Lollapalooza 2012

Past event

Friday 3 August 2012 – Sat 25 May

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Shins and 125 more

Grant Park
Congress Drive and Columbus Drive
Chicago IL 60601
United States
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Web: www.lollapalooza.com

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Lineup

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Shins, Black Sabbath, Florence + the Machine, Sigur Rós, The Black Keys, Justice, M83, B.O.B, Passion Pit, Calvin Harris, Metric, Wale, J. Cole, The Temper Trap, fun., Miike Snow, Santigold, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Tallest Man on Earth, Frank Ocean, The Walkmen, Nero, Avicii, Of Monsters and Men, At the Drive-In, Little Dragon, Dev, Jack White, Washed Out, Kaskade, Band of Skulls, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Gaslight Anthem, Neon Indian, Tame Impala, Blind Pilot, Bassnectar, Aloe Blacc, Chairlift, The Verve Pipe, Sub Focus, Toro y Moi, Dr. Dog, White Rabbits, First Aid Kit, Bowerbirds, The Head And The Heart, SBTRKT, The Weeknd, Doctor P, Twin Shadow, Zedd, Childish Gambino, Porter Robinson, Alabama Shakes, The Black Angels, The Big Pink, Delta Spirit, Amadou & Mariam, Die Antwoord, Bear in Heaven, tUnE-yArDs, Kevin Devine, Dum Dum Girls, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Zeds Dead, Afghan Whigs, Madeon, Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs, GIVERS, Michael Kiwanuka, Karmin, Dawes, Dry the River, Anamanaguchi, The Jezabels, Walk Off The Earth, O Rappa, Poliça, Trampled By Turtles, Star Slinger, Gary Clark Jr., Oberhofer, Yellow Ostrich, Big Gigantic, The White Panda, Yuna, Wax, Mona, FIDLAR, JEFF the Brotherhood, Doomtree, Animal Kingdom, The Devil Makes Three, Hey Rosetta!, Milo Greene, JJ Grey & Mofro, Empires, The Growlers, Los Jaivas, LP, The Sheepdogs, thenewno2, Haley Reinhart, Helena, Kopecky Family Band, Paper Diamond, Salva, Imaginary Cities, Ambassadors, Moon Taxi, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, The Dunwells, Skream & Benga, Chancellor Warhol, Kid Color, Laura Warshauer, Orchard Lounge, Overdoz, DJ Mel, DJ Zebo, DJ Nihal, Red Oblivion, Nadastorm and Yellow Ostritch

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  • anthcasanova wrote:
    1. Justice 2. Florence and the Machine 3. Zedd 4. Fun. 5. Black Sabbath
    August 2012
  • SidIsOnFire wrote:
    Top 5 I missed out on: 1. Of Monsters & Men 2. The Jezabels 3. Blind Pilot 4. Toro Y Moi 5. Washed Out/Tune-Yards. Too many conflicts :(
    August 2012
  • joeast12 wrote:
    The sound kinda sucked at the beginning of tame impala, but they fixed it and the second half of the show was awesome
    August 2012
  • laurenisacat wrote:
    1. chili peppers 2. justice 3. tame impala 4. metric 5. toro y moi
    August 2012
  • matt5672 wrote:
    I ventured over to Perry's on Friday to see Nero and Bassnectar not too bad but we stayed in back. I also think they need to clamp down on the drugs being used there.
    August 2012
  • xxxWadexxx wrote:
    1. Chili Peppers 2. Justice 3. Bassnectar 4. Zeds Dead 5. M83
    August 2012
  • wubb2yoo wrote:
    I have to say, as for sigur ros, seeing them in the daylight was slightly weird. I was at Monday's sigur ros show in Philly and they were so amazing!!
    August 2012
  • JML897 wrote:
    I really wish I could see a proper show of theirs on this tour. :/ They sounded so damn good.
    August 2012
  • xParker wrote:
    I saw Sigur last Tuesday, then again on Sunday. Tuesday's headline show was the best show I've ever been to, and their Lolla set was the best set of the festival.
    August 2012
  • ediblepeople wrote:
    @JML897 Yeah, fair enough. I was lucky to see Sigur Ros a couple of days before Lollapalooza, so missing the set wasn't too heartbreaking. I can imagine how amazing they were though and I'm surprised they didn't have a later-in-the-day show.
    August 2012
  • memphisn53rd wrote:
    I survived the At the Drive-In set too, but I would gladly go through the same ordeal if I could see them live again! I'm sad I missed Sigur Ros and a lot of other bands for that matter. This was my first Lollapalooza though, I'll have to plan better if i attend again.
    August 2012
  • JML897 wrote:
    Well that's cool too but even if I knew about that beforehand I would've seen Sigur Ros because they were mindblowing (plus they don't come to the US often)
    August 2012
  • ediblepeople wrote:
    "Anyone who didn't see Sigur Ros made a huge, huge mistake." ... Unless you went to the Jack White Reckless Record B-side show instead. That didn't suck.
    August 2012
  • JML897 wrote:
    Everything from Little Dragon -> Jack White on Sunday was golden for me
    August 2012
  • matt5672 wrote:
    That was the best Sunday night at Lolla I ever had as well.
    August 2012
  • SidIsOnFire wrote:
    1. Florence + Machine / 2. Justice / 3. The Shins / 4. Sigur Ros / 5. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Honorable Mentions: First Aid Kit, The Head and the Heart, Santigold, Little Dragon, and Hey Rosetta! I'm bummed I missed Of Monsters of Men and that The Temper Trap missed their set because of the rain.
    August 2012
  • grungefan3090 wrote:
    @JML897 I was probably like 10 rows back for M83 and I thought it sounded pretty good, but considering how shitty the sound tends to be in that stage I can imagine the sound differed in other areas
    August 2012
  • barium62 wrote:
    1. RHCP 2. Sigur Ros 3. M83 4. Metric 5. Jack White Honorable Mentions: Aloe Blacc, Florence, The Gaslight Anthem, Black Keys and Sabbath. One of the greatest weekends of my life.
    August 2012
  • wubb2yoo wrote:
    I am alive despite the fact that hundreds of people pushed and suffocated me during the At the drive in show, and for that I am thankful and it was the best part of this year's Lolla.. Oh, and everytime I moved, sweat from the shorts of the dude in front me dripped all over my legs. That wasn't fun.
    August 2012
  • Raidr88 wrote:
    1. Jack White 2. Sigur Ros 3. Of Monsters and Men ....Sunday might have been my favorite Lolla day ever. In terms of smaller acts, First Aid Kit on Friday and GIVERS on Saturday were both fantastic
    August 2012