WATCH: Josh Homme cover Cheap Trick at a primary school graduation
(from nme.com)
Josh Homme, Brody Dalle and Garbage drummer Butch Vig have teamed up to play at a primary school graduation ceremony in America. Footage posted on Instagram shows the Queens of The Stone Age frontman performing Cheap Trick‘s ‘Surrender’, accompanied by ex-Distillers singer (and Homme’s wife) Dalle on guitar and Vig on bass. It’s yet to be established where the footage was filmed, but Instagram user Julian Weinberg hailed their performance as the ‘best 6th grade graduation party’ – which suggests that it’s a performance to mark the end of primary school. (MORE HERE)
Best Chicago happy hour deals
(from chicagotribune.com)
Here’s where to drink on a budget this weekend
Friday, June 30
The Pony (1638 W. Belmont Ave. 773-828-5055) offers a pizza and appetizer buffet, beer, house liquors, wine and punch from 7-10 p.m. for $25. Tickets: theponychicago.com
Saturday, July 1
Fat Cat (4840 N. Broadway Ave. 773-506-3100) offers $5 bloody marys and mimosas from 10-11 a.m. Saturday.
Sunday, July 2
Atwood (1 W. Washington St. 312-368-1900) offers a glass of Bordeaux and a sandwich of thinly sliced roast sirloin, horseradish cream, shaved red onion and arugula on a pretzel bun for $18 from 7-9 p.m.
Monday, July 3
Eat. Travel. Rock. 06.30.17
Here’s what’s Rocking Right Now according to Kelly Rizzo!
Brian & Lou 06.30.17
What Ya Missed, Have you stopped a wedding, Friday Fails, Eat Travel Rock and Tom Cotter
The reviews for ‘Spider-Man Homecoming’ are good! (NO SPOILERS)
Can the 6th Spider-Man film and second ‘reboot’ deliver the feels of a teenage Peter Parker balancing high-school life with the ‘great power and great responsibility’? Currently with the movie coming out this weekend in theaters, the collaboration between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios holds a strong Rotten Tomatoes score of 92%.
Here are some of the most on-point reviews from reliable reviewers on Youtube. Note these reviews DO NOT CONTAIN ANY SPOILERS, so read away before you head off to see it.
Chris Stuckman is a big web-head but has not liked any Spidey flicks since ‘Spider-Man 2’, so he says this is new film is “well directed, well acted” and watch his video to see his score for it.
Grace of Beyond the Trailer says this new movie about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is “the most realistic superhero ever made” and notes this movie is taking the Marvel Cinematic Universe into a self-aware “meta era”. She also notes that Marisa Tomei as an updated younger take on Peter Parker’s maternal figure Aunt May delivers. “Incredibly well done, from top to bottom”.
IGN gives ‘Homecoming’ gives it another strong review saying it takes a greater focus on the characters over elaborate action sequences with winning results.
Essential Gifts For Your Favorite Coffee-Lover
(from chicagoist.com)
This clever Build-On Brick Mug delivers a coffee break and work break all at once. Designed with a familiar peg and hole surface, you can design unique toy construction brick structures all over it — because adults need to play too.
Buy now: Customize your office mug for $19.99, half off $39.99. (MORE HERE)
This sleek, portable Nuvita French Press Coffee Maker delivers pure, delicious java flavor straight to your cup. It’s dishwasher safe and contains 34 ounces of pure coffee right when you need it the most.
Buy now: Make gourmet coffee anywhere for $13.99, 65% off $39.99.
Camera lens or coffee mug? Photography buffs will love this Self-Stirring Camera Lens Mug that handles both hot and cold liquids and — hold the phone — stirs your coffee for you.
Buy now: Perfect for Nikon and Canon fans alike — get it for $12.99, reduced from $19.99.
What those things have an actual use other than being a Camera Lens Mug?
Smashing Pumpkins Member Hints At 2018 Reunion Tour
(from alternativenation.net)
With Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots’ original lineups being forever silenced with the deaths of Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland, 90’s alternative rock fans have been anxiously anticipating a reunion of the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup. Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin hinted at the band’s original lineup reuniting for a 2018 tour in a recent interview.
We were talking about playing next year with the band and somebody asked me, you know, ‘what’s it like to coordinate that?’ I said ‘it’s like Grumpy Old Men 3, only there’s three grumpy old men and one’s a woman.’ That’s how it has gotten to be.” (MORE HERE)
Mark Hoppus Reveals If He’d Welcome Tom DeLonge Back In Blink-182
( from alternativenation.net)
Blink-182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus discussed his two professional falling outs with the band’s former singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge in a new Kerrang interview. He started by discussing Blink-182’s 2004 U.K. tour.
