The Rolling Stones play a surprise gig Saturday at Echoplex in Los Angeles. (Luis Soto, The Rolling Stones via AP)
Yep, you read that right. Echoplex. Continue Reading
Rumors
Actress Lindsay Lohan and attorney Mark Heller appear at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Pool)
In a report posted to RadarOnline.com early Monday and now making its way across the celeb websites, an anonymous source claims that troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was adamant that she not go to rehab until after Coachella.
Lohan has been in the Coachella Valley for Coachella for at least the last three years.
“Lindsay LOVES going to the musical festival, and she’s determined to go this year. She didn’t want a little thing like rehab to get in her way of attending,” RadarOnline.com quotes the anonynous source as saying.
Earlier this month, Lohan accepted a plea deal in a misdemeanor car crash case that includes 90 days in a rehabilitation facility.
The actress, who has struggled for years with legal problems, pleaded no contest to reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers who were investigating the accident involving the actress in June.
Coachella and Goldenvoice posted this photo on their Instagram accounts late Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.
The joke is on us.
When Coachella released its lineup tonight, the hotly rumored Rolling Stones weren’t on it.
Then Goldenvoice posted a photo to Instagram, clearly poking fun at the weeks of speculation about any meaning behind their photo of a “stone” on the festival grounds.
The photo shows an arrow to the ball with the words “polo ball.”
Under an identical photo posted on the Coachella Instagram account, the promoter known for its teases wrote a casual and much-delayed reaction to the drama:
“By the way…”
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The Postal Service has something planned for 2013, and Billboard reports that the reunited group will play Coachella.
The duo’s website — postalservicemusic.net, in case you needed a reminder that we haven’t heard from Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello’s project in nearly 10 years — briefly showed a splash screen Monday that simply read, “Postal Service 2013.” Continue Reading
Photo illustration by Brian Indrelunas, The Desert Sun
There are 94 days until weekend 1 of Coachella 2013 kicks off, but who will take the stages?
There’s still no artist line-up, but it’s never happened this early.
That’s much to the chagrin of the dozens of people who post on the Coachella Facebook page each day, begging for at least an announcement of when the announcement will come.
Don’t count on that.
In the meantime, here’s our roundup of artists who have reportedly confirmed their appearances for 2013 and evidence that exists (or doesn’t) for the persistent rumors about other artists.
Ben Gibbard, one half of The Postal Service, performs with Death Cab For Cutie at the Beacon Theatre on April 27, 2012, in New York. (Mike Lawrie, Getty Images)
The Rolling Stones perform live Dec. 15, 2012. (AP)
The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger swears he has not been approached to play Coachella, according to a recent report from Rolling Stone Magazine.
The legendary band has been rumored as a headliner since Coachella was briefly listed Dec. 14 as an upcoming performance on the band’s mobile phone app. That calendar item was quickly deleted.
Goldenvoice posted this photo Jan. 3 with a New Year's greeting. (Photo from Coachella's Facebook page)
Goldenvoice is such a tease.
The makers behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival posted a simple New Year’s greeting on their Facebook page on Thursday afternoon: “Happy New Years! We’re excited, hope you are too!”
But they just had to add a photo that got people talking.
The photo that accompanies the post is some sort of round object on what what appears to be the Empire Polo Club in Indio, home to the Coachella festival.
Among those tagged in the post?
It isn’t even 2013 yet, but purported Coachella 2013 lineups are already sprouting up all over the Internet. On Wednesday, a special Boxing Day edition of the Coachella 2013 lineup hit and started making speedy viral progress via Twitter, Facebook, tumblr and all other socially-inclined hubs.
The latest leak adds Missy Elliott, Lana Del Rey, Boys Noize, Fiona Apple, The Prodigy, Passion Pit and The xx to the already leaked (and assumed) headliners The Rolling Stones. A key difference: This lineup moves the Stones to a Sunday performance — earlier leaks had them taking the stage on Friday.
What do you think of the lineup?
Coachella 2013, by the way, is set for April 12-14 and April 19-21 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Last year’s official lineup was released by Goldenvoice on Jan. 9, so hang in there.
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg headlined the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as seen in this April 22, 2012, file photo (Marilyn Chung/The Desert Sun).
It’s Coachella 2013 artist rumor time.
There was the apparent slip from the Rollingstones team, followed Saturday by a second slip from Daft Punk, Phoenix, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Then there was that all-hologram version line-up we saw in the summer.
But when will the real 2013 artist line-up come out? Continue Reading
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