Q101 The Alternative
Q101 (formerly on Chicago radio @ 101.1 FM) The Alternative - Chicago's New Rock Alternative - Everything Alternative - Chicago's Alternative - Gen X - Generation X
Former Q101 Chicago Radio Star and current Internet Radio Sensation Adam Corolla (former Loveline Co-host) is getting major attention for his rant on the Occupy Wall Street and the all around attitude of what he calls “a generation of self-entitled monsters”.
He’s being talked about on national radio shows like Glenn Beck and others for dishing his opinion on OWS. Whether you agree with him or not, Adam never disappoints to bring humor, common sense and brilliant analogies into his rants.
Listen to the unedited rant for yourself here.
Adam Corolla will be in Chicago at the Park West December 3rd at 7:30pm.
This isn’t the first time Adam has gone off on this subject. Here’s another snippet:
The Illinois Entertainer’s awesome writer Cara Jepsen gives us a little love and ink in the December issue. While plenty of so-called “news” organizations and bloggers have really blown the facts of what has and is happening with Q101 and why, IE continues to get it right. How? Well, not to oversimplify or underestimate their efforts, but, really it’s quite easy: When IE wants to know something about us or what we’re up to, they contact us and ask us. Weird, huh?
Really, its downright revolutionary in today’s 24-hour news cycle world. That sort of direct approach is apparently a lost art in the media world, as we’ve seen time and again how one blogger will write something and then a million sites pick it up and run it ‘as is’ as the gospel truth. Then readers do the same: They take the info ‘as is’ and ask no questions or question it in any way. At least we don’t really blame everyday people all that much. We’re all busy in our day-to-day lives, and we’re bombarded with thousands of messages day in and day out.
Still, the old adage “Believe half of what you see and none of what you read” was coined generations before the advent of the internet. Imagine the wording of that phrase if it would have been coined after 1997?
Thanks Cara and IE for continuing to do your homework and get it right! It wasn’t like pulling eye-teeth either, now, was it? Still, you are to be commended for doing your best to get true and fair info out to folks! Rock on IE!
Read a sample of Cara’s piece:
Q101 may have flipped its format in July, but the music rocks on at www.q101.com. The busy website features streaming music, entertainment, and information aimed at alternative-rock fans.
The site is the brainchild of Matt Dubiel and Mike Noonan – the duo behind the short-lived “Save The Loop” movement. They own the syndication company Broadcast Barter Radio Networks, which purchased the Q101 brand and turned it into a virtual “station” designed to go where the listeners go via mobile apps and social media.
“We look forward to giving fans a genuine say in who and what they hear – one that traditional broadcasters only pay lip service to,” says Noonan, a former WLUP jock. He and Dubiel, general manager at Elmhurst’s WJJG-AM (1530), plan to add talent to the audio stream (live.q101.com) next year – which will also see the return of the local music showcase “Local 101.”
“No matter who we choose [as host], we’ll be listening closely to the feedback from fans on the hosts and content and production value of the show,” says Noonan. They also plan to bring back the Jamboree and Twisted concerts as well as new events.
READ MORE HERE
Source: http://illinoisentertainer.com/2011/12/media-december-2011/
Q101.com is proud to announce that one of our favorite bands, Rise Against, is coming to rock their hometown fans at the UIC Pavilion January 27th along with special guests A Day To Remember and The Menzingers!
Tickets go are on sale now. Q101.com had some freebies thanks to our pals at Live Nation.
Congratulations to Kelsey, Erick, Tom, Carly, Melissa, Carlos, Chris, and Connor on their FREE Pairs of Tickets!
Each entered to win right here at Q101.com and we look forward to a full and uncensored reportage on the night’s insanity!
Check out this Q101 station take-over with RA’s Tim McIlrath:
Not far from Chicago in Elk Grove Village is the Eleventh Hour Haunted House, voted the No. 1 Halloween Event and Haunted House in Illinois by http://hauntedilliniois.com. Eleventh Hour offers four different haunted house experiences both indoors and outside. Once in the house, visitors can go from one to the other without having to stand in line all over again, so there is no break in the terror. Scary encounters with Creatures of the Corn, exploration of the Catacombs and a terrifying walk through a pitch-black labyrinth are highlights of Eleventh Hour. While waiting to enter the house, visitors can enjoy refreshments like hot chocolate and cider, or check out the pumpkin patch for a potential jack-o-lantern. With so many haunted houses within reach, Chicago is a great place to spend the Halloween season. If you find yourself in the area, and you’re feeling brave enough, take advantage of the many opportunities for fright and terror the city offers, if you dare.
