Go To This?: Lollapalooza ’10

February 17th, 2010 by Oswald Hobbes / Comment on this post

Every year, Lollapalooza announces an awesome lineup. And every year, I don’t go, partly because I’m not a big festival dude and mostly because I make $8 an hour at my shitty job and can’t justify spending an entire week’s pay on concert tickets. But if the rumors swirling around about this year’s line-up are true, I may just have to suck it up and start giving handjobs to closeted Republican senators at twenty bucks a crack. Why? THE STROKES ARE PLAYING! (Maybe!)

According to AV Club (and numerous other blogs), there’s a chance the Strokes will perform at Grant Park this year. Also possibly playing: Green Day, Lady Gaga, the recently(and awesomely) reunited Soundgarden, Arcade Fire, the xx, Dirty Projectors, Yeasayer, Cut Copy, and Hot Chip. Now, with the possible exception of Green Day, all of these acts are totally Assault-approved. That means that, technically, I’m obliged to advise you to start saving your allowance money and stop spending every last penny on meth and Arbor Mist. Also: please send emails to my corporate overloads Third World Timmy and Mr. 51% with “SEND OSWALD TO LOLLA” in the subject line.