Pitchfork has just announced the lineup for its 2015 music festival and not only is it full of huge hometown names, it is full of other great acts as well. Representing the city of Chicago includes artists like Wilco, Chance the Rapper, and Vic Mensa (who was just featured on Kanye’s new song ‘Wolves’). Other acts include Sleater Kinney, Future Islands, Run the Jewels, iLoveMakonnen, A$AP Ferg, Chvrches, The New Pornographers, Panda Bear, Jamie xx, Vince Staples, and more! Check out the full lineup below, Pitchfork Music Festival takes place July 17-19 at Union Park in Chicago.
Last year Consequence of Sound posted a feature I wrote, titled “Let’s Play Moneyball with a Summer Music Festival”. In the piece I used price quotes of popular musicians to swap out acts from the 2014 lineup of Milwaukee’s music festival Summerfest, in attempts to also make “the World’s Largest Music Festival” also the world’s best music festival (in my opinion of course). This year I wanted to do the same, in anticipation of Summerfest releasing its full lineup within the next couple months. I used the estimated budget that I calculated last year and booked a number of great and relevant acts in 2015, to show just how great Summerfest COULD be (when the festival as is, is already pretty great!).
Drake’s new surprise album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Lateis full of disses to his fellow labelmates. In his track ‘No Tellin”, Drake throws shade at his new OVO Sound artist iLoveMakonnen and in the album’s closing track ‘6PM in New York’ Drake takes shots at fellow Young Money/Cash Money (YMCMB) rapper Tyga. In the track, Drake raps “I heard the lil lil homie talking reckless in Vibe. It’s quite a platform you chose, you should have kept it inside. Oh you tried, it’s so childish calling my name on the world’s stage. You need to act your age and not your girl’s age.” Referencing Tyga’s interview with Vibe where he revealed that he didn’t like Drake, Drake takes a jab at Tyga and his relationship with his 17 year-old girlfriend Kylie Jenner. No mercy from Drizzy on these records!
“F*ck it, all you n*ggas two faced, got the club goin’ up on a Tuesday”, raps Drake on his new If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late track ‘No Tellin’. Of course, Drizzy is certainly referencing his iLoveMakonnen track ‘Tuesday’, but is he throwing shots at his own artist? After hearing Makonnen’s track ‘Club Goin’ Up on a Tuesday’, Drake teamed up with the young artist for the remix ‘Tuesday’, and later signed the Atlanta rapper. Fast forward a few months later, and now it seems like Drake may be calling Makonnen two faced.
If you somehow didn’t hear, Drake just pulled a Beyonce and released a surprise album on iTunes. While Beyonce’s release was certainly game changing, Drake’s just might have a much more interesting back story. With this surprise release of Drake’s fourth studio album, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, is Drizzy now out of his contract with Cash Money Records?
We were optimistic just hours ago that Drake was releasing a brand new mixtape tonight, well now it looks like he one-upped even our best predictions as Drizzy has just released a surprise album on iTunes. The album, titled If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (possible shot at angry label heads?) is available now and has features from Lil Wayne, Partynextdoor, and Travis Scott and production from 40, Boi-1da, Vinlyz, Partynextdoor and more! Check out the tracklist below.
Earlier today Kanye West premiered a brand new song titled ‘Wolves’, track one from his forthcoming album, which features Chicago’s Vic Mensa, as well as ‘Chandelier’ singer Sia. The song was debuted during Kanye’s adidas Yeezy Boost debut show at New York Fashion Week, and after recorded footage of the song leaked, we now have a higher quality version of the track for your listening pleasure. Check out ‘Wolves’ below.
Late last year, Chicago rapper NoName Gypsy tweeted “We go where the light is. #surf #myHottestVerseEver”, which seemed to suggest that she had a feature on Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment’s upcoming album Surf. This should come as no major surprise as she gave a great verse on Chance’s Acid Rap project. And now after last night, the hints from her tweet hold a little more weight, as she opened up for Mick Jenkins at SOBs in New York City. During her performance she rapped a verse which she told fans would be on Surf. No word yet if “We Go Where the Light Is” is the title of the Surf track, but check out NoName Gypsy’s performance of her verse below.
Also be sure to check out our photos of Chance’s recent “Open Mike” event in Chicago, where he brought out King Louie and Hannibal Buress to perform with a number of young Chicago artists.
Big day for Kanye West and the artists he is putting on today. Earlier today fans got to hear the first track off Kanye’s forthcoming album, titled ‘Wolves‘, which features Chicago’s Vic Mensa. During his Roc city classic concert in New York City with Kevin Durant, Kanye West brought out New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap to perform his 2014 song ‘Trap Queen’. Kanye described the track as one of his favorite songs right now and wished the rapper good luck in his future. If Fetty wasn’t building a name for himself enough before, this appearance and Kanye co-sign will definitely help. Check out the video for ‘Trap Queen’ below.
According to famous American deejay DJ Skee, and hints from Drake’s Instagram, Drake is dropping a brand new mixtape for fans tonight. After dropping his new short film “Jungle” earlier today, it really seems like Drizzy season is here. Check out the evidence below!
The Early Registration 