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Organizers behind the Electric Zoo festival on Randalls Island in New York canceled the Friday (Sept. 1) opening day because Department of Parks & Recreation officials would not issue the permits needed to stage the city’s largest EDM festival, promoters behind the event have confirmed with Billboard.
On Friday, when event organizers with Brooklyn venue company and concert promoter Avant Gardner canceled the festival’s first day, they blamed “global supply chain disruptions” in a statement, saying, “These unexpected delays have prevented us from completing the construction of the main stage in time for Day 1.” Organizers did not provide further specifics. A rep for the festival told Billboard on Tuesday (Sept. 5) that the application for the permits had been made well in advance, adding that the permit issue was resolved when the festival finally opened on Saturday.
Touring industry sources, however, say it was due to organizers’ failure to pay vendors from last year’s festival that led to a shortage of experienced concert professionals willing to work at this year’s event. Specifically, the main festival stage caused the most issues early Friday during an inspection of the site hours before the event was scheduled to open. City officials demanded the festival staff fix several safety and security issues before the festival could open. It took organizers more than 24 hours to fix the issues, leading to the festival opening two hours late on Saturday.
The problems did not stop there, though. Making matters worse, many fans did not receive their festival wristbands and tickets in the mail as promised, forcing attendees to queue up for hours to retrieve their tickets. And then on Sunday, organizers were forced to shut down access to the festival after the site reached maximum capacity. Some fans who reached the festival site after the gates were closed decided to jump fences or run through security checkpoints as a group, joining other ticket-holding fans in mad dashes past security staff. Hoping to deter fans from boarding ferries to Randalls Island, festival organizers announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the event had reached maximum capacity for “unknown reasons” and promised “everyone denied entry today will be issued a refund.”
The problems experienced at Electric Zoo mirror ongoing issues at the Avante Gardner venue. Created by owner and creative director Jürgen “Billy” Bildstein in 2017, Avante Gardner is known as a favorite for fans and acts because of its size and flexible space. To state regulators however, the 6,000-capacity venue has been the subject of ongoing legal disputes and investigations by agencies like the New York State Liquor Authority over overcrowding and drug use since 2016, according to court records. On Aug. 22, liquor authority chair and commissioner Lily Fan testified that Avant Gardner “couldn’t care less what people do in their establishment so long as they made money.”
The price tag for this year’s chaotic festival — including refund costs to fans who didn’t make it in, as well as paying Friday night performers The Chainsmokers, Excision and Kx5 their full fees — could total $25 million, according to former insiders at SFX Entertainment, which owned the festival from 2013 to 2022.
Electric Zoo was originally launched in 2009 by founders Mike Bindra and Laura De Palma and grew to be the East Coast’s biggest electronic festival, always taking place over Labor Day weekend. In June 2022, Bildstein led the purchase of Electric Zoo from LiveStyle, a holding company created in the aftermath of SFX Entertainment’s bankruptcy in 2015. Bildstein agreed to pay $15 million for the festival property, Billboard reported at the time, paying about half the money in cash and while agreeing to a convertible debt note to cover the unpaid portion of the purchase.
Avant Gardner staged the 2022 festival and racked up debt with a number of talent agencies and vendors, sources tell Billboard, leading to delays building out the festival site in 2023 that were partially to blame for the permit delays.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested the city will launch an investigation into Electric Zoo’s organizers for going beyond the festival’s approved capacity. The New York Police Department estimated event organizers oversold the festival’s 42,500-person capacity limit by 7,000 tickets on Sunday.
“It’s unfortunate that the organizers wanted to turn our city into a zoo, and we were not going to allow that to happen,” Adams said during an NYPD briefing on Tuesday. “And we will be dealing with them in the next few days based on their behavior and actions.”
The first day of the Electric Zoo Festival on New York’s Randall’s Island was abruptly canceled hours before it was set to start, organizers announced Friday (Sept. 1) on X (formerly Twitter).
In the statement, organizers cited “global supply chain issues” as the cause of the cancellation and promised to reopen Saturday. Acts scheduled to play Friday include Kx5, Galantis, The Chainsmokers, Excision and many more.
“Despite our tireless efforts and round-the-clock commitment, we have made the painful decision to cancel the first day of Electric Zoo,” organizers wrote. “This year has presented unparalleled challenges for everyone. The global supply chain disruptions have impacted industries worldwide, and, sadly, our beloved festival has not been immune. These unexpected delays have prevented us from completing the construction of the main stage in time for Day 1.”
