Fans of the iconic French DJ have been patiently waiting for his return since the Shelter Tour hit Aragon Ballroom in 2016! Following his Lollapalooza performance, where he plans to debut a brand new live show, Madeon will head to Sound-Bar for an afterhours DJ set.Įven though this one’s on a Sunday night, Sound-Bar will be packed to the brim with die-hard fans celebrating Madeon’s return. With fresh announcements from Chicago’s Sound-Bar, Spy Bar, and Prysm Nightclub, let’s take a look at the six afterparties I’m most excited for during this year’s Lolla weekend! Six Lollapalooza 2019 Afterparties to Fill Your Weekend in Chicagoįrench electronic music mastermind Madeon is back in Chicago for the first time in several years. Whether I’m there for four days or one, it’s a given that I’ll be hitting up afterparties all weekend to see the amazing talent that this festival brings in. Lollapalooza was my first festival, and I’ve attended at least one day each year since 2010. There’s truly something for everyone during Lolla weekend in Chicago. With virtually every big venue throwing an event, the options are endless. Lollapalooza hosts music of all genres and the official 2019 aftershows follow the same trend. Since the downtown Chicago festival ends at 10 P.M., aftershows are an essential part of the Lollapalooza experience. If four straight days of hot weather and the big all-ages crowd isn’t your thing (or even if it is), another major part of Lollapalooza is the always impressive lineup of afterparties. Originally started by Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction in the nineties as a traveling tour in multiple cities, Lollapalooza is now a huge standalone festival which has called Chicago’s Grant Park its home every year since 2005. It’s summertime in Chicago, and that means one thing: Lollapalooza is upon us! Temperatures in the city have finally reached an appropriately high level, and we’re just weeks away from Chicago’s landmark music event. The beloved venue also hosted Lollapalooza’s Thursday night headliner, Metallica, earlier this year which may be why Taipei Houston – comprised of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s sons Myles and Layne – seemed so at home on the stage while opening for IDLES.Lollapalooza weekend in Chicago is almost here, so let’s take a look at some of the best aftershows the electronic scene has to offer. This weekend alone, Porno for Pyros, Coin, and Green Day (!) are still on the docket and past performers include everyone from The National to Arcade Fire to the Foo Fighters. Metro – which is celebrating its 40 th anniversary in 2022 – has a rich history of hosting some of the most memorable Lollapalooza Aftershows of all time. Talbot’s animalistic howls on “Divide and Conquer” made way for one of the most savage jams of the night while, later, cellphones floated overhead to capture video of the semi-sweet waltz, “The Beachland Ballroom.” Thank you for coming and showing us love. “These shows are good because the people are good. “What’s good Chicago,” said Talbot before leading an urgent rendition of “Mother,” absolutely riddled with crowd surfers. It was the type of pit where if you get knocked down, everyone is there to pick you up with a smile before tossing you right back into the madness.

Motivator” was met, naturally, by floor-wide moshing. Talbot’s call to “seize the day, all hold hands, chase the pricks away” during “Mr. Rage pulsed through the crowd, but love was also in the air uniting all in a shared desire to rise against tyranny, oppression and toxic masculinity.

It wasn’t long before Kiernan threw himself into the crowd, for the first time, and Talbot called for a pit to open up – which was immediately filled with crashing bodies – in the center of the floor. When the Bristol punks take the Bud Light Seltzer Stage on Saturday evening they will have a tough act to follow, themselves, as they already played an impossibly fierce set in Chicago during their Metro Aftershow on Thursday, July 28.įury swirled at the midnight hour as IDLES – Joe Talbot (vocals), Adam Devonshire (bass), Mark Bowen (lead guitar, keys), Jon Beavis (drums), Lee Kiernan (rhythm guitar) – thrashed through “Colossus” and “Car Crash” at the top of the performance. IDLES perform a Lollapalooza Aftershow at Metro in Chicago on July 28, 2022.Īs soon as the 2022 Lollapalooza lineup was announced there was no doubt that IDLES would deliver a passionately intense performance in Grant Park.

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