RH Pitchfork Festival Schedule

Over the last 13 years Pitchfork Music Festival has become one of the most important and highly curated music festivals in Chicago, which says a lot considering that Chicago has the most summer festivals of any city in America. This year's festival is dominated by internationally known stars like Ms. Lauryn Hill (celebrating the 20th anniversary of her legendary album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill) and Tame Impala headlining, but earlier in the day there are a lot of upcoming rappers and singers from Chicago and beyond like Kweku Collins, Ravyn Lenae and Berhana. Because music festivals can get overwhelming we decided to put together a list of the shows that we're looking forward to seeing.

Friday

4:00 Open Mike Eagle @ Blue Stage

4:15 Tierra Whack @ Green Stage

5:15 Saba @ Red Stage

6:15 Syd @ Green Stage

8:30 Tame Impala @ Green Stage

Saturday

1:00 Paul Cherry @ Green Stage

1:45 Berhana @ Red Stage

3:20 Nilüfer Yanya @ Red Stage

4:15 Moses Sumney @ Green Stage

5:15 Raphael Saadiq @ Red Stage

7:45 Kelela @ Blue Stage

Sunday

1:00 Nnamdi Ogbonnaya @ Green Stage

2:30 Kweku Collins @ Green Stage

3:20 Ravyn Lenae @ Red Stage

4:15 Smino @ Green Stage

5:15 Noname @ Red Stage

6:15 DRAM @ Green Stage

7:25 Chaka Khan @ Red Stage

8:30 Ms. Lauryn Hill @ Green Stage

by Stephen Kaplan

[Songs of the Day] 2/5/14 (Feat. St. Vincent, Zedd, Kelela & More)

Maybe it was the heavy snow across the Midwest, but there was a big surge of quality jams hitting the 'net today, and we have them all wrapped up together as part of today's "Songs of the Day". We got the preview of a couple albums, as Chicago band Empires teased their upcoming LP, Orphan, with "How Good Does It Feel", evoking a sort of post-alternative/punk feel while Detroit's Black Milk dropped "Cold Day", itself a preview of his upcoming project, Glitches In The Break EP. The ever-talented Kelela proved she will continue to be someone to pay attention to in 2014 with her single drop of the song "The High" while remnants of both Ratatat and White Flight got together in Peru for the ever-entrancing track "Two Colors" by the duo, performing under the moniker Abuela. IAMSU! continued to keep listeners at bay for his upcoming project with his latest single, "Yesterday" and St. Vincent followed up her creepy, still video for "Digital Witness" with her latest single, "Prince Johnny". Grammy-nominated DJ Zedd got a remix of his track "Clarity" from ASPDR+ while DJ OHSO xo put together a mix of Schoolboy Q to act as a sort of unofficial prelude to his upcoming Oxymoron release.

We also saw a healthy dose of music come out of the center of the map in Chicago today, with one of my favorite young rhymesayers in Muddagoose, who showed her handle of the spoken word "Little Darling" with John Walt while Closed Sessions dropped a collaboration from Alex Wiley and Mick Jenkins in their track, "Forever".

Track of the Day: Abuela: "True Colors"

Empires: “How Good Does It Feel?”