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Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    From Print: Blogs Teased in Our May 3 Issue

    This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up on the Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. Does Phoenix need a heavy metal strip club? How did the "Real Coachella" festival compare to the real Coachella fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Over the Weekend: Marchfourth Marching Band, The Real Coachella, and Ross Rocks! @ Hollywood Alley

    Marchfourth Marching Band @ Crescent Ballroom I think I'm going to run away with the circus. If they can get out of Phoenix, that is. Last night marked the second time I've seen Marchfourth Marching Band live (And, admittedly, the first time I've seen them sober.) It's an act that's difficult to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Ten Hot, Sweaty, Silly Coachella Dances, In GIF Form

    See also: The Best of Coachella, Weekend Two: Sunday, April 22 Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Moves By Rebecca Haitchcoat During Coachella's second weekend, temperatures topped 100 degrees every day. Yet somehow folks were dancing even crazy-er! Most just stripped down and let the sweat flow. H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Best of Coachella Weekend Two: Sunday, April 22

    See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    James' Tim Booth On Why Coachella Kicks (The Old) Lollapalooza's Ass

    Over the past 30 years, alternative Britpop rockers James have been one of the most underrated bands to come from Manchester. Having toured across the globe and played some of the biggest festivals in the world, frontman Tim Booth knows a thing or two about what makes a show great, which is why he l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Azealia Banks - Coachella - 4/21/12

    See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage By Rebecca Haithcoat One assumes that thousands of people shouting, "I guess that cunt getting eaten" in unison has never happened at Coachella before. Yet you could hear just that yesterday during Azealia Banks' set; it was afternoon, and most of us were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2012

    Best of Coachella 2012: Friday, April 20

    See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs The first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy. Here are our scribes' picks for the best of what they saw on Friday, April 20 at Coachella. Pulp Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2012

    Coachella 2012 4/20: Let's Talk About Weed

    See also: *The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20 *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Yesterday was 4/20. It was also Coachella. And so, the percentage of festival-goers who were stoned rose from a paltry 75 percent to a full 98 percent. (These estimates come courtesy of LA Weekly music editor, Ben ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Ten Songs to Help Cope With Coachellaitis

    Coachella was a lot of fun. I crossed a bunch of bands off my bucket list that I never thought I'd be able to see live--Refused, Pulp, Justice, At The Drive-In, 2pac...okay, 2pac wasn't actually on my bucket list, but it was cool to kind of see him. A major downside to the festival is you're prett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs

    See also: Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises See also: The Best of Coachella Sunday, April 15, 2012 By Ben Westhoff At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They'll employ almost anything in this quest -- but mostly drugs. S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    The Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Coachella: 5 Signs You're An Aging Hipster

    See also: Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises See also: The Best of Coachella Sunday, April 15, 2012 By Lilledeshan Bose Aging hipsters--the very same people Coachella targeted when it began holding the music fest in Indio--are usually easy to spot on the Empire Pol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Coachella: What The Hell Is That Giant Flower?

    See also: Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 15 See also: Top 10 Awkward Dance Moves at Coachella (GIFs) By Gabrielle Canon Coachella-goers arrived to the festival Sunday to find a giant 100 foot tall lotus flower on the grounds near the Gobi tent. Trippy! The crazy thing was that the flower swoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises

    Radiohead Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio April 14, 2012 By Adam Lovinus Radiohead might have a problem. They are so consistently great that an elite performance, such as the one turned in Saturday night at Coachella, could be seen as missing that element of surprise that comes wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Jeff Mangnum, fIREHOSE, and More: The Best Of Coachella, Saturday, April 14

    See also: Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises See also: Coachella: The Black Lips' Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong See also: Best of Coachella Weekend One: Friday, April 13 Everyone was ready to shit their pants for Radiohead, but ther ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2012

    Best of Coachella Weekend One: Friday, April 13

    Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn't get his flip flops on for the life of him: this year there was rain. The festival held in the Southern California desert is known for scorching, someti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2012

    "What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain

    See also: *Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever *Expected Fashion Trends at Coachella By Gabrielle Canon Spirit Hoods are back! At Coachella this year these fuzzy animal-themed head gears resembling furs (but not!) have returned with a vengeance; one's instinct remains, as always, to m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Coachella, McDowell Mountain Music Festival or Country Thunder; What You Better Pack This Weekend

    It's going to be one crazy-ass weekend for music fans in the Valley and beyond. Your choices are many: You can head East to Florence for rustic western sounds Country Thunder, to the grassy turfed parking lot of McDowell Mountain Music Festival's flower-powered jam scene, or out West to Indio, Calif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Five Music Festivals That Aren't Coachella

    Yeah, we're bummed that we didn't get tickets to Coachella. But there's is no need to panic. There are high-priced, shirtless concertgoer-attracting festivals all over the nation. (Not the mention that with South By Southwest and Coachella run-off, the Southwest's concert calendar is looking pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Destroyer Announces Phoenix Date This Summer

