5 Lessons Learned at Lollapalooza 2015
The Windy City Is a Fitting Nickname
Chicago’s tempestuous summer weather turned from challenge to opportunity at Lollapalooza 2015. Fears of a severe storm led to a brief evacuation Sunday afternoon, but just about everyone who played afterward, from TV on the Radio to Florence + the Machine brought their A-game to shifted and abbreviated sets. And anyone who didn’t delight in the hair-whipping winds and lightning raging in the distance during Florence is lying to you.
Surprise Guests Are Always a Win
We tried to dream up the most amazing collabs Lollapalooza 2015 might shock us with, but what the artists themselves came up with was even better. On Friday, Paul McCartney & Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard played the Beatles’ “Get Back.” On Saturday, festival founder Perry Farrell and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo rocked a couple of Jane's Addiction classics. And on Sunday A$AP Rocky traded rhymes with Chicago rapper Vic Mensa on “U Mad” while across the park, Halsey enlisted Twenty One Pilots'’s Josh Dun to drum on one of her songs. Good—no, great—times.
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