Fans who bought tickets for Friday will receive a refund. Fans with multiday tickets “will receive credit for one of the days” to be applied to a future event. The festival will now open at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and “we look forward to uniting with all of you to celebrate life and music, and dance through the sunset with the iconic backdrop of the New York skyline, right in the heart of New York City,” organizers wrote.
“While words cannot fully express the depth of our remorse about Day 1, please know that this decision was not made lightly,” organizers wrote. “We ask for your forgiveness and understanding during this challenging time. We are profoundly sorry for all the inconvenience and disappointment this will cause.”
Dear Electric Zoo Family,It is with a broken heart that we deeply regret to inform you that, despite our tireless efforts and round-the-clock commitment, we have made the painful decision to cancel the first day of Electric Zoo.This year has presented unparalleled challenges… pic.twitter.com/m5tunuANZY— Electric Zoo Festival (@ElectricZooNY) September 1, 2023
The festival’s social media pages announced the news just after 11:30 a.m. ET Friday, hours before doors for the event were set to open at 3 p.m.
Made Events, launched by Long Island City husband-wife team Mike Bindra and Laura De Palm and creators of the long-running Electric Zoo festival, was sold to an investment group that owns the Avant Gardner nightclub and venue in Brooklyn in July 2022 for $15 million.
In 2014, Made Event was acquired by Bob Sillerman‘s electronic dance music conglomerate SFX, which filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and eventually landed in the hands of senior creditor Andrew Axelrod. SFX was rebranded as LiveStyle by former chief executive Randy Phillips, who managed the festival properties for Axelrod and led efforts to sell off SFX’s assets to new buyers. Made Event was the last U.S. festival property held by LiveStyle to be sold.
The organizers of Milwaukee’s decades-old Summerfest have dropped their trademark lawsuit against the Minnesota Twins over an upstart festival held in Minneapolis this summer under a similar name, after the team agreed to change the name.
Last month, the company behind the Milwaukee concert series accused the Twins of infringing its trademarks by launching TC Summer Fest, which kicked off July 14 with performances by Imagine Dragons and The Killers at the ball club’s Target Field in Minneapolis.
Summerfest, which launched in 1968 and calls itself “The World’s Largest Music Festival,” accused the Twins of picking the name to “piggy-back” on the success of the existing event. They pointed out that this year’s Summerfest in Milwaukee also featured a performance by Imagine Dragons.
But in a motion filed Wednesday in Wisconsin federal court, attorneys for Summerfest moved to voluntarily drop its lawsuit against the Twins. In a statement to Billboard, a spokesman for the Twins confirmed that a deal had been reached to end the case.
“The parties have reached an agreement that the Summer Fest name will not be used for the concert event in the future,” said Matt Hobson, a representative for the Twins. Lawyers for Summerfest did not return a request for comment.
Summerfest, which has featured performances by The Doors, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Prince and many other legendary acts, typically draws hundreds of thousands of concertgoers. This year’s event, running over three weekends from late June to early July, drew a reported 600,000 attendees to see Imagine Dragons, Zac Brown Band, Sheryl Crow and others.
Announced in May, TC Summer Fest was billed by the Twins as “The Biggest Rock Weekend of the Year.” According to the Star Tribune, the two-night event was partially organized by local promoter Jerry Braam, who had previously spearheaded a similar festival in the area called “Twin Cities Summer Jam.”
In June, attorneys for Summerfest’s parent company (Milwaukee World Festival) sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Twins, warning the team that they believed the new name infringed trademarks. They said they were prepared to “take appropriate measures” against “a clear attempt” by the ballclub to capitalize on a “well-known brand.”
On July 13, a day before TC Summer Fest was set to star, Summerfest made good on those threats, filing a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Twins and seeking an immediate injunction. They said the name of the Minnesota event was already creating “public confusion,” citing multiple media outlets that had allegedly mixed up the two fests.
“These instances are just some of the confusion that is occurring in the marketplace, confusion that the Twins is hoping to benefit from as they launch their inaugural music festival building upon the goodwill and reputation of the ‘Summerfest’ trademarks,” the lawyers for Summerfest wrote at the time.
