BMI TO SHOWCASE 21 MUST-SEE PERFORMERS AT ITS LOLLAPALOOZA STAGE AUGUST 1-3 #BMILolla #Lolla

Hey Chi, IL... chiIL out this weekend with ChiIL Live Shows (adult) and ChiIL Mama (family friendly). We'll be covering the best of the fest! 

 

We were at the first Lollapalooza EVER and we've been covering every day of the last 10 years Lolla & Kidza have called Chicago home! But don't let us tell you what to do and see. Get out there and explore for yourselves. We'll have photo recaps and features after the fact, but for now, here are some links from our friends at BMI, to help you find some new favs. This is one of our favorite annual showcases at Lolla and a sweet break from the huge headliner crowds.

BMI at Lolla 2014

Broadcast Music, Inc. is proud to present the performers on its 2014 Lollapalooza stage. Running August 1, 2 and 3 at Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field in Chicago, Ill., BMI’s stage will kick off performances at 12:00 p.m. each day, setting the pace at the behemoth music festival.

They'll be giving away tank tops all three days of the festival. Follow @bmi and #BMILolla for details. First 25 to show us your #selfie! Tweet ur #Lolla selfie from the BMI stage during @Highly_Suspect (8/1, 12PM) for a chance to win excl. #BMILolla tank!

BMI:

Betty Who, Wallpaper, Johnnyswim, Bebe Rexha and

Vic Mensa among BMI bands & singer-songwriters assembling in Chicago 

for a riveting three-day lineup of performances 

WHO: Lollapalooza and Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), a global leader in music rights management, representing over 600,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 8.5 million works.

WHAT: BMI is proud to present the performers on its 2014 Lollapalooza stage, a bucolic respite from the Chicago heat, where festival-goers can enjoy the soulful sounds, acoustic balladry and pop-rock rhapsodies from a variety of singer-songwriting acts.

WHY:  BMI’s partnership with C3’s Lollapalooza is designed to offer more prime showcasing opportunities to its songwriters, a distinct priority of the organization.

WHEN: August 1, 2, and 3; 12:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. everyday

WHERE: Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field in Chicago, IL

EXPECTED:  21 diverse acts reflecting Lollapalooza’s wide-ranging approach in offering festival-goers performances that are unique and remarkable.

Friday, August 1

Highly Suspect: 12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.

http://www.highlysuspect.net/

Of Verona: 1:10 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

http://ofverona.com/of_Verona/Home.html

Dugas: 2:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

http://www.dugasmusic.com/

Johnnyswim: 3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

http://johnnyswim.com/

Bebe Rexha: 4:30 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

http://www.beberexha.com/

Cash Cash: 5:40 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.

http://www.cashcashmusic.com/

Royal Blood: 6:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

http://royalbloodband.com/

Saturday, August 2

Rocky Business: 12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.

http://www.rockybusinessexxx.com/

Charlie Hirsch: 1:10 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

http://www.charliehirschmusic.com/

Desert Noises: 2:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

http://www.desertnoises.com/main.html

The Last Internationale: 3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

http://thelastinternationale.com/

Wallpaper: 4:30 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

http://thisiswallpaper.com/

JoyWave: 5:40 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.

http://joywavemusic.com/

Vic Mensa: 6:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

http://vicmensa.com/

Sunday, August 3

Plastic Visions: 12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.

http://plasticvisions.net/

Space Capone: 1:10 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

http://spacecapone.com/

Fly Golden Eagle: 2:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

http://flygoldeneagle.tumblr.com/

Crass Mammoth: 3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

http://www.crassmammoth.com/

Cardiknox: 4:30 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

http://www.cardiknox.com/

Betty Who: 5:40 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.

http://bettywhomusic.com/

Bronze Radio Return: 6:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

http://bronzeradioreturn.com/

About BMI

Celebrating 75 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in more than 8.5 million musical works created and owned by more than 600,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI’s repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit www.bmi.com, follow us on Twitter @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.’s Facebook page.

