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I Don’t Wanna Live Forever, But I Do Want This Tiny Lemmy
The only thing you see, you know it’s gonna be, a $125 tiny Lemmy statue. KnuckleBonz, a company that apparently “creates hi-end music collectibles that feature the most legendary and highly influential artists in rock music”, is selling a tiny Lemmy for $125. Only 3000 tiny Lemmy’s are being made, so you better act quick,…
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2017Today is National PTSD Day, but thankfully it’s also National Sunglasses Day, so if you’re not feeling the world around you, feel free to hide behind your glasses. Shabazz Palaces has released yet another new song from one of the two full-length LPs that Sub Pop is putting out on July 14th. This time, check…
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…
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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…
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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…