LOLLAPALOOZA HEADLINERS REVEALED!

I am so fucking tired of these stupid pu pu platter music fests. I want these bands to go back to touring and playing regular, full sets in clubs and theatres like regular bands, because clubs and theatres >>>> a bunch of sweaty idiots in dayglo sunglasses and flip-flops standing in mud saturated with stale beer and urine.

Don't the overwhelming majority of acts at any given festival also do headlining tours of indoor venues on the reg? occasionally an Outkast or whatever will do an entire tour of just festivals and that's annoying but I thought it was the exception and not the rule.

Well, most everyone tours, either before or after. But I'd rather have them just tour more than have them stuck on the festival circuit. Though I get it, a band has to eat.

I agree w you that these festivals are godawful

if you live somewhere that's not on most bands' itineraries like me all you get is a festival though. there are a bunch of artists coming this summer i REALLY want to see but I'll have to pay ££££££££££££££££££££ for a 30 minute midday set with a Cool Parent audience who are only there for the big butt rock band main attraction anyway. very sad

I've gotten the impression that these festivals often provide a financial windfall that helps make the headlining tours possible, so I'm fine with it even if I generally prefer to skip the festivals and wait for the tour gigs.

It seems like high school kids who don't go to see the indoor gigs, or are too far from them, like the festivals (some of 'em probably even get Mom & Dad to pay for the fest tickets)

xp depressingly horrible lineup this year. although the august/september festivals (riot fest, fyf) usually get much stronger lineups than the april-july ones (lolla, gov ball, coachella).

bands don't typically live near the festival locations, and they either plan to tour on the way to that festival or they'll fly out and plan other shows around it (unless they're bad at managing money). festivals really only make up a small fraction of the shows 99% of bands will play in a given year.

well, uh, Lolla is an August festival.

i thought it was always in july. whoops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/arts/music/summer-music-festivals.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1

“We come back with some complaints that boil down to our area of greatest knowledge: music. Some clever person reminds us that these festivals aren’t about music. And because we are nobody’s fools, we say sure, right, of course, but then we still feel short-handed. We have lots of dialogues, internal and otherwise, about what music critics are for. They’re for, among other things, registering seismic pop events. But they’re also for not registering them, as a critical gesture.

“This year we are not registering them. Instead of covering the biggest festivals reflexively, we’ll cover a number of smaller festivals with purpose.

“In terms of numbers, festivals on the scale of Bonnaroo and Coachella are major events: 80,000 to 90,000 people for a weekend (for Coachella, two weekends in a row). They are still rites of passage for college kids. Yet they give a music critic less and less return. Their bookings used to be somewhat exciting, if exciting means special and special means rare and rare means meaningful; they aren’t anymore. Each of these festivals, as well as the many others that have sprung up in the last 15 years… has its own essence, to some degree. But that essence has more and more to do with variations in clothes, drugs, topography and regional weather, and less to do with the sounds coming from the multiple stages.”