PART 1: IN PHOTOS

Every year I’ve attended Bamboozle I’ve left completely distraught by the ways of the world. What are the kids listening to? What are they wearing? WTF is up with all these “Free Hugs”? And while this year I fell into a flu caused by dehydration (thank you RedBull tent) and couldn’t move, talk, eat, drink or do anything yesterday, I actually had a great time. I was surprised. Mostly because this year found most of the bands being more homogenized than ever, but you know, that’s ok, really. The kids were all smiling and the weather was tolerable and the people I spoke to all had a great time — and were surprised by it! I caught up with Say Anything’s Max Bemis outside his band’s tourbus on Sunday and shared with him my sentiments of fun and was surprised to hear that he shared them.

I took a ton of video and many photos. Here’s the best of my photo collection, videos and gossip will follow in other posts.

Haley Williams of Paramore.

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HOLY MOSES! The Lollapalooza line-up has finally been announced. I am having a hard time picking out the names of those I’m most excited to see, which is obviously an amazing thing. But here goes a shot: Radiohead, Rage Aganst the Machine, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, the Ting Tings, InnerPartySystem, CSS, Brand New, Duffy, the Postelles, MGMT, Nicole Atkins & The Sea, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Uffie, and many, many, many more. Who wants to house us in Chicago?

Neil Diamond previews songs from his new album on Amazon.com

It’s hard not to fucking love Haley from Paramore. She’s 10 years our junior and we still want to be her! Over at Buzznet, they have fan coverage of Bamboozle left including a recap about our favorite lil redhead joining New Found Glory on stage. Really, we’d just like to see her on stage with Cyndi Lauper, but what can you do?

Audiography has a fun rundown of the history of UK Punk from the late 70s.

BestWeekEver.TV has 10 photos to remmeber Charlton Heston by.

BrooklynVegan has news about a secret Deerhunter show.

LargeHeartedBoy has this week’s interesting CD releases.

In honor of Billie Holiday’s birthday, TheFrisky The Frisky compiled a playlist of some of the best covers of songs either written by or famously performed by her.

Cooking with Rockstars has an interview with the adorable Annie Clark from St. Vincent.