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Photos: Nick Jonas and Bebe Rexha Perform at the House of Blues in Chicago

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Last night, singer Nick Jonas performed for a packed crowd at the legendary House of Blues in Chicago, IL. With his special guest, singer/songwriter Bebe Rexha, the two certainly delivered a performance that their Chicago fans will remember for quite some time.

The night started as Rexha hit the stage, and despite being second billing on the tour, Bebe embraced her role of warming the crowd up for Nick Jonas. However, despite her emerging status, you could still hear a large number of her fans singing along in the crowd. Kicking off her career as a songwriter, and getting her first big check when she wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s hit single ‘The Monster’, Bebe performed a great mix of some of her single records with a number of other artists’ songs that Rexha has contributed to in the past few years. The highlight of her set came as she closed with an energetic performance of her big single, ‘I Can’t Stop Drinking About You’.

Soon after Rexha said goodbye to the Chicago crowd, Nick Jonas was ready to greet his Windy City fans. The lights were dim as Nick’s two lead female guitarists gave a killer introduction as Nick emerged. Opening with his record ‘Chains’, the second half of the night couldn’t have started off better. While Nick’s solo career is still relatively new, and with many still associate him with his brothers, it wasn’t long into his set that you realize his solo career has already well surpassed his work with the Jonas Brothers. Nick performed radio hit-after-hit, with a lot of his B-side tracks throughout and a beautiful acoustic performance of ‘A Little Bit Longer’, until he capped the night with an encore performance of ‘Jealous’.

Check out our photos and the official set list below and be sure to check out if Nick and Bebe are coming to a city near you.

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Stream Mac Miller’s New Album, “GO:OD AM”

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Rapper Mac Miller’s new album, GO:OD AM, doesn’t release for another four days, but no need to get anxious because you can stream the full LP now, with NPR First Listen. This marks Mac’s 3rd studio album, and his first since his 2013 Watching Movies with the Sound Off. And if you think this is the best one yet, you need to make sure to catch Mac Miller on tour this fall as he supports his new album with his huge “GO:OD AM Tour” with Tory Lanez, Goldlink, Domo Genesis, Earthgang, Michael Christmas, and Alexander Spit. You can get your tickets here and check the dates below.

Listen to Mac’s new album here, and if you like it, give it a pre-order on iTunes before it officially drops on September 18th.

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Riot Fest (Chicago) Day 3 in Photos: Taking Back Sunday, New Politics, Jazz Cartier & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Yesterday capped off another successful year of Lollapalooza’s evil step-brother, Chicago’s Riot Fest. With headlining performances from Modest Mouse and Snoop Dogg and some great sets from New Politics, Kongos, Jazz Cartier and more, fans definitely got their money’s worth. And if all of the above wasn’t enough, Taking Back Sunday even treated fans to a surprise performance mid-day, at one of the festival’s smallest stages.

Check out our photos below, of what Day 3 of Riot Fest (Chicago) had to offer in 2015.

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Riot Fest (Chicago) Day 1 in Photos: Post Malone, Heems, Alex Wiley

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Today marked the first day of Lollapalooza’s evil step-brother, Riot Fest. Today Chicago’s biggest rock fans saw performances across a number of different genres, with some great sets from Heems (formerly of Das Racist), Alex Wiley, Ice Cube, No Doubt, Post Malone, Atreyu and many more. We made sure to catch some of our favorite rap artists and before we left for the night, we even caught a bit of Ice Cube and No Doubt’s huge headlining performances.

Check out our photos below, of what Day 1 of Riot Fest (Chicago) had to offer in 2015, and make sure not to miss tomorrow’s artists.

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Lana Del Rey To Host Listening Parties of “Honeymoon” at All Urban Outfitters

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Lana Del Rey’s forthcoming LP Honeymoon, the anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed album  Ultraviolence, is exactly one week away.  But if a week seems too long, and we agree that it does, then don’t worry. Starting tomorrow (September 12), fans can head to any Urban Outfitters for an exclusive first listening of the entire album. The events will start at 3PM local time, and anyone who preorders Honeymoon during these listening parties will get a free Lana Del Rey lithograph. Fans can follow along on social media via the hashtag #LANAxUO.

