Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival is celebrating its 13th year of bringing great live music to Chicago, and earlier this morning the festival shared the first wave of its 2018 lineup.
Performing at this year’s Pitchfork, on July 20-22nd at Union Park, will be names like Tame Impala, DRAM, Kelela, Japandroids, (Sandy) Alex G and more. And if you’re still on the fence, don’t waste any time because the full lineup will be revealed in three parts over the next few weeks, with a hand-painted mural in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.
Check out the first wave of artists for Pitchfork 2018 below, and get your passes for the festival here!
Friday, July 20
Tame Impala
Julien Baker
Lucy Dacus
Melkbelly
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Saturday, July 21
Raphael Saadiq
This Is Not This Heat
Kelela
Sunday, July 22
DRAM
Kelly Lee Owens
Irreversible Entanglements
(Sandy) Alex G
Japandroids
Ravyn Lenae
Rapper Big Sean shared a bittersweet announcement for fans this evening. While fans can get excited that Big Sean is currently in a deep creative space, while he works on new music in the studio, as a result the GOOD Music artist has postponed his forthcoming “Unfriendly Reminder” tour.
The tour, with Playboi Carti and more, was originally set to kick off in April, with a number of dates throughout North America through June. We will keep fans posted if Big Sean announces new dates.
Check out Big Sean’s official announcement via Twitter below.
After a number of country artists were announced for Milwaukee’s Summerfest this year, Wisconsin’s rap and hip-hop fans were wondering when it was their turn. And fans were rewarded for their patience today, as Summerfest announced that J. Cole will perform this year.
Headlining the America Family Insurance Amphitheatre on July 3rd, J. Cole is the festival’s first rap headliner this year and the second rapper currently billed (with Logic as the first). More rap and hip-hop acts will surely come though, as Summerfest will reveal its ground stage headliners in the next couple months.
Tickets for the performance will go on sale this Saturday, March 3rd (12:00 PM), and can be purhcased online via www.Ticketmaster.com.
Get ready for the performance and watch J. Cole’s music video for ‘Apparently’ below.
Country music’s rising star, Kelsea Ballerini, gave a very special visit to the Riverside Theater tonight for her headlining Unapologetically Tour, named after her 2017 sophomore album of the same name. Marking the 24-year-old singer’s first performance in Milwaukee, Ballerini gave fans plenty of reasons to fill up the beautiful venue for a rare general admission show, which allowed for an especially intimate performance.
If you’re not familiar with Kelsea Ballerini, you either don’t follow country music or you recently woke up from a 4-year coma. One of the Grammy’s 2017 Best New Artist nominees, Kelsea Ballerini has hit the ground running ever since the release of her single ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’, and rightfully so, fans across the country have loved her sound ever since.
Similar to her fellow Best New Artist nominee, Maren Morris, Ballerini delivers an infectious sound and style that casts a huge net, winning over country music fans and pop fans alike. And as a result, Ballerini is drawing early comparisons to Taylor Swift, praise which is both fitting and deserving.
But Kelsea Ballerini isn’t anyone else but Kelsea Ballerini, and she is unapologetic about that on her new album. Performing the 2017 LP from start to finish, track one to track twelve, ‘Graveyard’ to ‘Legends’, Ballerini takes a risk on her new tour by performing her Unapologetically album in it’s entirety.
For the first hour of the performance, fans from the floor to the balcony sang along throughout the entire album. But if you also came out to hear some of Ballerini’s biggest tracks from her earlier work, records like ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Dibs’, you left the night happy because Kelsea put the cherry on top of a great night with a memorable 4-song encore.
And what better way to complete the performance, than with her mega-hit single, ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’? Tonight may have been Kelsea Ballerini’s first performance in Milwaukee, but with the way her performance and energy was received tonight by the Wisconsin crowd, she will surely return.
Check out our photos from tonight’s performance below and get your tickets for the remaining dates of the tour here.
Following his show-stopping performance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest last June, the entertaining, uber-talented and cake throwing Steve Aoki returned to Wisconsin and brought his Kolony Tour to The Rave in Milwaukee, WI.
Joined by a huge cast of EMD acts, including Grandtheft, Deorro and Bad Royale, and GOOD Music‘s Desiigner, Steve Aoki brought the party to Milwaukee on a cold Wednesday night.
Soon after doors opened, the music started as the EDM openers, complete with Aoki’s friends and collaborators, got the crowd moving from the very beginning. Energy levels really turned up though, as the ‘Panda’ MC, Desiigner, hit the stage. Performing a number of records from his debut project, New English, the Kanye West-signed rapper brought his wild stage presence to the opening set.
