This year's Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago's Grant Park is well underway with performances by dozens of artists on half a dozen stages.Tens of thousands of music fans are braving the blistering Chicago heat to see and hear popular and more underground music artists that reads like a who's who of alternative, indie and some mainstream music featuring artists like Interpol, MIA, Tokyo Police Club, The Fratellis, Blonde Redhead, LCD Soundsystem, The Black Keys, Daft Punk, The Hold Steady, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon, Regina Spektor, Snow Patrol, Muse, Blue October, Paolo Nutini, !!!, Yo La Tengo, Peter Bjorn and John, Annuals, TV on the Radio, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket and closing the festival on Sunday night - Pearl Jam.
With a line-up like that - and there is much more as well (see the entire, three-day schedule) - any indie rock and pop fan would be practically in music heaven. However, the problem is many of the most popular indie and mainstream rock artists are playing at the same time on different stages. Yet the organizers have to schedule the way they need to fit some 100 artists into three days on nine - yes nine - stages.
So, for example, if you're at the festival and you want to see Snow Patrol or Yeah Yeah Yeahs, you have to choose because they are playing at the same time on different stages. That's a hard choice for an indie rock fan that likes both bands. The same is the case for Interpol and Muse; The Roots and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Pete Yorn and Tapes 'n Tapes; My Morning Jacket and Modest Mouse and so on.
The webcast for the festival offers limited access and a line-up of artists that will be broadcast. Of course, part of the reason is that certain stages will shut down for an hour to break down the previous acts equipment and set-up the next acts.
Therefore, to provide a consent streaming livecast, the organizers of Lollapalooza chose to broadcast a selection of artists, missing many of the best artists' performance.
(photo to right is Motion City Soundtrack playing Saturday August 4 at Lollapalooza)
You'd think they'd want to broadcast the best rock and indie rock artists and groups. Come on, M.I.A.? Not sure where sucky hip hop fits in with the overall theme of the event, but whatever.
Anyways, the webcast is on now until Sunday night (August 5) when Pearl Jam will close the three-day festival.
Go to the Lollapalooza website and click on the webcast. There are also links to a map of the park and stages, a full line-up of artists, playlists and discussion boards.
You'd think they'd want to broadcast the best rock and indie rock artists and groups. Come on, M.I.A.? Not sure where sucky hip hop fits in with the overall theme of the event, but whatever.
Anyways, the webcast is on now until Sunday night (August 5) when Pearl Jam will close the three-day festival.
Go to the Lollapalooza website and click on the webcast. There are also links to a map of the park and stages, a full line-up of artists, playlists and discussion boards.
Labels: Grant Park, Indie Rock - Chicago, Indie Rock Concerts, Indie Rock Festivals, Lollapalooza, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam, Peter Bjorn and John, Rock Festivals - US, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo
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