TGIF Drunk Hodge Podge – Lollapalooza Edition

Alright kids, here’s the deal.  As I’ve mentioned before, I write this Friday column for your reading pleasure sometime late Thursday night.  Unless you’ve been living under a cultural rock, you are aware that this weekend is Lollapalooza here in my fair town of Chicago.  As such, I’m not going to bother telling you about anything else going on around town nor am I going to write anything of substance today.  As fate would have it, I accidentally got completely wasted tonight and it’s all I can do to manipulate a keyboard in any kind of functional manner this evening.  Given that my town is hosting one of the country’s biggest music festivals starting a mere ten hours from right now, I gave in to my carnal urges and ended up getting drunk with a host of friends from far and near this evening and in a few short hours I will be up and ready for 36 solid hours of live music.  I hate to let my dear readers down, so rather than passing out and flaking completely on today’s entry, I’m just going to lob a handful of tunes from some of the acts I’ll be catching at the festival this weekend at you Radio Dick style.  Yeah, most of these are semi-mainstream and not the kind of stuff we would normally go for, but it’s all good and I know I’ll enjoy hearing it in the great outdoors with thousands of friends and an absurd blood alcohol content.  It’s not an ideal outcome, nor am I particularly proud of myself for resorting to such a tactic, but I promise to make it up to you with the best Lollapalooza coverage I can possibly muster in my vodka-induced haze over the next several days.  Enjoy and wish me luck!

TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun

Deerhunter – Microcastle

Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma

Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

Dan Deacon – Snookered

Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes