Get the latest gossip
A Lollapalooza Doc That Refuses to Whitewash History
Lolla is a mostly hagiographic look at the annual festival, but it manages to get a few key moments right.
Ice Cube played in 1992 once Ice-T convinced him to jump on, and the festival continued to book hip-hop acts at a steady clip in its early years, including A Tribe Called Quest, Arrested Development, Cypress Hill, and Snoop Dogg. The series also contextualizes the earliest years of the festival amid alternative rock’s larger fight against Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center, which attempted to censor “Cop Killer” after Body Count released its debut album in March 1992. While it’s not exactly selfless for Lolla to lionize itself, in a series they helped make, touting both the good and awkward moments that occurred early on still feels unexpected in a music-doc landscape prone to shunning history in favor of only the most positive marketing opportunities.
Or read this on VULTURE