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Here's the big name artists playing at Lolla via Rolling Stone
The Lollapalooza festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary this summer with a three-day event at Chicago's Grant Park on August 5-7th with headliners Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse and My Morning Jacket. The bill will also include artists such as Cee Lo Green, deadmau5, A Perfect Circle, the Cars, Ween, Bright Eyes, Lykke Li, Cold War Kids, Big Audio Dynamite, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and Nas, Best Coast, Smith Westerns and Explosions in the Sky.
In addition to the main stage events, Lollapalooza 2011 will feature the debut of a 15,000-capacity dance tent that will host performances by Girl Talk, Kid Cudi, Pretty Lights and Skrillex. Festival founder Perry Farrell will also play on that stage as part of a PerryEtty Vs. Chris Cox set.
Headliners: Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Deadmau5, A Perfect Circle, Cee Lo Green, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley & Nas, the Cars, Ween.
Also (listed alphabetically): An Horse, Arctic Monkeys, Atmosphere, Beats Antique, Beirut, Best Coast, Big Audio Dynamite, Black Cards, Black Lips, Boy & Bear, Bright Eyes, Cage the Elephant, Chico Trujillo, Christina Perri, City and Colour, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, Cults, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Delta Spirit, Disappears, DJ Mel, Dom.
Electric Touch, Ellie Goulding, Explosions in the Sky, Fences, Fitz & the Tantrums, Flogging Molly, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Gold Motel, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Grouplove.
Imelda May, Iration, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, Julia Easterlin, Kerli, Kids These Days, Lia Ices, Lissie, Local Natives, Lord Huron, Los Bunkers, Lykke Li, Manchester Orchestra, Maps & Atlases, Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Noah & The Whale.
OK Go, Patrick Stump, Phantogram, Portugal the Man, Ratatat, Reptar, Rival Schools, Ruby Jane, Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Ryan Leslie, Sam Adams, Skylar Grey, Sleigh Bells, Smith Westerns.
TAB the Band, Tennis, the Chain Gang of 1974, the Drums, the Joy Formidable, the Kills, the Kingston Springs, the Mountain Goats, the Naked and Famous, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Pretty Reckless, the Vaccines, Tinie Tempah, Titus Andronicus, Two Door Cinema Club, Typhoon, White Lies, Wye Oak, Ximena Saritana, Young Man, Young the Giant.
Perry's Lounge electronic/DJ stage: Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, Kid Cudi, the Bloody Beetroots Death Crew, Afrojack, Modeselektor, Skrillex, PerryEtty vs Chris Cox, Chuckie, the Glitch Mob, Busy P, Joachim Garraud, Super Mash Bros., Jay Electronica, 12th Planet, Daedulus, Feed Me, Jackmaster, Collie Buddz, Savoy, Kyle Lucas & Captain Midnite, Ana Tijoux, Midnight Conspiracy, L1ght, Lady D.
Why Super Mash Bros if you have Girl Talk? Not that I'm in love with Girl Talk, but why get two similar artists when when is much more talented than the other.
Maybe there will be a perfect storm where there's like 10 acts on one day I really want to see. I'd get a 1 day pass. Undercard's got some solid stuff, but of the top 15 there's 2, maybe 3 bands I'd actually pay to see if they toured close to me.
It's catching a lot of shiz, but I'd say this lineup really gives Bonnaroo a run for its money this year. It's at least a lot better than last year's Lolla lineup. If I was able to go I would, but I'm not. Bonnaroo will be enough for me.
This lineup is SO for me... Any lineup that includes both APC and Deftones has me sold.
Then Atmosphere...Crystal Castes... The Kills.. Sleigh Bells.. Cage the Elephant.. DFA 1979...Muse.. Although it's an inferior festival overall this lineup feels tailored to my personal music tastes. REalllllly wish I could go. Maybe I can find some way to make it happen..
Post by problem dog on Apr 26, 2011 6:47:38 GMT -5
I wouldn't say this is a *bad* lineup, it's just not good enough to get me drop $215 + travel expenses, especially since most of these bands are playing elsewhere this summer. I'll be making the trip to Chicago for Pitchfork, but the tickets were half the cost and the lineup has a bunch of names I probably won't be able to see anywhere else this year.
Speaking of Pitchfork, I figured DFA1979 would end up playing there this year, but I guess Lolla snagged them instead. I wonder if they just offered more money.
This is just kind of a meh lineup for me. Lots of stuff I'd like to see and lots of stuff I don't care about. It's certainly not enough to get me to travel to Chicago this year, but if there was camping and I did not have to pay for hotels on top of the ticket it would be much more tempting.
