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2.7.16 – Alt_Backspace

February 8, 2016 | Web Team

1. Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonnaise (acoustic)
2. Oingo Boingo – Just Another Day
3. Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down
4. The Farm – All Together Now
5. Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
6. Buffalo Tom – Sodajerk
7. Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
8. Nirvana – Love Buzz
9. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Cutter
10. Liz Phair – Supernova
11. The Replacements – I Will Dare
12. Stereo MC’s – Connected
13. The Call – The Walls Came Down
14. Social Distortion – Story Of My Life

1. Sponge – Plowed (No Dough Show – 2/19)
2. New Order – True Faith
3. Love and Rockets – So Alive
4. Bjork – Human Behavior
5. Jane’s Addiction – Mountain Song
6. General Public – Tenderness
7. Oasis – Supersonic
8. The Cure – High
9. MXPX – Chick Magnet
10. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
11. Reel Big Fish – Take On Me
12. Squeeze – Is That Love
13. Erasure – Chains Of Love
14. Pearl Jam – Corduroy

Travis Barker Tracking Drums For A New Blink 182 Song

February 3, 2016 | Marconi🍕

Posted on Blink 182’s Facebook page a video clip of Travis Barker tracking a new song that was written that morning. Add Mark Hoppus on bass and Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba on lead guitar and vocals and you have a completed song. Full album scheduled out sometime this year!! I have high hopes for this version of the band as they’re definitely one of my long time favorites, but I already know I’m going to miss Tom Delonge. Either way I root for their success and can’t wait to hear these new tracks.

1.31.16 – Alt_Backspace

February 1, 2016 | Web Team

1. The Cure – Letter To Elise
2. The Clash – I Fought The Law
3. The Smiths – Panic
4. Stabbing Westward – What Do I Have To Do
5. The Pretenders – Message Of Love
6. Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark – If You Leave
7. Rancid – Salvation
8. Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
9. R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
10. Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
11. The Rentals – Friends Of P
12. Squeeze – Tempted
13. Catherine Wheel – I Want To Touch You
14. Sponge – Molly

1. Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth
2. The Breeders – Devine Hammer
3. Siff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster
4. The Mighty Lemon Drops – Inside Out
5. Alice In Chains – No Excuses
6. Psychedelic Furs – The Ghost In You
7. Green Day – Geek Stink Breath
8. Violent Femmes – American Music
9. Bad Religion – 21st Century Boy
10. INXS – The One Thing
11. Gravity Kills – Guilty
12. Supergrass – Alright
13. Tears For Fears – Shout
14. Iggy Pop – Home

Queued Up #161

February 1, 2016 | Web Team

1. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – I Need Never Get Old
2. SWMRS – Figuring It Out
3. St. Lucia – Dancing On Glass
4. The Dandy Warhols – You Are Killing Me
5. Colours – Monster
6. CHVRCHES – Clearest Blue
7. Sunflower Bean – Easier Said
8. The Moth & The Flame – Live While I Breathe
9. POP ETC – What Am I Becoming
10. Robert DeLong – Jealousy
11. Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
12. Transviolet – New Bohemia (Queued Up Artist Showcase – 2/16)
13. Spring King – Who Are You?
14. Bishop – Wild Horses

1. The Joy Formidable – The Last Thing On My Mind
2. Chef’Special – In Your Arms
3. Grizfolk – Vagabonds
4. Walk The Moon – Work This Body
5. The Last Shadow Puppets – Bad Habits
6. Halsey – Colors
7. Mass Gothic – Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me
8. Wild Belle – Giving Up On You
9. Iggy Pop – Gardenia
10. Lewis Del Mar – Loud(y)
11. Never Shout Never – Red Balloon
12. Best Coast – In My Eyes
13. Holy White Hounds – Switchblade
14. Savages – Adore

Coldplay’s Chris Martin to appear with James Corden on ‘Carpool Karaoke’

January 29, 2016 | Marconi🍕

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin will be the latest guest to appear on James Corden’s popular ‘Carpool Karaoke’.

The regular bit appears on Corden’s Late, Late Show and sees a musician or group join Corden in his car as they drive around Los Angeles and sing songs together. Other artists who have appeared on the segment before include Adele, One Direction, Justin Bieber and Rod Stewart.

