- Alex Friedland
- Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes and Samantha Urbani
Tal Rosenberg: The big news out of the first day of Lollapalooza was Blood Orange; unfortunately, troubling news about festival security overshadowed otherwise positive feedback about the Dev Hynes-fronted band’s set. According to multiple tweets from Hynes and a Pitchfork report, the frontman and his girlfriend Samantha Urbani were assaulted by security. In a bizarre coincidence, Hynes was wearing a T-shirt with the names of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, and Jordan Davis written on it; Urbani wore a T-shirt that read “STOP POLICE BRUTALITY.” A later report from Lollapalooza indicates that the security guards were not hired by the festival but rather privately hired by that stage. Here’s Lollapalooza’s statement about the incident:
After the long trek to Iggy Azalea’s set, her performance unfortunately fell flat. It may be hard to captivate an audience the size of three football fields on a muggy afternoon, but her scream-rapping made every syllable out of her mouth inaudible. “Pussy” was her best number, harking back to her underground days as she finally got the entire crowd gyrating. As her set came to an abrupt end 15 minutes early, I found myself clogged in a glob of crowd traffic so dense that walking became impossible. I somehow got dislodged from the masses on the way to the front row of CHVRCHES, which was easily the best set of the entire day. Lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry’s adorable onstage presence served as a soft Snuggie to the music’s galactic face-melt, boasting twinkling synthesizers and vibrating bass lines on tracks like “The Mother We Share” and “Recover.”
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