97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Welcome to Talking Culture! In this weekly interview series from 97.9 The Hill WCHL, you’ll hear from writers, performers, musicians and individuals involved in advancing and promoting cultural arts in our community.

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Aaron welcomes acclaimed music journalist (and local resident) Richard Bienstock, who’s just co-authored a book on the history of Lollapalooza. It’s called “Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival,” co-written with Tom Beaujour, featuring interviews with dozens of iconic musicians from Perry Farrell to Eddie Vedder to Patti Smith and more. Bienstock and Beaujour let the musicians and organizers do most of the talking as they provide a backstage, warts-and-all look inside a traveling festival that defined (and redefined) the 1990s and brought alternative rock into the mainstream – to the point where it could hardly be called “alternative” anymore.

Bienstock and Beaujour will be discussing “Lollapalooza” at Flyleaf Books on Thursday, March 27, starting at 6 p.m. with book signings in advance of the talk at 5:30. Click here for more information.

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