Metallica will co-headline this year’s Lollapalooza Festival with Sir Paul McCartney, taking place again in Chicago’s Grant Park. Metallica will headline on Saturday night, August 1st, with one day tickets costing $110.
In a statement from the band:
“It’s been nearly 20 years since we’ve been lucky enough to take the stage at Lollapalooza, so we are over the top that we’ve been asked to play this year at the now annual extravaganza held at Grant Park in Chicago. We’ll be hitting the stage on Saturday, August 1st.”
Metallica last played Lollapalooza when it was an actual tour, back in 1996 after Load came out. And while we’re not sure that we’ll see a new Metallica album this year, at least they might play some new songs from the new record while touring in 2015. So maybe some new material at Lollapalooza?
Given recent murmurings that Metallica may be losing more money than they make, a headlining spot on Lollapalooza this year will certainly help bring in some cash. Here’s the full lineup, which doesn’t appear to include anything else remotely metal. In fact, we totally feel like they’re making a lot of these up:
Paul McCartney
Metallica
Florence + the Machine
Sam Smith
Bassnectar
The Weeknd
alt-J
Alabama Shakes
Of Monsters and Men
Kaskade
Alesso
Tame Impala
A$AP Rocky
Kid Cudi
Brand New
TV On The Radio
NERO
Dillon Francis
Kygo
Carnage
twenty one pilots
G-Eazy
Gary Clark Jr.
Nicky Romero
Flying Lotus
Hot Chip
The War on Drugs
Father John Misty
Walk The Moon
Marina and The Diamonds
Tyler, The Creator
FKA twigs
The Tallest Man On Earth
Cold War Kids
Lord Huron
Gogol Bordello
Stromae
DJ Snake
Banks
Sylvan Esso
MS MR
Chet Faker
Sturgill Simpson
Tove Lo
Death From Above 1979
Toro Y Moi
ODESZA
Charli XCX
LOGIC
Glass Animals
St. Paul & the Broken Bones
The Chainsmokers
Django Django
Boys Noize
First Aid Kit
Delta Spirit
DJ Mustard
Wild Belle
Twin Peaks
RL Grime
James Bay
Angus & Julia Stone
BROODS
MisterWives
George Ezra
Givers
Strand of Oaks
Ryn Weaver
MOON TAXI
Travi$ Scott
Shakey Graves
CAKED UP
What So Not
Hermitude
SZA
Galantis
Jamestown Revival
Wet
Philip Selway
HOLYCHILD
Night Terrors of 1927
Young Thug
Alison Wonderland
Circa Waves
Coasts
DMA’s
DESTRUCTO
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Zella Day
Sheppard
Mako
BØRNS
Skylar Spence
BADBADNOTGOOD
Mt. Eden
The Wombats
Halsey
Mighty Oaks
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas
Bear’s Den
SNBRN
Elle King
Lion Babe
Beat Connection
Mick Jenkins
Peking Duk
Black Pistol Fire
Raury
Jack Novak
Black Tiger Sex Machine
Pell
VÉRITÉ
Spookyland
jackLNDN
ZEBRA KATZ
The Lonely Biscuits
White Sea
Hippo Campus
COIN
Gabriel Garzón-Montano
SirenXX
In The Whale
Atarah Valentine
Kyle Thornton & the Company
The New Pacific
Daye Jack
The Pop Ups
Danny Weinkauf
Motown Pete
Q Brothers
School of Rock AllStars
The Jimmies
Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips
The Helmets
(via Rolling Stone)
