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Coachella Sets Dates for 2014
May 21, 2013 11:55 AM ET| RJ Cubarrubia
This year's Coachella wrapped up just last month, but the Indio, California, festival has already set dates for next year's iteration. Coachella 2014 will take place over two weekends, with the first half set for April 11th-13th and the second scheduled for April 18th-20th. Coachella 2013: Rolling Stone's Complete Coverage Advance sales for Coachella 2014 will start on Friday at 1 p.m. EST. For more information, visit the festival's website. This year's Coachella fe... | More »
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Rock the Bells to Feature Ol' Dirty Bastard, Eazy-E Holograms
May 15, 2013 9:50 AM ET| RJ Cubarrubia
Rock the Bells will mark its 10th anniversary with some very special guests: The traveling hip-hop festival will take a page from Coachella's Tupac hologram last year and feature "virtual performances" from the late Ol' Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E. According to Pitchfork, the former N.W.A. rapper will "perform" alongside Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, while Ol' Dirty Bastard will be joined by his former group the Wu-Tang Clan, who have reconvened for a new album planned for a July&nbs... | More »
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Atoms for Peace, Kings of Leon, Muse Top ACL Lineup
May 7, 2013 1:05 AM ET| RJ Cubarrubia
Atoms for Peace, Kings of Leon and Muse are among the artists set for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. Phoenix, Wilco, Vampire Weekend, the Cure, Depeche Mode, the National, Passion Pit, Queens of the Stone Age and Kendrick Lamar will also play the October festival, which is expanding over two weekends this year. Photos: Live at Austin City Limits 2012 Other artists joining the Austin City Limits lineup include D'Angelo, Eric Church, fun., Grimes, Jake Bugg, Toro y M... | More »
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Video: Icona Pop, Charli XCX Party Through 'I Love It' at SXSW
April 23, 2013 9:00 AM ET
Icona Pop's breakout hit "I Love It" was one of last year's most memorable anthems, but the Swedish duo never performed it live with their track collaborator, Charli XCX. Finally, at the Warner Sound's SXSW showcase last month, the fast-rising British pop singer Charli spontaneously joined Icona Pop to party through "I Love It," all of them giving a rollicking performance of the defiant, joyous cut. 50 Best Songs of 2012: Icona Pop, 'I Love It' "Oh, it was so amazin... | More »
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Grimes Stays in Charge of It All
April 20, 2013 2:04 PM ET| Steve Appleford
Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, doesn't mind working alone. She sees herself less as a modern pop diva than an experimental producer, and her dual roles are on full display during her Coachella sets, with one hand on the mic, the other on a sampler. When she returns Sunday afternoon to the Gobi tent for her second Coachella 2013 set, she'll be joined by two near-identical, dancing sisters, but the sound and vision will be all hers. The Montreal indie auteur delivers her minimalist elec... | More »
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Coachella Promoter: Blur and Stone Roses Switch Was 'Planned From Day One'
April 18, 2013 5:40 PM ET| Dan Hyman
Yesterday, fans and Coachella Weekend Two attendees alike were surprised to learn that Blur and the Stone Roses' mainstage set times had swapped order from the festival's first weekend. According to the festival site, Blur were no longer lead-ins to the headlining Stone Roses: they were now closing the mainstage at 11:35 p.m. while the Stone Roses were to kick off their set at 9:55 p.m. However, Paul Tollett, president of the concert promoter Goldenvoice maintains to Rolling Stone t... | More »
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Coachella Bumps Stone Roses, Makes Blur Headliners
April 17, 2013 5:45 PM ET| Stacey Anderson
This year's Coachella has packed quite a few surprises already, from violent sandstorms to R. Kelly dueting with Phoenix. Now, with the festival's second weekend only two days away, organizers have pulled an unprecedented move: they've bumped Friday night's headliners, the Stone Roses, in favor of their openers, Blur. Coachella 2013: The Stone Roses and Blur Storm the Desert On Wednesday afternoon, the Coachella website quietly displayed a new lineup for April 19th that ... | More »
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Two Door Cinema Club Leave the Nest
April 17, 2013 4:50 PM ET| Steve Baltin
After surprising even themselves with their debut record Tourist History, which took home the Choice Music Prize for top album in their native Ireland, alternative-rock trio Two Door Cinema Club admit that they were still nervous about the reception of their follow-up album, Beacon. "The first record superseded our expectations; it just blew our minds, so we were really on the edges of our seats when the second record came around," vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Trimble told Rolling Stone bac... | More »
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Bassnectar on Remixing Black Sabbath and What's Next for EDM
April 17, 2013 12:00 PM ET| Steve Baltin
As he sat backstage in his trailer on the first day of Coachella, gearing up to headline the famed Sahara Tent, Bassnectar felt "euphoric." "I'm unusually excited. I always have different forms of excitement, but tonight is a big one for me, partly just for the chance to headline such a wicked tent at such a wicked festival," the DJ, whose real name is Lorin Ashton, told Rolling Stone. "But also, I'm just fresh out of a vacation and also a very incubative studio season and prepping... | More »
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Video: Paul Oakenfold on EDM's Growth: 'We Built the Foundations Up'
April 16, 2013 12:25 PM ET
With EDM's growing global dominance, one of dance music's forefathers and biggest names, Paul Oakenfold, sat down in Rolling Stone's Rock Room to talk about where the movement's been and where it's going. "I've been coming to America for a long time and playing in underground clubs, but now it's mainstream," Oakenfold said. "Three, four years ago, I literally parked myself in Vegas. I did a residency every week for two, three years . . . We built the founda... | More »
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