Lolla Land Days 2 and 3

The first band we planned to see on Day 2 was DeVotchKa. They are an indie rock band that is best known for writing the score to Little Miss Sunshine. If you have never heard of them before they are definitely worth a listen, it's like "a mariachi band playing in the streets of Moscow" with a double bass, accordion, banjo, Sousaphone, and theremin to name some of the more unique instruments.


Yay accordion!



Second most exciting part of the day was Lupe. We are so glad we got to see him in Chicago (best city in the whole wide world), the show was high energy and the song order worked really well, packing every song we wanted to hear into 45 minutes. He played with a full band, choir, and the heartbreakingly handsome Matthew Santos.





Goofing around waiting for Rage. It's so exciting!


Rage- what can you say really? It's Rage Against the Machine. They rocked, Zack de la Rocha tried to keep the kids in the front row from killing each other, Tom Morello made crazy sounds on his guitar, Tim Commerfield showed off his black work (awesome), and Brad Wilk tore it up. It was everything you could hope for...


Unfortunately there are no pictures from Day 3 because the camera batteries died and we spent most of the day in bed, resting up for Kanye and the drive home. We headed down to Grant park an hour before Kanye and skipped the other bands for that day. Say what you want about Kanye West, but the man can put on a show, especially in Chicago. He strives to be great and entertaining and he was most definitely both. The line up was fool proof, but all he really had to do was stand up there and say "Chicago" for the crowd to go crazy, which he often took advantage of(-: It was over-the-top and wonderful!