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Stream the entire sold-out Foo Fighters concert at Cubby Bear thanks to HBO. More details here: http://bit.ly/1riVXcp

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If looking at the Riot Fest lineup for this weekend hasn’t already made you feel old as fuck, wait til you watch the video for The Offspring’s “The Kids Aren’t Alright.”

If I’m being completely honest, I have absolutely no recollection of this video. I want to ask my late 90s self if he would have noticed the shitty green screen work, paid attention to the weird blending or thought there were too many costume changes. Looking back on the video now, it’s a weird collection of people exploding from other people and violently punching and kicking their way towards the camera in some B-movie Mortal Kombat FATALITY way. Seriously, how hard would it have been to just film this in a real room? The video might be completely absurd, but the song is still awesome.

If you’re going to Riot Fest this weekend, you can see The Offspring Friday at 7:45 on the Roots Stage. And yes, you can still get tickets.

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Tennis is actually interesting. That’s the first, and last, time we’ll probably ever say that, and it’s all James Murphy’s (of LCD Soundsystem, duh) fault. He partnered with IBM (yeah, that IBM) and the U.S. Open to turn data from the tennis matches into musical tracks that will run for over sixteen days straight when they’re all done.

You read that right. Sixteen days. They estimate they’ll have around 400 hours of music by the time the project is complete. None of the tracks are party anthems, but if you’re a Murphy fan they’re definitely worth a listen. Hope you didn’t have anything productive to do for the rest of September.

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Rise Against has a new record, Black Market, that’s been out for about two weeks. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you’re missing one of the best records Rise Against has put out to date. Seriously. Black Market is phenomenal.  While Rise Against might differ from a lot of other artists in certain aspects, a new album means new singles and new videos.

This is the video for “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore,” and it’s Rise Against in the most perfect sense of what that means. It’s political. It’s introspective. It’s poignant. It will make you think. It will get you really fucking excited to see this record live.

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You need to stop what you’re doing right now and head over to The Rap Test because testing your knowledge of rap and hip hop icons is far more important than finding out what Game of Thrones character you are or what state you’re supposed to live in. Pick between Pac, Ye, Drake, Kendrick, Eminem or Meek, and then listen to snippets of songs to guess the artist. It’s like name that tune except much prettier and far more amusing.

Make sure you make it far enough in the Eminem level to see the Ron Burgundy cameo.

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Riot Fest just went ahead and announced all the ????????? from the initial, but still awesome, lineup. They include, but are not limited to: Primus, The Hold Steady!, Say Anything, Tokyo Police Club, Only Crime, and a bunch more. Check out that image. Give it a minute to sink in. This is easily the best Chicago festival lineup of 2014. Hell, it might be the best festival lineup of all time. Meet us in the porta potties.

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I am not a God-fearing man, but I’ve heard many say they’ve met God. Some claim they met him while sitting in the back row of the sterile, industrial, stadium church they attend on Sundays in between soccer practice and a trip to Target. Others while screaming for the ceiling amongst 20 people from their neighborhood in a small, humid, humble wooden church nestled comfortably into the hill side. The pastor of this church doesn’t need the dog and pony show of two projector screens and a $20,000 sound system. His lungs and the passion that runs his blood warm are enough to call the holy spirit into attendance. And to the people in the front row who occasionally get splashed with the sweat from the sermon, things feel all the more real. And ask the lady who’s been playing the organ in the corner for the last 30 years if she needs an overpriced sound system to get her job done.

The Swedish trio (they have an extra body for touring) I Break Horses turned The Empty Bottle into one of those small churches Friday. The sermon was lead by vocalist Maria Lindén with the support of pounding, hypnotic rhythms and layers of trance inducing, shoe gaze inspired vintage synthesizer melodies. The white sheet that was hanging from the ceiling on the back of the stage even resembled the sun washed, hand welded stained glass window if you let yourself be lost in the performance.

I had been waiting to see I Break Horses since I missed their opening performance with M83 in Chicago a few years back. Their songs “Load Your Eyes,” and “Hearts” have been in pretty heavy rotation over the last few years, and recently a few songs from their new release Chiaroscuro have joined the fray. Most notably the pulsing dance gospel “Faith,” which had the people in my near vicinity in the front row pushing their hands in the air and tossing their heads around with careless fervor. Were they being introduced to a higher power? You could’ve fooled me.

I’ve attended concerts at the rate that a righteous holy man attends church, and it’s the rare performance that blurs the line for me. I’ve seen enough shows of that caliber to maybe be running out of fingers on my hands to count them by. The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010 was, to me, what a Catholic would experience seeing the pope conduct a service at St. Peter’s Basilica to a standing room only crowd. Friday’s I Break Horses show was an intimate, personal, experience akin to what your grandmother experienced in her church in rural America when she was your age. The small church that no one knows about; no one talks about. The church that, when the sermon is over and the doors let the people back out into the world, every single one of them knows that they just experienced something that no one else would be able to understand.

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Get used to hearing the name Tourist. If you’re anything like me, get used to listening to his music on repeat as well. Tourist is the musical moniker of UK-based producer Will Phillips. Phillips is London born but calls Brighton his home these days. The music he produces is atmospheric in tone but typically builds to a moment where simply taking it in doesn’t work and dancing must ensue. The rise and fall of his beats never borders on kitschy, and that’s just how I like my electronic music.

He samples sounds taken from everyday moments like conversations, the busy sounds of London or the soothing tones of the beaches around Brighton, and then puts them with some great house beats. Recently, more vocals have been finding their way into Tourist songs and it’s a wonderful enhancement to the already solid tunes being released. To find out Tourist pals around with the guys from Disclosure and recently signed to their label, Method Records, is no surprise and hopefully the recent success that has fallen upon Disclosure will also hit Tourist.

Look for a packed show at Schuba’s on Saturday as Tourist hits Chicago for only the second time before heading off to play spots at Ultra, Sasquatch, Governor’s Ball and, fingers crossed, for a return to Chicago for Lolla this summer. Tickets are available now but I wouldn’t wait to show up on Saturday in hopes of getting in because it probably won’t happen. Be on the hunt for Tourist’s next EP Patterns when it’s released April 22nd. In the meantime, listen to the track ‘I Can’t Keep Keep Up’ from Patterns and try to not get excited about what Tourist is doing.

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