The Coachella Music Festival was held last weekend (April 17-19), which means that festival season is off and running, and in that spirit the lineup for Lollapalooza was revealed this week. The 2009 edition of Lollapalooza, to be held at Chicago's Grant Park Aug. 7-9, will feature Depeche Mode, the Killers, Tool, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon and Jane's Addiction as headliners. Lollapalooza will also boast performances by Lou Reed, Snoop Dog, Thievery Corporation, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Rise Against, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Of Montreal, Neko Case, STS9, the Decemberists, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Santigold, Kaiser Chiefs, Ben Folds, Coheed and Cambria, Fleet Foxes and more.
Produced by Austin-based C3 Presents, Lollapalooza sold out all three days last year for the first time since the festival was reborn as a weekend-long stand-alone event in the Windy City. C3 Presents is in the middle of a 10-year agreement with the Chicago Park District to produce the event in the city's downtown park space. Perry Farrell, Lollapalooza founder and figurehead (who will headline this year's festival with Jane's Addiction for the first time since Lollapalooza debuted as a traveling show in 1991,) recently revealed that attendance for the 2009 edition of Lollapalooza is looking strong in spite of the current state of the economy. "At Lollapalooza, we're selling more tickets than ever. People need an even bigger excuse to escape more than ever and there is no better escape than going to a festival and just tripping and taking in music," said Farrell to Reuters in a recent interview.
This year Lollapalooza will offer more dance and electronic acts than usual on a nightclub-style stage called "Perry's." The featured performers at the new stage will include Bassnectar, MSTRKRFT, KiD CuDi, Crookers, Animal Collective (DJ Set), A-Trak, Simian Mobile Disco, DeadMau5, Boys Noise, Hercules and Love Affair (DJ set), The Bloody Beetroots (DJ set), LA Riots, Kaskade, Rye Rye, HE Say, She Say, Car Stereo, Dark Wave Disco, Moneypenny, Yellow Fever, The Glitch Mob and Hollywood Holt.
Animal Collective began fusing noise rock, ambient drone, folk and psychedelia in New York in 2000 when Avey Tare (aka David Porer) and Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) issued Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished on their own animal imprint. Geologist (aka Brian Weitz) and Deaken (aka Conrad Deaken) joined the lineup and the newly minted quartet released Danse Manatee via catsup Plate in 2001 followed by a live effort and a string of characteristically off-the-wall releases, one of which, Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks), received critical acclaim upon its 2003 release.
Since then, Animal Collective has landed on the Billboard charts a handful of times, such as with 2007's Strawberry Jam, which climbed Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart to number five. The experimental outfit recently released their sixth proper studio LP Merriweather Post Pavilion in January 2009 and the album peaked at number two on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and also moved up to number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart. Get your Animal Collective tickets online today!
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