“Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival” (St. Martin’s Press) is out today. The New Book Sees New York Times bestselling authors Richard Biestock and Tom Beaujour (“Nothin ‘But a Good Time”) Telling the No-Holds-Barred History of the Iconic Music Festival. Through Hundreds of New Interviews With Artists, Tour Founders, Organizers Festival, Promoters, Publicists, Sideshow Freaks, Stage Crews, Record Label Execs, Reporters, Roadies and More, “Lollapalooza” Chronicles The Tour’s Pioneering 1991-1997 Run, and, in the Process, Alternative Rock’s Rise-As Well As The Reverbeations That Led To a Massive Shift in the Music Industry and the Culture at Large.
“Lollapalooza” features a Foreword By Soundgarden‘s Kim Thayil Along with Original Interviews With Somual Of The Biggest Names In Music, Including Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Sonic Youth, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, ICE-T, Rage Against The Machine, Green Day, Patti Smith, Alice in Chains, Metallica and Many More.
Conceived by Farrell As a Farewell Tour for Jane’s Addiction, Lollapalooza‘S Inaugural Outing Across The Us in the Summer of 1991 Helped to Coulesce An Ideology and Aesthetic That Not only popular Music But SeEped into Fashion, Film, Television, Literature, Food, Politics and More. THRUHOUT THE DECADE, Lollapalooza Offered to Vast and Diverse Ensemble of Bands, Breaking Barriers of Genre and Uniting Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip-Hop, Industrial, Goth, Avant-Garde, Spoken Word, Electronic Dance Music and Other Styles Under One Big Tent, And Setting The Template for The Modern American Music Festival and The SCORES OF OTHER CONTEMPORARY DESTINATION FESTS THAT ARE NOW AN INTEGRAL PART OF How Audiences Experience Live Music.
Unorthodox Not Just in Music, Lollapalooza Also Spotlighted Visual Arts, Nonprofit Organizations, Political Outfits, and Even The Occasional Freak Show, Offering A Tantalizing Cocktail of Culture, Art, and Activism That, Taken Together, Defined The Alternative Mindset That Dominated The 1990s. Echoes of its Impact Reverberate Strongly Today-Cemented by Annual Selouts at Destination Events All over The World, An estimate of 400,000 attentes at the flagship chicago fest each Summer, and a spot among the world’s larguest and longest-running music festival.
A Nostalgic Back at 1990s Music and Culture, “Lollapalooza” Traces The Festival’s Groundbreaking Origins, Following the Tour as It Progresses Through the decade, and documenting the action onstage, Backstage, and Behind-The-Scenes in Detailed and Uncensored and Subtimes Shocking Fick-Person Accounts. This is the story of Lollapalooza and The 1990s Alternative Rock Revolution.
Biestock is a Journalist Whoe Writing you have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin and other publications. He is a former senior editor of Guitar World Magazine and Executive Editor of Amateur guitar Magazine He has authored and co-authored severe books, Among Than “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”. He is also The New York Times Bestselling Co-Author of “Nothin ‘But a Good Time”.
Beaujour is a journalist as well as a co-footer and former editor-in-chief of RevolverAmerica’s Premier Hard Rock and Heavy Metchly. Beaujour You have produced and mixed albums by Nothing surfing, Guided by Voices, The Juliana Hatfield Threeand Many Others. He is also The New York Times Bestselling Co-Author of “Nothin ‘But a Good Time”.
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