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schedules

Lollapalooza: It's All In The Timing

The schedule for this year's Lollapalooza has been posted, and a cursory glance reveals some huge conflicts between the festival's many corporately sponsored stages. In particular, something tells me that Kanye West is going to throw an ego-sized tantrum once he realizes that he's been scheduled to play opposite Nine Inch Nails on the festival's closing night, although I doubt the government officials who allowed Grant Park to be taken over by the show will be too keen on having him reschedule his set to early Sunday morning. If you need to make your plans for the first weekend of August ASAP and the server is slammed, clicking the portapotties will lead you to our replicas of their helpful schedule-gifs. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
673 views, 13 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: @Ned Raggett: What, no Wilco love? *furiously deletes as a Facebook friend* more »

Perry Farrell will continue his mission to indoctrinate a whole new generation into the ways of satellite parties, unfortunate cardigans, and people making great pets this September, when Kidzapalooza breaks free from the shackles of Lollapalooza and becomes its own standalone event at the Hollywood Bowl. The show will feature both performances by Farrell and "special guests" and booths that offer breakdancing lessons and "rock and roll hairdos," whatever that means. Me, I'm just hoping that this means some bright-eyed entrepreneur out there will try and use Kidzapalooza to bring juice box-sized versions of smart drinks to market. Remember those? They always got so gritty when you got to the bottom! [Hollywood Bowl / NME]

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premature announcements

Full Lollapalooza Line-Up Announced, Perry Peeved At "Pepe Le Pew"

Perry Farrell thinks little of Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times writer who leaked this year's headliners for Lollapalooza. "This guy, he's a stinker, so it was kind of like having a skunk at the party. So what do we do? Well, I think we should make him the stinky mascot. ... That's what I'm going to do. ... Pepe LePew," sneered the festival figurehead and lost cause. Responded Jim, "Wasn't Pepe the one who always got the girls? What the heck is wrong with that?" Actually, Pepe didn't get the girls, DeRo. Pepe was an overly amorous skunk that pathologically assaulted cats that had accidentally walked against wet paint. And the cats didn't like it. Anyhooo, the full line-up for Lollapalooza, which takes place Aug. 1-3 in Chicago, is out now. Behold! More »

9:00 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,523 views, 13 comments

Latest by katieee: Perry's just steamed because of some criticism DeRogatis threw his way last year regarding the increased presence of corporate sponsorship, etc. at Lollapalooza. Not to mention its inane choke hold on summer concert bookings in Chicago - bands can't play more »

lineups

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

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. More »

10:40 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Anthony Miccio
782 views, 10 comments

everyone thinks he's funny

The Miley Ray Cyrus At Lollapalooza Rumor: Ha Ha... Ha?

The announcement of this year's Lollapalooza lineup is scheduled for April 7, but unsurprisingly, the message-board speculation has been fast and fierce. Bands that have already confirmed their appearance include Bloc Party, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, and Dierks Bentley, but what of the big surprises scheduled for the announcement? Well, the Daily Swarm combed through the lineup-speculation threads on the official Lolla message boards so we didn't have to, and they found a post by a Cyrus family insider claiming that Hannah Montana would absolutely, definitely, 100% for sure be playing: More »

4:15 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,500 views, 6 comments

Latest by Manifestation: Too bad the post is fundamentally flawed. "I know a lot of people in the music industry. My uncle is friends with Miley Cyrus's father. And I asked him to ask about Lollapalooza. Miley's father has confirmed she will be the more »

Oh yeah, with all the They Might Be Giants videos and rhinestones and my general Dante-from-Clerks attitude this week, I almost forgot to mention that Rage Against The Machine and Wilco have been added to the list of Bands That Might Be Playing Lollapalooza (But Maybe Not). Perez Hilton unavailable for comment at post time. (Give it a couple hours.) [Chicago Sun-Times via Blabbermouth

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oh, internet

News That Radiohead And Nine Inch Nails May Be Headlining Lollapalooza Prompts More Comment-Section Humorlessness Than Ever

Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot broke the news that Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are probably headlining this year's edition of Lollapalooza on his blog, and the comment-section posturers were out in full force, hoping to let people know that they were, in fact, anonymously better than everyone else. To wit: "I paid $2 to see Radiohead in concert once back when I lived in NYC."; "The secret sale tickets sold out in something like 13 minutes this morning. No wonder you missed it."; and "Great! Can't wait to spend over $200 to hear these normally great bands sound abnormally mediocre thanks to generic festival audio mixing! Yeepee!" But my favorite comment has to be the one that was in response to someone trying to make a feeble joke about Radiohead's first big hit—you know, the one that they released when they were merely a bunch of 120 Minutes also-rans: More »

3:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,912 views, 13 comments

Latest by toast < x < staple gun: @drjimmy11: Did you just call License to Ill better than Paul's Boutique?! YOU ARE THE EXACT PERSON I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS THE BEASTIE BOYS BACK CATALOG WITH. more »

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Lollapalooza: Let The Not-Very-Convincing Fake Lineups Begin!

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God May Have Given Rock And Roll To You, But AT&T's Blueroom Wants To Take The "Profanity" Away

The controversy over AT&T's blueroom chopping out some anti-administration rhetoric from Pearl Jam's performance of "Another Brick In The Wall" at Lollapalooza heated up over the weekend, with Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis tying the incident into his tireless complaining about Lollapalooza's overwhelming corporate sponsorship, the Daily Swarm scouring message boards for incidents of the sound dropping out on other blueroom performers, and Wired's Listening Post blog finding that there was no "editing for content" clause in the release handed out to performers. One question that remains, though: Why is AT&T censoring for content in the first place, when its site makes no mention of the fact that live content is pre-screened before being beamed to the world? More »

12:15 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By mjohnston
346 views, 1 comment

Latest by Halfwit: I'm surprised that the artists weren't informed about this (and the political censorship is disturbing), but I thought it was assumed that a multinational (read "family friendly" corporations stream of any even would include a dump button. I remember watching more »

using the facilities

Summer Festivals: If They're Too Gross, Are You Too Old?

