My THIRD Year - Lollaz

Friday
Mighty Oaks
12pm

Kyle Thornton & the Company
12:50pm

Misterwives
1:30pm

Glass Animals
2:15pm

Badbadnotgood
2:50pm

Lany
3:20pm

Broods
4pm

Bear's Den
4:30pm

Borns
5:40pm

to this day, one of my favorites

Alabama Shakes
5:45pm

Paul McCartney
7:45pm

Saturday

Beat Connection
12:15pm

Holychild
1pm

Givers
1:45pm

Strugill Simpson
2:45pm

Wet
2:50pm

Toro Y Moi
3:45pm

Walk the Moon
5pm

Tame Impala
6pm

Mt. Eden
6:50pm

Banks
7:45pm

Light em Up
8pm

Sam Smith
8:45pm

Sunday


Sheppard
12:15pm

Night Terror of 1927
1pm

Shakey Graves
1:45pm

Austin native

Moon Taxi
2:45pm

- RAIN STORM-

Of Monsters and Men

Florence & the Machine

Sunday Lollas

The final day of one of my favorite weekends of the year.

put your ponchos on for Bleachers

the guy from Fun started Bleachers, and they are great.

little bit of White Denim

Trombone Shorty from the lawn. By myself.

RAC

Hollywood in the rain

I met back up with Jennie and Nate on the hillside. Note the couple in front of me. I started intentionally situating myself near people who looked older than me. It's all about perspective. Please also note how wet/cold they are all starting to look. The rain continued off and on for all of Sunday.

Glen Hansard from very far away

So, doing the festival 100% sober on Friday did not continue to Saturday, and certainly not onto Sunday. Thus, I have zero photos of The Avett Brothers or Young the Giant. I left earlier than I really care to admit that night too. One final picture documenting Chicago's skyline from the grounds of Lolla:

another year in the books.

Saturday Lollas

Saturday, in pictures:

Saturday began with one of my favorites

one good lookin' Aussie

Desert Noises

Thanks to Aaron Serna circa LA 2008 for introducing me to Kate Nash

Meg Myers

3 rows from the front at John Butler Trio

relaxing in the grove after JB3

smallpools dance party 

the dance party continues with Joywave

SPOON

we all need more Spoon in our life.

Found Kelsey and Karl on the hillside and hung out with them for a bit.

Head and the Heart from very far away

When I left the festival on Saturday I realized I am definitely old. I saw about 10 minutes of Outkast and even less of Calvin Harris. By the time the sun went down, all I wanted to do was curl up in bed and do it all again the next day.

Friday at Lollas

Here we go again!

Friday at Lollapalooza

This year reiterated the fact that I am a music festival kind of person. After staying out much to late on Thursday night, I did all of Friday completely sober. Like, ACL pre-21 style. And had just as much fun as I would have otherwise. I just love it all.

Jennie!

Like last year, I did most of the fest solo.  Unlike last year, I met up with a few friends sporadically. Jennie and Nate were 3-day virgins, and I had a blast meeting up with them on Friday and Sunday.  They were Lolla champs, going strong from noon to 11pm all 3 days.

San Fermin

The first band I saw on Friday. The guy's voice reminded me of The National.

Temples

I'd been anticipating these guys.  Very 1960s sounding.

One of my favorite spots

This little hill on the southeast side of Grant Park is where I spent most of the festival.

Kodaline

The crowds and view from Bombay Bicycle Club

That skyline is one of the biggest differences between Lollas and ACL.

Hozier

 Not pictured: Portugal the Man.

Chvrches

Lorde from afar

Zoom in on the Video Monitor

Realizing how much older I feel this year

Not in the dance pit.  Instead I'm standing by the flowers.

Sander Klinenberg

Arctic Monkeys from WAY far away

Yep, once the headliners started on Friday I peaced out.  My bike was parked immediately outside the festival gates, giving me a quick little 5 miler to make it home by 9pm.