The dispute was hardly the first for Summerfest. The festival’s organizers say they have sent 32 cease and desist letters since April 2022 to rival events that feature “Summerfest” in their names, and that 27 have either agreed to stop or agreed to pay royalties to the Milwaukee event.
A boatload of party people will start next year off with a bang on the 2024 sailing of Friendship, the annual party cruise from Gary Richards.
Richards, who has long produced music as Destructo, has revealed the Friendship 2024 lineup on Wednesday (Aug. 16), with the bill featuring Skrillex, Bob Moses, Chris Lake, Chris Lorenzo, J. Phlip, Todd Edwards, Nina Las Vegas, Rusko, Mr Carmack and a flurry of other stars, in addition to rising artists including Mary Droppinz, NALA, QRTR and many more.
The ship will set sail from Miami on Jan. 6, 2024, cruising to Belize’s Harvest Caye, a site that will host 24 hours of shenanigans including a beachside set from Skrillex. This Harvest Caye trek will also include the first ever island iteration of Richards’ Sunrise Sermon event, which he started in downtown Los Angeles in his early rave promoting days. The boat returns to Miami on Jan. 11.
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Outside of music, Activities on the boats will include stand up comedy, skateboarding and a cabaret set from Dita von Teese. Friendship 2024 happens aboard the Norwegian Joy, which can hold 3,500 passengers. While the voyage is already largely sold out, a limited numbers of cabins remain.
“I’m always trying to push the envelope of new music by keeping things interesting and exciting,” Richards tells Billboard. “We have five full days, so I wanted to represent as many parts of the globe as possible to keep it spicy. We have artists from Africa, Russia, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, England, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the good ole US of A.”
He continued, “Some fresh new highlights I’m digging right now include VTSS, Vigro Deep, Sun El Musician, Nitepunk, Raven, Mersiv, A Hundred Drums, Nala, QRTR, G-Rex, Mary Droppinz, Safety Trance, Enoo Napa, and Da Capo. And of course my BFFs as always Boys Noize, Skrillex, Chris Lake, Chris Lorenzo, Bob Moses plus, plus, plus all on a private island in Belize.”
Richards launched Friendship in 2018, with the concept echoing that of Holy Ship, the party cruise Richards launched in 2012 via HARD, the electronic festival production company he founded in 2007 and which was acquired by Live Nation in 2012. Richards departed HARD in 2017.
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Northern California’s Northern Nights festival celebrated its 10-year anniversary last month with a three-day woodsy bacchanal.
From July 14-16, the festival drew attendees to a campground in Piercy, Calif., a city at the center of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle, which is the United States’ largest cannabis producing region made up of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties.
In addition to music and floats on the Eel River, guests of the fest were once again able to partake in Northern Nights’ cannabis offerings. For the first time in 2023, the festival allowed for sales and consumption to take place throughout the event, instead of one cordoned off area. Northern Nights organizers say that the marked the first time this model was used at a music festival. This year the festival also debuted its own proprietary cannabis strain.
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There was, of course, music as well. This year’s headliners were Big Gigantic, G Jones, Dr. Fresch, TOKiMONSTA, Mura Masa and Netsky, with the rest of the bass, jamtronica-focused bill rounded out by artists including Coco & Breezy, Daily Bread, Mary Droppinz, Random Rab and more.
Didn’t make it? Want to relive it? Memories of it all a bit hazy? Enter the Emerald Triangle of your mind with this trinity of exclusive sets from the weekend.
Big Gigantic
Always known for delivering a heady, hyphy good time, the Colorado-based duo made their Northern Nights debut with a headlining set made up of old music; not yet released music; collabs with artists, including Aloe Blacc; tracks by artists including Knock2, Steve Aoki and John Summit; along with some good old-fashioned body pummeling dubstep.
Megan Hamilton
The Minnesota-born producer performed a funky, playful set that got progressively deeper, harder and (wonderfully) weirder over its hour-long duration.
Forester
With their music written to intentionally mimic the grandeur of nature and evoke the feeling of being in the woods, the live electronic duo was right at home at Northern Nights, where they played an emotive, kinda sexy show featuring loads of their own music and remixes of The Neighborhood, RÜFÜS DU SOL and others.
It’s kind of a miracle Outside Lands ever happened at all.
