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WHAT: Lollapalooza Chile 2011
WHEN: April 2-3, 2011
WHERE: Parque O´Higgins, Santiago de Chile

Photos and text by Alejandra Díaz

@srtalegria

If we take into account this is the first Lollapalooza outside the US we can say it wasn’t bad at all. Unfortunately, thanks to the pessimistic nature of chileans I can not catalogue the festival as “pitch perfect” but I enjoy it.

Jared Leto

An ideal weekend: more than 50 bands on stage, only 5 blocks away from my home, bright sun, people from many places of South America and way beyond the pacific all mix together to share two afternoons of excellent music, sun and fun. Incredible.

Dave Navarro

Perry Farrel

The best of LPL? I can’t decide between Jane´s Addiction performance and the spectacular show of The Flaming Lips.

Although Perry Farrel´s voice is not the same from his golden days the show was top notch. It felt like a scene from an erotic-sadistic movie of the 80´s, with gorgeous women hanging from their bodies, dancers behind the stage and of course the androgynus self of Farrel.

On the other side, The Flaming Lips, one of the main dishes of this version of Lollapalooza,  didn’t disappoint, not even those who ignore who they were. Giant balloons, “challas” and people dressed as oranges on the stage was all part of the show.

Nick Hexum. 311

I can also point out Ben Harper’s vocal quality, Deftones´s energy, the simpathy of 311, Cypress Hill´s powerful lyrics and Chico Trujillo’s joy. These were other reasons to initiate the countdown for the next installment of this festival.

If you weren’t here this time, then you should be on 2012. I can assure you it will be a lot better.

• Spanish

Who: Antonia Tejerina, Fashion Blogger

Website: www.adorodiseno.cl

Blog: http://adorostyle.blogspot.com

• Spanish

Who: Carla Mckay

Why: New Chilean Plastic Artist

Photos and Text by Alejandra Díaz

@Lalecoolia

Carla McKay is one of those cool new artists in Chile at the moment. She has a really large curriculum of galleries on Santiago de Chile where you can see her work on visual arts and photography.

Her work is made out of objects she finds on her home and on the streets, mix up with a palette of vibrant colors. Inside some of them you can find well-known-pop-characters such as Heidi, Condorito, Chilean ex president Salvador Allende, some virgins and saints.

On the photography side Carla works with portraits since 2003 and she affirms: “Sometimes if I see somebody on the streets and I feel their looks are appealing or interesting, I ask them if I can take some pictures, is weird but nobody had said no”.

Although Mckay loves color (like you can see on her work), her portraits on photography are in black and white. Besides that, she had collaborated for some book covers, to editorial Alfaguara, like “Estrellas Muertas”, the last one from writer Álvaro Bisama.

Where can you find his work? You can stumble across some of her articles on el Museo de la Moda, and if you’re really lucky, you can stand face-to-face with some of her art work in galleries across Santiago, “actually I don’t really know where are some of them (works of art) right now…but I do know they are in a gallery at the moment”, she concluded to Coolhunting Project.

Contact: mofflet@gmail.com

Twitter: @carlamckay

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Who: Pixies, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age and more

What: Maquinaria Festival Chile 2010

Where: Club Hípico of Santiago

Photos and Text by Alejandra Díaz

@Lalecoolia

4 days before the great rescue of the Chilean miners, three stages, more than 10 rock bands and 30.000+ people gave life to this mega event, which could reunite lovers of old-and no to old-rock n’ roll music.

The best: Queens of the Stone Age. A complete show, full of fans singing every song.

The epic: Pixies in Chile! This is one of those bands I would see again and again. Impeccable sound on a very mature show.

The handsome: Chilean girl´s hearts divided between the corpulent Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and the skinny Brandon Boyd from Incubus. Hot.

The cool side: Lovefoxxx with a perfect costume: a black short, a black leather jacket and a white t-shirt.

The strange side: Calavera Conspiracy. Bizarre and creepy

The adolescent moment: Linkin Park, and I declare myself guilty of charge about this moment. I fulfilled my dream since I was 12 years old: sing live “One Step Closer”

Other great bands: Yo la Tengo y El Otro Yo

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Wear it: Rocker tees made in Chile

Who: Pauli y Kam

Contact: ublinna@hotmail.com

By Alejandra Díaz

@Lalecoolia

Some time ago a couple of friends of mine (Pauli & Kam) discovered the solution to a big problem that has been a pain in the back to many people for decades.

The issue:

You want to get a t-shirt of a rock band, a new rock band, to walk around your neighborhood and make a statement for the world to know what you listen to and which kind of people you want to hang out with. The real issue: your band is so indie and super-unknown you can’t find tees about it.

The solution:

Order the tee to a pair of experts. Who? you might be asking: To Kam & Pauli. With them you can choose the shirt print, your exact size and you can do it yourself. Everything can be done if you ask for it, multiple prints, colors and designs, whatever you want, you’ll have it.

Solution N° 2: DIY:

Take a worn t-shirt, one of those you use to sleep or to dye your hair, look on Google to find a great stencil you can use on it, from a band, movie or whatever and print it. Cut out the stencil carefully and give it color immediately with the help of some fabric paint. In a couple of minutes that piece of garbage can become your favorite shirt in your entire closet.

Final note:

If you consider yourself someone with no talent to cut and paint, and you want to have a new tee make by professionals, don’t hesitate to e-mail Kam & Pauly. You won’t regret it.