Friday, April 10, 2009

April 21st can't come soon enough!

So I am going to Lollapalooza again this year. I didn't get to go to a music festival last summer year b/c of school and this year I most definitely plan on going to one. My cousin Andrew who lives in Chicago (across from Oprah's studio might I add) suggested Lollapalooza. Since I crashed at his place for the 2007 festival and had a blast, I of course agreed to do so again! I've been reading about the line up and getting more and more excited!

Check out the specuclation going on:

Everybody's getting antsy to hear who's playing the Lollapalooza festival, which takes place from Aug. 7 to 9 in Chicago's Grant Park — so much so that bloggers will even post "mostly true" lineups from so-called reputable sources.

Chicago Tribune and Billboard.com previously leaked that Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Kings Of Leon and Jane's Addiction will be among the festival's headliners.

The Tribune also named Tool and The Killers as the fest's other headliners on Monday. The newspaper reported that The Decemberists are expected to play, as well as Lou Reed, who will have a late afternoon or early evening showcase with longtime bassist Fernando Saunders.

A post on the Faronheit blog states that the blogger was given a list of 60 artists that's "at least 90% correct" that are confirmed to play Lollapalooza.

The blogger is apparently friends with someone who works at Lollapalooza promoter C3 Presents and is "an inside source, a source I trust." Said source sent the blogger a list of performers, but threw "a few fake picks in with the real ones" as a safety precaution.

"How many exactly, I won't say," wrote the source in an email. "But I will promise you that this list is at least 90% correct. In other words, as much as 10% of this list could be fake... All things considered, I think that's a pretty solid little percentage game."

A Chicago Reader blog post also speculates that since there's usually a blackout window of time on festival contracts for artists to play a city before and after the festival's dates, any band that's skipping Chicago on a U.S. tour between April and July could technically be playing Lolla.

The post lists possibilities such as Bon Iver, No Age, Peter Bjorn And John, Animal Collective, Atmosphere, Bat For Lashes, Jason Mraz, Lykke Li, Fall Out Boy, M.I.A., PJ Harvey and Lil Wayne.

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