Chicago Weekend Fun!

Every year Lollapalooza is the concert event of the summer in Chicago. It looks to me like it draws more people to Grant Part than even the Taste of Chicago does in 3 days. Everyone who is a fan of the Lollapalooza concert series and festival has been waiting for the lineup to be announced and I just got the email announcing it today. These are the performers and bands lined up to play this summer’s Lollapalooza 2008: (in the longest run-on sentence ever)

Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West (so much for no repeats), Wilco, The Raconteurs, Love and Rockets, Gnarles Barkley, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Cat Power, Lupe Fiasco, The National, G. Love and Special Sauce, Sharon Jones and The Dap- Kings, Explosion in the Sky, Brand New, Gogol Bordella, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Dierks Bentley, Okkervil River, Amadou and Mariam, Blues Traveler, John Butler Trio, Girl Talk, CSS, Battles, Jamie Lidell, Butch Walker, Mates of State, Spank Rock, Brazilian Girls, Chromeo, Duffy, The Kills, Rouge Wave, The Go! Team, Mason Jennings, The Gutter Twins, Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, The Weakerthans, Booka Shade, Santogold, Black Kids, Black Lips, Louis XIV, Dr. Dog, Nicole Atkins and The Sea, The Ting Tings, Kid Sister, Office, The Cool Kids, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Does it Offend You Yea?, The Whigs, Manchester Orchestra, Foals, Uffie, The Octopus Project, Cadence Weapon, Ferras, De Novo Dahl, Noah and The Whale, Margot and The Nuclear So n So’s, K’NAAN, Serena Ryder, Newton Faulkner, Your Vegas, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and The True Loves, Steel Train, Bang Camaro, The Blakes, Tally Hall, White Lies, Magic Wands, Electric Touch, Interpartysystem, The Postelles, The Parlor Mob, DJ Bald Eagle, Krista, Ha Ha Tonka, Witchcraft, We Go To 11 and Sofia Talvik.

Click the schedule at left to open the image in a new window and view the bands at each stage all day for the concerts.

Ok, how many of those names did they just make up and how many are real bands? I must be getting old because not only have I not heard of 90% of them, I am not sure why they chose most of those names or if they are real. But then again I have heard that you should go to Lollapalooza just to discover a bunch of new talent and songs you haven’t heard of yet but are totally good. So, maybe you aren’t supposed to know them yet.

Anyway, for what it is worth, that is the list, check out Lollaplooza.com to read bios on all the artists and bands as well as see the lineup video, download the lineup poster and to buy tickets for this huge 3-day music event in Chicago this summer.