Lollapalooza

Get $75 3-Day Early Bird Tickets To Lollapalooza This Week!

Are you thinking about going to Lollapalooza this year, but you are not sure if you want to pay $235 for the full three days? If so, you might want to pay attention to Lollapalooza.com over the […]

2013/03/19

Lolla Leaks Say The Cure, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons Will Play Lollapalooza This Year

Here we go again. Like last February, speculation on who will perform at Lollapalooza this August is very much alive with multiple twitter accounts claiming to leak the lineup. It all started with the account, […]

2013/02/20

Lollapalooza T-shirt Design Contest

For all you aspiring artists, graphic designers, and creatives here’s your chance to shine! Lollapalooza is hosting a T-shirt Design Contest for this year’s festival. The design should reflect the musical culture and community of […]

2013/02/14

Perry Ferrell - commissioner for festivals and special events

Perry Farrell Announces Janes Addiction Musical

Over the past decade or so, Perry Farrell has proved to be a man of many talents. From being the lead vocalist of Jane’s Addiction, to the Spiritual Godfather of the world-wide summer music festival, […]

2013/01/07

Lolla Look Back: 1991, The First Festival

Lollapalooza is a very well known music festival that people travel long distances to expose themselves to new and unique artists that is now held in Chicago. Lollapalooza wasn’t always held in Chicago, in fact […]

2012/11/16

Dave Grohl at Lolla 2011 (photo Nate Azark / WXRT)

Foo Fighters Rock In The Rain Live At Lollapalooza [Watch]

Dave’s taking a break from the band in 2013, (drumming with Queens of the Stone Age), but if you closed out Lolla in 2011 on the festival’s south side, you experienced a true treat. (If […]

2012/11/13

Fitz & The Tantrums Live Lollapalooza Weekend [Watch]

Fitz and the Tantrums create a soulful rock sound that is impossible to resist. Their big single, Moneygrabber, has you dancing in your seat every time you hear it on XRT, even if you’re not […]

2012/11/13

Metallica at Lolla '96 (image via YouTube)

Lolla At 20: Mud & Metallica Reign In 1996 [Listen]

For many folks, the biggest heavy metal/hard rock band on the planet appearing at an alternative music fest was not something they were too excited about. For others, seeing bands that put on a good […]

2012/11/05

40 Years in 40 Days: MGMT @ Lollapalooza, 2008

Every year there’s a band that outdraws their time slot. A band that’s scheduled early in the afternoon but draws like a main stage, evening act. Maybe the band really takes off after the Lolla […]

2012/10/23

Courtney Love (photo: ON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images)

Courtney Sings For Kurt At Lollapalooza 1994

Scheduled to headline the then-tour that was Lollapolooza in 1994 were none other than the princes (in the tortured Hamlet-equse sense) of grunge: Nirvana. But on April 7, the band unexpected cancelled. A day later […]

2012/10/12

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