Kicking off the first weekend of Summerfest 2017, for its big 50th anniversary, Day 3 of the Milwaukee festival saw performances from a diverse selection of music. From emerging names in music like Barns Courtney and Jon Bellion, to legends like House of Pain, Summerfest had something for everyone last night, and fans did not leave disappointed.
Check out our Summerfest Day 3 photos below of Jon Bellion, House of Pain, Barns Courtney and more!
Bucky The Badger joins House of Pain for a very special Summerfest performance of “Jump Around” (Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration)
If you’re from the state of Wisconsin or a student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then as far as you’re concerned, Summerfest just topped all other music festivals when it comes to surprise guest appearances.
Joining the legendary hip-hop group, House of Pain, for their headlining set at the BMO Harris Pavilion was none other than Bucky The Badger. The UW mascot joined the Los Angeles natives on stage for their hit song, ‘Jump Around’, a track that has been embraced by the University of Wisconsin ever since the school’s memorable 31-24 victory over Drew Brees and the Purdue Boilermakers on October 10, 1998.
Ever since that day, ‘Jump Around’ was a staple for Badger football games and the campus as a whole. House of Pain has played an indirect role in a number of comeback Badger victories in the past two decades, so it was only right that Bucky join the group on stage to show them how Wisconsin likes to party.
Check out more photos from Bucky’s special guest appearance below.
Day 2 of Summerfest’s big 50th Anniversary couldn’t have gone better, and music fans in Milwaukee literally got the most bang for their buck, as the festival’s Big Bang fireworks was rescheduled for Thursday after a harsh storm in the area on Wednesday caused the Big Bang’s delay. Unlike other premiere music festivals throughout the country, Summerfest brings an especially diverse list of performers to Milwaukee’s lakefront every year. So to kick things off for The Early Registration’s third straight year at Summerfest, we had to catch a wide variety of acts on day two!
Check out our Summerfest Day 2 photos below of EDM’s Steve Aiko, Milwaukee’s own GGOOLLDD, ’90s pop icons Hanson and more!
Toro y Moi (Chaz Bundick) is back at it in 2017, this time with the release of his new track and official music video for ‘You and I’. With visuals directed by Harry Israelson, the new single is an emotional highlight from Toro y Moi’s forthcoming LP, Boo Boo.
Chaz’s new album is currently scheduled for a July 7th release via “Carpark Records”, and will not only feature ‘You and I’, but also ‘Girl Like You’ which was released earlier this year.
Watch Toro y Moi’s music video for ‘You and I’ below.
For its 8th straight year, Drake’s annual OVO Fest is returning to his hometown of Toronto. Taking place on August 7th at the Budweiser Stage, the OVO Fest will see some memorable performances from the label’s PartyNextDoor, DVSN, Majid Jordan, Roy Woods and of course Drizzy himself.
And if history has taught us anything about the OVOFest, you can expect some amazing surprises and a great night of music. Tickets for the festival go on sale, at LiveNation.com, today!
Peep the lineup poster for the 8th annual OVO Fest below.
Surrounding their various festival performances around the country, the Haim sisters have announced a number of headlining North American tour dates.
Adding shows in Chicago, Denver, Santa Barbara and more, fans will have a number of opportunities to catch Haim on the road this fall. Tickets for the upcoming tour dates will go on sale to the general public on June 30th, a week before the release of Haim’s second studio album, Something to Tell You.
To no one’s surprise Kendrick Lamar has dropped another amazing music video, this time for his DAMN. track, ‘ELEMENT.’. Following his visuals for ‘HUMBLE.’ and ‘DNA.’, which featured actor Don Cheadle, Kung Fu Kenny again has displayed some power images in his videos.
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth studio album, DAMN., is available now everywhere, and is poised to be one of the best rap releases of the year and likely a Grammy Rap Album of the Year contender.
Watch Kendrick Lamar’s music video for ‘ELEMENT’ below.
Singers Gallant and Andra Day have teamed up to record a beautiful cover of Smokey Robinson’s classic 1979 track, ‘Cruisin’. As part of his “In The Room” series, which has also featured Sufjan Stevens, Jack Garratt and Seal, Day and Gallant make for a beautiful pairing.
Currently on his U.S. tour, supporting the talented John Legend, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriting is definitely an artist to watch, this year and next. Gallant’s cover with Day is just another showcase of his remarkable vocals.
Listen to Andra Day and Gallant’s cover of ‘Cruisin’ below.
Despite saying that Kanye West, “lost all credibility when he became a Kardashian”, Azealia Banks took to Instagram on Sunday to apologize and give praise to Mr. West. In her message to Kanye, Banks wrote “despite whatever jokes or rude things I’ve said about (Kanye) in the past, I think about this man for AT LEAST an hour EVERY SINGLE DAY.”
Banks continued to say, “you’ve inspired so many of us and after getting past my own stupid ass grudge I was holding against you, I reaaaallllly hope and pray you get to get out all ofyour dreams because you’ve been one of, if not, the main reason I felt confident in exploring all sorts of music genres.” Showing a lot of humility in her words, Banks’ tribute is a huge departure from telling Kanye “I don’t even look up to (Kanye) anymore. I look past him,” just last year.
Read what Azealia Banks had to say about Kanye West below.
Things got very uncomfortable at the BET Awards when the Migos paid a visit to Complex News‘ “Everyday Struggle” cast yesterday.
After Joe Budden interrupted his co-host, DJ Akademiks, to say that they needed to wrap up the interview, the ‘Pump It Up’ rapper was apparently fed up with Akademiks giving praise to the Migos, who called the ATL trio, “one of (his) favorite groups.”
At that point, the one-hit-wonder shook his head, got up and left. To no surprise, Migos didn’t take kindly to the disrespect and got up to confront Joe Budden. As tensions began to rise, things were eventually broken up. This is already the second time this month that the Everyday Struggle cast struggled to keep their guests cool. Days ago, Vic Mensa and DJ Akademiks had a heated discussion over Akademik’s disrespect to Chicago and the city’s violence.
Watch things get tense between Joe Budden and the Migos below.
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