You will have serious difficulty finding a Lollapalooza 2012 review that doesn’t comment on the number of people. And they’d be wrong not to. I honestly didn’t witness any sets that were bad, but they all suffered from the sheer size of the event – some more than others. The park was divided in two, with three stages at the [...]

[info_box]The Metropolitan Jolt is very excited to be covering this year’s Lollapalooza. We will be highlighting a few must-see artists leading up to the event on August 3rd-5th. Dum Dum Girls is our fifth selection.[/info_box] It’s rare to come across an all-female group on the indie music scene. Girl-and-boy duets are a dime a dozen, and most popular acts are [...]

[info_box]The Metropolitan Jolt is very excited to be covering this year’s Lollapalooza. We will be highlighting a few must-see artists leading up to the event on August 3rd-5th. Delta Spirit is our fourth selection.[/info_box] It’s not often you’ll hear trash can lids used as instruments. But in listening to Delta Spirit, you’ll likely notice some metallic-sounding beats. Delta Spirit is [...]

[info_box] The Metropolitan Jolt is very excited to be covering this year’s Lollapalooza. We will be highlighting a few must-see artists leading up to the event on August 3rd-5th. Twin Shadow is our second selection.[/info_box] Twin Shadow produces a particular brand of echoing, eighties-inspired music; it’s as if you’re playing the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie while camping in [...]

[info_box] The Metropolitan Jolt is very excited to be covering this year’s Lollapalooza. We will be highlighting a few must-see artists leading up to the event on August 3rd-5th. Sigur Rós is our first selection.[/info_box] One Friday night last spring, I found myself wedged between two impossibly hip Brooklynites on a sagging couch, watching an oddly transcendent film about an [...]