Friday, September 28, 2012

Tiesto Postpones College Invasion Tour Dates

Unfortunately due to  a back injury, Tiesto has to postpone and reschedule his October Club Live College invasion tour dates. What does that mean to us Chicago-ans?  Well the October 13 UIC Pavilion date has been moved to DECEMBER 7.

For more information about the tour reschedule dates follow this LINK.


Monday, September 24, 2012

SHM One Last Tour Coming to Chicago February 20



Huge news!!! Swedish house Mafia announced the final leg of their world tour, One Last Tour and Chicago is proud to host the superstar Djs!! They will be performing in the United Center on February 20, tickets go on sale Friday September 28th at Noon through tickekmaster. Are you as excited as I am? 

Swedish House Mafia will be releasing their second compilation album entitled "Until Now" on October 19. it will serve as the soundtrack to the tour. Follow the link the check out n preview the track list.

Check out their new music video for  "Don't you worry child" in the mean time.



Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Chicago Winter Concert Schedule

So summer is over, and you are feeling blue? Don't be sad We here at Undercover Clubber came up with a very extensive and detailed list of upcoming EDM concerts and special events from today September 18 all the way till new Years Eve. Looks like there'll be a lot to do this winter.

September


9/19/2012 tyDi at Studio Paris Get your tickets here!
9/20/2012 Yolanda Be Cool at the MiD  Get your tickets here!
9/20/2012 Angerfist w/ Lady Faith – Hard Dace Event at V-Live  Get your tickets here!
9/21/2012 John Digweed – Monty Look – Zebo and Mayhem  at the MiD Get your tickets here!
9/21/2012 Marco Bailey at Spy Bar Get your tickets here!
9/22/2012 SGM Special Edition at the Parthenon Get your tickets here!
9/22/2012 Cosmic Gate at the MiD Get your tickets here!
9/22/2012 Andy Moor at Vision Get your tickets here!
9/22/2012 Nadia Ali at Enclave Get your tickets here!
9/26/2012 Dirty South at Studio Paris Get your tickets here!
9/27/2012 Lazy Rich at the MiD Get your tickets here!
9/28/2012 RedBull Thre3style Pre Qualifier 4 at The MiD Get your tickets here!
9/29/2012 Max Vangelli at The MiD Get your tickets here!
9/29/2012 Christopher Lawrence at Vision Get your tickets here!
9/29/2012 Datsik with Delta Heavy, Bare Noize and AFK at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!

October

10/4/2012 Michael Woods at The MiD Get your tickets here!
10/6/2012 Congorock at The MiD Get your tickets here!
10/6/2012 Bass On The Lake at Navy Pier (Cruise) Get your tickets here!
10/12/2012 Sasha – Zebo –Funk Shui and Mayhem at The MiD Get your tickets here!
10/13/2012 Tiesto with DaDa Life at UIC Pavilion  Get your tickets here!
10/17/2-12 Miike Snow at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!
10/18/2012 Inna Live – Beltek at V-Live Get your tickets here!
10/20/2012 Zedd at The MiD Get your tickets here!
10/21/2012 Araabmuzik at The MiD Get your tickets here!
10/25/2012 Headhunterz – Dj Caffeine – Hard Style Event at V-Live Get your tickets here!
10/26/2012 Rusko with Marty Party and Sinden at Aragon Ballroom Get your tickets here!
10/24/2012 Justice at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!
10/26/2012 Freaky Deaky Part 1 of 2 Bloody Beetroots and Wolfgang Gartner at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!
10/27/2012 Knife Party – Tommy trash and Kill the Noise at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!

November

11/2/2012 The Magician -  Jerome Lol – Zebo  adbd Mayhem at The MiD Get your tickets here!
11/10/2012 Dash Berlin in Cocnert in Aragon Ballroom Get your tickets here!
11/15/2012 Foreign beggars – Tommy Lee & Dj Aero at V-Live Get your tickets here!
11/16/2012 James Egbert at Bottom Lounge Get your tickets here!
11/17/2012 Bass Kitchen: Figure –Stratus and PHNM atBottom Lounge Get your tickets here!
11/21/2012 Sam Coppas Productions -27 Godina at Excaliber/Vision Get your tickets here!
11/24/2012 Mimosa with The Cool Kids,  JMSN and Cosmic Revenge at Congress Theater Get your tickets here!

December 

12/15/2012 Steve Aoki with 12th Planet and R3hab at Congress Theater  Get your tickers here!
12/31/2012 Big Gigantic Aragon Ballroom Get your tickets here!


