Lollapalooza Founder Perry Farrell Hates EDM

With Lollapalooza 2016 just one weekend away, Perry Farrell, Jane’s Addiction frontman and the original founder for the annual music festival, has expressed his distaste for EDM in a new interview with The Chicago Tribune. 

Farrell happens to have a stage named after him at Lollapalooza, where predominantly electronic dance musicians and DJs perform. Farrell told The Chicago Tribune:   

"When they said they wanted to name a stage after me (when the festival relaunched in 2005), I was honored," he says. "I like the adulation. But now you say, 'Perry, what's going on with your area here?' Believe me, I've got questions myself. I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils. I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic — it took you on a journey. … I sometimes cringe at my own festival."