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Founded by Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Ferral in 1991, Lollapalooza 2006 is set to be held as a two-day festival in Chicago in Grant Park on July 23-24. There are rumored to be well over 60+ acts (on five stages) so the $85 ticket price sounds fair, but pick up your tickets now before they are all gone, folks.

Lollapalooza 2006 hopes to dwarf Lollapalooza 2004 (which was canceled due to the extremely poor ticket sales). One supposes the last Lollapalooza flop set a bomb off in Perry Ferral’s head to try harder. From the looks of it, he did try harder, because all the hottest bands are all coming to Chicago this summer.

GREAT BALLS OF MUSIC!
The acts include:

the Arcade Fire, the Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, Blue Merle, the Bravery, Cake, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Changes, the Dandy Warhols, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., Digable Planets, G. Love & Special Sauce, Billy Idol, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, the Killers, Liz Phair, Los Amigos Invisibles, Louis XIV, M83, the Pixies, the Redwalls, the Walkmen, Tegan and Sara, the Warlocks, Weezer and Widespread Panic.

An impressive line-up.

Who are the Revolved.net team most looking forward to seeing? The Pixies. Revolved.net strongly recommened listening to the Pixies. If you don’t then you will only regret it. There is not really any band like them and that makes them mighty.

The recent tour was a total cash cow, but then who can blame them since they were never appreciated properly in their own time. We adored them here but they went largely ignored in their native US. But respect has grown more and more since the split in 1991 and now thankfully they are regarded as an influential band. Pickup Doolittle and Surfer Rosa today and see what I mean by “mighty.”

I for one am drawn to this year’s Lollapalooza line-up like a moth to a flame. Visit Lollapalooza.com for more details.