Yesterday, Chicago Sun-Times blogger, Jim DeRogatis leaked the entire lineup for what looks like 2008’s best summer music festival, Lollapalooza. The first four artists on the roster get your blood pumping, but two in particular caught my attention. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have been taking turns giving the music industry the big finger. The Brits made headlines last October for releasing In Rainbows without the control support of a record label, and Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails followed suit with last month’s Ghosts I-IV.

The two bands have also been busy one-upping each other with their innovative promotion strategies. Life was happy having two brilliant bands continuously providing for innovative and buzzworthy ways to distribute digital media, simultaneously help digging record labels’ graves. That is, until Reznor accused Radiohead of ripping their fans off by selling them low-quality files.

Wired has come up with a 10 round face-off between the bands, and looking at the people’s votes, it seems Nine Inch Nails has got Radiohead beat in terms of innovation. Now we pose this question, who will take over Chi-Town this first week of August (Aug 1-3)?

The official lineup is found below

Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine [Down Rodeo]
Nine Inch Nails [March Of The Pigs]
Kanye West [This Love (Kanye West Remix)]
Wilco
The Raconteurs [Broken Boy Soldier]
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley [Crazy]
Bloc Party [Song For Clay]
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Lupe Fiasco [Daydreamin']
Flogging Molly
Mark Ronson [Toxic]
Cat Power [The Greatest]
The National
G. Love & Special Sauce
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Explosions in the Sky
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Dierks Bentley
Okkervil River [John Allyn Smith Sails]
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk [song]
Your Vegas
CSS [Mens' Needs CSS Mix]
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
Battles
Steel Train
Jamie Lidell
Bang Camaro
Butch Walker
The Blakes
Mates of State
Tally Hall
Spank Rock [Loose]
White Lies
Brazilian Girls
Magic Wands
Chromeo
Electric Touch
Duffy [song]
Innerpartysystem
The Kills
The Postelles
Rogue Wave [Are You On My Side]
The Parlor Mob
The Go! Team
Bald Eagle
Mason Jennings
Krista
The Gutter Twins
Ha Ha Tonka
Yeasayer
Witchcraft
Grizzly Bear [Knife ]
We Go To 11
MGMT [Time To Pretend]
Sofia Talvik
The Weakerthans
Booka Shade
Santogold [You'll Find A Way (Switch And Sinden Remix)]
Black Kids
Black Lips
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Whigs
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
Uffie [Ready To Uff]
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
K’NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner

via Chicago Sun-Times

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