Lollapalooza – INDIE ROCK CAFE

Lollapalooza 2008 Kicks off with Radiohead, Raconteurs, Bloc Party, Cat Power and Others

Posted on 08/02/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Lollapalooza 2008 kicked off today in Chicago’s Grant Park. The event set for this weekend (August 1-3) features dozens of top indie artists and bands is expected to sell out of tickets, especially the high-priced three-day pass.

Friday’s Lollapalooza 2008 line-up includes popular indie bands like Bloc Party, The Raconteurs, The Kills, Mates of State, Rogue Wave, Holy Fuk, Yeasayer, Gogol Bordello and Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks.For reasons unknown to IRC, Radiohead is not being webcasted during what is expected to be a nearly three-hour set.

Other artists performing on Friday (but not via the webcast) include Black Keys, The Black Lips, Cat Power, VHS or BETA, The Cool Kids, Manchester Orchestra, Louis XIV, Enemy UK, CSS and more.

If you’ve forgiven AT&T Blue Room for censoring Eddie Vedder (who called out Bush’s ruinationof the world) at last year’s Lollapalooza, then you can watch performances throughoutthe weekend (provided you have a beefy Internet connection and fast computer – and that AT&T has enough pipes set-up).

Saturday’s Lolla line-up for the AT&T webcast includes The Gutter Twins, The Go! Team, DeVotchka,Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene and Wilco. On Sunday, you can watch The Whigs, Office,G Love & Special Sauce, Blues Traveler, John Bulter Trio, Flogging Molly, Love and Rockets, The National.

Not featured on the Blue Room on Saturday are bands like Okkervil River, Battles, Brand New and for the hard rock fans, Rage Against the Machine. Sunday’s Lollapalooza line-up also features The Weakerthans, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Iron & Wine, Nine Inch Nails, Love and Rockets and Kayne West.

All-in-all, the line-up is not as powerful as Lollapalooza 2007, but there’s still enough power house rock and indie to keep fans entertained.

AT&T Blue Room webcast from Lollapalooza.

Lollapalooza 2008 Line Up is Official: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, RATM, Wilco, Kayne West, MGMT, BSS and More

Posted on 04/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Looks like there will be a lot more lollas than loozas for Lollapalooza 2008. While there are some great artists set to play, Lolla 08 doesn’t match up to the powerhouse lineup for Lollapalooza 2007. (PDF file). Here’s our report from Lollapalooza 2007.

Stay tuned for Lollapalooza 2008 lineup artist and group profiles, MP3s and streams, links, photos and more Lolla 07 videos.

The official line-up for Lollapalooza 2008 is out thanks to an early leak from The Chicago Sun Times. The Lollapaloozer’s organizers ‘official’ line-up announcement set for today at 8 a.m. EST.

Here’s the poster we made up in like 15 minutes after hearing the announcement Sunday night (I know Lolla’s is better, but ours was first) : |

Other artists and groups confirmed for Lolla 08 (not listed in the unofficial Lollapalooza poster above):

The Raconteurs
Mark Ronson
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Dierks Bentley
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk
Your Vegas
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
Steel Train
Jamie Lidell
Bang Camaro
Butch Walker
Tally Hall
Spank Rock
White Lies
Brazilian Girls
Magic Wands
Chromeo
Electric Touch
Duffy
Innerpartysystem
The Postelles
The Parlor Mob
Bald Eagle
Mason Jennings
Krista
Ha Ha Tonka
Grizzly Bear
We Go To 11
Sofia Talvik
Booka Shade
Santogold
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Foals
Uffie
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
K’NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner

Check back for profiles of Lollapalooza’s 2008 line up artists and groups, plus videos, MP3s, news, stage and location information, schedules, maps, Lolla links and more.

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Best of Lollapalooza 2007 Videos, Vol. II – LCD Soundsystem, Muse and Regina Spector

Posted on 04/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

(photo by tmesis)

The Lollapalooza 2008 official line-up is supposedly just hours away, so in the meantime, so here are some of the best video performances of Lollapalooza 2007, including LCD Soundsystem, Muse and Regina Spektor. The first set of best videos from Lolla 07 include Pearl Jam and Daft Punk.

