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Live from New York, Coachella artists rock 30 Rock on Saturday nights. (Timothy A. Clary, AFP, Getty Images)
“Saturday Night Live” is featuring Coachella artists for at least the first three episodes of this season:
• Frank Ocean, who played the Gobi Tent earlier this year and performed at Coachella 2011 as part of Odd Future, was the musical guest for the season premiere Sept. 15
• Mumford & Sons, a main-stage act in 2011, played “SNL” this past Saturday.
• This coming weekend, On Oct. 6, Muse, who headlined Coachella in 2010 and also played the fest in 2004, plays for NBC‘s late-night crowd.
And those are just the episodes we know about so far. If last season is any indication, there will be plenty more Coachella acts coming into your home live (well, tape-delayed for those of us on the West Coast) from New York.
Coachella 2012 artist Frank Ocean, who made headlines this summer when he revealed his first love was a man, was the musical guest on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend.
Ocean performed two tracks from his new album, “channel ORANGE” — “Thinkin Bout You” and “Pyramids.”
• Frank Ocean at Coachella 2012: Photos from Friday of Weekend 2
Frank Ocean performs Friday, April 20 during the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. (Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun)
Frank Ocean revealed Wednesday that his first love was a man, and others in the music industry are showing their support, The Associated Press reports:
His record label’s president said Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press that “Def Jam is so proud to stand beside Frank Ocean.”
Joie Manda says: “Frank broke down a wall that should never have been built.”
• More reaction to Frank Ocean’s announcement at MyDesert.com
• Frank Ocean at Coachella 2012: Photos from Friday of Weekend 2
It’s a different kind of Independence Day for Frank Ocean.
In a note posted on his Tumblr account today, the Coachella 2012 artist details his love affair with a man.
Ocean wrote: “4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide.”
This makes Ocean, 24, among the first hip-hop artists ever to apparently come out as bisexual or gay.
The Los Angeles Times weighs the importance:
The straightforward letter … is undoubtedly the glass ceiling moment for music. Especially black music, which has long been in desperate need of a voice like Ocean’s to break the layers of homophobia. There are plenty of reasons this moment has so much weight. Too many for any single article to explore.
Ocean originally intended the comments as liner notes in his debut album, which hits stores July 17, but said he wanted to clarify “all the rumors going around.”
He concluded his message: “I don’t have any secrets I need to keep anymore. … I feel like a free man. If I listen closely. I can hear the sky falling too.”
Frank Ocean had everyone feeling “SEXY” in the Gobi.
I don’t know about you, but I’m dying to know what’s in store for Weekend 2 of Coachella.
Fans will want their own experience, not simply a rehash of spoiled surprises from last weekend — but the first weekend was so hot, that we’re sure they’ll want to see somev of these iconic moments recreated, too.
Here’s my Top 10 Moments of Coachella (weekend one). What do you think?
10. Rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator joined up-and-comer Frank Ocean onstage for a rendition of their collaboration, “Analog 2.”
9. M83 rocked the tent so hard that front man Anthony Gonzalez crashed to the ground stomach first, then posted on Facebook: “”I think I saw Katy Perry dancing on midnight city yesterday night. Katy, let me write your next album:)”
8. Grouplove paid tribute to the late Whitney Houston, singing her 1987 hit “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
7. Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson sprinted down the center aisle and climbed the media tower in the crowd, hamming it up by singing directly into the camera.
6. Actor and Coachella regular David Hasselhoff stole the show during Arctic Monkeys’ set when his face flashed onto the big screen, almost immediately landing The Hoff on the Twitter trending list (and stayed there!).
5. Gotye hit the Mojave tent one night after playing Saturday Night Live, and tens of thousands of fans sang along as Kimbra joined him onstage for their single “Somebody That I Used to Know.
4. Rihanna — who later had the words “Thug life” scrawled across her stomach in an ode to Tupac — joined DJ Calvin Harris to sing their hit “We Found Love” while pal Katy Perry crowd surfed.
3. Black Lips frontman Cole Alexander dropped his pants in an, um, intimate move with his guitar, the one and only X-rated move on stage over the weekend.
2. Usher jumped onto David Guetta’s DJ booth to surprise fans with a brief but delicious tease — less than a minute performance of their hit single, “Without You.”
1. Superstars Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent and even Wiz Khalifa with his giant joint were completely upstaged when the legendary Tupac — the rapper shot and killed 15 years ago — showed up.
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And a (dis)honorable mention for The Moment That Wasn’t:
AVICII rocked the Sahara tent hard — but without the “amazing,” “mind blowing” and “surprising” experience (Madonna rumors, anyone?) the DJ and his camp hyped for days.
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