Showing posts with label lollapalooza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lollapalooza. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

UC Berkeley's Calapalooza 2026 (8/27)

CALAPALOOZA: UC Berkeley's "Club Day" (Vincent Ooi) Looking back seven years at Cal’s Club Day, when students sign up for what interests them to get involved in campus community life.

Are there any all-girl acapella groups to join?
Summer is over. Everyone is back. This is the slow wind up to the beginning of instruction at the University of California at Berkeley (Cal), the world's greatest public institution of higher learning. Move in days just happened, and everyone is bracing for the full moon day of August as everyone returns to class and studying. Thursday, which is coincidentally also a lunar eclipse, marks a big event on campus: Calapalooza:

Why join a student club at UC Berkeley?
Clubs : Where to begin? (UC Berkeley Life)
With over 1,400 student-registered organizations on campus, a student community is right around the corner. Learning a new skill, meeting like-minded friends, and discovering passions are only a few of the perks of joining a student club. Establishing these connections through activities that members have in common enriches the college experience. life.berkeley.edu


Why even go to college? To get the Big D
Mom, why should I go to college? - To get a Big D! (Wet Leg "Chaise Longue" | Glastonbury '22)

QOTSA: Concert mass surveillance

Friday, August 6, 2021

Lollapalooza 2021 review: Chicago Fest (video)

Miley Cyrus performs on stage with Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for MC)
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Lollapalooza 2021 review: Chicago festival makes its raucous return

Mosh pits at pandemic-palooza? (NME.com)
July 29–August 1, Grant Park: Megan Thee Stallion, Tyler The Creator, and Miley Cyrus all shine at the Chicago festival, against an uneasy backdrop.

At the 30th anniversary of Lollapalooza – a Chicago mega-fest attended by 385,000 – the mood feels a little different.


Fred Durst's dad...if Fred F'd himself (NME)
Perhaps it’s just proximity to Fred Durst’s new dad look, but returning to live music at full throttle after almost a year and a half away is sure to cause a shock to the system.

Despite rising concerns around the fast-spreading Delta variant of [SARS 2] COVID-19 in the US, the large-scale festival goes ahead, with no emergency brakes.
Playboy Carti takes to the Lalapalooza 2021 stage (Joshua Mellin/nme.com)
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While introducing Black Pumas on Thursday, Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot proudly proclaims that Lollapalooza is the largest music festival happening anywhere in the world this year.

At times, the atmosphere feels slightly apocalyptic given the backdrop.

As a result, some bands listed on the bill seem simply willing to put their name to potential calamity.

Miley Cyrus offered to educate DaBaby (msn)
First and foremost, Limp Bizkit, who recently enjoyed their resurgence as villains in the recently released HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage.
While Fred Durst declares on stage that Lollapalooza isn’t that festival, you’d be forgiven for feeling the same sense of foreboding. More
  • Joshua Mellin (NME, Aug. 3, 2021); Steve Aoki; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly