If you missed Lollapalooza 2009 last weekend and our extensive coverage didn’t satisfy your Lolla needs, then today is your lucky day.

Tonight at 8 p.m. CST, Fuse TV will air the best of Lollapalooza 2009. It will air again tomorrow, Sunday, August 16, at 6 p.m. CST.

If you live in the Chicago area, Fuse is channel 279 on Comcast HD.

Photo Credit: Richard Giraldi

Considering Jane’s Addiction are from Los Angeles, their closing set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza 2009 was hardly a homecoming. Still, the band was in pure celebration mode with good reason. Not only has lead singer Perry Ferrell successfully created an extremely popular metropolitan summer music destination – this year marked the second straight complete sell out – but the original Jane’s lineup is back including powerhouse bassist Eric Avery.

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When Brooklyn art-rockers TV On The Radio hit Lollapalooza’s Budweiser stage in the north end of Chicago’s Grant Park as the sun descended behind the city’s skyline and the lake breeze picked up to put to rest a long day of heat. But as the crowd cooled, TOTR set the festival ablaze with a scorching set of irresistibly funky and vibrant art rock tunes.

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Photo Credit: Richard Giraldi

If day one’s running theme was rain, day two was here comes the sun.

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Photo Credit: Richard Giraldi

“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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Hey everyone. I’m live at lolla in the pouring rain. Rocking out to The Gas Light Anthem as we speak.

Anyway, technical difficulties have kept me from updating our twitter – @loudlooppress.

So for today, you can see my live tweets at twitter.com/rgiraldi – my personal twitter account. – complete with pictures!

Thanks for reading loudlooppress!

UPDATE: Back home from Lolla Day 1. Will have a wrap up post along with a full Depeche Mode review up soon. Also, @loudlooppress should work tomorrow as I’ve configured it to work with Twitpic. However, for some reason my normal Twitter device texts aren’t going though. Weird, huh? Anyway, stay tuned.

Yes, it’s time again for the Chicago music event of the summer. Be sure to follow us on twitter at @loudlooppress. We’ll be tweeting live from Lollapalooza all weekend long. Then tune right here for day-after wrap ups and then a complete post-Lolla review.

Still want more? Head to Lollapaloozablog.windycitizen.com to find our coverage and even more in-depth Lolla stories.

This year’s event is an odd hodgepodge of new and old acts. Headliners include Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon who’ll play on Friday night, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Tool who’ll take the stage on Saturday night, and The Killers and Jane’s Addiction will close the festival on Sunday.

But I’m sure most music fans know at least something about the headliners. What about all those bands playing earlier in the day and on the small stages? There are like 180-or something bands playing, you know.

So this year, we present you with a preview of can’t miss acts that you probably didn’t plan on seeing. Lets do this.

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Lets dissect.

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