LIST: Lollapalooza Headliners/Notable Acts From The Beginning
Today (March 29) is Perry Farrell’s birthday, and when it comes to the Jane’s Addiction frontman’s legacy, one of the things he’ll be remembered by the most is the creation of Lollapalooza.
Believe it or not, it’s now the 27th year of the popular festival, which was originally launched as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction. It has definitely evolved over time from a traveling festival to its current 4-day extravaganza in Chicago’s Grant Park, but how has it fared musically? Here’s a look at past headliners and other notable acts from years past.
1991: Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band.
1992: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush, Rage Against The Machine, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog.
1993: Primus, Alice In Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Toll, Rage Against The Machine
1994: Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Green Day, The Flaming Lips, Luscious Jackson, The Black Crowes.
1995: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Beck, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Coolio, The Roots, Patti Smith, Moby.
1996: Metallica, Soundgarden, Ramones, Rancid, Rage Against The Machine, Violent Femmes, Wu-Tang Clan, 311.
1997: Devo, The Prodigy, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Beck, Eels.
2003: Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, The Donnas, The Distillers, Kings Of Leon, Thirty Seconds To Mars.
2005: Weezer, Primus, Cake, Liz Phair, Dashboard Confessional, Billy Idol, Pixies, The Black Keys, Spoon
2006: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Common, Coheed and Cambria, Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother.
2007: Muse, Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Interpol, The Roots, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem.
2008: Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Kanye West, The Black Keys, The Raconteurs, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, Mark Ronson, Flogging Molly
2009: Depeche Mode, The Gaslight Anthem, Tool, Snoop Dogg, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lou Reed, Jane’s Addiction, Eric Church
2010: Lady Gaga, Green Day, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Wolfmother, The Strokes, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, MGMT, The National.
2011: Muse, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, The Cars, Walk The Moon, Foster The People, Coldplay, Death From Above 1979.
2012: Black Sabbath, Avicii, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, Jack White, Aloe Blacc.
2013: Nine Inch Nails, Kendrick Lamar, Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, Mumford & Sons, The Cure, Ghost, Imagine Dragons.
2014: Arctic Monkeys, Interpol, Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon, Cage The Elephant, Fitz and the Tantrums, Calvin Harris, Spoon, Skrillex, Childish Gambino.
2015: Paul McCartney, Metallica, Florence and The Machine, Sam Smith, Alabama Shakes, Twenty One Pilots, Gary Clark Jr.
2016: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, LCD Soundsystem, J.Cole, Lana Del Rey, Future, Ellie Goulding, Haim, The 1975, Chris Stapleton.
2017: Muse, The Killers, Chance The Rapper, Arcade Fire, Cage The Elephant, Blink-182.
2018: Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, The National, Vampire Weekend, Portugal, The Man, Chvrches, St. Vincent, Walk The Moon, Perry Farrell’s Kind Heaven, Greta Van Fleet, Franz Ferdinand.
Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock blogger who once did a presentation in a college public speaking course about why The Rolling Stones were better than The Beatles. (She received an A.)
