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Lollapalooza 2018 Lineup Released!

Bruno Mars, Jack White, the Weeknd and Arctic Monkeys will serve as headliners at this year’s Lollapalooza, which once again invades Chicago’s Grant Park from August 2nd to August 5th.
Vampire Weekend, The National, St. Vincent, Portugal. The Man, Greta Van Fleet and Chvrches are among the rock acts set to perform at the long-running festival, while hip-hop acts include Logic, Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, Tyler the Creator, Brockhampton and LL Cool J.
Khalid, Camilo Cabello, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Lykke Li, Franz Ferdinand and nearly 200 more acts will also take the stage at Lollapalooza.

Tickets for Lollapalooza are on sale now; Check out the festival’s website for more information.
Arcade Fire, Run the Jewels, Chance the Rapper and Lorde were recruited to headline Lollapalooza in 2017. However, last year’s fest was forced to prematurely end Thursday performances – including the cancellation of Lorde’s headlining show – due to a weather emergency.

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Spring Awakening Music Festival Announces Phase Two Lineup

Spring Awakening is proud to reveal the Second Phase which features the roster for this year’s six Branded Stage showcases! Additionally, GANJA WHITE NIGHT has been added to perform on the Equinox Stage, following their recent performance at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom.

BASS KITCHEN returns with a stacked lineup of the very best in dubstep, trap, and low end frequencies. FLUX PAVILION makes a grand return to Spring Awakening with TWO sets – following his solo headline performance, he plays a special B2B set with fellow Circus Records mainstay DOCTOR P. Joining the stage are a squad of undisputed champions including BRO SAFARI, BEAR GRILLZ, FIGURE, and BLEEP BLOOP, ready to take everyone on a wild journey through bass and time.
Back by popular demand, the DJ MAG stage turns up with high-volume acts running the gamut of modern dance. NICKY ROMERO headlines this electro-heavy tent, also bursting at the seams with big room originators like CASH CASH and DEORROfestival pioneer and genre destroyer DESTRUCTO, and Toronto tastemaker GRANDTHEFT.
This year, OLIVER HELDENS’ imprint HELDEEP makes its Spring Awakening debut. Along with Oliver himself, the stage hosts the deeper side of dance music, with Datsik & Bais Haus’ supergroup, EPHWURD, OG turntablist A-TRAK, Night Bass originator AC SLATER, and French deep house stand-out MERCER.
Fans of techno and house music rejoice in The Mid and React’s newest series, REQUIEM. To christen it, we welcome the special reunion of dance heroes SASHA & JOHN DIGWEED, along with a truly underground lineup featuring originators like LEE BURRIDGE, LEE FOSS, ANTHONY, PROK & FITCH, and ANTHONY ATTALLA.
Returning for its second year, SUNDAY SCHOOL takes fans straight to house heaven on a golden chariot of groovy vibes. Revered house icon DUBFIRE delivers a festival-closing sermon, with essentials like PETE TONG, dance music luminary JOSH WINK, and UK house dons WILL CLARKE and WEISS.
Noted as one of Spring Awakening’s most beloved series, TRANCE ARENA once again welcomes the top names in trance from around the world, featuring GARETH EMERY, MARKUS SCHULZ, COSMIC GATE, ALY & FILA, and ILAN BLUESTONE.

The 2018 edition of Spring Awakening Music Festival takes place Friday, June 8th through Sunday, June 10 at the beautiful Addams/Medill Park in Chicago. Don’t miss a beat and follow Spring Awakening on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news and announcements.

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Spring Awakening Music Festival Announces Phase One Lineup

