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Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017Only a few tickets left! The Lawrence Arms Third Annual War On X-mas! December 14, 15, & 16 at Cobra Lounge & Bottom Lounge! https://riotfest.org/2017/11/want-know-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-broken-theres-app/ https://riotfest.org/2017/11/william-shatner-garbageman/ https://riotfest.org/2017/11/tiffany-co-selling-1000-tin-can-fuck-thats/ Jaded In Chicago has a new interview with Sincere Engineer’s Deanna Belos about her debut album, which came out recently on Red Scare Industries. Catch Sincere Engineer’s record…
Tiffany & Co. Is Selling A $1,000 Tin Can Because Fuck You That’s Why
Tiffany & Co. is selling a $1,000 “tin can“. This “tin can” that looks exactly like a tin can that dog food, or peas comes in, is actually made of sterling silver because fuck you that’s why. According to their website, “The Everyday Objects collection transforms utilitarian items into handcrafted works of art. A classic…
William Shatner Is A Garbageman
In January of 2018, Dr. Demento will be releasing a new two-hour compilation titled Covered In Punk, with over 60 tracks of punk covers of novelty songs and novelty covers of punks songs including “thirty different, never before released, all-new ‘punk’ cover versions of ‘mad music and crazy comedy’ songs famously heard on the airwaves…
Want To Know If A McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Is Broken? There’s An App For That
Need your McFlurry fix but are afraid of waiting in the drive-thru only to find out the “machine is down”? There’s an app for that. Even though McDonald’s ice cream machines are always down, just like that cab drivers credit card machine is “not working”, at least you can know ahead of time and save…
The Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, November 6th, 2017Bikini Kill Reunites. https://riotfest.org/2017/11/bikini-kill-reunited-one-song-past-weekend/ Ozzy Osbourne Announces his “Farwell Tour” that ends in 2020. https://riotfest.org/2017/11/ozzy-osbourne-announces-farewell-world-tour/ https://riotfest.org/2017/11/chicago-creative-photographer-bianca-garcia-shoots-color/ Svetlanas and 57 cancel remaining dates on Barb Wire Dolls tour. If you want to survive the upcoming nuclear apocalypse you should move to Kansas City. https://riotfest.org/2017/11/want-survive-upcoming-nuclear-apocalypse-move-kansas-city/
Bikini Kill Reunite (For One Song) This Past Weekend
It’s been 20 years, but Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Kathleen Hanna performed together this past Saturday at The Kitchen in New York City. They were all at The Kitchen for Jenn Pelly’s new 33 1/3 book about the Raincoats’ self-titled album. You can watch a very very short clip of them performing “For Tammy Rae” below.…
Ozzy Osbourne Announces “Farewell World Tour”
To “celebrate five decades of performing”, Ozzy Osbourne has announced his “farewell world tour” on Monday. “People keep asking me when I’m retiring”, Ozzy said in a press release. “This will be my final world tour, but I can’t say I won’t do some shows here and there.” The “farewell world tour” will travel across…
I DARE YOU TO LISTEN TO: GRUNGE FROM AFTER APRIL 5, 1994
I was among the seemingly few people on earth who didn’t get the news about Kurt Cobain’s death from the impressively composed Kurt Loder. I usually watched at least two hours of MTV every afternoon when school let out, but that day I was driving my parents’ Civic to Taco Bell, half-listening as one of…