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Jay-Z Blasts Coachella With Huge Headlining Set: Full Day One Report
April 17, 2010 7:25 PM ET| Steve Appleford
It was a cool and cloudless desert night at the Coachella Music and Arts festival Friday the moment Jay-Z emerged suddenly from the floor of the main stage in cool shades and black leather. He shouted, "Everybody bounce!" as his band pounded an earth-quaking beat, sending the entire crowd moving, and right into the rapper's hands. Headliners in recent years have often been surprising left-turns from Coachella's traditional alternative comfort zone, stretching out to include the sex... | More »
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Coachella Acts Might Miss Festival Due to Volcanic Ash
April 16, 2010 12:14 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
A volcanic eruption that occurred under an Icelandic glacier on Wednesday, April 14th, has set off a series of unforeseen events that might force a few Britain-based artists scheduled to perform at this weekend's Coachella festival to cancel their slots. The Cribs with Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner's Bad Lieutenant and Gary Numan are just a few of the bands affected by the volcanic ash that lingers in the skies above Europe, all but shutting down all air travel out of the continent, B... | More »
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Coachella Reveals Set Times, Fans Consider Conflicts: Jay-Z or PiL?
April 13, 2010 12:06 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
Muse or MGMT? LCD Soundsystem or Echo & the Bunnymen? The end of Pavement's set or the beginning of Thom Yorke's set? These are just a few of the grueling decisions festivalgoers will have to make at this weekend's Coachella festival now that the three-day Indio, California fest has unveiled its set times. All music festivals present fans with scheduling conflicts, but this year's Coachella is making it especially difficult: Jay-Z's headlining set overshadows Pub... | More »
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Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz, Pavement Booked for 2010 Coachella Fest
January 19, 2010 12:00 AM ET| Daniel Kreps
Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz will serve as headliners at the 2010 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, taking place in Indio, California, April 16th to 18th. Reunions and supergroups highlight the lineup, as Pavement, the Specials, Sly & The Family Stone and Faith No More are all set to perform at the festival, as well as Them Crooked Vultures and the Dead Weather. Other notables on the bill include a solo set by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, LCD Soundsystem, Gary Numan, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, G... | More »
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Photos: Coachella 2009: Hottest Live Performance Photos
April 24, 2009 2:18 PM ET
McCartney, Morrissey and more: the latest shots from the start of festival season | More »
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Coachella Beats Recession, Attracts 166,000 For Second-Best Draw in Fest's History
April 22, 2009 1:56 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
Thanks to a star-packed lineup anchored by Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen and the return of My Bloody Valentine, this year's Coachella enjoyed its second-best attendance ever, attracting roughly 166,000 concertgoers, Billboard reports. The news is a sigh of relief for the entire festival industry, concerns over how the recession would affect the festival biz led to layaway ticket options. Coachella's 2007 festival, which featured Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, re... | More »
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"The Beatles: Rock Band" Footage Premieres During McCartney's Coachella Set
April 20, 2009 4:38 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
Festival-goers at Coachella this weekend weren't only treated to Paul McCartney's hits-filled headlining set Friday night; they also unknowingly witnessed the debut of footage from the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band game, due out September 9th. According to MTV's Video Games blog, the footage looked like the standard background performances you'd come to expect from the franchise, except with the members of the Beatles playing their vintage guitars and dressed in the clot... | More »
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On the Scene at Coachella: Fans on What's Hot, Who Fizzled and Surviving the Campgrounds
April 20, 2009 2:26 PM ET| Chris Willman
Attend enough festivals, and eventually you will experience strange occurrences you never would have imagined — like being elbowed and shoved aside by sweaty, half-naked 20-year-olds rudely rushing the stage for a better look at Leonard Cohen. Or the sight of horny young indie-rock couples indulging in deep soul-kissing to the unlikely live accompaniment of "My Love," Paul McCartney's 1973 mush-rock smash. These were just some of the intergenerational incongruities in Indio, Califo... | More »
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Coachella '09 Shows Off Its Eclectic Roots With My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Public Enemy
April 20, 2009 10:57 AM ET| Steve Appleford
The man in the front row wearing a Trojans condoms T-shirt had just one thing to yell over and over again as My Bloody Valentine unleashed ear-shattering noise and melody on the final night of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival: "Play louder!" (Plunge into the desert fest in our Coachella gallery.) The hour-long performance by the influential quartet was one of the most anticipated of the three-day SoCal event, and it was plenty loud. The reunited My Bloody Valentine also epi... | More »
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The Killers, M.I.A. and Mastodon Deliver Big Sounds on a Big Scale at Coachella
April 19, 2009 10:26 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Brandon Flowers of the Killers wasn't addressing the entire globe as he paused onstage Saturday at the Coachella Music and Arts festival, but as he watched over a desert landscape of thousands of bouncing, singing, happy fans, it must have felt like the band's own celestial body. As the mainstage's headlining act on Day Two of the epic SoCal fest, the Killers steered the party for two danceable hours. (Check out photos of all the Coachella action.) The Killers represented jus... | More »
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