Which corners of the world are doing their best to rep at Coachella? The Atlantic's Richard Florida crunched the numbers and found that Swedes, Brits, Austinites and Angelenos are overrepresented at the festival. more ›

If you are one of the fortunate who scored passes to this year's epic two-weekend Coachella megafest (and didn't have to sell your kidney) you might already be thinking about what you are going to be eating out there. more ›

If you weren't ready to buy Coachella passes at the stroke of 10 am this morning, chances are you're going to have to pay a scalper a little (but probably a lot) extra if you want to go to the festival this year. Passes for both weekends sold out within three hours. more ›

You've had a couple of days to peruse, analyze, contemplate, debate, and evaluate the current lineup for the 2012 Coachella festival (and, yes, the one we published was legit, mmmkay?!) and now it's time to figure out if you're going, and how to get tickets. more ›

Kids, are you ready to sweat and sway out in the desert for three days in April to the sounds of some of the world's biggest and best bands? After weeks of speculation, the time has come: Coachella has announced their 2012 lineup. more ›

Double the pleasure. Double the sunscreen. Double the ticket sales. Like deja vu all over again, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be spreading out the heat stroke over two weekends in 2012, organizers announced Tuesday, in an effort to give the fans double the chance of getting in after tickets to the festival sold out in one week last year. more ›

A Fontana teen gave her parents a heart attack after telling them she was going to Coachella and then heading to Texas, reports KABC. 19-year-old Andrea Adame did not return home after the music festival, prompting mom and dad Adame to to report her missing. According to KABC, she was found in a warehouse in Waco after hitching rides halfway across the country from semi-truck drivers. more ›

Yeah, we do. It was 2009, and on the heels of the infamous "Don't tase me, bro" incident in Florida. As the three-day long music sweat fest in the desert comes to its conclusion for another year today, it remains to be scene if some (probably intoxicated) idiot will emerge as a "cewebrity" thanks to their shenanigans recorded and posted online. For your video lunch today, we've got...that naked guy getting tasered at Coachella video, obvs. (PS: NSFW) more ›

If you’re bummed out that you didn’t make it to the desert this weekend for a little music festival—don’t fret. While many of our friends are baking in 90+ degree heat and getting up close with the sights and, umm, smells of Coachella, the Ahimsa Collective and RentFoodBroke are throwing Brokechella tonight at the Airliner for the rest of us who’ve been left behind, are poor or don’t like getting hot and dirty—literally—with our neighbors. more ›

Wondering about the next hot act in the Latin music scene? Pay attention to the words of Nacional Records frontman Tomas Cookman. A few months ago, Cookman spoke to LAist about his label, the Latin music scene and various other topics. During the conversation, Cookman singled out Colombia as a hotbed of great, new music. True to his word, Coachella attendees will get a great example of another up and coming act from the northern tip of South America. more ›

Whether you missed out on tickets to Coachella this year, prefer kickin' it by the pool, or just dislike crowds (but love music), you'll be enlightened to know that the festival is comin' atcha live. On three channels, starting now. more ›

Coordinating set times for nearly 200 bands over three days on six stages is no simple task. It's one aspect of Coachella that always creates tension among festival-goers who've had fingers-crossed that none of their favorite acts would have conflicting set times ever since the nonspecific daily schedules were released in February. And you only get 48 hours to figure out what band is playing at what time and on what stage. more ›

Set times have been released which means you are most likely coordinating frantically with your group of friends about when to arrive and in what order you’ll race from stage to stage over the course of the three-day festival. Amidst the arguing over whether to see Gogol Bordello or Foals (answer: Gogol Bordello*) or The National or Duck Sauce (answer: Duck Sauce*) you’ll need to stop and eat some food right? more ›

In the coming weeks, the city that bleeds purple and gold will find itself less interested in gold, and extra rich in purple. Following the success of winter residencies, the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince is bringing his Welcome 2 America Live tour to Los Angeles with a '21 Nite Stand' of performances beginning this week. more ›

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called "April." Electric guitars, April. It means 21 days and that's a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you.. there's something else. May. A world of never ending Purpledom, you can always see the tush, day or night. So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills... more ›

One week after music die-hards make the annual pilgrimage to Indio for The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, a new fest will rock the Empire Polo Grounds. This gathering, however, will be a decidedly heavier affair. And by heavy I mean, pure, face-melting, metal destruction. On April 23rd, the Big 4 Festival, featuring Anthrax, Megadeath, Slayer and headlined by Metallica, will make its first and only American stop. After 7 European dates last year, American metal fans prayed for DEMANDED a stop here. Goldenvoice, the force behind both Coachella and the Stagecoach Festival (also taking place on the Polo Grounds, one week after the Big 4) has granted their collective wish. more ›

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings. And of Coachella. The big announcement is finally here. Shhh, if you listen closely you can hear the muffled shrill of sycophant whineoceroses deflating in winced unison. Bemoan! Oh the woe! No Radiohead. No Daft Punk. No David Bowie. Coachella 2010 was aMuse-ing, but Coachella 2011 is all about DURAN DURAN OMG SIMON LE BON AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!. And all these other bands: more ›

It takes a village of tiny, tilt-shift, ant people to raise a music festival. Directed, shot, cut and finished by Sam O'Hare, this new video is a happy reminder on a dreary Wednesday that the sun will in fact shine again. At Coachella. more ›

(Part 2 of a 2-part review, focusing on the festival's music. To read about the planning, see part 1) The great thing about large, multi-stage, multi-genre music festivals like Coachella or Outside Lands is that at any given time, 3-4 acts are playing simultaneously. This allows people to, in a sense, curate their own personal version of that festival. You and a couple friends could each go off on your own and have completely different experiences, and perhaps none of you even saw any of the same bands as the others. Yet, you all had a great time, and were able to meet up for a beer and a burger at some point. more ›

(This is part 1 of a 2-part review, focusing on the festival's planning. To read about the music, see part 2) Recently, the 3rd edition of the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and LAist was there to see if our neighbors to the north can put on a festival that compares with our own legendary Coachella fest. And the answer is yes... yes, they most certainly can. more ›

Mark your calendar folks, Coachella tonight announced dates for their 2011 festival. They are April 15th, 16th and 17th. Yups, that's 248 days away. Now on to the constant speculation and day dreaming about what the line-up will be. Check out LAist's coverage from this year's festival here, here and here. Rock, out. more ›

The xx, one of the big hype bands of the year, made their second showing in SoCal in less than three months at the Wiltern Theater on June 6th. After a breakout Coachella (and every summer festival for that matter) performance, the band returned with, well - nearly the same set. Being that they only have one album, an album that has been met with nearly universal acclaim, it is hard to knock them for this. The interplay between singer Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim is a thing of beauty, their voices weaving in and out of each other. Lyrics filled with heartbreak, love, lost love and heartbreak again set against a minimalistic soundscape of guitar, bass and drum machine makes it all a very atmospheric and esoteric affair. more ›