LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Various Rock’s Wildest Pageant (St. Martin’s Press; March 25, 2025) sees New York Occasions bestselling authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour (Nothin’ However A Good Time) telling the no-holds-barred historical past of the enduring music pageant. By means of lots of of recent interviews with artists, tour founders, pageant organizers, promoters, publicists, sideshow freaks, stage crews, document label execs, reporters, roadies and extra, LOLLAPALOOZA chronicles the tour’s pioneering 1991-1997 run, and, within the course of, various rock’s rise – in addition to the reverberations that led to an enormous shift within the music business and the tradition at massive.
LOLLAPALOOZA contains a foreword by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil together with unique interviews with among the largest names in music, together with Perry Farrell and Jane’s Dependancy, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, 9 Inch Nails, Sonic Youth, Instrument, Smashing Pumpkins, Ice-T, Rage In opposition to the Machine, Inexperienced Day, Patti Smith, Alice in Chains, Metallica, and plenty of extra.
LOLLAPALOOZA: THE UNCENSORED STORY
OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK’S WILDEST FESTIVAL
Conceived by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane’s Dependancy, Lollapalooza’s inaugural outing throughout the U.S. in the summertime of 1991 helped to coalesce an ideology and aesthetic that not solely washed over well-liked music however seeped into style, movie, tv, literature, meals, politics and extra. All through the last decade, Lollapalooza supplied an unlimited and various ensemble of bands, breaking obstacles of style and uniting various rock, heavy steel, punk, hip-hop, industrial, goth, avant-garde, spoken phrase, digital dance music and different kinds underneath one large tent, and setting the template for the fashionable American music pageant and the scores of different modern vacation spot fests that at the moment are an integral a part of how audiences expertise dwell music.
Unorthodox not simply in music, Lollapalooza additionally spotlighted visible arts, nonprofit organizations, political outfits, and even the occasional freak present, providing a tantalizing cocktail of tradition, artwork, and activism that, taken collectively, outlined the choice mindset that dominated the Nineteen Nineties. Echoes of its impression reverberate strongly at present – cemented by annual sell-outs at vacation spot occasions all around the world, an estimation of 400,000 attendees on the flagship Chicago fest every summer season, and a spot among the many world’s largest and longest-running music festivals.
A nostalgic look again at Nineteen Nineties music and tradition, LOLLAPALOOZA traces the pageant’s groundbreaking origins, following the tour because it progresses by the last decade, and documenting the motion onstage, backstage, and behind-the-scenes in detailed and uncensored and typically stunning first-person accounts. That is the story of Lollapalooza and the Nineteen Nineties various rock revolution.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
RICHARD BIENSTOCK is a journalist whose writing has appeared within the New York Occasions, the Wall Avenue Journal, Rolling Stone, Billboard, SPIN, and different publications. He’s a former senior editor of Guitar World journal and govt editor of Guitar Aficionado journal. He has authored and co-authored a number of books, amongst them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. He’s additionally the New York Occasions bestselling co-author of Nothin’ However a Good Time.
TOM BEAUJOUR is a journalist in addition to a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Revolver, America’s premier laborious rock and heavy steel month-to-month. Beaujour has produced and combined albums by Nada Surf, Guided by Voices, the Juliana Hatfield Three, and plenty of others. He’s additionally the New York Occasions bestselling co-author of Nothin’ However a Good Time.
LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Various Rock’s Wildest Pageant
By Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour
St. Martin’s Press I March 25, 2025
Hardcover: 9781250283702 I $32.00 USD I $42.00 CAD
eBook: 9781250283719 I $15.99 USD I $16.99 CAD
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