LCD Soundsystem to play Metro Lolla weekend

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The Australian guitarist was just beginning to see her music make inroads in America when she rips through this galvanizing mid-afternoon set.

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Gaga and the Lady Starlight Revue make an impression on a small crowd with a mix of performance art and music.

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The reunited quartet rages as expected, and a huge crowd rages in response, requiring singer Zack de la Rocha to stop the show several times before a riot breaks out.

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A driving rain scatters many fans and turns the park into a mud bath, but Dave Grohl and company keep rocking in the downpour, electrocution be damned.

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For most bands, a Lolla invite is a must-do show, but not for this agit-rap group, which blew off a gig at Bottom Lounge and then didn't bother to show the next day for its festival slot. (These fans didn't seem to mind the band's absence as they dance in Grant Park.)

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The punk-era singer shows up at the Kidzapalooza stage and shelves the nursery rhymes. Instead she regales the young'uns with "Qana," a song about a bombing in Lebanon with graphic imagery: "Little limp bodies caked in mud."

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The French electronic act was still six years away from its 2011 breakthrough, "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming."

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Nasty weather rolls in and the festival evacuates 100,000 people from the park and into the Chicago streets ahead of the storm.

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Wearing black on a blistering afternoon, the still relatively unknown Montreal band makes an indelible impression with singer Win Butler wading into the crowd.

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The bare-chested rabble-rouser invites Grant Park to "invade" his stage, and hundreds of fans take him up on his offer. Pop prances onstage like a wild animal just released from its cage, his dirty blond mane whipping in the wind.

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Sound problems create drama, but in the end the rapper shouts out triumphantly to his mom sitting in the wings, and shares his moment with Common, Twista and newcomer Lupe Fiasco, who upstages all of them by arriving on a skateboard to deliver his hit "Kick Push."

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Singer-guitarist Teri Gender Bender, aka Teresa Suarez, tosses her heels and drives herself and her band into a barefoot frenzy.

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