Ok, This has me pretty excited ...after last years disasterous run...it seems Perry has decided to have Lollapalloza as a two day festival set in Chicago's Grant Park...details can be found here:
http://www.lollapalooza.com/
Billboard is reporting Beck, the Killers, Kings of Leon, and Widespread Panic among groups reportedly asked to perform
I am so there.
More proof that radio is actually starting to pull it's head out of it's collective ass:
"Ailing alternative Q-101 puts playlist 'on shuffle'March 31, 2005
BY ROBERT FEDER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
Calling it a "redefinition" of its alternative rock music format, WKQX-FM (101.1) is expanding its playlist from 200 to nearly 1,000 songs and reaching back over 25 years in the genre.Starting at 10 a.m. Friday, the Emmis Communications station will declare that its music is "on shuffle" -- evoking the jargon of iPods embraced by its primary target audience of listeners between the ages of 25 and 34.The format adjustment comes just days after Q-101 posted an all-time low 1.4 percent audience share in the latest Arbitrends.Mike Stern, vice president of programming for Emmis Radio Chicago, acknowledged that current alternative music has been in an industrywide slump, causing the format's ratings to decline nationwide. But he emphasized that the playlist expansion has more to do with changing lifestyles and new technology."As consumers become used to having a wide variety of choices available to them, radio has to find ways to step up to that challenge and remain relevant to our listeners' lives," Stern said."On Q-101, you will hear songs from as early as The Police and Talking Heads to Depeche Mode and The Cure to Nirvana to Stone Temple Pilots to Korn and Limp Bizkit to Killers and Franz Ferdinand."Q-101 tested the "on shuffle" playlist concept last weekend and reported overwhelmingly favorable listener response.Conspicuously absent from the station's new marketing drive is any reference to its morning franchise, Mancow Muller, but Emmis bosses say "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" remains key to Q-101's future."
Too little, too late if you ask me.
More later, HP
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