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The full Lollapalooza lineup was announced this morning, and despite our befuddlement as to why Muse keeps headlining festivals next to generation-defining acts like Eminem, Coldplay, and Foo Fighters, the rest of the bill looks exactly like every other major summer festival. Which is to say, awesome.

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Going to Santiago, Chile for Lollapalooza? We told you what to do. Now how about what to avoid? While the city is on everyone's radar, Frommer's Chile Editor, Kristina Schreck, reveals the five things you should absolutely not do in the South American capital.

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The first and only Lollapalooza I attended was in 1992 (!), when I was in high school (!). Back then, Pearl Jam was a warm-up band, not a headliner. My friends and I missed them perform because we cut class much too late and didn't anticipate the heavy traffic from Marietta to Atlanta, GA, but we did arrive just in time for Jesus and Mary Chain. I forget what drug I took, but I do remember the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a girl falling off the bleachers and being stretchered away, the tarot card reader who rolled his eyes when I approached his booth, and the fist fight in the mosh pit. In any case, you probably know by now that Lollapalooza is going international for the first time ever, on April 2 and 3, 2011. The mega-concert will take place in Santiago, Chile, at O'Higgins Park with the Andes Mountains as a sort of surreal backdrop. Try not to get too fucked up while you're there, as I'm about to list my top five things to do in the awesome country, which I'm assuming you'll take time to tour, considering the long-haul flight.

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The Early 21st Century North American Music Festival: I have seen it. I have sweated into my shorts as the people beside did the same, bouncing, grinning, feet hurting, high on Bud Lite and/or grass, expectant, anxious, and bored. At such an event, pop music, often the purview of highly intimate and personal listening habits, is turned into an outsize spectacle meant to shock us with both our collective mass and our individual insignificance. I found Lollapalooza suffused with a kind of helpful, clean-cut, Midwestern vibe that stands in stark contrast to the usual agoraphobia generated at these sorts of things.

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Metric, Phoenix, Cut Copy, Chromeo, MGMT, Perry Farrell, Yeasayer and more

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Our take on the best of what Lollapalooza had to offer (sorry, Gaga)

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imageEach spring brings the requisite announcements of summer festival lineups. For each list, desensitization sets in just about five or six acts past the headliners, as they are are all formidable, and all loved. These days, it isn’t difficult for organizers of major festivals to pack their slates with stadium players, Pitchfork-adored art rockers, and cool-kid rappers. Coachella is the standard, of course, but look at the lineups to already-announced fests such as All Points West festival, the Outside Lands festival, and the Pemberton festival. With so many great bills, who cares anymore, right?

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