This year marked the first time the festival duplicated itself on two back-to-back weekends. So just what did artists do with their valuable time in Southern California between weekends? Some bands played by the rules while some skirted them. more ›

A retiree decided to take a solo trip to the Coachella Music Festival this year just for the hell of it—and she loved it. Charlotte Rios, 65, is a retired trauma counselor from Palm Desert who wrote about her experience. more ›

A 17-year-old girl alleges that she was sexually assaulted at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio last night. The alleged assault happened inside one of the portable bathrooms at the festival. more ›

It's supposed to be a scorcher in Indio this weekend, so don't feel too bad if you couldn't get a ticket to see the next generation of hologrammed artists perform. Besides, we've found a number of great events happening right here in LA County. more ›

Things can get crazy at Coachella: Not only do dead rap superstars get resurrected as holograms for a performance, but a helluva lot of people lose their cellphones. more ›

Were you looking forward to getting a knock-off Coachella T-shirt this weekend? Sorry, bro. Festival organizers are asking a judge to put a stop to the sale of totally unauthorized merchandise featuring logos from the festival and headliners, like Radiohead. more ›

Since Tupac's hologram one-upped the Nat "King" Cole duets of the early 1990s and hit the stage this past weekend at Coachella, naturally the web has given rise to a spoof poster detailing an imagined all-hologram lineup. more ›

Tupac Shakur's resurrection at Coachella on Sunday blew the minds of festival-goers and pretty much anyone who's seen video of the performance online -- including Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur. Dr. Dre reportedly asked Afeni for permission to use Tupac's likeness during their set, and the protective mama approved. more ›

Those rumors of Tupac Shakur playing Coachella were true: A hologram of the slain rapper turned up alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to close out last night's performance... and it was moving—at least for Katy Perry, who Tweeted, "I think I might have cried when I saw Tupac. #coachella" more ›

It's possible that Snoop Dogg has never come across a product endorsement opportunity he didn't like, but his latest entry in the world of publishing makes sense. Snoop's book "Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook" is just what it sounds like. more ›

Like a fast-spreading benign cancer, Coachella fever has infected Southern California. Your neighbor’s talking about it, your dry cleaner’s talking about it and most importantly, you and your friends are talking about it. more ›

You're on the road to Coachella for a weekend of sun-soaked musically-enhanced Bacchanalia. You're thirsty. You've got a designated driver who is abstaining from the sauce. If you pull off the road in a magical land called Rancho Cucamonga, Ra Pour is hoping to reel you in with cocktails inspired by the annual music fest. more ›

Concert promoters Goldenvoice announced today that they had purchased 280 acres around the site where the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals are held. There were few other details about how much the land cost or what the company's plans were for development, but a release from the company noted that the purchase includes the Eldorado Polo Club, Triangle Bar Farms, Fish Creek and Ambassador Glen Holden's property. more ›

The countdown to Coachella weekend round one is just 21 days. Some people will do anything to score tickets to spend three days in the blistering desert heat to experience their favorite bands. Hipsters, according to a video by Olde Payphone, become quite murderous creatures when presented with the opportunity. more ›

Coachella-goers, if you're stressing over what to pack for lunch for your road trip to April's three-day desert dance party (and you have some extra cash to spare), worry no more. The Bazaar and José Andrés have you covered. more ›

Lots of Southern California residents have asked themselves, at some point in time, whether or not they should go to Coachella. Some consider hitting up the festival for the community, others for the music, still more for the drugs. more ›

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 ›