First Britney breaks her leg, and now this.

The news came last week that Lollapalooza, the last great relic of mid-90s festival tours, has canceled all sixteen of its planned stops this summer. Focusing not on the grunge and alt rock of its heyday, but rather on indie-rock heavyweights such as Sonic Youth, Morrissey, Modest Mouse, Wilco and The Pixies, the tour that was set to start July 14 in Auburn, Wash. is no more. Organizers blame low ticket sales, but critics and fans around the country were clamoring for a chance at what was, for some, a dream lineup.

Liz Sabol (junior-accounting) had planned to attend the August dates in Camden, N.J. She theorizes that, because few of Lolla's bands have had much popular exposure, the tour couldn't get the fan support it needed to survive.

"I'd say it's probably the obscure lineup, but that doesn't make sense, really" Sabol said. "Modest Mouse made its way onto Billboard charts and [former Smiths' frontman] Morrissey is on a huge media blitz. Maybe it's because people identify Lollapalooza with its early 90s heyday."

Sabol took some personal responsibility for the failure of the tour.

"It makes me think I should've bought tickets sooner" Sabol said. "Maybe the pair would've convinced Perry Farrell to keep going."

Greg Gabbard, owner of City Lights Records, 316 E. College Ave., suggested the failure had less to do with Sabol and more to do with bad taste.

"Well, that's what happens when you put too many good bands together," Gabbard said. "They have festivals with lots of bad bands that do well, but one with all these good bands doesn't even happen?"

Gabbard scoffed at the suggestion that last year's lineup, featuring Incubus and a newly reformed Jane's Addiction, was somehow more palatable.

"You say, 'wait a minute, that's the one that did well, and this is the one that failed?' " Gabbard said.

Loren Ferguson, a 2004 Penn State graduate, went to last year's Lollapalooza and had planned to go this year.

"That's what's so disappointing about it being canceled this year," Ferguson said. "The lineup included quite a few bands that I was really excited to see."

But Ferguson said this year's Lolla wasn't necessarily for everybody.

"The headliners definitely weren't as mainstream. Last year you had Audioslave, Incubus and Queens of the Stone Age, which I think did draw quite a crowd," she said. "I give a lot of credit to Perry Farrell for trying to move things in a different direction, but most of the time you'll find that change is not accepted by the masses."

Ferguson sees the positive side of not dropping all that money on a Lollapalooza ticket.

"If something comes up that I really want to see that is worth the money, I probably will," Ferguson said. "I guess now I have enough for two or three other shows."