See for yourself, in the David Guetta set.
And apparently he’s with Paris Hilton and Alicia Silverstone.
And he dug the Martin Solveig set, too.
Hmmm… these are all coming from the same Twitter source. What are they, gossip columnists? Oh, wait, they are!
@jmoandelle , also known as J. Mo and Elle of The Sunday Telegraph, “Sydney (Australia’s) HOTTEST gossip duo!”
French DJ David Guetta provided one of the biggest star cameos of Coachella’s Week 1 when Usher joined him on-stage. And one of the safest bets today is a Week 2 special Guetta guest.
Will Usher make a comeback? Or will it be somebody else? The possibilities are nearly endless, as Guetta in recent years has collaborated with so many big names in pop and hip-hop: The Black-Eyed Peas, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Ludacris, Jennifer Hudson, Akon, Afrojack and Snoop Dogg to name a few.
Guetta’s set starts at 9:15 p.m. in the Sahara tent. Stay tuned…
The Black Keys paid tribute to The Band drummer and singer Levon Helm, who died Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
Joining guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney on-stage was former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty.
The trio sang The Band’s classic “The Weight” in honor of Helm.
Who needs a band? Or a driver’s license?
Madeon, also known as 17-year-old French DJ Hugo Leclercq, just finished up a set that had the Sahara tent packed to overflowing and the crowd jumping in unison. For a while there, the Sahara tent was the hottest venue operating here at Coachella.
As darkness falls, more people seem headed that way, as Swedish DJ Alesso is next up.
“You’re gonna know my name by the end of the night,” Gary Clark Jr. boldly declares on “Bright Lights,” the sort-of single off his EP of the same name.
Consider your name known, Mr. Clark.
For the second week in a row, the Austin, Texas, native blew up the Gobi Tent with his screaming electric blues/soul.
Don’t wait for Rolling Stone or the New York Times to tell you; let me be the first — Clark will be considered one of the top breakout performers at Coachella 2012.
How to describe his sound? … Put B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Kravitz and Prince in a blender; then watch as something uniquely his own comes out.
Clark maintains a cool on-stage demeanor as his vocals range from low, bluesy growls to soulful, soft falsettos. And his guitar work? You haven’t heard blues riffs played with such ferociously heavy, face-melting distortion since Hendrix.
Think I must be overstating it? Get thee to You Tube and check him out for yourself.
Those who saw Clark’s set this year will one day be able to say they saw him when all he had out was an EP.
As temperatures rock into the triple digits, the water-sprayers in The Do LaB are becoming one of the biggest Coachella hangout spots under the sun.
In their eighth year at Coachella, The Do LaB is a Los Angeles based company specializing in interactive environments, using creative lighting and structures to create an experience. But the most important experience they’re offering right now is a continual spray of cool water from their post-apoctalyptic-looking stage where DJs’ beats thump, and at the other water-spraying stations they’ve set up.
Ariela Mashiah, 16, of Los Angeles, attended “Cool-chella” last week, with its much milder temperatures, but still enjoyed the Do LaB, she said. “Now it’s perfect,” she said, dripping with beads of water in a tangled group of overheated Coachella-goers straining to reach the spray.
(Tip: Like a golfer, check the wind. The spray tends to hook to the right.)
Even after the sun goes down, the Do LaB is worth sticking with, Mashiah said, for The Lucent Dossier Experience, a Cirque de Soleil-type show featuring a live band, singers, aerialists, dancers, acrobats and more.
Two very good, up and coming bands with very different sounds are playing the Gobi and Mojave tents in the two o’clock hour of Coachella’s Week 2, Day 1.
For those who can’t wait for Radiohead on Saturday, check out Stillwater, Oklahoma’s Other Lives in the Gobi Tent. They have a pleasant drone sound that’s reminiscent of Radiohead — indeed, the band is gaining recognition as Radiohead’s opening act on its North American tour. But Other Lives’ sound also includes a tinge of country-and-western. And it totally works.
(Note to Stephen King — if “The Gunslinger” ever does make it to the big screen, as Roland chases The Man in Black through the desert, Other Lives” “For 12″ must be the soundtrack music.)
For those not quite ready for low-key and mellowish at 2-ish, check out GIVERS in the Mojave tent. The indie pop band from Lafayette, La., was in March named by TIME Magazine as one of “Ten Acts That Rocked South by Southwest.”
Their upbeat sound is a jambalaya of musical influences, including zydeco, jazz and funk. And their “Up Up Up” single will have you movin’ instead of groovin’.
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