Lollapalooza 2012 Lineup Leaked? Perry Farrell Calls Tweeter 'A Fraud,' Denies Rumors (PHOTOS)

Update: The creator of the @lollaleaks Twitter account said the whole lineup was made up. Festival organizers have yet to confirm any acts. Read more here.

While Chicago's Lollapalooza is still more than five months away from taking over the city's Grant Park, an alleged lineup for the annual music festival has already emerged.

Anonymous Twitter account @lollaleaks on Saturday tweeted the Aug. 3-5 festival's supposed headliners -- Metallica, Beyonce, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Beck and Sonic Youth. On Wednesday, the tweeter claimed that Justice, Chromeo and Bassnectar would also be playing the festival's Perry's stage.

@lollaleaks was not the only supposed lineup "leaker." As The Sights and Sounds reports, @thelollaleaker released more supposed additions to the 2012 festival lineup including The Shins, M83, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Gotye, At The Drive-In, Garbage, Missy Elliott, Guided By Voices, Sleigh Bells, Passion Pit, Korn, Skrillex, M.I.A., Calvin Harris and about a dozen other acts.

The news enraged festival organizer Perry Farrell, who took to Twitter to berate @lollaleaks, calling the anonymous tweeter "a red tick," "a fraud" and likely an individual with "a small penis." Farell tweeted Sunday that the festival lineup "has not been finalized."

The festival's lineup is not expected to officially be announced until sometime this spring. A similar leak situation occurred last year and reports of rumored acts playing the festival mostly turned out to be accurate.

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If the rumors are true, what do you make of the 2012 Lollapalooza lineup?

Love! Setting a Google alert for the minute tickets go on sale.

Like, but waiting to see a confirmed list.

De-friending Perry. I think I'll be staying home this year.

What is a Sleigh Bells?

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WATCH highlights from the 2011 festival's final day, which included some crazy weather and a whole lot of great music, and check out some of the artists rumored to be making up the festival's 2012 lineup below:

Comments

[hiphopblogspot]

09:38 PM on 02/26/2012

man I remember seeing daft punk, wilco, STS9, the flaming lips back in 05... what happened the lineups since have just gotten progressively worse

[MarlaHooch]

12:26 PM on 02/24/2012

Right except this list doesn't include Black Sabbath or Radiohead...

Oopsie!!! O:-)

[decimus]

12:41 PM on 02/16/2012

I like the lineup if true. It skews a little 90s and thus might be better received by 30-somethings than the teen set. Passion Pit is highly underrated.

[dublindude]

08:25 AM on 02/16/2012

Nothing worth spending money on here. Apart from Skrillex this is a dreadful line-up. It's composed of washed up headbangers, irrelevant 90s alternative acts, a biz atch who clears out a maternity ward because her baby is more improtant than anyone elses, a bird-flipping English rapper who no one heard of until Superbowl Sunday, and Joan Jett (wonder what she'll finish the set with...?) Last year's line-up was stellar - Muse, My Morning Jacket, Deadmau5, The Cars, Girl Talk, Foster The People ...

[Savingfantasia]

12:21 PM on 02/21/2012

If Skrillex is your top choice of the rumors, I choose to not follow your judgement.
Beck, The Shins, Passion Pit, Gaslight Anthem, Kimbra?

Also, irrelevant 90's acts? What is Skrillex going to be in five years? An irrelevant mac book pro player.

[Ebs42]

11:17 PM on 03/24/2012

you're missing the worlds biggest band. It may not be your type of music but its no reason to leave them out. Coldplay is the biggest band in the world right now whether you like it or not :)

[gtx281]

12:42 AM on 02/16/2012

Metallica?! Chili Peppers?! If true, sign me up!

[A Doinel]

08:26 PM on 02/15/2012

I hope this line-up isn't true. Pretty underwhelmed.
No Pulp? Stone Roses?

[Savingfantasia]

12:22 PM on 02/21/2012

They'll have to get Stone Roses. SR aren't big enough in the US to make a big tour so they need festival gigs.

[Momtopia]

07:43 PM on 02/15/2012

doesn't matter who plays at lolla. they way the schedule gets laid out, all the bands you want to see play at the same time on opposite ends of the park. it's ridiculous.

[ebroadcast]

06:35 PM on 02/15/2012

Beyonce? Korn?? Pitchfork has once again, become a joke just like it did back in the 90's. Starts off good, and then collapses under the weight of its own grandiosity

[dublindude]

08:16 AM on 02/16/2012

Pitchfork??? It's Lollapalooza

[ebroadcast]

10:04 AM on 02/16/2012

Ha! That's what I meant - Lollapalooza