Pursuit of Dopeness

Chance The Rapper put on a great show last night at Columbia College’s Manifest event.  He went through many Acid Rap tracks including a few 10 Day tracks here and there.  Check out his performance of “Paranoia” and “Smoke Again” up above and more video’s after the jump.  [...]

TBS Just For Laughs Chicago presented by State Farm, America’s largest comedy festival, will break new boundaries by providing comedy fans around the country with an all-access pass to a digital comedy hub “@ Stage 773”. Throughout the festival – which takes place Tuesday, June 11 to Sunday, June 16 – performances “@ Stage 773”” will be presented across multiple platforms through such high-profile digital outlets as Team Coco, Dailymotion, Yahoo!, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, The Nerdist, Broadway Video’s Above Average, Instagram, Pandora, SiriusXM, Chill.com, Set List as well as the festival’s website: www.justforlaughschicago.com. A digital comedy hub “@ Stage 773” will play host to solo shows by some of the hottest names in comedy, plus breakthrough performances by emerging talent. In addition, Stage 773 will feature exclusive live presentations from today’s most popular podcasts, including You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, Doug Loves Movies, Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank, and The Team Coco Podcast. Comedy fans will be able to enjoy a selection of the performances online for free around the clock.

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Festival lineup announcements are being made seemingly every other week, and now it’s Riot Fest’s turn. The formal announcement will be made later tonight at 10PM CT, so stay tuned for that later. and highlights include Fall Out Boy and Blink 182.

I attended Riot Fest last year when the lineup included Rise Against, Coheed & Cambria, Gogol Bordello, the Offspring and Iggy & the Stooges plus others. If this year’s fest boasts a lineup that can compare to the last one, Riot Fest 2013 will surely be another great Chicago music festival.

The Festival running from September 13-15 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park will also have Motörhead, Rancid, AFI, Blondie, Public Enemy and Violent Femmes.

See the lineup below. [...]

Rock The Bells 2013‘s lineup has been revealed and it appears the 10th anniversary of the music fest is looking like it’ll be an awesome one. Rock The Bells X will feature artists like Big Krit, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Common, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt, Kid Cudi, Talib Kweli, Tyler, The Creator and the Wu-Tang Clan.

The oddest bit of news though is the inclusion of “original virtual performances” by legends Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E. This would be something cool to see…

The fest will be hitting San Bernardino (Sept. 7-8) and Mountain View (Sept. 14-15), CA, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 28-29), Rutherford, NJ (Oct. 4-5).

See the full lineup and the dates for when tickets will start going on sale here : http://www.rockthebells.net/

TBS Just For Laughs Chicago has announced the addition of Russell Brand, Pete Holmes, Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Posehn, Doug Benson, Todd Glass, Scott Adsit, Kevin Dorff, Jon Glaser, TJ & Dave, Horatio Sanz, Matt Walsh, Brad Morris and Joe Nunez to its 5^th anniversary festival line-up. America’s biggest comedy festival also announced the addition of a second Nick Swardson show at The Vic to accommodate tremendous demand, and director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) will make a special appearance to introduce an advance screening of his new movie The Heat at Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON on June 11.

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Walk The Moon announced a new fall tour earlier today via their facebook page and website.  The new tour will kick off of in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio on August 30th and end on October 31st in Madison, Wisconsion.  The tour will hit Chicago as Walk The Moon will be performing at Chipotle’s Cultivate Festival on September 7th.  I’ve never heard of the festival, but we will give you more details on that festival when they are released.  Check out the rest of the dates below.  Tickets go on sale on May 9th at walkthemoon.com. [...]

The lineup for Austin’s other major festival, Austin City Limits (ACL), has unveiled its 2013 lineup. Some of the bands/artists that are heading down to ATX for the 2 weekend festival (October 4-6 + 11-13) include Thom Yorke’s Atoms For Peace, Muse, Kings Of Leon, Phoenix, Passion Pit, D’Angelo, Vampire Weekend, Wilco, Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar and 80′s staples like Depeche Mode, The Cure and Lionel Richie. [...]

The first wave of artists that will be performing at this years North Coast Music Festival have been announced. It is a very strong group with hip hop being represented very well. Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Mac Miller, Just Blaze, Afrojack, Aloe Blacc and many more artists will be making the trip to Chicago on Labor Day Weekend (8/30-9/1). 3-day passes are available on Club Tix now. We’ll keep you updated when the next wave of artists are announced.

Sources: Do312 & Club Tix

The 2013 Mad Decent Block Party lineup has been announced… The 13 city block party will host Major Lazer, Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus, Danny Brown, Riff Raff, Baauer, Diplo, Matt & Kim, Rockie Fresh, Nadastrom, DJ Sega, Dirty South Joe, Swizzymack and Jahan Lennon, among others. [...]

As if there weren’t enough reasons around that make summer in Chicago awesome, our local Alternative Rock (is that still technically the term/genre?) radio station Q87.7, has announced the launch of its first PIQNIQ festival. The new festival will take place at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre on June 29.

What may be the most important part about this announcement is that the fest’s headliners will be the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who are making their only appearance in Chicago(land). Some of the other bands that will be heading over to Tinley are Bush, AWOLNATION, Silversun Pickups, Cold War Kids, and Atlas Genius among others.

Get your tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Q87-Piqniq-tickets/artist/1860107

(Time Out Chicago)