The Lolla-Mudslide

For the 20th anniversary of the former traveling music festival, Lollapalooza, now stationed as a three day festival in Chigaco, Illinois, was definitely a success. Despite the mud that dominated the weekend and the rain storms that swept through throughout the afternoon and evening on the closing Sunday, Lollapalooza still had record attendance number, totaling 270,000 over the weekend, a 30,000 person increase from last year’s 240,000. It was very clear that the fans had a certain grit about them when they embraced the downpour and the mud as Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 began to just rock harder once the clouds burst open on Sunday night. Attendance at each show might not have been the swarming 90,000 that it was at the Eminem performance Saturday night, after all, this isn’t Bonnaroo, where festival goers will brave the weather to the point of near death, but those who stayed still enjoyed themselves, as Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 played on through technical difficulties and being soaked to the bone. (more…)

Take Notice: ASAP Rocky

For the past couple of years, everyone has been talking about how ASAP Rocky is the next big underground rap artist to break through, but for some reason he is still on the cusp. With rave reviews from so many industry enthusiasts, and tracks that more than back them up, you would have expected him to have been taking the hip hop world by storm at this point: (more…)

Merging of Genres

The giant genre merge is happening. That’s right boys and girls, ghouls and jesters of society. The world is learning what some of you already have noticed. Music is changing. Evolving into a mesh of all genres. Country is adding rap into the mix. Rock is adding pop. Metal is adding techno and rap. Rap is adding lots of influences.
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Kate Bush Returns

Kate Bush has a new album coming out, though the contents may be familiar to long time fans. The legendary English songbird – who has thus-far recorded a total of eight studio albums in her three-decade career – is set to release Director’s Cut, an album of re-recordings from her back catalog.