Johnny Oduya returns to the Blackhawks!
Winning a Stanley Cup in the NHL is a great and wonderful time as we’ve been able to experience with the Chicago Blackhawks most recently in 2015, but part of the the fallout from that is star players exit the team under salary cap pressure and the lure of other teams, it’s just natural. Defensive juggernaut Johnny Oduya was one of the stars to leave the Hawks in 2015, heading to the Dallas Stars but today general manager Stan Bowman made the moves to get the Swedish pro back in red and black. Bowman traded for Oduya with minor league forward Mark McNeill and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL Draft.
Oduya is being looked at as an addition to kill penalties for the Hawks, which has been a weak point at various points in this season. The Blackhawks are still one of the hottest teams in the NHL, and gearing up for another run at Lord Stanley’s Cup. Plus the Hawks did not really lose much comparably to get Oduya back on the roster, so it’s a masterful move by Bowman and the Hawks.
Heeeeere's Johnny!
The #Blackhawks acquire D-man Johnny Oduya in exchange for Mark McNeill and a 2018 draft pick: https://t.co/BrlaPeNgly pic.twitter.com/rJ7zVjQiFM
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) March 1, 2017
Queued Up #216
1. Incubus – Nimble Bastard
2. Glass Animals – Pork Soda
3. Waters – Hiccup
4. Judah & The Lion – Suit and Jacket
5. Grouplove – Good Morning
6. Coin – I Don’t Wanna Dance
7. Future Islands – Ran
8. Magic Giant – Set On Fire
9. K.Flay – Black Wave (PIQNIQ 5/20)
10. American Authors – I’m Born To Run
11. Pierce The Veil – Floral Fading
12. The Orwells – They Put A Body In The Bayou
13. Morgxn – Home
14. Kings Of Leon – Reverend
15. Coldplay w/ The Chainsmokers – Something Just Like This
1. All Time Low – Dirty Laundry
2. Sundara Karma – She Said
3. Jimmy Eat World – Get Right (PIQNIQ 5/20)
4. Skip Marley – Lions
5. Depeche Mode – Where’s The Revolution
6. The Heydaze – Hurt Like Hell (Queued Up Artist Showcase 3/1)
7. Spoon – Hot Thoughts
8. Colony House – You Know It
9. Man With A Mission – Dead End In Tokyo
10. The Head and the Heart – Rhythm & Blues
11. The Maine – Bad Behavior
12. Lo Moon – Loveless
13. Cage The Elephant – Cold Cold Cold
14. The Wrecks – Favorite Liar
15. The 1975 – By Your Side (PIQNIQ 5/20)
Emma Watson Won’t Take Selfies With Fans
Emma Watson will no longer takes selfies with her fans. Her reasoning? It’s a matter of safety and privacy. “For me, it’s the difference between being able to have a life and not. If someone takes a photograph of me and posts it, within two seconds they’ve created a marker of exactly where I am within 10 meters. They can see what I’m wearing and who I’m with. I just can’t give that tracking data.” Don’t worry HP Fans, she still cares and will offer an autograph or time to chat to make up for her no selfie policy. READ MORE
Tom DeLonge Receives UFO Researcher of the Year Award
The truth is out there, “there” being wherever Tom DeLonge happens to be standing at that exact moment. The former Blink-182 member was recently named UFO Researcher of the Year by Open Minds Productions for his efforts to expose “a vast UFO cover-up within the government.” READ MORE
Google Announces ‘YouTube TV’—40 Channels for $35
(from wired.com)
GOOGLE JUST JOINED the “skinny bundle” TV war with YouTube TV, a paid subscription service that streams a slew of premium broadcast and cable networks to your mobile device, tablet, computer, and anything with Chromecast.
