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Review: Taylor Swift Lights Up Chicago’s Soldier Field with Memorable Performance

BY DAN GARCIA

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

Taylor Swift’s marquee and household name is the reason she sold-out back-to-back nights at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the biggest venue in Chicago. Talented opening acts, amazing costumes, beautiful light shows, pyrotechnics, and surprise guests aside, the 1989 World Tour is successful (from a numbers standpoint) because of who T-Swift is as a pop star. But all that extra stuff, the things that make her concerts memorable and well after the tickets are long gone, those are the things that make her live performance special, which ensure that those same fans that went through the gates tonight are the ones that will sit on their computer while they await for the next tour’s tickets to go on-sale. The only problem? As word-of-mouth spreads and fans who are ready to see Taylor for their second, third, or fourth time are joined by those who heard of Swift’s epic performances from a friend and want to see first hand, there won’t be enough room and Soldier Field may need to prepare to book a third night for the next time Swift comes to the Windy City. Having just experienced my first Taylor Swift concert, I am certain that it won’t be my last, as the ‘Bad Blood’ singer puts on a tour that matches her massive record sales, wide influence, and her elite status as a modern pop icon.

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Taylor Swift Joined by Sam Hunt as Chicago’s Day 2 “1989 Tour” Surprise Guest

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Taylor Swift & Sam Hunt
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Last night Taylor Swift and her 1989 World Tour delivered for the Windy City, as T-Swift performed for Chicago well into the night, and with surprise guests Andy Grammer and Serayah. This just adds to the long catalog of surprise guests in the past couple weeks. So far, Taylor invited Nick Jonas, the U.S. Women’s Soccer team, The Weeknd, Jason Derulo and Lorde to join her on stage for the sold-out crowds and to perform some of their biggest hits. Tonight marked Taylor Swift’s second and final night at Chicago’s Soldier Field, and because of the great cast of surprise guests in the last week, fans could only wonder what Day 2 would hold?

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Rapper Future Announces Free “Salute The Fans” Tour

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

Future is giving back to his fans for their support of his new Dirty Sprite 2 album. Hitting stops in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles from July 20-23th, the ‘F*ck Up Some Commas’ rapper will be performing for free on his mini-tour! Details of the “Salute The Fans” shows will be announced on the morning of. If he is coming to your city, you will not want to miss out. And make sure you get to the venues early, because they all surely will reach capacity.

Check out the tour dates below!

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Taylor Swift Joined by Surprise Guests Andy Grammer & Serayah for Chicago’s 1989 Tour Stop

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Andy Grammer
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Taylor Swift has been killing it during her current U.S. leg of her 1989 World Tour. Last weekend Taylor brought the tour back to the States and she invited Nick Jonas, the U.S. Women’s Soccer team and The Weeknd (who performed his hit single ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’) to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. Next up were surprise appearances from Jason Derulo and Swift’s bestie, singer Lorde, who flew in to say hi to fans in our nation’s capital. Tonight marked Taylor Swift’s first night (of two) at Chicago’s Soldier Field. With a great cast of surprise guests in the last week, fans could only speculate what Taylor had up her sleeve for Chicago, one of the country’s best music hubs.

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Chance The Rapper & Lil B Announce Joint Album

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

Thank You Based God! Lil B The Based God is currently in Chicago for a private concert that took place last night with OVO’s iLoveMakonnen, and during his stay he paid a visit to Chicago’s own, Chance The Rapper. With this meet up came great news, as Chance and Lil B both announced that they made an album together, that Lil B describes as a “based freestyle album.” No word on when the album will be released (let’s just hope that it does get released), but it will be cool to see how the two work together, while taking on Lil B’s unique rap flow.

Check out Lil B and Chance’s tweets below and stay tuned for more information!

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Tornado Watch and Bad Weather Prompts Evacuation at Pitchfork Music Festival

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

Chicago doesn’t only get its fair share of wind, but it can get quite a bit of rain as well. Fans of the Pitchfork Music Festival learned so first hand as stormy weather and a Chicago-area Tornado Watch prompted an evacuation of the festival, leaving fans of affected performers like Vince Staples (whose performance was cancelled) and Ariel Pink (whose performance was almost rained out) very disappointed at mother nature. Luckily as of 4:20 P.M., fans were allowed back into the festival grounds. Let’s hope that no more evacuations or cancellations are left to come, although Chicago is still under a tornado watch until 10:00 P.M.

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Watch Post Malone’s New Music Video for “White Iverson”

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Post Malone has reached the early stages of blowing up in the rap world, ever since the overnight success of his ‘White Iverson’ record. And now track finally has a video to go with it, as the Los Angeles rapper/singer has released a music video where Malone hoops in the desert and kicks it by his Rolls Royce. This is just one of the many Post Malone videos that are sure to come as his notoriety in the rap game stays on an incline.

Watch Post Malone’s ‘White Iverson’ video below.

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New Music: Siren x Chris Siegel – “Trap Queen” (Re-Fix)

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Chicago’s little brother of the north, Milwaukee, is experiencing a wave of new emerging artists right now. As rappers WebsterX and Lex Allen lead the way, other Milwaukee artists are close behind. Collaborating for a cover of the popular Fetty Wap single, singer Siren and producer Chris Siegel (one half of kiings), have combined talents for a new re-fix of ‘Trap Queen’.

Stream Siren and Chris Siegel’s ‘Trap Queen Re-Fix’ below.

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Giveaway: Win a Pair of 3-Day Passes to the North Coast Music Festival

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North Coast Giveaway

We aren’t only giving away a pair of festival passes to Summer Set, as we are also giving away a pair of 3-Day GA passes to see D’Angelo, Widespread Panic, Wale, Chromeo, Steve Aoki, The Roots and many more at Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival! This year North Coast, the “Summer’s Last Stand”, will take place from September 4th through the 6th at the Windy City’s Union Park (1501 W. Randolph). North Coast is also happy to announce that they will bring back their Silent Disco tent this year, which will feature a double DJ booth with two separate channels of music on every headphone, so fans will be able to switch between each DJ.

Winning is easy, enter at the link below and by following The Early Registration and North Coast on social media, and by sharing the contest with your friends, you gain entries that increase your chances of winning! Contest ends August 20th.

But why leave things to chance? Buy passes for North Coast 2015 here and check out the daily lineup below. Also be sure to enter our giveaway for a pair of 3-Day Passes to Summer Set!

ENTER HERE!

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New Music: Zuse & Post Malone – “On God”

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Today has definitely been a great day for new music! To add on to Vic Mensa x Skrillex’s new collaboration that dropped today, Atlanta’s Zuse and ‘White Iverson’ singer Post Malone have collaborated for their new track ‘On God’. The track, which is produced by Post Malone, FKI and Rex Rudo, is for Zuse’s forthcoming mixtape, which fans can look out for late this summer.

Stream ‘On God’ below.

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