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ROFLpaloooza: Who Were Those 75,000?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:27:31 -0500

“Do you see that?” my friend Charles asked, pointing at the sunlit pavement shining menacingly as we stood in one the few shaded areas Grant Park has to offer. “I want to stay out of that.”

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Credit where credit is due - a look at who linked to our Lollapalooza coverage

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:44:28 -0500

Empty Lolla thoroughfare minutes during Radiohead's Friday night set. Photo by Stuart Tiffen.

There might be a few more post-Lolla posts in the pipeline, but for the most part we'll be drawing things to a close with a rundown of all the great many sites who linked to our coverage over the weekend, sending us readers, commenters and google mojo!

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Top 8 Tattoos at Lollapalooza 2008

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:27:04 -0500

The heat was on and the clothes were practically off this weekend at Lollapalooza. It was the perfect place for tattoo-spotting.

Here's a look at some of the best ink:

If you spotted any interesting tattoos at Lollapalooza this year, tell us about them in the comments below. If you've got pics, send them to windycitizen@gmail.com

#1: The Led Zeppelin Wizard

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Lollapalooza 2008: Laser-lit Nine Inch Nails bring festival to a close with not-so-wretched set

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:22:36 -0500

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails belts out a chorus during his Lollapalooza headliner set Sunday. All photos and video, Brad Flora. Note: All photos were taken by aiming my point and click at the video monitors overhead. No pit access for this joker.

Updated with setlist and more videos, Monday 1:00 pm

48 hours after Radiohead lulled a massive crowd at Lollapalooza 2008 and 24 hours after Rage Against the Machine incited it to violence on a scale not seen in recent years, Nine Inch Nails performed a lush, challenging set that seemed to satisfy those who stuck it out.

Rumors hit the internet earlier this week that NIN architect Trent Reznor was pulling out of his Sunday headlining slot only to be shot down by an image posted to NIN.com, a snapshot of Rage Against the Machine's performance taken from backstage, presumably by Reznor himself.

The show comes amidst a resurgence for the band, due, some say, to Reznor's embrace of all-digital forms of music distribution, use of guerrilla, interactive marketing and his decision to keep releasing new music at a prodigious pace.

The Setlist

1,000,000

Discipline

Closer

Intrumental

Piggy

The Warning

Vessel

Wish

Terrible Lie

Survivalism

Only

The Hand that Feeds

Echoplex

Hurt

In This Twilight

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Best report yet about last night's Rage show mayhem

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:17:28 -0500

In case you hadn't heard, things got ugly during last night's Rage Against the Machine set at Lollapalooza, both in the mosh pit and the streets outside the festival, where between 500 and 2000 freeloaders formed a flying wedge and crashed a police barricade about 2/3rds into the set. As one Chicago Police Officer said to me, "they all got in."

Jim DeRogatis and the rest of the Sun-Times' crew at the festival took great pains to piece together just what happened last night. Read it here.

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Lollapalooza 2008: Rage Against the Machine stirs up frenzied Grant Park crowd, tells them to look beyond Obama

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:27:39 -0500

Rage Against the Machine opening its Lollapalooza 2008 Saturday headliner set with "Testify." (Band takes stage at 1:20 mark.)

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Lollapalooza 2008: Slash joins Perry Farrell, Samantha Ronson for impromptu unplugged, singalong rendition of "Jane Says"

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:15:16 -0500

Photos by Jing Zhou.

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Overheard at Lollapalooza #1

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:22:33 -0500

Dude #1: *Hold hands above head* There's God, up here.
Dude #2: *Nods*
Dude #1: *Lowers hands an inch.* And then there's Rage Against the Machine, just down here.

Back on the board for day two. Gonna crank out some posts in a few minutes.

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Radiohead pumps out the hits, gives massive crowd words to shout into the night sky

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:14:45 -0500

All photos by Jing Zhou except first, by Brad Flora

Just got back from Radiohead. Notes:

1. There were a lot of people there. A regular multitude. This cell-shot is murky, but it conveys the scope of the event. I'm pulling a number of the air, but I'm guessing there were 75,000 people in attendence (which is in line with this prediction via the great Greg Kot of the Tribune.)

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Lollapalooza Snapshot #8: Lollapalooza looks out for the kids? What?

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:09:31 -0500

You wouldn't know it by looking at the headliners (Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead), but Lollapalooza is going to great lengths to accomodate families and children.

There's a Kids stage, where marquee names like Jeff Tweedy and festival sponsor Perry Farrell are scheduled for short, family-friendly sets.

And then there's the Tag a Kid booths all over the festival.

Here's how it works:

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