Black Keys, Black Sabbath and Red Hot Chili Peppers headline Lollapalooza 2012
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Lollapalooza 2012 lineup: Black Sabbath, Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Keys headline
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Coachella kicks off its first of two weekends in just a few days, which means that festival season has officially begun. And ever since Lollapalooza put away its touring circus format in favor of shacking up for one huge weekend in Chicago’s Grant Park, it has become the cornerstone of the summer concert calendar.
The past few Lollapalooza lineups have followed some sort of theme. Last year was the year that dance music got much bigger (deadmau5 was one of the main stage headliners), while 2010 was the year of pop (featuring Lady Gaga and a host of other nods to the bubbly mainstream). This year’s collection of bands doesn’t seem to have much of a tether, though it could be the loudest lineup in recent memory (or at least since that year that Metallica headlined). The sorta reunited Black Sabbath headline (drummer Bill Ward remains on the sidelines), along with the Black Keys, Jack White, At the Drive-In, Florence + the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Other highlights include the Shins, Justice, Passion Pit, Sigur Ros, Frank Ocean, Delta Spirit, and the reunited Afghan Whigs. The undercard also consists of about-to-break acts like Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark, Jr., the Growlers, the Jezabels, LP, Bear in Heaven, and Michael Kiwanuka. They’ve even got that ridiculous band that won that Rolling Stone contest, the band with the number one song in the country, at least one former American Idol contestant, and Franz Ferdinand (who are still a band, it turns out).
Since Lollapalooza Perry Farrell is gaga for hot beats, there’s also a pretty awesome round-up of people from the dance world booked on his personal stage, including Calvin Harris and Santigold. Check out the complete list of performers below.
Lollapalooza 2012
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Black Keys
Black Sabbath
Jack White
Florence + The Machine
At The Drive-In
Avicii
The Shins
Justice
Passion Pit
Sigur Ros
The Weeknd
M83
Miike Snow
The Afghan Whigs
Bloc Party
Franz Ferdinand
Frank Ocean
J. Cole
Gary Clark Jr.
Mona
Alabama Shakes
The Growlers
The Gaslight Anthem
Hey Rosetta!
Amadou & Mariam
JEFF the Brotherhood
Band of Skulls
Anamanaguchi
SBTRKT
First Aid Kit
Tame Impala
Wax
The Walkmen
FIDLAR
JJ Grey & Mofro
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
FUN.
Milo Greene
Neon Indian
Los Jaivas
Dum Dum Girls
Kopecky Family Band
Washed Out
The Jezabels
Aloe Blacc
LP
Trampled By Turtles
Yuna
Bear in Heaven
Walk Off The Earth
Blind Pilot
Animal Kingdom
Chairlift
Dev
The Black Angels
The Sheepdogs
Childish Gambino
Yellow Ostrich
The Dunwells
Delta Spirit
GIVERS
DJ Mel
Metric
Polica
Empires
The Temper Trap
Bombay Bicycle Club
Kevin Devine
Wale
Sharon Van Etten
Dry The River
Die Antwoord
White Rabbits
Helena
Dawes
Doomtree
Haley Reinhart
tUnE-yArDs
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Imaginary Cities
The Head & The Heart
The Devil Makes Three
Overdoz
The Big Pink
Oberhofer
Ambassadors
Twin Shadow
The War on Drugs
DJ Zebo
The Tallest Man on Earth
Michael Kiwanuka
Chancellor Warhol
Toro Y Moi
O Rappa
Laura Warshauer
Dr. Dog
Bowerbirds
Red Oblivion
Of Monsters and Men
Orchard Lounge
Lollapalooza 2012 Lineup
Lollapalooza returns to Chicago’s Grant Park eight/three-eight/5 with headline performances by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Black Keys, and Jack White. Also on board: M83, the Shins, Franz Ferdinand, the Walkmen, the Weeknd, and the reunited At The Drive-In and Afghan Whigs. Verify out the complete line-up below.