Just $35 a month gets you six accounts and access to live TV from more than 40 providers including the big broadcast networks, ESPN, regional sports networks and dozens of popular cable networks. Subscriptions include cloud DVR with unlimited storage, AI-powered search and personalization, and access to YouTube Red programming. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki calls it the evolution of television, and a bid to “give the younger generation the content that they love with the flexibility they expect.” (MORE HERE)
The channel options seem pretty cool. However, I already have SLING TV, HULU, NETFLIX as well as really fast internet that comes with a basic cable package that includes HBO and SHOWTIME. I can watch them all on my phone, laptop or TV. Lots of cool features on YouTube TV though. I might try it out for a month.
2.26.17 – Alt_Backspace
1. Oasis -Supersonic
2. New Order – Blue Monday
3. Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
4. Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
5. Midnight Oil – The Dead Heart
6. Happy Mondays – Step On
7. Rancid – Ruby Soho
8. The Clash – Clampdown
9. Supergrass – Alright
10. Nine Inch Nails – Down In It
11. The Smithereens – Only A Memory
12. The Cure – Boys Don\’t Cry
1. Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
2. Frank Black – Hang On To Your Ego
3. Liz Phair – Supernova
4. 311 – Come Original
5. The Church – Under The Milky Way
6. Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself (PIQNIQ)
7. Nirvana – Sliver
8. The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
9. Bjork – Army Of Me
10. The Posies – Going, Going, Gone
11. Garbage – Special
12. Echo & The Bunnymen – People Are Strange (The Doors cover)
13. Pearl Jam – Nothingman
Taking Back Sundays – 2.26.17
1. Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down
2. New Found Glory – My Friends Over You
3. Blink 182 – Stay Together For The Kids
4. Sum 41 – Fat Lip
5. MXPX – Responsibility
6. Papa Roach – Scars
7. Hawthorne Heights – Ohio Is For Lovers
8. Lit – Miserable
9. We The Kings – Just Keep Breathing
10. Panic! At The Disco – The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
11. Twenty One Pilots – Car Radio
12. Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Follow You Into The Dark
13. Simple Plan – I’m Just a KId
14. The Used – The Taste Of Ink
15. My Chemical Romance – Famous Last Words
Oscar blunder fall out grows, Accountant behind the scenes blamed
It was beyond awkward for everyone in attendance, on stage, and everyone watching on television during Sunday night’s Oscar awards show as ‘La La Land’ was mistakenly awarded Best Picture before the honoro properly given to ‘Moonlight’. The scene has been the talk of social media ever since, and everyone seems to have some theory as to why this massive blunder happened and blame being placed on various parties involved. So who is to blame for this happening?
According to report today by Entertainment Weekly, Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), the accounting firm that counts and delivers the winning Oscars envelopes, publicly has taken the blame for the whole incident. Through some comprehensive reporting it has been discovered that an accountant for PwC handed presenter Warren Beatty the wrong envelope with the wrong winner. Many tweets and posts online zoomed in on the envelope which reads the wrong category. The accountant in question reportedly tweeted a photo backstage of award winner Emma Stone at 9:05PM just a few minutes before the Best Picture blunder. This same accountant was told to not use social media in anyway while on duty for PwC. The Academy has already launched a full investigation into the issue. Read more here.
#Oscars
Celebrities priceless reaction to epic #Oscar2017 fail😮#AcademyAwards#Oscar #Moonlight #WarrenBeatty #fayedunaway #PWC #LaLaLand pic.twitter.com/fs381nT37R— ➊AlexCam ⏩ (@1alexcam) February 27, 2017
Ryan Gosling's reaction to the #LaLaLand / #Moonlight Best Picture Oscar mix up is priceless. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/iAJ5Yhe0rV
— Ali Plumb (@AliPlumb) February 27, 2017
Late Night TV got their digs in on the hot topic.
Andy Samberg impersonates Eddie Vedder
Instead of doing the typical expected In Memoriam segment honoring those we have lost, the Spirit Awards did a Non-Memoriam segment honoring those who are still aliiiiiivveeee.
