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The Daily’s 2021 Lollapalooza preview Lollapalooza is back. After a year-long hiatus, the four day festival, arguably Chicago’s biggest musical event of the year, will return to Grant Park on Thursday. Boasting a star-studded lineup, the event is also taking preventative measures against COVID-19, requiring all attendees to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.  If you’re searching for the rundown on some of the top artists at the festival this year, look no further — The Daily has you covered. Read on to learn more about just a few of the artists making appearances ...

Northwestern students celebrate a lot of different holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Mawlid-al-Nabi, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, among many others. Regardless of your faith, there is one holiday that most Northwestern students celebrate, which is the high holy Dillo Day. Dillo Day is a special day on a Saturday, late in Spring Quarter when musical artists come to Northwestern and perform for the students and their guests. Guests, as a term, is pretty vague — I remember smuggling a fraternity alum or two in 2019 to watch Teyana Taylor and A$AP Ferg. Drinking is a significa...

Although Dillo Day has featured artists of color, this diversity was not always reflected in the executive board of Mayfest Productions, director of booking Amirah Ford said.  When the Medill junior first joined Mayfest during her freshman year, she said the organization made up of about 100 students only had around five Black members, and...

Producer and DJ KAYTRANADA was named the final artist in the Dillo Day 2021 lineup, Mayfest Productions announced Friday.  The Haitian-Canadian producer kickstarted his career on SoundCloud, producing remixes of his favorite songs from his bedroom in 2010. Since then, he’s risen to the top of the music charts and collaborated with prominent artists including Chance the Rapper, Kali Uchis and Anderson .Paak.  The artist joins musicians Omar Apollo, Beabadoobee and Playboi Carti in the 2021 Dillo Day lineup, set to perform tomorrow.  In 2016, his debut album “99.9%” earned praise, cele...

Musician Omar Apollo was named Dillo Day’s 2021 daytime headliner, according to a Wednesday release from Mayfest Productions. Apollo is the first performer Mayfest has announced to the Northwestern community. Dillo Day 2021 will center around the theme of POSTMODERN, and is scheduled for May 22. The event will include both in-person and virtual content after a year of virtual Dillo programming due to COVID-19.  “My team and I have had Omar Apollo on our radar for years now,” Mayfest Director of Booking Amirah Ford said in the news release. “Watching him develop, Omar has clearly dist...