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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wu-Tang Clan Brave Coachella Sandstorm
April 15, 2013 11:20 AM ET| Matt Diehl and Monica Herrera
The first weekend of Coachella 2013 ended with an anticlimactic super bummer when the weather deteriorated into a blinding sandstorm by the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers started their headline set to close the festival yesterday. "California, show your teeth," singer Anthony Kiedis sang during the band's second song, "Dani California." By then, the elements had indeed revealed their fangs, with brutal, freezing winds. "I feel like I'm in Lawrence of Arabia," Kiedis cracked. ... | More »
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James McCartney: 'When I Was 23 I Got Disillusioned By Music'
April 14, 2013 4:50 PM ET| Steve Appleford
James McCartney is a man of many family traditions. He is serious about his music and photography, and yesterday in the Southern California desert, he carried on a new one: playing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where his father, Beatle Paul McCartney, famously played an emotional headlining set in 2009. For his own half-hour gig, the younger McCartney left the band at home to played solo acoustic, and included six songs from his upcoming solo album debut, Me, which is set ... | More »
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Video: Jake Bugg Looks Ahead to Next Album
April 14, 2013 12:30 PM ET
British up-and-comer Jake Bugg confesses that he's not a huge fan of festivals, but even he admits he had fun after taking the stage at Coachella this year: "It was brilliant," he says. "It's always nice to come to another country and see the same reaction that's been going on everywhere else. I really enjoyed it." Coachella 2013: Rolling Stone's Complete Coverage Backstage in the Rolling Stone Rock Room, the singer and songwriter talked about the differences between the... | More »
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Video: Moby Recorded New Album for Love of Music
April 14, 2013 12:00 PM ET
Back in 1999 Moby, trekked to Indio, California, to perform at the first-ever Coachella: "I remember Paul Tollett, who's one of the guys who started Coachella, told me he had this idea of starting a festival in the middle of the desert," he recalls. "And it seemed like a remarkable idea, but in my short-sightedness I didn't expect it to work." Coachella 2013: Rolling Stone's Complete Coverage Sitting backstage at Rolling Stone's Rock Room 14 years later, you'd imagi... | More »
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Video: Bono Talks Denim Collaboration With Diesel
April 14, 2013 11:30 AM ET
Bono found it strange to arrive in Indio, California, and not head straight to Coachella, but the singer has a different mission this year that coincides with the festival. "I was reminded as we arrived here just how magnetic and magic the landscape," he said at Rolling Stone's Rock Room at Coachella. "And it was very difficult, I'll be honest with you, as a lead-singer type to drive by the festival – I just felt like I'd missed something very special, but I missed ... | More »
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Video: Young the Giant Enjoy Coachella as Spectators
April 14, 2013 11:00 AM ET
Young the Giant may not be playing Coachella this year, but that doesn't mean the Irvine, California, rockers can't enjoy the festivities as spectators: "I got a general admission pass, we've been camping and it's really fun; we've met a lot of really, really cool people," bassist Payam Doostzadeh says at Rolling Stone's Rock Room. "It's really cool to go to a festival and actually experience it the way most people do. It's eye-opening and it's a l... | More »
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Video: Tame Impala Come to Terms With Star Crushes
April 14, 2013 10:30 AM ET
Tame Impala are still a relatively young band, but playing alongside the groups they grew up listening to is nothing new to the Australian psych-rockers. It's still a marvel to catch someone like Portishead from side stage, Dominic Simper says, but backstage everyone keeps their cool: "We know what it's like being a touring musician enough to know they're just humans that sit in their studio and nerd out," the guitarist says at Rolling Stone's Rock Room. "When we first me... | More »
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Video: New Order Seek to Balance Writing and the Road
April 14, 2013 10:00 AM ET
New Order know how to keep busy: They're touring, working on a new album (or possibly a series of EPs) and, as Stephen Morris cracks at Rolling Stone's Rock Room, they're cooking up a plan to open a New Order hotel in Vegas. "We could play by the pool every night," the drummer says, but no gambling or Elton John allowed (if your name is Elvis, though, you're in). Coachella 2013: Rolling Stone's Complete Coverage It wasn't all goofing around though. The band rem... | More »
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Phoenix Bring Out R. Kelly for Coachella Headlining Set
April 14, 2013 9:25 AM ET| Matt Diehl and Monica Herrera
Phoenix pulled off a major Coachella surprise on Saturday, but it wasn't the Daft Punk cameo that festival-goers had been buzzing over: About three-quarters of the way through the band's joyous, two-years-in-the-making headlining set, R. Kelly – the Chicago R&B star who shares little if anything in common with the French rockers – belted one of his best known lyrics from offstage, shocking virtually everyone: "My mind's telling me no! But my body . . . my body&#... | More »
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Video: Bono Makes Surprise Appearance in Coachella Valley
April 13, 2013 6:30 PM ET
Bono made a surprise appearance just outside Coachella on Friday night, joining Belgian-Congolese artist Baloji for an impromptu performance at a ranch in La Quinta, California near Indio. The collaboration took place at the Rolling Stone Rock Room launch party for Diesel+Edun's Studio Africa, a series of events bringing African and Western musicians together. | More »
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