If Lollapalooza festivalgoers (myself included) thought that Saturday was a muddy, hot mess, short-term memories of a bit of mud were nothing compared to the state of Grant Park by the festival’s Sunday evening finale. After an already long, hot day, two separate bouts of rain soaked the festival grounds and left a bevy of mud pits behind in their wake. [Read the rest of the review…]
After three action-packed days of live music (and wild weather), Lollapalooza is done for another year. Here, SPIN’s team on the ground in Chicago’s Grant Park ranks the top shows of the weekend. [Read the rest of the review…]
This is how the second day of Lollapalooza 2011 ended: With Wynonna Judd swinging her cramazing Ariel hair (she did not, alas, whip it back and forth) in the balcony during an epic two-and-half-hour “secret” Foo Fighters show at Chicago’s 1100-capacity Metro club. [Read the rest of the review…]
Though the bill at this year’s 20th anniversary Lolla seemed a mixed bag, it was weirdly heartening to spy the odd Deadmau5 t-shirt at the Black Lips show, or seeing an Eminem fan finding a different sort of catharsis in the Mountain Goats. Because there’s very little to do at Lolla but eat, drink, and watch bands, discovery is the order of the day. Here’s what we found out there. [Read the rest of the review…]