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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.

Patrick Stump, whom you might recall as the lead singer of Chicago’s popular Fall Out Boy, needs your help.

He’s putting together a debut solo record and he can’t decide on which version of his song “Spotlight” to put on the album. The first version is more of a synth pop tune called “Spotlight (New Regrets)” and the second version is percussion indie rock song called “Spotlight Oh Nostalgia.”

You can hear and download for free both versions of the song and then vote for your favorite. Just go to PatrickStump.com.

Recently, you might have been sucked into another viral campaign fanfaring “Cat Heaven.” It seemed to have some mysterious connection to Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, the Matches and Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack.

Well the mystery is over. The Keys to Cat Heaven is the name of the new album from pop quintet This Is My Suitcase. A few years ago, you might remember their lo-fi gem of a MCS cover where they turned a Motion City song into a Thanksgiving song.

Their album The Keys to Cat Heaven is available now. Check out the title track:

.“Welcome to Cat Heaven”

Oh and for those of you who did see the viral campaign and were curious of the following:

I SAW WELCOMETOCATHEAVEN.COM AND WHAT IN GOD’S NAME DO YOU HAVE TO DO WITH PATRICK STUMP/THE MATCHES/MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK/LIMBECK/BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT? IS THIS SOME NIGHTMARISH SUPERGROUP?

This Is Me Smiling explains:

Patrick Stump (most notably of Fall Out Boy wealth) has been a friend to us and a fan of our music for the past few years. in fact, he is the very person who wisely encouraged me to thematically arrange The Keys To Cat Heaven.

The Matches have been both friends and fans of our band since we opened for them several years ago and tied the knot; furthermore, Shawn Harris (the brilliant frontman for the matches) is vocally featured on our album in the song “Jesusfreak.”

Justin Pierre (the cool-as-frost frontman for Motion City Soundtrack and Paper+Plastick’s own Farewell Continental) was one of the earliest supporters of This Is My Suitcase many moons ago, as well as the sweetheart who recommended us to our label Paper+Plastick; Sir Justin Pierre is also vocally featured on our album in the song “Stay Here.”

Limbeck are dear friends of ours for the last few years. gotta’ love Limbeck!

Bobcat Goldthwait just simply rules.

This Is My Suitcase: website | myspace

Photo by James Roh