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Sacremento’s legendary nu-metal experimental rockers Deftones are currently on tour with the Dillinger Escape Plan.

Photographer Jon Gitchoff caught up with the show during its St. Louis stop at the Pageant and shares these photos chronicling the event:

Deftones

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Lollapalooza is celebrating its 20th anniversary and as promised, the recently announced delivers some pretty hefty acts. 

Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Deadmau5 and A Perfect Circle will headline the annual event in Grant Park from August 5-7, 2011.

If you missed Death From Above 1979‘s Coachella reunion, Lolla gives fans another chance. There’s also many other classic acts such as The Cars to up and comers The Naked and Famous. You can see the rest of the announced lineup below:

Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Deadmau5, A Perfect Circle, Cee Lo Green, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley & Nas, the Cars, Ween, Bright Eyes, Arctic Monkeys, Big Audio Dynamite, Deftones, Beirut, Explosions in the Sky, Death From Above 1979, Ratatat, Crystal Castles, Flogging Molly, Atmosphere, Cold War Kids, Lykke Li, Cage the Elephant, OK GO, Local Natives, The Kills, White Lies, Portugal. The Man, Two Door Cinema Club, Ellie Goulding, Delta Spirit, Beats Antique, Mountain Goats, Sleigh Bells, Manchester Orchestra, Smith Westerns, Best Coast, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, The Drums, Black Lips, Fitz & the Tantrums, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, City and Colour, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Cults, Noah and the Whale, Sam Adams, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, Tinie Tempah, Lissie, Dom, The Vaccines, Foster the People, Titus Andronicus, Mayer Hawthorne and the County, Chico Trujillo, The Naked and Famous, Phantogram, Rival Schools, Friendly Fires, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Reptar, Maps & Atlases, Fences, Tennis, An Horse, Young the Giant, Los Bunkers, Imelda May, Grouplove, Wye Oak, The Joy Formidable, Lord Huron, Disappears, Walk the Moon, Gold Motel, Iration, Ryan Leslie, Tab the Band, Skylar Grey, Christina Perri, Black Cards, The Pretty Reckless, Boy and Bear, Patrick Stump, Kids These Days, Young Man, The Kingston Springs, Lia Ices, The Chain Gang of 1974, Ximena Sarinana, Typhoon, Electric Touch, Kerli, Ruby Jane, Julia Easterlin, and DJ Mel.

On Perry’s Stage:

Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, Kid Cudi, the Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, AfroJack, Modeselektor, Skrillex, Perryetty vs. Chris Cox, Chuckie, The Glitch MOb, Busy P, Joachim Garraud, Super Mash Bros., Jay Electronica, 12th Planet, Daedulus, Feed Me, JackMaster, Collie Buddz, Savoy, Kyle Lucas and Captain Midnite, Ana Tijouxana, Midnight Conspiracy, L1ght, and Lady D.

Early Bird tickets have already sold out, but you can now buy regular priced tickets for $215 while supplies last. VIP Passes and Travel Packages are also available. A limited number of
Single Day tickets will go on sale June 7. Go here to buy tickets.

Organizers are expecting over 240,000 people.

There’s not much about this band that isn’t a giant version of WTF?! But before we determine that such a statement can only bring about negative connotations, realize that a lot of WTF?! objects can sell for lots and lots of money and be declared as “revolutionary” and “artistic” and “rare genius.” I’m silently giggling to myself but perhaps after a few tracks off of the self titled collaboration of “genius,” you’ll appreciate just how indie these cats know how to sound.

Honestly, this review would go nowhere without the explanation of their name: UUVVWWZ. Don’t be all normal and pronounce it out. Direct from an adorable illustration on both their blog and their Myspace, you’re supposed to say “double you, double vee, double double you, zee.” Or shorten it and call it the double unit, but not simply “double you” because they worry that’s too lonely. They are worry warts, the illustration tells you. Mmmkay.

Moving on, the album starts out with the calm, odd chanting of Teal Gardner, but if you manage to hold on for a minute more, you’ll be rewarded with some sultry drum beats and growling distortion. Without such atmospheric repetition you’d have nothing to get stuck in your head (“I like the blackberries/cause they cannot entangle me”) as you pass the fruit section of the grocery store, so accept it. For the rest of the album, don’t be alarmed when the acceptance could possibly turn to a slight adoration and suddenly, maybe it’s too much for you, and then you find out you just need it. The love-hate relationship with her shrilling could come at fever pitch on “Jap Dad”, where instruments go chaotic and she keeps right up. It’s also at that point when a younger, crazier Karen O seems channeled. Remember the frenzy of Fever To Tell? Haunting shrills and leaps and bounds, all out of a tiny little stage queen? You’ve got that here—or at least the potential of it. When they start getting a bit experimental – a bit “break the mold” – songs like “Trapezus” happen, and it might take an altered mind to understand anything that happens there. There are no rules. It’s as if they picked up instruments and said, “okay, everyone just follow everyone—now go!”

Luckily, the smooth and seductive “The Sun” could be the saving grace of this entire endeavor, because when a song sets a mood for the listener, you’ve got yourself a winner. The track begins with a taunting much like the hypnotic, epic Salma Hayek scene in From Dusk Till Dawn, and each note seems to tiptoe some elliptical dance. When the band finally lets it all go, a third into the song, you’re already in love with the southern influence and lingering swoon to even care that Gardner’s voice is in hyper-drive again.

Chords of the Deftones, hints of Bjork, and a more modern link to Deerhoof are all you need to know in order to decipher that this band is something only the artsy-est of art kids could discover. My prediction is that Saddle Creek made a good move (although seriously unpredicted) in taking them under their financially supported wing. Could this rugged power zap! bam! boom! movement be the new sound of ’10? Maybe, as long as the show can hold up to the intensity of rare genius. Oops. I said it.

UUVVWWZ – “Shark Suit”

UUVVWWZ will be released by Saddle Creek Records on July 7, 2009.

Tracklisting:
01. Berry Can
02. Shark Suit
03. Jap Dad
04. Neolaño
05. Castle
06. Green Starred Sleeve
07. Trapezeus
08. The Sun
09. Hum Jam

UUVVWWZ: website | myspace

Written by: Heather Lumb