Highly Recommended Lolla Bands On Our Radar: O'Brother Sunday at Noon on BMI

O'Brother to Play Lollapalooza Sunday August 4th  12:00PM on the BMI Stage 5:00PM at the Toyota + SpinMedia Soundwave Tent w/ Guards O'Brother Premiere "Perilous Love" Exclusively with AV Club! "'Perilous Love' is equal parts Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, a throwback thrasher that is pretty unrelenting." - A.V. Club “Genre-bending rockers O’Brother beat the sophomore slump on Disillusion, an album as complex and textured as it is loud. Think Deftones meet Radiohead meet Alice in Chains. From distorted, sludgy guitars (there’s three of them in the band!) to frontman Tanner Merritt’s haunting vocals, this is an album with a beginning, middle, and end—each song building upon the last and masterfully bleeding into the next....Don’t let the name fool you; this is an album that won’t let you down.” – Revolver  “...genre-bending post-metal that is as operatic as it is destructive... Expect this record to end up on a lot of year-end best-of lists.” – Alternative Press "As far as I'm concerned, there really isn't an active band that blends ethereal and skull-crushing heaviness as well as O' Brother do. Disillusion has the spacious soundscapes of a Sigur Ros record, the nuance-laced inventiveness of a Radiohead record, the haunting melodies of a Jeff Buckley record and the head banging heaviness of Isis' early work. And it's all blended together tastefully and seamlessly, with a perfect dose of patience to maximize the impact of shifts in dynamics. They set the bar awfully high for themselves after they released Garden Window, and somehow they've manage to raise it again with Disillusion. It's phenomenal." - Riley Breckenridge, Thrice *Returning to Chicago Sept. 5* Full routing below... Aug. 1—The Firebird—St. Louis, MO Aug. 4—Lollapalooza—Chicago, IL Aug. 6—Hoosier Dome-Indianapolis, IN Aug. 14—Bottletree—Birmingham, AL Aug. 15—Spanish Moon—Baton Rouge, LA Aug. 16—Warehouse Live—Houston, TX Aug. 17—Club Dada—Dallas, TX Aug. 18—Red 7—Austin, TX Aug. 20—Pub Rock—Scottsdale, AZ Aug. 21—House Of Blues—San Diego, CA Aug. 22—Constellation Room—Santa Ana, CA Aug. 23—Cobalt Café—Canoga Park, CA Aug. 24—Bottom Of The Hill—San Francisco, CA Aug. 26—Backspace—Portland, OR Aug. 27—Biltmore Cabaret—Vancouver, Canada Aug. 28—Chop Suey—Seattle, WA Aug. 30—Kilby Court—Salt Lake City, UT Aug. 31—Hi-Dive—Denver, CO Sept. 1—Record Bar—Kansas City, MO Sept. 3—7th Street Entry—Minneapolis, MN Sept. 4—Vaudeville Mews—Des Moines, IA Sept. 5—Bottom Lounge—Chicago, IL Sept. 6—Musica—Akron, OH Sept. 7—Pike Room—Pontiac, MI Sept. 8—Hard Luck Bar—Toronto, Ontario Sept. 10—Stage AE—Pittsburgh, PA Sept. 11—Lost Horizon—Syracuse, NY Sept. 12—Santos Party House—NY Sept. 13—Brighton Music Hall—Allston, MA Sept. 14—The Space—Hamden, CT Sept. 15—The Barbary—Philadelphia, PA Sept. 17—The Rock And Roll Hotel—Washington, DC Sept. 18—Local 506—Chapel Hill, NC Sept. 20—The Basement—Columbus, OH Sept. 21—The End—Nashville, TN Sept. 22—Casbah—Charlotte, NC Sept. 24—New Brookland Tavern—West Columbia, SC Sept. 25—Roc Bar—Jacksonville, FL Sept. 26—Crowbar—Ybor City, FL Sept. 27—The Social—Orlando, FL Sept. 28—Masquerade—Atlanta, GA

Lolla Bands On Our Radar: Chicago's Own Makeshift Prodigy at BMI Stage Sunday at 1:10 #Lolla

Chicago's own Makeshift Prodigy has been around the city for a number of years and now they're gaining followers on a national level and are signed to Atlantic Records and Warner Chappell Music. Musically they land in some conglomeration of Coldplay and 30 Seconds to Mars, with a little U2 thrown in for good measure. 

