Queued Up #233
1. Rancid – Where I’m Going
2. Beth Ditto – Fire
3. Fitz & The Tantrums – Fool
4. Barns Courtney – Golden Dandelions
5. DJ Shadow/ Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak
6. Lorde – Perfect Places
7. Vinyl Theatre – 30 Seconds
8. Joywave – It’s A Trip
9. Mondo Cozmo – Automatic
10. George Ezra – Don’t Matter Now
11. The Picturebooks – I Need That Oooh
12. Mikey Mike – Doin’ Me
13. Fall Out Boy – Champion
14. Glass Animals – Agnes
15. Radiohead – Man Of War
1. Green Day – Revolution Radio
2. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To you
3. Nothing But Thieves – Amsterdam
4. Cage The Elephant – Whole Wide World
5. Odesza – Line Of Sight
6. Imagine Dragons – Thunder
7. In The Valley Below – Bloodhands
8. Palaye Royale – Get Higher (Queued Up Artist Showcase 7/13)
9. The Lumineers – Angela
10. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – So Close
11. Papa Roach – Periscope (feat. Skylar Grey)
12. The Aces – Stuck
13. Yelawolf – Row Your Boat
14. The National – The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
15. Depeche Mode – Going Backwards
6.25.17 – Alt_Backspace
1. Alice In Chains – No Excuses
2. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
3. Buck-O-Nine – My Town
4. Foo Fighters – Next Year
5. Yaz – Don’t Go
6. Porno For Pyros – Pets
7. The Verve Pipe – Photograph
8. Love and Rockets – So Alive
9. Pearl Jam – Glorified G
10. James – Laid
11. Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
12. Killing Joke – Eighties
1. Radiohead – High & Dry
2. Erasure – Chains Of Love
3. Belly – Feed The Trees
4. Bush – The Chemicals Between Us
5. XTC – Senses Working Overtime
6. Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
7. The Posies – Dream All Day
8. Morrissey – Suedehead
9. The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
10. Queens Of The Stone Age – The Lost Art Of Keeping Secret
11. Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
12. New Order – Regret
13. The Tubes – Talk To Ya Later
RIDE A HOT DOG!? Chicago DIVVY Bikes roll out with food themes
Chicagoist turned us on to this story, as the city’s public bikeshare program Divvy celebrates it’s 4th birthday it is rolling special ChiCAAAAgo food themed bikes including a Hot Dog version…Note this bike comes with no kethcup. The birthday bike love continues as Divvy is offering a $15 discount off an annual membership between Monday, June 26 and Friday, July 7. The other food bikes are deep dish pizza, the Jibarito sandwich and a birthday cake.
Could we get more Chicago food themed vehicles like…
Mr. Sub Submarine
Rainbow Cone Roadster
Itallian Beef Blimp (DIPPED)
Gene & Jude’s Jalopy
Ricobentes Bus
Portillo’s Parasail…imagine trying to eat choclate cake on that
Girl & the Goat…Goat
Weiner Circle
Lou Malanti Maserati
Taking Back Sundays – 6.25.17
1. Blink-182 – Up All Night
2. Jimmy Eat World – Pain
3. Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We’re Going Down
4. Story Of The year – Until The Day I Die
5. New Found Glory – All Downhill From Here
6. Panic! At The Disco – Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time
7. Alkaline Trio – Stupid Kid
8. Unwritten Law – Celebration Song
9. All-American Rejects – It Ends Tonight
10. Paramore – That’s What You Get
11. Taking Back Sunday – You’re So Last Summer
12. Saves The Day – At Your Funeral
13. Against Me! – Thrash Unreal
14. My Chemical Romance – Famous Last Words
WATCH: Tim from Rise Against talks Chicago White Sox
Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath discusses attending White Sox games as a kid and following the game with his Dad. Any good Chicagoan knows you have to pick a side when it comes to Sox and Cubs, as a Southsider, it’s relieving to hear a great singer in an amazing band rolls with the ‘Good Guys’. Don’t worry you can tweet your displeasure to us, Cubbie faithful.
This video has this nerve-racking story about singing the National Anhtem on Opening Day years ago and how it’s allowed him to take his kids to games with good seats. Another reminder that McIlrath and Rise Against is a great hardworking Chicago man.
Check out our recent LOUNGE with Tim below.
