First off, this could be the best lineup of any summer festival yet. Perhaps even Summer Camp, which I cannot wait for. Here’s the full lineup as it is presented on Lollapalooza.com, with the ones I cannot wait for in Bold:
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Kanye West
- Manu Chao
- Wilco
- Death Cab For Cutie
- The Raconteurs
- The Flaming Lips
- Ween
- Queens of the Stone Age
- The Shins
- Common
- Matisyahu
- Ryan Adams***********I Have Waited Too Long To See RA
- Umphrey’s McGee
- Sonic Youth
- Thievery Corporation
- Sleater-Kinney
- Nickel Creek
- Blues Traveler
- Broken Social Scene
- The New Pornographers
- Iron & Wine***********Thanks Jesus (See Comments)
- Poi Dog Pondering
- The Secret Machines
- Eels
- Panic! At the Disco
- The Disco Biscuits
- She Wants Revenge
- The Dresden Dolls
- Reverend Horton Heat
- The Smoking Popes
- Andrew Bird
- Gnarls Barkley
- Stars
- Cursive
- Blackalicious
- Editors
- Lyrics Born
- Lady Sovereign
- Hard-Fi
- Calexico
- Nada Surf
- Feist
- Aqualung
- The Frames
- The Hold Steady
- The Go! Team
- Mates of State
- Pepper
- Particle
- The Redwalls
- Mute Math
- Wolfmother
- Sparta
- The Subways
- Of Montreal************OMG YES
- Blue October
- Jeremy Enigk
- Living Things
- Sound Team
- The M’s
- Hot Chip
- The Benevento-Russo Duo
- Matt Costa
- The New Amsterdams
- deadboy & the Elephantmen
- Sybris
- Anathallo
- The Burden Brothers
- What Made Milwaukee Famous
- Manishevitz
- Husky Rescue
- The Towers of London
- Ohmega Watts
- Boy Kill Boy
- Jim Noir
- The Standard
- Be Your Own Pet
- Elvis Perkins
- Trevor Hall
- Midlake
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Also Wakarusa just sent out a 2006 lineup update. Check out the full Waka lineup, and here are the additions, with my personal recommendations in bold:
- Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9).
- Moonshine Still.
- Daniella Cotton.
- William Elliott Whitmore.
- Papa Mali.
- Hot Buttered Rum String Band.*******Thanks Josh
- Larry Keel and Natural Bridge.
- Chris Berry and Panjea.
- Bassnectar.
- Will Hoge.
- Full Throttle.
- White Ghost Shivers.
- 56 Hope Road.
- Alfred Howard and the K23 Orchestra.
- Speakeasy.
- Hillstomp.
- Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band.
- Four Fried Chickens and a Coke.
- Samantha Stollenwerck.
- Deep Fried Pickle Project.