Lolla 2008 photos

Nine Inch Nails

8:30 p.m. Bud Light stage
By closing with the self-mutilating sing-along "Hurt," Trent Reznor made sure nobody on his end of Grant Park went home too happy. But the preceding show – which started with a wail of punk fury and retained its menace through a mini-set of post-rock instrumentals and the devil cabaret of "Piggy" – proved that the weekend’s only veteran of the first Lollapalooza (in 1991) was far from stale. The special effects were top notch, but nothing beat the pummeling fireworks of "Terrible Lie" and "Head Like a Hole."
--Rob Mitchum