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Billie Eilish has announced her headlining Lollapalooza set will be partially solar-powered by intelligent, zero-emission battery systems.The pop singer shared that the climate-friendly performance is part of the Music Decarbonization Project co-founded by Eilish herself in partnership with the environmental non-profit REVERB.According to a press release, the zero-emissions battery systems that will power her set will be supplied and managed by Overdrive Energy Solutions and will be charged via a temporary onsite “solar farm”.The use of these battery systems will serve as a powerful demonstration of clean energy technologies that can drastically reduce live music’s greenhouse gas pollution and accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels.A post shared by BILLIE EILISH (@billieeilish)REVERB Co-Founder/Co-Executive Director Adam Gardner shared in a statement: “We hope and believe this will be a watershed moment for the music industry. There are real climate solutions available right here, right now.”He continued: “By showcasing this technology with one of the biggest artists in the world, on one of the most revered festival stages, we’re accelerating the necessary transition toward a decarbonized future, for music and beyond.”In other news, Eilish was featured on the soundtrack for the highly-anticipated Barbie movie, contributing the Finneas-produced, melancholic piano-led ballad ‘What Was I Made For?’ to the album.Elsewhere, she also commented on the “infuriating” trend of fans throwing objects at performers.

Billie Eilish has dedicated her performance of ‘Never Felt So Alone’ to late Euphoria star, Angus Cloud while at Lollapalooza – check out footage of the moment below.Cloud – who was most widely recognised for his role as Fezco on the hit HBO show – died last Monday (July 31) at the age of 25. The news of his death came just weeks after he suffered the loss of his father.Now, Eilish has become the latest star to come forward to pay tribute to the late actor, and dedicated her song ‘Never Felt So Alone’ to him during her set at this year’s Lollapalooza.Released earlier this year, the track comes from her recent collaboration with Labrinth, and features prominently on the latest season of the Euphoria.

Holly Humberstone has shared what it was like working with D4vid on their collab track ‘Superbloodmoon’ at Lollapalooza 2023.Speaking with NME backstage at this year’s edition of the Chicago music festival, Humberstone shared: “Working with D4vid was so cool. I’ve been a fan of him forever, since he started releasing music.

Tomorrow X Together reflected on their debut appearance at Lollapalooza ahead of returning to the festival as headliners yesterday (August 5).The five-piece boyband were the first Korean act to ever perform at the Chicago festival, appearing on the Solana x Perry stage. This year, they became the first Korean group to headline the festival.In the band’s recent Disney+ documentary Our Last Summer, rapper Yeonjun expressed that he wasn’t “sure if we should be” on the line-up.

Sabrina Carpenter has treated the crowd at this year’s Lollapalooza to a cover of ABBA‘s ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’.Towards the middle of her set Friday (August 4), the pop singer paused for a quick chat with the crowd before starting her next song. She explained how her two cats are named Benny and Björn, after two members of one of her favourite music groups, ABBA.She then jumped into the group’s 1980’s hit ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’.

Foals have teased new music as well as their plans for their upcoming Reading & Leeds set while at Lollapalooza 2023.While speaking to NME backstage at this year’s edition of Chicago’s famous music festival, Foals shared that they were working on some new music. Frontman Yannis Philippakis said: “We’ve got a song that is unfinished that we call ‘Tranquillity’, it’s not going to be called that in the future but we were all listening to it and vibing with it the other day.”He continued: “It was something we were writing and recording around the time of ‘Life Is Yours’ and it didn’t quite fit but it’s really exciting and is kind of the coolest thing we’ve ever written so we might try to finish that at some point.”The band also shared what they have coming up for their headlining set at Reading & Leeds later this month.“We’re getting chased for the setlist which feels a bit early since it’s a few weeks away,” said Philippakis.

Matty Healy has met his “hero”, Blink-182‘s Tom Delonge during The 1975‘s headlining Lollapalooza 2023 set. See footage of the moment below.While singing their eighth song of the night, 2013’s ‘Robbers’ from their self-titled debut, Healy noticed someone walking in the front pit.

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy seemed to poke fun at the band’s current Malaysian controversy during their headlining set at Lollapalooza 2023.During the intro to their song, ‘It’s Not Living If It’s Not With You’, the band have a gag where Healy goes to say something controversial and then the band cut him off with the beginning riff of the song.While performing the song during their set at this year’s edition of the music festival, Healy said: “You want my travel tip? Don’t go to…” before getting cut off by the start of the track.A post shared by Rolling Stone (@rollingstone)Last month, while performing at Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Healy criticised the Malaysian government and its anti-LGBTQ laws onstage and then kissed bassist Ross MacDonald during their headlining set. The set was cut short and the next day, the remainder of the three-day festival was ordered cancelled by the authorities and the band was banned from performing in the country.The band are potentially facing a class action lawsuit which is being readied by Malaysian law firm Thomas Philip.