Who: Makeshift Prodigy

Where: Lollapalooza / BMI Stage

When: Sunday August 4th, 1:10p-1:50p

Lolla Bands On Our Radar: Machines Are People Too Sunday at 4:30 at the BMI Stage

Brightest Young Things just included the band in their 5 Must-See Buzzbands for the festival alongside Reignwolf, Shovels & Rope, Skaters and San Cisco

Machines Are People Too, Nashville-based Synth-pop quartet, who will be playing the festival this year on SUNDAY, AUGUST 4TH (4:30-5:10PM, BMI STAGE). The band's energetic live show and feel-good tunes have landed them coveted sets at additional summer festivals including Bonnaroo, Hangout Fest, Summerfest, Nocturnal Wonderland and more. 

The music video for their new summer anthem,  Do What You Love, premiered on Baeble Music and you can check it out here.

Their sophomore EP,  Nickels & Dimes, will be released July 23rd and is the follow up to their critically acclaimed debut EP Dreams produced by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta, Matt & Kim, Funeral Party).

Facebook: facebook.com/machinesarepeopletoo

Twitter: twitter.com/machinestweets

YouTube: youtube.com/machinesarepeopletoo

TODAY Lolla Bands On Our Radar: Brick + Mortar play the Lolla BMI stage at 2:10pm on Friday

The band has a great sound and an amazing back story.  They released their debut “Bangs” EP on July 30. The singer's blood diamond smuggling dad inspired a lot of their music.  Check them out. 

Brick + Mortar (Asbury Park, NJ) are an indie rock, drum and bass duo formed by Brandon Asraf (bass guitar, vocals) and bandmate John Tacon (drums, electronic samples, vocals).  Brick + Mortar have garnered a notable amount of regional success since their 2008 formation, making them a significant part of the musical and artistic culture of Asbury Park, New Jersey as it is the first electronic drum and bass pop duo to have such success in the area. 

Since middle school, the two bonded further over their shared interest in the artistry of songwriting.  As Brick + Mortar, they began focusing more heavily on the use of electronic samples in their music as well as relying less on improvisation and more on structured pop songs.  Brick + Mortar represent the underground, the oppressed, the disillusioned, and voiceless.  Fusing driving percussion, grooving bass, eclectic samples, and anthemic vocals, the band creates a new world sound that is so fresh you truly need to hear it for yourself. 

The roots of several of Brick + Mortar's songs stem from the incredible experiences of lead singer Brandon Asraf's childhood as the son of a international blood diamond smuggler.  In the band's lead single "Bangs", the bass hits like a massive punch to the face, and the narrative of the ultra-violent accompanying video, based on the life of Asraf's father, is likely one of the more brutal stories you've ever bore witness to.  "This video opened the door for us to be more than a band.  People seem to wait for that song to sing their hearts out at shows," explains Asraf of the impact the single has had on the band.  To quote Nylon Magazine, “There’s an undeniable energy that charges through New Jersey-based duo Brick + Mortar…Lead singer Brandon Asraf’s voice has a ferocious punch to it and effortlessly moves from solemn croon to savage cry without losing an ounce of passion along the way. Tensions build and tribal beats boom under biting lyrics. These guys will hit you like a delightful ton of bricks (pun intended).”

Brick + Mortar are set to release their 7-song EP titled “Bangs” on July 30th, and includes favorites such as “Bangs”, “Heatstroke” and “Old Boy” along with brand new tracks “Terrible Things”, “No I Won’t Go”, “Locked In A Cage”, as well as “Keep This Place Beautiful” which was co-written by Justyn Pilbrow (The Neighborhood - “Sweater Weather”).

Brick + Mortar's consistent performances quickly gained them a strong following as one of the best live bands in the Asbury Park music scene. Notable support for national acts include performances with Galactic, Jimmy Eat World, H.R. [Bad Brains], and Cymbals Eat Guitars.  Their live show is a party that erupts like a magnetic sonic volcano catching the attention of everyone in the room, drawing them to the stage full of intrigue and energy.

Aside from touring Brick + Mortar will also be busy with several other projects this Fall, including putting out a fully animated music video created by artist Richie Brown and focusing on writing for their debut full length.  "The goal is to make our album an audiovisual experience.  I feel like the songs we are working on are our best yet.  We are ready to make a full length record.  We are not for the faint of heart.  Our brash, gritty, whip-smart sound foregoes guitar in favor of bass, drums, and electronic samples.  At our shows, the audience is part of the band.  That's what makes playing each show uniquely exciting and inspiring. We will give you 100% every time because we truly love what we do.  Hopefully, you give us 100% back".