Over the past few years, Chicago hip-hop duo Mother Nature have become so thoroughly embedded in several overlapping scenes that it could feel like they were always playing a show. And when the weather heated up, they sometimes got gigs bigger than any one scene: Subterranean booked them for Wicker Park Fest twice in a […]
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Mother Nature rep hip-hop as a culture, a calling, and a career
Chicago rap duo Mother Nature have already carried their message of self-reliance and self-realization into schools and overseas—and they’re raising their own bar with the EP Pressure.
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In its ninth year the North Coast Music Festival shows why it’s one of Chicago’s most vital
The average music fest can live and die based the strength of its lineup, but North Coast Music Festival is no average festival. Now in its ninth year, North Coast has found a sweet spot in our crowded music festival ecosystem by providing a place where veteran jam bands, rising rappers, electronic stars, and indie-centric […]
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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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The North Coast Music Festival announces its 2018 lineup
North Coast returns to Union Park late this summer, and its headliners include Jamiroquai.
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Rapper Rich Jones gives a verse to the Chicago Mothman
After 57 sightings in 2017, the Chicago Mothman turns up on a Halloween-season track by rapper Rich Jones.
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The North Coast Music Festival’s intimate DJ tent contains its collision of pop worlds in microcosm
A celebration of the heretofore hypothetical territory where rappers, jam bands, and electro producers meet, the North Coast Music Festival has built an identity distinctive enough to stand out amid Chicago’s bulging music-fest ecosystem. Most such gatherings act as little more than tour stops for the marquee names who spend their summers playing every single […]
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Pitchfork wants you to party without ignoring gun violence
Beats Over Bullets uses Pitchfork to bring new converts to Everytown for Gun Safety, Mothers Against Senseless Killings, and the Wear Orange campaign.
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North Coast Music Festival, a Labor Day clambake, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Great American Lobster Fest, Oddball Comedy Festival, and more happenings from September 2-5.
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Are music festivals a sound use of Chicago’s public parks?
The debate has never been so noisy.
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Summer 2016 Chicago music festivals for every sort of sound
Fests devoted to rap, house, jazz, country, gospel, blues, metal, Latin music, and more
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Common and Kanye West make Aahh! Fest a great end cap to festival season
Common, Kanye West, and a cast of friends helped make Aahh! Fest an excellent new edition to the overcrowded festival season.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 8/29: Noir City, North Coast Music Festival, and Taste of Polonia
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Friday, August 29
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Here’s the 2014 North Coast Music Festival lineup
The end-of-summer bash enters its fifth year, and here’s the lineup announcement.
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North Coast 2013: Partying like summer will never come again
The North Coast Music Festival may look like it’s basically about drugs, but it’s really about enthusiasm.