With more than 100 bands on eight stages (well, seven if you discount the Kidz stage, which often features songs about barnyard animals), Lollapalooza is expected to be exhausting and overwhelming. The point is to see as many bands as possible, because you paid for a ticket and dammit you’re going to make that 3-day [...]
The Damage: Ticket to Lolla: $230 Ticket to Lolla if you bought it off Craigslist today: $300+ Lobster corndog from the Grahamwich tent in the food court: $10 1 oz. Wheatgrass Shot from Tiny Greens Organic Farm: $2 Souvenir Lolla poster: $30-$275 Average Lolla aftershow: $40-thousand$ Weekend alcohol budget: $150 ($50 a day, though by [...]
Four weeks from tomorrow, the summer’s best music festival kicks off in Chicago’s Grant Park, the home of Lollapalooza since 2005. Over the course of the weekend, 139 artists are scheduled to perform on 7 stages for an expected 90,000 music lovers per day. I will be among the sweaty masses, and in preparation I’ve [...]
You’re thirteen years old. You run into your bedroom clutching a new CD – or cassette tape, or vinyl, or 8-track, or whatever medium defined your era – and close the door. You start the music and lay down on your bed, closing your eyes. You listen. The drums start first, a slow rock beat, [...]