Still dripping with sweat accumulated during the band's mid-day performance on Lollapalooza's main stage, one half of Toronto-based post-punk quartet Tokyo Police Club sat down inside the SPIN.com tent backstage for a quick conversation, weighing heavily on the band's much-anticipated debut LP and their signing to Saddle Creek Records.

We are in transit back to New York from Chicago, but we couldn't wait to share these amazing photos of Pearl Jam's headlining set on Sunday from our superstar shutterbug Lucy Hamblin. Only 20 photogs were allowed in the pit for Pearl Jam's set, so you won't find too many photos like these anywhere else. Enjoy!

Canadian indie jammers Apostle of Hustle, the side project of Andrew Whiteman of Broken Social Scene, took the Playstation stage after Arts and Crafts labelmates Los Campesinos!

The eager, smooth-voiced Q101 radio jock worked himself into the requisite I'm-not-just-saying-this- because-I'm-paid-to lather, babbling on about how long it's been since the next act to grace the AT&T stage has played Chicago, eventually booming loud enough so that his platitudes reverberated all the way back to the food court:

Rumors ran rampant by 3 P.M. regarding the Kidzapalooza stage's last "very special" guest of the day. Some said Eddie Vedder (and you'd have thought, judging by the two enormous black-clad Pearl Jam fanatics sitting with the kids in the front row), while others said Patti Smith and My Morning Jacket's Jim James. The latter were right, and at 3 P.M.

We caught up with the lads of Motion City Soundtrack again at Lollapalooza, just two weeks after we hung out at their NYC show and filmed the band performing three songs from their forthcoming album, Even If It Kills Me, out Sept. 18.

Lollapalooza is one of rock music's most enduring brands, mainly because its founder is one of rock music's most enduring figures. It's impossible to miss Perry Farrell at Lollapalooza. One minute he's performing on the Kidz stage, the next he's on the AT&T stage introducing Muse.

One could easily have no comprehension of just how massive Snow Patrol have become in America until seeing them out onstage at Lollapalooza, playing to one of Saturday's biggest crowds on the Bud Light stage. That set actually was the band's last for awhile; they're about to take some time off before recording a new album, and bassist Paul Wilson filled us in on their plans.

We here at SPIN.com wish we could pack you all up in our respective suitcases and stow you away to this weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. But just because you don't have a ticket for the Windy City's lakeside extravaganza doesn't mean you can't soak up some of the festival's top performances.

Further proving the existence of a work week, the crowd sizes ballooned on the second day of Lollapalooza, throngs of which rolled in before noon Saturday to check out Tokyo Police Club, the Newmarket, Ontario-based band whose sum total of released material to date barely surpasses the 30 minute mark.