2008 marks Perry Farrell's twelfth Lollapalooza since the festival's creation in 1991. The event ran annually until it's cancellation in 1997 because of reported lack of interest from mainstream artists. Farrell revitalized the (then) tour in 2003 with the reuniting of Jane's Addiction. The following year, however again, the tour was cancelled. This time it was the result of poor ticket sales and presumably high ticket prices. After the 2004 collapse, Farrell and Co. revived the event again with Capitol Sports & Entertainment to reconvene the festival solely in Grant Park, Chicago as a multi-day event. Since 2005 the city of Chicago has agreed on a deal to host the festival in Grant Park until 2011.
This will be my first trip to Lollapalooza after my first attempt ultimately failed a year ago (lots of reasons). And to highlight the pre-event countdown, Bears and Bullets will feature one artist highlight for each day until my departure of the well-known, lesser known, and should-be-seen, acts this year.
Day Ten; Yeasayer.
Late last year, Yeasayer released their debut album All Hour Symbols amidst an underbrush of indie-type hype (see also: Tapes n' Tapes). The album was well received, as most freshman creations usually do, with acclaim from Spin Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Pitchforkmedia, who gave the debut a score of 7.8. The song 2080 also made the web site's list of Top 100 Songs of 2007, at #49.
The Brooklyn based band, composed of members Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Luke Fasano fuse a correlating sound of psyche-pop mixed with an off-centre kilter Middle-Eastern melody. At any means of what the sounds are composed of, the results are earthy and pleasantly possible. I've found their best stuff can be seen and heard at La Blogoteque, with two videos both shot by Vincent Moon.
Here's one of the videos from La Blogoteque.
#87.2 - YEASAYER - 2080
by lablogotheque
This will be my first trip to Lollapalooza after my first attempt ultimately failed a year ago (lots of reasons). And to highlight the pre-event countdown, Bears and Bullets will feature one artist highlight for each day until my departure of the well-known, lesser known, and should-be-seen, acts this year.
Day Ten; Yeasayer.
Late last year, Yeasayer released their debut album All Hour Symbols amidst an underbrush of indie-type hype (see also: Tapes n' Tapes). The album was well received, as most freshman creations usually do, with acclaim from Spin Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Pitchforkmedia, who gave the debut a score of 7.8. The song 2080 also made the web site's list of Top 100 Songs of 2007, at #49.
The Brooklyn based band, composed of members Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Luke Fasano fuse a correlating sound of psyche-pop mixed with an off-centre kilter Middle-Eastern melody. At any means of what the sounds are composed of, the results are earthy and pleasantly possible. I've found their best stuff can be seen and heard at La Blogoteque, with two videos both shot by Vincent Moon.
Here's one of the videos from La Blogoteque.
#87.2 - YEASAYER - 2080
by lablogotheque
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