Queens of the Stone Age ‘just finished’ their new album

March 28, 2017 | Kevin

Queens of Stone Age are ready to release a new music, and we need this a lot more than whatever that newfangled Snapchat rip off that Facebook is doing.  QOTSA mastermind Josh Homme has been busy in the last year while periodically working on the new album, he also collaborated with Lady Gaga on her album ‘Joanne’ and produced Iggy Pop’s ‘Post Pop Depression’. Queens are already committed to several shows this summer, but NME reported through sources that the band ‘just finished’ the new record. Now when this new album is going to be available is not clear. 

This will be the Queens follow-up to 2013’s ‘Like Clockwork’ which spawned the hit “I Sat By the Ocean.”

Brian & Lou 03.28.17

March 28, 2017 | Nicci

Should we fire our intern, is it okay to publicly shame your kid and “What Ya Missed”

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Donald J. Trump’s speeches turned into an emo song.

March 27, 2017 | Web Team

Donald Trump's Speeches As An Early 2000s Emo Song

We thought Donald J. Trump's tweets were as sad as it gets, until we turned his speeches into an early 2000s emo song.

Posted by Super Deluxe on Sunday, March 26, 2017

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Portugal. The Man’s SIDE Instagram is hilarious!!

March 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

I could watch dogs dancing to Portugal The Man – ‘Feel It Still’ forever!!

I'm a #rebeljustforkicks #feelitstill #portugaltheman #dance #dancenekkid #adoptdontshop #dogs #dogsofinstgram

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Here’s The Lowdown On Plans To Build An American Sports Museum In Chicago

March 27, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoist.com – It probably won’t look like this…)

After plans for the George Lucas Museum foundered, former executives from the Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium realized that Chicago was hungry for another museum. Lucas’ proposal didn’t hit the mark—Friends of the Park blocked it from locating on a stretch of lakefront—but these execs realized that otherwise the public, donors and the city itself was ready. That’s when they began hatching a plan to bring a new museum to the city. They set their sites on a museum focused on sports, aimed not just at diehard sports fans but also students. There are Halls of Fame all over the country, but they tend to be set in smaller towns and focused on a single sport. And they tend to be less interdisciplinary and more focused on memorabilia.

(MORE HERE)

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3.26.17 – Alt_Backspace

March 27, 2017 | Web Team

Hour 1
Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe
Beck – The New Pollution
Sponge – Molly
U2 – Where The Streets Have No Name
Jane\’s Addiction – Stop!
Buffalo Tom – Sodajerk
The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Oasis – Live Forever
Husker Du – Don\’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect
Tones On Tail – Go!
Gravity Kills – Guilty

Third Eye Blind – Graduate
The Cure – Fascination Street
Camper Van Beethoven – Take The Skinheads Bowling
Sublime – Badfish
The Call – The Walls Came Down
Live – Lakini\’s Juice
Dinosaur Jr. – Feel The Pain
Echo & The Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar
Depeche Mode – Just Can\’t Get Enough
Buck-O-Nine – My Town
Flaming Lips – She Don\’t Use Jelly
New Order – Regret
Pearl Jam – State Of Love And Trust

Twenty One Pilots Battle The Bots

March 27, 2017 | <3 Lauren

Twenty One Pilots Battle The Bots, sounds like a new Transformers movie, but even better… your band is protecting you from the bad people who snatch up all the tØp tickets and resell them to you for an arm and a leg and other assorted body parts and internal organs.  Check out how they are fighting with the Tour De Columbus:

l-/  <3 @laurenoneil

Queued Up #220

March 27, 2017 | Web Team

Hour 1
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Goodbye Angels
2. Colony House – You Know It
3. Biffy Clyro – Howl
4. Gorillaz – We’ Got The Power
5. Judah & The Lion – Suit and Jacket
6. Dreamcar – Kill For Candy
7. Magic Giant – Set On Fire
8. K.Flay – High Enough (PIQNIQ 5/20)
9. Ron Gallo – Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me
10. Sylvan Esso – Die Young
11. 311 – Too Much To Think
12. Mondo Cozmo – Higher
13. Middle Kids – Edge Of Town
14. Perfume Genius – Slip Away
15. Lorde – Liability

Hour 2
1. Blink 182 – Parking Lot
2. QTY – Rodeo
3. Sir Sly – High
4. Cold War Kids – So Tied Up (w/ Bishop Briggs)
5. New Politics – One Of Us
6. The 1975 – A Change Of Heart (PIQNIQ 5/20)
7. The Greeting Committee – She’s A Gun
8. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
9. Sundara Karma – She Said
10. Jimmy Eat World – Get Right (PIQNIQ 5/20)
11. Linkin Park – Battle Symphony
12. Weezer – Feels Like Summer
13. Lo Moon – Loveless
14. Waters – Hiccups
15. Basement – Promise Everything

Taking Back Sundays – 3.26.17

March 27, 2017 | Web Team

1. My Chemical Romance – I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

2. Mayday Parade – Miserable At Best

3. Against Me! – Thrash Unreal

4. Paramore – That’s What You Get

5. The Dandy Warhols – We Used To Be Friends

6. Blink 182 – Feeling This

7. Hawthorne Heights – Niki FM

8. Anberlin – Breaking

9. Senses Fail – Calling All Cars

10. New Found Glory – Hit Or Miss

11. All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret

12. Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down

13. 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me

14. Box Car Racer – I Feel So

15. MXPX – Lonesome Town

Brian & Lou 03.27.17

March 27, 2017 | Nicci

Andrew McMahon, grown adults that still live at home, Drunk Dials and Fake Outrage over leggings…

