‘Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza’ Review: The Festival That Changed Music

A new Paramount+ docuseries tracks how the festival went from an alternative underground tour to a mainstream global phenomenon.

During its trailblazing heyday, Lollapalooza provided an unparalleled platform for the alternative. The problem was that by doing so it made the alternative mainstream, which ultimately caused the summer music festival to betray its roots—an inevitable evolution that stands as the most fascinating aspect of, a nostalgia-fest which understands that all good underground things must either die or become the very thing against which they rebel.

Lollapalooza launched in 1991 as the brainchild of Perry Farrell, frontman for the paradigm-shifting band Jane’s Addiction, who—along with cofounders Ted Gardner, Don Muller, and Marc Geiger—viewed it a way to channel the spirit of England’s Reading Festival by bringing together an assorted line-up of artists on a single stage.

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