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- Music, Music Review Jun 19, 2020
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Run the Jewels reflect 2020’s unrest with the sociopolitical Molotov cocktail of RTJ4
- Music, Music Feature Feb 19, 2020
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The Pitchfork Music Festival announces its 2020 lineup
For its 15th year, the famously eclectic fest has booked headliners the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Run the Jewels, and the National.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 20, 2019
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Mother Nature rep hip-hop as a culture, a calling, and a career
The Chicago duo 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.
- Music, In Rotation Jan 28, 2019
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Brokedowns drummer Mustafa Daka on the greatest heavy-hitting drummer alive
Plus: Rad Payoff guitarist Jason Smith on his latest favorite from southern Indiana, Reader music listings coordinator Luca Cimarusti on Travis Scott’s giant inflatable astronaut, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2018
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Riot Fest 2018 Sunday [PHOTOS]
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2018
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Riot Fest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Music Box 70mm Film Festival and more goings-on 9/14-9/16
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2018
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Riot Fest finalizes its daily lineups—though the big new acts were announced yesterday
Yesterday we learned that Weezer, Run the Jewels, and Taking Back Sunday were replacing Blink-182 at Riot Fest. Today organizers added seven more bands, and single-day tickets went on sale.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2017
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Lollapalooza 2017 lineup: Chance the Rapper takes a victory lap with a bunch of predictable acts
The local rap hero is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise anemic Lollapalooza lineup that also includes Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, and, um, Liam Gallagher.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 9, 2017
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On their third album, Run the Jewels swagger with a sense of triumph while revealing a new strain of humanism
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2016
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Goose Island’s Twin Peaks beer, Natural Villain, finds a natural environment at the Pitchfork Music Festival
The fourth installment of Goose Island's annual Pitchfork beer is a “garage lager.”
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
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Sketchbook Festival's final year, Run the Jewels at the MCA, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2014
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I changed my mind: Year-end lists matter
The thread connecting grief, Facebook, and end-of-the-year lists
- Film, Artist on Artist Nov 17, 2014
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Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels meditate on a musician's true path
In an interview with Chicago producer A-Villa, Killer Mike recalls: "When I got there in the studio with El, I felt like Snoop the day he found Dre."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2014
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Lollapalooza's rainy and radiant final day, starring Chance the Rapper
The festival ends with triumphant set from the hometown hero, featuring a surprise R. Kelly cameo and an ocean of mud.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2013
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Recapping the final day of the Pitchfork Music Festival
Tree's soul-trap sermon, Killer Mike's contagious smile, Lil B's netherworldly bass, R. Kelly's inflatable white doves, and more beats than you can shake a stick at
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 17, 2013
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Sunday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
A Cabrini-Green hip-hop anomaly, a collaboration "as perfect as it was unexpected," one of the "deepest, strongest back catalogs in rock 'n' roll," and . . . Kells!