 SPRING AWAKENING MUSIC FESTIVAL (SAMF) is thrilled to announce a massive Phase One lineup for its seventh annual installment, taking place Friday, June 8th through Sunday, June 10th. In 2018, the largest all-electronic music festival in the Midwest will return to the beautiful Addams/Medill Park in Chicago.
Spring Awakening’s two main stages – Solstice and Equinox – will once again showcase the event’s biggest names and productions. Headliners on the Solstice Stage are sure to please fans with performances by AFROJACKBORGORECARNAGEDASH BERLINDIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKEHARDWELLKASKADESTEVE AOKI, and TIËSTO.
Meanwhile, on the Equinox Stage, ALISON WONDERLANDBIG GIGANTICDEADMAU5FLUX PAVILIONNGHTMRETCHAMISLUSHIIVIRTUAL SELF (Porter Robinson’s new alias that blends house, happy hardcore, garage and techno), and ZEDS DEAD round out the bill by featuring a variety of genres within the realm of dance music. Additional artists providing high-intensity energy on the Equinox Stage include BAAUERBLACK TIGER SEX MACHINEJOYRYDE, MATOMAMINNESOTA, while 3LAUGETTERSAM FELDTSEVEN LIONSSLANDER, and TRITONAL takeover the Solstice Stage.
To accompany the first phase of artists from around the world, Spring Awakening also reveals the identity of this year’s six Branded Stage showcases. React’s coveted event series will return with another round of specially curated stages for fans to explore. Whether you’re searching for soaring thrills and infectious rhythms of the TRANCE ARENA, the BASS KITCHEN’s perfect combination of grit and grime, or minimal beats by REQUIEM, the newest techno series, there’s a stage for everyone to call home.
Additionally, SAMF will host stage takeovers from three diverse brands within the dance music community. Attendees will experience uniquely tailored lineups from SUNDAY SCHOOL, featuring both big-name and underground champions currently dominating the scene, Oliver Helden’s HELDEEP Records imprint, and the acclaimed music publication DJ MAG with its own all-star lineup of DJs from the highest realms of EDM stardom.
Make no mistake, this is one of the most seismic lineups for Spring Awakening yet — and we still haven’t even touched Phase Two, which will be released next week!
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Summer Camp Reveals Initial 2018 Lineup

Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment announced today the first round of artist announcements for the 18th annual Summer Camp Music Festival at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, IL on May 25, 26, and 28, 2018:
3 days of moe.
3 days of Umphrey’s McGee
2 sets of Phil Lesh and Terrapin Family Band
Diplo
STS9
Tipper
RL Grime
Greensky Bluegrass
Action Bronson
Beats Antique
Cherub
EOTO
Everyone Orchestra
JJ Grey & Mofro
Keller Williams
Kyle Hollingsworth Band
Leftover Salmon
Lettuce
Mija
OOKAY LIVE
SOJA
Spafford
Yonder Mountain String Band
Zomboy
Aqueous
Big Something
Con Brio
The Funk Hunters
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Kuuro
Lawrence
The Main Squeeze
Marvel Years
Parker
SoDown
Steady Flow
Sun Stereo
Tyler Childers
Anomalie
John Craigie
Mad Zach
Maddy O’Neal
Mungion
Noizu
Organ Freeman
Zeshan B
Zoogma
Early Bird 3-Day GA Tickets are currently on sale online at www.summercampfestival.com or by phone at 1-800-514-ETIX. There will be a limited number of tickets available at this price, and once they sell out, the ticket price may go up without notice.

 

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Reaction New Year's Eve Ticket Giveaway

We teamed up with React Presents to giveaway a pair of tickets to Reaction NYE! This year Reaction NYE will return to city limits with a one-night event at the legendary Aragon Ballroom ft. Adventure Club, Bear Grillz, and a special live performance by Ookay. To enter the giveaway log on to our facebook page like, share, and tag a friend in the post.

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Freaky Deaky – 2 Nights at Aragon Ballroom

Lines formed outside The Aragon Ballroom whilst we stood in a chill that embraced a left over pizza feel and drowned in blank stares. We waited in the excitement like an electron moving from the next level of sub-shells. Igniting bonds that integrated the relationship of inebriation.

Patted down and taking pictures within the crowd. The mask seems to break the ice of the enigmatic intimacies a stranger’s caressing eyes.
Inside the venue, the atmosphere was gorgeous – like an Italian country side or an opera house colliding with lasers of the future. Fantasies rang between these walls such of an historical novel. When the music struck me as I entered the pathways into the theatre; I became alive!
Crowds adorned in costumes and swaying into the music. The electricity of souls singing with a freedom which has became found started to reflect upon the endless smiles. Halloween allowed an escape of the alter ego and the one day out of year that the world can become in touch with their sexuality and not be shunned with disapproval. A happiness was instantly felt and we made our way through the crowd to get closer to Klingande as their saxophonist soloed before our eyes.

Oliver Heldon came ready for the night. OH was displayed behind him as my mind began to drift with the Oxygen and Hydrogen mixing with the music. The bonding of hydroxide; the acidic feel traveled deep down and moved me within the aggressiveness of triple drums patterns and melodic rhythms.

