By Christopher David<\/p>\n
The weekend properly arrived for Day 3 of Lollapalooza, bringing with it a wide cross-section of artists on every stage.\u00a0 Kicking things off at the BMI stage (a champion in its own right!) was Meet Me @ the Altar, who have risen quickly through the ranks as one of the strongest up-and-coming pop-punk bands out there.\u00a0 Frontwoman Edith Victoria is a frantic ball of energy, belting out singalong choruses as if she was born to, and the band\u2019s short, punchy set was an early bright spot in the day.<\/p>\n
Pop singer Fletcher gave an electric performance on the T-Mobile stage under the hot sun, and her set of no-frills, danceable pop was full of hooks and visual appeal – her new single \u201cBecky\u2019s So Hot\u201d is a rocking banger of a summer tune, and the there was a considerable rock edge to her set that had a little something for both the pop and rock camps; her upcoming album Girl of My Dreams<\/em> should be one to watch.<\/p>\n Dashboard Confessional\u2019s Chris Carrabba arrived in fine form, leading his six-piece band through a beloved array of hits including \u201cThe Sharp Hint of New Tears,\u201d \u201cSaints and Sailors,\u201d and \u201cVindicated.\u201d\u00a0 Carrabba engaged the crowd only a few songs in, appeasing the diehards from the get-go.\u00a0 \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been writing the whole setlist so far, what do you all want to hear?\u201d He said with a smile, squinting into the crowd to catch the many titles being shouted.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to see Dashboard so engrained into American rock culture; they were one of the standout bands from their era, and their reputation as a phenomenal live band deeply in touch with their audience remains air-tight if their Saturday set was anything to go on.<\/p>\n Enter one of the biggest crowds of the entire weekend: those gathered to see Wallows, the Los Angeles quartet who utterly owned Saturday afternoon from the T-Mobile stage. Opening with their single \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Talk\u201d from new album Tell Me That It\u2019s Over<\/em>, it was nothing but infectious hooks for a solid hour, with vocalist Dylan Minnette finding his way into the swooning audience pit for a few tunes.\u00a0 Wallows\u2019 sound recalls the mid-2000s era of Brit pop, and they were a perfect, radio-friendly counterpoint to Dashboard\u2019s longing, anthemic rock.\u00a0 What better way to spend an afternoon at your friendly neighborhood music festival?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Christopher David The weekend properly arrived for Day 3 of Lollapalooza, bringing with it a wide cross-section of artists on every stage.\u00a0 Kicking things off at the BMI stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-features","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}