Lollapalooza Festival Guide
I have been very open with how I feel about Lollapalooza: it fucking sucks. The only thing that sucks more than the festival is their bullshit health pledge to keep people safe in the middle of a pandemic. This is all about money, it has always been about money, and I can only imagine how many thousands of folks are going to get sick because of it. I wrote this piece a few years back for a Chicago Public Radio event at the Park West. Some of the references are a bit outdated (Mumford and Sons, thank God) and the only thing I updated was the name of the mayor. Shout out to Drunk In A Midnight Choir (RIP) who originally published it. The sentiment remains strong, pandemic or no pandemic. Please get vaccinated if you have not already so we can start going back to festivals the way God intended: without Limp Bizkit. The Summer of My Discontent Every August, a plague descends upon the city of Chicago. A plague so wretched, so sickening, so disease-ridden that parts of do