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Summer is the time to kick back at concerts. Scroll through our gallery of some of 2025's leading live acts, featuring images by CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton .

Pictured: The Louisville rock band My Morning Jacket played at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, Wis., April 18, 2025.

Lollapalooza 2025

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Chicago's Grant Park hosted Lollapalooza 2025 , with 170 artists performing at 11 venues over four days. Mild weather for the festival, which regularly attracts more than 100,000 visitors a day, was counterbalanced by poor air quality owing to smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing Chicago, leading to unhealthy conditions outdoors.

But Lollapalooza-goers were u

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