After a brief set change, it was time for Steve Aoki to greet his Wisconsin fans. From start to finish Aoki performed some of his best tracks and remixes, and most importantly he took control of the night, ensuring that every fan left sweaty, out of energy, without their voice and some covered in cake.
Since his memorable Summerfest performance, less than a year ago, Aoki has showed his new found love for Milwaukee on social media a number of times. That love was more than apparent tonight, and you can surely bet that after his past two crazy performances, Milwaukee will be a staple in Steve Aoki tours in the future.
Check out our photos from tonight’s performance below and get your tickets for the remaining dates of the tour here, where $1 of every ticket sold goes to the Aoki Foundation, which supports brain science research.
Thom Yorke and company may be coming to a city near you this upcoming summer, as Radiohead has announced their headlining North American tour.
Opening the summer tour at Chicago’s historic United Center, Radiohead is scheduled to make stops in Boston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto and three nights at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, before the tour concludes on August 1st in Philadelphia.
Tickets for Radiohead’s tour will go on sale this week, February 23rd, and they will surely go fast so don’t waste any time. Visit the band’s official website for more information.
Check out the full list of dates and locations below.
Get ready because Post Malone and 21 Savage are hitting the road this summer for a huge North American tour. Kicking things off on April 26th at Portland, OR’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Postey and 1 will make stops in Chicago, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Austin and many more, until things conclude on June 24th in San Francisco.
Tickets for the general public will go on sale Friday, February 23rd (10AM local time) at LiveNation.com. Citi Cardmembers will also have access to an exclusive presale beginning today (2/20) at 2PM until Thursday (2/22), through Citi’s Private Pass program.
And if a great show wasn’t enough reason to attend, every pair of online tickets purchased will come with (1) physical copy of Post Malone’s upcoming LP, Beerbongs & Bentleys.
Check out the full list of dates and locations below.
Although he didn’t go to the extent of renting out a blimp like 2 Chainz, YG also announced his next album this year. Titled ‘Stay Dangerous’, and led by his new hit single ‘Suu Whoop’ YG’s next LP is on the way.
‘Stay Dangerous’ isn’t the only thing YG fans have to look forward too, as the California rapper has also teased a new mixtape with DJ Mustard. Fans can expect to hear ‘Stay Dangerous’ later this year.
While Wisconsin’s own, Bon Iver, was performing his critically acclaimed but very chill and mellow album, For Emma, Ten Year, music fans in Milwaukee who were really looking to rock out went to The Rave’s Eagles Ballroom for a wild and energetic performance from Corey Taylor’s Stone Sour.
Although without guitarist Josh Rand, who is recently entered treatment for an unspecified issue, the heavy metal Iowa natives put on a hell of a show for their Midwest crowd.
Opening with their 2017 track, ‘Taipei Person / Allah Tea’, from their newest LP, Hydrograd, the crowd erupted as Taylor greeted his Milwaukee fans. Not even half way through the track, Corey Taylor was already head banging at 100 MPH to the music as the pyrotechnics blasted from stage left to stage right. This set the tone for the rest of the night, as the “Slipknot” founder and his band kept the energy levels high until 11:30.
Despite a relatively short setlist of about 13-songs, fans were still treated to a roughly 90-minute set, complete with songs from the new album and Stone Sour’s catalog of hits, including ‘Tired’, ‘Say You’ll Haunt Me’, ‘Through Glass’ and more. While fans would have loved to hear a performance of the band’s 2002 single, ‘Bother’, it’s impossible to imagine any fan leaving the venue with their voice.
And to cap off the memorable evening, Taylor ended the performance with a great performance of their Hydrograd track, ‘Fabuless’, the first single from the album. From start to finish, Stone Sour put on a sweet set that Milwaukee will not soon forget. It’s hard to imagine that the Bon Iver fans a mile away had the kind of night that those at The Rave had.
Check out our photos from tonight’s performance below and get your tickets for the remaining dates of Stone Sour’s headlining tour here.
Rapper 2 Chainz answered a lot of questions for fans at NBA’s All Star Weekend in Los Angeles, as the Grammy Award winning artist revealed that the mysterious “RAP OR GO TO THE LEAGUE” blimp was in fact the titled of his forthcoming album on Def Jam Records.
From a pink trap house in Atlanta (in promotion of his Pretty Girls Like Trap Music LP) to his All Star Weekend blimp, 2 Chainz is showing fans that not only is he the best rapper for a feature, but he is also a marketing genius.
Peep a shot of 2 Chainz and his album blimp below.
The Early Registration 