
Lollapalooza—Chicago’s melting pot of a music festival—has announced this year’s lineup and, in keeping with Lolla’s recent grab to be the go-to party fest, it’s chalk full of crowd pleasers. Kings of Leon, Lorde, Eminem, Skrillex and this year’s reunited festival headliners of choice, Outkast, are at the top of the bill. It’s not quite the jaw-dropping headline coup that Coachella and Pitchfork mustered, but just below them is where things get a little weirder and hipper, with bands like Broken Bells, Avett Brothers, Chance the Rapper, Portugal the Man, Bombay Bicycle Club, Jenny Lewis, Warpaint, Nas, the Head and the Heart, Grouplove, Foster the People, Phantogram, Manchester Orchestra, Cage the Elephant, Childish Gambino, the 1975 and Chvrches bringing those cats who are too cool for school …