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Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza 2025 has announced its lineup as tickets went on sale yesterday, selling out within an hour and prompting the event to issue a small amount of single and two-day tickets. The festival will be taking place at Grant Park in Chicag0 from Thursday, July 31^st through Sunday, August 3^rd. The lineup features headliners like Tyler the Creator and Luke Combs on Thursday, Olivia Rodrigo and Korn on Friday, Rufus Du Sol and K-pop girl group Twice on Saturday, and Sabrina Carpenter and A$AP Rocky on Sunday. Also performing is one hardcore act, Sunami and a Japanese punk band Otokobe Beaver.

The full lineup is below:

Guns N’ Roses

Recently, Guns N’ Roses has amicably parted ways with their drummer Frank Ferrer, and have picked up drummer Isaac Carpenter, who’d done session work with many performers and was the drummer of the band AWOLNATION since 2014. Carpenter has worked with Duff McKagan’s Loaded, A Perfect Circle, Adam Lambert, Black Lab and more.

Guns N’ Roses will be launching an international tour in May, playing in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, culminating in a performance at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany.

Notorious B.I.G.

The Notorious B.I.G.’s estate has sold a 50% stake to his catalog, name, publishing rights, image and likeness to Primary Wave Music. The share is valued at 200 million dollars. Biggie’s recently deceased mother, Voletta Wallace, was an instrumental part of securing the deal, which involved getting the full rights from a 50-50 deal that Biggie had with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs with Bad Boy Records. Primary Wave Records and Wallace’s estate will move forward together to ensure that Biggie’s legacy lives on.