The team behind the event started pitching it to San Francisco officials in 2006. Inspired by the city’s musical lore and the fact the city somehow didn’t yet have a major fest, their goal was to host a world class music festival in the city’s historic Golden Gate Park, a verdant thousand-acre landmark tucked between the city’s Richmond and Sunset districts.
While the park had hosted bluegrass, drum circles and ’60s-era acid tests, a concert had never happened there after the park’s 7p.m. curfew. But the team pitching the festival — Rick Farman of Superfly, the company behind Bonnaroo, and Allen Scott, Sherry Wasserman and Gregg Perloff of San Francisco’s independent show promoter Another Planet Entertainment — had a vision, and they were willing to jump through hoops to make it happen.
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They mailed the 28,000 residents in the park’s adjacent neighborhoods notifying them of proposed festival hours and road closures. They set up a multilingual community hotline for residents to notify fest officials of blocked driveways, sent out mailers, ran ads in three newspapers and launched a website in English, Russian, Chinese and Spanish with information about the event. The hired an arborist to determine how close to trees and root systems they could build stages. They deployed a sound engineer to measure the park’s ambient noise, re-routed bike lanes and figured out where to put breaks in the the fence line so the feral cats living in the park could enter and exit.
“It was very, very difficult,” says Scott. “The city was very skeptical too, and it took a while for us to trust the city and the park and for them to trust us. Now we’re all in lockstep.”
The team finally got the green light for the festival in 2008, when they launched Outside Lands with headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson. 15 years later, the festival is a cultural, musical and economic juggernaut, having evolved along with San Francisco while showcasing the best of local culture. Outside Lands 2023 starts today (August 11) in Golden Gate Park with headliners Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters and ODESZA, along with more than 100 other acts.
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Upon launching in 2008, Outside Lands came to life in the same year as several other major North American music festivals including All Points East in New York and Mile High Music Festival in Denver. This was also the same year as the recession, and while many of the other events launched in 2008 had faded out just a few years later, by this time Outside Lands had become a phenomenon, generating $60 million in economic impact for the city in 2011 alone.
“That [number] changed the entire conversation with the city,” says Scott. “People started not just seeing this not just as a music festival with a bunch of people out having a good time… [In terms of economic impact] it’s like having the Major League Baseball All Star game [in the city] every year.”
Scott and Farman credit the festival’s longevity to Golden Gate Park itself, with the venue providing a singular, distinctly San Franciscan atmosphere. So too does the festival focus on incorporating other elements of the city.
In 2018, the festival debuted Grasslands, becoming the first major U.S. music festival to feature a curated cannabis area two years after California legalized recreational marijuana. (Outside Lands received the city’s first ever permit for cannabis sales and consumption at a festival.)This year Grasslands returns with more than 20 different cannabis brands, many of them local, extending the heady lineage of the park from the era when the Grateful Dead played on the park’s Hippie Hill.
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New this year is Dolores, a electronic-focused stage that pays homage to San Francisco’s rich history of queer parties, performances and activism. The area is being programmed by a spate of SF-based queer party promoters including FAKE and GAY, OASIS and Hard French, and will feature a weekend’s worth of music from local and regional DJs, drag queens and more.
Another major infusion of local culture comes via the festival’s food programming, which over the years has grown to feature food from more than 95 local restaurants, as well as drinks from 30 breweries and a flurry of Northern California wineries. (Those who are especially flush this year can also opt for the Premium Experience ticket, which includes unlimited food and drinks, a personal concierge service, golf cart rides to stage and which runs at roughly $5,000.) Scott says organizers have turned down food vendors from Las Vegas, L.A. and New York, and equates the importance of the fest’s food and beverage options to that of the music lineup itself.
“We want to be a force, and I think we have been in representing so many positive elements of what’s going on in the city,” says Farman. “When you look at the amazing culinary and beverage scene that’s going on at Outside Lands, these are local purveyors that are open today that people go to and are thriving and have the ability to do a very difficult thing, which is transforming to being a vendor staffed with quality people out in a park. These are real signs of a healthy community and a healthy economy.”
Demonstrating these healthy aspects of San Francisco has become more crucial for the festival over the last few years in particular, as the city has gained a reputation as a nexus of homelessness, drug use and business closures, particularly following the pandemic.
“Now it’s even more essential that we celebrate what makes San Francisco great,” says Scott. “We’ve been kicked a lot lately. The media and places around the country like to kick us when we’re down. This [festival] is a reminder to everyone of what makes San Francisco such an amazing city.”
