MAGIC         PORK

I’m going to Lollapalooza in Chicago with Mike & Jane for the weekend of August 4-6.  They went before but this will be new to me.  Multiple bands perform at once (on different stages of course… although that would be interesting to see too) so I had to make some choices about which I wanted to see.  Lollapalooza’s site posts the schedule so you can plan out your days.  I don’t know what Mike & Jane’s choices will be but here’s mine.

Some of these bands I had never heard of before, but when I checked out their sites, I discovered that they were pretty darn good.  So now I’m excited to be able to see them perform.  I have a feeling I’ll be purchasing a bunch of CDs in the near future.  I know that I won’t be able to see all of these bands, since I’ll have to walk between stages and take breaks and such, but it’ll be my goal to see as many as I can.

Warning: don’t click on any of these links unless you are prepared to be jealous of what you’ll be missing!

Friday:

• Deadboy And The Elephantmen
• The Subways
• Aqualung
• Panic! At The Disco
• Editors
• Mates Of State
• The Raconteurs
• Sleater-Kinney
• Ween

Saturday:

• Be Your Own Pet
• Living Things
• The Go! Team
• Built To Spill
• Wolfmother
• Sonic Youth
• The Smoking Popes
• The Flaming Lips
• The New Pornographers
• Kanye West

Sunday:

• Boy Kill Boy
• Sparta
• The Hold Steady
• Hot Chip
• Pepper
• The Shins
• She Wants Revenge
• Queens Of The Stone Age
• Broken Social Scene
• Red Hot Chili Peppers

I know that Mike won’t want to see Queens Of The Stone Age because they’re playing at the same time as Wilco.  I could be persuaded to see Wilco instead, but the few songs of theirs that I’ve heard haven’t bowled me over.  I know, there’s a lot of people that would consider it blasphemy for me to say that, but it’s true.  Maybe I’ll have to borrow their CDs from someone and devote some more attention to them.

Sleater-Kinney just announced that they’re breaking up - or “indefinite hiatus”, whatever they’re calling it.  So this may be the last chance I’ll ever have of seeing them in concert.  They’ll be performing at the same time as Violent Femmes, which is good for me because I don’t care about seeing Violent Femmes.  But I imagine most of the concertgoers will want to see them, so maybe I’ll be able to get closer to the stage for Sleater-Kinney.

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