Lollapalooza

Have you got your tickets, yet? After last year's lackluster cancellation of the entire tour when the festival couldn't sell enough tickets, this year Lollapalooza is back with a single-site concert in Chicago's Grant Park--maybe. The Chicago Park District hasn't granted a permit yet, but they're talking in much more positive tones than they did a couple of days ago. In the past, they've turned down applications from Smashing Pumpkins and the Other Ones, a band made up of Grateful Dead survivors, for similar Grant Park shows, but Radiohead and Shania Twain have successfully performed there.

So far, no bands have officially been announced for the July shows, but there are supposed to be 70 on five stages over two days. Lollapalooza founder and Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell will reportedly be performing, and the aforementioned Kaiser Chiefs have announced a Lollapalooza date to close out their next US tour. Green Day, Beck, Widespread Panic, and Weezer have been touted as potential headliners, but those are, of course, only rumors. Even so, Lollapalooza sold 2,000 tickets in less than an hour and a half at their Website on Thursday. If they keep that up, I guess there won't be a danger of cancellation this year. That is, provided they can line up a concert permit and strong slate of performers.