. Good Charlotte – Little Things
14. Me First and the Gimme Gimmies – Rainbow Connection
15. Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

NEW UNEARTHED VIDEO: Nirvana plays in an empty Radioshack in’88

Clips of it have floated around the web, but today SPIN unearthed a full 17 minute video of this then-upcoming band called Nirvana on January 24th 1988, performing in an empty Radioshack store in Abderdeen, Washington. The video technically does not feature bassist Kris Novaselic and guitarist/singer Kurt Cobain playing, as they are syncing up their movement with audio from a demo recording they had made the previous day.

It’s also worth noting that Dave Grohl is not on drums in this video, it’s Dale Crover who played on the band’s January ’88 demo. Crover also performed with fellow Seattle grunge veterans , the Melvins for many years. Crover contributed to several Nirvana tracks around this time, which would later go on to be released in various compilations and the first album ‘Bleach’.

This may have been done as simply as a video demo for the band to seek out more recording opportunities and shows. It’s intriguing to see Nirvana in this very raw uninfluenced form. You can see more retro Nirvana fun with this video bootleg of the band performing in Chicago in 1989 here. 

VIDEO: Nirvana play the Metro in ’89

 

Cinderella Boy Is Opening a Caddyshack Restaurant

Looks like the rumors are true!  Bill Murray and his brothers are planning to open a Caddyshack themed restaurant in the Crown Plaza Hotel in Rosemont.  It’s not expected to open until December so no word on decor or menu but you can be sure it will house plenty of Caddyshack memorabilia.  Oh, and a “gold simulation experience.”  I’m in. -wALT