Word: lollapaloozas
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There are not many people who can make COURTNEY LOVE look polite, but SINEAD O'CONNOR managed it last week -- albeit only momentarily -- when she abruptly pulled out of the Lollapalooza tour. The Irish singer announced her withdrawal in a letter to tour organizer Perry Farrell and another to the press, saying she was pregnant, and "it's hard to sing when you want to throw up all the time." O'Connor, who had been a tour favorite, also slammed reports that she was booed off the stage on a previous visit to the U.S. Meanwhile, Love, who's also...
...growth of multiculturalism can make hip more difficult. It's harder to feel genuinely alienated at a time when almost everyone can claim membership in some ethnic or sexual subnation, leaving the fearsome notion of an all-powerful mainstream to shrivel accordingly. All this could be called the Lollapalooza conundrum, in honor of the alternative rock tour and its organizers, who are always wondering what will make the thing alternative in a culture that constantly muddies the question. As Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell recently told an interviewer, "now the underground is like a menu with too many things...
...mixed gender. And these groups are coming to a stage near you: the Australian band Frente! will be playing U.S. cities this August; Afrocentric rappers Arrested Development will be at Woodstock '94; and the alternative-rock bands Smashing Pumpkins and the Breeders are headlining this summer's touring Lollapalooza music festival...
...their major-label debut (Warner Bros./Reprise), their raw three-chord rock is finding a wider audience (Dookie has sold 600,000 copies). This summer Green Day is set to pull off a cross- generational coup -- the group will not only tour with the hip annual Lollapalooza music festival, it will also play the nostalgia-laden 25th anniversary of Woodstock. So rock's torch is passed on. Look for Green Day to light some fires...
...only concerts for the record-industry elite and young celebrities like Johnny Depp. MTV has not been overlooked -- Cash has made a video of Delia's Gone in which he stars with model Kate Moss, the barely 20- year-old waif goddess. Cash is even considering playing on the Lollapalooza alternative-music tour. Despite all the hype, Cash has remained remarkably serene and even seems a little oblivious to where the record company is sending him. In New York City he performed at an ultrahip club called Fez; Cash refers to the venue...