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In, Avicii, The Shins, Justice, Passion Pit, Sigur Ros, The Weeknd, M83, Miike Snow, The Afghan Whigs, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Frank Ocean, J. Cole, Childish Gambino, Delta Spirit, Metric, The Temper Trap, Wale, Die Antwoord, Dawes, tUnEyArDs, The Head & the Heart, The Large Pink, Twin Shadow, The Tallest Guy on Earth, Toro y Moi, Dr. Canine, Of Monsters and Males, Gary Clark Jr., Alabama Shakes, The Gaslight Anthem, Amadou & Mariam, Band of Skulls, SBTRKT, Tame Impala, The Walkmen, JJ Grey & Mofro, fun., Neon Indian, Dum Dum Ladies, Washed Out, Aloe Blacc, Trampled by Turtles, Bear in Heaven, Blind Pilot, Chairlift, The Black Angels, Yellow Ostrich, Givers, Polica, Bombay Bicycle Club, Sharon Van Etten, White Rabbits, Doomtree, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Devil Makes 3, Oberhofer, The War on Drugs, Michael Kiwanuka, O Rappa, Bowerbirds, Orchard Lounge, Mona, The Growlers, Hey Rosetta!, JEFF the Brotherhood, Anamanaguchi, First Help Kit, Wax, FIDLAR, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Milo Greene, Los Jaivas, Kopecky Household Band, The Jezabels, LP, Yuna, Walk Off the Earth, Animal Kingdom, Dev, The Sheepdogs, The Dunwells, DJ Mel, Empires, Kevin Devine, Dry the River, Helena, Haley Reinhart, Imaginary Cities, Overdoz, Ambassadors, DJ Zebo, Chancellor Warhol, Laura Warshauer, Red Oblivion, Perry’s stage, Bassnectar, Kaskade, Calvin Harris, NERO, Santigold, Knife Celebration, Zeds Dead, Big Gigantic, Skream & Benga, Little Dragon, Porter Robinson, Sub Focus, Madeon, Zedd, Paper Diamond, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Star Slinger, Badastrom, DJ Nihal, SALVA, & Kid Colour.
(via Chicago Tribune)
Ticket info is available at lollapalooza.com/tickets.
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72 Hours: Dirty Ghosts, Grimes among the weekend’s top gigs
Pop & Hiss takes a appear at some of the weekend’s leading concerts.
Friday
• Dirty Ghosts @ the Bootleg Bar. There seems, at 1st, to be an ingredient missing from San Francisco’s Dirty Ghosts. When Allyson Baker sings, she attacks as although she’s leading a pack of slovenly aggressive rock ‘n’ rollers. But the spacious arrangements on the band’s debut, “Metal Moon,” largely feel as if the sonic incursion has been ripped out from beneath her, leaving Baker in a much more isolated place. There are guitars, of program, and they are all hardcore and mangy, as if they stumbled out of bed in 1983, but the really feel here is punk rock at its much more deconstructed. Like the Kills and Sleigh Bells ahead of them, the rhythms are often born in a laptop or computer, however with a tiny assist from underground rapper/producer Aesop Rock, also Baker’s husband, beats and applications that are alternately bluesy and funky are continually thrown in Baker’s path. Each and every song unfolds like a challenge: Right here, try to riff more than this. The Bootleg Bar, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Tickets are $ 12 at the door. – Todd Martens
• Grimes @ the Echo. The musical alter-ego of Canadian artist Claire Boucher, Grimes trafficks in the sort of ’80s-informed electro-pop that tends to make indie rock bloggers’ hearts go pitter-pat. The distinction among Grimes and the rest of the Pitchfork-endorsed flavors of the minute, even so, is that Boucher backs up her dark synth textures lifted from the very first Depeche Mode album with lighter-than-air vocal acrobatics and sweet, swooning melodies as sticky as vintage doo-wop. The Echo, 1822 W. Sunset Blvd. The display is sold out and tickets are going for about $ 65 on the secondary industry. — Chris Barton
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Die Antwoord on Tour: Don’t Look for Answers
By James Sullivan
February 11, 2012 12:35 PM ET
Die Antwoord
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Couple of in the crowd appeared to hear the punchline, not that it mattered much. The opening of the joke – “Two penises rob a financial institution” – spoke volumes about the guy who delivered it, the Charlie Chan-ishly mustached South African provocateur who calls himself Ninja, and his dead-eyed pipsqueak sidekick, who answers to Yo-Landi Vi$ $ er. As the comically defiant faces of Die Antwoord, the electro-rap pranksters from the hybrid gutter culture of Cape Town, these two characters have produced a patently offensive, and at present fairly well-liked, brand of performance art that must truly feel like robbing a bank.
