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again this weekend after reportedly crashing a US couple’s wedding in Florence, Italy.The video, posted to TikTok on Tuesday, shows a man dressed in head-to-toe black as he greets the newlyweds just moments after they said “I do.” “Imagine getting a pic with Kanye West at your Italian wedding,” reads the closed caption over the footage.In the video, the mystery man can be seen asking the happy couple questions about themselves. “Of course we know,” the dashing groom exclaimed while the man pulled down the mask covering his face, still keeping his back to the camera.According to the undercover video, the hooded man seems to ask where the couple is from. “We’re from Atlanta,” the groom continued.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Variety‘s Hitmaker of 2023 SZA, Tyler, the Creator, Blink-182, the Killers, Future and Metro Boomin, Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez and Skrillex are set to headline a Lollapalooza 2024, which will also feature performances from Deftones, Tate McRae, Conan Gray, Reneé Rapp, Victoria Monét, and many more, the festival announced on Tuesday. The annual festival takes place August 1-4 with over 170 bands, eight stages and four days of music and programming at its traditional location in Chicago’s Grant Park.

Thania Garcia The third iteration of Chicago’s Sueños Music Festival — an exclusively all-Latin music event — has announced Peso Pluma, Maluma, Ivan Cornejo and Rauw Alejandro as headliners for the two-day celebration on May 25 and 26 at Grant Park. Curated by Aaron Ampudia and Chris Den Uijl of La Familia Presenta, the Sueños lineup also includes rising acts like Xavi and Young Miko, along with Mora, Manuel Turizo, Jowell y Randy, Latin Mafia and Gabito Ballesteros, among others.

Another star-studded Lollapalooza festival is in the books, with both A-list and up-and-coming artists taking over Chicago’s Grant Park.

Billie Eilish honored the late Angus Cloud during her headlining performance at Lollapalooza on Thursday, August 3.

Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the headliners for Lollapalooza 2023, which is set for August 3-6 in Chicago’s Grant Park.

Lil Durk revealed on Sunday that he's going to take some time off from performing to recuperate after a shocking on-stage accident.The «Barbarian» artist was performing at Lollapalooza 2022 in Chicago’s Grant Park on Saturday when a pyrotechnic explosion went off right in his face.Lil Durk took to Instagram on Sunday to share a snapshot from the hospital, which showed his eye covered in medical gauze and wrapped in bandages. «Due to the incident that happened at Lollapalooza in Chicago on stage, I’ma take a break & focus on my health,» he wrote.

Metal legends Metallica headlined the first night of Lollapalooza 2022 in Chicago's Grant Park on Thursday.And while the band played many of their most recognizable hits like Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters and One, they would close out the blistering set with a rousing rendition of Master Of Puppets, complete with a cameo from the Stranger Things character Eddie Munson playing on the large screen behind them.The clip was taken from the hit show's season four finale where Eddie, played by Joseph Quinn, 29, shreds a version of the song. Rockin' out! Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn got to meet Metallica and then jam with the band on their classic song Master Of PuppetsThe love fest between Metallica and Stranger Things didn't end there, as Quinn would go backstage before their headlining show and meet the band, and then jam out, for real, on Master Of Puppets.

William Earl Some 30 years after its first bow, music festival Lollapalooza is headed to India on January 28 and 29, 2023.To be held in Mumbai, it marks Lollapalooza’s first time on the Asian continent, following international editions in Berlin, Stockholm and Brazil, among other countries in Europe and South America, in addition to its homebase at Chicago’s Grant Park.A lineup for the Indian edition has yet to be revealed. An announcement touts “a full two days of music across four stages as well as innovative culinary selections, art, fashion and more.”The music of India is transcendental, it draws our spirits East,” said Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell.

Lollapalooza is the top music festival for random sex and drugs, a new study found. Researchers interviewed 1,006 festival-goers, from Baby Boomer aged to Gen Z, to learn how they let loose at the country’s most popular music festivals.

Out On Film has announced the lineup for its Stonewall Month slate of films.  The Oscar® qualifying film festival returns to theaters this June. The month will kick off June 5 with a free screening of Local Shorts, combining three of Out On Film’s popular shorts programs from 2021.  The films included will be Lyrik London’s “Black Boi Majik,” Brandon Mitchell’s “The Duchess of Grant Park,” Deondray Gossfield and Quincy LeNear Gossfield’s “Flames,” Jonathon Pawlowski’s “If I’m Good,” Frederick Taylor’s “Meet the Team Taking J-Setting From Underground Clubs to the Main Stage,” Carly Johnson’s “One Day,” Quinlan Orear’s “Over My Dead Body,” Patrick Seda’s “Reverend Falls,” Mya-Breyana Morton’s “The Traveler,” and John e.  KIlberg’s “Vestirse.”

Chris Willman Music WriterProving that it’s not too enslaved to its alternative rock roots, Lollapalooza announced its 2022 lineup Tuesday morning, with a slate of headliners that incorporates pop, hip-hop, metal and even bluegrass, featuring the likes of Metallica, Dua Lipa, Lil Baby, Doja Cat, J. Cole, Machine Gun Kelly, Charli XCX, the Kid Laroi and Billy Strings.The group with the No.

A political disagreement over the commemoration of Christopher Columbus has erupted into a four-letter tirade by Chicago’s Democratic mayor, Lori Lightfoot.A statue of Columbus – the Italian explorer who was for many years mistakenly believed to have discovered America – stood in Chicago's Grant Park between 1933 and 2020.The monument was removed in the wake of the George Floyd protests, after attempts to pull it down resulted in scuffles between protesters and Chicago police.But the removal of the statue offended member’s of Chicago’s Italian-American community who asked to use the Columbus statue in the annual in the Columbus Day Parade.But former Chicago Park District counsel general George Smyrniotis, says that Mayor Lightfoot vetoed an agreement with local Italian-Americans.He also says that Mayor Lightfoot insulted the lawyers that drafted the agreement, and even insults their credentials – asking them which law school they attended or if they even went to law school.In a lawsuit brought by Mr Smyrniotis, it is also alleged that the mayor used obscene language and called the lawyers “d***s.”The mayor allegedly told the lawyers: “You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians, what you are doing, you are out there measuring your d*** with the Italians seeing whose got the biggest d***."You are out there stroking your d*** over the Columbus statue," she added.

DaBaby has been dropped from the Lollapalooza 2021 lineup, mere hours before he was supposed to take the stage at Chicago's Grant Park. "Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect and love," the festival wrote on Twitter, "With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight." As a replacement, G Herbo was added to the festival's lineup, and Young Thug was moved into the headliner slot vacated by DaBaby.

Richard Bienstock “I’m often asked, did I think it was going to be what it became?,” Perry Farrell says before adding with a laugh, “I mean, that’s ridiculous. Of course not! How could I, you know?”The Jane’s Addiction cofounder is of course speaking about his other main creative offspring, the granddaddy of all U.S.

Lollapalooza Festival will return to Chicago with a four-day event at its usual place and date range — Grant Park, July 29-August 1 — sources tell Variety. The city of Chicago gave the event the greenlight at near-to or -full-capacity, insiders report, and an official announcement, likely with headliners, is expected to come next week.Reps for festival organizers C3 Presents declined Variety’s request for comment, although one told the Chicago Tribune late last month, “We are excited about the progress in Chicago as the city continues to reopen.

Succession star Jeremy Strong reportedly “begged” director Aaron Sorkin to tear-gas him on set for the forthcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7. When filming riot scenes on location in Chicago’s Grant Park, Sorkin said that “Jeremy begged me to spray him with real tear gas”, before declining to do so.