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Lollapalooza Announces 2008 Line-Up

Monday, April 7, 2008 | 1:48 PM

 

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Lollapalooza, the 3-day concert festival (which used to be a complete summer tour back in the '90s), recently announced its line-up for this year's event, which is taking place on August 1-3 in Chicago, IL (Grant Park).

(left: Lollapalooza is takin' it back to its roots in 2008)

Fittingly, the big headliners of this year's Lollapalooza are products of the 90's: Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and NIN (some of you may have even been on hand in 1991 and 1992 when a young NIN and Rage Against the Machine respectively played their first Lollapaloozas). Here's how the rest of the line-up looks for this year's event:

Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails
Rage Against the Machine
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Gnarls Barkley
Cat Power
The Black Keys
The Kills
The Gutter Twins
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Broken Social Scene
Bloc Party
Girl Talk (makin' Pittsburgh proud!)
Battles
Grizzly Bear
Jamie Lidell
The Go! Team
Cool Kids
Kid Sister
Mates of State
Love and Rockets
Lupe Fiasco
The National
Explosions in the Sky
Okkervil River
CSS
Spank Rock
Black Kids
Black Lips
Booka Shade
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Gogol Bordello
Amadou & Mariam
Rogue Wave
Yeasayer
Dr. Dog
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon

Nirvana (w/ Rivers Cuomo)?*

*an April Fool's prankster can always dream:)

 

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