​Lollapalooza Creator Perry Farrell Wants to Vomit EDM Out of His Nostrils

Despite having a namesake stage at Lollapalooza that features a variety of dance, house and EDM styles, Perry Farrell, the creator of the yearly Chicago-based music festival, is not a fan of one genre in particular. “I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils,” Farrell told columnist Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune.Farrell’s objections stem from the change in genre on Perry’s stage at the festival. “When they said they wanted to name a stage after me, I was honored. I like the adulation. But now you say, ‘Perry, what’s going on with your area here?’ Believe me, I’ve got questions myself,” Farrell said. The genre has changed house music, a genre he has enjoyed for years. “I can’t stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic — it took you on a journey … I sometimes cringe at my own festival,” he said.

However, Farrell acknowledges that the genre is not going away, not entirely at least. “You’d have to do away with pop to escape it, and if you want to do a festival you can’t do away with pop.” Lollapalooza runs from July 28 through 31.