Indie-Pendent Dance Party – 6.24.17
St. Lucia – Dancing On Glass
Passion Pit – Take A Walk
Bleachers – Don’t Take The Money
Foster The People – Call it What You Want
The Cardigans – Lovefool
Haim – The Wire
Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (Magician Remix)
Joywave – Tongues ft. Kopps (RAC Remix)
Penguin Prison – Never Gets Old
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
RAC – Hollywood Featuring Penguin Prison (Magician Remix)
VHS Collection – Waiting on The Summer (Penguin Prison Remix)
Capital Cities – Safe And Sound
Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) – (Discotech Midnight Remix)
Santigold – The Keepers (The Knocks Remix)
LCD Soundsystem – Home
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To
Blur – Girls and Boys
The Ting Tings – Great DJ
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y-Control
Swmrs – Harry Dean
White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl
Strypes – Blue Collar Jane
Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Tokyo Police Club – In A Cave
Strokes – Under Cover of Darkness
Vaccines – Teenage Icon
Of Monsters and Men – Mountain Sound
The Killers did a surprise set at the Glatsonbury festival, Win LOLLA tix?!
The lineup for the UK music festival Glatsonbury this past weekend was already stacked with Radiohead and Foo Fighters performing, but then the Killers did a surprise set yesterday to the delight of many in the John Peel tent. Hopefully this will prep you for Lollapalooza when Brendon Flowers and company bring their dust-land fairy tales to Grant Park for a headlining set as they build up to release a new album ‘Wonderful Wonderful.’ in September. Imagine the mad dash to fill up this massive tent to see a beloved band like the Killers at a fest where you are already pumped to see so much great music?! Based on the videos, the UK loves this band and so just imagine OUR giant sing-along booming out over Lake Michigan….ahhh, that’s going to be a moment. Check out videos from Glatsonbury surprise below and get a peak at their set list as well.
It also looks like we are getting a new music video for their funky new single ‘The Man’ on Wednesday.
Looking for the hookup for LOLLA tickets? Enter to win a spot to GIVE & YOU GET: You donate your time to help Child’s Voice at the Roscoe Village Burger Fest on Saturday July 8th! IF you win a spot and volunteer with us, you’ll walk away with a pair of 4-day passes to LOLLA! Sponsored by Triton College – Real Opportunity! (ENTER TO WIN HERE)
Set List:
When You Were Young
Somebody Told Me
Spaceman
Human
Smile Like You Mean It
The Man
Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
Read My Mind
Runaways
All These Things That I’ve Done
Mr. Brightside
Green Day With No Power
It reminds me of when Rise Against Gave It All and blew the stage up at Northerly Island in July of 2015:
Tim and I talked about whether that was on purpose or not when he came to the Sound Lounge:
SUPER NINTENDO RETURNS! SNES Retro console has a release date
Nintendo is launching the Super NES Classic Edition (which just like the NES Mini Classic which had a limited run for the 2016 Holiday season) will feature pre-loaded games in a console with wired controllers, that you can play in high-definition via an HDMI cord. According to Tech Crunch, Super NES Classic Edition will be available on Sept. 29 at a retail price of $79.99 and just like the NES Mini expect it sell out quickly.
The most alluring game on the list of pre-loaded classics is actually a game that never got released, Star Fox 2. You will need to defeat the first level of Star Fox to unlock the previously unreleased adventure of a red-haired fox fighter pilot in space. Overall the list is games here is pretty solid.
Here is the 21 pre-loaded games set for the new retro-console
- Contra III: The Alien Wars™
- Donkey Kong Country™
- EarthBound™
- Final Fantasy III
- F-ZERO™
- Kirby™ Super Star
- Kirby’s Dream Course™
- The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™
- Mega Man® X
- Secret of Mana
- Star Fox™
- Star Fox™ 2
- Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
- Super Castlevania IV™
- Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts®
- Super Mario Kart™
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars™
- Super Mario World™
- Super Metroid™
- Super Punch-Out!! ™
- Yoshi’s Island™
Meanwhile for those gaming in the present day, Nintendo is also dominating with the new console Switch which will see the release of ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ which based on this trailer looks be really fun and inventive. Oh, and did you know there is going to be an NINTENDO THEME PARK ?! Yeah,more on that here.
Michael Jordan fan gets crying LeBron James tattoo
Jordan fan, upset over LeBron being better talk, gets crying LeBron tattoo while wearing Bulls shorts & Jordans https://t.co/hZojKLWrEa pic.twitter.com/AzWx1Y4Glp
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 24, 2017
The amount of the shade casted is here is staggering and permanenly inked on one Michael Jordan superfan’s leg for what could be the rest of his life. While the debate who is the best all-time NBA player Lebron James or Jordan rages on, Kalen Gilleese of Salt Lake City has taken a firm stance with an inverse of the ‘crying Jordan’ meme by getting a crying LeBron tatted on his skin. Reminder that Jordan and the Chicago Bulls defeated the Utah Jazz (of Salt Lake City) for the NBA Championship in 1998 for sixth NBA title in 8 years. Just in case you forgot that’s 6 titles twice the amount that a team with LeBron James on it has won.
