Lollapalooza '08 Editors' Blog: Five (Maybe More) Observations from Day Two
Okkervil River turn in Lollapalooza's best set, so far, and fellow Texans like the Toadies and Explosions in the Sky also impress SPIN editor Doug Brod.
By Doug Brod 08.03.08 4:14 PM
1. I once read a news story about a biker-dude lottery winner who lived at home with his mom on Long Island and admitted to enjoying a "sponge shot"—after wiping down the bar at the end of the night, his favorite bartender would squeeze the funky liquid into a glass for our hero to down.
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Watch video interviews and acoustic performances from the Hard Rock Hotel, plus live video blogs from backstage.
By Peter Gaston 07.30.08 3:53 PM
SPIN.com is packing up its festival bags once again this weekend for one of summer's biggest weekends: Lollapalooza, in Chicago's gorgeous Grant Park. With headline sets from the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, and Kanye West, Lolla lacks little in star power, and we're unleashing our hounds accordingly.
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Live Toadies Video, From an NYC Rooftop
Prior to a sold-out show at New York's Bowery Ballroom, Vaden Todd Lewis and Clark Vogeler strummed a few classics for the SPIN.com cameras.
By Gray Hurlburt 06.27.08 2:42 PM
When we met up with the Toadies on a Manhattan rooftop yesterday afternoon, we were not alone, forced to conduct our taping under the watchful eyes of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin, a statue of whom adorned our location in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Toadies, "I Came from the Water"
06.27.08 11:48 AM
Toadies rooftop acoustic performance of "I Came from the Water". Recorded in NYC on June 26, 2008.
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Toadies, "Backslider"
06.27.08 11:26 AM
Toadies rooftop acoustic performance of "Backslider", recorded in NYC June 26, 2008.
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New Toadies MP3: "No Deliverance"
Exclusive! Stream "No Deliverance," the Fort Worth, TX-based act's first new song in over seven years, and title track of their forthcoming album, due Aug. 19.
By Larry Fitzmaurice 06.10.08 12:09 PM
Since Toadies frontman Vaden Todd Lewis spilled the beans to SPIN.com on the '90s alt-rock act's much-anticipated new record, No Deliverance (out Aug.
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