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Video: Roots drummer shares his DJing philosophy
April 16, 2011 9:15 AM ET
Before DJing at Rolling Stone's Escape From Indio party last night at the Coachella Festival, ?uestlove of the Roots told us about the philosophy behind his DJ sets. "My whole goal in doing these DJ gigs is to sort of trick people into learning something," he says. "It's easy, especially with the way technology is built now where anybody can be a DJ. If you want to rock a party, let's see you succeed playing Kermit the Frog. I'm definitely going to play Kermit the Frog in ... | More »
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Video: The band on evolving as a live act
April 16, 2011 8:55 AM ET
At the Coachella festival, Nathan Willett and Matt Maust of the Cold War Kids told Rolling Stone how being on the road for four months has built up their confidence as a live band. "We kinda have the best of both worlds with this new record," Maust says. "When we recorded it, we really took our time, but on the flip side we still get to be a rambunctious live soul punk band." | More »
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Video: SoCal rockers on their next album
April 16, 2011 8:40 AM ET
Rolling Stone caught up with the Southern California rockers Delta Spirit at Coachella, where the guys talked about being excited to play their local major rock festival, their favorite memories from attending the event as fans in the past and their desire to break out of the Americana genre with the songs they're writing for their next album. | More »
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Coachella Bands Plan Ambitious Multimedia Installations
April 13, 2011 9:00 AM ET| Simon Vozick-Levinson
Fans wandering through the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend will encounter an ambitious array of audiovisual installations created by bands including Arcade Fire, Animal Collective and Interpol. It's all part of Coachella's new partnership with the Creators Project, a program set up by Intel and Vice to connect artists with cutting-edge technology. Choose the Cover of Rolling Stone, Round Two: Vote by April 14! The resulting collaborations will be visible all ... | More »
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Why Coachella Sold Out in Less Than a Week
January 27, 2011 4:00 PM ET| Matthew Perpetua
This year's Coachella festival has sold out faster than ever before in the 12-year history of the event. Tickets for the festival, which will be held on April 15-17th in Indio, California, were gone entirely yesterday after having gone on sale Friday. According to concert promoter Paul Tollett, this year's festival sold at a much faster pace than the previous year. Whereas 51,000 tickets to this year's event had been sold by Monday, only 11,000 tickets were sold in the ... | More »
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Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon Headline Coachella Festival
January 19, 2011 9:45 AM ET| Matthew Perpetua
Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and The Strokes have been announced as the headliners of the 2011 Coachella Festival in Indio, California. The eclectic bill will also feature Animal Collective, Duran Duran, PJ Harvey, the Black Keys, the National, Lauryn Hill, Cee Lo Green, Robyn, Bright Eyes, the Chemical Brothers, Erykah Badu and Interpol. Photos: Coachella 2010 Coachella is known for reuniting bands, and this year is no different. The Britpop band Suede, who just recently complete... | More »
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All Points West Likely Canceled as Coachella Thrives
April 22, 2010 7:14 AM ET| Rolling Stone
One of AEG Live's flagship American destination festivals is thriving while another is facing elimination. According to the company's CEO Randy Phillips, New Jersey's two-year-old event All Points West is on the chopping block. "We're probably going to kill it," Phillips tells Reuters. "As beautiful as [the site] is, it's very hard to get New Yorkers to cross that river. All Points West is an experiment that just didn't work." The festival took place at scenic Li... | More »
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Thom Yorke, Gorillaz's All-Star Bands Wrap Coachella 2010: Full Day Three Report
April 19, 2010 8:33 AM ET| Steve Appleford
"You've had a long weekend, and you need to freak out," Thom Yorke declared to the many thousands gathered for the final night of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival. In moments, Yorke and his solo band, Atoms for Peace, hurled another tsunami of noise and melody across the desert floor on Sunday, serenading fans with hyper-kinetic beats and raw emotion. The solo headline performance by the Radiohead singer was among the most anticipated of the festival in Indio, Californ... | More »
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Muse, MGMT Cap Eclectic Day in Coachella Heat: Full Day Two Report
April 18, 2010 10:21 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Coachella is a fest of many sounds and sizes, a setting for grand gestures and insurgent new music, and Saturday's crowded roster made for impossible choices. Muse and Faith No More delivered big, muscular rock on the main stage, but fans could also have spent the entire day planted across the lawn at the smaller Outdoor Theatre, where sets by MGMT, Hot Chip, the xx and the Dead Weather drew some of the festival's biggest crowds. Just a month after their relatively stripped-down pe... | More »
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