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TOOL TO HEADLINE LOLLAPALOOZA?

 Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 5:54pm by

lollapalooza signAccording to Consequence of Sound, the best band in the world, aka Tool, are going to headline one night of this year’s Lollapalooza. Now a 3-day festival, this year’s event is set to take place August 7-9, 2009 in Chicago’s Grant Park. It would be Tool’s 3rd time at the festival, having played on the touring incarnation in 1993 and 1997.

Of course, nothing is official, but according to Mr. Leaky Faucet himself, aka The Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot, “multiple industry sources confirmed” the much speculated rumors during last week’s South by Southwest.

Time to book a flight to Chicago? We can only hope that this won’t be a one-off and Tool will add more dates. I CANNOT possibly be expected to wait until 2010, possibly 2011, to see Tool perform again.

-VN

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  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    No, I won’t have this…this band will not invade my city again. I will not stand for them moving up from taking 99% of q101′s airtime to 100%…enough is enough. I’d start a petition but I’d need a Tool fan’s math skills to tally up the votes.

  • Muzikwhore

    Going for a Cochella feel huh??…. Damn good band to watch sober or other! This will definitely grab lot of attention.

  • billybob

    Who’s Tool? *crickets* …

    What’s Lollapalooza? *crickets* …

    Where’s Chicago? *Savage beating by millions of people.*

  • Mewis

    The best band in the world? RIIIIIIGGGGHHHTTT. Metalsucks just knocked itself down a notch by joining the tool “fan circle” that cant understand why everyone doesnt think tool is the best thing since boob jobs. Good band, but i lump the hardcore tool fans in with radiohead fans. Snobs, that consider themselves better people for liking what they like.

    I think alot of these people actually force themselves to listen through an entire tool album secretly hoping they will “get it”. Its like some sort of weird masochistic ritual that has taken over their brain in an effort to join the secret math metal nerd cult.

    Its almost worse than star trek.

  • billybob

    What kind of a name is Mewis anyways? Nerd.

  • RyanK

    “Snobs, that consider themselves better people for liking what they like.”

    And your comment didn’t just make yourself sound exactly the same way…

  • Anselmowitz

    Lol way to go “snobs, that consider themselves better people for liking what they like” then rail on Star Trek & Tool fans from the high horse. You don’t even have a notch to be knocked down from.

    Tool is the best band, on CD & Live, ever. Dont get it dont care. Star Trek is pretty wank tho.

  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    The best band on CD and live EVER? There was no music made before Tool I take it?

  • billybob

    I do like Tool, I admit. Cause they f’n rule basically. But some fans are nerds, I do admit. Like myself for instance. I also recently discovered there was music made prior to Tool existing. You guys should look it up, some stuff even sounds like Tool! OFG!

  • billybob

    correction. OMFG.

  • IBREAKBONESANDLAUGH

    Tool is due for a new album and i would love to see them live. Hopefully there is a tour this fall.

  • ElpantsLovesSandvich

    blah blah blah Tool sucks blah blah blah, sandvich.

  • Anselmowitz

    So what if music existed before Tool, they just perfected the formula. Just like me with sex & you guys with failing.

  • billybob

    “Perfected the formula” lol. Everyone has their own way of doing things, there is no right or wrong. Such is art.

  • Kevin

    Even if Tool is there, Lollapalooza will suck.
    It sucks every fucking year

  • pooooooooooo

    Id consider myself an old school tool fan. first 2, unbelievable. I appriciate it all though.

    And all the talk about tool fans being ” snobby” and pretentious becouse of what they listen to…..hmmm….have we taken a look at metalheads? I mean, a lot of metalheads wouldnt even consider things other than metal to be music. Show them a decent funk\jazz\blues\rap song, they shit all over it.

  • Aaron

    I gotta agree with Kevin Lollapalooza is going to be shit even if my favorite band is playing it. Really though the Tool haters can just suck a cock I won’t bother how pathetic it is to jump on an anti-bandwagon bandwagon. They’re amazing musicians who have crafted some of the best albums to ever come out, ever. If you hate them that’s fine but insulting people for being fans is just boring.

  • lamp lover

    fuck tool. I love lamp.

  • Devin

    Music festival… Tool… LSD…

  • XsoC

    Tool is a good band, not the best ever. You dont have to be an asshole to like em. and at Mewis, Ive never forced myself to listen to a tool record, I dont care if I “get it” I just like the music. fuck the tool haters and the people who claim that tool perfected music. they are just a fucking band. a good one.

  • Mike C

    TOOL???????????????????????…April FOOLS!!!!!!!!! Suckers

  • like you give a fuck haters xD

    All of you tool haters just sucks cocks, tool are one of the best bands in the fucking world, and if you think im an asshole or whatever because i like the best music, or if you think tool sucks, then fucking die, you haters are just a waste of fecal matter, you just are scum.

    Tool are awesome and aren’t april fools, YOU haters are the real april fools AND suckers AND anything you think tool is or i am.

    What the fuck is lamp? FUCK YOU HATERS.

    But tool aren’t the best either, they are ONE of the best…

    And don’t try to waste my time replying me with your useless insults and negative worthless opinions because i’ll erase them without reading them…