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Coachella Music Festival

Coachella Music Festival
  • Coachella Music Festival Updates

    Desert Sun staff blogs about Coachella Music Festival and the desert music scene at mycoachella.com.

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Coachella Music Festival News

  1. La Roux cancels Coachella performances

    It’s true. La Roux pulled the plug yesterday on its 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performances.

    • Feb. 2, 2012
  2. Hundreds of east Coachella Valley residents lined up outside the Riverside County Fairgrounds today to buy tickets to the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The event sold out in early January, but Goldenvoice made 1,000 tickets to each April weekend available today for sale only to east Coachella Valley residents. Colin Atagi, The Desert Sun

    Local fans seize last chance for Coachella fest passes

    Melissa Ray spent much of this past week anticipating her last chance to buy a pass to the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The event's promoter, Goldenvoice, is selling 1,000 passes to east Coachella Valley residents today for each Coachella weekend and the Stagecoach country music festival in April.

    • Jan. 28, 2012

  3. Coachella music festival sells out both weekends

    All remaining passes to both weekends of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were snatched up in three hours Friday.

    • Jan. 13, 2012

  4. Coachella 2012 sold out

    Remaining tickets for the first weekend of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which expands to two weekends this year because of a quick sellout in 2011, were snapped up in three hours Friday.

    • Jan. 13, 2012
  5. Fans watch the opening light show to Animal Collective's performance at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. A thousand passes to both weekends of this year's festival will be sold to east valley residents Jan. 28, along with 1,000 passes to the sold-out Stagecoach country music festival. Marilyn Chung, Desert Sun file photo

    Locals-only tickets offered for Coachella, Stagecoach

    A thousand passes to both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach country music festival will be made available to east valley residents, promoters announced Wednesday.

    • Jan. 12, 2012

  6. Internet pioneer's own social network irks homeowner

    Joe Preston had no qualms about renting his Palm Desert home to Sean Parker over the weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, but he didn't expect the 31-year-old Web pioneer behind Napster and Facebook to host one of Coachella's most exclusive, extravagant after-parties there.

    • Apr. 22, 2011
  7. Music fans crowd the main stage during the second day of the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. Omar Ornelas The Desert Sun

    Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival ties attendance record

    The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival tied its year-old attendance record last weekend with 75,000 three-day passes sold for the event at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

    • Apr. 19, 2011
  8. The Strokes performed at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Richard Lui, The Desert Sun

    Coachella Fest: A well-oiled music machine

    Coachella grew up at 5:40 p.m. Friday. That's when a Goldenvoice official pulled the plug on Cee Lo Green after he was late to his gig.

    • Apr. 18, 2011

  9. Kanye West closes Coachella 2011

    Kanye West gives a heartfelt and spectacular performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival closing the weekend.

    • Apr. 18, 2011
  10. Kanye West performs on the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday in Indio. Marilyn Chung, The Desert Sun

    Despite delays, this year's Coachella Music Fest leaves music fans gushing

    The 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival received enthusiastic praise Sunday from fans who spent the better part of three days enjoying the sights, sounds and people at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

    • Apr. 18, 2011

  11. Arcade Fire close out Saturday at Coachella

    Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival headliners Arcade Fire walked onto the main stage with the promise of something special up their sleeves.

    • Apr. 17, 2011
  12. Headliners Kings of Leon perform on the Coachella Stage on Friday. Marilyn Chung, The Desert Sun

    Kings of Leon tired of Kings of Leon, too

    In the past couple of years, Kings of Leon has been caught up in a sea of arena rock anthems and serious backlash.

    • Apr. 16, 2011

  13. Tent City home to Coachella fest 'orphans'

    Corgi Street looks nothing like the streets of suburbia, but it leads to a makeshift community comprised of about 150 “orphans” united for the four nights and three hot days of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

    • Apr. 16, 2011
  14. Outlandish matching outfits were a norm on the grounds of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Michael Snyder The Desert Sun

    For some, festival all about the outfits

    Amid a sea of music lovers at this weekend's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, it's quite easy to see the school of mermaids moving through the crowd in their ocean blue and sea foam green outfits.

    • Apr. 19, 2011

  15. Kings of Leon churn out old material, Robyn mixes things up at Coachella

    In the past couple of years Kings of Leon has been caught up in a sea of arena rock anthems and serious backlash. But, last night during their headlining set at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, there wasn't a trace of dislike in the crowd.

    • Apr. 15, 2011
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