AV Club writer Scott Tobias' piece about his thoroughly unpleasant experience at Lollapalooza—which inspired him to say "fuck it" and throw in the towel right before one of the bands he really wanted to see was to take the stage—struck a chord with me, perhaps because it pretty much encapsulated the fears I had about every outdoor summer show I've attended and thought about attending this year. Overcrowding? Check. Sound bleeding from area to area, thanks to there being way too many stages? Yep. Porta-Potties that were placed on such an unstable patch of land, they actually trembled while people were trying to do their business? Oh. My. God. More »

2:15 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By mjohnston
1,695 views, 23 comments

Latest by G3K: @Maura: Yeah, I guess not having to sit down most of the time skews my perception as much or more. Duly noted. more »

blind items

It'll Take A Crack Team Of Readers To Solve This Lollapalooza Blind Item

From today's Gatecrasher: "Which troubled, hard-partying Lollapalooza performer cleared out a bathroom over the weekend in Chicago and then smoked what our spy-in-the-stall swears was a crack pipe?" Hmm! Well, it doesn't seem like there was a Moldy Peaches reunion on the bill, so they're out. Our guesses are after the jump. More »

8:48 AM on Wed Aug 8 2007
By mjohnston
6,615 views, 7 comments

Here on the East Coast, people have been getting in a lather about Social@Ross, the five-concert, $15,000 concert series. But where's the outrage at/snickering about Lollapalooza's VIP cabanas, which ran between $32,500 and $75,000 for the weekend? I can't believe I'm going to defend Social, but here goes: At least the Hamptons concerts had food that was a step up from tortilla chips and white wine—and no Mickey Avalon. Jeez, was last weekend an overmoneyed-ass horse race or what? [Chicago Tribune]

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concerts

The Great Summer-Festival Showdown: It Begins Today

This weekend, two huge summer festivals—Lollapalooza, at Chicago's Grant Park, and the Virgin Festival, at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course—are taking place, a curious quirk of scheduling that has resulted in the nation's outdoor-loving music fans to make Big Decisions. While fans of Interpol, Amy Winehouse, Modest Mouse, and TV On The Radio could go to either festival (if Richard Branson was smart, he'd set up a Virgin America-branded shuttle for bands playing both shows), those hoping to hear other artists weren't so lucky. If you're still on the fence about where your travel budget for the summer should go, we pit the festivals against each other, head-to-head style, after the jump: More »

1:38 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By mjohnston
631 views, 13 comments

Latest by HannibalV: Daft Punk was bloody amazing (no Kanye, though). The other big highlight--at least for this rapidly-aging ex-grunge boy--was the Polyphonic Spree leading the audience in a singalong of "Lithium". If I can be promised one moment a year that is more »

festivals

Lollapalooza: Let The Scheduling Conflicts Begin

The line-up for this year's overly sponsored Lollapalooza festival is up on the official site; start studying it now, so you'll be able to calculate just how much time you'll need to get from the Sherwin-Williams Klondike Bar Gazebo to the Tyson Chicken Tenders(TM) Shower Stalls. More »

9:15 AM on Wed Jun 13 2007
By Brian Raftery
527 views, 10 comments

lollapalooza

Lollapalooza Lineup Leaked: Finally, Pearl Jam And Mickey Avalon Will Share A Stage

Live Music Blog has the alleged lineup for Lollapalooza (as does The A.V. Club), which will take place at Chicago's Grant Park this August—it's a little bit '90s (Pearl Jam, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party), a little bit '00s (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio), and a little bit crummy (ugh, Mickey Avalon and Ghostland Observatory!). Also: Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem will be on the bill together, which should make for at least one blogworthy interaction. More »

6:44 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By mjohnston
2,002 views, 13 comments

Latest by septictank32: Old silverchair was great, they had two amazing albums-Frogstomp and Freak Show but now they dont play any of their gunge-Nirvana soundalike stuff. Their last three albums have primarily been Coldplay if Coldplay was from Down Under. Personally I dont more »

liner notes

Liner Notes: Can You Believe This Woman Needs New Management?

- Britney Spears and her long-time on-again, off-again manager Larry Rudolph may be splitting up. We're guessing that Rudolph is looking for a more stable client, like, say, the beatboxing ghost of Augusto Pinochet. [That Other Blog]
- No ticket-price surcharges for Lollapalooza! Instead, you'll have to pay by promising to see at least two (2) performances from boring but regionally beloved jam bands. [Pollstar]
- Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter wants his Vietnamese jail sentence to be ~~younger~~ shorter. [NME]

1:40 PM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,568 views, 3 comments

Latest by Hyman Decent: Britney just displaced Beth Ditto as the sexiest fat chick in rock. more »

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Lollapalooza Line-Up: The Rumor-Mongering Continues

A tipster passes along some more Lollapalooza news: More »

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For Vedder Or Worse, Here's Your Lollapalooza 2007 Headliner

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Pearl Jam—one of the few bands not to be featured on our highly speculative Lollapalooza chart—will headline this year's festival in Chicago. That's the first major act to confirm, though our tip line has also indicated that lower-on-the-bill acts Rhymefest and David Vandervelde are also going to be there. Any other info? Send it along to . More »

12:35 PM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Brian Raftery
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