After a couple dry months for live music in the city, the concert train is gaining speed in the Windy City this month before festival season sneaks up on music fans everywhere. With huge arena performances to come from Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Demi Lovato and more, and some awesome shows from G-Eazy and Vic Mensa, to name a few, March is bringing some of the biggest names in music to Chicago.
Check out our list of our 10 can’t miss concerts in Chicago this month!
Rhymesayers and Rose Present are bringing another year of great rap music to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, as Soundset revealed it’s 2018 festival lineup this morning.
Performing at the fairgrounds on Memorial Day Weekend will be some huge names, including Logic, Mogics, Tyler The Creator, Erykah Badu and the Wu-Tang Clan. Rhymesayer’s and Minnesota’s own, Atmosphere, as well as Russ, Jaden Smith, Ice-T, Brockhampton, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Young M.A. and many more are also booked to perform.
Fans can visit the festival’s official website for tickets and more information!
Logic made the most out of his time in Maui and Tokyo by filming a music video for a brand new track, ‘Overnight’. Released first through the track’s visuals, ‘Overnight’ is the second song released by Logic in the new year, and the follow up to his new track ’44 More’.
Although Logic received a ton of commercial success and critical praise for his 2017 single ‘1-800-273-8255’, Logic is reminding fans that he can still spit. Expect Logic to continue to come hard throughout the rest of the year.
A cappella superstars, Pentatonix, will hit the road this summer in support of a brand new album that the ground announced today.
Titled, PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I, the new LP will release on April 13th via RCA Records. According to an official statement, the album will feature “11 PTX-curated modern pop performances, including an arrangement of Camila Cabello’s ‘Havana’.
And while a new project is great news, there is nothing like seeing the Pentatonix bring their a cappella show live, so fans can get excited that the Pentatonix will also embark on a 39-date headlining tour. Kicking things off in Salt Lake City on July 12th, the ‘Can’t Sleep Love’ singers will make stops all over North America until the tour concludes on September 16th in Chicago.
Check out the Pentatonix’s tour dates below and check out their a cappella cover of Camila Cabello’s ‘Havana’.
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.
The Early Registration 