Lollapalooza was first launched on July 18, 1991.

Originally launched as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction, the festival has had a unique history from its initial run from 1991 to 1997. It was then revived in 2003, canceled in 2004 but has been active from 2005 to today.

Lollapalooza has definitely evolved over time from a traveling festival to its current multi-day extravaganza in Chicago’s Grant Park. But how has it fared musically over the course of three decades?  Here’s a look at past headliners and other notable acts from years past.

• 1991

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  Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band.

• 1992

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  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

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  Primus, Alice In Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Toll, Rage Against The Machine.

• 1994

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  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

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  Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Beck, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Coolio, The Roots, Patti Smith, Moby.

• 1996

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  Metallica, Soundgarden, Ramones, Rancid, Rage Against The Machine, Violent Femmes, Wu-Tang Clan, 311.

• 1997

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  Devo, The Prodigy, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Beck, Eels.

• 2003

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  Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, The Donnas, The Distillers, Kings Of Leon, Thirty Seconds To Mars.
• 2005

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  Weezer, Primus, Cake, Liz Phair, Dashboard Confessional, Billy Idol, Pixies, The Black Keys, Spoon.

• 2006

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  Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Common, Coheed and Cambria, Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother.

• 2007

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  Muse, Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Interpol, The Roots, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem.

• 2008

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  Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Kanye West, The Black Keys, The Raconteurs, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, Mark Ronson, Flogging Molly.
• 2009

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  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

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  Lady Gaga, Green Day, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Wolfmother, The Strokes, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, MGMT, The National.

• 2011

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  Muse, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, The Cars, Walk The Moon, Foster The People, Coldplay, Death From Above 1979.

• 2012

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  Black Sabbath, Avicii, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, Jack White, Aloe Blacc.
• 2013

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  Nine Inch Nails, Kendrick Lamar, Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, Mumford & Sons, The Cure, Ghost, Imagine Dragons.

• 2014

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  Arctic Monkeys, Interpol, Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon, Cage The Elephant, Fitz and the Tantrums, Calvin Harris, Spoon, Skrillex, Childish Gambino.

• 2015

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  Paul McCartney, Metallica, Florence and The Machine, Sam Smith, Alabama Shakes, Twenty One Pilots, Gary Clark Jr.

• 2016

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  Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, LCD Soundsystem, J.Cole, Lana Del Rey, Future, Ellie Goulding, Haim, The 1975, Chris Stapleton.
• 2017

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  Muse, The Killers, Chance The Rapper, Arcade Fire, Cage The Elephant, Blink-182.

• 2018

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  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.

• 2019

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  The Strokes, Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots, Ariana Grande, The Chainsmokers, Tame Impala, J Balvin, Lil Wayne, Kacey Musgraves, Gary Clark Jr., Tenacious D.

• 2020

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  Took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic and featured replays of notable past performances from the festival's history.
• 2021

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  Miley Cyrus, Tyler The Creator, Post Malone, Foo Fighters, Illenium, Marshmello, Journey, Dababy, Kaytranada, Roddy Ricch, Megan Thee Stallion, Brockhampton, Playboi Carti, Jack Harlow, Limp Bizkit, Modest Mouse.

• 2022

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  Metallica, Green Day, Dua Lipa, J. Cole, Lil Baby, Machine Gun Kelly, Kygo, J-Hope, Porno for Pyros, Jazmine Sullivan, Glass Animals, Big Sean

• 2023

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  Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish, Karol G, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975, Odesza, Tomorrow x Together, Lana Del Rey.

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