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There’s another eclectic bill, courtesy of Perry Farrell, for this year’s Lollapalooza Festival, set this year for August 3-5 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Although only re-establishing itself in recent years, the rock festival has planted itself as a big date on the U.S. festival calendar, re-jigging itself last year with a bigger capacity and more stages. Top of the bill this year are Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Kanye West and Pearl Jam, it was confirmed yesterday, along with Modest Mouse, CSS, Kings Of Leon, TV On The Radio, MIA, LCD Soundsystem, The View, Hot Chip, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem,… Read more »

Nashville – The Pixies, Weezer, Widespread Panic, the Killers, the Arcade Fire, Liz Phair, the Black Keys and Death Cab For Cutie are among the acts that will play the reconfigured Lollapalooza festival, which will take place July 23-24 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Also on the bill are Cake, Dashboard Confessional, Dinosaur Jr., Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Louis XIV, Tegan & Sara, M83, Los Amigos Invisibles, Blue Merle, the Redwalls, the Changes, Dandy Warhols, Digable Planets, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Billy Idol, the Bravery and Blonde Redhead. The lineup was announced Friday in Chicago. Lollapalooza 2005 will be produced by Capital Sports… Read more »

Los Angeles – Lollapalooza – a marquee touring festival of the 1990s that fell on commercial hard times last year – is returning this year in drastically scaled-down form. Lollapalooza ’05 will run July 23-24 in Chicago’s Grant Park. The band lineup will not be announced until the third week in April. The festival Web site (www.lollapalooza.com) will go live Friday. Lollapalooza began life in 1991 as a major vehicle for the exposure of left-field rock talent. A highly successful summer touring proposition in the early ’90s, it took a five-year hiatus from 1998-2002, as other treks like the Vans… Read more »

Three weeks prior to kickoff, Lollapalooza has been canceled. Organizers cited poor ticket sales as the reason the 31-date, 16-city trek was called off. This year’s lineup was set to include Morrissey, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, the Flaming Lips and the String Cheese Incident. “My heart aches along with the bands and all of our employees, whose hard work developed one of the most exciting and important tours that this nation was to see,” read a statement from Lollapalooza co-founder Perry Farrell. “My heart is broken.” The decision to scrap Lollapalooza was made Monday evening (June 21), when organizers and… Read more »

The Jane’s Addiction-headlined Lollapalooza tour is rolling along after overcoming a few bumps at the beginning of the tour. Lollapalooza had to cancel both its opening date-which was scheduled for June 3 in Ionia, Michigan-and a July 26 date at Vernon Downs racetrack just outside of New York City due to poor ticket sales and some production issues. The tour has run smoothly since, and guitarist Dave Navarro revealed he didn’t know why the tour had trouble in the beginning, considering how well it’s going now. “Yeah, this is going great,” Navarro said. “Honestly, you’re asking me a lot of… Read more »

Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell has the desire to bring his reprised Lollapalooza festival to Europe, but says there are a few glitches that would make it difficult to deliver the same high-quality show American fans are currently enjoying. Farrell, who also fronts this year’s Lollapalooza headlining band Jane’s Addiction, revealed that there are two problems that stand in the way of taking the festival to Europe-the line-up and the technology kinks that would crop up with the interactive part of the festival. “We have ambitions to be there, but once you jump across the pond, the quality changes,” Farrell said.… Read more »

In years past, Lollapalooza has been dubbed by Spin magazine as “the No. 1 concert to change the world” laying down the blueprint for many other existing festivals. With the Wall Street Journal classifying this year’s tour as “Rock’s premiere summer caravan with shows in 30 U.S. cities,” Lollapalooza undoubtedly continues to be one of the hottest festivals to date, with an overwhelming fan demand prepared to bask in a day of music and festivities. The main stage features Queens of the Stone Age replaced by A Perfect Circle on August 16, Jurassic Five, The Donnas, Incubus, Audioslave and non-other… Read more »

Slow ticket sales and increased production costs led promoters to cancel the Lollapalooza rock festival scheduled this month for Vernon Downs racetrack in central New York. The July 26 concert was to feature Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, the Donnas, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus and Jurassic 5. “Due to the costs of production versus the estimated tickets sales of 15,000, it did not make fiscal sense to play this date,” said a statement issued Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the venue is such that Lollapalooza would have needed to bring in additional production facilities, which made the cost to produce the Syracuse-area show… Read more »

Lollapalooza kicks off on Saturday (July 5) in Indianapolis, Indiana, two days after the original start date in Ionia, Michigan (July 3), which was cancelled before the start of the tour. This year’s tour will not only feature sets by Audioslave, Incubus, Queens Of The Stone Age, and headliners Jane’s Addiction, it will also be an interactive experience. Tour mastermind Perry Farrell has set up several interactive gaming components for this year’s Lollapalooza. Lollapalooza is known as the mother of all traveling festivals in the U.S. but the purpose and scope of this year’s festival, which returns after a five-year… Read more »

The Donnas were added to the lineup of 2003’s Lollapalooza. The band joins Jane’s Addiction, Incubus, Queens Of The Stone Age, Audioslave, Jurassic 5, and others for the jaunt. Jane’s Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell said in a statement: “I bought a pair of silk pajamas for the road because we’re going to have a Lollapajama party with the Donnas!” Torry Castellano, a.k.a. Donna C., said of joining the tour: “We all went to Lollapalooza when L7 was on the main stage in 1994. We are really excited to be a part of this festival because of its… Read more »