Spotlight on Asian Acts at Lollapalooza: Stray Kids, IVE, Hanabie. and YOASOBI.

Stray Kids from Korea will headline the “Lollapalooza” music festival to be held in Chicago, USA, from August 1 (Thu.) to 4 (Sun.), local time. IVE, YOASOBI, and Hanayake from Korea will also perform at the festival. will also perform.

“Lollapalooza” is one of the three major outdoor festivals in the United States, along with “Coachella” and “Bonnaroo”. It is held in Grant Park, a large park in Chicago, and features musicians from a wide variety of genres, from alternative rock to punk rock and hip-hop, as well as dance performances.

The festival began in 1991 when Perry Farrell, vocalist of Jane’s Addiction, led a number of bands around North America in the form of a festival in lieu of the band’s breakup tour. Since then, the festival has been held in South America, and since 2015 in Europe, with seven cities in 2019 before the Corona Disaster. In Japan, X JAPAN performed in 2010, BAND-MAID in 2023, and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra will perform in Chile in 2019.

Stray Kids, the headliner of this year’s event, is an eight-member boy group from South Korea that belongs to JYP Entertainment, which has produced 2PM and TWICE. The group debuted in March 2018 with the mini-album “I am NOT”, and the following year, they already embarked on a world tour, “UNVEIL TOUR ‘I am…'”. In March 2020, they made their debut in Japan with their best album “SKZ2020”.

IVE is a six-member girl group consisting of five members from Korea and one member from Japan, and is leading the fourth-generation girl group boom in Korea along with LE SSERAFIM and NewJeans. In Japan, their debut single “ELEVEN -Japanese ver. In May 2023, they released their first Japanese EP “WAVE”. The song “WAVE”, their first original title song in Japan, has been viewed more than 20 million times.

YOASOBI is a music unit formed in October 2019 by Vocaloid producer Ayase and singer-songwriter ikura (Ikuta Rira). It was born from a project to turn novels submitted to monogatary.com, a novel and illustration submission site run by Sony Music, into music. The music video for their first single “Running Into the Night,” based on the novel “Thanatos no Seduction” by Maiya Hoshino, has received over 270 million views, and the opening theme “Idol” for the anime “[Suishinoko]” has received over 450 million views. They will perform at “Coachella” in April 2024.

Hanabie. started their activities in 2015 with classmates from junior high school. They are a hybrid girls’ band that embraces Akihabara culture with “Harajuku Core,” an original genre that sublimates metalcore and hardcore, at its core. In 2023, they made their major debut with the album “Next Life is Great! In 2024, he was selected as one of the 25 artists representing Japan in the “Future of Music,” an international competition in which artists are chosen by Rolling Stone magazine from around the world.

Tickets for “Lollapalooza 2024” are now on sale at the official website.