Josh Dun has inspired many future drummers in his time in the spotlight with Twenty One Pilots. He’s been working with SJC Custom Drums from the beginning and now they’ve designed a custom snare drum for Josh. It’s black with a red badge and was made specifically with going into the crowd in mind. Check out his custom snare drum below.
(chicago.eater.com)
Lollapalooza officials unveiled the 34 vendors that will populate “Chow Town”—what the festival calls its food area — in 2017. Due to a last-second lineup change, the number is down one from last year’s 35.
The Lolla lineup doesn’t feature an abundance of metal, but that’s not stopping Chicago’s infamous Kuma’s Corner from serving festival-goers this year at Grant Park. Kuma’s, Chicago’s chain of burger bars that famously blasts metal while serving massive burgers named after rock bands, is a newcomer to Lolla. (MORE HERE)
Check out Lollapalooza 2017’s full food lineup below.
You might want to make some room in your freezer. Fancy-pants gelato brand Talenti will be doling out 15,000 free pints in Millennium Park TODAY, June 27 as part of the Summer Film Series. You can grab your free pint between noon and 9pm, though we’d recommend showing up early if you hope to get your hands on the Italian ice cream, which typically retails for $5–$6. READ MORE
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
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
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)
Ricobentes Bus
Portillo’s Parasail…imagine trying to eat choclate cake on that
Girl & the Goat…Goat
Weiner Circle
Lou Malanti Maserati
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
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.
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 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.
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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
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
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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.