“I’ve heard from a lot of people that have seen it,” Gilleese said in an interview with ESPN. “No matter what they think, they end by appreciating how well-done it is.” Gilleese got the tatt in style with Bulls shorts and a pair of Jordans on. “He’s always flopping, crying, looking for fouls. I’ve never had a lot of respect for him,” Gilleese told CNN.
Will Ferrell with tiger face paint, will not stop singing on ‘CONAN’
Will Ferrell who is an American treasure, continue his insane stretch of appearances on ‘CONAN’ when he showed up this week with tiger face paint claiming he came from a kid’s birthday party, he also insisting on a singing the 70’s pop hit ‘Superstar’ by the Carpenters which he claimed the young birthday boy wanted to hear. Ferrell than continued to bulldoze host Conan O’Brien by insisting that he has “sing the entire song” or he would restart if interrupted. Ferrell also revealed the birthday boy is his son but previously was not aware who is father is.
So you think it ends there right? Nope. The star of ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Stepbrothers’ continued to sing the song through the commercial break, and into the show’s end credits.
Ferrell is starring the upcoming comedy film ‘The House’ in theaters on June 30th.
WILL FERRELL VS. JIMMY FALLON MUSTACHE VS. MUSTACHE!
CREEPY! Watch JAWS while floating a lake
You Can Watch Jaws In The Water
This would be terrifying 😱🦈
Posted by LADbible on Thursday, June 22, 2017
They are going to need a bigger lake….
In Texas, the Alamo Drafthouse has been hosting special “Jaws on the Water” screenings on a lake that they sell as ” jawesome thrills return again this summer!” It’s been going on a couple of years now with an expansion with screenings of other ‘JAWS’ films including ‘JAWS 2′ ‘JAWS 3’ and the awful final film ‘JAWS: the Revenge’. They add fireworks in when stuff blows up, you can get body-painted bite marks, and enjoying a drink while you float like waiting chum for the greatest predator to ever swim the deep. Bloody Disgusting has the whole story and more.
Now could we do this on Lake Michigan? WAIT, DO WE HAVE SHARKS IN LAKE MICHIGAN?! Read about the debated history of Chicago’s 1955 ‘Shark attack’ in Lake Michigan.
Gorilla Breakdancing In A Pool
WHITE SOX : WATCH THE FULL MARK BUEHRLE NUMBER RETIREMENT CEREMONY
Here is the complete number retirement ceremony for Chicago White Sox great Mark Buehrle which took place before today’s game at Guaranteed Rate Field (still getting used to that) before the Sox took on the Oakland A’s. The ceremony featured several great Sox greats including the team’s all-time hit leader ‘Big Hurt’ Frank Thomas who still referred to the ball park as “Comiskey” plus former coach Ozzie Guillen, Scott Podsednik, and more. It was moving to see Buehrle playful yet humble as he accepted the honor with his family as his side, who mistakenly sat down too early and asked them to stay next to him. Buehrle’s son sang the National Anthem and he caught the first pitch from his daughter to add even more “ahh, that got me” feelings to the day. GO SOX!
We're about to retire No. 56. Watch the live stream of our #MB56 ceremony now: https://t.co/S4hd9JnYHS pic.twitter.com/YEbxm1DNDl
— #VoteWhiteSox (@whitesox) June 24, 2017
The Killers explain what it means to be ‘the man’
The Killers are ready remind you they are still at the top of the alternative music mountain with a new album ‘Wonderful Wonderful’ which is due out later this year, a headlining set at Lollapalooza in August, and a fresh flashy single ‘THE MAN’ which you can hear here. Speaking of being a ‘man’, Brendon Flowers and company touched on the idea of manliness and the lyrical points of their new albums which sees them add old elements with funkier new ones in an interview with Entertainment Weekly recently.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Lyrically, the new songs grapple with what it means to be a man. “In your head it’s about being tough and bringing home the bacon, but what I’ve come to find is it’s really more about empathy and compassion,” says Flowers, now 36. So on the pulse-spiking “Tyson vs. Douglas,” named for the 1990 boxing match that saw then-champion Mike Tyson lose to Buster Douglas in a shocking upset, Flowers explores what it’s like to watch a hero fall. As the father of three boys, it’s a subject that hits close to home. “Right now,” he says, “to a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old, and a 6-year-old at home, I’m Mike Tyson — and I don’t want to go down.”
They found a guide in producer Jacknife Lee (U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Taylor Swift’s Red), who worked with them in studios in Vegas and Los Angeles. “We have a lot of similar influences, but he’s also really aware of what’s happening now,” Flowers says. “He’s constantly buying records and applying things to our music that we haven’t done before.” The disco-tinged lead single, “The Man” (out now), was originally written around a Kool & the Gang sample that the band later re-created using old-school techniques. For the dramatic, slow-burning title track, Lee recorded Vannucci drumming along to old hip-hop and funk records with a boom box, then spliced those tracks into the song’s rhythm section. “There was a lot of experimentation,” Vannucci says.