This year’s sold out festival anticipates hosting roughly 220,000 attendees over its three days. They’ll hear music at eight stages named after iconic San Francisco locations (Sutro, Twin Peaks, Panhandle, etc.), they’ll drink wines grown in vineyards throughout the region, smoke NorCal kush, eat local foods and generally just add to the musical legacy of the city and park itself. For the organizers, all of that and everything else they’ve achieved more than makes up for the work it took to help them lock in the festival site more than 15 years ago, one they hope to keep utilizing, says Scott, “for as long as time goes.”
“For better for worse, we can’t franchise this festival around the country or world,” he adds. “It’s uniquely San Francisco.”
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In Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic novel Dracula, the titular count consumes the blood of those who cross his path, using the substance to gain terrible strength and power.
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Untold Festival, a dance music festival that’s happened in Romania’s Transylvania region annually since 2015, has used this regional vampire folklore to also gain power and give strength, but in this case for a very good cause.
With its Blood Network program, Untold has collected thousands of gallons of blood over the last eight years, with donations going to medical centers throughout Romania. In exchange for their blood, donors receive a complimentary day pass for the festival, the eighth iteration of which took place this past weekend (August 3-6), hosting roughly 420,000 attendees. The lineup featured more than 200 genre-spanning dance artists including Eric Prydz, David Guetta, Bebe Rexha, Amelie Lens and Tale Of Us, along with headliners including Armin van Buuren and Imagine Dragons.
“We thought, ‘What if we make a campaign based on the idea that vampires from Transylvania usually suck blood — but in this case they don’t suck blood, but [rather] donate it?’” Untold co-founder Edy Chereji tells Billboard.
From this simple, sanguine premise, Untold Festival launched their blood drive campaign in tandem with 2015’s debut festival. Initially called Pay with Blood, this Year One campaign got 1,500 Romanians to donate blood at transfusion centers around the eastern European country, which borders Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine. The mountainous, forested Transylvania region is in the heart of Romania, with Untold taking place at the Cluj Arena in the region’s metropolis city of Cluj-Napoca.
Beyond helping people, the campaign helped get the word out about the event, which upon its launch became Romania’s largest electronic music festival. It remains one of the only dance music festivals in the greater region, drawing fans from throughout Romania, along with Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Albania and Greece. In 2016, Untold’s parent company, Untold Universe, launched a second event, Neversea, which takes place in the Romanian beach town of Constanța. A winter event, Massif, takes place in the ski town of Poiana Brasov, and Untold will launch another dance festival in Dubai next February.
But despite these national and international moves, Blood Network remains quite local. In its second year, Blood Network donors were able to give blood at both transfusion centers and via a mobile donation center that traveled around the country and which has since become a standard facet of the campaign. Donors can show up to this donation center on wheels, give their blood and immediately receive a free day pass for the fest.
Ahead of this year’s Untold, the caravan touched down in 12 Romanian cities between May and June. During this period, more than 5,000 donors gave more than 2,200 liters (roughly 580 gallons) of blood, with thousands of gallons also collected over previous years. Blood Network partners with doctors from Regina Maria Private Healthcare to coordinate these blood drives, with Regina Maria also receiving the collected blood.
While many dance events have charitable components, arguably few have the immediate effects of Blood Network, which isn’t just a festival marketing tool but a provider of life-saving blood in a country where it’s acutely needed. “Unfortunately, the donation in Romania is low, around 2% of Romanians donate blood,” says Ania Vladescu, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Romania’s Regina Maria Private Healthcare. “The Blood Network campaign created by Untold is very good, necessary and welcomed — it helps a lot.”
Vladescu estimates that over the last eight years, the campaign has gathered more than 37,000 donors, whose blood has helped and saved the lives of more than 100,000 people. She adds that blood donated by one person can save three lives.
“Anyone else who would have done such a campaign, anywhere in the world, would not have had the same trigger of authenticity as Untold, being a festival in the heart of Transylvania, the so-called land of Dracula,” Vladescu adds. “The vampire who normally sucks blood, this time invites you to donate blood to help people who suffer and save their lives.”
Kendrick Lamar performed in Chicago a year for ago for his Big Steppers Tour. But the last time he performed at Lollapalooza was in 2013. Then, still fresh off his sophomore set, good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012), a brilliant album that cemented the Compton native as a cultural force with thought-provoking lyrics. Friday (Aug. 4), Lamar — now one of the greatest and influential rappers of his generation — returned to Chicago’s Grant Park to close out day two of the festival.
