Pursuit of Dopeness

Chance and Macklemore just announced some pretty awesome on Twitter moments ago. They announced that Chance will be joining Macklemore and Ryan Lewis on the European leg of their world tour this fall. You can check out dates for the 20+ shows here. A good amount of the shows are already sold-out, so get your tickets quick if they will be in a city near you this fall.

We’re very happy to announce that @chancetherapper will be joining us on our Fall European tour!! macklemore.com/shows

— Macklemore (@macklemore) May 23, 2013

I’m coming to Europe! W/ MACKLEMORE!!!! RT RT macklemore.com/shows

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) May 23, 2013

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.  [...]

$pencer $ims has released the official flyer for the listening party for his forthcoming project, Almost On Time.  The listening event will take place at Jimmi Skouls Denim Lounge on June 1st.  Check out the flyer up above for more details.

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. [...]

On The Grind Management Presents:  We Are Hip Hop 2.

OTGM has put together another promising night of Chicago Hip Hop for Friday, May 17^th over at Double Door, headlined by POD favorite, ShowYouSuck. Also on the bill are theWHOevers, Que Billah, Cadillac Duke, Shayna Love, KiDD Tha Chicagoan, Caleb James, FM Supreme, Jay 2 ‘The KiDD Classic’ & more. This is certainly a show you won’t want to miss.

The show will begin at 8PM and is 21+. Buy tickets for the show HERE ($7 Advance / $10 Door).

We’re also giving out a pair (2) of tickets to one (1) lucky winner. Tag us in a post on Twitter and/or Facebook with #FreeDopeness to be entered in our lottery for your chance to win.

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/

The “Motor City,” Detroit, Michigan is bidding to host the next edition of the X Games and they’ve put out an excellent, epic video to help their efforts. The X Games Detroit bid team created this video as part of their campaign to bring the ESPN X Games to Detroit; as the producers of the video say “Detroit is where the X Games belong.” After seeing this, I’d be happy if the city that gave us Motown got some more life brought to their streets, especially by way of the famous “Xtreme” sports competition

See the campaign video above. Join the Movement: facebook.com/xgamesdetroit
@XGamesDetroit #XG2D

Hit the jump for the video credits. [...]

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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The good people over at RedBull and FakeShoreDrive are back with another installment of their Sound Select Series. You read the flyer above correctly only $5! Check out what they have in store below

“We’re bringing the 305 to the 312 as MMG/Def Jam artist, Gunplay, will be our Sound Select headliner. This is the first time Gunplay has ever performed in the City of Wind, so let’s give him a warm welcome, as he preps the release of his MMG/Def Jam debut, Living Legend. Also on the bill we have the Save Money Army, which will feature an all-star set from Caleb James, Kami de Chukwu, Joey Purp, Tokyo Shawn and Dally Auston. Trust this is something you won’t want to miss.”

“And rounding out the lineup is female emcee/songstress Tink, as well as rising emcees (and Heir Apparents) Lil Herb and Lil Bibby. Red Bull’s Sound Select program seeks to promote the best unsigned talent in markets across the country, and we feel like this is the perfect group of artists rep the Chi. Dave Jeff will be handling hosting duties, while DJ Oreo will be on the 1s and 2s all night long. – FakeShoreDrive“