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Photos: Behind the Scenes at Lollapalooza
August 6, 2012 1:10 PM ET
The Shins, Dawes, Bassnectar and more | More »
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Photos: Behind the Scenes at Hard Festival
August 6, 2012 12:05 PM ET
Bloc Party, Miike Snow, Danny Brown and more | More »
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Jack White, Kaskade Close Out Lollapalooza
August 6, 2012 9:45 AM ET| Dan Hyman
After dicey weather dominated the first two days of Lollapalooza, Sunday was pure bliss in Chicago: Not only was there a pleasant breeze blowing in from Lake Michigan – in marked contrast to the blistering heat Friday and violent thunderstorms that prompted organizers to evacuate and briefly suspend the festival Saturday – there was killer music on eight stages all day long. "Damned if we didn't get lucky with the weather tonight," Jack White said, surveying the sp... | More »
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Deadmau5 Plays to Enraptured Crowd at Inaugural Veld Music Festival
August 5, 2012 7:10 PM ET| Karen Bliss
An unassuming guy in a white Neff ballcap and black Nyan Cat t-shirt kept more than 20,000 EDM revelers enraptured Saturday night with his progressive, ahead-of-the-game house and trance emissions, despite a sudden downpour that fell on the inaugural Veld Music Festival at Downsview Park in suburban Toronto. The guy? Deadmau5, recently ranked No. 6 on Forbes’ world’s highest paid DJ list with earnings of $11.5 million over the past 12 months, and July's Rolling Stone cover a... | More »
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Jamie xx Heats Up at MoMA PS1
August 5, 2012 1:50 PM ET| Devon Maloney
MoMA PS1's Warm Up outdoor concert series, which aims to showcase live, experimental music in the courtyard of the satellite museum in Queens, New York, is deep in the swing of its 15th summer. Last night's iteration was the fifth of this season alone, so by now, attendees know that the weekly Saturday event – curated by indie tastemakers along with the heads of forward-minded labels like True Panther, XL, DFA Records, RVNG Intl and Tri Angle – offers something... | More »
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Mumford & Sons Stomp Through Summer Festival Kickoff
August 5, 2012 1:45 PM ET| Patrick Doyle
Mumford & Sons seemed genuinely stunned by the magnitude of their own festival in Portland, Maine yesterday. In the late afternoon, keyboardist Ben Lovett and bassist Ted Dwane sat on a grassy hill overlooking the city’s Casco Bay, smoking cigarettes and marveling at more than 15,000 fans packed into to the city’s sprawling Eastern Promenade. "There’s no way when you start out as a band, you think you’d end up getting here," said Lovett. "This is another level of l... | More »
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Skrillex and Boys Noize Lead Relentless Electronic Attack at Hard Summer
August 5, 2012 12:00 PM ET| Daniel Siegal
With the notorious (and hugely attended) Electric Daisy Carnival having relocated to Las Vegas, a neon tank-top-shaped void opened up in L.A.’s rave scene – and Hard Summer founder Gary Richards clearly aims to fill it. In its third year at the L.A. State Historic Park, just outside of the city’s downtown, Hard Summer expanded to two days for the first time, growing from a party into a full-on festival. Richards stuck to the ethos that has guided his bookings since his firs... | More »
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Avicii Battle Severe Storms at Lollapalooza
August 5, 2012 10:55 AM ET| Dan Hyman
It was a scene straight out of The Day After Tomorrow: a sea of confused, disgruntled people flooding the streets of Chicago, left to wonder about their fate. The cause of this mayhem: severe thunderstorms, which temporarily forced the evacuation of the second day of Lollapalooza on Saturday. All was not lost, however: after a nearly three-hour delay, festival officials reopened the gates and Lolla was officially back on. The suspension did have some irreparable effects. Several performances... | More »
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Little Dragon Talk Big Boi Collaboration and Opening for the Chili Peppers
August 5, 2012 10:45 AM ET| Steve Baltin
After tearing up the main stage at L.A.'s Hard Summer on Friday night, Swedish band Little Dragon headed off to Montreal for a gig yesterday at the Osheaga Festival and then moved on to Chicago to wrap up the weekend at Lollapalooza. Three major festivals in three days sounds either like one of those "priceless" Master Card commercials or a radio station giveaway. What music fan wouldn't dream of rocking the weekend away in three cities? But the reality of getting from Hard to ... | More »
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Lollapalooza Expands to Israel
August 4, 2012 10:00 PM ET| Rolling Stone
Israel is about become the third international location for Lollapalooza, the music festival's organizers announced on Saturday night. Lollapalooza Israel will take place in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park from August 20th through August 22nd, 2013. "Lollapalooza began as music's premier traveling festival," festival founder and Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell said in a statement announcing the expansion. "As a musician, I really missed the days when we were on the move. I... | More »
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