The 2010 Lollapalooza schedule was announced today and it sucks. Just kidding, it's quite good, obviously. Green Day and Soundgarden are headlining! What more could anyone ask for? Wait actually I think that's a mistake, I must have accidentally looked at the 1994 Lollapalooza schedule. Seriously, Green Day and Soundgarden? People will see that? Apparently schedulers for Lolla think people will not only spend two hours of their lives (not to mention $90 for day passes) to see Soundgarden in 2010, but that they will also miss Arcade Fire to do so.
Of course, like all festivals that don't feature Radiohead, there are plenty of good bands to see even if your high ticket price is mostly paying for shitty headliners. Whatever. Kings of Leon's hair stylist and wardrobe designer won't pay for themselves!
Pictured: Screenshot from the upcoming Twilight: Eclipse
Some good bands playing this year's festival include: Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Hot Chip, The National, Cut Copy, Erykah Badu, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, the xx, Matt & Kim and others. Of course there are others but I'm tired of listing them (no LCD Soundsystem?). Just check out the lineup here.
The thing about Lollapalooza that is kind of annoying is how large a role corporate advertising plays. This year you have the Playstation stage right across from the Budweiser stage. I understand that money keeps the earth rotating on it's axis, but there's something weird about going to see the Mimicking Birds on the VitaminWater stage. I'm not asking you to be Bonnaroo (which will feature LCD and also has stages named What Stage, Which Stage, This Tent, That Tent, etc.), but I'm asking you to be careful. I'm worried that by 2012 we'll see M.I.A. on the BiffCo Enterprises Stage or whatever.
Dude when I went there was the myspace stage, the MTV music stage, the playstation stage.. so fucking ridiculous. It was more of a tourist trap than anything; I don't think it should even be considered a festival. It's more of a commercial with (mostly) good music.
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