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As expected, a massive sea of high-energy fans gathered at the T-Mobile stage early on to secure a spot to see the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper up close. As his set time at 8:45 p.m. neared, the area got densely packed with hardly any empty spots around you. Lamar was 15 minutes late but his fans were forgiving. And he made up for lost time kicking off with the big hits (plus he went over 10 minutes over his allotted time). At exactly 9 p.m., “The Heart Part 5” started blasting and seconds later, the man of the hour appeared dressed in blue from head to toe, and a Dodgers-inspired blue cap repping pgLAng, the entertainment company he launched with Dave Free in 2020. He then went on to perform “N95” and “Element,” before officially saying hello to the crowd.
“Is anybody alive right now?” Lamar asked. In return, festivalgoers roared letting him know that they were alive and eager to sing bar for bar with Lamar. “Chitown how are you feeling tonight? Make some noise. It’s a special night in a special city,” the rapper said.
The Grammy-winning artist went on to perform a mesmerizing set — with a group of interpretive dancers in aprons and a live band in tow — which spanned his greatest hits of the past decade-plus, including tunes from his rich body of work such as Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, DAMN., To Pimp A Butterfly and good kid, m.A.A.d. city.
“It’s always special when we come out here. It’s always love. I want to make sure you have a good time from start to finish,” the hip-hop icon told fans. Showcasing his lyrical prowess and vast catalogue, Lamar wound through songs such as “King Kunta,” “Backseat Freestyle,” “Swimming Pools (Drank),” “m.A.A.d. City,” “LOYALTY,” “DNA.,” and “HUMBLE.” and “Count Me Out,” to name a few. He closed with the 2015 anthem “Alright,” and said “Until next time Chicago, I will be back.”
Day two of Lollapalooza also included performances by Sabrina Carpenter, Jessie Reyez, Fred Again.., Thirty Seconds to Mars, Tems, Sudan Archives, and Sueco, among others. The 1975 was also a headliner and in charge of closing out the Bud Light stage.
As extreme heat continues to bear down on New York City, Harlem Festival of Culture has canceled their event this weekend in the interest of public safety. “On Thursday, July 27th, President Biden called on Americans to ‘listen to public officials and stay indoors’ due to the excessive heat advisory and poor air quality,” the […]
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K-pop is taking over Lollapalooza! NewJeans and TOMORROW X TOGETHER are set to perform at the Chicago music festival next week, which will stream live on Hulu.
Lollapalooza returns to Grant Park from Aug. 3-6, with a star-studded lineup, also featuring Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Karol G, Lana Del Rey, Odesza, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.
Read on for additional details on when and how to stream sets from all the artists performing at Lollapalooza 2023.
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NewJeans will become the first K-pop girl group to take the stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Want to stream the set for free? There’s only one way for fans outside Chicago to witness history.
You can stream Lollapalooza sets live on Hulu from Thursday, Aug. 3, until Sunday, Aug. 6. NewJeans are scheduled to perform Aug. 3 at 5 p.m. CT (6 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. PT, and 7 a.m. KST on Aug. 4). Headliners for Thursday and Friday include Eilish, Karol G, Lamar and The 1975.
According to the official Lollapalooza set list, TOMORROW X TOGETHER takes the stage on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 8:30 p.m. CT (9:30 p.m. ET, 6:30 p.m. PT and 10:30 a.m. KST on Aug. 6).
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Who else is performing at Lollapalooza? The lineup includes Carly Rae Jepsen, Tems, Diplo, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Lainey Wilson, Morgan Wade, Suki Waterhouse, Lil Yachty, Sabrina Carpenter, Afrojack, Yung Gravy, Joey Bada$$, Pusha T, Fred Again…, Noah Kahan, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Joy Oladokun, J.I.D., The Knocks, Maggie Rogers, Rina Sawayama, Junior Messa, Loveless and dozens of other artists.
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If you’re a music fan, Hulu has you covered with bingeable TV series, movies, documentaries, live concerts and festivals. Some of the music-related programs currently streaming on Hulu include Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Jelly Rolly: Save Me, Rap Caviar Presents, Aaron Carter: The Little Prince of Pop and Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial.
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