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Austin City Limits Music Festival
The Austin City Limits Music Festival launched in 2002 in Austin, Texas's Zilker Park, taking its name from the long-running PBS television concert series "Austin City Limits," which had already been broadcasting live music performances from Austin since 1974. The festival grew large enough that organizers expanded it in 2013 into two consecutive weekends rather than a single weekend, a move mirroring Coachella's earlier two-weekend expansion and reflecting surging ticket demand in a market that couldn't be met by one weekend alone. ACL Fest built a reputation for a particularly broad and eclectic lineup spanning rock, country, hip-hop, and electronic acts, reflecting Austin's own long-standing self-branding as the "Live Music Capital of the World." The Austin City Limits Festival's combination of its direct lineage from the pioneering PBS concert series and its expansion into a two-weekend format has made it one of the most prominent music festivals in the American South.
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Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza was founded in 1991 by Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, originally conceived as a farewell touring festival for his band, and it toured to a different city each year through the 1990s before going on hiatus and later relaunching in 2005 as a fixed annual event in Chicago's Grant Park. The original touring festival played a major role in bringing alternative rock, industrial, and hip-hop acts to mainstream American audiences during the early-to-mid 1990s, helping define the era's alternative music culture at a national scale. Since its 2005 relaunch, Lollapalooza has expanded internationally, with sister festivals licensed and organized in countries including Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and France, turning a single American festival brand into a genuinely global franchise. Lollapalooza's combination of its origins as Perry Farrell's alternative-rock farewell tour and its later transformation into a global multi-country festival franchise has made it one of the most influential music festivals ever created.
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