Get your haunted house tickets here with Q101′s special link!
Q101.com fans spoke, and we listened. Cort, have a good time at the Primus show at the Congress Theater (wow, tough choice there…Smashing Pumpkins and Primus head-to-head in Chicago on the same night!) If you voted for this character Cort to get into this show, thanks! We appreciate knowing that 72 of you are warm-hearted. We’re stunned…not one single “No” vote was placed when we asked if this hard luck Primus fan should get a helping hand into the show. Nice to see!
Here’s the backstory: Q101.com gets hundreds of emails a day, many from people in need. This one caught our eye, and, truth be told, brought a tear to it (we caught it before it hit the ground, so it doesn’t technically count as actually crying, so don’t get all ballsy and start calling us names. As a general rule, Q101.com does NOT cry, not that there’s anything wrong with dudes who do. Ahem.)
Q101.com VIP member Cort writes:
Last year when Primus came to Chicago at the Congress Theatre [sic] I had purchased two tickets to the show. But unfortunately I was running late to the event and on my way to Chicago I was rear-ended. It took so long to get a policeman to the scene and the damage wasn’t all that bad. The guy ended up getting arrested and a K-9 Unit searched his car in which it found something. By the time I left I felt it was just to [sic] late for the show, I would love to try and go again this year and hope Q101 can assist me. Signed, Cort, a devoted Q101 fan
Last year when Primus came to Chicago at the Congress Theatre [sic] I had purchased two tickets to the show. But unfortunately I was running late to the event and on my way to Chicago I was rear-ended. It took so long to get a policeman to the scene and the damage wasn’t all that bad. The guy ended up getting arrested and a K-9 Unit searched his car in which it found something. By the time I left I felt it was just to [sic] late for the show, I would love to try and go again this year and hope Q101 can assist me.
Signed,
Cort, a devoted Q101 fan
Allegedly Cort's real car, damaged last year on his way to see Primus.
Wow. That sucks. You are on your way to see Les Claypool and company and some stoner hits you and makes you miss the show. That’s horrible. Cort went on to intimate that also within the last year, he won a contest with another website in town which we won’t be jerks and mention, BUT…when he got to the show, he in fact was NOT on the list and he left with an apology and not much else. Man oh man…
Look, we know there are people out there with really bigtime problems, so we’re not going to act like this is THAT big a deal. Still, we exist to give people entertainment, like getting them into Primus shows…and when someone is a Q101.com VIP, we feel the need to really go above and beyond for them. Besides, we do what we can. We can’t solve every problem, so we’ll lend a hand where and when we can.
Wanna hear something on Q101.com? Call 708-680-Q101 and we’ll do our best. Kitten in a tree? We’ll try. Depends on where and how high. Need a job? We’ll see what we can do. Need a night out? We’ll work on it. Liver transplant? Get in line…we’re first, bro.
A call to the promoter of this show, Riot Fest, resulted in…two free tickets to see Primus for Cort. (No sandwich board necessary, for now Cort; though if you feel like donning one, have it bro!)
Thanks to Luba and Mike and the gang at Riot Fest, and, hell, thanks to Les Claypool in advance for dedicating “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver” to Q101.com!
This is a somewhat NEW tradition creeping up across the land.
Q101 plans to change that. This Halloween Q101 just might Boo YOU. SIGN UP HERE
What does it mean to be BOOED?
It’s simple really. We print a “BOO” sheet and include it with a delicious treat or in our case Q101 STUFF. Leave it on someone’s door step, ring the bell, and Run Run Run! That someone could be YOU.
If you have been Booed, cut out the ghost and place it on or near your door so you won’t be Boo-ed again. It’s tradition once YOU are booed to pay it forward and BOO someone else.
Before long you will have a neighborhood full of ghosts!
