War against Hizbullah infiltrates Lollapalooza!

This past weekend’s Lollapalooza festival didn’t escape the war in the north when Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips took a few seconds at Lollapalooza over the weekend and asked the crowd to sing “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song “as loud as you can ’cause we gotta stop Israel from fucking bombing Lebanon.” Considering Coyne literally spends much of his life in bubble, we shouldn’t be surprised by his myopic comment.

Patti Smith, playing in the children’s tent at the festival debuted a new song about “the recent Israeli bombing in Lebanon, and included lyrics about misshapen corpses and severed limbs.” You can hear her song “Qana” at her website. Actually, don’t bother, it’s a piece of shit and it doesn’t mention the guy in the green hat.

Member of the tribe Matisyahu who also performed at the festival made mention of the situation as well. According to Jim Derogatis of the Chicago Sun Times he focused on “what is happening in Israel” rather than the deaths in Lebanon, the singer did ask the crowd to say a prayer for peace “directly into God’s ears.”