Find your closest Urban Outfitters here and listen to Lana Del Rey’s latest Honeymoon single, ‘Music To Watch Boys To’ below.

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Check Out Raury’s New Video “Friends” and Our Behind the Scenes Photos

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Raury’s debut album, All We Need, is less than a month away and today we have the closing track off the upcoming LP, ‘Friends’ ft. Tom Morello. And to promote the new record, Raury has also released its official music video, which documents Raury during his recent roadtrip from Atlanta to Chicago. During his summer roadtrip the Indigo Child rapper/singer traveled to the Windy City to invite his fans to play an impromptu game of kickball. Showing up for the game was rapper Taylor Bennett, Pat The Manager (Chance the Rapper’s manager) and some of Raury’s biggest fans. And we were there to catch some behind the scene photos.

Watch Raury’s video for ‘Friends’ below and check out our exclusive behind the scenes photos by our photographer Dan Garcia.

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Raury Anounces Debut Album, Tracklist & Release Date, “All We Need”

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

If you heard Raury’s debut project/mixtape Indigo Child, you probably told yourself that all we need is more music from this kid from Atlanta. Raury almost blew up overnight and out of nowhere in the rap world, even leading many to accuse the ‘God’s Whisper’ singer as being an “industry plant”, something that Raury has even joked about. But if you have been waiting to hear more from Raury, you won’t be waiting long, as he has announced his debut album, All We Need. With features from Big K.R.I.T., Key!, RZA and more, we can’t wait for this to hit iTunes on October 16th.

Check out the official album artwork and tracklist for All We Need below.

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Ryn Weaver Announces North American Fall Tour

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

‘Octahate’ singer Ryn Weaver has just announced her big headlining tour to support her debut album The Fool, with indie pop duo HOLYCHILD and ASTR. Kicking off the tour in Vancouver, Ryn will hit a number of stop throughout North America (LA, Chicago, NY and more) this fall, until the tour ends in our nation’s capital on November 23rd. This summer Ryn introduced herself to a lot of new fans as she performed at some huge music festivals throughout the country and now fans can catch her at her own headlining show. Tickets go on sale this Friday (9/11) and you can go to rynweaver.com for more details.

Check out the tour dates below to see if Ryn will be in a city near you this fall.

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Outkast’s Big Boi and Phantogram Form New Group, “Big Grams”, Self-Titled EP This Month

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Looks like Big Boi has moved on from trying to reunite Outkast for another album…for now at least. The Grammy winning rapper and genre-blending duo, Phantogram, have combined forces to form their new group, “Big Grams”. And don’t think that you will have to wait too long to hear some music from the new trio, as they will be releasing their self-titled debut in less than a month, September 25th via Epic Records. 

Pre-orders for Big Grams start tomorrow (9/10) and you won’t want to miss at they pay a visit to Beats 1 tomorrow at 12:40 PM EST as Zane Lowe premiere’s their first track, ‘Fell In the Sun’. Also appearing on their forthcoming 7-track project will be Skrillex, on their record ‘Drum Machine’ and Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P) on ‘Born To Shine’. Coming out of virtually nowhere, this is already one of our most anticipated projects of the year.

 

WGCI Big Jam Lineup Revealed: Kendrick Lamar, Future, Vic Mensa & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

The WGCI Big Jam is coming back this year and the lineup could not be any better! Last year we covered the 2014 Big Jam at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom with performances by Juicy J, Rae Sremmurd, Migos and more. This year your favorite Chicago radio station is stepping things up by hosting the jam at the United Center, and with performances by Kendrick Lamar, Future, Meek Mill, Fetty Wap, Vic Mensa, Twista with Do or Die, and more! The Big Jam will take place on October 25th this year and you can pre-order your Big Jam tickets now!

Check out the full lineup below!

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