Best of all when Q101 sets out to BOO….we do it with style. Some of our goodie bags will include:
If you get BOOED….do us a favor and email a picture of your Boo Bag…the one with the goodies WE left…not THAT BOO bag. Email pics to info@Q101.com
Don’t wait to BE BOOED before you BOO someone! Download the Q101 BOO-SHEET here and start spreading the BOOS today!
READY TO BE BOOED? WE HAVE THE Q101.com MOBILE CRUISER OF DEATH LOADED TO THE GILLS. TELL US WHERE TO GO!
We’re at the Blink 182 Show at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater….John texts us and asked “if I write Q101 4 Life on my chest and show up to FMBA will you give me a shirt?”
Our response, why stop there? Get Q101 4 Life tattooed on your chest in gansta letters and we’ll consider giving you company STOCK.
Being the animal that John is, he came….he saw….he tracked US down and proudly presented his work of art. A few weeks later superfan John opened his mailbox to find……another set of bills and junk mail. BUT, he also found a small package from Q101! WAIT….I mean a A LARGE PACKAGE FROM Q101….ENORMOUS package.
Feel free to follow John the Q101 Superfan on twitter he is @FauxTehRusskie
Q101 is proud to release the NEW….improved….FREE Q101 iPhone, iPad, iPod app!
This FREE app will deliver a WALL OF SOUND via your mobile apple device. Download it today and then delete your old app. Please leave positive comments in the iTunes store and tell your friends! Share this below on Facebook and Twitter.
You must download the NEW app here.
More great improvements are coming!
In the Fall of 1992 Chicago radio station “WKQX-Q101″ moved from playing middle of the road adult music to Alternative Rock. Q101 embraced the grunge sound and all it’s off shoots, and it would make Q101 the KROQ of the midwest. I joined the ranks at Q101 in January of 1993 and stayed until December 2001; those nine years were filled with events, some were personal, some were personal that would become public, nearly all of them recall great memories. Q101 will flip formats beginning July 15th, 2011, it’s believed to a talk radio format, although what type has yet to be disclosed. I’ve been asked by the station to share some stories from my time at Q101, stories that I’ll be sharing on air in Chicago on July 14th. For example:
In 1993 Green Day was just breaking into the mainstream with their album “Dookie”, and the band was playing The Vic theater in Chicago, a venue which holds about 1500 people. At that time Q101 was a station many loved to hate, some teens and twentysomethings didn’t want “their music” brought to the mainstream, and never was that more evident than when I stepped on stage that night to introduce Green Day. Before I went on stage I’d spent a good half hour hanging with the band backstage and at some point had said to them that I anticipated a reaction of some sort when I went out to introduce them, to which Billie Joe Armstrong said “just tell ‘em to “F*@K OFF” (we laughed), because the band was very happy to be breaking into the mainstream. So with Billie Joe’s advice fresh in my mind it was time for me to go onstage to do my job. Immediately after saying “Q101″ I was pelted with anything the crowd could find to hurl at me. I could have left the stage, and I’m pretty sure just about anyone else would have, but not me. I grabbed the mic and told the crowd that they weren’t as loud as I was, which prompted a roar of frightening proportions. Again, I’m pretty sure anyone else would have vacated the stage, but I stayed and repeatedly told the crowd “F*@K You”, and the crowd replied in kind. Knowing full well my time was up I began to leave when out came Billie Joe Armstrong on microphone to reprimand me. My final words on stage were “I guess I’m F*@KED”. Once off stage I ran around to find Billie Joe and remind him of his own advice, and that I was just havin’ a little fun, but he was already in the dressing room and security escorted me out. Once the adrenalin of the moment wore off I was pretty sure that was my last day working for Q101, after all I’d just told a sold out crowd to shove it. I didn’t sleep that night, I kicked myself for being so foolish, but also chuckled at how it had been so much fun. I decided it would be my goal to be the first person to tell my boss of what had happened in hopes of explaining it away, and also promise to never act that way again when representing the station. The next morning I got through to the station receptionist right at 8 a.m. and she put me through to my boss who answered, “F*@K YOU”. To my sleepy astonishment he had already heard the news, and furthermore he found my actions of the night before to be of great virtue. And so began a long run for me at Chicago’s New Rock Alternative.
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Q101 moved from 101.1 WKQX to http:www.Q101.com
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