    ​Up on the Sun favorite Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer released their newest album Kaputt more than a year ago. We liked it then, we liked it at the end of the year, we like it now still. It's a charming ode to the smooth sounds of late-'70s/early-'80s yacht rock, cannily balancing the line betw ... More >>

  • Music

    January 26, 2012

    Sundown Showdown IV @ Palo Verde Lounge and Yucca Tap Room

    ​Up on the Sun favorite Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer released their newest album Kaputt more than a year ago. We liked it then, we liked it at the end of the year, we like it now still. It's a charming ode to the smooth sounds of late-'70s/early-'80s yacht rock, cannily balancing the line betw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Florence and the Machine Coming to Phoenix

    Looks like the Coachella runoff just keeps on...uh...running off. Florence and the Machine, scheduled to play the Indio Festival on Sunday April 15 and 22, is making a side trip over to Comerica Theatre on Friday, April 20. 2011 was big for singer Florence Welsh -- her sophomore album, Ceremonia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    The Future of Coachella: Post-Ticket Purchasing Clusterfuck

    ​Now that everyone has calmed down after the extreme chaos that was Friday's ticket purchasing experience, there has been ample discussion about the process. Both weekends of Coachella collectively sold out in three hours. People left and right are pissed that they didn't get tickets, and now GA f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Is This It? Eight Songs to Listen to While Waiting for Coachella's 2012 Lineup Announcement

    Coachella's full lineup should be announced sometime this week. Last Friday, the festival tweeted a picture that read "Next Week" with the hashtag #Coachella2012. There's already been some speculation with fake fliers and what not, but the official lineup will be announced any day now. LA Times pred ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Coachella Speculations Begin With First Fake Flier

    ​Beware, West Coast festival lovers! The Coachella flier that has started circulating is a phony.Whoever made this flier is both ridiculous and awesome. This is one hell of a lineup but is typically "wishlist," as these things tend to be. I'd really be pissed at Goldenvoice and other festival orga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Kickin' It: Artists Who Have Kicked Fans Out of Shows or Gotten Themselves Kicked Out

    "Get the fuck out of my show right now!" Tell it like it is, Dave Grohl.​Every so often, you find yourself at the same concert as that one guy who's an attention-hungry douchebag that starts a fight in the crowd. At some shows you sort of expect it, but it seems to happen all the time.Some serious ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Seven Awesome Things About The Gathering of the Juggalos

    ​ When it comes to summer music festivals, most people tend to think of well established, corporate-sponsored events like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, or the Pitchfork Music Festival. But one music festival that seems to be establishing itself as something of a big ticket in recent years is the annual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Coachella's Big Announcement: Two Weekends For 2012

    The dates for Coachella 2012.​When the people behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival -- Paul Tollett and Goldenvoice -- announced they had a big announcement set for 10 a.m. today, my curiosity was piqued. I have been attending the festival for six years now, and no two year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Best Missed Connections From Coachella

    Just Jared​There's nothing like sifting through the missed connections after your favorite concert of the year.Craigslist is poppin' with missed connections from Coachella. With the Coachella car camping grounds being a great place to hook up with strangers and whatnot, plenty of festival goers pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    An Open Letter to Coachella, 2011 Edition

    Michael LopezIt's amazing how something so idyllic can be so much fun​Dear Coachella,Remember me? I wrote you a letter about this time last year to voice my concerns about you. I was worried that you'd gone off the rails, blatantly ignoring the ones who loved you the most in favor of a new group o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2011

    Coachella 2011 Saturday Recap

    Michael LopezThe Ferris Wheel at night​Two down, one to go. Saturday at Coachella was yet another success with even more of what made Friday such a positive, affirming experience. Friday, then, was no fluke -- this year's Coachella is doing everything right, as far as last year is concerned. There ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2011

    Coachella 2011 Friday Recap

    The Main Stage at Dusk​The 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival got underway yesterday with the bad taste from 2010's fiasco still in the mouths of many -- myself included. It didn't help that Paul Tollett -- head of the festival's producer Goldenvoice -- recently admitted that he belie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Coachella 2011 Set Times Are Up, Let the Conflicts Begin

    Coachella set times have been announced. The Chemical Brothers vs. Boys Noize? Sigh...​The 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival set times were announced ast night at a little past 11pm, as was rumored. The much-anticipated announcement was a big wave of relief for some and a harbinger o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Stop Telling Me About How Cool Coachella is Going To Be

    ​Are you going to Coachella?Woooooo! Awesome!Now shut up about it -- at least if you're talking to Up On The Sun's cartoonist Robbie Pfeffer.Robbie is sick of hearing about how awesome the music festival in Indio, California is going to be, as shown with this week's installment of his comic.

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Big 4 vs. Coachella: Which Will Reign Superior?