Any channels his inner and outer Eddie Vedder, I think our boy would be proud.
<3 @laurenoneil
RIP Fred Armisen
More on the Spirit Awards HERE
Kaleo in The Lounge
NSFW: Best Street Fight Of 2017
This camera guy trying to film three street fights at once while providing commentary gets an A+ for effort and execution.
Double Door Leaves Wicker Park For Good
(from chicagoist.com)
Wicker Park used to be the heartbeat of Chicago’s music scene; you couldn’t stumble four feet without running into a band playing in a club, on the street or in the back of a taco shop. With this move, Wicker Park has lost one of its great cultural anchors.
Losing Double Door is a huge blow to Chicago. The only thing that lessens that blow is the understanding that the owners are looking into a new space and will launch a new era of live music elsewhere. But if ever you thought you heard the death knell of what made Wicker Park Wicker Park, it has finally sounded now.
I was lucky enough to unknowingly see the venue’s final show—a bill that included many bands I’d booked in the past and both bandmates and staff I had spent decades with. I prefer to remember the room like that: vibrant and full of life. But I think it’s a crime no one ever got to say a proper goodbye. (MORE HERE)
We’ve posted on this story as it has unfolded. It’s just sad. I wish it wasn’t real. I hope when they open their next venue we will all christen it with something awesome together!! Thanks Double Door for giving so much to the city of Chicago.
Chance The Rapper Buys All of Chicago Chatham’s Tickets to ‘Get Out’
I bought all the tickets to #GetOut at Chatham Theatre on 87th Just pull up with ID and enjoy the movie.
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) February 26, 2017
(from consequenceofsound.net)
Chance the Rapper loves to provide his fellow Chicagoans the opportunity to do awesome things, whether it’s by holding Open Mike events or throwing his very own festival. So after seeing Jordan Peele’s excellent Get Out for himself, he wanted to make sure everyone else in Chicago had a chance to do so as well. And for free. (MORE HERE)
Chance is officially the coolest celebrity. I wish more famous people would do stuff like this. Now more than ever this is what we need. Chance is The People’s Champ!!
Gary From Chicago To Appear On Jimmy Kimmel Live
Ken Bone is so 2016. Here enters Gary from Chicago. http://nyti.ms/2lpuTNK
Posted by The New York Times on Sunday, February 26, 2017
The greatest Hollywood tour bus trip EVER … @StarLineTours #Oscars pic.twitter.com/hUsuhPQf0I
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017
Gary from Chicago! We've got you covered if you want to come to a game! #Oscars
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) February 27, 2017
If anyone knows who #garyfromchicago is, have him tweet us because we want to give him some pizza 🍕#Oscars
— Gino's East (@ginoseast) February 27, 2017
Best Picture Mistake Leads To Most Awkward Moment In Oscar History
At the end of the evening on Sunday, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway presented “La La Land” with the Best Picture Oscar at the 89th annual Academy Awards. The thing was, “La La Land” didn’t win — “Moonlight” did. READ MORE
New Study Says Music Effects Brain Like Sex, Drugs
It turns out listening to music sets off chemicals in the brain that occur when people eat, do recreational drugs, or have sex.
The new study from McGill University “is the first demonstration that the brain’s own opioids are directly involved in musical pleasure.” The people conducting it chemically blocked the brain’s pleasure receptors and found that even people’s favorite songs no longer gave them pleasure.
Seems pretty elementary, but to me this furthers the study of the brain’s complicated chemistry. These pleasure centers can lead to addictive or destructive behavior. To me, I read this and think: music might be one of the many remedies that addicts can use to stay clean, for instance. But that has yet to be seen. At the very least, emotion, biology, and music are being tied together. That’s very cool…
In the meantime: Sex, drugs, and 101WKQX’s particular brand of rock n’ roll. The saying makes sense after all. SCIENCE!!! — [eric]
(ILLUSTRATION CREDIT: Koren Shadmi)