Happy Mark Buehrle Day!: Why he’s one of the best White Sox players ever
Happy Mark Buehrle Day! #MB56https://t.co/7tr270abYY (via MLB Fans) pic.twitter.com/fMbSnyy1dt
— #VoteWhiteSox (@whitesox) June 24, 2017
Mark Buehrle played for the Chicago White Sox as the communities he represented on the Southside, he played with a working class no nonsense focus on the task while still exhibiting his passion for the game. That sounds like a Southsider to me. Today the White Sox will honor of the greatest pitchers in Chicago baseball history by retiring his number ‘56’. So here is a brief look at video highlights from his incredible career with the Sox.
This wonderful video shows off Sox fans sharing their memories of Buehrle’s outstanding career with stories about the ‘05 Series, the no-hitters, and the perfect game.
In the beloved year 2005, Buehrle threw a save in the 14th inning in the World Series game after drinking a couple of beers, and won. Yes, this happened and that sounds a like Southsider to me.
The No Nos kept coming from Buehrle with the Texas Ranger.
One of the all-time best on-the-mound performances on any side of town. June 23, 2009 with over 28,000 in attendance at the park on the 35th street, Buehrle saw 27 hitters and with some help from his teammates put 27 down in a thrilling ‘Perfect Game’.
All 27 outs of Mark Buehrle's perfect game. #MB56 pic.twitter.com/g77mSOWBUk
— #VoteWhiteSox (@whitesox) June 24, 2017
You know have done something special to when Late Night TV icon David Letterman makes you the focus of the classic ‘Top 10’ segment.
The perfect game. #MB56 pic.twitter.com/ZiTWurPSC2
— #VoteWhiteSox (@whitesox) June 24, 2017
Maybe this one just taste real sweet as a White Sox devotee, picking off a post-Cub Texas Ranger by the name of Sammy Sosa at first base. Don’t make excuses Cub fans, Sosa got corked up here.
These are just some of the reasons why Buerhle is one for the best MLB players in Chicago history.
It's #MB56 Week! Follow along as we celebrate some of Mark Buehrle's most memorable moments. pic.twitter.com/6rVnrnpBVu
— #VoteWhiteSox (@whitesox) June 19, 2017
The cool rockstars of Manhattan vs. the technical nerds of Brooklyn
“…The book: a reductive binary between acts identified as “Manhattan” vs. those labeled as “Brooklyn.” The Manhattan bands are sexy, genially seedy, coke-sweating old-school Lower East Side rock stars of the first half of the decade: the Strokes, Interpol, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In contrast, the so-called “Brooklyn bands” of the second half “remaking New York in their own nerdy image” (as the book’s jacket puts it) are a caricature of sexless, pretentious, dressed-down, “uncool kids”—“very technical musicians” who “don’t really present themselves as rock stars,” and are “bright,” “more grounded,” “less sensitive,” “reasonable,” and “practically minded”: TV on the Radio, the National, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend (also, confusingly, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a self-consciously artsy band who are held up in some passages as hard-drinking East Village party-starters and in others as reluctant, unglamorous anti-stars living and working in Brooklyn).” –Franz Nicolay Slate Magazine Review
Check out the book On Amazon
‘Star Wars’: Ron Howard stepping in to direct Han Solo spinoff
Oh there is a disturbance in the Force….
Today Lucasfilm shook up the director’s chair on the untitled Han Solo spinoff film in ‘Star Wars’ series, bringing Hollywood veteran Ron Howard to take over the film after co-directors Phill Lord and Chris Miller jumped off the film. Lord and Miller reportedly left the prequel film which features the life of young Han Solo, due to ‘creative differences’ with the script written by Lawrence Kasdan, who worked on the pages of ‘Empire Strikes Back’, ‘Return of the Jedi’ and ‘The Force Awakens’. According to Polygon, the directing duo were straying too far from ‘a Star Wars movie’ with their approach.
EW reports that Lord and MIller were hired because their comedic touch, while the directors were apparently doing a straight up comedy film.
“At Lucasfilm, we believe the highest goal of each film is to delight, carrying forward the spirit of the saga that George Lucas began forty years ago,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm in a statement on StarWars.com. “With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that Ron Howard will step in to direct the untitled Han Solo film. We have a wonderful script, an incredible cast and crew, and the absolute commitment to make a great movie. Filming will resume the 10th of July.”
According to multiple sources, this Han Solo film is three quarters of the way through production with room for possible re-shoots. It is interesting here how much influence Howard whose a proven movie winner with hits like ‘Apollo 13’ under his belt, with a limited window to close out production of the next anticipated Star Wars big screen adventure.
