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
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Over the weekend, a new Nine Inch Nails song emerged, and that would seem to have been the warmup for this morning's wee-hour release of the slip, a.k.a. Halo 27; the 10-track, 43-minute album is free to all takers as long as you give the NIN site's robots an e-mail address. "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years—this one's on me," Reznor said in a parenthetical aside on his blog. Someone buy that man a protein shake! Details of the release after the jump.
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Another day, another festival lineup announcement; this time the Voodoo Music Experience, scheduled for October 24-26 in New Orleans. No real surprises though, with Sasquatch's R.E.M. joining Bumbershoot's Stone Temple Pilots and Pemberton/Lollapalooza/Virgin Festival's Nine Inch Nails. The local acts that make Voodoo a little more interesting than your average fest include the Neville Brothers and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Also a nice touch: not inviting Tiesto back. [
