After a five-year hiatus from releasing new music, Paramore have returned with “This Is Why,” the lead single and title track of their new album out Feb. 10.
Check out the cool video for “This Is Why” directed by Brenden Yates of Turnstile.
Paramore will play the Chicago Theater November 9th. (SOLD-OUT show)
It looks like Hollywood star, Jonathan Majors, is in talks to play Dennis Rodman in the movie being made about his epic Las Vegas bender called, “48 Hour In Vegas.” The movie captures his adventures in Vegas, when he was only supposed to stay for a few days as quick break while the Bulls were on the verge of completing their second three-peat in eight years. It wasn’t two days. And Michael Jordan had to go find him and drag his butt back to Chicago. Some say it might become too much like the movie “The Hangover” but we shall see! Here’s a clip from back when the movie was first announced.
Just because Steve-O was on Jackass, doesn’t mean he can’t dish out some serious life advice. Here’s your daily motivation, from the guy that fought an alligator for laughs! This is what it takes to be successful!
This man was NOT expecting a squirrel to interrupt his zoom call. Watch him squirm and jump as the little guy bounces around his office. He’s probably not proud of this moment, but it’s hilarious nonetheless!
Some of the biggest names in music came together at the Kia Forum to honor the late drummer of the Foo Fighters. This was the second tribute show this month dedicated to Taylor, the first being in London. The night kicked off with Joan Jett performing with Travis Barker. Joan spoke about her close friendship with Hawkins and got choked up trying to finish her speech. Such is the story for all of the performers that night.
Other acts included Queen, Rush, Pink, Them Crooked Vultures, and Kesha. Violet Grohl came out to sing to Leonard Cohen’s, “Hallelujah” and there wasn’t a dry eye inside of the Forum. Fellow drummers Josh Freese and Chad Smith also showed up to honor their friend.
Does his girl belong to the streets?! She doesn’t put a stop to her flirty coworker.
My girlfriend has a coworker who flirts with her nonstop. He’s always asking her out to lunch and sending her texts. She says he’s innocent and harmless but it bothers me that she lets it happen. She tells me everything and we laugh about it but it bothers me that she doesn’t put a stop to it. I always joke about showing up to her work and telling him myself but she begs me not to. He knows I exist but he is still hits in her everyday. Does she belong to the streets for not telling him to stop and that he doesn’t have a chance? I’m starting to get irritated by this whole thing. Help me out crew!
Hurricane Ian is one of the most powerful storms to hit the US in decades. It was just short of a Category 5 rating; only two storms that have made landfall in the US in the last 30 years have been that strong if that’s any comparison. More than 2.5 million people in Florida have been told to evacuate. Here’s a list of places to donate to that can help!
The Florida Disaster Fund: https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf/
The fund supports recovery and response activities.
Save The Children: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/emergency-response/hurricane-ian-how-to-help
This organization works to make sure children are safe and recover quickly in the face of disaster. They’ll even provide child care, and make sure children are taken care of in the immediate aftermath and long term.
Supplies aid, supplies, and medicine to families affected by disaster.
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This TikToker went viral after sharing his theory of finding the BEST Chinese food in town. What town? Any city, assuming you live in a large metropolitan area with options. He says that a place with 3.5 stars on Yelp is where it’s at! It’s not too fancy, like when they pay more attention to service than the food, but the food is fantastic, therefore, it still gets solid reviews. It balances out the bad ones, hence the 3.5 stars. That’s the money spot. According to people who commented on his video, it worked for them too.
Dick Butkus is Chicago’s Betty White. Hands down.
The 79 year old NFL Hall Of Famer took over the Chicago Bears Twitter account last night — and quickly went viral across the country for his antics.
The takeover began in an understated fashion:
Quickly followed by the antics you would expect out of your parents or grandparents, trying to navigate in a technologically advanced world:
Can we please talk about the sheer brilliance of this, though? How boring would it be if they did they standard “Hi, I’m Dick Butkus and I’m taking over Bears Twitter. #AMA.”? Right?
Instead, the sports world stood up and paid attention. Some people got it. Others didn’t. But last night was social media gold — and if you know the Butkus legacy, of gregarious-off-field personality-coupled with-acting-career, you probably figured out how much of this was 100% purposeful 😉
Go check out the Chicago Bears Twitter account for a smile today. And if you want to keep that magic going, Dick Butkus got verified this past summer and is an amazing follow. A prerequisite for any Chicagoan, really. (ESPECIALLY the way he skewers Aaron Rodgers and the Packers 🤣)
#fin. #TheEnd.
