Video: Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out

Good news for Chicago music fans: Lollapalooza is loosening up a bit on restricting bands from playing local gigs outside the annual mega-fest. Beastie Boys play the Congress Theater and the Decemberists perform at Metro the Thursday before Lolla. TV on the Radio plays Double Door and Band of Horses is at House of Blues that Friday. But the show I'm really psyched about: Deerhunter , No Age and Dan Deacon play their collaborative sets [...]

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The Acorn -- Crooked Legs Snoop Dogg -- Beautiful Florence & The Machine -- Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Beastie Boys -- Ch-Check It Out

Wanna know something? The lineup for the sophomore edition of All Points West - unveiled mere hours ago - is pretty darn good, all things considering. Set to unfurl over the last weekend of July, the three-day "East Coast Coachella" boasts headlining slots from Beastie Boys, Tool, Coldplay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Echo & the Bunnymen (among heaps of others). And if that's not enough, festival producers are apparently promising that this year's iteration will be free of many of the snags - insufficient mass transit, loooooong beer lines and limits, no food - that [...]