Funding is a combination from the Buckingham endowment, city and park district funds and a grant from the Lollapalooza music festival which is held annually near the fountain.

Jim DeRogatis ' book Staring At Sound states that The Flaming Lips song " Kim's Watermelon Gun " is a " song that paints an impressionistic portrait of [...] Kim Deal ", whom band member Steven Drozd befriended when they met at Lollapalooza.

In light of the festival's troubles that year, Spin said, " Lollapalooza is as comatose as alternative rock right now.

Lollapalooza is the worst example of corporate encroachment into what is supposed to be the underground.

With the Lollapalooza effect, itself a mental model, the result is often extreme, due to the confluence of the mental models, biases or tendencies acting together.

The episode title is a play on the Lollapalooza music festival.

Ice-T toured with Body Count on the first annual Lollapalooza concert tour in 1991, gaining him appeal among middle-class teenagers and fans of alternative music genres.

In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded.

Ice-T introduced the band at Lollapalooza in 1991, devoting half of his set to his hip hop songs, and half to Body Count songs, increasing his appeal with both alternative music fans and middle-class teenagers.

The large recording companies operate their own music festivals, such as Lollapalooza and Ozzfest, which draw huge crowds.

It was a moderate hit among alternative music fans due in part to the group's appearance at Lollapalooza.

The music video was a hit on MTV, and the band scored second billing on the Lollapalooza tour and managed, by some accounts, to steal the show.

Unlike previous music festivals such as Woodstock, A Gathering of the Tribes, or the US Festival, which were one-time events held in one venue, Lollapalooza was a touring festival that travelled across the United States and Canada.

Recording engineer, guitarist, and journalist Steve Albini has criticized Lollapalooza for its corporatization of popularized " alternative " music.

If Lollapalooza had Jesus Lizard and the Melvins and Fugazi and Slint then you could make a case that it was actually people on the vanguard of music.

The music festival Lollapalooza helped bands associated with the movement such as Tool, Primus, Nine inch Nails, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains gain exposure.

The music festival Lollapalooza helped bands associated with the movement gain exposure early on.

In the summer of 2006 Nickel Creek appeared at numerous music festivals, including Bonnaroo, High Sierra Music Festival, Austin City Limits, SXSW, Lollapalooza and Star Fest.

In August, Interpol headlined one of the days of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.

Axis of Justice tents appeared at music festivals where either Audioslave ( now defunct ) or System of a Down were playing, as it did at Lollapalooza 2003.

The 1993 Philadelphia stop for the Lollapalooza music festival was held at the JFK Stadium site on July 18, 1993.

In July, they played at the Lollapalooza music festival.

The group headlined several music festivals throughout the year, including Catalpa Music Festival, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Osheaga.

Williams was also invited to the Lollapalooza music festival in Summer 2005.

The Area Festival was a music festival founded by popular electronic musician Moby, who asserted that he was " in large part, inspired by the ethos of Lollapalooza ", and wished to create a similarly " genuinely eclectic, interesting, alternative music festival ".

On 4 August they performed at the Lollapalooza music festival, and the next day they performed at Street Scene in San Diego.

Large music festivals such as Lollapalooza are constructed around well known main stage acts and lesser known musicians and bands on side stages.

The amphitheatre has played host to music festivals, including The Mayhem Festival, Vans Warped Tour, Projekt Revolution, Lollapalooza, Curiosa, Ozzfest and Lilith Fair.

The show drew audiences at venues unknown to old-time sideshows, like rock clubs and the 1992 Lollapalooza festival.

In 1994, the group toured with the Lollapalooza festival and appeared in the film PCU.

In 1989, PiL toured with New Order and The Sugarcubes as " The Monsters of Alternative Rock ", an arrangement of disparate alternative bands that predated the Lollapalooza festival by two years.

Their initial farewell tour launched the first Lollapalooza festival, an alternative rock showcase.

Part of the tour included headlining the first Lollapalooza festival, which travelled across North America in mid-1991.

Hole pulled out of the upcoming Lollapalooza festival, which was also going to include Cobain's band, Nirvana.

Appearances included the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Saturday Night Live, the Big Day Out festival, MTV Unplugged, the Reading Festival, and Lollapalooza 1995.

Highlights included performances at several events involved with the All Tomorrow's Parties concert series, Pop's 60th birthday on the stage of San Francisco's Warfield Theater, touring with the Lollapalooza festival, and a performance of two Madonna covers at the Michigan-born singer's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in protest of the Stooges ' failure to receive an induction into said institution despite six nominations.

In 1993 Primus headlined the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza.

The band then played on the travelling U. S. alternative rock festival, Lollapalooza, in the summer of 1994.

festival as an alternative to others such as Lollapalooza, along with other bands such as Phish and Spin Doctors.

Blues Traveler appeared at the 2008 Lollapalooza festival.

Also in 1992, Lush toured America as part of the Lollapalooza festival.

Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs ( 1992 ) and touring as part of the Lollapalooza festival.

In the summer of 2004 SCI booked to play the touring festival Lollapalooza ; thereby becoming the caravan's first jam band.

Temple of the Dog performed " Hunger Strike " on October 3, 1991 at the Foundations Forum in Los Angeles, California ; a three-song set on October 6, 1991 at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood for the RIP Magazine 5th anniversary party ( Temple of the Dog played after secret headlining act Spinal Tap ); and " Hunger Strike " on both August 14, 1992 at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia and September 13, 1992 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine, California ( both shows were part of the Lollapalooza festival series in 1992 ).

In 2010 it was announced that Lollapalooza would debut overseas, with a branch of the festival staged in Chile's capital Santiago on April 2 – 3, 2011 where they partnered up with Santiago-based company Lotus.

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor during the 1991 Lollapalooza festival. Inspired by events produced by Bill Graham, Perry Farrell, along with Ted Gardener, Marc Geiger, and Don Muller, conceived of the festival in 1990 as a farewell tour for his band Jane's Addiction.

In 1996, Farrell, who had been the soul of the festival, decided to focus his energy to produce his new festival project, ENIT, and did not participate in producing Lollapalooza.