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?
Among the many, many discussions currently running on the always entertaining 
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The phenomenal popularity of Britain’s Got Talent competitor Susan Boyle, and the furor over the disparity between her angelic voice and her "homely" appearance, has got me thinking, oddly, about David Bowie. I interviewed the Thin White Duke a few years back, asking him such questions as, "Is Mick Jagger a good kisser?" (Answer: "You’d have to ask someone else.") While Bowie was in highly entertaining form, all I could think during the encounter was, "That damn fool has gotten his teeth fixed!" Bowie, you see, was famous for having a set of "gnashers" that looked like an untended graveyard after a nuclear holocaust. Yet here he was, telling tales with a set of teeth that made me wish I had worn dark glasses.
There’s this old saying I once heard, something about how if you do something a couple times and it doesn’t work out, the third time will be really good. Mixers, I’ll be damned if Sunday at Coachella wasn’t a complete and utter charm. We were tired, we were dirty, we were wandering a field in 100 degree heat — but the gods smiled upon us, and we were rewarded for our persistence, handsomely.
