[Video] MIA: "Come With Me"
MIA is back with a visual for her latest single, "Come With Me" off the upcoming release, Matangi, due out November 5. The UK artist, who fell victim to sound issues at this year's Pitchfork Festival, has been pumping out music and hitting the road lately in support of the coming project. Check out the trippy video for "Come With Me" below.
http://youtu.be/_11uQVI21mQ
[Video] MIA: "Come With Me"
MIA is back with a visual for her latest single, "Come With Me" off the upcoming release, Matangi, due out November 5. The UK artist, who fell victim to sound issues at this year's Pitchfork Festival, has been pumping out music and hitting the road lately in support of the coming project. Check out the trippy video for "Come With Me" below.
[RH Photos] North Coast Music Festival 2013 Day 2
Photography by Geoff Henao
Day Two of North Coast Music Festival in Union Park went off much smoother than the 2013 debut a day earlier. With the sun finally shining down and the heat pounding festival-goers, things got off to a fast start. Chicago's own Porn and Chicken got things going with their 2:30 set at the Last Stand Stage, picking up where frat-dance kings Milk n' Cookies warmed up the stage earlier.
After floating through the following sets and checking out a truly inspired set from Conspirator, I found myself torn between the silky smooth tones of Aloe Blacc, the rough-edged hip hop of Flatbush Zombies and the endearing DJ sounds of Thibault. I ended up making the rounds to each briefly, unfortunately missing most of Flatbush due to simply not being able to navigate the festival properly. Between Bondax, Gramatik, Future Rock and the smattering of EDM/Dance acts on the Tent Stage, the Saturday afternoon air was soon completely inundated with the glitchy sound of digital music. Being a big fan of both Gramatik and Bondax, it was disappointing that organizers pushed so many similar acts together and brought about memories of monotonous EDM festivals of earlier months.
Emerging from the dense electronic jungle, Nas took the North Stage to close it out for the day. The New York MC showed precisely why he is one of the most decorated hip-hop acts in the history of the genre, filling his hour-long set with tracks from his entire discography. Dipping back to Illmatic for timeless hit ("The World is Yours", "Life's a Bitch", "Memory Lane") and peppering more recent work from several albums (God's Son, Stillmatic, Life is Good), Nasir Jones put on a show that won't soon be forgotten at North Coast.
EDM made it's way back to the stage in two forms to close out Saturday, with Big Gigantic and Afrojack bringing up the rear as the day's headliners. Jeremy Salken and Dominic Lalli continued their string of impressive Chicago shows by performing their instrumental take on the genre that includes live drums and saxophone, drawing one of the biggest crowds of the weekend. A meet and greet organized through Thissongissick.com kept the pair standing stage-side for hours. For his part, Afrojack held things down, giving fans a grittier dance experience from the other side of the festival grounds and closing out what was easily the biggest day at North Coast for anyone trying to dance.
Chicago Attic Jam
Sometimes it's good to just get away and listen to some good music. Last Thursday, some of Chicago's most talented young musicians got together for a jam session on the north side of the city to do just that. Former Kids These Days members Nico Segal (aka Donnie Trumpet), Lane Beckstrom and Greg Landfair (Stix) took part while Peter CottonTale handled work on the keys and Chris Mathien kept pace on lead guitar. Check out the video below, shot by Nico Hagopian and be sure to keep an eye out for future work coming out of the Attic!
http://youtu.be/ZwN6M4PEJ8M
[Mixtape] King Chip: "44108"
Cleveland’s own King Chips (Chip The Ripper) dropped a new mixtape today, 44108. Having not heard much from Chip in a minute it’s one that I’m personally excited to dig into. With features from Kid Cudi, Travi$ Scott, Pusha T, Scarface, Fat Trel and GLC and production from the likes of Lex Luger, WZRD, Cardo and Trakksounds, it shouldn’t disappoint. Give it a listen here below.
[Mixtape] King Chip: "44108"
Cleveland's own King Chips (Chip The Ripper) dropped a new mixtape today, 44108. Having not heard much from Chip in a minute it's one that I'm personally excited to dig into. With features from Kid Cudi, Travi$ Scott, Pusha T, Scarface, Fat Trel and GLC and production from the likes of Lex Luger, WZRD, Cardo and Trakksounds, it shouldn't disappoint. Give it a listen here below.
Police Find Weapons, Drugs on 2 Chainz Tour Bus
Two bongs, four handguns? Apparently 2 Chainz wasn’t kidding on his latest single, “Fed’s Watching” when he said “I’ma keep it fresh while the Feds watchin’”. The Atlanta rapper, whose bus was stopped August 22 by Oklahoma City police following his performance there as part of Lil Wayne and T.I’s America’s Most Wanted Tour, which seemed to live up to it’s own billing as the cops searched the bus after allegedly smelling marijuana and seeing smoke. According to HipHopDX: “Police discovered two semi-automatic pistols and a 12-gauge pump shotgun, along with some prescription painkillers and marijuana residue, on a tour bus occupied by Tauheed Epps — better known as rapper 2 Chainz — and 10 other men, according to papers filed Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court.” It seems the former Playaz Circle memeber, who performed as part of the infamous Miley Cyrus set at last week’s MTV Video Music Awards following the police stop. 2 Chainz and others on the bus were arrested but released soon after, it’s not clear whether or not they will face further charges.
http://youtu.be/gyqDvfD50Yo
[Interview] North Coast Music Festival 2013: Cherub
Photos by Bobby Reys
Cherub has been steadily building a name for themselves since crossing paths three years ago with a common musical goal. It was simple, guitarist Jordan Kelley had a sound he wasn't quite sure how to achieve, Jason Huber had just the voice and production skills to make it happen. Having found each other in Nashville, TN, the pair created Cherub, a hybrid dance/funk electro-pop that has drawn comparisons to Prince and Pharrell. Over the past two years the duo have watched their stars rise exponentially, playing Bonaroo and Electric Forest, along with a successful SXSW in Austin last year buoyed by supports from the Red Bull Sound Select series. This year Jason and Jordan jumped on tour with Gramatik in the spring and, with festival season out of the way, will begin a Fall tour with ProbCause, Mansions on the Moon and Pell. We had the opportunity to sit down with the pair before the played the Dos Equis stage, check out the conversation below.
Jake: The two of you have had a crazy year or so since latching on with the Red Bull Sound Select series, what's it been like?
Jason: I mean it's been a really crazy year, we've had to take a lot of pictures of moments and step back. We've just been kind of doing our thing and then all of a sudden you'll look back and be like "woah, this is really awesome what we're getting to do." We've had so many amazing opportunities, all the stuff through Red Bull-they've just been putting us on time and time again and have been super awesome about letting us do our own thing and supporting what we're doing-it's been a really great way for us to continue doing exactly what we're doing and do cool stuff at the same time.
Jake: Yeah, the Red Bull show at SXSW in Austin was where I first saw you, all the way back at the beginning of festival season.
Jordan: Yeah, this year's SXSW was a total redemption for the year before. We had a shitty first year we went there and totally redeemed ourselves and it was great.
Jason: We played our first gay bar at SXSW this year. It was a great show, a really, really great show.