Okay. I’m not a huge fan of outdoor festivals, but the lineup at this year’s Lollapalooza was just too good to pass up. I got downtown to Grant Park via the train a little late yesterday because of work obligations (gotta feed the kid) but no matter. The weather was perfect and I managed to catch all or part of sets by Lady Sovereign, The Secret Machines, Iron & Wine, My Morning Jacket, Sleater Kinney (on what is said to be their last tour), and Death Cab For Cutie.
By my estimation the festival grounds at Lolla are about 8 blocks from end to end. That’s a lot of walking going on! The weather was (and hopefully will continue to be) totally perfect. I was floored (even in such a big setting) by how incredible My Morning Jacket was. Their blending of southern-tinged jam rock with 3 minute blast of poppy indie rock isn’t something that you hear a lot. The setting sun over the Chicago skyline made their performance all the more memorable.
Death Cab was solid, but watching them with 40,000 other people just didn’t do it for me. Just my opinion though…
So today I plan on seeing Be Your Own Pet, Cold War Kids, The Go! Team, Built To Spill, Wolfmother, Sonic Youth, The Smoking Popes, The Flaming Lips, The New Pornographers, and Manu Chao or Kanye (haven’t decided on that yet). I’ll give a full festival recap on Monday complete with photos. I gotta go catch another train. Stay tuned…
Jealous! Have a great time and take pics.
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me too. hope you’re having fun…and just because i’m jealous i hope you get a little sunburned.
just kidding.
okay, ik’m jealous too.
Last night Death Cab & My Morning Jacket were on Austin City Limts. Both were awesome. I hope you DVR’ed it.
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Hope you saw them… report back if you did!