The long-running alt fest has just confirmed its 2009 lineup, and this year’s headliners include an awful lot of ’80s and ’90s favorites: The Beastie Boys, Jane’s Addiction, Tool, and Depeche Mode, along with more recent hit makers the Killers and Kings of Leon. A few other highlights of the three-day festival — held August 7-9 in Chicago’s Grant Park — are Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, Lou Reed, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, and Santigold.
So who’s heading to this year’s Lollapalooza? Is this a super-exciting lineup, or do some of these older headliners seem a little stale?
True that the headliners aren’t the greatest this year, but the middle portion of the lineup is outstanding. I count 29 bands I’ll be trying to see that weekend, so that is pretty good.
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I’ll be going to see Depeche Mode. They blow the doors off every time!!
I agree with Scott P. There’s no Radiohead among the headliners, but the middle line-up is solid. Grant Park in Chicago in the summer is amazing, and I can’t wait to see TV on the Radio live again!
Odd that there’s only two big bands from today.
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Dude Tool is going to bring Chicago to a halt. Amazing Band.
I will definitely be at Ben Folds!! If you haven’t seen him before, please try and go. He puts on the most amazing, entertaining show, and totally worth every penny.
Since when was Tool a 90′s band, or longer a band from “today”? Because every time I turn on the radio I hear The Pot, Jambi, Vacarious, and Right in Two getting play time. Those were written in ’07!
You don’t clump Tool into the same group as Depeche Mode and Jane’s Addiction.
I recommend Joe Pug wholeheartedly. Fantastic songwriter.
Tool’s first album, Opiate, came out in March of 1992, and their follow-up and first studio album, Undertow was released a year later. They release an album every 5/6 years, look at their catalog. Of all the bands announced Tool is by far the most talented, and their music holds up better then all the other talent, involved, and I am a big Beastie Boys fan. Needless to say the people commenting on here shouldn’t attend this concert, because they are obviously either too young, or too musically inept to deserve to hear Maynard, Danny, Adam and Justin.
Depeche and Jane’s will use the other bands as toilet paper. I love TVotR but they are outclassed by the aforementioned.
Tool is amazing in concert. Thats the best band on the whole show.
LOU REED?? that alone is worth going for.
Th headliners are fine they run the gamet which is cool. But the best part is the mid-level acts – Gomez, Andrew Bird, Heartless Bastards, Neko Case, Dan Auberbach, Ben Harper, ben Folds all great to see at one time. The question then becomes what is the schedule!?! Too many overlaps and it is just too hard to choose