RECAP: Lollapalooza 2024, Day Four
Lollapalooza 2024 was a whirlwind of a weekend, featuring plenty of new names, surprise guests, and bona fide superstar performances. On Sunday, the festival closed with another big closing day, headlined by the reigning clown princes of pop punk.
It didn’t take long for the volume to get turned up a notch, as Chicago rockers Scarlet Demore kicked things off. The band took full advantage of their location, with a crowd filtering in to stay out of the sun at the Bacardi stage. They got a dedicated group up front moving early in the day, and with a bit of extra time in their set, they also ripped through a cover of Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.” It was indeed, one of those days (but a good one) for the band.
Just 20 minutes after on the same stage, Nashville’s Post Sex Nachos pulled a big crowd in as well, with fans chanting “PSN” while they were setting up. Many came for the intriguing band name, and they stayed for the band’s catchy pop-infused rock that had the grove bouncing up and down. You’ll definitely be hearing more about the band in the future, as their crowd only seemed to get bigger and bigger as the early set wrapped up.
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Just over an hour later, a completely different type of buzz was happening over at the Tito’s Vodka stage, where Teezo Touchdown continued his climb as a funky, largely genre-free entertainer. Free of gimmicks (and nails) this time, Teezo rifled through some of his biggest material, instead opting for his catalog and personality to do the heavy lifting. We also got our second Chance The Rapper sighting of the weekend, as the Chicago staple came out this time not to perform, but simply give his co-sign and head backstage. His mere presence in Chicago, however, caused a flood of fans to sprint towards the stage.
Immediately following that, Vince Staples understood his role in the mid-day slot on the Bud Light stage. With the sun beating down on Grant Park, Staples gave a set of largely mellower raps to the crowd, floating over beats with an almost calming aura. If you took a minute to absorb the essence of Lollapalooza and all of the things that come with Chicago in the summertime, the Long Beach rapper was there to give you a fitting soundtrack.
A massive crowd clamored to see constantly rising British indie band The Last Dinner Party, continuing a stacked day on the north end of the festival grounds at the Tito’s stage. Playing the majority of debut “Prelude to Ecstacy,” their set would feature both frontwoman Abigail Morris and a keytar-weilding synth player Aurora Nishevci wandering their way off stage to get up close and personal with the crowd. It would be a safe bet that their next Lollapalooza appearance will be on a much larger stage.
As the sun began to set on Chicago and the festival, Piece The Veil played the T-Mobile main stage to a crowd that they declared was the largest they’d ever played for. They certainly delivered, as well, with bassist Jaime Preciado covering the most ground possible, at times sprinting from one side of the stage to the other. The band are as sharp as ever, and touring with headliners Blink 182 is certainly giving them plenty of big stages to run across as well. There was a special moment when lead singer and guitarist Vic Fuentes brought a fan dressed as the girl from their “Selfish Machines” album cover on stage for “Hold On Till May,” gifting her with a guitar afterwards.
When it was time to close everything out, Blink 182 were the band to do it, with an excessive amount of hubris and jokes about having sex with your (or their) mothers. While they could have leaned heavier on nostalgia, the band instead used their closing spot to tout material from October’s “One More Time,” and it served them well. They did, however, touch on all of their albums, including tracks like “Not Now” from their 2005 greatest hits compilation, and even reworking bits of +44’s “When Your Heart Stops Beating” and Box Car Racer’s “There Is” into the 24-song set. The band also teased a deluxe edition of “One More Time” with a performance of “Can’t Go Back,” a song that is still in mastering as of Sunday night. When it was time to revisit their earliest hits, however, they had the crowd bouncing along, even working Chappel Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” into the breakdown of “Dammit” before finishing out the festival on the title track of “One More Time.”
Lollapalooza 2024 has come and gone in a flash, but there’s still plenty more coming from Breaking And Entering. Stay tuned for interviews from Grant Park and follow us on YouTube to get notified when they’re posted.