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Illinois Considers Legalizing Marijuana for Fiscal Boost

March 27, 2017 | Nicci

Marijuana advocates are trying to lay the groundwork for Illinois to become the first state in the Midwest and the ninth nationwide to legalize recreational pot, arguing the move will help solve the state’s notorious budget crisis.Two Illinois state lawmakers introduced legislation last week that would allow residents 21 and older to possess, grow or buy up to an ounce (28 grams) of marijuana and license businesses to sell marijuana products subject to regulation. They say it would help fill Illinois’ multibillion-dollar budget hole with $350 to $700 million in new tax revenue. READ MORE

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World Map Made up of Nothing but Song Titles

March 26, 2017 | Eric

Remember this beautiful graphical flowchart of alternative?  Dorothy, the UK artists who create prints inspired by music amongst others, are back with another map worthy of a look.

This time, its a world map labeled using only song titles.  Over 1200, to be exact.

Some of them were obvious no-brainers:  New York, New York from Sinatra, for one.  But others were a little more creative.  Using Joy Division’s “Isolation” to stand in for North Korea?  Brilliant.

Most of your favorite alternative artists are represented somewhere on the map:  Lorde, Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings Of Leon, OK Go, The xx, Panic! At The Disco, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Blur, 30 Seconds To Mars, Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, My Chemical Romance. Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys…and I’m sure you’ll discover more.

Zoom in and get a better look here.  And if you want to add it to your wall, who would blame you?  — [eric] 

 

 

Why Am I Fascinated by Vocals Only Mixes?

March 26, 2017 | Eric

I’m sorta fascinated with this Vocals Only thing.  You see…they take songs…and drop everything except for the vocals.  For instance, Twenty One Pilots:

Which then was spun into this parody, which made me chuckle….maybe because it would be funny if it REALLY DID sound like that when they filmed the video?

I consider myself a curator of the oddities you may have missed.  Consider this mess of other songs that have the music dropped when you are bored.  — [eric]

VIDEO: Gorillaz return to the stage, play new album ‘HUMANZ’

March 25, 2017 | Kevin

The animated band Gorillaz (Blur’s Damon Albarn and friends) made a pretty grand return to the stage on Thursday at PrintWorks in London. The performance saw the band play their entire new album ‘HUMANZ’ with cameo appearances by featured artists on the album including Oasis’s Noel Gallagher, Pusha T, De Le Soul, and Danny Brown. Before the show started, Albarn said he would not “introduce everyone (who joined the band on stage) because I’d spend the whole evening doing that.” Which makes sense as the new album which comes out April 28th has a noteworthy collaborator on almost every track. Get the full tracklist and more info on ‘HUMANZ’ here. 

Watch the entire show in Facebook clips here.

Posted by Gorillaz on Friday, March 24, 2017

Posted by Gorillaz on Friday, March 24, 2017

 

Posted by Gorillaz on Friday, March 24, 2017

GORILLAZ!!!!

Posted by Fergal D'Arcy on Friday, March 24, 2017

VIDEO: ‘JUSTICE LEAGUE’ TRAILER IS OUT, control yourself

March 25, 2017 | Kevin

It’s here. It’s been teased for weeks in a heavy social media campaign, the trailer for the anticipated ‘Justice League’ hit the web today. The DC superhero team-up brings Batman (Ben Affleck) together with a team of superheros against an undisclosed force. Last year at ComiCon, there was a delightful teaser that showed off Batfleck assembling the team and now we get see them in some of their smash,bang, and pow glory. The humor is spiced in there and it feels like we are going to get something special. So will it meet the ever-growing epic expectations for a comic book movie on this scale?

Comic Con trailers for Justice League, Wonder Woman, Luke Cage, and More

The DC Cinematic Universe in eyes of some, needs a hit with some delays being applied to some planned movies in that connected world and rumors that Affleck is possibly disinterested in being the Bat on the big screen. There was a lot of fans disappointed by ‘Batman vs Superman’ despite it bringing in a whole lotta money. This trailer should restore your faith in DC as it looks really fun and just reminds you of a balance of an apparent good story with delightful thrills of seeing a superhero squad together like we got in ‘the Avengers’. Yes, people are going to make those comparisons long after this action film hits theaters in November.

Also this trailer does not show Superman with the team, but if you read the comics or watch the cartoons, the last son of Krypton is supposed to be there. So maybe he’ll return from the sad events of ‘Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice’, not maybe just expect it, right?

 

Making A Song While Walking

March 25, 2017 | Russell

How cool is this? This women, while walking along the streets, made a full song! I must say it is pretty impressive! Check it out below!

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Why did Cracker Barrel fire Brad’s wife? The Internet demands answers.

March 24, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from washingtonpost.com)

Bradley Reid had one simple question: Why did you fire my wife?

But he decided to ask her employer in an extremely public way — on Cracker Barrel‘s corporate Facebook page. He still doesn’t have an answer as to why his wife, Nanette, lost the retail-manager job she held in an Indiana Cracker Barrel for 11 years. But he does have an army of wisecracking trolls behind him. Once Internet pranksters caught wind of Reid’s inquiry, they flooded the Cracker Barrel page with comments about “Brad’s Wife,” the Internet’s new favorite meme. Pity the poor social-media manager behind the scenes, desperately trying to regain control by posting videos of mixed-berry pancakes. (MORE HERE)

 

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