Here’s a look back of four days of Lollapalooza in Grant Park, August 2-5, 2018, through the lens of photographer Alison Green. Lollapalooza: Thursday, August 2, 2018 Lollapalooza: Thursday, August 2, 2018 Lollapalooza: Thursday, August 2, 2018 Lollapalooza: Thursday, August 2, 2018
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Taylor Bennett at Lollapalooza and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Silk Road Rising’s New China Festival and more goings on 8/3-8/5.
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Chicago rapper Taylor Bennett wants everywhere to be a place black people can be themselves
When Chicago rapper Taylor Bennett was a teenager, one of his havens was Navy Pier. And this weekend, he’ll make himself at home onstage at Lollapalooza.
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Femdot levels up his immersive storytelling on Delacreme 2
Chicago rapper Femi Adigun, better known as Femdot, has recently emerged as one of the city’s best storytellers. He’s certainly earned such a title with June’s Delacreme 2 (Closed Sessions), and according to some of the material on this full-length, he fought hard to get here. Femdot still sounds like he’s fighting on “Alright,” as […]
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Bedroom-pop wunderkind Cuco forges a new path for pop
Under the name Cuco, LA-area bedroom-pop artist Omar Banos makes pop music of the future. Since the age of 16, he’s been crafting unassuming, easygoing songs that juggle the sounds of hip-hop, Muzak, yacht rock, indie rock, and shards of other genres as if they’d always been meant to be experienced together in such a […]
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Does Chicago have too many music festivals?
Lollapalooza’s ticket sales have slowed, and Reggae Fest and Chicago Open Air are canceled—are these the growth pangs of a healthy but crowded festival market, or is a crash on the way?
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Chicago rapper Supa Bwe laps the pack
Supa Bwe brought pop-punk melodies to hip-hop years before the current crop of Soundcloud rappers, and he’s still evolving on the new Finally Dead.
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Lollapalooza announces its 2018 lineup
The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White, and the Arctic Monkeys headline the massive Grant Park festival in August.
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Vic Mensa revisits his vanishing Hyde Park
Rising rapper Vic Mensa considers his old Hyde Park neighborhood home, even though gentrification has killed his favorite hangouts.
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Stephen Paddock rented two Michigan Avenue hotel rooms overlooking Lollapalooza but never showed up, and other Chicago news
Also, Cubs home playoff tickets are the most expensive in the MLB..
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Garage rocker Mac Blackout hangs his cosmic caricatures at Ampersand’s first art show
Garage rocker Mac Blackout hangs his cosmic caricatures at Ampersand’s first art show, raunchy rapper Cupcakke hits an all-building party at Metro and Smart Bar, and more.
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Noname’s quiet strength won out over the din of Lollapalooza
Chicago rapper Noname expresses her humanity through intimacy, and despite the crowds at Lollapalooza, she hit the right notes—when you could hear her.
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Chicago is suing the Department of Justice over federal funding for sanctuary cities, and other news
Also, Northwestern microbiologist Wyndham Lathem will make his first court appearance in California Monday morning.
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IPRA reopens investigation into 2014 fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old, and other Chicago news
Also, J.B. Pritzker’s health-care plan involves letting anyone buy into Medicaid.
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Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news
Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.