Drake’s scheduled set was replaced by a performance from Skrillex.The ‘One Dance’ rapper was originally set to perform at the festival – closing out the event with a headlining set on Sunday night (March 26). However yesterday morning, hours before he was due on stage, fans were left disappointed after Lollapalooza announced that he would no longer be appearing.“Due to unforeseen circumstances, Drake is without members of his sound and production team, essential to the realisation of the Lollapalooza show in Sao Paulo,” read a translated statement on the festival’s social media. “Drake was excited to perform for his fans in Brazil.

Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar are among the headliners for this year's star-studded musical event.Lollapalooza announced its lineup on Tuesday, with headliners also including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey, Karol G, Odesza, the 1975 and Tomorrow X Together. The event is slated for Aug.

Lollapalooza 2022.According to CWB Chicago, during the Friday of the festival, an individual reported his phone being stolen to onsite police, before leading undercover officers to the three people he believed had committed the crime.Officers then observed the three individuals steal another phone. According to prosecutors, one woman began grinding on the soon-to-be victim as a distraction while a man took the phone and passed it to a second woman who placed it inside a bag.The trio (Ximena Rodriguez, 24, Juan Ramirez, 25, and Arceli Quinones, 31) were swiftly arrested, with police finding three phones inside a bag, alongside an ID card and credit cards belonging to another victim.A fourth individual (Antony Bardales, 41) was arrested later after a trio of people were apprehended for stealing phones at the festival, with police learning where they were being dropped off and picked up.

Lollapalooza has been charged with making a false terrorist threat, after allegedly circulating an anonymous text messages which indicated a mass shooting was going to take place at the festival.18-year-old Janya Williams is accused of sending her supervisor an anonymous text message shortly before 3pm on the second day of the Chicago festival on Friday (July 29). Using the text message platform TextNow, it allegedly read: “Mass shooting at 4pm location Lollapalooza.

Måneskin spoke to NME backstage at Lollapalooza 2022 and told us how they feel about topping alternative charts, their favourite performance in the states, and how proud they are to receive recognition in the US. Watch our interview above.Just before taking the festival’s main stage and performing to an audience of over 65,000 fans on Sunday (July 31), Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, and Ethan Torchio told us that topping US charts has been “super cool.”The Italian glam rocker’s single, ‘Supermodel’ has been the No 1 song on US alternative radio for two weeks and counting.“‘Supermodel’ has been our first global release,” frontman David told us.

Lollapalooza 2022 last week (July 28), a group of activists protested about the city’s 10pm weekend curfew for young people.The ongoing youth curfew in Chicago means all young people under 18 have to be indoors by 10pm.

Lil Durk revealed on Sunday that he's going to take some time off from performing to recuperate after a shocking on-stage accident.The «Barbarian» artist was performing at Lollapalooza 2022 in Chicago’s Grant Park on Saturday when a pyrotechnic explosion went off right in his face.Lil Durk took to Instagram on Sunday to share a snapshot from the hospital, which showed his eye covered in medical gauze and wrapped in bandages. «Due to the incident that happened at Lollapalooza in Chicago on stage, I’ma take a break & focus on my health,» he wrote.

Tomorrow X Together made history tonight (July 30) as the first K-pop group to perform at Lollapalooza in Chicago, appearing on the Solana x Perry’s stage.The K-pop group recently completed the US leg of their first world tour, ACT: Lovesick, and performed at Lollapalooza as the final stop of their itinerary in the States.Tomorrow X Together’s festival set also featured a live band, helping bring the five-piece’s songs to life. They kicked off the performance with their recent title track ‘Good Boy Gone Bad’, before launching into the ‘The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE’ song ‘Frost’.Shortly after, the group invited rapper iann dior on stage with them to perform their recent collaboration, the English-language single ‘Valley Of Lies’.

Lollapalooza 2022, Green Day played an intimate warm-up show last night (July 29) and performed a whole host of deep cuts – check out footage and the complete setlist below.Taking to 1,100-capacity Metro in Chicago, Green Day quickly veered off their written setlist – which, according to reports, was very similar to what they played on their recent Hella Mega Tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy.According to fans, 19 of the 28 songs that Green Day performed were not on the written setlist, with the band leaning heavily on early albums ‘Kerplunk’ (1991), ‘Dookie’ (1994) and ‘Insomniac’ (1995).‘Church On Sunday’ and the title track from ‘Warning’ were both played live for the first time since 2001, while ‘American Idiot’ cut ‘Whatsername’ was performed by the whole band for the first time since 2005 (via Setlist.fm).Check out footage below:Shout out to the dude who got handed the mic to take over lead vocals for a bit. Tag him if you know him.

Lollapalooza has announced its upcoming venture into India with a festival scheduled to run in late January next year.Announced via Lollapalooza’s official accounts on social media, the inaugural edition of Lollapalooza India is currently scheduled to run on January 28 and 29 in “the heart of Mumbai”.

Maude Latour has dropped a new single, ‘Probabilities’, ahead of her debut appearance at Chicago’s Lollapalooza next weekend. Listen to the euphoric track below.The rising alt-pop star and recent Columbia graduate will be taking the stage at multiple US festivals this year, including Austin City Limits, All Things Go, and Music Midtown before heading out on a headline tour this autumn.

