Rapper-producer Frank Leone grew up in the town of Monticello, just southwest of Champaign, and began taking music seriously after a chance meeting with Vic Mensa at a downstate Lupe Fiasco show in 2011. Since dropping his debut mixtape in 2015, he’s reworked his sound, moved to Los Angeles, and scrubbed the Web of large […]
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Hair, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now
“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week’s best bets.
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Up-and-coming rapper Frank Leone discusses his debut full-length, Enter Wild
The 19-year-old talks about the influence of Vic Mensa, Chicago violence, and Phantom of the Opera.
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Going Up the Country
Monticello, IL: Daytrotter takes some of its favorite bands to the far reaches of the midwest.