Coachella have revealed their 2014 lineup, and with it sees the highly speculated reunion of OutKast! The other two headliners are Muse and Arcade Fire. The festival takes place at Indio, California, over two weekends; April 11 – 13 and April 18 – 20. Notable: idobi favorites Bastille and The 1975 will be playing the festival, and Title Fight will be playing April 11th and 18th. Check out the full lineup below.
Coachella enjoyed a record three-day attendance year as 225,000 fans descended on Indio, Calif’s Empire Polo Grounds the weekend of April 16.
A volcano in Iceland is playing havoc with a music festival more than 4,000 miles away.
NEW YORK – Jay-Z will bring his “Empire State of Mind” to the West Coast for Coachella this year.
Prince will headline the ninth annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, festival promoters announced Wednesday. The Purple One will be the featured act on day two of the giant summer music festival, a three-day affair that runs April 25-27 in Indio, Calif. He joins a lineup that includes Jack Johnson and Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter who will close the festival. Also slated to perform: the Raconteurs, Kraftwerk, Portishead, My Morning Jacket, M.I.A., Death Cab for Cutie and the Verve, among others.
Coachella’s indie roots will be watered down with classic rock this year. Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been tapped for the festival’s closing slot, performing the band’s 1973 opus, Dark Side of the Moon, in its entirety, organizers announced. The full lineup for the 2008 edition of the music festival was revealed Monday at a news conference in Mexico, with mellow rocker Jack Johnson and trip-hop trio Portishead set to hold down the other two headlining slots. Other highlights at this year’s Coachella include Kraftwerk, the Breeders, the Verve, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Rilo Kiley, the… Read more »
Rage Against The Machine played its first show in seven years last night (April 29) to close the 2007 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. The foursome tore into staples like “Testify,” “Bulls on Parade,” “People of the Sun” and “Guerrilla Radio” to one of the largest main stage crowds in the event’s history. Guitarist Tom Morello was in particularly blazing form on “Know Your Enemy,” and the band grooved in lockstep throughout, as if no time had passed since it was last active. Rage has thus far only scheduled four other shows in… Read more »
In addition to its always eclectic, star-studded lineup, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has established a reputation for frequently landing the hotly sought return of a major indie-rock figurehead. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times , this year’s major coup is a reunion of thrashing political rockers Rage Against the Machine, who have not played together for seven years. The band is expected to get together for a one-off headlining show at the eighth edition of the three-day festival, which they last played in 1999. Also reportedly joining Rage on the bill are Coachella veterans… Read more »
To the left, a full moon illuminated a row of palm trees swaying in a mellow breeze as the Beta Band played their melodic pop. To the right, a red sun set over a gorgeous mountain range as Siouxsie and the Banshees wrapped up their first festival performance in more than seven years. Ahead, DJ Z-Trip captivated a titanic tent overflowing with dancers by marrying Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and Rage Against the Machine’s “Testify.” It was a stereophonic moment of musical bliss. It was Coachella in a nutshell. The third annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival took over… Read more »
Cake, Pete Yorn, the Strokes, Perry Farrell and a Siouxsie and the Banshees reunion are among the additions to the third Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Organizers for the two-day concert, scheduled for Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, on April 27 and 28, have also added dozens of electronic music acts, including Sandra Collins and Pete Tong. Cake, Yorn and Siouxsie and the Banshees join previously announced acts Björk, the Chemical Brothers, Sasha and Digweed, Groove Armada, Jurassic 5, Queens of the Stone Age and KRS-One on April 27. Jack Johnson, the Beta Band, G. Love and Special Sauce,… Read more »
