The most magical time of the year officially swings into gear this weekend with the return of the CTA Holiday Train. Watch as Santa’s sleigh leads mass transportation around the city for the coming weeks, with the inaugural ride on the Red Line this Saturday. Southbound Red Line trains start at the Howard Station at 4:43pm and are scheduled to arrive at 95th Street at 5:56pm, while northbound Red Line trains start at the 95th Street Station at 6:29pm and are scheduled to pull into Howard at 7:42pm. (MORE HERE)
In what seems to be a consistent debate in all forms of life nowadays, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong recently stood against the overuse of smartphones at concerts during a recent Q&A in London.
“Social media can be a very miserable place to be. At our shows I see lot of people holding up cell phones. You can look at a screen at home; you can look at your computer or your phone anywhere.”said Armstrong according to NME. The Bay area rock vet emphasized further that it’s about human contact and being apart of something in the moment. “You can take your picture but let’s have eye contact, let’s have a human experience right now you can’t capture on a cell phone. Why would you want to listen to your favorite song going like this [holds arm in air] when you can just hear it right in front of you? I feel like a little more human contact is good.”
We are all guilty of little bit too much Snapchat or Instagram in any setting sometimes right? How do we control the social media beast within all of us? Well, a pretty controversial and tech product has been introduced at some live events in the last year that may make some of you really happy you don’t have to stare at a screen when you are trying to stare a stage or it may make you very angry that you can’t Facebook Live what you are looking at. Yondr is a tech device that has been the talk of the concert industry in the last year, as it allows users to voluntarily take their phone out of the rock show experience. It’s basically a pouch that locks up your phone while you are at a show. The Yondr pouches were implemented as a mandatory at a string of sold-out shows by comedian Dave Chapelle at Chicago’s Thalia Hall back in January. Surprisingly these are really effective and may change the way people take in a concert.
Our buddies Consequences of Sound interview the Graham Dugoni, founder of the company Yondr.
Looks like Stone Temple Pilots have found the person they think can carry on where Scott Weiland left off. According to ET, that person is Jeffery Adam Gutt. You can check out more from the ET story HERE.
Below is some of Jeffery during his time on X Factor.
Sure it’s easy to have doubts about the wonderfully convenient idea of drone pizza deliveries. But Domino’s Pizza says it’s done it for real this time. The chain said it made its first commercial delivery in New Zealand to an actual, real human customer on Wednesday at 11:19 a.m. local time. And egads! The drone delivery was even approved by the country’s civil aviation authority. The order was for a peri-peri chicken pizza and chicken and cranberry pizza (odd choice, but OK), and delivered to a customer in the suburb of Whangaparaoa, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Auckland. (MORE HERE)
Saint Motel just released the official video for “Move”, the first single from their sophomore album, Saintmotelevision. Playing off the title of the album, the band is literally breaking news. -wALT