Corden posted a picture of himself alongside Martin online with the caption “Y’all ready”. The next edition of Carpool Karaoke will be broadcast on Tuesday night. Maybe Chris will agree to do ‘Carpool Karaoke’ with Brian and Lou when Coldplay plays Soldier Field this summer.

Pictures: Touchdown Tailgate 2016

January 29, 2016 | Web Team

Pictures: Queued Up Artist Showcase with New Beat Fund and Colours

January 29, 2016 | Web Team

The dudes from New Beat Fund & Colours may be used to warm weather (they\’re from Los Angeles and south Florida respectively), but they braved the Chicago cold to headline the January Queued Up Artist Showcase! See the photos of them heating up the House of Blues, along with local Victorian Halls below.

New Beat Fund

Colours

Victorian Halls

Photos: Julia Simone Paul

Bono Shares Eulogy for David Bowie: ‘Part of Me Is Now a Void’

January 27, 2016 | Marconi🍕

Bono said: “Bowie’s musical landscape affected you in a way that is completely different from all the other music around it. You have to close your eyes, imagine you don’t speak English and just feel the songs and say, “What part of me is being played by those notes?” Or “Who else plays them?”

You only have to listen to the music and lyrics of The 1975’s – Love Me to hear Bowie’s continued influence on modern alternative. I hope that influence continues on and on.

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January 26, 2016 | Web Team

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Relived: The Vance “Joy of Cooking” – 101WKQXperience

January 25, 2016 | Web Team

A few lucky listeners won a 101WKQXperience that included a cooking lesson and lunch with Vance Joy at Kinmont Restaurant, plus tickets to his sold out shows at The Riv!

Photos: Julia Simone Paul

Pictures: Vance Joy at The Riv

January 25, 2016 | Web Team

Vance Joy

Reuben and the Dark

Armstrong Leigh

Photos: Julia Paul

Queued Up #160

January 25, 2016 | Web Team

1. Empire Of The Sun – Walking On a Dream
2. Bring Me The Horizon – Follow You
3. The Last Shadow Puppets – Bad Habits
4. Iggy Pop – Gardenia
5. Joywave – Destruction
6. The Joy Formidable – The Last Thing On My Mind
7. Never Shout Never – Red Balloon
8. Battleme – Shake Shake
9. Florence + The Machine – Delilah
10. Lewis Del Mar – Loud(y)
11. New Beat Fund – Sikka Takin The Hard Way (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
12. HXLT – Sick (Local)
13. Blue October – Home
14. Wolfmother – Victorious

1. The Dandy Warhols – You Are Killing Me
2. The Heavy – Since You Been Gone
3. CHVRCHES – Clearest Blue
4. Awolnation – Woman Woman
5. Reuben And The Dark – Heart In Two
6. Colours – Monster (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
7. St. Lucia – Dancing ON Glass
8. The Arcs – Put A Flower In My Pocket
9. Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
10. Robert DeLong – Jealousy
11. The Walters – Goodbye Baby (Local)
12. Death Cab For Cutie – Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)
13. Aurora – Conqueror
14. Highly Suspect – Bloodfeather

1.24.16 – Alt_Backspace

January 25, 2016 | Web Team

1. Weezer – My Name Is Jonas
2. Morrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday
3. Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson – Candy
4. Camper Van Beethoven – Take The Skinheads Bowling
5. ABC – The Look Of Love
6. Pavement – Cut Your Hair
7. Radiohead – Paranoid Android
8. Social Distortion – Bad Luck
9. Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
10. James – Sit Down
11. Soft Cell – Tainted Love/ Where Did Our Love Go
12. Pearl Jam – Wishlist (Live)

1. Material Issue – Valerie Love Me
2. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
3. Candlebox – Far Behind
4. Soul Coughing – Circles
5. Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
6. The Cure – Pictures Of You
7. Paul Westerberg – Knockin’ On Mike
8. The Fixx – Red Skies
9. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
10. The Smithereens – A Girl Like You
11. The Church – Under The Milky Way
12. Hole – Doll Parts
13. R.E.M. – The One I Love (Unplugged)
14. Sponge – Wax Ecstatic (No Dough Show 2/19)

The Vance Joy Of Cooking

January 20, 2016 | Marconi🍕

Vance Joy is upping his cooking skills with a lesson and lunch at Kinmont Restaurant and you could join him. Plus you’ll check out one of his sold out shows at The Riv this weekend.

