Radiohead, Kanye Light Up Lollapalooza

Radiohead, Kanye Light Up Lollapalooza

Radiohead fans will be going gaga over Lolla.Thom Yorke's crew is lay to join Kanye Cicily Isabel Fairfield, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Motorcar as the headliners for the annual Lollapalooza fete at Chicago's Grant Park, running Aug. 1 through and through August. 3.The 2008 batting order is a virtual alt-rock who's-who: Chitown natives Wilco, the Raconteurs, a reunited Sexual love and Rockets, Gnarls Barkley, Bloc Party, Bozo Mightiness, Mark Ronson, the Blackness Keys, Broken Sociable Scene, the National, Lupe Debacle, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, G. Dear and Special Sauce, and Lashing Mollie.Since morphing leash age ago from an alternative-music lover's travel funfair into a three-day family-friendly affair held in Lake Michigan-adjacent parkland in downtown Newmarket, Lollapalooza has rebranded itself as one of America's premiere rock megafestivals, aboard Coachella and Bonnaroo.The 2007 variation attracted a capacity crowd of 167,330 over the trio days, grossing a whopping $9.8 one thousand thousand in ticket gross revenue, per Billboard Boxscore, to rank as the fifth-highest grossing festival worldwide.And this year's Lolla is shaping up to be the biggest yet.Since going on sale, three-day $175 Betimes Dame passes have already been snapped up, piece $190 go on passes are reportedly release fast. Once those sell out, a regular festival come about, retailing for $205, will be the only way in.Apart from featuring long hundred music acts, the fest volition feature a variety of comedy acts of the Apostles, hip-hop workshops, organic fertilizer food stands, interactive games, a pack rat hunt club and still a snuggling menagerie.Fete founder Oliver Hazard Perry Farrell says that organizers ar as well workings on a deal with Apple to hatch iTunes-only unique content, possibly pairing up various acts onstage and, eventually, in the studio apartment as well, which Lollapalooza and Apple would so release."These will be recorded in a studio apartment but, of course, because we can buoy share files online, we don't have to be in the saame place at the same time—we have finishing studios totally over the world for the artists to finish the opus off," Eileen Farrell told MTV Newsworthiness. "We'll embark on to let the cat out of the bag with Radiohead about putt them with soul they'd like to join forces with, order them how it's loss to go push down."Lollapalooza volition swear out as the start-off to the second leg of Radiohead's Compass north American spell.The ring has headlining gigs at the Wholly Points West Festival in New Jersey's Liberty State Commons August. 8 and 9 and the Outside Lands Music & Liberal arts Festival at Golden Park in San Francisco. Radiohead is also on track to perform in Indianapolis, Stephen Grover Cleveland, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, earlier wrap things up in Saint Nicholas Barbara on August. 28.





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