Happy Release Day! Stream the Wonder Years’ New Album, ‘Sister Cities’
In case you missed it, the Wonder Years officially released its new album Sister Cities via Hopeless Records. You can stream it below, which will give you plenty of time to memorize all the lyrics so you can sing along with them at Concord Music Hall in Chicago on June 3. “Sister Cities came about in…
6 of the Best Bands on our Fictional Fantasy Riot Fest Lineup
While we all eagerly await the 2018 Riot Fest lineup announcement, speculation is already swirling around what bands will be on the bill. Whether through careful analysis of summer tour schedules or shuffling the first letters of tweets like they’re Scrabble tiles, it’s hard to resist participating in the guessing game of who will be…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Garnet
Garnet came to us as a stray on New Years Day. What a sad way to start 2018. She’s looking for a better life and some warmth. Her journey of searching for that continues…. 94 days now. This little girl glows with gentleness! She’s really sweet and easy going. Garnet doesn’t mind the other dogs…
Zombie-Like Raccoons Are Terrorizing People In Ohio
Residents of Youngstown Ohio are on alert after police have responded to more than a dozen phone calls of suspicious raccoons. Local resident Robert Coggeshall told WKBN that he was outside his home with his dogs when,“I looked over there and got distracted because I saw a raccoon coming our way,” “He would stand up…
Chicago Creatives: Ariel Zetina is the Mother of the Windy City Club Scene
Even when her work explores the dark, abrasive, and traumatic, Ariel Zetina’s goal is to make you dance. The Chicago-based playwright, producer, and DJ’s aesthetic delights in the unexpected; she often uses a danceable four-on-the-floor beat structure as a Trojan horse to shepherd strange, glitchy, and transgressive sounds and themes onto the dancefloor. She emphasizes…
This New Get Up Kids Song will Definitely Brighten Your Day
Check out “Maybe” from the new Kicker EP—the band’s first release in seven years.The Get Up Kids are back and sounding as classic as ever. Check out “Maybe” from Kicker, the band’s new EP (and its first release since 2011’s There Are Rules). This track calls back everything we love about the Get Up Kids—especially when vocalist Matt Pryor really starts giving it at around 2:29—and we can’t wait to…
Random Fandom: Warm Up to the Dark Sky Weather App
I am several different kinds of Those People when it comes to my phone. Along with being one of Those People who’s got a really complicated ergonomic organizing system for my app icons, and one of Those People who sets their phone to grayscale to keep the from using it too much, I’m also one of…
In Other News, the New Gang of Four EP Features Ivanka Trump On the Cover
English post-punk band Gang of Four is releasing a new EP, Complicit, scheduled for release on April 20. Today, the cover art was revealed; and it features First Daughter Ivanka Trump… and includes a track called “Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have).” In a statement about the song, founding guitarist Andy Gill says: When we think of the media,…
