LOLLAPALOOZA Tour Dates With three tour stops already sold out, and four more going on sale this weekend, "Lollapalooza" co-founder Perry Farrell announces the initial itinerary for this year's extravaganza, which kicks off in Las Vegas on July 6. "We're going to have the feel of a neighborhood swap meet, and we guarantee the unexpected," promises Farrell. Main Stage talent for "Lollapalooza '94" includes Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, L7, and, opening the first half of the tour, Boredoms, and Green Day opening the second half. Other festival attractions include as yet- undiscovered-by- the-mainstream talent on the Second Stage, and the Lollapalooza SuperHighway, which will offer interactive computer technology exhibits. "We'll be mixing the known with the unknown," Farrell added, "and getting away with it." Initial tour dates for "Lollapalooza '94" are as follows: July 6 Silverbowl, Las Vegas, Nevada July 7 Fairgrounds, Ogden, Utah July 9 Fiddlers Green, Denver, Colorado July 11 Sandstone Amphitheatre, Kansas City, Missouri July 12 Harriet Island, St. Paul, Minnesota July 15 World Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois July 17 Riverport Amphitheatre, St. Louis, Missouri July 19 Polaris Amphitheatre, Columbus, Ohio July 20 Riverbend Amphitheatre, Cincinnati, Ohio July 22 Deer Creek Amphitheatre, Indianapolis, Indiana July 25 Pine Knob, Detroit, Michigan July 27 Molson Park, Toronto, Ontario July 30 Starlake Amphitheatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Aug. 2 Raceway, Saratoga, New York Aug. 3 Quonset Park, Providence, Rhode Island Aug. 5 Randall Island, New York, New York Aug. 10 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, North Carolina Aug. 11 Charlotte, North Carolina Aug. 12-13 Lakewood Amphitheatre, Atlanta, Georgia Aug. 18 UNO Soccer Field, New Orleans, Louisiana Aug. 20-21 Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, Texas Aug. 24 Phoenix, Arizona Aug. 27 Shoreline Amphitheatre, San Francisco, California (There will be additional dates announced, including shows in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern California. Lollapalooza Main Attractions Perry Farrell Announces The Mighty Spectacle of the Summer...LOLLAPALOOZA '94! eaturing A Multitude of Wonders In One Vast Location! Music, Food, Arts & Crafts, CyberCommunication, Surprises This just may be your favorite year!!! Appearing On The Main Stage: Smashing Pumpkins Beastie Boys George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars The Breeders A Tribe Called Quest Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds L7 Boredoms (opening the first half of the tour) Green Day (opening the second half) Visit the Lollapalooza Super Highway Dozens of Computer Terminals!! Get On Line so You can Chat Live or Post Messages with Anyone Who is Also Signed Onto the System!! Two terminals will be set up backstage so you can talk with the Lollapalooza talent! PLUS! Virtual Technology ** Interactive TV Astounding Demonstration of Human Ability and Accomplishment. Why just save the Brazilian Rain Forest when you can buy it? A portion of every admission ticket purchased for Lollapalooza '94 will go into a fund earmarked to actually purchase a part of the Rain Forest. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!! Sweltering in the Hot Summer Sun??? +++Cool off in Lollapalooza's Rain Rooms+++ 50-degrees of Creature Comfort +++Shade Tents In The Mind Field+++ +++Free Drinking Water+++ Appearing On The Second Stage Experimental+Adventurous+Entertainment Presented in an Intimate Setting Appearing In The Mind Field Information+Full Contact Discussions+Signature Vendors Poetry Slams+Open Mic +Signature Vendors+ Get to know your neighbors! Food, Arts & Crafts, and other vendors at each venue will be from your area!! Not only is he back, but "Lollapalooza" co-founder Perry Farrell has reassembled the original team of people who worked the first two "Lollapalooza" events. Festival organizers Peter Grosslight and Don Muller (the William Morris Agency), Ted Gardner (Larrikin Management), and Stuart Ross, are being rejoined this year by festival organizer Marc Geiger and publicist Heidi Ellen Robinson, both of whom are currently executives at American Recordings. Smashing Pumpkins Current Release: Siamese Dream Most Notable Artistic Achievement: Combining elements of face- melting death metal, introspective rock opera, and coming up with the multi-million-selling Siamese Dream. What You Can Expect From Them Live: Loincloths, fire, the socks knocked up your ass, rock power, etc. Why They Wanted to do Lollapalooza '94: Because we got nothing better to do, plus James Iha is organizing the 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' concession, so he'd have to go anyway... The Beastie Boys Current Release: Some Old Bullshit compilation of rare material circa 1981-84, to be followed by brand new Ill Communication on May 28 Why the Beasties Didn't Hang it Up in the Early '80s: People started liking them. What