Nine Inch Nails!!!!!
Radiohead!!!!!
Kanye West!!!!!
Rage Against The Machine!!!!!


And I have my fucking ticket already!!!!!

Lollapalooza’s Austin, Texas-based promoters C3 Presents are not scheduled to make their official announcement of the acts performing at this year’s weekend-long music festival in Grant Park until Monday, but the Sun-Times has confirmed through industry sources all of the major artists.
Art-rock giants Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, the reunited Rage Against the Machine, Jack White’s side project the Raconteurs and hometown heroes Wilco and Kanye West will headline the main stages on Aug. 1-3.

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.

Advance three-day passes are now on sale for a limited time for $190 (after which the price increases to $205) at www.lollapalooza.com.

KICK MY ASS AND CALL ME DEBBIE, WE'RE SEEING NIN AND RADIOHEAD THIS AUGUST!!!

i'm also very excited that girl talk and the go! team are playing lolla.


GIRL TALK


THE GO! TEAM

i SO want to make this a sticky thread.

Make it so Debbie!

I've got to see this...

Slave2daGroove said:

my guess is that there'll be much more of a furor over this on monday when it's officially announced to the press, and we can say "oh yeah, we posted that on friday, before all the tickets sold out. OLD NEWS."



speaking of which, i got my hair cut today and when i told my stylist who was announced for lolla this year, she almost nicked my jugular.

Thanks Anx for the hookup! You're a dear dear friend.

GangstaFam said:

it's gonna be the kitty party of the year.

Anxiety said:

I can't believe how well it's all coming together. This is some truly ordained debauchery you're cooking up here.

GangstaFam said:

i'm not playin!

Anxiety said:

I can tell. And aren't I the lucky one for it!?

Is there a full list yet that includes everybody and not just the headliners?

GangstaFam said:

not until first thing monday morning.

Anxiety said:

Where'd you get such accurate early rumors?

GangstaFam said:

it was published in the chicago sun times music column this morning. stymie called me at 8:45 this morning to read it to me.

Anxiety said:

Yeah, I know. She called me too.

But you predicted NIN and Radiohead like 3 weeks ago.

GangstaFam said:

every once in a while i'm accidentally right about something.

Anxiety said:

Aww, give yourself some credit. You toad rocked it!

So can we get a head count here?

GangstaFam said:

orgnote

There is a fair about of crossover with festivals on the east coast, but still... I'm thinking about it.



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http://www.lollapalooza.c...ter_08.pdf

Stymie said:

of course it has to be a PDF link, which take FOREVER to load on my laptop!!!

can't wait can't wait can't wait...

Anxiety said:

Mark Ronson and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings are playing too.

Stymie said:

*AND* love and rockets!!!!

Anxiety said:

I have no idea who that is but

Stymie said:

love and rockets is 3/4ths of the band bauhaus.

the guitar player, daniel ash, has been my official rock star boyfriend throughout most of my adult life.



sexiest. 80s hair. EVER.

Anxiety said:

Is that how they look right now?

Stymie said:

that video was from 1989 - the bass player looks EXACTLY the same, and daniel ash looks mildly different. he kinda has a glam-biker look these days, with sunglasses, leather jackets and feather boas.

oh, and i've been wanting to check out the sharon jones album for a long time and now i have the perfect reason to kick my ass and finally go get her CD. i'm sure i'm going to love it.

and ya know i'm nuts about mark ronson.