More info here

Queued Up #159

January 19, 2016 | Web Team

1. Death Cab For Cutie – Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)
2. SWMRS – Figuring It Out
3. Jack Garratt – Worry
4. Awolnation – Woman Woman
5. Aurora – Conqueror
6. Robert DeLong – Jealousy
7. The Thermals – Hey You
8. Colours – Monster (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
9. Foals – Birch Tree
10. CHVRCHES – Clearest Blue
11. Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
12. POP ETC – What Am I Becoming
13. Conway – Big Talk
14. David Bowie – Lazarus

1. Florence + The Machine – Delilah
2. Never Shout Never – Red Balloon
3. Wolfmother – Victorious
4. Lewis Del Mar – Loud(y)
5. Half Moon Run – Turn Your Love
6. Panic! At The Disco – La Devotee
7. The Front Bottoms – Help
8. Of Monsters And Men – Wolves Without Teeth
9. HXLT – Sick (Local)
10. New Beat Fund – Sikka Takin The Hard Way (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
11. Chef’Special – In Your Arms
12. Joywave – Destruction
13. Blue October – Home
14. Bring Me The Horizon – Follow You
15. Wild Belle – Giving Up On You (Local)

1.17.16 – Alt_Backspace

January 19, 2016 | Web Team

1. The Cure – Just Like Heaven
2. Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)
3. Squeeze – Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
4. Smithereens – Only A Memory
5. Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
6. Depeche Mode – I Feel You
7. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
8. Big Country – In a Big Country
9. The Clash – London Calling
10. Orgy – Blue Monday
11. A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
12. R.E.M. – Man On The Moon
13. Oasis – Live Forever

1. Smashing Pumpkins – I Am One
2. Social Distortion – I Was Wrong
3. David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
4. Veruca Salt – With David Bowie
5. Echo & The Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar
6. Cast – Alright
7. Talking Heads – Burning Down The House
8. Liz Phair – Supernova
9. Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
10. Candlebox – You
11. The Alarm – The Stand
12. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
13. The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like
14. The Smiths – This Charming Man

Coachella attendees can test Here Active Listening System

January 15, 2016 | Marconi🍕

The idea is that the earbuds — which are kind of like high-tech hearing aids — can be used to modify the sounds in your physical environment. This can mean raising the bass, adjusting reverb or creating other sonic experiences. Basically allowing you create your own mix of the live music you are seeing.

Coachella attendees will be the first people to have the opportunity to purchase Here and use it at the festival. Attendees will get an email with a purchase offer before Coachella begins and will receive Here in advance to get used to the setup.

Pictures: Muse – “Drones”

January 15, 2016 | Web Team

Muse

X Ambassadors

Photos: Julia Simone Paul

Linkin Park’s ‘In the End’ Sung by 183 Movies

January 13, 2016 | Marconi🍕

Which celebs appear more than once in this video?

Queued Up #158

January 11, 2016 | Web Team

1. Wolfmother – Victorious
2. Lewis Del Mar – Loud(y)
3. The Strumbellas – Spirits
4. Panic! At The Disco – La Devotee
5. Half Moon Run – Turn Your Love
6. New Beat Fund – Sikka Takin The Hard Way (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
7. Dr. Dog – Bring My Baby Back
8. Chef’Special – In Your Arms
9. Death Cab For Cutie – Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)
10. Transviolet – New Bohemia
11. Joywave – Destruction
12. Of Monsters And Med – Wolves Without Teeth
13. Never Shout Never – Red Balloon
14. LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

1. Robert DeLong – Jealousy
2. Declan Mckenna – Brazil
3. Colours – Monster (Queued Up Artist Showcase 1/27)
4. Awolnation – Woman Woman
5. SWMRS – Figure It Out
6. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – High Dive
7. Miike Snow – Genghis Kahn
8. Conway – Big Talk
9. The Thermals – Hey You
10. Jack Garratt – Worry
11. Wild Belle – Giving Up On You
12. Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
13. POP ETC – What Am I Becoming
14. Lucius – Born Again Teen
15. The Chemical Brothers with Beck – Wide Open

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