You Can Expect From the Band Live: Every show to include a best mullet pageant with contestants to be selected from the audience, and winners announced at the end of the set. Why They Wanted to do Lollapalooza '94: Because DFL is too busy. Good opportunity to hawk copies Grand Royal magazine between sets. Mike D can distribute statistical consumer census to all attendees. George Clinton and The P-Funk All Stars From Where Do They Hail: On Planet Splurge, in a faraway, parallel universe Main Purposes: 1) To put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and bring you on board the Mothership; 2) to free your mind so your ass will follow Those Who Have Taken a Trip on The Mothership: Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis and Flea, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Yo Yo Latest Release: Hey Man...Smell My Finger Why He Wanted to Do Lollapalooza '94: Everybody's funkin' and don't know what all the fuss is about. That fuss is us. We just want to funk 'em just to see the look on their faces. The Breeders Current Release: Last Splash Little Known Fact: Kelley (Kelvis) Deal is really a woman and all The Breeders have green eyes The Breeders Want To Know: Why do people keep yelling 'Tim'? The Breeders Really Want To Know: Where is Luscious Jackson's dressing room? The Breeders' Words to Live By: "When you drive, you follow the hood ornament. The rear view mirror is only good for seeing how you look when you're getting there." D.L. Roth Why They Wanted to do Lollapalooza '94: So we can work in James Iha's 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' concession. A Tribe Called Quest Memorable Moment: When "Midnight Marauders" debuted at #1 on Billboard's R&B chart, and #8 on the Top 200 LPs Chart. Describe This Group: Hip-hop intellectuals with attitude, musical innovators Current Release: Midnight Marauders Trademark Sound: A jazzy, precise and bass-heavy groove, supporting buoyant raps that are at once melodic and hard-edged Why They Wanted to do Lollapalooza '94: So the true art of Hip Hop can be known and can continue to transcend all forms of music. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds What Makes This Band Unique: The way they meld their wildly different methodologies into the singular musical unit that is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Name the Group Nick Cave Was In Before The Bad Seeds: The Birthday Party Current Release: Let Love In Other Bands that The Bad Seeds are Also Involved With: Einsturzende Neubauten, Die Haut, The Triffids What Nick Cave and Brad Pitt have in Common: They co-starred in the feature "Johnny Suede." Why They Wanted to do Lollapalooza '94: To get to the other side. L7 Anonymous College DJ Testimony: L7 sound like the Go-Gos on a lot of bad crank cut with Drano." What You Can Expect: Four talented hags. Loud crashing guitars. Frantic bass lines. Thundering drums. Frenzied fans. Lots of sweat. Current Release: Hungry For Stink How To Get The Lowdown on L7: Call their parents. Or take the band out to a heinously expensive lunch. Why They Wanted To Do Lollapalooza '94: Road Sausage. Boredoms Words That Their Music Redefines: "Fringe" and "Frontier" How They Communicate: With shrieks, gargles, groans, growls, screams, instrumental mayhem, negative space and a self-generated vocabulary (Bore-language) Current Release: Pop Tatari Where They Are From: The land of sublime structure and organization -- Osaka, Japan Frontman and Human Grenade for The Boredoms: EYE, who often hurls himself from the stage Why They Wanted To Do Lollapalooza '94: (We didn't understand the Japanese translation.) LOLLAPALOOZA '94 - Second Stage Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Children of All Ages If we may direct your attention to this year's Popular Feature Talent that will Astound and Amaze!! You'll be talking about these bands for days and months to come! Last year, we had 10 slots, this year we have nineteen -- which means we can be much more creative and diverse in the selection of talent!! Last year, we had four bands a day -- this year, we've got five! Booked again this year by John Rubeli and Perry Farrell, there's country, jazz, indie rock, pop alternative,and hip-hop! Your friends who do not attend Lollapalooza will repeatedly kick themselves for missing this wonderful opportunity to discover new and exciting artists, who have not yet been spoiled by the trappings of major-label-mainstream-media-success. The bands have been selected for, musical qualities, intrinsic personalities,and strong political, environmental or social viewpoints, which are expressed in their performances. Still in various embryonic stages, the bands on the Second Stage are vital, they truly are the Bands of the Future! Accompanied by Playdates, Background and Current Release Info, we proudly and humbly present them for your listening and viewing pleasure! The Flaming Lips (July 1 - August 3) This band has been around for a long, long, long, long, long, long time. Wayne, Michael, Steven and Ronald are still happily embracing our Western culture reinforcing their existence and indirectly all of ours. Tranquil music for beautiful people that the Jerky Boys would be proud of. Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers and Porno For Pyros have all been good to them. They're ready to go. Are you? - From Oklahoma City - Warner Bros. Records - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart The Verve (July 1 - August 3) They play dreamy, otherworldly songs, with echoing guitar mantras and engrossing rhythms, incorporating strange noises and quirkiness in the background. Their astounding live performances walk a thin line between salvation and explosion. They are as appealing and vital as a band like U2. There's something extremely powerful about them. - From England - Vernon Yard/Virgin - A Storm in Heaven The Souls of Mischief (July 1 - July 8) Straight up hip hop band. Artfully combines hyper-active lyrical delivery with smoothed-out beats that hit the listener like ocean waves. - From Oakland - Jive Records - '93 'Til Infinity Rollerskate Skinny (July 1 - July 15) They play brilliant pop songs with brilliant melodies, but combine the classic sounds of overdriven guitars like they've never been meshed before. Then they augment that holy/unholy sound with cello, Celtic beats, bodhan trumpets and more guitar. "Shoulder Voices could easily be one of the best and most important records ever"...Melody Maker - From Dublin - Beggars Banquet - Shoulder Voices The Frogs (July 1 - July 15) For the past 14 years, this band has remained the American Underground's dirty little secret. Armed with 1350+ original compositions -- yet with very few commercially available recordings -- their music and lyrical range strikes fear in the hearts of many of their contemporaries. Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan, Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, Lemonhead's Evan Dando, Gomboo, Juliana Hatfield, and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder have all tried to rub shoulders with the band in the hope that some of the glamour would come off...and clearly, it has. These guys are on it. They're plugged in. Hooked up. Part of the loop. "They're good to go sailor!" - From Milwaukee Luscious Jackson (July 9 - August 3) A great, lazy bluesy, female hip-hop group. They credit their loud urban environment and its vast array of varied and grooving sounds as their primary influence. We thought that this all-female group performing their very innovative music would be great for the bill. They were the local band at the New York show last year, and this year, they're doing three weeks. - From New York - Capitol Records - In Search of Manny Palace Songs (formerly The Palace Brothers) (July 16 - August 3) Plaintive echoes of a sadder, slower nation. Strum and twang from Will Oldham's 20th Century troubadours. Palace Songs will take it on the American road for the first time on this year's "Lollapalooza" Second Stage. - From Louisville - Drag City Guided by Voices (July 16 - July 24) Imagine a perfect universe where the world's best rock band plays a non-stop barrage of the most memorable tunes ever. They are loud, loose, and dead fucking on. This world exists, you can be on the guest list, and the lead singer is a fourth-grade teacher. - From Columbus, Ohio - Scat Records - Bee Thousand Girls Against Boys (July 25 - August 3) A four-man outfit of dual bass, dark rhythms and noise. Driving, repeating, feedback waving, and sometimes melodiously lounging champagne-rock. - From New York City - Touch & Go - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby Stereolab (August 4 - September 4) Think of Stereolab as a sonic crossroads -- they follow a continuously unexpected terrain where elegant, perfectly structured pop melodies cross-pollinate with squeaks and skronks, and a subtle but ever- present political consciousness. Their songs are extremely hummable, be- bop Moog-rock. "Their strangely buoyant despondency is just the thing for a sultry afternoon," said Melody Maker. - From England - Elektra Records - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Blast Off Country Style (August 4 - August 11) This group plays anything but country music. They have an innocent approach to music, not polished or rehearsed. On last year's Second Stage, there was a band called Unrest. Chris, who sold Unrest merchandising kept talking about his own band, Blast Off Country Style. Midway through the tour, he got one of his singles heard by Second Stage booker John Rubeli who was absolutely knocked out. Blast Off Country Style is on this year's Second Stage, while Mark from Unrest will be selling Blast Off Country Style merchandising. - From Washington, D.C. - Teen Beat - Come On And Blast Off Charlie Hunter Trio (August 4 - August 18) This is straight-ahead jazz. Charlie Hunter was the guitarist in the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. They were the local band at last year's festival in San