São Paulo will receive the American Lollapalooza Festival in 2012

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Today was confirmed that Brazil will have its first version of Lollapalooza. According to Geo Events, the festival should take place on April 7 and 8 of 2012, at the Jockey Club of São Paulo.

Line-up and further information will be released next month, after the Chicago festival

For the first time since its begining, in April this year, the festival was held outside the US. The Latin American edition in Santiago, Chile, attracted about 100 thousand people to watch Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Kanye West and many other bands.

The festival, founded in 1991, has been organized in Chicago since since 2005. Other informations about the Lollapalooza in São Paulo (such as attractions, for example) will be released straight after the US edition, between August 5 and 7. This year, Lollapalooza should receive more than one hundred bands, including Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters and Beirut. The Kill and Cage The Elephant and the youngest Bob Marley son, Damien 'Jr. Gong' Marley.