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On April 13 -- and then again on April 20 -- thousands of sun-worshipping music fans will head out to the desert in Indio, Calif. for the start of the 13th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Radiohead, the Black Keys, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg headline the two-weekend event, while Swedish House Mafia, Bon Iver, the Shins, David Guetta, Florence + the Machine and just about every indie band and dance act that matters will keep the tunes going nonstop on the festival's five stages.
As we gear up for this year's six long, loud days on the Empire Polo Field, spread out over a pair of weekends for the first time in the festival's history, we look back at 10 of the most memorable moments from Coachella's past.
10. Radiohead's 'Creep'-y Request
(2004)
At the 5th Coachella, Radiohead -- who typically play second fiddle to no band -- had the daunting task of following the Pixies, who'd just played their first reunion set for the festival's first sellout crowd. To keep the '90s nostalgia alive, Thom Yorke and co. dusted off their rarely-played modern-rock anthem "Creep," taking a trip down their own memory lane by special request of Boston's finest. "When I was at college, it was the Pixies and R.E.M. who changed my life," Yorke told the jubilant crowd afterwards.
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