Lollapalooza [ tickets ] organizers on Wednesday (4/28) announced that the festival would remain dormant for another year. The touring festival, which initiated many of the concepts used successfully by packages such as the George Strait country music festival and the Lilith Fair, shuttered its doors last year after failing to lure a strong headliner to anchor the bill.

The same problem has been blamed for the lack of a 1999 run, and organizers have complained that many acts approached would not commit to a booking until they saw other acts solidly booked, a situation that eventually collapsed a number of discussions.

In a written statement, tour representative Peter Grosslight of the William Morris Agency said, ''Lollapalooza organizers have announced that the seminal touring rock festival will continue its hiatus through 1999 to concentrate on assembling the ultimate line-up for the millennium summer. Organizers decided to postpone the tour until 2000, when they can re-establish Lollapalooza once again as the 'The Mightiest of all Summer Extravaganzas.'''