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Headliners include Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Jack White and Black Sabbath. The Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot reports that C3 promises the full Sabbath lineup even though guitarist Tony Iommi is recovering from lymphoma and drummer Bill Ward isn’t fully signed on yet. Additionally, Kot writes that Swedish DJ Avicii and Justice make the leap to the headliner status and also close out the main stages.

Other notables include a newly reunited At The Drive-In, Florence + the Machine, Sigur Ros, The Afghan Whigs, Bloc Party, tUnE-yArDs, The Shins, M83, Die Antwoord and Childish Gambino.

Unfortunately, the lineup is short on are Chicago acts. The only local representation included is JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Empires, Kid Color and Orchard Lounge.

Check out the rest of the lineup after the jump.

One thing to notice is the lack of Perry’s Stage in the line-up page of Lollapalooza’s website, which would confirm Kot’s earlier report that Perry’s Stage would be eliminated and electronic acts would be spread throughout the stages.

Lolla three-day passes are on sale now at Lollapalooza.com for $230 a pop.

• • The drama between Congress Theater owner Eddie Carranza and First Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno continues. After a lengthy interview with WBEZ blogger Jim DeRogatis in which DeRogatis questioned Carranza and his lawyer about a variety of topics including the condition of the venue’s bathrooms, Carranza responded with a point-by-point rebuttal of the accusations levied against his management and his venue on Chicago-Pipeline.com. The Deleterious Impact/Public Nuisance hearing against the Congress is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17, at 11:30 a.m. at City Hall. The public is encouraged to attend.
• • Gossip Wolf talks Lollapalooza predictions in this week’s issue of the Chicago Reader. And yes, you guessed it, one pick is… Marilyn Manson. Maybe he’ll tear a couple of pages from the Bible for old time sake.
• • Greg Kot catches up with Chicago’s best kept secret, garage poppers Radar Eyes and talks about the group’s HoZac debut, lead singer Anthony Cozzi’s love of cassettes, and why Radar Eyes is not a hobby band.
• • Time Out Chicago has some great shots of Andrew W.K. partying hard at The Riviera.
  
• • Jessica Hopper chats with Daniel Smith, one of Neon Marshmallow Fest’s co-organizers, about his stint at The Whistler DJ’ing House music.

• • Greg Kot at the Tribune announced that Lollapalooza ticket prices will rise this year after the festival renegotiated its tax deal with the city. The new agreement will raise over $4 million in city and county revenue and keep the annual music fest at Grant Park until 2021.
• • The Sun-Times has the details on Mayor Emanuel’s plan to charge $25 per seat at Taste of Chicago concerts held at Petrillo Music Shell.
• • Soul rockers JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound provided Gapers Block with a SXSW tour diary filled with their Austin adventures. Local jazzy hip-hop outfit Jip-Jop contributed as well.
• • Speaking of SXSW, in an effort to see who still cares what he has to say, Billy Corgan called today’s mainstream artists “prostitutes” and “strippers.” He also said this gem: “I was part of a generation that changed the world – and it was taken over by poseurs.” The more you know.
• • Time Out Chicago has photos from Company of Thieves big hometown show at the Metro two Fridays ago.

• • WBEZ’s Jim DeRogatis has the scoop on the Cook County Board of Commissioner’s recent move to grab control over the amusement tax waiver provided to Lollapalooza. The county estimates that the annual summer festival’s tax exemption adds up to approximately $350,000 a year to the county alone.
• • ‘Soul Train’ creator Don Cornelius tragically passed away last week and Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot detailed Cornelius’ legacy as a civil rights pioneer and musical tastemaker.
• • Brooklyn Vegan Chicago has the details on Mavis Staples headlining this year’s Chicago Blues Festival in June.
• • Deli Chicago named Mutts its “Emerging Artist of the Year” for 2011. Congrats, guys!
• • Jessica Hopper spoke to Chicago singer-songwriter Ami Saraiya about her new album, due out in April, and how her nursing career inspires her music.

Photo by Drew Reynolds

Disappears, as you may or may not have known, opened for the Arctic Monkeys at the House Of Blues on Saturday, August 6, for one of them Lollapalooza aftershows.

And they played an absolutely killer set.

