These are the highlights of this past week in music! Well actually… the past two weeks in music since we missed last week while were out of the office for Coachell! So with two weeks of music, this week’s installment is definitely stacked. Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings, and to stay up-to-date on today’s music.
This week we have new music from Vic Mensa and Kanye West, the return of Mike Posner, Run The Jewels and more. Get started at the jump below to check out our favorite records of the past week.
The Mad Decent Block Party has announced its 2015 lineup of artists and its stacked! Music’s biggest block party kicks off July 31st in Atlanta and hits stops in New York, Los Angeles, Canada and more until its final stop in Chicago on September 26th. Mad Decent‘s 2015 artists include Jack U (Diplo and Skrillex), Major Lazer, Tyler the Creator, Vic Mensa, Towkio, Cashmere Cat, T-Pain, Zeds Dead, iLoveMakonnen and many more! You can get your tickets and check out market specific lineups at MadDecentBlockParty.com.
Check out the 2015 Mad Decent Block Party lineup and dates/locations below!
Wow! What an opening day for Coachella 2015, and The Early Registration teamed up with Pigeons & Planes to catch all the best moments. Kicking off the iconic music festival this year, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival saw amazing performances from Vic Mensa, Lil B, Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, Action Bronson, AC/DC, Tame Impala, Lykke Li and many more! And how are this year’s art installments? They even top last year’s, as the Indio festival spent more money on art in 2015 than ever before.
Earlier this year, Vic Mensa performed his track ‘U Mad’ (which he first performed at The Metro in Chicago in 2014) alongside Kanye West. While it was speculated for awhile whether Kanye actually appears on this song, we now have confirmation that Kanye indeed has a verse on the track. Last night Vic played the track (with Kanye’s verse and all) at his producer Smoko Ono’s 22nd birthday party in Chicago. Smoko Ono produced the track with Stefan Ponce. The song is fire!
Check out a fan recording of Vic playing the song below. Sources suggest the song may drop today. Get excited!
During his surprise show at KOKO in London, Kanye West brought out Vic Mensa to perform a brand new unreleased track, potentially titled ‘U Mad’. The new track, as suggested by Vic’s manager, may also feature Kanye West and Big Sean, and is produced by Chicago’s Stefan Ponce (‘3005’, ‘Down On My Luck’), Smoko Ono & D. Phelps. It may just be that Sean and Kanye joined Vic for the performance and are not actually featured on the song. Vic originally debuted the track, when he performed it solo at The Metro in Chicago, and since then it appears as Ye and Sean may have hopped on too. Check out a few videos below of Mensa and Kanye performing the unreleased track, just hours ago in London.
In less than a couple week’s, DJ Oreo (DJ for Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa) is bringing his energetic festival to Reggies Rock Club in Chicago on Saturday March 14th (10pm-2am). And now today we have the line-up as Oreo Fest is set to feature performances by Lil Herb, Katie Got Bandz, Leather Corduroys, Alex Wiley, Cago Leek, Z-Money, Ego, Bandman Kevo and many more special guests! This is a 17+ event, but if you’re of age you definitely won’t want to miss out. Check out a promotional video below and get your tickets now at Oreo’s website before they sell out. The presale special is over but tickets range from just $15 to $40 (for express entry and premium viewing)!
Kanye West and Mike Dean (Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration)
Here at The Early Registration we like to pride ourselves on our music knowledge. To stay polished on our musical expertise, our new feature is a little game of musical “6 Degrees”. For those who are unfamiliar, six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone in the world is connected by six or fewer steps, so we are now taking the liberty of connecting musicians whom you would never think could be connected, in exactly six steps. This week our 6˚ piece is dedicated to Kanye West’s new banger ‘All Day‘ and the vast team of nearly 20 artists and writers behind the track, which include Kendrick Lamar, French Montana, Vic Mensa and more. To keep things interesting we challenged ourself to connect one of its more random co-writers, rapper French Montana, to Allan Kingdom, the young Minnesota rapper featured on the track. The twist is can we do this using only other writers/artists credited on ‘All Day’? Find out below!
We have yet to hear a high quality leak of the track since Kanye West debuted his ‘All Day’ record at the BRIT Awards. However Ye did give the green light to fellow ‘Wolves’ rapper/singer Vic Mensa, to play the track at a recent DJ set of Mensa’s. Listening to the audio of the track gets us even more hyped. Stay tuned for more news on Kanye’s forthcoming So Help Me God album, which should be coming soon, and watch Vic spinning ‘All Day’ below.
The best and brightest of this past week in music, as well as a throwback track! Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings. This week we have new music from Gucci Mane & Lil B, Vic Mensa, and Big Sean. Continue reading Songs of the Week ft. Gucci Mane, Big Sean, Vic Mensa and More!→
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