I was completely in the moment when suddenly, I fucking found him! Standing above on the balcony. The world stood in slow motion and the music became deafened to my ears. Everyone was smiling but there he was! Just there; staring at me!
IT!
Standing out like a bloody lion amongst a herd of zebra. Dancing with his single red balloon. Gleaming with reflections of lasers.
There.
Just standing.
With his
creepy
clown
smile!

Jaws inspired deep house rhythms began streaming through the air. Sound bites Stripped away into the crowd who became consumed deep within its surrender.
The beauty that was hidden by the media. Was it all along the emotion of happiness we should be awarding? Was it not just as pertinent as the sadness which my adolescent overlooked in a stubborn focused Amy Whinehouse obsession. Those who found themselves intrigued with unworthiness. A running lie an award for nothing that would serve real substance for humanity as an evolutionary species. Realness was just to understand companionship vibration and happiness! Was something happening here ? A return to mother earths rehabilitation. A disturbance of our character pealing it from our core. The light, the being, the realness undermined we are grounded within a core of a red light.

During the second night I found that Dillon Francis seemed to have drawn in a harder crowd. His music selection was diverse blends mixture of pop, rap, dance, and dub. He had every single person in the room singing along to Kendrick Lamar and relentlessly threw down drop after drop. His music took his fans out of their brains and into the repeating patterns of dubstep growls and high energy dance beats.

The night shuffled by as we swam through the Halloween creatures. Costumes, brightened faces, and the thrill of being the mysterious woman behind a painted face liberated us from ourselves. The change of representing something other than a face pushed the ego to take a back seat to this new character. Our bodies shuttled the costumes of our own choosing and the separation opened me to understand our bodies as just that but a vessel in which we can utilize for only a short period of time. Halloween was a time to of complete displacement of how what we define in ourselves as a being. In hopes of what this separation of ego will eventually teach us to perceive.
 
Photo Credit: George Mulcahy | Freaky Deaky

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ZoukOut: Asia's largest beachfront music festival

What’s better than a music festival? A music festival ON A BEACH!

ZoukOut, Asia’s largest beachfront music festival and only dusk-to-dawn dance festival, has announced that it will be returning again to Siloso Beach in Sentosa, Singapore from December 8-9, 2017. Now in its 17th year, Asia’s longest running dance music festival is raved about by top DJs in the global clubbing circuit and is sworn by legions of fans as a must-attend party location.

After already announcing some of the biggest names in dance music from around the world including Marshmello, Flume, Axwell /\ Ingrosso, R3HAB, Yellow Claw, Robin Schulz, Claptone, Gui Boratto, DJ Snake, Amelie Lens, and MaRLo, ZoukOut has now finalized their lineup with the addition of a takeover from 88rising that will include Keith Ape, Rich Chigga, Higher Brothers and Joji.

ZoukOut also continues to roll out more details related to guest experience. This includes a partnership with AJ Hackett Sentosa that will allow guests to take on their 50m tall Bungy Jump Tower, Giant Swing, Vertical Skywalk and 40m long Skybridge at the festival.

Tickets are now available for purchase on ZoukOut’s website. As the >Official Card for ZoukOut 2017, DBS Live Fresh Cardmembers & all other DBS/POSB Cardmembers are entitled to purchase discounted tickets. This promotion is valid for all DBS/POSB cards issued from Singapore only. They include:

    • Single Day, Day-1 tickets at SGD 124.20* (R.P: SGD138)
• Single Day, Day-2 tickets at SGD 133.20* (R.P: SGD 148)
• A set of four 2-Day tickets at SGD 800* (R.P: SGD 228 each)

For more information on full ticket prices, click here. Official hotel packages which are bundled in with ZoukOut tickets are also available here, which includes packages with W Singapore Sentosa Cove Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel, Genting Hotel Jurong, and Park Hotel Alexandra. Hotel packages include 2 tickets to ZoukOut 2017, daily breakfast and daily transfers to ZoukOut.

