Kanye West, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Wilco are among over 120 acts to perform at this year’s Lollapalooza festival.
The lineup, announced Thursday at the South by Southwest music festival, is about twice the number of last year’s festival, when Lollapalooza was downsized from a coast-to-coast tour to a weekend event in Chicago.
Lollapalooza 2006 will take place Aug. 4-6 in Chicago’s Grant Park.
Other acts include Common, Death Cab for Cutie, the Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, the Shins, Iron & Wine and the Raconteurs, the new band formed by Jack White and Brendan Benson.
“We want the fans to discover and explore,” festival founder and former Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell said in a statement. “That’s what Lollapalooza is all about: sounds of all genres swirling about as you walk through the expanse of Grant Park.”
Farrell created Lollapalooza in 1991, touring the country with alternative acts such as Pearl Jam, Green Day and Beck.
The festival was dormant from 1998-2002. The 2003 incarnation wasn’t as successful as past festivals and 2004’s event was canceled. Farrell then sold the brand to Capital Sports & Entertainment, which also manages the Austin City Limits music festival.
After being re-imagined as a “destination experience” last year, this year’s Lollapalooza will expand to three days, a day longer than in 2005.