Lollapalooza Podcast, Part One: Explosions in the Sky (8.02.08)

As a special four-part podcast this week (Tuesday-Friday), Web in Front will be offering our four favorite Lollapalooza 2008 performances that are floating around the internet. By all accounts (we, unfortunately, couldn’t be there in person–sigh, always a bridesmaid, never a bride), this was an extremely good year to be at the festival, with stellar performances by The National, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West, Stephen Malkmus, the Kills, and Radiohead, to name a few (and three of those will be broadcast on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).

Today, it’s Texan post-rock outfit Explosions in the Sky, whose cinemascope mini-symphonies burned through the Bud Light stage with a depth and wordless beauty that is simply staggering. To quote the Onion AV Club:

Texas instrumental outfit Explosions In The Sky has a reputation for making a holy racket, but their setup on the giant Bud Light Stage couldn’t be more unassuming: two small combo guitar amps, a drum kit, a guitar cabinet and head combo, and a bass rig. It’s all packed tight in a cluster, leaving vast expanses of the stage empty. No matter. When the band takes the stage at 4:30, it unleashes a power that a stage full of cock-rock full stacks couldn’t top.

Amen. Setlist after the jump.

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Explosions in the Sky live @ Lollapalooza 2008 – Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

01. Intro
02. Catastrophe and the Cure
03. The Birth and Death of the Day
04. Your Hand In Mine
05. Have You Passed Through This Night
06. Memorial
07. The Only Moment We Were Alone
08. Outro

August 12, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Tunes, Podcasts 

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