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RED BULL SOUND SELECT PRESENTS: 30 DAYS IN CHICAGO REVEALS CHOOSING CHICAGO

During the month of November, Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 30 Days in Chicago will showcase a wide swath of diverse international and regional musical talent in venues throughout one of America’s greatest cities. The city of Chicago is in the midst of a creative renaissance where artists of every discipline are building strong, supportive communities that are making a cultural impact both regionally and beyond. In an effort to celebrate this creative class, today Red Bull Sound Select launched CHOOSING CHICAGO, which will shine a spotlight on six creatives that exemplify the innovative spirit unique to the windy city through seven weeks of bespoke social content centered around these creatives on Red Bull Sound Select’s FacebookTwitter and Instagram. These hand picked creatives are representative of the burgeoning scene of young creatives in a variety of unique disciplines from cross stitch to footwork and everything in between. Content to be released daily at 1pm est from October 23rd until December 8th, 2017.
The CHOOSING CHICAGO creatives who have taken Chicago by storm include Emma Mckee, aka The Stitch Gawd; a cross stitch artist who’s needles hook up Chance The Rapper, SZA, DRAM and more. Esperanza Rosas (better known to her fans as Runsy), is a south side illustrator who initially garnered attention for drawing as a Chief Keef stan but is becoming nationally recognized for her Mexican inspired, feminine focused and often times political artwork. Zoe Rain; a music photographer who  hit the streets of Chicago after getting acclaim as Macklemore’s personal photographer. DJ Taye, the youngest member of footwork music label Teklife, is bringing footwork and his DJ skills to the next generation.  And finally, Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey, the creators behind “Brown Girls”, a sex positive comedy/drama series set exclusively in Chicago, which was recently picked up by HBO.
All portraits taken by Zoe Rain.
Emma Mckee AKA The Stitch Gawd
Esperanza AKA Runsy
Zoe Rain
DJ Taye
Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey
Ticket Information:
Music fans can purchase tickets by signing up for Red Bull Sound Select, which is free to join. Tickets to Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 30 Days in Chicago are $15 (plus fees and taxes) or less per show and limited to two tickets per night, per person. To sign up for Red Bull Sound Select and to purchase tickets, please visit 30days.redbullsoundselect.com
ABOUT RED BULL SOUND SELECT:
Red Bull Sound Select is an accelerator for music artists. We support them by collaborating on ambitious projects and ideas; using the strength of our global network together with a collective of artists, creatives and events to accelerate their growth. The network consists of 22 city residencies, 200+ events each year, 250+ artists, 50 partners and a growing list of our own festivals like 30 Days and 3 Days.
Red Bull Sound Select has released several two-song digital singles from its top hand-picked artists, including:
Jazz Cartier “Nobody’s Watching” produced by Mike WiLL Made-It
Montell2099 x 21 Savage’s “Hunnid on the Drop
Sampa the Great’s HERoes Act 2 EP featuring Estelle, produced by Rahki
Xavier Omär’s “Afraid” featuring GoldLink, Hit-Boy and Bizness Boi
Pell’s “Patience” /“Late At Night” featuring MNEK, produced by London On Da Track
Tennyson’s “Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday” featuring BJ the Chicago Kid with Mr. Carmack
Mick Jenkins’ “Drowning” featuring BADBADNOTGOOD
River Tiber’s “Illusions” featuring Pusha T, produced by River Tiber, KAYTRANADA & Doc McKinney
Gallant’s “Skipping Stones” featuring Jhené Aiko
G Herbo’s “Lord Knows” featuring Joey Bada$$
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DISKORD drops their EP Ceasefire Out now on Circus Records

2017 has been a huge year for the UK bass duo DISKORD. They kicked things off with the continued growth and support of the collaboration with Flux Pavilion “Locked In”, they then collaborated with JVST SAY YES for the inaugural Twonkilation release from Brillz. Their second EP “War” (including “Electrify” and “War”) dropped in May to rave reviews, it was then swiftly followed by their huge single on Deadbeats, “Blood Brother” their collaboration with Zeds Dead and Reija Lee, fast becoming one of the anthems of 2017.

October sees this gold rush continue with the release of their new EP Ceasefire on Circus Records. Featuring 4 fresh originals and a remix of “Electrify” by label mate DMVU this 5 tracker spans trap, bass house, future bass and dubstep. Each track is delivered in their own unmistakable sound, DISKORD have that rare ability to nail all styles to the highest level.
Stream on Soundcloud here
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DeadBeats & Chicago Music Festivals Ticket Giveaway

We teamed up with DeadBeats to give away a pair of tickets to DeadBeats Chicago at Navy Pier. To enter the giveaway go to our facebook page and see the pinned post. The winner will be announced at 7PM on October 18th.