Marina and Anitta are among the many artists who have called out the Brazilian government after an attempt was made to outlaw “political demonstrations” at the country’s Lollapalooza Festival.The move came about after a number of musicians criticised the controversial Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro while on stage at the festival, which took place in São Paulo last weekend (March 25-27).Marina told the crowd during her set on Friday (March 25): “We need to stick together. I’m just sick of a certain kind of energy.

Joyner Lucas has deleted a series of tweets that took aim at Machine Gun Kelly and Lollapalooza, claiming that his account was taken over by Russian hackers.Earlier this week, tweets sent from the rapper’s account criticised Lollapalooza for Lucas’ placing on this year’s line-up poster while hitting out at “goofy ass” headliner MGK.The four-day Chicago festival shared its 2022 bill on Tuesday (March 22), with Green Day, Dua Lipa, Metallica and J. Cole all appearing as headliners.

It may be 15 years since they broke up, but Miley Cyrus fans are definitely Team Miley when it comes to her relationship with Nick Jonas! “F–k Nick Jonas,” the “Midnight Sky” singer read aloud during her March 19 Lollapalooza concert in Santiago, Chile. “I didn’t say it! I didn’t say it! Just one of the other signs!” she hilariously joked.

Lollapalooza festival was a “super spreader” event.Lollapalooza was the first major festival to return in the US since COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, and saw an estimate 385,000 people head to Chicago’s Grant Park between July 29-August 1.Festival founder Perry Farrell said last week that the festival “did the right thing” by returning in 2021 despite fears about the ongoing pandemic.Dr.

Lollapalooza festival-goers helped break Illinois’ state record in terms of monthly sales of recreational marijuana.The festival, which took place in Grant Park, Chicago from July 29-August 1, welcomed thousands of music fans and sets from the likes of Miley Cyrus, Tyler, the Creator and Foo Fighters.The latest report from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation reveals that the US state’s recreational marijuana dispensaries reported record sales of $127.8 million (£92.5

Limp Bizkit have seen a huge spike in streams and sales since their much talked about performance at last weekend’s Lollapalooza.The Fred Durst-fronted band played at the Grant Park, Chicago event on Saturday (July 31), sharing a line-up with Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion, Trippie Redd, Freddie Gibbs, Angels & Airwaves, Marc Rebillet and more.After their performance, Limp Bizkit became a trending topic on Twitter for the rest of the weekend which has since led to a rise in the overall

Twitch streamer Ninja snuck into Lollapalooza 2021 and met numerous celebrities in the process.Nick Wold, the lead vocalist and guitar player for the band Dreamers, dressed up like Ninja and snuck his way into Lollapalooza 2021. The musician wore a facemask and had Ninja’s light blue hairstyle and his signature headband.Wold snuck his way into the festival after hearing a rumour that entry was easier from a boat.

DaBaby will no longer be performing at Lollapalooza. In the wake of his anti-LGBTQ comments, the rapper was dropped from his planned performance at the festival on Sunday.

DaBaby has been dropped as headliner of Lollapalooza tonight (August 1) following homophobic comments he made at Rolling Loud Miami last weekend.The North Carolina rapper (real name Jonathan Kirk) drew criticism for controversial comments he made surrounding homosexuality and HIV/AIDS onstage at the festival on Sunday (July 25).“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light up,” he

Lollapalooza festival is offering free tickets to its 2021 event to vaccinated local residents in Chicago.Last month, the festival announced it would be returning this year after cancelling its 2020 edition due to COVID-related restrictions.

Lollapalooza festival has confirmed its return for 2021.It was reported last week that the Chicago event had been given the go-ahead by government officials to host its 30th anniversary edition at Green Park between July 29 and August 1.According to sources, a near-to or full capacity festival had been approved for this summer following last year’s coronavirus-enforced cancellation.“We are excited about the progress in Chicago as the city continues to reopen,” said Lollapalooza promoters C3

Variety reports, the festival will take place at its usual time and date range of July 29-August 1 in Grant Park, Chicago.

Jane’s Addiction frontman, Perry Farrell, has suggested the festival may be making a comeback sooner rather than later, as a result of widespread vaccination distribution.Over the weekend, Farrell posted videos across his social media of himself holding a COVID-19 vaccination receipt, having just received the jab.“I hold in my hands my license to party!” he proclaimed. “I will see you at Lollapalooza… soon.” Watch the footage below.My heart smiled a little more this morning.

Lollapalooza festival believes that live music won’t fully return until 2022.Speaking on the ‘Bob Lefsetz Podcast’, Marc Geiger said he believed “super-spreader” events like concerts and sports events will continue to be affected until the coronavirus pandemic is more fully under control.When asked about when he thought live music would return, Geiger said: “In my humble opinion, it’s going to be 2022.”He continued: “It’s going to take that long before, what I call, the germaphobic economy is

announced on June 9 by Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).

Italian electronic producers Meduza, Norway’s Girl In Red, and Dutch singer Naaz (pictured) were among the winners at the second annual Music Moves Europe Talent Awards, which took place Friday, Jan. 17 in the Netherlands.