Lollapalooza lives again

The Lollapalooza tour will play three California cities in mid-August -- Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco -- when it returns to the concert scene this summer after a hiatus of five years.

The festival, which began in 1991 as a showcase for cutting-edge rock acts and evolved into the premier platform for alternative rock in the ‘90s, was mothballed after its 1997 edition, a victim of increasingly uncertain concert economics, competition from rival tours and shifts in the musical landscape.

Tour founder Perry Farrell, whose band Jane’s Addiction will share the 2003 bill with Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus and Jurassic 5 (with others to be added), told reporters in Hollywood on Monday that the time off was needed to “refresh and rejuvenate.”

-- Richard Cromelin