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As the summer festival season wraps up for 2010, URB’s contributors tell us who rocked their world during the season’s long days and warm nights. …MORE
Video is cool but don’t forget, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Check out the pictures from Outside Lands in SF featuring artists and bands like People Under the Stairs, Gogol Bordello, Langhorn Slim, Cat Powers, the Strokes, Al Green, Phoenix, Nas and Damien Marley, and the Kings of Leon.
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It’s the height of summer in Chicago and that means it’s time for excited (and soon to be inebriated) masses to gather in Grant Park for the city’s biggest (and most commercial) music festival. With an expanded territory in the park and an expanded capacity, Lollapalooza 2010 showed up with an impressive crop of performers and ideal weather, and after the first day, one big question: Didn’t this used to be a rock festival?
OK, there certainly we’re plenty of guitar-focused bands playing throughout the park with acts like The Walkmen, The Black Keys, The New Pornographers and Wavves entertaining the masses, but my path for the day turned out to be filled with keyboards, drums and overwhelming rhythms.
The job of starting all this off fell to Atlanta’s latest hip hop superstar B.o.B whose chart …
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Well, here’s Lolla’s attempt to hold down the hipsterness of Chicago this summer. It’s a strong lineup with tons of recognizable bands, but I’m not convinced it’s the festival of the summer. It seems relatively run-of-the mill, but I will say that New York’s Los Amigos Invisibles will be totally cool to see and they bring some much needed alternative flair.
Full lineup below. Tickets are $215 here and it takes place in Grant Park, Chicago on August 6-8.
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