An American Airlines flight got weird real fast when some strange and disturbing sounds came over the PA system before the flight. The flight crew didn’t know what was going on and tried to fix ‘the problem.’ In the meantime, flyers were treated odd outbursts of noises that sometimes sounded like hanky panky and then at other moments, sounded like someone was going to hurl.
Trick or Treat? We’re getting you a little of both this year for Halloween!
Q101 and The Cubby Bear present the Halloween Bash Pop-Up with Rival Sons and Giovannie and the Hired Guns – Saturday, October 29th at The Cubby Bear!
That’s the treat. The trick is both bands will perform second sets as a legendary Q101 artist. Giovannie and the Hired Guns will give you an additional set as American Idiots. You’ll have to wait and see what Rival Sons has in store for you!
Yes! There will be a costume contest too!
The Halloween Bash Pop-Up is a free show and it’s first come first served (21+ Show). Tickets available now at Q101.com
You must present a ticket for entry to this event. Admittance is subject to capacity.
Karen hit the streets of Chicago hard the other day. First she got into it with some folks about a dog not being on a leash. It’s a fair complaint, but she took it to the next level when she tried to call the dog into the busy street. Not cool Karen. THEN she managed to make someone’s life horrible again that same day, by trying to stop skateboarders. It’s not a crime! Haven’t you seen the stickers Karen??
This man is obviously a huge Vikings fan. So big, that purple is the color of choice in most of his tattoos. But there’s one that’s a BIT much, and that’s the decapitated Clay Matthews III on his left arm. You have to really HATE the Packers to get one of their players tattooed on your body to live on forever. Listen as he describes his battle collage, where he points out the fallen Packer, himself with face paint on (of course!) and even his ex-wife! If you see guy, tell him you also despise the Pack, then run!
McDonald’s might have a BTS meal, but Arby’s has Pusha T reppin’ them now. Coming straight out of the smokehouse, here is his commercial, err, diss track against the McRib. Let’s see how McDonald’s responds in the coming weeks.
A woman spent three days in the hospital after her own dog, pooped in her mouth. There’s no nice way to say that either. Apparently, 51-year-old, Amanda was taking a nap with her beloved Chihuahua, Belle, when something tragic happened. Belle was sleeping on Amanda’s face and got violent diarrhea. Now, we could get really detailed here, but in the end, Amanda needed to go to the hospital! Doctors had never seen anything like it before, and urged Amanda to be more careful when sleeping with Belle in the future. Yeah, no sh*t!
https://www.indy100.com/viral/woman-hospital-dog-poo-face
This Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Q101’s Brian, Ali, & Justin have an opportunity that no one else in the country has. At 7:45 for the next three days, BAJ will play a Gorillaz beat mix featuring three different songs from the band. If you’re able to guess the three songs, you’ll receive the following:
The only way to get in is to win. Listen to Brian, Ali, & Justin every morning from 6-10am weekdays.
I’ve always found Eddie Vedder to be incredibly annoying.
I understand the great irony in this given that I work for an alternative radio juggernaut and were it not for Pearl Jam, I might be out of a job, but I have never bought into The Brand, nor The Lifestyle that the alt-rock Gods have conjured up. Whenever Pearl Jam comes up in conversation, which is always done by men who are just beginning to sport their first prominent grey hairs, I remind them that while 1994 seems really cool, I spawned onto this Earth five years later, and as a Gen Z stalwart, there is nothing “revolutionary” to me about this band. They are, in fact, the least interesting of their contemporaries. This could be because they ape more from classic rock bands more than any other Seattle band, and as someone that thinks most rock music created before 1982 is not worth listening to (Parallel Lines being the main exception), rarely does the genius of Pearl Jam penetrate me.
This dissertation isn’t to say that Pearl Jam sucks. I like the same songs that everyone else likes. ‘Alive’ rips, ‘Corduroy’ excites my Bill Simmons-infested brain, and the Unplugged version of ‘State of Love and Trust’ is possibly the finest output that show ever had if you don’t include Jay-Z or Nirvana’s catalogue (weird qualifier, but I’m being as fair as I can be). I just can’t buy into this band, however, and for as much as author Steven Hyden tried in his excellent new book, ‘Long Road’, I am still denying Vedder’s almost universally accepted status as the frontman of The Biggest Band in the World.
