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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Anyone making the trip to Chicago for this?
Lineup in a-z order, headliners are bolded.
Amadou & Mariam
Bald Eagle
Bang Camaro
Battles
Black Kids
Black Lips
Bloc Party
Blues
Amadou & Mariam
Bald Eagle
Bang Camaro
Battles
Black Kids
Black Lips
Bloc Party
Blues Traveler
Booka Shade
Brand New
Brazilian Girls
Broken Social Scene
Butch Walker
Cadence Weapon
Cat Power
Chromeo
CSS
De Novo Dahl
Dierks Bentley
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Dr. Dog
Duffy
Electric Touch
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
Explosions in the Sky
Ferras
Flogging Molly
Foals
G. Love & Special Sauce
Girl Talk
Gnarls Barkley
Gogol Bordello
Grizzly Bear
Ha Ha Tonka
Innerpartysystem
Jamie Lidell
John Butler Trio
K’NAAN Kanye West
Kid Sister
Krista
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Lupe Fiasco
Magic Wands
Manchester Orchestra
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
Mark Ronson
Mason Jennings
Mates of State
MGMT
Newton Faulkner
Nicole Atkins & the Sea Nine Inch Nails
Noah and the Whale
Office
Okkervil River Radiohead Rage Against the Machine
Rogue Wave
Santogold
Serena Ryder
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Sofia Talvik
Spank Rock
Steel Train
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Tally Hall
The Black Keys
The Blakes
The Cool Kids
The Go! Team
The Gutter Twins
The Kills
The National
The Octopus Project
The Parlor Mob
The Postelles
The Raconteurs
The Ting Tings
The Weakerthans
The Whigs
Uffie
We Go To 11
What Made Milwaukee Famous
White Lies
Wilco
Witchcraft
Yeasayer
Your Vegas
I'm not patronizing any bloody festival that has the audacity to not consider Wilco or Broken Social Scene as headliners...I mean, who do they want, Elvis?
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gah! i'll be in the midwest the 2nd & 3rd week of august... missing this by just ~one week!!! i would've LOVED LOVED LOVED to have seen brand new and a few others on that list...
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I'm not patronizing any bloody festival that has the audacity to not consider Wilco or Broken Social Scene as headliners...I mean, who do they want, Elvis?
Headliners have to be big, publicly established and recognized bands. I love Broken Social Scene and respect Wilco, but they by no means have the draw that Rage, NIN or Radiohead have; they're just not in the public spotlight like these 3 are. I see nothing audacious about it. Do you really think that one of Radiohead, Rage or NIN would be billed under BSS or Wilco? There's only three nights...
Headliners have to be big, publicly established and recognized bands. I love Broken Social Scene and respect Wilco, but they by no means have the draw that Rage, NIN or Radiohead have; they're just not in the public spotlight like these 3 are. I see nothing audacious about it. Do you really think that one of Radiohead, Rage or NIN would be billed under BSS or Wilco? There's only three nights...
Oh yeah, too bad bank account, I'm ****ing going!
Those are cash and carry bands now...except for Radiohead.
I mean, when was the last time NIN or RAGE produced anything of value? Lollapalooza is a joke. It was founded on the basis of spotlighting cutting-edge bands, not bands you wanna see because they were cool once and can still sell a ticket.
Those are cash and carry bands now...except for Radiohead.
I mean, when was the last time NIN or RAGE produced anything of value? Lollapalooza is a joke. It was founded on the basis of spotlighting cutting-edge bands, not bands you wanna see because they were cool once and can still sell a ticket.
1. It doesn't matter if they're cash or carry bands, or relevant truly artistic bands; a big, corporate sponsored music festival is a business, not an intellectual taste setter. In their own best interest, they have to put the big names up first because that's who the majority of people are buying tickets for. I do agree with you that it's kinda sad that there's not really any progressive, edgy music festival that was on the scale of when Lolla first came out in 91, but the reality is it went bankrupt (after it started loosing it's relevance anyways) and could only be "revived" (or at least had it's name slapped on another festival) by corporate spending and identity. While I think that's lame, I'd certainly much rather have a festival where I can easily ignore all the corporate ads everywhere that headlines old bands instead of new bands than none at all.
2. When a headlining band with a long, established history and a huge fan base signs up to play a festival, it's in their contract to be billed as headliners. Bands have to constantly try an uphold their "integrity" or their image of being a big b
Lollapalooza 2008 
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