Have a great couple of months!! You'll be able to catch us at some of these events :-)

North Coast Music Festival 2012


Labor Day weekend 2012


It’s been two weeks since “summer’s last stand” or Chicago’s 3rd annual North Coast Music Festival and I’m still having a hard time putting into words a concise non rambling review.  I’ve also been attempting to judge North Coast by its own merit but I do have to compare it to Spring Awakening (which I attended) in order to make some of my points make more sense.

The Pros:

 Lineup – Unlike Spring Awakening North Coast focuses on 3 genres of music not 1; hip hop, EDM and jam bands vs. just EDM respectively. This is not to say that Spring Awakening was not a great festival to attend, but it’s good to get away from the heavy bass lines and drops even for a few minutes to catch your breath. The music selection also ties into the crowd.

Crowd- With a mix of new age hippies, hipsters (for the jam bands) hip hop enthusiasts and of course the ragers, you saw a pretty diverse crowd which added to the festival experience. This is somewhat comparable to Electric Forest minus the hip hop enthusiasts.  

Vendors- I know there are many vendors at each music festival one attends, but North Coast’s selection of merchandise, food and beverage vendors seemed a lot larger. Some did run out of water towards the end of Sunday, but the variety of products attendees had to choose from should be commended.

Prices – Clothing was roughly 20-25$ a Dos Equis beer was $6 red bull $3 and water $2. I don’t think those are bad prices at all when other festivals would charge you $5 for water or upwards of $8 for a beer.

Other – With Groupon hosting its own huge tent with a silent disco (everyone entering received headphones with 2 channels, each channel had a different DJ spinning you could alternate between the two) and Dos Equis having its own birling arena, it kept festival goers occupied while they waited for their favorite acts to hit the stage. There were some performers spotted that walked around all which contributes to a festival feel.

The Cons:

Location – Last time I checked React Presents claims that over 45000 people attended North Coast over the 3 day weekend.  That’s only 5000 less of what React claims showed up to their first Spring Awakening Music Festival. The difference is that the 50000+ at Soldier Field had a lot more room to move around. There was never a time where you couldn’t get through from one stage to the next. This should be addressed if North Coast continues to grow in popularity. Union Park might not cut it in the next few years.   

Stage Set up- I don’t think I’m alone when I say that I think the North and Coast Stage are way too close to each other.  This not only left many gaps in scheduling acts for both stages (when you look at the schedule, acts alternated between the two stages) but also caused a huge stagnant crowd to form very close to  the main part of the festival.  My suggestion is consolidate to 3 stages giving enough room for maneuverability between stages or maybe put in some kind of other entertainment in the open space. This would also potentially allow that one stage (Dos Equis Stage) to be closer to the major crowds and not stuck in a corner of the park.

Water Refill Stations – With the crowd getting larger each day of the festival which actually caused some beverage tents to run out of water; couple that with Chicago humidity (especially Sunday after a drizzly sat evening) it was a no brainer for North Coast organizers to have water refill stations set up around the festival grounds. The only problem was, I was only able to locate one, which had a 30 minute wait for it by Sunday. Now I know it wasn’t like Spring Awakening where we had the scorching heat of a mid July Chicago summer, but there should have been more water refill stations.

Summary - All in all North Coast Music festival is a great way to end your summer, with a variety of acts and activities that will keep you entertained all 3 days of the weekend. But be prepared to fight your way through the crowds progressively throughout the weekend which makes getting around and getting some food or beer a hassle.I will point out that even though Union Park gets filled quickly it is easily accessible by the green line (even though the stop was packed with people in the evening see picture on the right) and street parking was not that hard to find within a few blocks of the entrance all 3 days.  

Below you'll see a recap of the artists I went and saw, for those that i recorded a video theyre located below as well. Also My picture enjoy.

Day 1 Recap
Knife Party

Paul Oakenfold

Axwell

Day 2 Recap
Tommy Trash

Le Bounce
The Rapture

Alesso
Atmosphere
Girl Talk


Day 3 Recap
Savoy

Modestep

Chuckie

Steve Aoki

Avi Sic and Joe Bryl (9pm Groupon Silent Disco)
Pretty Lights

Steve Angello







And now for some photos. 




  


 

 





 

 

 


 
 

 

 


Saturday, September 15, 2012

SAMF Official After Movie

React Presents finally came out with an official after movie for Spring Awakening Music Festival 2012. If you missed it check out the craziness, and well see you next year.


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Monday, September 10, 2012

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tiƫsto & Steve Aoki "Tornado" *OFFICIAL VIDEO*

Tiesto & Steve Aoki's "Tornado" REMIX EP coming out Tuesday September 11th featuring remixes by Kill The Noise feat Polina, Felix Cartal and Angger Dimas on iTunes and Beatport. To promote the ep the music video for "Tornado" came out today,check it out. what do you think of it?