Who: Eagulls in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words:Â Just all right. Memorable Because:Â Sonically, the Leeds’ quintet is a dream come true to those who favor fuzzy combinations of punk and shoegaze. Eagulls, who by the way are amazingly getting away with a name so similar to another band who are very vigilant in […]
Who: Vic Mensa on the Main Stage In 3 or Fewer Words: On the rise. Memorable Because: “Chicago in the house?” Vic Mensa asked a good-sized early-afternoon crowd. Yeah, some. And the 21-year-old rapper then injected some more Chi-town into the proceedings, spitting rhymes backed by two multi-instrumentalists and inviting the overheated audience to throw […]
Who: The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger at the Outdoor Theatre In 3 or Fewer Words: Apparitionally speaking. Memorable Because: There’s no dodging DNA — Sean Lennon’s band with Charlotte Kemp Muhl sounds a lot like the psychedelic tip of his father’s band. It’s the singing voice, of course, positively Lennon, and the GOASTT’s […]
Just past 8 o’clock on Friday night, after Alabama Shakes had serenaded a splendid desert sunset in Indio, two twenty-something dudes skipped like schoolchildren toward the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. “Reelin’ in the years, bro!” one cried. He was not being ironic. Bros were was stoked to see Steely […]
Fans of Australia’s Tame Impala shrieked and whooped Wednesday night at the Fox Theater in Pomona as roadies dressed in white lab coats prepped the stage like scientists. ||| Photos by Michelle Shiers The Australian band finally appeared to a slowed-down version of ““Can You Feel The Love Tonight” and moved into “It’s Not Meant […]
You know all those “Localchella” shows over the next 10 days — the ones that feature Coachella artists playing other Southern California venues? Promoter Goldenvoice released this handy poster today, color-coded so you can tell which shows are sold out.
Here are your set times for the first weekend of the sold-out Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Below, the lineup for the DoLab and the Heineken House, as well as a map of the festival grounds:
New York’s Tim Martell is a New York-based house and electronic music DJ with a long resumé that includes gigs at some of the world’s premier venues, support and festival slots alongside a bevy of A-listers and a healthy list of corporate clients who’ve sipped from his mixology. He also has a thing for Coachella. […]
Ride, Interpol, Swans, Belle & Sebastian, Desaparecidos, the War on Drugs, Father John Misty, FKA Twigs and Built to Spill are among the Coachella artists who will be playing club and theater gigs — which have become known as “Localchella” shows — on dates in close proximity to the two-weekend desert festival April 10-12 and 17-19. […]
Every year, when the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival announces its good-if-not-great lineup, the social media feeds of Southern Californians fill with bile. There’s the too-cool-for-Coachella-school camp, the I’ll-melt-in-the-desert-heat whines; and the you-call-that-a-headliner? disses. Oh, bollocks. Coachella would probably sell out if it were just for EDM-heads, but the 2015 lineup — while short […]
