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Lollapalooza on way to sellout; day-by-day lineups set
Lollapalooza will put 60,000 single-day tickets on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. central for the festival Aug. 2-4 in Grant Park. The only question remaining is how fast they’ll sell out. The festival’s entire lineup leaked weeks early last...
Tags: Nine Inch Nails (music group), Eric Church, Local Natives (music group), Court Yard Hounds (music group), Two Door Cinema Club (music group)
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Lollapalooza lineup to include Cure, Nine Inch Nails
The Cure and Nine Inch Nails will join previously confirmed acts Mumford & Sons, the Killers, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, the National and the Postal Service at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 2-4. Multiple industry sources confirmed Thursday that a...
Tags: Nine Inch Nails (music group), Eric Church, Local Natives (music group), Court Yard Hounds (music group), Two Door Cinema Club (music group)
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13 bizarre beginnings to pop culture in 2013
Sometimes the predictable revolving door of lousy pop culture deserves the eye rolls it generates. Unless you totally loved the latest “Die Hard” sequel? In many ways, though, the first three months of 2013’s entertainment offerings...
Tags: The Killers (music group), Tina Fey, Ryan Gosling, Harmony Korine, Gangster Squad (movie)
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Lollapalooza headliners to include Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend
Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and the Killers will be among the headliners for Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 2-4. Also confirmed by multiple industry sources are the National and the Postal Service (a reunion of Ben Gibbard and Jimmy...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Killers (music group), Phoenix (music group), Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Festive Events
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SXSW 2013: It's a wrap
AUSTIN, Texas -- Savages, a U.K. quartet that made new converts with each gig at the South by Southwest Music Conference, was in a particularly nasty mood during its final appearance Saturday. "Last stop at a horrible (expletive) festival," hissed singer...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Justin Timberlake, Iggy Pop, Ice Cube, Concerts
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Pitchfork: Lady Gaga spotted but doesn't perform
By the time Vampire Weekend wrapped up 25 hours of weekend music Sunday at Union Park, the Pitchfork Music Festival had weathered rain, heat and some migraine-inducing scheduling dilemmas. Pitchfork is the type of festival where fans get particularly...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Lady Gaga, Festive Events, Entertainment Events, Pitchfork Music Festival
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Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?)
The Pitchfork Music Festival concluded Sunday in Union Park. Bob Gendron (BG) and yours truly (GK) were there to cover every hour of it: 1:11 p.m.: Dirty Beaches gives the arriving crowd a false sense of security, beginning with a desert-baked...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Lady Gaga, Psychedelic (genre), Matt Sweeney, Festive Events
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Prepare yourself for gawk-apalooza
There isn't going to be a better time all year for star sightings in Chicago than this weekend. Lollapalooza will not only bring 100-plus acts to the city, but also draw dozens of celebrities who are just as excited as the rest of us to watch their...
Tags: Kaskade, Feist, Gloria Estefan, Concerts, Arctic Monkeys (music group)
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The Very Best: The Swedish-African connection
A Frenchman, a Swede and an African meet in a junk store … It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but in reality it’s how the Very Best became a band. One of the more acclaimed international groups of the last few years started almost by...
Tags: Disc Jockeys, Malawi, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Africa
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Rain delays Pitchfork opening; Outer Minds, Lower Dens kick off fest
Even as gray skies, muggy atmosphere and rain made for a bleak opening Friday to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, the crowd waiting to enter the event was thousands deep along Ashland Avenue. Inside, puddles formed on the field and crews...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Feist, Jimmy Page, Entertainment, Festive Events
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'Sound of My Voice' review: I don't hear anything
** (out of four) When Peter (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend Lorna (Nicole Vicius) walk blindfolded into a basement after giving up their valuables and being driven around in a van to mask their location, the couple appears to be entering a...
Tags: John Hawkes, Entertainment, Sound of My Voice (movie), Movies
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Pitchfork festival adds 11 bands, sells out 3-day passes
The Pitchfork Music Festival added 11 bands Monday to its lineup, and announced that three-day passes for the July 13-15 event at Union Park are sold out. The new additions include Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, the Olivia Tremor Control, Flying Lotus,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Union Park, Feist, Festive Events, Entertainment Events
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