Chicago
Lollapalooza
Sunday, August 05, 2012 (8:00 PM - 2:00 AM) | 
Grant Park 337 E. Randolph St. Chicago IL
Lollapalooza
Grant Park
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Line Up
- Jack White
- Justice
- Florence + The Machine
- At The Drive-In
- Kaskade
- Sigur Ros
- Miike Snow
- J. Cole
- Childish Gambino
- Zeds Dead
- Big Gigantic
- The Big Pink
- Toro Y Moi
- Little Dragon
- Of Monsters And Men
- Gary Clark Jr.
- The Gaslight Anthem
- Amadou & Mariam
- The Walkmen
- Doctor P
- Dum Dum Girls
- Trampled By Turtles
- Polica
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- White Rabbits
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- The Devil Makes Three
- Oberhofer
- Bowerbirds
- Mona
- Hey Rosetta
- The Jezabels
- Nadastrom
- DJ Nihal
- Yuna
- The Sheepdogs
- Outasight
- DJ Mel
- Imaginary Cities
- Overdoz
- Red Oblivion
- Kid Color
Kaskade
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“Kaskade’s signature sound is as unmistakable as it is beautiful; a combination of dewy female vocals,tough electronic underpinnings, and memorable melodies.”
The New York Times may have called him the “new face of electronic dance music” in a recent profile, but Ryan Raddon, known as Kaskade, has been in the trenches of the EDM scene as an original recording artist and in-demand DJ for more than a decade. He has released seven studio albums, including his latest, Fire & Ice, scored nine Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay Chart, created chart-topping remixes for everyone from Lady Gaga to Beyoncé, appeared at all the major summer festivals, and has performed between 150 and 200 headlining shows a year for the last 10 years, building a name for himself as an innovator of the EDM scene as we know it today, which has opened doors for the likes of Deadmau5, Tiesto, Skrillex and more. In doing so, he has helped to lay the groundwork for a titanic musical and cultural shift: a post-rock EDM revolution that has captured the imagination of a new generation of music lovers across North America
Kaskade has been named America’s No. 1 DJ by DJ Times and Pioneer DJ. In 2012, he will appear at this year’s Coachella and will hit the road in June for his biggest headlining tour ever 70-plus North American shows in just over three months. His own live show being a jaw-dropping spectacle that finds him performing in front of a massive LED screen that blares images synched with the music while strobe lights scan the crowd. Kaskade’s belief in the transformative power of dance music to uplift thousands of people at once has had a significant effect on the U.S. scene. His ground-breaking double residency in Las Vegas at the Encore Beach Club (which had not even been built when he signed on) and Marquee has elevated the city’s status as a premiere club-going destination on par with London, Berlin, and Ibiza, is another testament to his influence.
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Raddon was heavily influenced by New Wave bands like The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, and The Smiths that ignited his love for melody and lyrics and was strongly impacted by the house music scene that developed in Chicago. Following stints spinning throughout college and in A&R at OM Records, he began working on his own music, which includes multiple singles, EPs, and remixes, as well as the albums: his most recent 2011 release Fire & Ice which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart, No. 3 on the Independent Albums chart, and No. 17 on the Top 200 Albums chart, while the iTunes version debuted at No. 4 on the overall album chart. The Fire disc contains ten original songs geared firmly toward the dancefloor, while on the Ice disc, Kaskade delivers the perfect down-tempo post-club experience by remixing all ten songs. Both discs showcase the musical versatility tat has characterized his work ever since he began writing his own songs. This album was preceded by It’s You, It’s Me (2003), In the Moment (2004), The Calm (2006), Here & Now (2006), Love Mysterious (2006), Strobelite Seduction (2008), Dynasty (2010) and Dance.Love (2010).
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