Lollapalooza Lineup Leaked?

03/25/09 1:21pm

by Jen White (CHARTattack)

Everybody's getting antsy to hear who's playing the Lollapalooza festival, which takes place from Aug. 7 to 9 in Chicago's Grant Park — so much so that bloggers will even post "mostly true" lineups from so-called reputable sources.

Chicago Tribune and Billboard.com previously leaked that Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Kings Of Leon and Jane's Addiction will be among the festival's headliners.

The Tribune also named Tool and The Killers as the fest's other headliners on Monday. The newspaper reported that The Decemberists are expected to play, as well as Lou Reed, who will have a late afternoon or early evening showcase with longtime bassist Fernando Saunders.

A post on the Faronheit blog states that the blogger was given a list of 60 artists that's "at least 90% correct" that are confirmed to play Lollapalooza.

The blogger is apparently friends with someone who works at Lollapalooza promoter C3 Presents and is "an inside source, a source I trust." Said source sent the blogger a list of performers, but threw "a few fake picks in with the real ones" as a safety precaution.

"How many exactly, I won't say," wrote the source in an email. "But I will promise you that this list is at least 90% correct. In other words, as much as 10% of this list could be fake... All things considered, I think that's a pretty solid little percentage game."

A Chicago Reader blog post also speculates that since there's usually a blackout window of time on festival contracts for artists to play a city before and after the festival's dates, any band that's skipping Chicago on a U.S. tour between April and July could technically be playing Lolla.

The post lists possibilities such as Bon Iver, No Age, Peter Bjorn And John, Animal Collective, Atmosphere, Bat For Lashes, Jason Mraz, Lykke Li, Fall Out Boy, M.I.A., PJ Harvey and Lil Wayne.

Here's the Faronheit list of acts rumoured to be playing Lolla 2009:

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
A.C. Newman
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Atmosphere
Band Of Horses
Bat For Lashes
Beastie Boys
Ben Folds
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Bon Iver
Chairlift
Cursive
Delta Spirit
Depeche Mode
Dirty Projectors
Eagles Of Death Metal
Eels
Ezra Furman And The Harpoons
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Friendly Fires
Glasvegas
Heartless Bastards
Jane's Addiction
Kaiser Chiefs
Kings Of Leon
Langhorne Slim
Lily Allen
Lou Reed
Matt & Kim
Metric
MSTRKRFT
Neko Case
OK Go
Passion Pit
Paul Green's School Of Rock All-Stars
Peter Bjorn And John
Ra Ra Riot
Rancid
Razorlight
Regina Spektor
Rise Against
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Sam Roberts Band
Santigold
School Of Seven Bells
Silversun Pickups
Tenacious D
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Decemberists
The Gaslight Anthem
The Hold Steady
The Killers
The Raveonettes
TheNewNo2
Tool
TV On The Radio
Vampire Weekend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs