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Coachella Festival Will Go to Sea on Cruise Ship in December. Coachella | Home. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Coordinates: The festival's origins trace back to a 1993 concert that Pearl Jam performed at the Empire Polo Club while boycotting venues controlled by Ticketmaster. The show validated the site's viability for hosting large events, leading to the inaugural Coachella Festival being held in October 1999 over two days.

After a sojourn in 2000, the festival returned on an annual basis, beginning in April 2001 as a single-day event before reverting to the two-day format in 2002. The festival was expanded to a third day in 2007 and eventually a second weekend in 2012. Organizers began permitting spectators to camp on the grounds in 2003. History[edit] Inaugural event: 1999[edit] Six years later, on October 9 and 10, 1999, three months after the Woodstock '99 festival, the first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held. 2000[edit] No festival took place in 2000, likely due to the financial troubles of the inaugural event and lack of a headliner. 2001[edit] 2002[edit] 2003[edit] 2004[edit]

YouTube Will Be Livestreaming Coachella. If you’re a music fan then you’ve definitely heard of the weekend concert extravaganza that is Coachella. Each year, it’s held in toasty Palm Springs, California and its host to the biggest acts in the music industry today. This year is no different, as just some of the acts performing are; The Black Keys, Florence + The Machine, and my personal fav Gotye. If you can’t make it to the event, have no fear, because YouTube will be livestreaming from the event starting tomorrow at 6:50pm ET, and will run throughout the entire weekend of musical performances.

This is nothing new for the service, which is teaming up with Dell to stream summer concerts this year. Here’s what the YouTube team had to say about it today: One of the best line-ups in music? So there you have it, get your second monitor ready for some musical entertainment live from Palm Springs. Here’s a little teaser to get you pumped up and ready for the weekend: Coachella Music Festival Top 5 Moments. At Coachella, a rebellious spirit. The booking of Pulp, with its ‘Common People' anti-1% screed, typifies Coachella '12. One of the great, universal rock anthems of the last two decades — Pulp's “Common People” — bypassed the U.S. when it exploded out of England in 1995.

But if and when a reunited Pulp plays the song at this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., its artful and catchy screed against the 1% couldn't be more timely. At a moment when jobless kids are cracking open piggy banks and digging deep for a Coachella ticket to see 120-odd bands over one weekend at the Indio festival, Pulp seems the most relevant among veteran acts that also include Refused, Mazzy Star, At the Drive-In, Company Flow, Madness and Squeeze. But Pulp's arrival isn't the biggest name coming out of the desert's festival, which runs two consecutive weekends. This year's roster, which was announced Monday afternoon by promoter Goldenvoice, will feature Dr.

Throughout the roster, this spirit is evident. Well, almost. Coachella 2012 a snapshot of pop music in its array of directions. Anyone who's ever been to Coachella or any music festival understands the idea of "the moment," that magical, jewel-encrusted feeling you get when everything clicks -- the sound, the lights, the emotion, the music -- and you feel at one with the world. On Friday at this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival, a chilly night where the clouds hung low after a day of rain, Mazzy Star induced one of those arm-tingling feelings when it performed its languid, drifting love song "Fade Into You" on the Outdoor Stage. It was one of the band's first performances in 16 years, and it followed a day of nonstop music, including Sacramento band Death Grips' electrifying, hard-core punk numbers, L.A. folk pop group honeyhoney's banjo-led ode to the Los Angeles River, and Texas blues rock guitar player Gary Clark Jr.'s astounding blues riffs.

So already it was a lot to digest before Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval and guitarist David Roback embarked on the lonely "Fade Into You" melody.

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