LCD Soundsystem is one of the ‘rapid risers’ in the indie music world offering fans a mix of punk rock styles with electronic beats and keyboards. This clip of their performance performing “All My Friends” at Lollapalooza 2007 helped the band add fuel to their own fire, becoming one of the hottest new bands of 2007. In fact, they were nominated for a number of music awards this year, including a Grammy (the Grammy people know good music?)

Muse performs “Take A Bow” during a live set at Lolla 2007. This video features
a lengthy introduction by some Vegas showman in a fettered yellow jumpsuit and a long audio quote, with the words accompanying on screen, by JFK about the threats to our liberties (which are just about all gone now, thanks George!). Altogether, this is one of the best videos from Lollapalooza 2007. Another shout out to tacvbo.

Regina Spektor performs “Après Moi” in this video performance at Lolla 2007. The video is from the official AT&T Blue Tooth live cast, so the quality is excellent.

Check out Best Lollapalooza Videos, Vol. 1 and official AT&T live casts from Lollapalooza 2007.

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Best of Lollapalooza 2007 Videos, Vol. I – Pearl Jam and Daft Punk

Posted on 04/06/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

While waiting for the official Lollapalooza 2008 line-up, here’s a look back at Lollapalooza 2007’s best performances. Enjoy.

The grunge/alt rock legend Pearl Jam performs “Daughter” and then eases into Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”. Always willing to expose the ills of corporations and politicians, Eddie Vedder changes up the lyrics in ABITW to “George Bush leave this world alone/George Bush find yourself another home.”

Those lines were censored from the official AT&T Blue Room ‘live’ (obviously delayed) cast of Lollapalooza 2007, which created a huge uproar in the mainstream and blog music press. AT&T called the censoring of Vedder’s words a ‘mistake’ with the video stream. Yeah, right.

This next clip is from the electronic lightshow duo Daft Punk performing “Robot Rock” with a very interesting and familiar intro. This is a good video, but it gets shaky once the grooves and beats really get moving. It’s obvious that amateur videographer tacvbo was being bumped into, but strangely or not, it gives the video an added sense of excitement. Sound quality is excellent for a YouTube concert video.

Did you say more Daft Punk? Cool. Here’s a nine-minute long compilation of Daft Punk’s set during Lollapalooza 2007 meticulously spliced together by YouTuber trunts297. The shots are further from the stage and there’s the shakiness factor (when will YouTube give us tripods?), but overall it’s a must-see for DP fans. Sound quality is good.

Stay tuned, more best videos from Lolla 2007 coming soon…

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Chicago Tribune’s Wishy-Washy Report of ‘Headliners’ for Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Feeds Rumor Mill

Posted on 03/08/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are reported to be two of the “headliners” at Lollapalooza 2008, according to a wishy-washy report published by The Chicago Tribune last night.

The Tribune article seems to play in to the non-stop rumor game – not a good thing for a journalism organization.

The headline of the article itself implies Radiohead will headline Lollapalooza, the opening paragraph of the story states they are “expected” to perform at Lolla and the following paragraph states Radiohead has been “confirmed” and in the same paragraph the Tribune’s catch word of the day – “expected” – appears again.

That’s not just lousy journalism, but the hype comes suspiciously close to the implication that the Tribune is trying to pump some life into a local festival that some readers of this blog have ‘written off’ for 2008. Lollapalooza was canceled in 2004 after weak ticket sales, but came back strong in 2005 with some 65,000 tickets sold.

All I Need – Radiohead from In Rainbows

Isobel – Bjork (2007 Lollapalooza headline artist)

Listen to past Lollapalooza performances from archive.org

Furthermore, aside from the fact (despite the Tribune’s rumor-mill reporting) that not one artist or group has been officially confirmed to perform at this year’s Lollapalooza Festival, the Tribune makes no mention of the usually costly tickets (ranging from $65 a day up to $195 for a three-day pass in 2007, a 30% increase from the previous year’s price of $150).

Lollapalooza 2008 is set to take place in Chicago’s Grant Park August 1-3. Early bird tickets go on sale March 25th. Apparently, the early bird tickets that went on sale this week were gone in a matter of hours with many potential ticket buyers complaining about the reliability of the online early bird purchasing process.

