metrochicago:

We just released some more tickets for Chance The Rapper’s shows this weekend - limited quantities available (25th, 26th). If you’re coming to either show, be sure to pick up a screen print designed by our own Dan Polyak!

Calling off the search for Sugarman. Review of Rodriguez at Arie Crown in Chicago.

Fall Out Boy had a big week in Chicago with stops at JBTV and the Riviera. We had a writer at both. Read the review.

Kurt Vile is all hair. Look at our live pics from last week’s show at Lincoln Hall for proof.

Hour-by-hour Lollapalooza schedule out. Are female artists getting the shaft?

“The reggae-dusted “Ya Hey” reaches into the Old Testament for a burning bush allegory and is sadly sabotaged by the chanting of what sounds like a chorus of those Twinkie-shaped minions from Despicable Me while “Worship You” gallops with the fervor of the Lone Ranger in hot pursuit of a stagecoach robber.”

Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires Of The City reviewed.

Wish you were in Florida? Some of us will just have to settle for these stellar shots from Monster Engery’s Welcome To Rockville fest in Jacksonville with Papa Roach, Stone Sour, and Alice In Chains.