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"I was terrified that Ed was going to kill himself": Chaos and carnage with Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza 1992

How Pearl Jam’s out-of-control shows on the 1992 Lollapolozza tour sparked crowd frenzies verging on riots

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"I chased him down the hall with my d**k in my hand." How an epic fistfight with racist skinheads turned hip-hop superstar Ice Cube and Ministry's Al Jourgensen into unlikely allies

Relations between the Ministry and Ice Cube camps on 1992's Lollapalooza tour were somewhat strained, until racists showed up spoiling for a fight

Metal Hammer

“We’re still avoiding him to this day... we would just despise him after a while”: Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne is not a Billy Corgan fan

Beef dates back to Smashing Pumpkins man being "just horrible" during Lollapalooza in '94

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Green Day announce expanded deluxe edition of 2024 LP Saviors, boasting previously unreleased tracks

Green Day have announced new songs on an expanded edition of their Grammy nominated LP 'Saviors'.

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Why Perry Farrell didn’t want Green Day on the Lollapalooza bill: “He was like, ‘They’re a boy band. I don’t want to book a boy band’”

He thought they were a record company creation

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Billie Joe Armstrong recalls 'a**hole' Perry Farrell not wanting 'boy band' Green Day to play Lollapalooza 1994

Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell thought Green Day were a manufactured boy band and didn't believe they should be playing Lollapalooza

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“Chiropractors and doctors were like, ‘How long did you play college football?’ I’d go, ‘It wasn’t college football. It was Trent Reznor’”: Richard Patrick says Nine Inch Nails’ 1991 Lollapalooza run broke his body – and trashed $40,000 of guitars

And Henry Rollins wasn't best pleased to see good guitars turned into kindling

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“We were out to satisfy our animal instincts onstage. I think we spent $40,000 on gear that we smashed on Lollapalooza”: Nine Inch Nails made their name with infamously destructive live shows – this is the true story behind their epic guitar smash-a-thons

It was the tour that made Nine Inch Nails – and destroyed countless guitars. In an exclusive extract from Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, Trent Reznor, Richard Patrick and Dave Navarro look back at their all-star guitar-smashing rituals

Guitar World

“Gibby and Siouxsie Sioux were at my feet, wrestling around with a shotgun pointed at my head.” Butthole Surfers' guitarist Paul Leary looks back on the excitement of the first Lollapalooza tour

There's never a dull moment when Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes is around

Louder

My first festival ... and panic attack

What should have been a fun and familiar family outing at Lollapalooza became a revelation of deep anxiety

Salon

Watch Deftones give very rare performance of White Pony classic Passenger at Lollapalooza this weekend

Not counting a Lollapalooza warmup show last week, this was the first time Deftones played the beloved 2000 song in five years

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Kesha's Onstage Knife Mishap Raises Safety Concerns In Entertainment Industry

Kesha's revelation of being given a real knife at Lollapalooza sparks varied reactions and comparisons to other celebrities' knife-related incidents.

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Kesha Accessorizes a "Birkin Skirt" With Fishnets and Fake Blood at Lollapalooza

This Lollapalooza costume is raising all the questions.

Marie Claire

Angel Reese Joined Megan Thee Stallion On-Stage During Lollapalooza

Angel Reese surprised Megan Thee Stallion at Lollapalooza.

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The Independent UK

‘Please forgive me’: Tyler the Creator drops out of Lollapalooza headline slot

Rapper and singer also canceled his set at the Outside Lands music festival

The Guardian - US

Goths, gays, punks and surfers: behind the wild rise of Lollapalooza

The story of the music festival is brought to life in a new docuseries that takes viewers from Rage Against the Machine to Chance the Rapper

Chicago Sun-Times

Horoscope for Friday, June 20, 2025

Avoid shopping or major decisions from 8:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Aries into Taurus.

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Watch trailer for new Lollapalooza documentary Lolla

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza will be released later this month – watch the official trailer now

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New on Paramount Plus in May 2024 — all the new shows and movies to watch

Everything coming to Paramount Plus in May, plus our recommendations of what to watch.

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“Are these your questions?” When Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan interviewed Nick Cave for MTV at Lollapalooza 1994, it did not go well

Interviewing Nick Cave for MTV in Las Vegas in 1994, Billy Corgan made the mistake of calling the Bad Seeds an English band. It would get worse

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"We went to the promoter and said, Can we go home? They were, like, 'Yeah, you can go home! But first you're gonna have to give me two millions dollars!'": Lollapalooza '92 celebrated alt. rock taking over the mainstream. But for one band, it was hell

"We were like rabbits caught in headlights. It was just traumatic for us"

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Lollapalooza 2024 Lineup Revealed With Top Headliners And More

Discover the star-studded Lollapalooza 2024 lineup, ticket details, community support, and environmental initiatives at Chicago's Grant Park.

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“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble

Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US

Chicago Sun-Times

Beach Bunny’s new Pool Party festival promises music and games, but no pool

After playing Lollapalooza and Coachella, Chicago band attempts its own extravaganza at the Salt Shed.

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