Author Steven Hyden (co-host of the excellent Indiecast podcast) penned a thoroughly compelling book about Pearl Jam, thankfully avoiding the monotonous backstory of how the band formed and getting right into the action. Hyden leads us along an 18 song journey, with each chapter marking another song in what becomes a fruitful playlist by the end of the book. ‘Long Road’ focuses on live performances, capturing the band in their most raw moments, which is far and away the most compelling way that I’ve ever seen the band documented. As someone’s whose fandom doesn’t escape past the 7 or 8 alt-radio mainstays that we continue to play daily, the strongpoint of this book is Hyden making a seemingly endless back catalogue seem so accessible. The passion in which the author speaks about the band’s 1995 Red Rocks gig is something to behold. I read the chapter, I watched part of the set, I didn’t get it as much as Hyden did, and then I got annoyed all over again at Pearl Jam’s existence. This was pretty much my experience throughout this entire book.
Hyden luckily doesn’t push the band’s later work on us too hard. The apathy towards the band’s later work does illuminate my biggest issue with the band as a whole, however. For all of the shy, reclusive rock stars out there, I simply don’t think Eddie Vedder is the best one of the bunch. The band’s catalogue is nothing compared to what R.E.M. was able to accomplish. The urgency present on Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy is never captured again, and I don’t hold those releases in the same light that the generation before me does. The band has faltered out of the gates with every release since. A lot of time over the last month was dedicated to listening to No Code through Gigaton and every album left me cold and uninspired. They are what Kurt Cobain warned us about. Their teenage angst paid off well, then they quickly got bored and old.
I find it so interesting that Vedder, who puffed his chest out while on tour with Mike Watt and sang “Against the 70’s”, a rallying call to fight off Boomer Nostalgia, hasn’t been able to pen a worthwhile song in my lifetime. I think the most infuriating part of Pearl Jam’s story is Vedder’s desire to be something that he’s not. He has swatted away this and that for so long that he finally exists on his own grumpy island where he can be adored in peace. He’s alienated anyone with a dissenting opinion and while there’s no denying his success, he’s turned into a bore. He’s so obsessed with being like Ian Mackaye and yet Mackaye’s words, while sparse, still pack a much harder punch than Vedder’s ever did.
Whereas Michael Stipe and his cohorts aged gracefully and continued to pump out quality records even after their commercial success ended, Pearl Jam has become nothing more than a Jimmy Buffet-like brand. Pearl Jam: The Show is an entity entirely propped up by Vedder’s words that have been spoken for 30 years now.
The author makes a very fair attempt at saying that the band evolved through their live act and thus the post-prime records aren’t as big of a blemish as they appear to be, but with this band, for all of the macho-posturing they’ve done throughout the years, I have a hard time accepting that.
This is all to say that ‘Long Road’ is excellent, because it made me think about Pearl Jam in a way that I haven’t before. They’ve been accepted as Rock Royalty for so long that sometimes we need to go back and evaluate how they got there and in the case of a band like this, why they’re still accepted as such. I consider Vedder to be somewhat of a fraud and a songsmith who wasn’t as big of an outlaw as Neil Young, wasn’t as biting as Kurt Cobain, and wasn’t as introspective as Michael Stipe, but there is no denying Pearl Jam’s generational impact that is still rippling through the alt world today and Hyden demonstrates his case beautifully throughout the entire book.
‘Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation’ can be purchased here.
“Everlong” is known as one of the best songs that the Foo Fighters have ever written. But what would it sound like if it were an emo anthem? Maybe something like this! You won’t be disappointed!
Behold, the world’s shortest IQ test. If you get all three right, you’re golden. But good luck, because they’re not super easy. The faster you can do these, the more intelligent you are- annnd GO!
1. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
2. If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
THINK. THINK. THINK. You ready?
ANSWERS: 1. 5 cents 2. 5 minutes 3. 47 days
This manager/Navy vet gave his team an amazing motivational speech on his last day of work. It could’ve been about working hard, but instead he the topic he choose was more important to him. TIME. It is our most valuable commodity. He encouraged his employees to take more time off to spend with their families because at the end of the day, your job will replace you immediately, but your family is irreplaceable. Try no to cry when you watch!
