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Coachella Moves 2009 Dates Up Two Weeks
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is moving its 2009 dates up two weeks to April 17-19. The event will take place as usual at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., with a lineup to be...
October 06, 2008
Roger Waters, MMJ Close Coachella 2008
Pink Floyd principal Roger Waters closed the ninth annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival last night (April 27), with a set that included classics "Mother," "Shine On You Crazy Diamond,"...
April 28, 2008
Prince Rocks Coachella With Collabs, Covers
The late addition of Prince to the lineup of this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., proved to be a huge hit, as the Purple One drew a massive crowd to the event's...
April 27, 2008
Johnson, Tankian, The Verve Open Coachella 2008
A diverse lineup comprising Jack Johnson, the Verve, Serj Tankian, the Raconteurs, the Breeders, the National and Goldfrapp helped usher in the opening day (April 25) of the ninth annual Coachella...
April 26, 2008
Sean Penn Launching Activist 'Caravan' At Coachella
Sean Penn is fighting the war in Iraq, poverty, homelessness and saving the environment, all from a bus. After appearances this weekend at the Coachella festival, the actor plans to board a fleet of...
April 26, 2008
Prince To Headline Second Night Of Coachella
Prince will make a rare U.S. festival appearance at Coachella later this month. Organizers confirmed today that the artist will headline the Saturday (April 26) lineup, joining previously announced...
April 09, 2008
Goldenvoice, Amtrak Link For Coachella Train Stop
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival producer Goldenvoice has partnered with Amtrak to provide a limited number of festival campers with a free train ride to and from this year's event, which is...
March 19, 2008
Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, Tankian Join Coachella Lineup
Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, Kate Nash, Serj Tankian, Redd Kross and Adele have joined the lineup for the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 25-27 at Empire Polo Field in...
March 12, 2008
NME Awards Making U.S. Debut In April
Two days prior to the launch of this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, British music magazine NME will hold its first U.S.-based awards ceremony at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre on...
March 03, 2008
Portishead Relaunching At Coachella
Out in the California desert, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is fast becoming an oasis for high-profile reunions. This year, Portishead will relaunch at the event, in support of its...
February 22, 2008
Portishead, Johnson, Waters To Headline Coachella
Jack Johnson and former Pink Floyd principal Roger Waters will headline the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 25-27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Also near the...
January 21, 2008
Coachella Promoters Launching NYC-Area Fest
Sources say Coachella producers AEG Live/Goldenvoice will stage a summer festival with major headliners at Liberty State Park, just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan. The event will not...
January 15, 2008
Swervedriver Added To Coachella, Expands Tour
Swervedriver will kick off its reunion tour with a newly confirmed booking on the final day of this month's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
April 16, 2008
The Verve Books Spring U.S. Shows
The Verve has scheduled its first U.S. shows in nearly a decade in conjunction with its late April appearance at the Coachella festival in Indio, Calif. The group will play in Las Vegas on April 26...
February 27, 2008
Billboard Bits: Plies, Kraftwerk, B.G.
Grammy-winning R&B artist India.Arie will star in the first Broadway revival of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf," which will be produced by Whoopi Goldberg...
March 12, 2008
The Mars Volta Anchors L.A.'s Detour Festival
The Mars Volta, Gogol Bordello, Shiny Toy Guns, the Presets, Cut Copy, Matt Costa and the Black Lips will lead this year's third annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival, to be held Oct. 4 on Main and...
July 30, 2008
Stagecoach Snags Kid Rock, Reba, Paisley, Chesney
Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley and Kenny Chesney will headline the third Stagecoach Country Music Festival, to be held April 25-26 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Tickets for the event,...
November 06, 2008
Radiohead Dazzles At All Points West Opener
Radiohead played a dazzling headlining set Friday (Aug. 8) to crown the first day of the inaugural All Points West festival, set just across the Hudson River from Manhattan at New Jersey's Liberty...
August 09, 2008
Video Preview: My Morning Jacket On 'Evil Urges'
My Morning Jacket honed the material for its upcoming album, "Evil Urges," during an extended stint in Colorado, and as the group tells Billboard.com in a video interview, that close vibe seeped into...
April 09, 2008
Sasha & Digweed Plot First Tour Since 2002
It's not history-making like their previous outing, but DJ/producers Sasha and John Digweed are hitting the road together again this spring for the first time since 2002.
February 20, 2008
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Burke, Take That Reign Again On U.K. Charts
As Alexandra Burke's "Hallelujah" (Syco Music/Sony BMG) started a third week as the U.K.'s No. 1 single yesterday (Jan. 4) and Take That's "The Circus" (Polydor) a fifth atop the album chart, top newcomer status went to much-feted electronica star Lady GaGa. Her U.S. hit "Just Dance" (Polydor) featuring Colby O'Donis, took its U.K. bow at No. 3.
China Targets Big Web Sites In Internet Crackdown
China has launched a crackdown on websites as the country enters a politically sensitive year, with officials accusing search engines including Baidu and Google of spreading pornography and vulgarity.
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