[Video] Red Bull Sound Select Sounds of the City: ShowYouSuck
Red Bull took Chicago hip hop artist ShowYouSuck to one of his favorite venues, Reggie's Rock House in the South Loop, his backyard and Code of Conduct tattoo parlor in his hometown as part of their "Sounds of the City" series. "At Reggie's Rock Club I reached greatness," says Show in the intro, "it's the location for a lot of benchmarks in my career: first sold out show and it has the best buffalo chicken sandwich I've ever had in my life, hands down." Red Bull takes ShowYouSuck back to hang out, eat a chicken sandwich and shoot a video for his song, "Big Gulp" off One Man Pizza Party 3: Rest In Pizza. The video comes on the heels of his visual release for "Girls, Nachos" last week and is another good look for the Treated Crew/LOD member.
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Apple Announces iPhone 5S, 5C
Legions of the tech-savvy flocked to Cupertino, California today like Dorothy and friends traveling the Yellow Brick road to Oz to find out what CEO Tim Cook and the team had up their his sleeve this time. With murmurs of 5S and 5C, not much was due to change, but folks showed up and logged on in droves to get the news of the latest products to don the iconic bitten apples logo. With all the rumors of a lower-end plastic version and even a fully gold-encased version, the announcements were a bit closer to the chest, tinkerings with earlier versions and a reason to have a bunch of people over for a show.
Highlights from the announcements included talks of the latest operating system, IOS 7, which Craig Federigh, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering said would "quickly become the world's most popular operating system" and included a new home and lock screen as well as a swipe feature from the bottom of the phone that brings up a new control center. Siri got a male voice upgrade and ability to do Wikipedia searches. Playing on the Instagram craze, the camera will feature built-in features and new ways to group your pictures by year/location. As one of the nearly 200 new features in IOS 7 has to be iTunes Radio, which premieres on the new operating system available for free September 18 that Federigh described as "getting a whole new device."
[Album] The Bloody Beetroots: "Hide"
Sir Cornelius Bob Rifo, better known by his stage name: The Bloody Beetroots, is easily one of the most refreshing acts in electronic dance music today. The Italian artist is intent on bringing instruments back to the genre and continues on that journey here on HIDE, released in a couple weeks but streaming on Rollingstone.com, by tapping Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee for "Raw", Theopholus London for "All The Girls (Around The World)", Peter Frampton doing vocals on "The Beat" and even the King himself, Sir Paul McCartney lends some wailing vocals on "Out of Sight". While at EDC Chicago earlier this summer, I had the chance to sit down with "Sir Bob" and talk to him about his penchant for bringing instrumentality back to a genre that is rife with lifeless DJs. "I want to bring back music, so you will see that I use a lot of instruments-that's why EDM is kind of stale now, because everybody is playing records and it's full of DJs and I want to bring back music and that's why I'm pushing," said The Bloody Beetroots. He went on to say, "I really want the music back, I want people to play instruments. It's becoming all DJs and young people who dodge the feeling of a human source. I want to deliver this kind of message to people and say 'you are producing this stuff in the studio, ok, let's do something more now,' bring back funk, rock-well produced music." Check out his well-produced tracks below, premiered on Rolling Stone.
Cut Copy Announce Single, Album, World Tour
Australian electronic trio, Cut Copy, have been busy the past two days. After announcing details of their upcoming album, Free Your Mind for which they dropped a new single of the same name, the group also released information about their upcoming world tour, beginning on October 30 with a date in Salt Lake City and wrapping things up December 13 in Copenhagen, Sweden. The album, mixed by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, MGMT, the Flaming Lips) was described by "The concept of freedom is one that's universally positive and timeless, and whatever each person's version of that freedom is, it's a good thing to be reminding people or even just ourselves to be 'free,'" leading man Dan Whitford said.
Free Your Mind set list:
01 (Intro)
02 Free Your Mind
03 We Are Explorers
04 Let Me Show You Love
05 (into the desert)
06 Footsteps
07 In Memory Capsule
08 (above the city)
09 Dark Corners & Mountain Tops
10 Meet Me in a House of Love
11 Take Me Higher
12 (the waves)
13 Walking in the Sky
14 Mantra
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Tour Dates:
10-30 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
10-31 Reno, NV - The Knitting Factory
11-01 Portland, OR - Roseland Ballroom
11-02 Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater
11-03 Los Angeles, CA - HARD Day of the Dead
11-06 Tempe, AZ - Marquee
11-07 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
11-08 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-09 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
11-10 Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom
11-11 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
11-13 Madison, WI - The Majestic
11-14 Chicago, IL - The Riviera
11-15 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall
11-16 Boston, MA - House of Blues
11-23 Santiago, Chile - Primavera Festival
11-26 London, UK - Oval Space
11-28 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Atelier
11-29 Brussels, Belgium - Beursschowburg
11-30 Paris, France - Trabendo
12-01 Melkweg, Netherlands - Old Room
12-03 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude
12-04 Berlin, Germany - Prince Charles
12-06 Moscow, Russia - Pipl
12-07 Ekaterinburg, Russia - Teleclub
12-08 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia - Ideal Space Vasya+1
12-10 Stockholm, Sweden - Kagelbanan
12-11 Malmo, Sweden - Kulturbolaget
12-12 Gothenburg, Sweden - Pusterviksteatern
12-13 Copenhagen, Sweden - Vega
[Video] Lorde: "Handle My Liquor"
16-year-old New Zealand native, Lorde, is definitely making a name for herself from the tiny South Pacific country. While performing in her home country for the iHeartRadio concert she took things up a notch by stealing a page out of Kanye West's book, performing he own rendition of "Hold My Liquor". The young songstress deftly maneuvers between Ye', Justin Vernon and Chief Keef's parts, without the marbles that seem to be swimming in Keef's mouth when he sang the original hook. She goes on to actually spit Kanye's verse pretty well, definitely worth checking out below.
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[Video] Kanye West: "Bound 2" on Jimmy Fallon
Right on the heels of his announcement of a Yeezus tour, Ye' unexpectedly stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform "Bound 2" live for the first time. In his now-signature kilt over leather pants, Kanye, as usual went big with Charlie Wilson singing the hook live and backing from a children's choir, and The Roots. Of course, where there's Kanye, there's usually controversy and the Fallon set was no exception as West changed the opening lines of the song to apparently poke fun at beau Kim Kardashian's ex, Ray-J, rhyming: "Brandy's little sister lame, man, he know it now/When a real brother hold you down you supposed to drown." Interesting. For his part, Fallon has made himself a pop-culture icon from his late night desk by connecting with viewers through music, without The Roots as his house band it's not totally certain he would have made it out of his first season, and this Kanye performance adds to the growing list of great acts to grace the late night stage with electrifying live sets. Video below.
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Noelz Vedere: "Fly Away"
The latest release from Chicago MC Noelz Vedere, "Fly Away" is a soulful, instrumentally-based track that serves as a preview of his upcoming release Bittersweet Glory. Give it a listen below and grab the free download, there should be much more to come from Vedere soon.
[Video] Mathien Announce Fall Tour + Summer Tour Recap
Chicago rockers Mathien, led by singer/songwriter/lead guitarist Chris Mathien had quite a summer crisscrossing America while on tour. Luckily, Nico Hagopian was on hand to capture all the magic. Check out the video recap below here and be sure to catch Chris and the guys as they head out for a Fall leg soon, kicking things off on September 11 in Lincoln, Nebraska-look and see when they'll be rolling through your town!
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