The complete and final lineup for this year’s Lollapalooza was finally announced today. As expected, the predicted headliners are going to be there, along with plenty of other ace artists. You can check out the full lineup on Lollapalooza’s site and see an announcement video below!
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Lollapalooza is not officially announcing this year’s big acts until Monday, but the Chicago Sun-Times has confirmed all of the major artists performing at the weekend-long music festival in Grant Park! As previously speculated, online album enthusiasts Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are set to play the main stages, along with Rage Against the Machine, The Raconteurs, Wilco and Kanye West. With 100+ acts on this year’s bill, here are the artists being confirmed by CST thus far:
Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails
Rage Against the Machine
The Raconteurs
Wilco
Kanye West
Gnarls Barkley
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
G. Love & Special Sauce
Blues Traveler
Mates of State
Bloc Party
Cat Power
Stephen Malkmus
Girl Talk
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
Battles
The Go! Team
Jamie Lidell
Grizzly Bear
Nice! Advance three-day passes are still available for $190 (after which the price increases to $205).
Songkick is an interesting new website that finds upcoming concerts in your area based on your musical tastes. (It’s like Pandora for live gigs!) It’s simple to use - either type in bands you dig or download a plugin that compares music in your iTunes library with Songkick’s tour tracker. If you want a comprehensive list of tour dates (like I did), just click the “listings” tab. Songkick then makes educated guesses about what music you’ll like that you may not have heard before and suggests local live shows for you to attend. Even better, the site puts the concert listings and links to ticket sellers in one place so you can compare prices! (Thanks to Pop Candy for the heads up!)
Pitchfork has announced the initial lineup for their hipster shizz fest taking place in Chicago’s Union Park on Friday, July 18, Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20. Interestingly, while this year’s Coachella crowd is getting a dose of classic-rock courtesy of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters performing “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety, P-Fork has Public Enemy offering up the full version of their classic hip-hop album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Check out the lineup after the jump!
Madonna was inducted into the Music Hall of Fame over the weekend with the bizarre assistance of Justin Timberlake and Iggy Pop. In his induction speech, Timberlake related how Madge personally gave him a B-12 shot while the pair were working on her forthcoming album Hard Candy. Madonna opted out of performing at the ceremony, instead asking Iggy Pop and The Stooges to perform on her behalf. The group obliged Madonna’s request with covers of two of her legendary singles - “Burning Up” and “Ray Of Light”. The induction of Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie was so strange, it’s almost easy to over look that this year’s inductions also included John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen and the Dave Clark Five.
MP3:
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - “Burning Up / Ray of Light”
VIDEO:
Iggy Pop & The Stooges Perform “Burning Up” & “Ray of Light”