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“Whoa…I’m about to see Depeche Mode! I feel like I’m 35!” an 18 year-old fan yelled.
After a few weary looks and sarcastic eye-rolls from a number of festivalgoers around him, a bearded older gentleman turned to the youth and said, “What’s so funny about that?”
It was this generational divide among the Depeche Mode crowd on Lollapalooza day one that made their performance so peculiar yet immensely entertaining.
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If Lollapalooza 2009 day one could be summed up in one word, it would be wet.
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Passion Pit
On Thursday, the apple store downtown hosted a teaser for Lollapalooza that featured Chairlift and Passion Pit. The store didn’t close down completely, as I was partly hoping – the signature apple store lighting was either a plus or a minus depending on how you look at it. Since the stage sat upstairs on the second floor, less-interested Chicagoans and tourists perused Ipods and Macbooks downstairs.
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Caveat Emptor: if you’re looking exclusively for the same warm and articulate band you hear on the Akron/Family records, their shows will probably surprise you. I had heard that their live performances were good. But by 1 a.m. when the final chords had been strummed under the El at The Bottom Lounge on W. Lake Street, I concluded the show had destroyed any preconception I previously had about Akron/Family’s sound.
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I know what you’re thinking. “Uh, wasn’t PItchfork like a week ago?” Why, yes. Yes, it was. Better late than never, I suppose.
We went ahead and posted a review of the main event, The Flaming Lips, which you can read here. But now we’ve compiled a number of contributor reviews for a better overall look at last weekend’s highlight performances, which you can read after the jump…
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Sunday night in Union Park never looked quite like this. Large red and yellow balloons floated across a crowd of almost 20,000, while a man in a giant rubber ball rolled across the sea of humanity as confetti rained down from the sky.
The Flaming Lips brought their brand of psychedelic rock to Chicago’s Union Park Sunday evening to close out the 2009 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival, and spared no expense in creating a spectacle. But as entertaining a live act The Flaming Lips are, many in attendance hoped to hear a Lips set list unlike any other.
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Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks performed a lively and loose set Thursday night at the Bottom Lounge. Having already toured on last year’s Real Emotional Trash, this run of shows has allowed the band to work out some new tunes in front of a live audience.
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Fake Shore Drive
Giant System Chicago
Lost In Concert
Outside The Loop Radio
The Deli Chicago
Underground Bee
Windy City Rock
WXRT
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