According to the Tribune (and obviously you’ll have to take this with a grain of salt), Lollapalooza festival organizers will release the entire lineup sometime in the ‘next few weeks.’

Let’s just hope that the long wait will be worth it in the end, although it would be nice if they held the event in any other month but August (got to sell those drinks to make the vendor unions happy).

If last year’s lineup at Lollapalooza is any indication of the lineup for 2008, then it’s safe to say there’s going to be a lot more lolla than looza.

Here is an article about last year’s Lollapalooza, including videos of the performers.

If you didn’t hear about last year’s controversy regarding AT&T’s censoring of Pearl Jam, check out the link to read about it.

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Lollapalooza 2007 Special Edition: Music Video Performances

Posted on 08/31/200712/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Missed out on Lollapalooza? Well, don’t sweat it.

IRC has put together a hot compilation of videos from festival goers and mainstream media highlighting the indie rock and pop artists that helped make Lollapalooza 2007 a great success.

Even threats of thunderstorms were not going to allow the feast of music to be interrupted, although there were a few, brief showers, which you can imagine was a nice relief from the searing heat and icky humidity that has made it an unusually warm summer in the midwestern United States.

Don’t miss reviews and postings for festivals still yet to take place, such as Austin City Limits Festival, Monolith, Download Festivals, Vegoose and many more.

Check out YouTube videos from Lollapalooza (videos have been approved for quality) and other Lolla links.

LCD Soundsystem at Lollapalooza 2007 (from AT&T Blue Room)
– Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
– North American Scum
– Time to Get Away

Pete Yorn (from AT&T Blue Room) at Lollapalooza 2007
– Closet
– Young Folks
– Policies

Son Volt from Lollapalooza 2007 (from AT&T Blue Room video)
– Afterglow 61
– Underground Dream
– The Search

Various videos from Lolla 07:

Daft Punk
Daft Punk Awesome Light Show
Muse – Apocalypse Please
Muse – Starlight
Spoon – Turn My Camera On
Motion City Soundtrack – short clip 30 seconds
Interpol – Heinrich Maneuver – partial clip
Kings of Leon with Eddy Vedder
Silversun Pickups (35 second bite)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
Dax Riggs – How Long The Night Was
Back Door Slam – Lonely For You

Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago Features Amazing Line-up of Artists; Include Live Webcast

Posted on 08/05/200703/06/2016 by Max Hammer

Tens of thousands of music fans have assembled in Chicago’s Grant Park on the shores of Lake Michigan to attend the three-day annual Lollapalooza Festival.

Despite increasing clouds late Saturday and the chance for showers on Sunday, lower ticket sales than organizers would have wanted (there are still tickets available on the Lollapalooza website, but no word, of course of how many. Nevertheless, a sea of people have gathered in Chicago for one of the most celebrated music festivals in North America.

For rock and pop music fans, especially those with modern tastes, the dizzing array of artists and bands playing at the festival is overwhelming, and unfortunately conflicting as there are many cases in which popular artists and groups are playing at the same time but on different stages, making it a hard choice for fans. Altogether, there are some 100 performers playing on nine stages for three dog days of summer.

Some of the top billed acts include popular indie and rock artists such as Muse, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Spoon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Pete Yorn, Peter Bjorn and John, Regina Spektor, Snow Patrol, Blue October, Paolo Nutini, !!!, Yo La Tengo, Peter Bjorn and John, Annuals, TV on the Radio, MIA, Tokyo Police Club, The Fratellis, Blonde Redhead, LCD Soundsystem, Motion City Sountrack, Stephen Marley and the festival-closer, Pearl Jam.

Note: Check back later when I will provide links to each individual artist playing at the festival in case you missed it, plus official event video, photographs as well as amateur film and photos (even though they are not allowed) and whatever else I can find.

In addition, there will be a listing of upcoming festivals and other concerts of many of the best indie bands as well as those lesser known. There will also be some mainstream rock and pop, but that is of course not the emphasis, thus the name of this site. ;-)

Read more and view the live webcast at our sister site IndieRockConcerts.com.