    ​The Empire Polo Club in Indio, California has booked a third event to go down on their grounds between Coachella and the Stagecoach country festival this April.Metal fans are rejoicing over The Big 4, a one-day concert featuring some of metal's most prominent acts: Metallica, Megadeath, Slayer, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Incoming: Jethro Tull, G. Love and Special Sauce, The Joy Formidable, Yelle

    Yelle namesake Julie Budet​It's odd to think that at this time last week there were still plenty of three-day passes available for Coachella. It was well-documented, however, that the festival sold out last Wednesday afternoon, leaving a considerable number of fans in the dark.Ticketless Coachella ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Coachella 2011 Dangerously Close To Selling Out [UPDATE: Coachella 2011 Is SOLD OUT]

    The message at Coachella's official website​With Kings Of Leon and Kanye West as headliners, I understand that some may choose to read that headline with a different meaning.However, what I mean to say is that festival passes are very, very close to selling out for the 2011 edition of Coachella. U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Coachella 2011 Official Lineup Announced

    ​In perfect Girl Talk fashion, the good people of Goldenvoice set up a surprise late night release of Coachella's overwhelmingly impressive lineup.Many of Michael Lopez's lineup predictions were spot on. The Strokes made the cut, as did Duran Duran, although on a different day than what Billboard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Kings Of Leon Headlining Coachella is the Problem, Pigeons are the Solution

    Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill and his awesome scarf.​Well, the official 2011 Coachella lineup hit the interwebz last night. A happy day indeed, even if Kings Of Leon are headlining Friday.Seriously, though, Kings of fucking Leon? Why not Drowning Pool?When you've got The Strokes playing Sun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Duran Duran, The Strokes Tapped For Coachella; Official Lineup Coming Soon UPDATE

    ​Coachella's official lineup should be announced very, very soon -- lest anyone forget that this week is usually when the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival makes it big announcement.In lieu of the entire festival lineup, a few acts have already been confirmed for the festival's 2011 editi ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    Coheed and Cambria

    ​Coachella's official lineup should be announced very, very soon -- lest anyone forget that this week is usually when the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival makes it big announcement.In lieu of the entire festival lineup, a few acts have already been confirmed for the festival's 2011 editi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    An Open Letter To Coachella

    How can such an idyllic scene be such an absolute nightmare? Selling 75,000 tickets is a start...​​​Dear Goldenvoice, Promoter of the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival,My name is Michael Lopez and I have been attending your festival for the past five years. In those past five years, I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Coachella from Behind a Lens

    Jonathan McNamaraCoachella 2010​A seething, primal mass of humanity jockeys for position in front of the main stage as the Indio sun beats down on Coachella 2010. They have moved beyond the point of patience and civility. Their shattered minds have but one thought as they claw toward the front of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    More Coachella Madness in Photos

    Just when you thought it was safe, we have three more Coachella 2010 slides shows courtesy of LA Weekly for you to take a gander at. Long live the 'Chella. Top 25 Coachella Tattoos ​ The 40 Most Memorable People at Coachella ​ Coachella: Hippies or Hipsters? ​

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Coachella, Epic Super Hero Battle, Scottsdale Culinary Festival, and reWAX at Pussycat Lounge Over the Weekend

    ​Coachella Day 1: Vampire Weekend, La Roux, Imogen Heap, and The Specials Despite major difficulty actually getting in to Coachella this year, the 2010 festival launched on Friday, April 16 full of great performances and over-sized art installations. Check out shots from Ra Ra Riot, Imogen Hea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Coachella: My Experience in 1,600 Words, Broken Up Into 140 Character Chunks

    These babies were hard to get if you waited too long.​Coachella is my favorite time of the year, like my birthday and Christmas combined. While I've been there before, this was my first experience documenting it on my phone, tweeting about camping, crowds and, umm, music.What follows is an annotat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    The 6 Stages of Attempting to Enter Coachella

    Jonathan McNamaraWaiting in line to get into Coachella.​Let's get one thing straight: If you were one of the 75,000 or so people who attempted to get into Coachella on Friday, you were frustrated. In fact, chances are you were probably also tired, hot and certainly waiting in a long line eithe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Record Store Day Roundup: Phoenix Record Stores Offer Up Exclusives, Live Performances on RSD

    Tech N9ne wants you to visit Stinkweeds​Record Store Day is upon us this weekend, the day set aside by, well, record stores, to showcase their goods, and debut a whole mess of exclusive collector items.  Phoenix-area shops are planning all sorts of special events to sweeten the deal.  In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Z-Trip Breaks Collar Bone Snowboarding, Will He Play Coachella?

    ​Arizona-bred DJ Hero Z-Trip broke his clavicle snowboarding last week and has canceled all his shows leading up to Coachella.The Tripster also dropped out of the upcoming A-Team movie soundtrack. The DJ, raised here but now based Los Angeles (apparently this is something The Arizona Republic doe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Arctic Monkeys to Play the Marquee (More Coachella Runoff!)

    ​The Valley is getting a ton of runoff from this year's Coachella. First it was Yeasayer and Beach House. Deer Tick and Vampire Weekend then entered the fold. Finally, Sia and Frightened Rabbit scheduled Phoenix dates around the massive festival in Indio, California. The recent announcem ... More >>

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