News - Death Grips Cancels Chicago Shows (UPDATE)

This whole thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder. After Death Grips unexpectedly bailed on a Lollapalooza After-Party Show this Friday, they angered a lot of people. And I mean pissed them off. Well, now they've dropped from the Lollapalooza line-up, and forced Shaun White's band, Bad Things to headline in their place. This all happens after Death Grips received a suicide note from an anonymous fan. The note reads:

SUBJECT: ready DATE: July 9

I am ready to take my own life. Many bad experiences led me to this dark void that I am locked in. Maybe by my own hands? I don't really care anymore. I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the other side. the side that is locked away deep inside a person. I am mad. Mad all the time and depressed all the time. I can't take it. I'm not afraid of dying but i am afraid that I can't hear DG in the after life if there is such a thing. I don't know, but I hope your music transcends to the unknown. A place where DG's essence exists. A place where art exists. I love art. That's the one thing that kept me alive? this long. So just to ease minds, DG didn't "influence" me to do this. this is my own fucking choice. but thanks for making my life a little better. you're my absolute fave and I will fight the gods if they don't allow me to follow DG's efforts can't see Earth. Anyways, continue doing great things. I love you Stefan, Zach, and Andy.

I will be watching.

-AJJ

The suicide note was also printed on a giant banner and hung from the stage at the Bottom Lounge show on Friday. Personally, I am confused and lost by this whole thing. But, I also feel this is what Death Grips wants, and there's something behind it. After announcing their drop from these shows, it was also announced they dropped their date at Osheaga Fest in Quebec. Is this the new way of telling the world you aren't a band anymore? Art, man. 

News - Death Grips Skips Lollapalooza After Party Show

Apparently Death Grips decided not to play a scheduled show last night in Chicago. The show was a sold out Lollapalooza After Party show at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, and when the show was supposed to begin, Death Grips stayed back stage and instead played their music over the PA system. The venue issued refunds, but people were still very unhappy about this and began destroying the bands equipment. Below is a video of someone announcing that Death Grips would not be playing, and that the show was cancelled.

Most people took to twitter to express their anger over this. Personally, I think it's something Death Grips would do and it makes me like them more. To each his own, right?

Spotlight - Death Grips

Death Grips are an experimental hip hop group hailing from Sacramento, California and play a dark, unsettling style of music. Consisting of MC Ride doing vocals, Zach Hill (formally of Hella and Boredoms) and Andy "Flatliner" Morin. The trio collaborates to create a shocking blend of punk rock, electronic noise and hip hop. Forming in 2010, Death Grips released their first EP, "Exmilitary" after recording a 7-song self-titled EP the day they formed. 2012 spawned two full lengths from the trio, "The Money Store", and "No Love Deep Web". If you're into any of the styles blended into this hellish monster of a band, definitely give them a listen.
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