Been thinking about it all morning and I'm seriously considering selling my bonnaroo ticket to go. This lineup was made for me. And if Maynard comes onstage with deftones to sing passenger and I'm not there I will die a little inside
Eminem clearly made a deal with the devil, who is currently serving as his agent. I can't explain how else he's famous AND headlining both Bonnaroo and Lolla the same year.
Last year I felt like Lolla had better headliners. I don't think so this year at all, even as weak as the top Roo headliners are.
Eminem clearly made a deal with the devil, who is currently serving as his agent. I can't explain how else he's famous AND headlining both Bonnaroo and Lolla the same year.
Last year I felt like Lolla had better headliners. I don't think so this year at all, even as weak as the top Roo headliners are.
I can explain it: he's a great MC who has garnered enough critical and commercial success over the last 15 years to the point where he's both one of the best selling artists of his generation and also still respected by his peers and those within his given genre of music. He also released an album last year that was (overly and unfairly) lauded by many, which makes him an ideal top-billing artist for a major American music festival.
Been thinking about it all morning and I'm seriously considering selling my bonnaroo ticket to go. This lineup was made for me. And if Maynard comes onstage with deftones to sing passenger and I'm not there I will die a little inside
Laggy- Keep in mind those short Lola sets & no late nite scene.
I just realized how much of a rip off Lolla is. Ok so take out the debate of which line up is better because that all depends on the person so the point, I feel is moot.
I always had a friend to stay with for free when I went to Lolla so that wasn't much of an issue. If you have to buy a hotel room then yes, it becomes very expensive. Lolla has a few advantages. If you have a place to stay you get to shower and use a clean toilet without VIP tickets. You're in beautiful downtown Chicago which has millions of things to do when you aren't listening to a band.
They space out their schedule better so that you actually get to see most of the bands you went for. This is the one area where Roo rips people off in a way. Roo puts out a great lineup that gets people to buy tickets. But then (surprise!) you won't see half the bands you bought tickets for because they'll be playing against the other bands you were also dying to see. Lolla does a much better job of creating a schedule that doesn't leave you angry and disappointed.
Been thinking about it all morning and I'm seriously considering selling my bonnaroo ticket to go. This lineup was made for me. And if Maynard comes onstage with deftones to sing passenger and I'm not there I will die a little inside
Laggy- Keep in mind those short Lola sets & no late nite scene.
?? The late night scene is called being in the downtown of one of the world's greatest cities.
Eminem clearly made a deal with the devil, who is currently serving as his agent. I can't explain how else he's famous AND headlining both Bonnaroo and Lolla the same year.
Last year I felt like Lolla had better headliners. I don't think so this year at all, even as weak as the top Roo headliners are.
I can explain it: he's a great MC who has garnered enough critical and commercial success over the last 15 years to the point where he's both one of the best selling artists of his generation and also still respected by his peers and those within his given genre of music.
And those things could also be said about Celine Dion. But, I expect something more in a Roo headliner than disposable commercial pop.
Yeah, I'm from Chicago, I know. But it's not full of free bands playing till dawn, Wili.
Sure, not the same as Roo late nights, but there is something pretty cool and unique about going to a small club around midnight after a full day of music to catch a late night show. Last year I was able to stop back at my place after Lolla shut down, regroup and have a drink, then go see The Black Keys at the Metro. Two years ago Soundtribe played at the House of Blues and they didn't come on til after midnight.
For me, not sure I'd travel from far away for this lineup. Since it's in only 20 minutes from my place, I'll be there all weekend as usual and will probably be spending a good amount of time at Perry's tent.
5/24-5/26 - EDC Chicago
6/18 - Giraffage
6/28 - Richie Hawtin
7/5-7/7 - Wavefront Music Festival
7/19 - Pearl Jam @ Wrigley
7/22 - Jay-Z & JT
8/2-8/4 - Lollapalooza
8/30 - 9/1 - North Coast Music Festival
I can explain it: he's a great MC who has garnered enough critical and commercial success over the last 15 years to the point where he's both one of the best selling artists of his generation and also still respected by his peers and those within his given genre of music.
And those things could also be said about Celine Dion. But, I expect something more in a Roo headliner than disposable commercial pop.
Except, wrong. Celine Dion has no "critical" success - critics don't respect her in any way, shape or form. She's a soft-pop success, which is fine.
Eminem, on the other hand, has plenty of respect from the hip-hop community at large, and is rightly recognized as one of the most verbally/technically skilled MCs ever.
By your definition, is anything that has ever sold units "disposable commercial pop?" Because that seems to be the attitude you put forward here. I don't even like Eminem for the most part, but I can at least recognize that he's a legit MC and one of the few hip-hop artists big enough/talented enough to command a headlining slot at a major music festival.