Francisco, and people, to this day, comment on how that show was just the best. The drummer was the original drummer in Primus. It seemed like a very cool idea to have traditional jazz being played during the middle of the day. All you can do is groove along and put a smile on your face. - From San Francisco - Prawn Song/Mammoth - The Charlie Hunter Trio FU-Schnickens (August 4 - August 11 ) The name FU-Schnickens comes from "FU" which stands for "For Unity" and "Schnickens" which is a term the group made up to signify the coalition -- a universal coalition of True Fu-Schnicks, there are no barriers. Chip Fu, Moo-Fu, and Poc-Fu, the three Flatbush Brooklynites comprising the group, have mastered a wide range of verbal techniques which they combine with hardcore, humor, raggamuffin, and Kung Fu flicks to create an explosive and original hip hop experience. - From Brooklyn - Jive Records - F.U. - Don't Take It Personal Lambchop (August 4 - August 11) Lambchop is Nashville's most fucked-up Country band. They are not influenced by Country music -- they influence Country music. They use a washboard, two guitars, bass, cello, lap steel, ukulele, mandolin, organ, sax, clarinet, two drummers, and hopefully Moog (if Stereolab will let them borrow theirs). Though they strive to be truly Nashville, they remain ignored in their hometown. It is high time for the dead-beat moms and dads of Country music to fess up and recognize their illegitimate children and pay back child support to the true inheritor of Country music. - From Nashville - Merge Records - I Hope You're Sitting Down Shudder to Think (August 12 - September 4) This group has released two critically-acclaimed albums on the Washington D.C. label, Dischord. Guitar textures that alternately slash and caress, rhythms that vary from hypnotic to disconcerting, surreal lyrical imagery imbued with the androgynous ambiguity...suffice to say that this music is beautiful in ways you've never heard before. - From Washington, D.C. - Epic Records - (release this Fall) The Boo Radleys (August 12 - September 4) These four guys are definitely reminiscent of The Beatles with keyboard and trumpet added. They perform amazingly beautiful pop songs that are easy to sing along to. Incredibly prolific, not a bad song in them. They make use of a myriad of styles including pop, experimental noise, jazz, and dub to create vibrant oscillating soundscapes. - From Liverpool - Columbia Records - Giant Steps King Kong (August 12 - August 18) Not just a blues band. A Revelation. "The blues is about playing what you feel. If you can't play the blues, you can't play rock," so says guitarist/vocalist Ethan Buckler, who discovered the blues after starting out as a punk. King Kong does not rule the universe. King Kong is the universe. - From Louisville - Drag City - Funny Farm The Pharcyde (August 19 - September 4) The Pharcyde pushes the hip-hop envelope one step beyond. This youthful group combines fat beats, the freshest loops, and a sharp-edged sense of humor to create music that is funky and fun. When you're on The Pharcydes, it is nothing but a 24/7 non-stop party. - From South Central L.A. - Delicious Vinyl - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde Shonen Knife (August 19 - September 4) There's a new, emerging element in alternative music, and it's emanating from Japan. This group writes hummable, singable songs, almost like American pop songs from the 60s. Everyone from Nirvana to Sonic Youth have said that Shonen Knife is one of their favorite bands. This was Perry's must band. - From Japan - Virgin Records - Rock Animals From Our Past... "You've already organized one of the most innovative and successful concert tours of the decade, treating half a million fans to some of the best alternative rock, as well as a smorgasbord of modern, postmodern and not necessarily politically correct culture. What do you do next? If you're Perry Farrell, you do it again." --Spin "Tour of the Year" -- Rolling Stone "It was probably the most fun tour I've ever been on." --Flea, The Red Hot Chili Peppers "There's a real camaraderie amongst the bands and crew, the people who are putting on the show." --Kim Thayil, Soundgarden "What Lollapalooza has proved is that there is a serious market for a youth counterculture. That's the bad news. The good news is that these people will sooner or later be in positions of prominence, and we have taken them to school." --Perry Farrell "I'm really proud to be a part of this. It's just so much bigger than individual bands." --Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam "The key to this tour working is groups co-existing. There can't be any 'outsiders'. I ended up being friends with Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Butthole Surfers; me and Henry Rollins are now like best friends. Now, Cube knows the guys in Ministry, he was hanging out with the guys from Pearl Jam. That's what this shit's about." --Ice T "It's so cool. It's like summer camp on wheels." --Jerry Cantrell, Alice in Chains