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Interpol, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Patti Smith and the Hold Steady Rock Into the Chicago Night at Lollapalooza Day Two

“Last year we played here and I said it was the most fun I ever had at 3 PM. This is shaping up to be the most fun I’ve ever had,” proclaimed Craig Finn two songs into the Hold Steady’s unhinged late-afternoon set. If not the finest, the singer-guitarist’s quintet made a watertight case for at least being the day’s most jubilant and ecstatic performance. Finn understands that a frontman needs to be unafraid to act a fool. Keyed-up and rambunctious, the bespectacled singer pointed, hopped and shuffled while playing the role of an inebriated storyteller. Drinking (“Party Pit”), driving (“Multitude of Casualties”), drugs (“Cattle and the Creeping Things”), dealers (“You Can Make Him Like You”) and sex (“Southtown Girls”) fueled the location- and character-rich tales, alternately shot through with barroom swagger, driving power chords and Southern rock abandon. Adorned in a Ron Gardenhire Minnesota Twins jersey, Finn also spoke of the I-35W bridge collapse that impacted his beloved town, and did a sign of the cross after mentioning the Mississippi River during “Stuck Between Stations.” A throng of converts soaked it all in, but the biggest fan of all was Finn, whose uplifting presence and merry mood caused anyone within earshot to grin. Not to be outdone, Karen O dressed in black latex and criss-cross-patterned stockings. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman also brought masquerade masks and glittery towels to throw over her head. She wasted no time in smearing her makeup or ripping gloves off of her hands with her teeth with her band aptly followed O’s animated antics and vocal meows, snarls and screams through songs from their latest EP, Is Is and tracks from their most recent full-length, Show Your Bones. For pure, genuine rebellion, all anyone needed to do was hoof it across the park to see Patti Smith. Initially, Smith clung to calmness. Outfitted in a homemade peace-and-love T-shirt, she strummed an acoustic guitar while taking “Beneath the Southern Cross” into t

Published: 2007-08-06
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Festivals, Lollapalooza

Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick Are Just Roommates, Okay?!

Please say there are bunk beds?Photo: WireImageGossip Girl star Ed Westwick says he and co-star Chace Crawford aren't gay; they just live together. Oprah BFF Gayle King moved into a $7.1 million penthouse on East 57th Street that was purchased in name of Oprah's dead dog, Sophie. A nude portrait of France's current First Lady, Carla Bruni, taken back in 1993 will go up for sale at Christie's next month. JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon had to work on Easter. Barack Obama's controversial pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, spent Easter lounging at the Ritz in Puerto Rico. ABC will likely cancel Cashmere Mafia, though no official decision has been made. A bunch of tabloid editors think they can see right through the stunts Ashton Kutcher is trying to pull on them in his new E! show, Pop Fiction. Elijah Wood and Lance Armstrong hung out with Playboy Playmates at SXSW. Grey's Anatomy star Justin Chambers got a vasectomy (he's already got five kids). Fall Out Boy is attempting to become the first band ever to play all seven continents by staging a show in Antarctica later this week. Ol' Dirty Bastard's widow and mother are still battling over the late rapper's fortune. The Wayans brothers knocked back four bottles of litchi sake at Suzie Wong's. Two hundred folks posed naked in the Four Seasons' Pool Room for an art project. Jared Kushner is still living in the same two-bedroom Noho apartment he's rented since graduating from Harvard but says he's now looking to buy. France's former First Lady, Cécilia Sarkozy, got married to special-events planner Richard Attias in an intimate ceremony at the Rainbow Room on Sunday. A self-styled Persian prince named David Zandi is trying to convince Disney execs that he should star in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, but they're not buying it. Andrew Lloyd Webber has written music for his upcoming Phantom of the Opera sequel but has neither a name for the play nor lyrics for the songs. Police officers were casualties of war at Interna

Published: 2008-03-25
Provider: New York Magazine

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