Chicago, IL — Anybody can hook a teddy bear to a giant pole and hoist it up in the air so their friends can find them at a big festival. But now that flower crowns are played out and some of us have finally gotten the message that Native American headdresses are not a cool accessory, the only thing left, apparently, is to make a giant find me posters of your favorite actor/musician/exchange student and parade around the grounds of Lollapalooza.

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We’ve seen this at other festivals, but for the celebrity contingent in Chicago this weekend is so strong… and so weird.

I’ve Been Told #ToothlessGosling Is A Thing

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Okay, Who Invited Busey?

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Thank You Lil B!

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Chicago, IL — Dev Hynes, who performs as Blood Orange, claimed on Friday that he was assaulted by security guards following his afternoon set at Lollapalooza.

Hynes (full name Devonté Hynes), alleged that both he and girlfriend Samantha Urbani, who performed with him, were grabbed and thrown to the ground following his set. He did not say where they were or when the alleged assault happened.

A few hours before the alleged assault, Hynes posted a picture of the t-shirt he wore during his set, which featured the names of three black men who were the victims of violence. Among the names on the shirt were Trayvon Martin and Eric Gardner, the latter a man who died on July 17 after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold; the city medical examiner ruled Gardner’s death a homicide on Friday.

A spokesperson for the festival’s promoter, C3 Presents, could not be reached for comment at press time. Hynes said he was very upset by the incident and claimed that comments posted by supporters on the official Lollapalooza social media sites were being scrubbed.

Several fans posted comments in which they said that they had tried writing about the incident on Lolla’s Facebook pages only to have the posts removed. (MTV News could not independently confirm that any posts related to the alleged assault had been taken down.)

Urbani, who wore a shirt decrying police brutality during the set, said that the couple had spoken to organizers afterwards and were told that ...

Chicago, IL — The question all day wasn’t if Eminem would bring out a special guest for his Lollapalooza headlining slot on Friday night (August 1), but who it would be. A lot of diehards were hoping (maybe dreaming) that it would be mentor Dr. Dre.

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Marshall did them one better when, 40 minutes into a energetic set, his upcoming Monster Tour mate Rihanna rose up out of the stage for a high-intensity mini-suite of duets. The crowd went nuts, to put it mildly. While Em was dressed down in grey workout shorts and a throwback LL Cool J “I’m Bad” t-shirt, Rihanna looked regal in a black head wrap, black and white mini-dress and matching scarf.

Rih Rih sounded pitch perfect at the opening of “Love the Way You Lie,” her voice echoing over the stunned crowd, who quickly whipped out their phones to get a shot of the unexpected superstar summit. Em came smashing in for his verse, stalking the stage as his partner hung back and rolled her shoulders and rocking her hips to the swaying beat.

The pair then moved right into “The Monster,” finally locking eyes for just a few moments midway through that massive hit and sizing each other up before, just like that, Rihanna was gone.

There was still plenty of show, though, as the crowd went understandably bananas when Em busted out a three-pack of oldies, starting with “My Name Is” and “The Real Slim ...

Chicago, IL — We already know that Lorde has some amazing dance moves. She brought the entire arsenal for her main stage set on Friday (August 1) at Lollapalooza. The hair was insane, her body was shaking and quaking all through “Tennis Court,” “Team” and, of course, “Royals” and she thanked the massive crowd profusely for showing up.

“This is more people than in my whole town, my whole high school and everyone at the airport in New Zealand… it’s really f—ing cool,” she said.

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But as much as she moved and flipped her signature forest of hair, I was mesmerized by one Ryan Bartlett, 23, a recent transplant to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio. You see, Ryan is truly the Lorde of the Dance.

Don’t believe me? Check this out.

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Chicago, IL — The packed field at Perry’s Tent for Iggy Azalea was insane during the “Fancy” rapper’s dinnertime set at Lollapalooza on Friday (August 1). The parade of sweaty, exhausted bodies coming over the barricade up front was endless and the gyrating bodies during, “Bounce” felt like they were going to set off an earthquake.

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Iggy gave them what they wanted, with a bit of “F— Love” and “Work,” so nobody had anything to complain about. Except, well, it was almost impossible to get close because the crowd was so thick. So, one enterprising fan decided to climb up a tree near the stage so she could get a better look and snap a… selfie.

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Yeah, this girl’s friends hoisted her 20 feet up into a tree so she could take a few glamour shots.

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Iggy Was Not Impressed

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While we’ve been wasting all our time worrying about whether Justin Bieber should keep his ‘stache or not, 5 Seconds of Summer have gone and thrown their flavor savers into the game.

What do you think?

Okay, theirs are fake, but here’s Bieber’s again, just in case it wasn’t seared into your brain already.

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One Direction‘s Liam Payne knows how this works: give the people what they want and they’ll love your forever. And what they want, clearly, is a full-frontal pic of him hanging (all the way) loose on a boat.

So, on a lazy Sunday that’s exactly what he gave them. After losing his “last pair” of swim trunks, Payne looked surprised when someone snapped a shot of him flapping in the breeze on the boat deck.

Oh, never mind, he found them. Sorry, false alarm. But thanks for the more than one million likes and the #UncensoritLiam hashtag!

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Brothers are supposed to mess with each other. But while some wrestle, dump cold water on each other during showers or go for the sack attack, James Franco, a sophisticated man of letters, takes the high road when teasing lil’ bro Dave.

After Dave recently shared a laugh with “Neighbors” co-star Zac Efron at an NBA game, James was proud to announce that their Hollywood man-date had made it official. “Effron and My brother, dating!!!!!! Congrats, boys! I’m so happy for you!!!” James wrote in a post with his clearly doctored tabloid magazine headline.

Real mature, dude. Real mature.

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Weezer have said their upcoming ninth studio album is a return to their classic sound after a few attempts at going more mainstream with the help of professional songwriters like Dr. Luke and Jermaine Dupri. No kidding, dude.

How do we know this for sure now? Because we watched Rivers Cuomo and the boys play “Back to the Shack” on “The Tonight Show” on Wednesday night and the apologia to the fans they abandoned has exactly the kind of crunch and kick we’ve come to love from the band. We are so psyched now for Everything Will Be Alright In The End it’s not even funny.

Check it out:

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Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t the kind of dude who just sits around on the couch all summer watching soccer and baseball. No, the Green Day singer can’t sit still, which explains why during a break between his band’s touring and recording he’s scored the coolest summer job ever: rhythm guitarist for the reunited Replacements.

Starting with surprise appearance at Coachella in April where BJA helped the legendary 1980s Minneapolis shamble punk icons out by assisting ailing ‘Mats singer Paul Westerberg (who was laid low by persistent back problems), Billie has seemingly joined on as an unofficial fifth Replacement. (He also played with them at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta in May.)

And, there he was again on Sunday at Louisville’s Forecastle Festival, playing rhythm guitar while wearing a blue and black striped blazer, black jeans and a grin a mile wide. It was one of those, “Wait, is that?…” moments for many in the crowd (including yours truly), as the giant screens on either side of the main stage showed a familiar-looking guy with jet black hair strumming away on such classic tunes as “I’ll Be You,” “Favorite Thing,” “Achin’ To Be,” Androgynous” and “Bastards of Young.”

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And the cool thing? Billie was just there. Nobody mentioned him, he didn’t sing back-up vocals and seemed happy to just hang out and let Westerberg and guitarist Dave Minehan do the heavy riff ...