LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Various Rock’s Wildest Competition (St. Martin’s Press; March 25, 2025) sees New York Instances bestselling authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour (Nothin’ However A Good Time) telling the no-holds-barred historical past of the long-lasting music pageant. By way of a whole bunch of recent interviews with artists, tour founders, pageant organizers, promoters, publicists, sideshow freaks, stage crews, report label execs, reporters, roadies and extra, LOLLAPALOOZA chronicles the tour’s pioneering 1991-1997 run, and, within the course of, different rock’s rise – in addition to the reverberations that led to an enormous shift within the music trade and the tradition at giant.
LOLLAPALOOZA encompasses a foreword by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil together with authentic interviews with a few of the greatest 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 lots 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 standard music however seeped into trend, movie, tv, literature, meals, politics and extra. All through the last decade, Lollapalooza provided an enormous and various ensemble of bands, breaking boundaries of style and uniting different rock, heavy metallic, punk, hip-hop, industrial, goth, avant-garde, spoken phrase, digital dance music and different kinds beneath one large tent, and setting the template for the fashionable American music pageant and the scores of different up to date vacation spot fests that are actually an integral a part of how audiences expertise stay 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 immediately – cemented by annual sell-outs at vacation spot occasions everywhere in the world, an estimation of 400,000 attendees on the flagship Chicago fest every summer time, 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 via the last decade, and documenting the motion onstage, backstage, and behind-the-scenes in detailed and uncensored and generally surprising first-person accounts. That is the story of Lollapalooza and the Nineteen Nineties different rock revolution.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
RICHARD BIENSTOCK is a journalist whose writing has appeared within the New York Instances, the Wall Avenue Journal, Rolling Stone, Billboard, SPIN, and different publications. He’s a former senior editor of Guitar World journal and government 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 Instances 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 onerous rock and heavy metallic month-to-month. Beaujour has produced and blended albums by Nada Surf, Guided by Voices, the Juliana Hatfield Three, and lots of others. He’s additionally the New York Instances bestselling co-author of Nothin’ However a Good Time.
LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Various Rock’s Wildest Competition
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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