On Thursday afternoon, when the first acts take the stage in Grant Park, a viewer in Mexico City will open the Disney+ app and be met not with a single feed but with two live channels, each carrying a different corner of the festival. It is a quiet but significant shift: for the first time, Lollapalooza is streaming on Disney+ as well as on Hulu, which has carried the event for six years. The arrangement, struck between the platforms and promoter Live Nation, turns a Chicago gathering into a simultaneous living-room event across much of the world.

More than 170 artists are scheduled across eight stages over the four days. The lineup threads together pop, rock, hip-hop, electronic music and K-pop, with Lorde, Charli XCX, Jennie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tate McRae, The xx, Major Lazer and Empire of the Sun among the headliners. On Thursday, the first channel opens with 5 Seconds of Summer, Empire of the Sun and Wet Leg before Lorde closes the night; Friday brings Zara Larsson, YUNGBLUD, The Smashing Pumpkins and Charli XCX. The weekend then carries forward with sets from Ethel Cain, Olivia Dean, aespa, The Chainsmokers and Turnstile, among dozens of others.

Coverage begins daily at 3:00 p.m. Chicago time, though Thursday’s first channel starts fifteen minutes later. For audiences in Latin America, that means mid-afternoon tuning in—2:15 p.m. in Mexico City, 3:15 p.m. in Bogotá, 5:15 p.m. in Buenos Aires. The two-channel design allows viewers to toggle between stages when set times overlap, a practical answer to the festival’s sprawl. Organisers caution that the schedule may shift for technical or production reasons, urging constant consultation of the official calendar.

Crucially, the streams exist only in the moment. There will be no on-demand replays; once a performance ends, it vanishes from the platform. That real-time-only logic means that missing a set is final, and the remote audience must commit to the same live rhythm as the crowd in Grant Park. It is a deliberate choice that preserves the fleeting, unrepeatable texture of a festival, even for those watching from thousands of kilometres away.

As the weekend unfolds, screens from Caracas to Santiago will flicker with the same transient images: a singer stepping back from the microphone, a guitar chord decaying into the Chicago night, and then the feed cutting to the next stage, leaving only the memory of what just passed.