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Lady Gaga, Soundgarden tipped for Lollapalooza

Arcade Fire and the Strokes are also rumored to be joining the lineup.

The news first surfaced on The Daily Swarm, which cited “multiple industry sources” as confirming the Gaga-Green Day-Soundgarden configuration. The music news Web site also reported that three additional headliners would be confirmed when the full Lollapalooza lineup is officially announced, which in past years has typically occurred in April.

Lady Gaga is set to begin a run of dates in the U.K. on Feb. 18, followed by shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She is expected to play North American arenas in the summer. She previously played Lollapalooza as a virtual unknown on a side stage in 2007.

Soundgarden’s Lollapalooza appearance could possibly be the first by the Seattle rock quartet — frontman Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron — since splitting up in 1997. But a Soundgarden tour routing is still a work in progress, due to Cameron’s prior commitments with Pearl Jam in the spring and summer. The band played Lollapalooza in 1992 and 1996.

The Chicago Tribune, meanwhile, reported that the aforementioned three headliners are “nearing confirmation” along with the Arcade Fire and the Strokes, who themselves are returning from a long hiatus and recording their first album since 2006’s “First Impressions of Earth.”

A representative from C3, Lollapalooza’s promoter, declined to comment on any of the rumored headlining acts.

Last year’s Lollapalooza, headlined by Depeche Mode, Tool and the Killers, was the third highest grossing music festival of 2009, according to Billboard Boxscore. The festival grossed $14 million and was attended by 225,000 people over three sold-out days.