# Lollapalooza’s 2008 Line-up Rumors, Fakes and Speculation

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2008/03/lollapaloozas-2008-line-up-rumors-fakes-and-speculation/
- Published: 2008-03-17T19:24:00-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

(Above: This is a fake that has been circulating the Internets for the past month;
it is not the official Lollapalooza lineup poster for 2008 – notice the poor Photoshop
work on the “8” – somebody couldn’t find the correct font match.)

Festival organizers for Lollapalooza have yet to officially announce one artist 
for the August 1-3 annual rock fest in Chicago’s Grant Park.

But that hasn’t stopped the rumors, speculation, “wish lists” and flat out fabrications
for Lollapalooza’s 2008 lineup.

Just this past week, the amps were turned up on the rumor machine with magazines
like Paste and Rolling Stone newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the The Grand
Rapids Press announcing that artists and bands like Rage Against the Machine, Wilco,
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are ‘rumored’ to be headliners for Lolla 08.

The Lollapalooza message boards have been lit up for weeks containing topic threads
and replies for “Wanna Make a Band Suggestion?” and various other messages of “hopefuls”
that are updated almost hourly with eager fans pumping out some enticing, but again
totally wishful, line up schedules.

Here are a couple of tracks from the ‘best-bet’ rumored artists set to perform at
Lolla 2008:

In the meantime, flashback to approximately 18 months ago: Wilco playing “Heavy 
Metal Drummer” at Lolla 06. Enjoy. If you are waiting for the lineup to be announced
before buying your tickets, please use the comments section below to say so and 
why. (I’m curious.)

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