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Die Antwoord Finks You Freeky
Because South African hip-hop band Die Antwoord started out back in 2008, they haven’t stopped on their journey to surprise absolutely everyone, and this time is no diverse. They have just released the teaser trailer for their new single I Fink U Freeky as a small preview of what is to come in their full album ‘TEN$ ION’.
Wether you are into their “Zef meets Rave meets Futuristic meets Hip-Hop style” or not, the truth is this band certain leaves no a single indifferent. They like to provoke, but not just for the sake of it. This provocative and quite personalized method to everything they do. They had Harmony Korine functioning with them on a short film, they write their lyrics in Afrikaans and they certain know how to use internet to promote their music.
Their debut album ‘$ O$ ’ was created obtainable as a free download on their official site and ahead of their upcoming album, they are releasing teaser trailers for some of their songs. I Fink U Freeky is just one of them. The video follows the album art fashion and capabilities band member Ninja as a twisted horn devil-like creature and Yo-Landi Vi$ $ er as extremely disturbing heart-eating creature.
According to Ninja, this video promotion is component of a five album strategy.
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New music this week: Die Antwoord, Santigold and Miike Snow
Die Antwoord “I Fink U Freeky” by Press Here
When Die Antwoord played Coachella in 2010, the South African duo of Ninja and Yo-landi Vi$ $ er — a gyrating, potty-mouthed sprite — shocked, confused and delighted the crowd, already hyped to their tricks via a rabid Internet following. Nearly two years later, they’ve built on their project, which is somewhere between performance art, hip-hop worship and massive cultural joke. Their second album, “Ten$ ion” is due Feb. 7; “I Fink U Freeky” is the record’s first single, which kicks off with Yo-landi’s warm feelings about playboys, bad boys, et al. It’s got some appealing synth grinds — the digital equivalent of vocal fry — from DJ Hi-Tek but the biggest problem with this song is that there’s not nearly enough talk about ninjas. “I think you’re freaky and I like you a lot?” OK, but you still haven’t mentioned ninjas.
In 2008, after various stints in the music industry as a songwriter and fronting her inventive rock band Stiffed, Santigold released a self-titled debut album that slowly but surely turned into a sleeper hit, fusing together dancehall, punk and new wave. She now returns with her first single from her forthcoming “Master of My Make Believe,” recorded partially in Jamaica and due out this spring. Over a clattering stomp from Portugal’s Buraka Som Sistema (co-producing with frequent M.I.A. collaborator Switch), “Big Mouth” is a high-energy diss — and if the video’s animation by Cody Critcheloe is any indication, at least a little bit of its ire is directed at starlets Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Some have complained that this sounds too much like M.I.A., which is a fair critique, though hopefully the rest of “Make Believe” takes its own tack.
Paddling Out by miikesnow
Despite the name, Miike Snow is not one man with a fondness for vowels but a trio from Sweden that made its official debut in 2009. The synth group is anchored by the producing team of Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, also known as Bloodshy and Avant, who made their names long before being a performing group; they have worked with Madonna, Kelis, Kylie Minogue and on one of the best Britney tracks from her pre-breakdown years, the elegantly menacing “Toxic.” With the fantastic “Paddling Out,” one of the singles released Thursday from their follow-up “Happy to You” due in late March, Miike Snow has taken the same “Toxic” qualities and injected it with a happy house racing pulse, giddy but still polished. Picture Grace Kelly losing control at a glittering Euro rave and you’re somewhere close to the smart charms of this addictive song.