How do I know? The band posted an incredible sounding board recording from White/Light’s Jeremy Lemos to their Soundcloud.

From the first Steve Shelley snare rattle of “Superstition” to the mesmerizing, psych-jam of “Revisiting,” this may be the best live recording I’ve heard all year. Years? Only time will tell. Anyway, lets this baby rip below:

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. You didn’t think I was done talking about Lollapalooza, did you? No way. I have one, er, a couple final words to say about the fest. You know, The Rundown?

Here’s my two cents on the best, worst and most intriguing things at Lollapalooza 2011…

BEST BAND: (TIE) Le Butcherettes & The Joy Formidable

BEST HEADLINER: Foo Fighters

MOST DISAPPOINTING BAND: The Cars

BAND THAT REALLY WANTS TO BE THE WHITE STRIPES: Little Hurricane

BEST NEW TREND: Bro On Bro

WORST KARAOKE PERFORMANCE: Cee Lo

BEST PLACE TO WATCH CEE LO’s PERFORMANCE: The Wine Tent

BEST WAY TO CLEAR THE NORTH SIDE OF GRANT PARK: Ween

WORST CROWD SURFERS: All of them

BEST SIGN BEING PULLED BY AN AIRPLANE:

BEST PLACE TO TAKE ECSTASY: Perry’s Stage

BEST PLACE TO TAKE COKE: Perry’s Stage

BEST PLACE TO TAKE ACID: Perry’s Stage

BEST PLACE TO TAKE A DUMP: Perry’s Stage

BEST VIDEO GAME CHARACTER IN ATTENDANCE: Megaman

BEST PLACE TO TAKE A BATH: Buckingham Fountain

BEST PLACE TO HEAR A SONG ON A SPOTIFY COMMERCIAL: Tinnie Tempah on the Google+ Stage

BEST SONG TO HEAR IN THE POURING RAIN: Foo Fighters’ My Hero

BEST PANDA ON A STICK:

BEST SPECIAL GUEST: Ozzy Osbourne

And that’s a wrap! Lollapalooza 2011, its 20th anniversary no less, is history. Below is a recap of the the acts that we had a chance to catch on Sunday. Day three winners? The Joy Formidable, The Cool Kids and the Foo Fighters! So sit back, relax and relive on the final day of Lollapalooza 2011.

1:00 p.m.: The Joy Formidable

Sunday was a wet one early on, but thankfully the clouds dispersed and the sun arrived in time for The Joy Formidable. And formidable they were.

This trio form Northern Wales played not as festival openers, but an electric set so engaging that to call it a breakthrough performance would be an understatement. It’s quite remarkable how massive a sound the band is able to get out of one guitar, one bass and drums. But the riffs were hurricane-sized and offered the right amount of bite. Meanwhile, a throttling low-end and rhythm section, in which the double bass pedal was unleashed quite tastefully, made for some breath-taking climaxes.

Add to that, the band acted genuinely excited to be playing to a surprisingly large crowd on the park’s North end. In fact, front woman Ritzy Bryan probably didn’t stop smiling during the entire set.

The set concluded with the fiery “Whirring,” which featured giant blow-up black cats, that may or may not belong to Peter Frampton, on the sides of the stage during the song’s explosive finish.

Here’s betting this isn’t the last time The Joy Formidable take the stage at a Lollapalooza, but probably the last time in the one o’clock time spot.
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2:05 p.m.: Little Hurricane

While moody and damp on record, Little Hurricane’s swampy take on White Stripes-esque electric blues did not translate to the live setting.

For one, their sound lacked impact – either the sound man mixed it too low or just their amps needed to be turned up. The guitars were distant and small, while the drums were too weak.

Aside from their really cool looking guitar amp that was made from an old record cabinet, Little Hurricane still need to work on their live approach before they’d even be considered a big rain shower.
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3:00 p.m.: The Cool Kids

Who new an oversized tent would be the perfect setting for The Cool Kids to show off the minimal digicisms from their quite anticipated new record, When Fish Ride Bicycles?

But that it was when the Chicago hip-hop duo took the stage on Sunday afternoon. Melding choppy, electronic beats with an old-school, verse-swap mentality, The Cool Kids set the packed white shelter ablaze. Adding to the fun, the duo brought local soul outfit The O’mys on stage as their backing band to give their accompaniment that much more bite.

Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks first reached backward and thrilled the sweat-drenched crowd with the slow grind of “Gold And A Pager.” Later, new songs such as the synthy march of “Bundle Up” and loose, analog cling-clang of “PennyHardaway” offered the energy of hip hop classics.

It was truly a vibrant performance from an extremely talented local duo – one that will resonate with anyone who was lucky enough to catch it.
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4:00 p.m.: The Cars

Looking more like wax figures from Madame Tussauds than rock stars, The Cars lackadaisically played an hour of sloppy hits and a couple new ones no one knew.

Last year’s token new wave nostalgia act, Devo, not only showed evergy but a genuine enthusiasm to be at the festival. The Cars, unfortunately, didn’t show anything – no emotion of any sort.

Obviously, The Cars are quite older, and their are key changes in their sound. The main one being the death of bass played, and vocalist, Benjamin Orr, which caused Ric Ocasek to take over all singing and just forget about the bass altogether.

Sure, it was fun to hear the bouncy ones, “You Might Think” and the throaty-synth driven “Let’s Go.” But even songs the band has played countless times before, “Just What I Needed” and “My Best Friend’s Girl,” were a mess with missed chords and lacked a proper low end.

Despite the effort, at the end of the day, the best way to celebrate the music of The Cars is to listen on your iPod.
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6:20 p.m.: Arctic Monkeys

Minutes before the Arctic Monkeys were to take the stage, the ominous dark clouds that were creeping up on Grant Park all afternoon opened up. And, rain happened. Lots of it.

Of course, this delayed the start of Arctic Monkeys set for about 15 minutes. But when the English indie rockers finally started playing the destroyed and muddied ground was shortly filled to the brim again.

And the band did what they do best, tight, downhearted melodies with thick backbeats. Highlights were songs from their catalog that really fit the rainy theme, which included the wiry guitars of “She’s Thunderstorms” from their latest, Suck It And See, and the dastardly creep of “Crying Lightning.”

Arctic Monkeys were able to complete the entire set, which is fortunate because their noir-rock antics were fitting in the post-storm muck.
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7:30 p.m.: MUD!!!!

Yes, mud.
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8:00 p.m.: Foo Fighters

Finally, Lollapalooza 2011′s coup de grâce. Foo Fighters promptly hit the stage at 8 p.m. and wasted absolutely no time in pummeling the mud-covered crowd with volcanic riffs and swift dynamics.

But what will becoming the lasting moment of Lollapalooza’s twentieth birthday party occurred in only four songs in. When drummer Taylor Hawkinds began the bombastic drums of “My Hero” a torrential downpour hit. And, yes, it was literally torrential. Buckets of water poured from the sky.

And what followed is a testament to not just what Lollapalooza means but to what music means to the thousands that jam pack Grant Pack every August. The audience continued thrusting their firsts in the air, and Dave Grohl and the rest of the band never missed a beat. The show went on, and fast and furious at that. Do I dare call it magical? Maybe in the rock ‘n’ roll sense of the word, magical might just work.

Eventually the rain let up, but Foo Fighters didn’t. From gritty new takes like the Motorhead-influenced, “White Limo” to the stoner sludge of a particularly jammed out “Stacked Actors” that saw Grohl soloing from the crowd and the power-pop of “Monkey Wrench,” it all sounded pretty fantastic.

And in true headliner style, Foo Fighters sheer power and raw energy was something rarely matched all weekend long.

• • Time Out Chicago spoke with Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell and we found out about his love of “Sportscenter” and his secret hope that his kids will take over the Lolla family business.
• • Windy City Rock took some time to introduce us to Chicago post-rockers Conductive Alliance.
• • Hey, look at that! Lollapalooza will expand to Brazil next year, according to the Chicago Tribune.
• • This weekend’s sold out Lollapalooza wasn’t just for music lovers, The Chicago Sun-Times discovered that it was also for gate crashing enthusiasts.
• • It wouldn’t be a Lolla news roundup without mentioning Jim DeRogatis. The journo tackles the thorny subject of Lollapalooza’s sweet tax exemption.