#lollapalooza 1991

[vampryn]

[flowersofnaivete]

[gothiccharmschool]

That original Lollapalooza was AMAZING.

Siouxsie Sioux & Ice-T

[t-800]

Nine Inch Nails - Now I’m Nothing ↳ CLOSURE (1997) - Appendage

[kylejasonblack]

[big-low-t]

The first Lollapalooza show was 33 years ago on this day, July 18th, in 1991.

[cold-black-and-infinite]

Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza (1991)

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza (2024)

[veronicaisnotonline]

Nine Inch Nails,  Lollapalooza 1991

[music-addiction-disorder]

Ice T 🤝 Henry Rollins

1st Lollapalooza (1991)

[fear-is-truth]

hi, jackie !!

i was actually wondering... do you have any good recommendations for live shows? i'm always more into the energy of a live performance ( because i'm an intellectual and i appreciate brilliance and authenticity. )

( specifically talking about decent rock bands, but you can put in anything you like <3 )

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omg yes !! it’s like you get to witness the soul of the music.. *presents to you like a bouquet* (youtube links for visual pleasure)

david bowie — moonage daydream at hammersmith odeon, london (1973)

queen at live aid (1985)

ac/dc — shoot to thrill at donington park, (1991)

soundgarden — rusty cage at lollapalooza, (1992)

nine inch nails — closer at woodstock (1994)

nirvana at mtv unplugged (1993)

my chemical romance — welcome to the black parade at the palacio de los deportes, mexico city (2007)

[dustedmagazine]

Tsunami — Loud Is As (Numero Group)

Tsunami rolled over the 1990s like the natural phenomenon it was named for, swamping conventions about what punk should sound like, who should make it, how it should be delivered to its audience and what subjects it should tackle. Coming out of a DC hardcore scene defined by an angular, aggressive hyper male sound, Tsunami was half-female, dauntingly intelligent, haunted by melody and smothered in fuzz.  A new box set from Numero documents the band’s eight year run, including three full albums, 11 singles and some unreleased four-track demos. An exhaustively researched history by Joe Gross comes illustrated with contemporary photography, concert flyers, backstage passes and album art. Four pre-eminent female music critics—Jen Pelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Gina Arnold and Ann Powers—offer personal reflections on individual Tsunami albums.  It is a gloriously complete retrospective. If you’re not cherry picking favorites and reliving memories from the first time around, expect to be overwhelmed. It will require some time to get a handle on this.

It began in Arlington, Virginia, at a punk house called Positive Force, where Jenny Toomey and John Pamer first met in 1990, and shortly after that, encountered Kristin Thompson. Toomey’s college band, Geek, was winding down, and she had started her own label, Simple Machines. A last hurrah, summer tour for Geek, supporting Superchunk and Seaweed, threw her into contact with Andrew Webster, soon to be Tsunami’s bass player. The band came together after their return. Toomey and Thompson played guitar, with Toomey singing, and Pamer sat in on drums.  

Things moved quickly after that. A nine-song cassette called Cow’s Arcade came out early in 1991, followed by the Headringer 7” later in the spring. In August of that year, Tsunami toured with Velocity Girl and played at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington, alongside Beat Happening, Bikini Kill and Fugazi, still less than a year into their run as a band. It was about this time that they wrote and recorded “Genius of Crack,” still one of Tsunami’s best known tunes and a wonderfully noisy but languid meditation on alienation. “We're so slack, we come off like geniuses on crack,” Toomey belts against a beautiful roar of feedback-addled guitar tone.

A spate of singles and compilation tracks took Tsunami through 1992, and in 1993, the first LP, Deep End appeared. That full-length takes up the entirety of LP 1 in this five-album set. Side one ends with the furious drone and churn of “460,” whose explosive energy and shimmering textures cross the Replacements with, oh, I don’t know, Bailter Space. That same year, 1993, Tsunami toured with Superchunk, opened for PJ Harvey once or twice, and got invited to play at the Primus/Alice in Chains/Dinosaur Jr. headed Lollapalooza.

Heart’s Tremolo, in 1994, interspersed lyrical intervals with blaring guitar mayhem, very much in the loud-quiet way of the mid-1990s. Songs like “Fast Food Medicine” simmer disconsolately before they flare to life, and the song “Fits and Starts” begins its brief life as a folk song, full of squeaky string slides and earnest poetry. “Quietnova” is the album’s opener and a statement of purpose; the most dangerous stuff isn’t always the loudest.

The third LP encompasses the 1995 singles/B-sides/compilation tracks compendium World Tour and Other Destinations. It includes another version of “Genius of Crack,” the wonderfully noisy “Kickball Babe,” Tsunami’s surprisingly sensitive (and only holiday offering) “Could Have Been Christmas” and their full-throated Minutemen cover “Courage,” among others. A Brilliant Mistake, from 1997, expands the instrumentation further, with jazz-leaning bass and Luther “Trip” Grey’s intricate and unhinged drumming (check out the opening to “David Foster Wallace”).

This review, of course, can’t describe any more than a fraction of what Tsunami puts on offer here. The set includes 62 songs, more than three and a half hours of music, in-depth history and analysis and loads of imagery. Tsunami may have roared into the culture like a tidal wave—and retreated almost as quickly — but this expansive box set reminds us (or perhaps informs us in the first place) of what made them special.  

Jennifer Kelly

[alchemisoul]

Maynard James Keenan of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer performing with Zach De La Rocha and Rage Against The Machine @ Lollapalooza 1993

Tom Morello watching his high school friend Adam Jones of Tool playing a show in 1991.

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Nine Inch Nails // Lollapalooza 1991

[vampryn]

trent reznor at lollapalooza 1991 by Ebet Roberts

[big-low-t]

Starting on this day, 32 years ago, was the very first Lollapalooza Festival.