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Review: Baby Driver Is the Coolest Movie of the Summer
In his first auteur solo effort, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, [almost] Ant-Man), has truly done something special with film and music. Superman has his sunshine, Popeye has his spinach, and Baby Driver has its music. Played by a so-fresh-faced-he-must-still-pop-pesky-pimples-in-the-morning-mirror Ansel Elgort, Baby is a prodigy of a wheel man literally driven…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, June 26th, 2017Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day. Nine Inch Nails played “She’s Gone Away” live for the first time since releasing it on last December’s Not the Actual Events EP, albeit in a non-traditional venue. “The Nine Inch Nails” are the house band at the Bang Bang Bar in a new episode of Twin Peaks: The…
The 10 Worst Velvet Underground Songs To Make Out To
Everybody’s made out to The Velvet Underground. Or at least, anybody worth making out with has. Whether at their sweetest and/or sleaziest, the band’s entire canon has gifted generations of “Jim-Jims” and femme fatales with a nearly flawless soundtrack for soupy, starry eyed, or flat-out smacked-out smooches. But for every “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” “Pale…
Where’d the Cheese Go? When Pizza Hut Hired Ween And Then Fired Them
So what’s the deal with the song “Where’d the Cheese Go?” In 2002, Pizza Hut hired Ween to write a song for a new commercial. Ween sent them six songs and Pizza Hut rejected every one of them. Eventually, “Where’d the Cheese Go?” was leaked on-line, and a hit song was born. According to their…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Friday, June 23rd, 2017Today is Glenn Danzig‘s birthday! Since he is immortal, gaining one more year probably doesn’t mean as much to Mr. Danzig as it does to us. That being said, Glenn, all of us at Riot Fest would like to wish you a happy birthday, and we can’t wait to see you here in Chicago in…
Riot Fest’s Best Bartender Contest
Are you a bartender in Chicago? Enter Riot Fest’s Best Bartender Contest for your chance to win a VIP experience at Riot Fest for you and nine friends, plus a victory party courtesy of Riot Fest! Enter Here: goo.gl/xJtrsp Prize Package Includes: 10 VIP Passes to Riot Fest 10 Passes to an Official Riot Fest…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Rambo
Rambo A163454 • Neutered 1.3-year-old Male • Available for Adoption at Chicago ACC Rambo is very excited in his cage. His cage presence may turn people off because he jumps a lot and just wants to get outside. He has lots of energy outside in the playlots and its understandable because he isn’t getting all…
9 Reasons Shea Couleé Is Truly America’s Next Drag Superstar
In the eight years that have passed since RuPaul’s Drag Race first aired, the wildly popular pop culture behemoth has never crowned a Chicago queen as its winner. As of tonight, when the Logo/VH1 show’s Season 9 finale airs, that could very well change. Chicago queen Shea Couleé has practically dominated Season 9 of the…
