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Lollapalooza has joined the flurry of music festivals set to come back after a year without live music. Slated for the weekend of July 29, the festival will feature more than 170 artists performing over four days. Its already widely circulated lineup poster boasts big-name headliners like Miley Cyrus, Foo Fighters, and Tyler, the Creator up at the top in oversized type. And, like those of most music festivals, Lollapalooza’s poster also features 20 lines of tiny text, cramped with dozens of artists whose names can and will inevitably get lost in the crowd. The smallest, least legible text is reserved for the last row, which features the names of eight up-and-coming artists hoping to make their mark on the festival. But when your name is in the fine print, your festival experience has got to be a whole lot different from that of big-print Miley Cyrus.
The Vovos
“This song is a silly rant about how weird and small our capital city is,” say Melbourne five-piece The Vovos about ‘Compromise’ – a song that’s more of a love-hate ode to Canberra, “
a big small town” as the chorus goes.
The Vovos are everything you want a lo-fi indie rock band to be: sharp, witty and sporting kick-ass hooks. ‘Compromise’ will have you yelling along from its first chorus: “
Canberra/
Canberra/
Nobody likes you,” they sing, as if graffitied and dart-riddled posters of our country’s capital adorn their bedroom walls.
Like Vivian Girls or Dum Dum Girls before them, The Vovos share the charm of that mid-2000’s lo-fi indie rock scene without ever falling into pastiche or nostalgia: ‘Compromise’ sounds fresh and exciting, even if its message is as old as the city itself.