“[It was] right before Tom left the first time,” says Mark, describing it as one of the ‘low points’ in his career. “Every single show we were having these awful arguments backstage. We were playing giant venues, the band was successful, but we were just miserable, yelling at each other before we would go on. (MORE HERE)
THE HISTORY OF THE IPHONE: 10 YEARS IN THE MAKING
(from digitaltrends.com)
Ten years ago, Apple released the very first iPhone. While it is difficult to overstate the significance of what Steve Jobs and company achieved a decade later, it is easy to lose sight of precisely how far we’ve come.
The first iPhone lacked 3G connectivity and didn’t have an App Store. It had a rear camera, but didn’t allow sending images via text messages. Multitasking wasn’t a thing, and that’s to say nothing of how infamously buggy, unreliable, and incompletethe product was when Jobs first demoed it in front of a MacWorld audience in 2007. The entire mobile industry was a different place, too. Cingular Wireless was still around, and the leading smartphones of the day came from the likes of Nokia, BlackBerry, Palm, and Motorola, sporting QWERTY keyboards nearly as large as their screens. (MORE HERE)
iPhone (2007)
iPhone 4 (2010)
See the entire 10 year history (MORE HERE)
Brian & Lou 06.29.17
What Ya Missed, Has your big mouth cos you your job like Miguel Montero, Vanilla vs Chocolate ice cream, Nicci is mad at CBS for interrupting Big Brother and Artie Lange.
LISTEN: Artie Lange 06.29.17
CUBS designate catcher Miguel Montero for assignment, likely gone from Chicago
Today the Chicago Cubs put catcher on assignment confirmed his agent Paul Kinzer, which gives the team 10 days to trade him or cut him from the team. This comes one day after Montero called out pitcher Jake Arietta for for stolen bases in 6-1 loss to the Nationals. The public statement that got Montero the boot is believed to be the following: “That’s the reason they were running left and right today because they were slow to the plate. Simple as that. It’s a shame it’s my fault because I didn’t throw anyone out.” In the questionable public discussion, Montero described Arietta as “slow” to the base. You can see Montero share the dirty laundry in the video from Sports Illustrated above.
Coach Joe Maddon expressed the move was done due to the youth in the Cubs locker room, sighting it would not set the right example for a veteran playing. This is according to multiple news outlets including ESPN.
Montero expressed his love and appreciation for the Cubs and the Chicago fans in a series of tweets today.
To the city of Chicago
Dear fans, today I say goodbye to the greatest fans. I want to thank you for the support.— Miguel Montero (@miggymont26) June 28, 2017
It was an awesome ride. Winning the World Series was simply fantastic. Thank you to my teammates – good luck to everyone of you.
— Miguel Montero (@miggymont26) June 28, 2017
Thank you also to each staff member, it was an honor to play for the Chicago Cubs organization.
Chicago will always be in my heart— Miguel Montero (@miggymont26) June 28, 2017
No matter what Montero has earned his spot in the hearts of Cubs for his Game 1 heroics in the World Series last year for this grand slam.
Chicago’s Sears Tower is Getting a Shake Shack
(from chicago.eater.com)
George Lucas’s $1 billion museum meant for Chicago approved by LA council
(from nme.com)
The museum is dedicated to the “importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking”. George Lucas’ proposed $1 billion Museum Of Narrative Art has been given the green-light by the Los Angeles city council.
Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, has been proposing this project throughout 2017, initially pitching it to the city of Chicago. The filmmaker spoke extensively to the council members about how the showcase of popular art “appeals to people emotionally, but also tells you something about who you are.”The museum will begin construction early next year and will take 36-months to complete. It will showcase the importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking, in shaping history, perception and myth. (MORE HERE)
I still can’t believe we didn’t get this.
Canned Cocktails Perfect For Summer Drinking
(from chicagoist.com)
For so many years, we looked across the Atlantic with envy. Not because England was home to both the Beatles and the Spice Girls, or because of Queen Elizabeth’s amazing hats, but because of their grocery stores. British grocery stores are home to literally dozens of varieties of canned cocktails, from elderflower gin and tonics to mojitos, and we here in the U.S. were sorely lacking.
Not anymore, though. Cutwater Spirits, the recently relaunched division of San Diego’s Ballast Point, has finally given us what we need: strong booze, good mixers, and aluminum cans. And they’re now available in Chicago. But can they possibly be any good? We tried all of them to find out.
