Lollapalooza 2009

With Lolla coming up this weekend and the fact that I just got back from Chi-town, thought i'd write a post on this.

Here's the lineup for this year's weekend show at Grant Park in Chicago:

- Depeche Mode (they're looking their age)
- Tool (good times)
- The Killers (great album)
- Jane's Addiction (duh)
- Sam Roberts Band (GO CANADA!!)
- King 0f Leon (never got into this band for some reason)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs (someone should write a review of their latest..oh wait..)
- Lou Reed (he's still alive?)
- Ben Harper
- Thievery Corp (oh yah baby)
- Snoop Dog (requisite hip hop act?)
- Rise Against
- Andrew Bird
- TV on the Radio
- Vampire Weekend (brilliant!)
- The Decemberists (nice)
- Neko Case (no New pornographers?)
- STS9
- Animal Collective
- Band of Horses
- Of Montreal
- Arctic Monkeys (monkeys and animals, and horses, oh my!)
- Coheed and Cambria
- Ben Folds (no five?)
- Fleet Foxes (more animals?)
- Silversun Pickups
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Crystal Castles
- Bon Iver
- Santigold
- Atmosphere
- Dan Auerbach
- Cold War Kids
- Deerhunter
- Lykke Li
- Robert Earl Keen
- Peter Bjorn and John (still think they're a one hit wonder)
- Heartless Bastards (I've been called worse)
- Gomez
- GlasVegas (check these guys out. BLOODY BRILLIANT)
- Federico Aubele
- Dan Deacon
- Passion Pit
- Zap Mama
- The Raveonettes
- The Gaslight Anthem
and a shitload of other bands that i can't type right now.

I fear i cannot do the music fests anymore. The old knees and the fact i'm regressing into a child means i wouldn't have the strength nor the patience to attend a 3 day fest. I'm glad that Perry Farrell still has the drive to hold Lolla, it's a shame that it hasn't been able to travel as it once did.