Lollapalooza was a fantastically well-executed event. Every show went on right when it was scheduled to go, and that is all that you can ask for at a music festival. Combined with adequate facilities and reasonable prices, what could have been a hellish couple of days in Grant Park was made into a truly great [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 12, 2008
I. Oh, the beauty of Lollapalooza
For three days, an eclectic, modest bunch of 80,000 festival-goers crowded Grant Park, Chicago, if only to catch a glimpse of themselves participating in what boils down (in the August heat) to 39 hours of pure, unadulterated madness. I myself was thoroughly prepared for this festival after 8 hours in a car, a few minor [...]
August 5, 2008
My Question: Does the concept of an essential album still exist?
Music transformed thanks to technology. Nothing is more obvious in the modern state of the art, where MySpace pages, word-of-blog hype, and the virtually unavoidable album leak become the central ways we hear new music. It ain’t perfect, but it works.
The industry has to change. This much we know. Recently, we’ve [...]
