Kanye West And Your Standard Alt-Rock Linchpins To Headline Lollapooza ‘08

jderogatis.jpg Days before the official announcement, Chicago journalist/R. Kelly snitch Jim “Idol Killer” DeRogatis already has the scoop on what bands will playing Lollapalooza 08. Main stages acts include Lush, Fishbone, Psychotronica, Rollins Band, Mighty Mighty Bossto..oh, how I kid! Headliners will include Kanye West, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, and the Raconteurs. No word on a Hole or Siouxsie & The Banshees reunion yet.

The Raconteurs, Wilco and West will each be making their second appearance at the reinvented destination festival. Other repeaters among the more than 100 acts on this year’s bill are Gnarls Barkley, the Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, G. Love & Special Sauce, Blues Traveler and Mates of State.

Quite a few of the other acts–including many of the most promising–have earlier performed at Chicago’s two independently produced music festivals, Pitchfork and Intonation. These include Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Office, the Cool Kids, Battles, the Go! Team, Jamie Lidell and Grizzly Bear.

So its obvious alt meets obvious hipster with a dash of obvious Kanye, right? I’m only jealous if John Popper jams with with the Jicks.

Lollapalooza 2008 headliners confirmed [Chicago Sun-Times]

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10 Responses to “Kanye West And Your Standard Alt-Rock Linchpins To Headline Lollapooza ‘08”

  1. by PengIn at 4:02 am

    I really wish DeRogatis weren’t so funny looking. I hate hating on the fat kid.

  2. by scarletvirtue at 4:16 am

    @Lucas Jensen: Me too.

    Maybe in some Alternate Universe (the same one where James Hetfield works at Taco Bell) Lush, The Bosstones, Rollins Band and all the other cool bands from the first 2-3 years of Lollapalooza are playing this year.

  3. by at 6:09 am

    Chintastic.

  4. by Oldboy at 6:16 am

    I’d like to join your cabal of Lush fans. Always liked that band. Thanks for getting our hopes up, dude….

  5. by Ned Raggett at 10:44 am

    Okay that photo.

    (I just saw a poster for Jared Leto-as-Mark David Chapman half an hour ago on my way into work and when I first saw the photo here…)

  6. by loudersoft at 10:47 am

    @Ned Raggett: Holy crap! YES!

    Can we expect a recording of a voicemail from someone chewing de Rogatis out for leaking this a la the Ryan Adams debacle?

  7. by Lucas Jensen at 10:53 am

    I got all excited about Lush playing for a half second there.

  8. by loudersoft at 10:57 am

    oh sorry for the typo…DeRogatis

    fixt

  9. by grainy16mm at 12:29 pm

    @Lucas Jensen:

    Oh. Me too, friend. Meeee toooo.

  10. by Silverfuture at 5:43 am

    @scarletvirtue: To be fair, I don’t think I’ve seen Nine Inch Nails since they were one of the cool bands at the first Lollapalooza…

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