Though several companies have made forays into the prepared cocktail market, including Chicago’s own Crafthouse Cocktails, these individual-sized mixed drinks are still a revelation. You can take them to the pool! To the beach! To a barbecue! With no glass and no leftovers, you’re finally free to sip a great rum and Coke, no sticky Malibu bottle required. (MORE HERE)
WEIRD TWITTER BEEF: Smash Mouth vs. Twenty-One Pilots Fans
Late 90s alt-pop band Smash Mouth has been curiously injecting itself into weird issues that seem completely unrelated to them like the recent beef between Corey Taylor of Stone Sour/Slipknot and Chad Kroeger of Nickelback but now Smash Mouth has a beef with the most feverish fanbase in music, Twenty One Pilots ‘Clique’. Yes, the band that did that song in the Shrek soundtrack is in a twitter fight with Twenty-One Pilots fans after being asked what they think of the duo. It’s a very silly and ridiculous argument so it let be known we are taking no sides on this, but we are watching the shade get casted. Let it be clear the band Twenty-One Pilots themselves are not in this, just whoever runs the Smash Mouth Twitter and the TOP faithful.
Do you like @twentyonepilots
— jay (@Frunk_Oreo) June 25, 2017
no one likes twenty one pilots except for teenage girls and sad adults
— death to false music (@matthew_bass3) June 25, 2017
One of the best acts EVER! In the history of music POINT BLANK! And Tyler isn't done!
— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) June 25, 2017
Ok, so Smashy Mouth ( I call them that, because it’s not clear which member of the band runs their twitter) has taken the public stance of endorsing TOP, so what’s so bad about that? Well, apparently asking a band if they approve of band also means they must also endorse individual members of the band? Yes, they took it that way or at least it appears they did. It’s just confusing and odd sign of misconstrued context in an age of mass collective wanting throw the daily #(insert celeb/artists whos says something remotely negative about my favorite)isoverparty with hopes of getting shallow likes and retweets with no progressive result.
josh is Just as important please leave https://t.co/mMQfbhhl24
— abby (@beautifvImind) June 26, 2017
Writing,…. If you look up the Credz Tyler writes everything. That's the only point we've made. It's not an opinion, it's a fact.
— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) June 26, 2017
No no, just referring to the fact they will have more hit songs and Tyler Writes them. He's an amazing Writer!
— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) June 26, 2017
If you were a fan you'd know that that both put in as much passion and time and effort and emotion. it's a band not just a singer. https://t.co/oGVFpYliZk
— emma (@bowtiejosh) June 27, 2017
accept he gets ZERO legal credit for creating the songs and btw you're clueless. Drums are demoed before Josh lays his down.
— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) June 27, 2017
Then at the same time, you can say the Clique is correct in that drummer Josh Dunn is indeed a critical central force in TOP’s success, and just ignoring him is disrespectful. Still, it’s all subjective, this is having an argument for the sake of just arguing. Twenty-One Pilots is a great band who puts on amazing shows, writes wonderful music, and inspires people. Fighting over it is just a real waste of time.
Have fun with music! Debate about what songs are the best or what show you saw was better. That’s fandom for the sake of good, this is just collective bellyaching. This is just my take by the way, maybe your opinion is different. And look you, reading this whole thing! If you got thoughts hit us up on @101WKQX and tag @Kevkellam so we don’t confuse everyone else.
You can scratch your head to this mash-up of Smash Mouth and TOP, too.
The Killers
I got gas in the tank, I got money in the bank,
I got news for you baby you’re looking at The Man
LOVE this and can’t wait to see them at Lolla!
Wait.. you still need tickets? Check this out.
See you there!
<3 @laurenoneil
Brian & Lou 06.28.17
What Ya Missed, Nicci bought an adult toy on her parents Prime account, a Lansing off duty officer is in the news and Brian’s bag was stolen on the plane.
America Has Voted . . . Here Are the Ten Best Ice Cream Flavors
A new poll had people rank the best ice cream flavors, and we fully expected a BORING pick at #1 . . . either chocolate or vanilla. But apparently we’re NOT quite that boring . . .
More than 5,000 people voted online, and COOKIES AND CREAM took first place. Here are the top ten . . .
1. Cookies and cream.
2. Chocolate.
3. Vanilla.
4. Mint chocolate chip.
5. Strawberry. Neapolitan with vanilla, chocolate, AND strawberry came in 12th.
6. Regular chocolate chip.
7. French vanilla. (If they’d lumped it in with regular vanilla, it probably would have come in first. They’re different though.)
8. Rocky road.
9. Coffee.
10. Peanut butter cup.
